The Story of A Resilient Atlantic City
This is not the first time Atlantic City has had to demonstrate their ability to withstand difficult circumstances. The city has a long history of attempts to reinvent itself. In 1854 so-called “Father...
View ArticleThe Struggle for Healthcare in Atlantic City
This video, titled Building a Sandcastle: A Broken Promise to Atlantic City, was produced by Media Mobilizing Project in partnership with NJ Spark. The following is another chapter in Atlantic City’s...
View ArticleBackbone of New Brunswick: Brunswick Boxing and Fitness Club
The Brunswick Boxing and Fitness Club is a boxing gym where founder JT provides an athletic outlet for New Brunswick, as well as a safe space for young people to develop life skills through his...
View ArticleRe-igniting The Poor People’s Campaign: Part 1
In association with the Union Theological Seminary’s Poverty Initiative, The Poverty Scholars Network endeavors to cultivate grassroots leadership and galvanize low-income organizers to collectively...
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The Movements That Sparked NJ Spark
This video, from Rutgers University’s School of Communication and Information Social Media Cluster, summarizes a recently published book that connects the struggles for social justice around the world...
View ArticleWhat Happens When You End Racial Isolation in Housing?
This weekend, The New York Times published Ending the Cycle of Racial Isolation, an editorial examining the case of a New Jersey suburb Mount Laurel that has successfully implemented a new concept for...
View ArticleUnion Ready To Strike Against Carl Ichan and Taj Mahal Casino If Necessary
Union UNITE HERE Local 54 will avoid striking against Carl Ichan and Atlantic City’s Trump Taj Mahal Casino but are ready and willing if necessary. ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. — In recent weeks, workers at the...
View ArticleStudent Environmental Reporting Contest
CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: Joining a wide array of politicians, scientists, activists, advocates, and religious leaders in recognizing the critical state of our environmental health, NJ Spark, the Rutgers...
View ArticleImmigrant Women Detained In Texas Go On Hunger Strike
More than 20 women have begun protesting the conditions at the T Don Hutto immigration detention center in Texas this past week. The women are denying food as a response to “inedible food, poor medical...
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Bringing Journalists And Residents to The Same Table
The future of journalism lies not in building the right app, but in developing deep and meaningful connections between newsrooms and the communities they serve. With the business of journalism so...
View ArticleIssue of Muslim-student Bullying On Snapchat Raised in NJ
A Colonia High School student took a picture of Saira Ali last June during lunch in the cafeteria, captioned the photo, “Isis,” with a heart-faced emoticon and posted it to social media, according to...
View ArticleN.J. Reducing Prison Population But Still Lacking
Within the past few years, New Jersey has become one of the leaders of reducing prison population in the United States, according to a report from the Brennan Center for Justice at New York University...
View ArticleAre We Still Talking About Ferguson?: A Brief Valorization of “Twitter Activism”
It was the fall of 2014, and the nation was caught in a wave of protest. Just a few months prior, two unarmed black men, 18-year old Michael Brown from Ferguson, Missouri, and 43-year-old Eric Garner...
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Institutions Built By Slave Labor, Rutgers Included
In the last week, student groups have pointed to the inequity and injustice that is a part of Rutgers University’s history. In the midst of a year-long celebration of its 250th anniversary, New...
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The Backyard of Higher Education
If you take a walk through the five sprawling campuses of Rutgers University-New Brunswick, you’ll see much of what you’d expect from a world class learning institution—state-of-the-art labs and...
View ArticleOwner of Brunswick Boxing and Fitness Club Changes His Life To Change Others
On a rainy Tuesday in March of 2004, after more than ten years of drug dealing, stealing, and illegal gambling, JT found himself facing arrest after getting caught with an empty cocaine bag. On that...
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ProPublica and NJ Spark Host VICE News’s Jason Leopold
NJ Spark is proud to announce our first event held in partnership with ProPublica and sponsored by our partner, the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation. The idea to bring VICE News investigative reporter...
View ArticleNJ Spark Teams Are Hard At Work
The NJ Spark media teams have been hard at work the past few weeks, creating projects that all seek to bring awareness to social justice issues throughout the local area. NJ Spark is producing two...
View Article1 Month, 20 Crimes, 0 Crime Alerts
In the month of September in 2015, police responded to a total of 20 reported crimes in 10 different incidents at Rutgers’s University Center Apartments at 30 Easton Ave. in New Brunswick, N.J....
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New Jersey’s Industrial Coast Remains Vulnerable to the Next Extreme Storm
This story was produced by NJ Spotlight and is part of Dirty Little Secrets, a collaborative series investigating New Jersey’s toxic legacy. It was early on October 30, 2012, after the winds from Sandy...
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