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As a call to action to all communities reeling from this year of racial injustice and violence, the New Jersey Institute for Social Justice, New Jersey Performing Arts Center and Newark Celebration 350 will co-sponsor Moving New Jersey’s Communities Forward: A Critical Conversation about Race and Policing, on Monday, September 12, 7 to 9pm, in NJPAC’s Victoria Theater.
This free, solutions-oriented community forum, facilitated by New Jersey Institute for Social Justice President and CEO Ryan P. Haygood and moderated by Sandra King, Executive Producer of the 25-time Emmy Award-winning program Due Process, includes an unprecedented lineup of community leaders, activists and experts from the State of New Jersey. The panelists, many of whom are at the forefront of today’s conversations on race, policing, and moving New Jersey’s communities forward, include:
- LaShawn Y. Warren, Vice President and General Counsel, New Jersey Institute for Social Justice
- Anthony Ambrose, Newark Public Safety Director
- Ras J. Baraka, Mayor of the City of Newark
- Rod Brunson, Dean, Rutgers School of Criminal Justice
- LaKeesha Eure, Chair, Newark Anti-Violence Coalition
- Peter Harvey, independent federal monitor, Newark Police Department
- Zellie Imani, lead organizer, Black Lives Matter, Paterson
- Junius W. Williams, Chairman of Newark Celebration 350, Director of the Abbott Leadership Institute, Rutgers-Newark
“The issues of Baton Rouge, Falcon Heights, Ferguson, Baltimore, New York City, North Charleston and other cities are our issues, too,” says Haygood. “This transformative moment presents an opportunity to create a new style of policing and a police-community relationship that has never existed in too many of New Jersey’s communities of color. We are inviting the community to join this important conversation to help bring about that transformation.”
“There’s no more important topic these days for Americans to address thoughtfully than the issue of race in our country,” states John Schreiber, NJPAC’s President and CEO. “The Arts Center, as a place where the community can convene in free and open discussion, is proud to host this timely conversation.”
Admission is free with limited seating. Reservations must be made in advance by clicking to njpac.org/movingforward.
