Richard Cammarieri, director of special projects at New Community, provided an overview of the history of New Community to a group of psychology interns and staff from Rutgers University Behavioral Health Care. Dr. Paula Iudica-Costa, seated center, assistant director of the psychology internship training in Newark, brings her interns to NCC each year.
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.
