Jazz saxophonist Lonnie Youngblood returns to the streets of Newark, where his career began decades ago.
Rodney Mason, an ex-con paralyzed in a drive-by shooting, seeks redemption by coaching a Newark Little League team.
Robert Bell is 47 years old, just out of prison, clean of drugs and starting his life over from scratch.
Ivohna Howard is an unlikely poet. She took a writing class as a lark, and ended up winning a state-wide contest and the chance to perform at the Dodge Poetry Festival at Waterloo Village in New Jersey.
More than a year after three college students were killed — and a fourth was injured — in the courtyard of Newark’s Mount Vernon School, the community celebrated the construction of a new playground.
Jopetia Garretson lives in one of the many Newark apartments sold in sweetheart deals to the mistress of former Newark mayor Sharpe James. She flipped the property for a quick profit, leaving Garretson and her young daughters living in squalor.
Every year, Pat Philbin, aka Pat from Moonachie, runs the gantlet of qualifying events that lead to the July 4 Nathan’s Famous Hot Dog Eating Contest on Coney Island. Watch Pat go.
Newark N.J. has one of the nation’s highest rates of children being raised by their grandparents. Patricia Gilmore is one of those overburdened caregivers.
In a downtown Newark studio called Glassroots, kids are learning the ancient art of glass blowing.
The harbor has been synonymous with organized crime for decades.
Michael Ennes got a call to his soup kitchen on Broadway that delivered the most unusual bit of news.
The race is as much about community pride as it is about athletic achievement.