Word UP: Recent Episodes
Tiffany Fenton
Serges Defemeflack is the founder of Yemba USA the nonprofit cultural organization that promotes Bamileke culture, language, and tradition. He is a well-respected and influential leader who has dedicated his life to fighting for immigrants' rights. Currently, he works for the American Friends Service Committee, a non-profit organization located in Newark NJ. He coordinates programs that center on fighting for human rights and ending detention and deportation. He is an activist well-versed in immigration and citizenship law.
Apart from his profession Serges is a well-rounded artist, author, historian, and intellectual. Speaking with him he provided insights into how healing within our communities begins with becoming intentional. This requires grounding ourselves in traditions and creating intergenerational bonds.
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Rep Newark Daily Interview DJ Rick Rhino CMZ and G-Dub (GWE), members of Newark Hip-Hop group, Hidden Descent.
RepNewarkDaily sat down with Chigozie Oneyma at Akwaaba Gallery to discuss his reason for running in the upcoming election for West Ward Council in Newark NJ.
Amanda and Taffarah are the creator of Operation Stop CPS, a movement that protects families and children from the child protection system. Together they work tirelessly alongside families to dismantle and re-unite their children who were legally kidnnaped. To support this movement please visit there website www.operationstopcps.com, there you can sign a petition, join the organization in there efforts to create awareness of the families who are victims, implement federal policy and laws to create regulation that governs the system of child protective services statewide.
RepNewarkDaily sat down with Red to discuss his most recent project the “Stimulus Package Tour”.
We gained insight on the artist philosophical views, how he uses it, and his own life experience as a portrait within his artwork.
We also explored topics about race, censorship, identity, violence,and the social/political paradigm of the black experience-within communities like Newark NJ. Much of Reds art extends from those topics.
FOR MORE INFORMATION ON RED:
please visit:www.themuseumofred.com
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