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(This message was added in version 6.7.0.) in /home/newark/public_html/main/wp-includes/functions.php on line 6121Saturday, February 10, 2018<\/strong> This special day begins at 12:30 pm with a tribute to the late Rodney Gilbert (above), actor, director, teacher, and tireless promoter for a more creative community.<\/p>\n The tribute will feature poet Mia X (above left), who was mentored by Gilbert .\u00a0 As part of the Gilbert tribute, the 2016 feature documentary A Way Out<\/em><\/strong> (above right) will be screened, starting at 1:00 pm.\u00a0 Rodney Gilbert was one of three men of color profiled in the film by Gladys Bensimon.<\/p>\n The #BlackLivesMatter movement was founded in 2013 by Alicia Garza, Patrisse Cullors and Opal Tometi as a call to action after the death of Trayvon Martin in 2012 at the hands of George Zimmerman who was subsequently acquitted of charges in 2013.<\/p>\n On February 10, the Newark Public Library\u2019s 3rd Annual Black Lives Matter-Newark panel discussion will begin at 2:00 pm, and will examine how we got here and the systemic challenges our families and communities consistently face. Panelists will provide action steps to help repair the damage and prepare for the future.<\/p>\n Moderator: Lori Scott-Pickens (above), Director, Community Outreach, School of Criminal Justice, Rutgers University-Newark<\/p>\n Panelists: Robert L. Johnson, MD, FAAP (above left), The Sharon and Joseph L. Muscarelle Endowed Dean, Rutgers New Jersey Medical School; Fatimah Loren Muhammad (above center left), Director for the Trauma Advocacy Initiative, Equal Justice USA; Demelza Baer (above center right), Senior Counsel and Director of the Economic Mobility Initiative at the New Jersey Institute for Social Justice, and Alfred Bundy (above right), Co-Founder, American Black Male Leadership Institute.<\/p>\n PNC Foundation is proud to support the Newark Public Library’s Black History Celebration exhibition and public programs.<\/em><\/p>\n For information about Black History Celebration 2018, please click here<\/a><\/span>.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Saturday, February 10, 2018 12:30 – 4:30 pm Centennial Hall, Main Library 5 Washington Street, Newark This special day begins at 12:30 pm with a tribute to the late Rodney Gilbert (above), actor, director, teacher, and tireless promoter for a more creative community. \u00a0 The tribute will feature poet Mia X (above left), who was… <\/p>\n Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":3892984,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[776,885,889,165,164,145,387,888,887],"class_list":["post-3892895","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-past-exhibits","tag-blacklivesmatter","tag-black-history-celebration-2018","tag-community-affairs","tag-community-discussion","tag-film-screening","tag-newark","tag-panel-discussion","tag-poetry-reading","tag-tribute"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.npl.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3892895","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.npl.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.npl.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.npl.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.npl.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3892895"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.npl.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3892895\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.npl.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3892984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.npl.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3892895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.npl.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3892895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.npl.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3892895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}},{"id":3891478,"date":"2017-10-02T14:37:02","date_gmt":"2017-10-02T18:37:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.npl.org\/main\/?p=3891478"},"modified":"2017-10-04T15:55:57","modified_gmt":"2017-10-04T19:55:57","slug":"film-screening-a-way-out-directed-by-gladys-bensimon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.npl.org\/main\/film-screening-a-way-out-directed-by-gladys-bensimon\/","title":{"rendered":"Film Screening: A Way Out, directed by Gladys Bensimon"},"content":{"rendered":" Tuesday, October 3, 2017<\/strong> The 2016 feature documentary A Way Out<\/em><\/strong> tells the compelling stories of three men of color from Newark.\u00a0 All three have achieved success, overcoming poverty, racism, and more, not by luck, but by deliberate support and opportunities.\u00a0 Their stories are interwoven with thoughtful analysis of the larger forces in society–inequality, bias, discrimination, crime, and addiction–that have affected communities across America, by experts in history, economics, entrepreneurship, ethics, and urban politics.\u00a0 Screening: 53 minutes.<\/em><\/p>\n A Question and Answer discussion with the director Gladys Bensimon will follow the screening.<\/p>\n Tuesday, October 3, 2017 6:00 – 8:00 pm Centennial Hall, Main Library 5 Washington Street, Newark The 2016 feature documentary A Way Out tells the compelling stories of three men of color from Newark.\u00a0 All three have achieved success, overcoming poverty, racism, and more, not by luck, but by deliberate support and opportunities.\u00a0 Their stories… <\/p>\n
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