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As a part of Discover History Month, the Camden Public Library plans to host eco-historian, researcher and author Kerry Hardy for his presentation, “River of History: Public History of the Hudson/Mahicannituck.” The talk, also offered via Zoom, will be held at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 24, at the 55 Main St. library. Hardy’s talk will […]

CAMDEN — As a part of Discover History Month, the Camden Public Library welcomes eco-historian, researcher and author Kerry Hardy for his presentation “River of History: Public History of the

CAMDEN — As a part of Discover History Month, the Camden Public Library welcomes eco-historian, researcher, and author Kerry Hardy for his presentation “River of History” on Tuesday, Oct. 24, at 6:30 p.m. Hardy’s talk will introduce how he uses...

The organizers of the 43rd annual Marion Thompson Wright Lecture Series, Jack Tchen, director of the Clement A. Price Institute on Ethnicity, Culture & the Modern Experience and the Center's associate director Dr. Lacey Hunter join WBGO News Director Doug Doyle to talk about the theme and lineup of scholars

WBGO Journal host Doug Doyle chats with Clement Price Institute on Ethnicity, Culture and the Modern Experience's Jack Tchen and Salamishah Tillet, as well with Marion Thompson Wright Reader author and acclaimed historian Graham Russell Gao Hodges

WBGO Journal host Doug Doyle chats with Clement Price Institute on Ethnicity, Culture and the Modern Experience's Jack Tchen and Salamishah Tillet, as well with Marion Thompson Wright Reader author and acclaimed historian Graham Russell Gao Hodges

It’s an annual event that’s both “Newark’s greatest civic ritual,’’ as historian Clement R.

After decades of underground organizing for cultural expression and political agency, establishment funding is flooding the neighborhood. But with millions tied to the city’s borough-based jails plan, is the bankroll worth the price?

My name is not Mary. Thats not my birth name, anyway. Its really Ching Hwa, which means "celebrate China," an homage to my birth date of Oct. 10, which marks Independence Day in Taiwan when in 1911 the last Chinese dynastic empire was overthrown by Nationalist rebels. With such an interesting backstory to my name, why would my family change it? Because upon arrival as non-English speaking immigrants to the United States, my parents knew we had to sink or swim. Assimilate or vanish. That means...

The 41st Annual Marion Thompson Wright Lecture Series , One Begins Again: Organizing & the Historical Imagination, will be online on Saturday, February