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Big push for new NJ reparations council

Advocates go it alone after legislative efforts stall

Aired 06/19/2023

NJ Spotlight News

Big push for new NJ reparations council

Clip: 6/19/2023 | 3m 54sVideo has Closed Captions

Advocates go it alone after legislative efforts stall

On Monday, advocates stood at Perth Amboy’s ferry port where slave ships docked with human cargo from Africa in the 1700s. They were marking Juneteenth with a call for reparations and recalling the hundreds of Black people who disembarked there "to be sold into a system of slavery that endured for more than 200 years…," said Ryan Haygood, who heads the New Jersey Institute for Social Justice.

Aired 06/19/2023

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Unionized doctors at Rutgers University demand better pay and benefits (3m 59s)

Changes to NJ public records law to gut transparency?

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Interview: Attorney CJ Griffin discusses how public access could be affected (7m 39s)

Juneteenth: Celebrating — and calling for reparations

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In Newark, the holiday was marked at two different events (4m 14s)

Shore town adds teen curfew to curb unruly behavior

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New ordinances went into effect Thursday in Ocean City (4m 28s)

Tentative deal agreed on senior property-tax relief

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Seniors would get a 50% credit on property-tax bills, capped at $6,500 (1m 14s)

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