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New Hanover Township, NJ - New Jersey may become an even bigger hub for the Trump Administration’s immigration plans, as U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth announced plans to set up a temporary detention center at Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurt in Burlington and Ocean Counties. 
Established in 2009, this 42,000-acre facility is the only tri-service joint base in the Department of Defense. Border Czar Tom Homan told reporters that there are 60,000 beds available at the base, and their goal is to raise the number to 100,000 as they turned it into a holding facility.

Trenton, NJ - New Jersey prides itself as the “Garden State.” Yet the paradox is stark: while family farms harvest peaches, tomatoes, kale, and corn, schoolchildren in lower-income districts still miss out on the local gifts of the Garden State at lunchtime. Simultaneously, small and mid-sized growers say they need steadier, closer-to-home buyers to make ends meet.

Food inequity in New Jersey can be highlighted by data estimates that in 2022, almost 262,000 children lived in food-insecure households. Those numbers jumped alongside inflation as pandemic support unwound. In turn, for many school-age children, the lunch line is often the surest path to a fresh and healthy meal. 

Newark, NJ - Fresh off the release of Apple Cider - A Parable of Black Love, Newark filmmaker Opoku “OpotheBoat” Boateng has returned with a new short film, Return to Nature. This upcoming project is based on a poem of the same name by Brooklyn writer Warren Edwards, a security officer at the Guggenheim Museum and the founder of the arts and entertainment company, Create Matter.

They are everybody's children

Newark, NJ - I’ve been struggling to understand how, for almost 2 years, politicians and mainstream media outlets have managed to keep up the charade that there wasn’t a genocide occurring in Gaza. 

Even beyond the usual taboos and the early and loose declarations of anti-Semitism, politicians still felt comfortable backing up their votes to send even more bombs to Israel.