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.

Congratulations to Dorothea Hoffner–long-time Schools Committee member–for the follwing award: Dorothea is being honored by the Friendly Fuld Neighborhood Center on Saturday June 9th.  The event will be held at the Metropolitan Baptist Church in Newark from 8:30 until 11:30 am.  Friendly Fuld and its sister PCCI have both focused n the Central Ward of  Read more »

Thanks to all the candidates for attending the BOE Candidates Forum and for their time, commitment, and willingness to serve the community. On April 12th, the Schools Committee of the Coalition hosted its Annual Board of Education Candidates Forum.  Each year of a contested election, the committee invites candidates to address how they will contribute  Read more »

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.

Join us on Thursday, April 12th, at 7:00 pm at Marshall Elementary School for our 7th annual forum for BOE candidates. This is your chance to hear from the candidates before the April 17th election!

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 Schools Committee of the South Orange/Maplewood Community Coalition on Race, with the CHS Home and School Association, present Columbia High School: Facts, Fears, or Folklore? Developed with current CHS students, this program will provide you with a real sense of what it’s like to be a student at our community’s high school.