When Newark police arrested and beat a Black taxi driver during a routine traffic stop on July 12, 1967, the incident ignited long-simmering tensions in the city’s Black neighborhoods, triggering ...

“I try to be good,” says Tony Soprano, Catholic high school slacker, numbers-racket enthusiast and future mob boss in “The Many Saints of Newark.” Does he mean it? How hard is he trying? Does anyone ...

Gloria Buck knows something about dreams coming true. She's the chairwoman of the Newark Black Film Festival and has been on board since the event debuted in 1974. As years passed, the festival added ...

The Newark Public Library and New Jersey Council for The Humanities will revisit the 1967 civil disturbances that ripped through the City of Newark by airing the documentary, “Revolution 67” on ...

On the night of July 12, 1967, two police officers pulled over taxi driver John Smith for a minor traffic offense. Smith, a Black man, was arrested and beaten by the two white officers and then driven ...

In 1967, Newark burst into flames. But what lit the match? People couldn’t agree on the cause. They couldn’t even agree on the result. Politicians, and many whites, called the violent event a riot, a ...