Seniors from New Community participated in the 9th Annual Essex County Senior Wellness Day, hosted at the Essex County Richard Codey Arena in West Orange. The free event included musical entertainment, dancing and free food. NCC Health and Social Services staff, including Activities Coordinator Angeli Martinez, attended the event with several seniors. Photos courtesy of Jasminee Sawh-Ramroop.Care Coordinator Jasminee Sawh-Ramroop, right, and four seniors from New Community, participated in health screenings and exercise demonstrations. Seniors also received bagged produce from a farmers market and free admission to Turtle Back Zoo.
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.
