Racial, gendered and sexualized violence against black women in the Jim Crow South has long remained in the shadows while historians focused on the unequal justice system and the lynching of black men. In “Crescent City Girls: The Lives…
Author: Carol J. Kelly
Ansel Bobb didn’t fully understand what was happening the day his mom said goodbye to him. He was only 5 years old. But he could easily recall how he felt – the stinging sadness and the weight of painful emotions.…
Julie Culley, a New Jersey track star who represented the United States at the 2012 Olympics, was looking forward to running today’s New York Marathon. Last year, the 5,000-meter specialist was also ready for her first ever marathon, but accepted…
James Holmes, a member of the South Bound Brook Municipal Alliance, saw three-on-three basketball as a means of bringing together three groups — community, church and young people. The basketball tournament he hosted at Maple Avenue Park in South Bound…
PISCATAWAY — While many people have never heard of BMX racing, five-year-old Cassidy Hall is so skilled at the bicycle sport that she’s ranked fourth in the country in her age group. And her ranking is rising. Cassidy, who lives…
A pivotal event in a young girl’s life can sometimes set the course of her career. Jocelyn Elise Crowley’s parents split when she was 7 years old. Watching her stay-at-home mom struggle to adjust to changing circumstances triggered a lifelong…
PLAINFIELD — Four days after family members and friends gathered to celebrate the 68th wedding anniversary of Lorraine Laneuville Jones and Charles A. Jones Jr., death parted the couple. Dr. Lorraine Jones, who got married on June 30, 1945, and…
Khalil Malamug considers himself a craftsman, an artist whose canvas is a head of hair. Malamug, 28, dreamed of owning a barbershop ever since he picked up his first pair of clippers as a teenager. He was drawn to the…
Not every summer intern gets to work on a project slated for orbit. Paula Adhikari, a 2012 graduate of Hunterdon Central High School, is the youngest of six elite interns selected for a 10-week stint at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab…
MANVILLE — Before John Basilone became a larger-than-life war hero, he was a regular guy and a great guy, said 87-year-old Romeo Paulino, who used to hang out with Basilone in the 1940s. Paulino, a World War II veteran who…