The Newark Fire Department was present and supported the resource fair.Zoe Jordan, 8, gets her face painted. Free activities were available to residents as well as vendors and resources tables with agencies representing social services.
Derek White volunteered to man the grill at Harmony Day and served up hot dogs for those who attended the resource fair.Joann Williams-Swiney, director of the NCC Family Resource Success Center, and her staff organized Harmony Day, which drew residents from around Newark to the Pathmark Shopping Center.Hubert X. Stanley read the full speech by MLK known as the “I have a dream” speech.Bouncy houses and family-friendly activities filled the afternoon with things to do.
For more than 50 years, New Community Corporation has walked the walk of social justice, helping residents of inner cities improve the quality of their lives to reflect individual God-given dignity and personal achievement. After all, NCC was birthed from the literal ashes of the civil disorders of 1967 by a core group of Black community leaders and White allies, including a young priest named William Linder. Together, they modeled through word and deed the moral principle and reality that Black Lives Matter.
Today, just as in 1967, NCC joins in solidarity with all those who seek justice and an end to police brutality and racism.
