Instructor Anthony Forte, right, teaches English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL) at the New Community Adult Learning Center at 563 Orange St. in Newark. ESOL classes are held Mondays through Thursdays, from 10 a.m. to 12 p.m. or 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. Classes are available Saturdays from 9 a.m. to 12 p.m. The Adult Learning Center also offers classes on citizenship, computer skills, GED and free services including health screenings. For more information, call 973-558-5536.
For more than 50 years, New Community Corporation has walked the walk of social justice, helping residents of inner cities improve the quality of their lives to reflect individual God-given dignity and personal achievement. After all, NCC was birthed from the literal ashes of the civil disorders of 1967 by a core group of Black community leaders and White allies, including a young priest named William Linder. Together, they modeled through word and deed the moral principle and reality that Black Lives Matter.
Today, just as in 1967, NCC joins in solidarity with all those who seek justice and an end to police brutality and racism.