Our annual Conversations on Race forum will be held on Wednesday, May 30th, 7:30 pm at Temple Sharey Tefilo-Israel. This forum is a community dialogue about race-related issues facing our community. The evening will begin with brief talks by two community members—Barbara Heisler and Dr. Khalil Gibran Muhammad—who have expertise on intentional integration as well as civil rights and African American studies. Please join us for this important discussion about how we face race and relationships in our towns.

Maplewood Green Day was held in Memorial Park last Saturday. Coalition trustees met with many visitors and talked about our mission.

‘Through the Lens of Integration’, which is an Integration Through The Arts program, is a series of photography workshops taught by local professionals. The workshops are free! There are two left: April 29th and May 19th. Sign up now!

The American Conference on Diversity will present this award to the Coalition this May in honor of its commitment to valuing diversity and promoting inclusion.

The topic was Columbia High School and many parents came to talk to current CHS students about the issues that concern them and to hear about the great things that are happpening in school every day!

The SOPAC Loft was full of children and their parents last Saturday completely rapt by the singing of operatic soprano Lori Brown Mirabal, tenor Dante Fiore, and the dancing of both CHS Special Dance and Inspirational Dance Companies. For pictures and full story, read on…

The first and only African American Congressman from NJ, representing the 10th District, was a Coalition supporter.

As part of our Integration through the Arts programming, for the second year we are hosting a workshop series with professional photographers. Learn photography techniques and capture your vision of integration in our community!