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Blackface Photo Of Newly Elected NJ Councilman Causes Outrage Blackface Photo Of Newly Elected NJ Councilman Causes Outrage
Blackface Photo Of Newly Elected NJ Councilman Causes Outrage An anti-racism group wants a newly-elected New Jersey borough councilman to quit or apologize for wearing blackface in a 2015 photo depicting him in blackface shared on Facebook. Republican Vincent Kelly beat incumbent Democrats to win a seat on the Pitman Council in Tuesday’s election. The Pitman Anti-Racist Collective issued a statement about the photo of Kelly dressed as rapper Flavor Flav. Kelly in a statement to the Courier Post denied any wrongdoing. He said the photo was taken in 2008 and shared to Facebook in 2015, and was for a "theme couple" party. Kelly and his wife dr…

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by Jon Craig
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Woman Arrested During Ridgewood BLM March, Protesters Demand Reparations, School System Reform Woman Arrested During Ridgewood BLM March, Protesters Demand Reparations, School System Reform
Woman Arrested During Ridgewood BLM March, Protesters Demand Reparations, School System Reform Ridgewood police arrested a young woman during a July 4th Black Lives Matter march through downtown that included a call for reparations and a sign that said "Cops are Pigs.” A few dozen or so members of a nascent group calling itself Ridgewood 4 Black Liberation began marching through downtown on the national holiday Saturday after a speaker accused the village of being “the greatest perpetrators and examples of America’s long and bloody history of suppressing black people’s right to existence." The marchers, many of them young women who were graduated from village schools, carried a bann…

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by Jerry DeMarco