Post by Anja Nieser on Sept 12, 2006 3:24:53 GMT -5
NAACP will look at death penalty
Tuesday, September 12, 2006
NEWARK: On Thursday, the Newark branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People will launch its 2006-2007 program year with a discussion on African-Americans and the death penalty in New Jersey.
The featured presenter will be Celeste Fitzgerald, director of New Jerseyans for Alternatives to the Death Penalty (NJADP). Joining Fitzgerald will be Nate Walker, who served 11 years of a life plus 50-year sentence on death row before being exonerated for wrongful conviction.
The meeting, which begins at 7 p.m., will be held in the Community Room at One Court St., corner of Broad Street. The discussion is free and open to the public.
According to Newark Branch President Dorothea Lee, this discussion should be of particular interest because, according to data provided by NJADP, the death penalty is not equally applied across race lines. She said there are questions about the issue of fairness that directly impact African-Americans who are incarcerated.
The goal of NJADP is to win public and political support for the elimination of execution as a form of punishment in New Jersey. The organization believes that the death penalty is by its nature unjust in application and immoral in principle.
For more information call the NAACP offices at (973) 624-6400. Festival celebrates
cultural heritage MAPLEWOOD: The fifth an nual Maplewood Cultural Heritage Festival will present an afternoon of fun on Saturday from noon to 6 p.m. in Maplewood Memorial Park at Valley Street and Oakview Avenue. The rain date is Sept. 23.
Entertainment includes live jazz, reggae, African dance, Native American dance, the Newark Museum's Mini Zoo, face painting, clowns, stilt walkers, vendors, limbo contest and more. All activities are free and open to the pub lic.
For more information call, the Maplewood Cultural Festival Committee at (973) 275-0081.
© 2006 The Star Ledger
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Tuesday, September 12, 2006
NEWARK: On Thursday, the Newark branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People will launch its 2006-2007 program year with a discussion on African-Americans and the death penalty in New Jersey.
The featured presenter will be Celeste Fitzgerald, director of New Jerseyans for Alternatives to the Death Penalty (NJADP). Joining Fitzgerald will be Nate Walker, who served 11 years of a life plus 50-year sentence on death row before being exonerated for wrongful conviction.
The meeting, which begins at 7 p.m., will be held in the Community Room at One Court St., corner of Broad Street. The discussion is free and open to the public.
According to Newark Branch President Dorothea Lee, this discussion should be of particular interest because, according to data provided by NJADP, the death penalty is not equally applied across race lines. She said there are questions about the issue of fairness that directly impact African-Americans who are incarcerated.
The goal of NJADP is to win public and political support for the elimination of execution as a form of punishment in New Jersey. The organization believes that the death penalty is by its nature unjust in application and immoral in principle.
For more information call the NAACP offices at (973) 624-6400. Festival celebrates
cultural heritage MAPLEWOOD: The fifth an nual Maplewood Cultural Heritage Festival will present an afternoon of fun on Saturday from noon to 6 p.m. in Maplewood Memorial Park at Valley Street and Oakview Avenue. The rain date is Sept. 23.
Entertainment includes live jazz, reggae, African dance, Native American dance, the Newark Museum's Mini Zoo, face painting, clowns, stilt walkers, vendors, limbo contest and more. All activities are free and open to the pub lic.
For more information call, the Maplewood Cultural Festival Committee at (973) 275-0081.
© 2006 The Star Ledger
© 2006 NJ.com All Rights Reserved.