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New Jersey is poised to follow two other states — California and New York — in passing anti- hair discrimination legislation. Related story: CROWN Act: California Becomes First State to Ban Natural Hairstyle Discrimination Assemblywoman Angela McKnight is sponsoring a bill that will add hair as a category illegal to…
New Jersey judge John Russo Jr. who suggested a rape survivor could have closed her legs to prevent the attack is “remorseful,” his lawyer said during his judicial conduct complaint hearing July 10, NBC reports Related Story: Judge Gets 3-Month Suspension for Telling Rape Victim She Should Have Closed Her…
The Fine Fellows Creamery ice cream shop in Cape May, N.J., was vandalized for displaying rainbow flags during Pride Month and the owners faced harassment. The store is owned by a gay couple, Dustin Piccolo and his husband David Kinsey. According to the owners, the large and smaller rainbow flags…
Second-grade teacher Tammy Jordan started in 2016 at Larchmont Elementary School in Mount Laurel, N.J. She was one of the first Black teachers at the school since 1990. But by the end of the 2018 school year, Jordan quit her job and filed a lawsuit because of the extremity of…
A New Jersey man violently verbally and physically attacked a man on a New Jersey bus on May 2. The suspect was arrested and charged this week with bias intimidation, terroristic threats and aggravated assault with a weapon. In the video, you can see and hear as Victor Colon, 51,…
Metropolitan Healthcare Billing of Eatontown, a New Jersey company, is being accused of revealing, during a staff meeting, that employee Brandy Rodriguez is gay – then firing her after she wanted to officially complain to the company’s owner. The New Jersey Division on Civil Rights is now investigating. The state…
In Elizabeth, N.J., more than 80 percent of the citizens are Hispanic or Black. The shift away from majority white working class took decades and local community groups say that excessive police force is a problem there, like it is across the nation. The rumors of a toxic and heavy-handed…
Akbar Cook continues to exemplify leadership by example as the principal of West Side High School in Newark, New Jersey. The beloved administrator launched “The Lights On” program four years ago. The program is an intentional effort to protect students in his community. On Friday nights from 6-11 p.m., Principal…
Vincent Serpico, a teacher who taught at Piscataway High School since 2009, heard music on a boom box in a boys’ bathroom. He deemed the lyrics “offensive” and ended up going off on special education students citing the song by yelling the the N-word and profanities. He has been fired….
A scandal touches Trenton, as the former chief of staff of the New Jersey Schools Development Authority, Albert J. Alvarez, steps down from his $140,000-a-year job after being accused of sexual assault. Katie Brennan, age 31, chief of staff at the New Jersey Housing Mortgage and Finance Agency, gave a…
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