Ironbound
paulA neves
paulA neves, a cross-disciplinary artist, is the author of PASSAIC: Poems (Get Fresh Books 2025) and the chapbook capricornucopia: the dream of the goats (Finishing Line Press 2018). Additional work is in the anthology Witness as Resistance (Human Error Publishing 2026) and in various journals such as The Coop, Pilgrimage Magazine, Queen Mob’s Teahouse and The Acentos Review. paulA is the co-founder of Parkway North Productions, which makes documentaries about artists, intersectional communities, and everyday activists, including The Myth of the One: Portraits in Polyamory and The Remedy. Her...Rafael Chavez Santiago
Hispanic Organizer Hola! My name is Rafael Santiago. I was born and raised in Mexico. I fell in love with the city of Newark back in 2009. I evolved as a young adult in North Newark eager to grow and learn to master the language I enrolled in ESL in FOCUS. This interaction with a nonprofit allowed me to grow confidence in the new world and I was able to find the Latino Commission on AIDS in NYC. In this organization I discovered the passion I had for my Latinx community. With this passion burning I wanted to create change locally, where I found a new home New Labor in 2015. New Labor...Bob Cartwright
Bob Cartwright’s introduction to Newark was in 1966, when he entered NJIT, which was then called Newark College of Engineering. He became radicalized because of the anti-war movement and the Civil Rights Movement. Later he was recruited to a position with the Urban Institute at Essex County College and then worked as a community organizer.
As a straight man involved in the Newark left, he worked closely with several important figures in local LGBTQ history who are no longer with us, and so in this interview he recounts Raymond Proctor, Derek Winans, and Frank Hutchins.
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Carol Glassman
Carol Glassman was born in Brooklyn in 1942 to a first-generation large Jewish immigrant family. She went to public school and then Smith College, where she got involved with the student movement that became known as the New Left. Her activism eventually brought her to Newark, where she was a central member of the Newark Community Union Project (NCUP), part of the Students for a Democratic Society-led effort to organize in poor communities with the eventual goal of creating an “interracial movement of the poor.”In this oral history, she discusses coming into her lesbian identity...