Project: The Legacy of the 1967 Newark Riots & Its Impact on Present-Day Challenges

Newark, NJ (Building Resistance)
Created by:

Tania Melgar and Aishwarya Suresh

RU-N students Tania Melgar and Aishwarya Suresh discuss how racial injustice led to the 1967 Newark uprising and the Ironbound Community Corporations’s continued fight against environmental racism.

Climates of Inequality Exhibition

Newark Climates of Inequality: Building Resistance--The Ironbound
GET THE LED OUT
Mutual Aid featuring the RU-N Pantry and Newark Water Coalition!
The Power of Words by Thomas M. Borselli
The Legacy of the 1967 Newark Riots & Its Impact on Present-Day Challenges
Mutual Aid in Newark, past and present
Maria Lopez-Nuñez on Pollution and COVID-19 in Newark
Environmental Justice in the Ironbound: Multimedia Approaches
The Ironbound Fights Back: The History of the ICC
Covanta: Ironbound’s Unwanted Neighbor
Diamond Alkali: The Forgotten Tomb of Ironbound
Ronson Metals Lawsuit: Unhappy Homes
Darling Fat Rendering: The Truth Stinks
An Invisible Hazard: The Brownfield Sites of Newark’s Ironbound

Climates of Inequality Convening 2023

Creative Responses to Translocal Conversations