Protect and serve: The Essex County Sheriff’s Office donated sports equipment, board games, dolls and stuffed animals to the New Community Family Resource Success Center during the holiday season. Many thanks to Sheriff Armando Fontoura and his staff for holding a toy drive that provided gifts to many families in need in the greater Newark area this holiday season. The Family Resource Success Center is a one-stop center that connects individuals to resources within the NCC network as well as to outside agencies. The center’s new location is 274 South Orange Ave. in Newark. For more information, call the center at 973-565-9500. Photo courtesy of Kevin Lynch.
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.
