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The 5th Annual Lincoln Park Music Festival “Afternoon of Jazz” Celebrates Newark’s Influence on the Genre

Newark, N.J., July 30, 2010 — July 30th is officially Newark Jazz Composers and Musicians Day in the City of Newark when the Jazz All-Star Newark Arkestra hosted by Amiri Baraka opens the 5th Anniversary Lincoln Park Music Festival on Friday, July 30, 2010 from 12pm – 2pm. The All-Star Newark Arkestra will invoke the “Tickler’s Town” spirit of Newark’s past and perform a historical overview of Newark Composers and a concomitant sampling of Great Ladies of the music. The Afternoon of Jazz at the 5th Annual Lincoln Park Music Festival will go back to early in the century with Willie The Lion’s Smith “Echoes of Spring”, and Besse Smith’s great “Nobody Knows You When You’re Down & Out”, to James P. Johnson’s “Charleston”. The All-Star Newark Arkestra will highlight the great Ethel Waters and the mood of the period with the song that made her famous “Taking a Chance on Love” and “Cabin in the Sky” from the marvelous film. For more information and a complete list of this year’s performances and attractions for seniors, families and children, visit http://www.lpccd.org/mf2010. READ MORE »

NEWARK, N.J., July 6, 2010 – The African American Office of Gay Concerns (AAOGC) is proud to announce that the XVIII International AIDS Conference taking place in Vienna, Austria July 18-23, 2010, has selected the Status Is Everything HIV testing social marketing campaign to take part in the conference poster exhibition on July 19, 2010. The AAOGC poster is titled, “Creating a social marketing campaign targeting African American men who have sex with men (MSM) in Newark, New Jersey, in an effort to increase HIV rapid testing within a high risk population.” AAOGC is the only agency funded by the New Jersey Department of Health and Senior Services, selected to take part in the six-day conference.
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NEWARK, NJ, April 15, 2010 – Clubhouse Music Enterprises and GLT Arts & Entertainment presents Live in Concert Broadway & Recording Artist, Lee Truesdale on Saturday, May 1, 2010 at the Key Club located at 58 Park Place, Newark, NJ. For more information call 973-799-0306. READ MORE »

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2010 CENSUS TOWN HALL MEETINGS IN NEW JERSEY ENGAGE THE LGBT COMMUNITY

Liberation In Truth Unity Fellowship Church Sponsor ‘March Monday’ Forum to Educate and Motivate a Full Census Count

NEWARK, N.J., March 15, 2010 — The 2010 Census will be explained and discussed in the context of the LGBT community at todays town hall meeting in Newark, New Jersey, hosted by Liberation in Truth Unity Fellowship Church. This event is part of the U.S. Census Bureau’s dedicated outreach program to the LGBT community, and will allow community members the opportunity to have their questions answered by a panel of Census staff, community leaders, local organizers and civic officials. The town hall format promotes an open environment for discussion of specific concerns and reinforces the message that the participation of the LGBT community is vital to ensure that the 2010 Census is complete and accurate. READ MORE »

NEWARK, NJ, January 12, 2009 – LCH Business Media and Tech Solutions (LCH), a boutique web 2.0 campaign strategy and management firm based in Newark, NJ, announces that it has joined the Status Is Everything Media team. LCH has been retained by FEMWORKS, the Newark based multicultural marketing agency leading the creative and communications for Status Is Everything (SIE), Newark’s new HIV testing social marketing campaign that targets African American gay men. LCH will manage the social media for Status Is Everything, create viral and written conversations, engage and inform around HIV, Testing and Prevention. Status Is Everything is produced by the African American Office of Gay Concerns.

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NEWARK, N.J., Dec. 1, 2009 – Today in observance of World AIDS Day, North Jersey Community Research Initiative (NJCRI) and NJ Stop AIDS Coalition will present the 4th Annual World AIDS Day Extravaganza at Newark Symphony Hall’s Terrace Ballroom, from 4pm – 8pm. The event is free to the public and features vendors, speakers, social services and health service agencies, food and live entertainment.

Event Details:
4th Annual World AIDS Day Extravaganza
Date: Tuesday, Dec. 1, 2009
Time: 4pm -8pm
Location: Newark Symphony Hall, Terrace Ballroom, 1030 Broad Street, Newark, NJ READ MORE »

NEWARK, N.J., Dec. 1, 2009 – Today at 6pm Rutgers University PRIDE (RU PRIDE) and Our Youth will host the “Concert for Change” Program in recognition of World AIDS Day at the Paul Robeson Campus Center, Essex Room, 350 Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Blvd in Newark. Admission is free and the event features live entertainment, and food. Donations are encouraged and can be made at the entrance to the event.

Event Details:
“Concert for Change” Program in Recognition of World AIDS Day
December, 1, 2009, 6:00pm
Paul Robeson Campus Center, Essex Room
350 Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Blvd in Newark
Admission is free and open to the public

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Black Police Officers’ Organization to Engage in Outreach to LGBT Community

NEWARK, N.J., November 2, 2009 – The American Civil Liberties Union of New Jersey (ACLU-NJ) and the National Organization of Black Law Enforcement Executives (NOBLE) announced the resolution of a dispute involving two women who were turned away from a fundraising dance hosted by the organization. The women claimed they and their friends were excluded based on their sexual orientation or gender expression. READ MORE »

The Historic Event Begins at 1:00PM in the City Council Chambers at City Hall – 920 Broad Street

Newark, NJ – Newark, NJ., October 28, 2009 – You are cordially invited to join Mayor Cory Booker and The Newark Municipal Council as the members of the inaugural Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Questioning (LGBTQ) Advisory Commission take the Oath of Office on Wednesday, October 28, 2009 in the Municipal Council Chambers, Room 215, Newark City Hall, 920 Broad Street, Newark, N.J. at 12:30 p.m.

The inaugural Newark, NJ, LGBTQ Advisory Commission members are as follows:

Reverend Janyce L. Jackson
Rooney Long
Darnell L. Moore
Joseph Panessidi
Perris Straughter
Margaret L. Woods
Gary Paul Wright READ MORE »

The Ceremony Takes Place In The Municipal Council Chamber, City Hall, 920 Broad Street, Wednesday, October 28, at 1pm.

Newark, NJ – October 28, 2009 – Mayor Cory A. Booker and members of the Newark Municipal Council will swear in the City of Newark’s first-ever Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans-gender and Questioning Commission, in the Municipal Council Chamber, in City Hall, today, Wednesday, October 28, 2009, at 1 p.m. First-ever LGBTQ Commission will directly address community’s needs; Seven-member board will fight harassment and discrimination. READ MORE »