New Community residents from Gardens Senior and Commons Senior who served in the armed forces enjoyed a free meal at Applebee’s in Newark on Veteran’s Day.Darrel Armstrong, left, and Derrick Wisdom, both residents of Douglas Homes, wait for their meals.Daryl Poe, left, and Jose Torres, both residents of Douglas Homes, enjoyed a menu selection that included sirloin steak, double crunch shrimp and fiesta lime chicken.Commons Senior residents Seldon Childs, left, and Ray Hopkins, right, with Darrel Armstrong, center.
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.
