Newark

• 
• SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
  10/11/2021
  

  "Many Saints" Misses Chance to Tell Key Moment of Newark History

  by Mary Rizzo and Whitney Strub

  The Sopranos prequel misses the chance to tell a rich story about the ethnic rivalries in Newark's city politics that unfolded in the 1960s.

• 
• SOURCE: ArtNet
  5/10/2021
  

  Historians Say the Newark Museum’s Plan to Deaccession Art at Sotheby’s Will Inflict ‘Irreparable Damage’

  More than 60 scholars signed a letter demanding that the museum abandon its plans to sell works from its collection to recoup pandemic losses.

• 
• SOURCE: Black Perspectives
  9/18/2020
  

  Police Power and the Election of Newark’s First Black Mayor

  by Andrew Grim

  Newark’s experience cautions today’s activists to be wary of channeling the urgency, the radicalism, the moral authority of this current moment into electoral politics.

• 
• SOURCE: The New Republic
  1-21-14
  

  Cory Booker Never Spoke for Newark Like Amiri Baraka Did

  by Jelani Cobb

  Amiri Baraka was a poet and activist, and he's the key to understanding modern Newark.

• SOURCE: BBC News
  3-22-13
  

  Newark tunnel 'legend' to be investigated

  A team of historians and archaeologists plan to use radar to find out whether tunnels beneath a Nottinghamshire marketplace exist.Newark and Sherwood District Council said the tunnels are rumoured to run beneath the marketplace in Newark but have never been investigated.The council is funding the initial work, which will cost between two and three thousand pounds....