Wednesday, 24 September 2008 – 8:15 am
Komunyakaa at Rutgers-Newark
Tonight at 5:30pm! The 2008-09 Writers at Newark Reading Series kicks off with a reading by Yusef Komunyakaa, an American poet and winner of the 1994 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. Check out Tayari’s blog below and get details at the Writers at Newark page.
Wednesday, September 24. Yusef Komunyakaa will open the 2008-09 Writers [...]
Wednesday, 10 September 2008 – 10:54 pm
“Writers at Newark Reading Group”:http://mfa.newark.rutgers.edu/reading%20group.htm
The Newark Reading Group, an open reading discussion group sponsored by the Rutgers-Newark MFA program and the English Department, met for the first time this evening at the Newark Public Library.
If you’re an aspiring writer, or maybe just looking to expand your horizons, the Reading Group is still looking to [...]
Wednesday, 22 November 2006 – 12:14 am
??Rutgers Observer??: “Can white people live in Newark?”:http://www.rutgersobserver.com/media/storage/paper822/news/2006/11/21/Observations/Can-White.People.Live.In.Newark-2506231.shtml?norewrite200611212215&sourcedomain=www.rutgersobserver.com. This was one of those stop-and-take-a-deep-breath moments. A Rutgers student who has been mistreated by Newark (or R-U?) police on at least one occasion has seen fit to spill out his aggression across the pages of the Rutgers Observer against Mayor Booker. Apparently, Mr. [...]
Wednesday, 21 June 2006 – 3:02 pm
??Newark Star Ledger??: “Rutgers to open public affairs school on Newark campus”:http://www.nj.com/news/ledger/jersey/index.ssf?/base/news-3/1150437338269260.xml&coll=1. Something tells me that R-N won’t be inviting Mr. James on as an adjunct.
Rutgers-Newark will open its first new school in two decades under a plan approved yesterday by the university’s governing board yesterday.
The Rutgers-Newark School of Public Affairs [...]
Thursday, 27 April 2006 – 2:20 pm
* ??Battle for Newark??: “League of Women Voters letter”:http://www.nj.com/newslogs/mayorsrace/index.ssf?/mtlogs/njo_mayorrace/archives/2006_04.html#135555. In brief, it went something like, “Ahem, *NO* we didn’t sponsor “that”:http://www.nj.com/news/ledger/jersey/index.ssf?/base/news-0/11460308927720.xml&coll=1.”
* ??WBGO??: “Sen. Rice wants the Newark mayor’s race monitored for fraud”:http://www.wbgo.org/news/articles.asp?newsid=1400. Isn’t that we have state election boards?
* ??Newark06??: “Rice Goes on the Attack”:http://newark06.blogs.nytimes.com/?p=156. Rice mimics James’ 2002 tactic of flinging [...]
Thursday, 27 April 2006 – 1:54 pm
??Rutgers-Newark??: “Rutgers-Newark Campus To Host Newark’s Four Mayoral Candidates In May 2 Debate”:http://www.newark.rutgers.edu/news/index.php?sId=viewArticle&ArticleID=5125&prevTitle=Top+Stories&prevURL=index.php. One week before election day, Rutgers-Newark will be hosting the mayoral-candidate smackdown on May 2^nd^ at the Robeson Center.
The event at R-N will be the only forum to bring together all four candidates in the nonpartisan election: David Blount, Cory [...]
Wednesday, 26 April 2006 – 8:15 pm
Clement Price, Newark historian at Rutgers University, introduced tonight’s screening of Marshall Curry’s “Street Fight” by explaining its relevance in the stream of documentaries about the city, including “City of Promise” and “Revolution: 1967″. He noted the film’s Oscar nomination, but explained that the film was ultimately was beaten out by “100 penguins”:http://wip.warnerbros.com/marchofthepenguins/. [...]
Wednesday, 19 April 2006 – 6:36 pm
??Marshall Curry??, director of the Oscar-nominated documentary “Street Fight,” will be hosting the first-ever public screening of his film in Newark at the Rutgers University campus. The event is scheduled to take place at 7PM in Ackerson Hall. Details “are available at the Rutgers-Newark website”:http://www.newark.rutgers.edu/news/index.php?sId=viewArticle&ArticleID=5089&Campus=2&prevTitle=Rutgers-Newark+Home&prevURL=http://www.newark.rutgers.edu/section.php?usid=4&usName=Alumni.
Curry will also stick around at the event, which [...]
