Newest Americans
@NewestAmericans
Multimedia collaboration of journalists, artists, faculty & students telling stories from the nation's most diverse university, @Rutgers_Newark & beyond.
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Meet #Newark artist Bisa Wendy Washington, the 6th and final feature in our Great Migration series. Bisa's family migrated from Georgia. 🎙️Recorded at Halsey fest 2023 📷 by Chrys Davis. The #Newark StoryBus is a Newest Americans Talking Eyes Media project, supported by Dodge Foundation.
Meet Brenda Shumpert Gibson from our series about the Great Migration. Brenda’s parents emigrated from South Carolina, after the KKK burned her father's business down twice.
🎙️Recorded at New Jersey Performing Arts Center
📷 by Sy Battle
The #NewarkStoryBus is supported by Dodge Foundation.
Meet #Newark resident Kalenah Witcher. 'I'm one of the founding board members for NEWARK G.A.L.S., Inc, a nonprofit aimed at exposing girls to life skills and role models and mentorships.' Recorded at #Halseyfest on #Newark StoryBus. This series of stories is supported by Dodge Foundation.
Meet Newark resident and ironwokrer Bryan Britton. His parents are from South Carolina where his father picked cotton. This is the first of our new series of stories related to the Great Migration. Recorded on the #NewarkStoryBus at @njpac. Special thanks to the @dodgefoundation
We urge you to sign this: Restore Dr. Nancy Cantor's Contract at Rutgers! She is one the nation’s brightest lights in higher Ed. chng.it/pr2KvNKZ via
Change.org
Thrilled to be at the Kakuma Refugee Camp in Kenya last week with this exceptional group of students! Working in partnership with Elimisha Kakuma and Open Society University Network we offered a visual storytelling workshop. Special thanks to Rutgers Global for supporting this work!
Scenes from Kakuma Refugee Camp in Kenya during our visual storytelling workshop with Rutgers University-Newark, Elimisha Kakuma, and Open Society University Network to help gifted students gain access to higher ed. These are two Turkana men who are members of the host community for the Camp.
Scenes from Kakuma Refugee Camp in Kenya during our visual storytelling workshop with Rutgers University-Newark colleague Tim Raphael (photo on right.) We're working in partnership with Elimisha Kakuma and Open Society University Network to help gifted students gain access to higher ed.
Students at Kakuma Refugee Camp in #Kenya where we just taught a Visual Storytelling Workshop in partnership with Elimisha Kakuma and Open Society University Network to help gifted students gain access to higher ed. Our initiative is part of ongoing work with
Rutgers University-Newark
Today #TheSacrificeZone is screening in #Detroit at
#Brownfields2023. Learn more brownfields and #environmentaljustice efforts in Newark at Newest Americans project Invisible Hazard at tinyurl.com/jv6r58kr and our film thesacrificezone.org Ironbound Justice #Brownfields2023
TONIGHT 7/20 (6-9pm) The #newarkstorybus will be at New Jersey Performing Arts Center for #soundsofthecity + Sugarhill Gang. Come hop on the bus, share your story and get a portrait, for no cost. Special thanks to Dodge Foundation for funding this event. More on the Newark Story Bus: newestamericans.com/story-bus/
Tonight we're dancing at New Jersey Performing Arts Center with DJ Felix Hernandez! Next Thursday, we're back with the #newark storybus . If you have not gotten your portrait taken by #newark photographer @dolo_foto or come on the bus to record your story, set you calendar and we'll see you next week!
