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Women from all walks of life came together at the Greater Newark Women’s Assembly 2023 on March 4th at the Newark Library and March 5th at Newark’s Cityplex 12 for a Women’s History Month celebration. The event, designed to recognize their achievements, also provided empowering tools. The theme, “Pursuing and Fulfilling Wholeness,” celebrates the essential value of women and their efforts toward realizing their optimum destiny, health, and wealth. Inspiring speakers provided relevant and beneficial

“My father’s heritage is East Indian; my mother is African-American and so they were bringing together two cultures,” said Kahn. “That’s ethically as well as geographically. Growing up, there was never a sense that we were solely identified by being Black kids in Camden, New Jersey. Yes, we were Black in Camden, but our roots are global. What I’ve always wanted to tell people through Crossroads is that it’s about our roots. As Black people in this country we should not forget or even allow people to think this is all of who we are.” He continued, “There’s much more! The sense of a connecting, having a theater like Crossroads that connects to many different communities in this coun try and around the world is in order for us to redefine who we are on a larger level.” information on ways to support themselves, their families, and society at-large. Outstanding women including TPC Co-Founder and Editor-in-Chief Jean Nash Wells received awards for their lifelong and lasting leadership, service, and distinction.

The Greater Newark Women’s Assembly’s lofty goal focuses on creating an environment where women experience the power of love and freedom to express their abilities, identities and ideals, as well as being encouraged to embrace the legacies inherited from women who paved the way in generations past.

Church on Henry Street. Many performers benefited from early successes on NFT’s stage—the late Chadwick Boseman, Debbie Allen, Morgan Freeman, Phylicia Rashad, Denzel Washington, LaTanya Richardson Jackson, Samuel L. Jackson, Issa Rae, and many more. Woodie King Jr. retired from leadership of the illus

“During the first part of the pandemic, March 2020, I had been thinking about retiring,” King revealed. “Then the pandemic increased in time. The offices closed down. Then people needed to have shots. I said, ‘Wait a minute, I don’t want to go back to work. I’m 83 years old. So, what should I do?’ I thought, I needed a young person to run it. And that person was Elizabeth Van Dyke, our artistic director. She’s experi enced and understands how to communicate with this generation. And getting that younger person to run it and work with me over the last year and five months,

Across the Hudson River, one of the pioneering insti tutions integrating artists of color and women into the mainstream American theater, Woodie King Jr.’s New Federal Theater (NFT), faces major changes. Founded in 1970, NFT began as an outgrowth of a theatre program called Mobilization for Youth. The theatre’s first season opened in the basement of St. Augustine’s

As millions of people quarantined last year, the aters around the world temporarily closed their doors and we were forced to stay at home without live entertainment. For the first time, the theater found the need to compete with social media and streaming platforms. NFT embraced change, deciding to shift theater to the digital space with pre-recorded and live