1 Month, 20 Crimes, 0 Crime Alerts

In the month of September in 2015, police responded to a total of 20 reported crimes in 10 different incidents at Rutgers’s University Center Apartments at 30 Easton Ave. in New Brunswick, N.J.

Are We Still Talking About Ferguson?: A Brief Valorization of “Twitter Activism”

It was the fall of 2014, and the nation was caught in a wave of protest.

Just a few months prior, two unarmed black men, 18-year old Michael Brown from Ferguson…

The Backyard of Higher Education

If you take a walk through the five sprawling campuses of Rutgers University-New Brunswick, you’ll see much of what you’d expect from a world class learning institution — state-of-the-art labs and historic campus building, student centers filed with cafes and student…

Owner of Brunswick Boxing and Fitness Club Changes His Life To Change Others

On a rainy Tuesday in March of 2004, after more than ten years of drug dealing, stealing, and illegal gambling, JT found himself facing arrest after getting caught with an empty cocaine bag. On that…

N.J. Reducing Prison Population But Still Lacking

Within the past few years, New Jersey has become one of the leaders of reducing prison population in the United States, according to a report from the Brennan Center for Justice at New York University Law School.

NJ Spark Teams Are Hard At Work

The NJ Spark media teams have been hard at work the past few weeks, creating projects that all seek to bring awareness to social justice issues throughout the local area. NJ Spark is producing two documentaries, audio and photo stories, op-eds, and investigative stories. In…

Bringing Journalists And Residents to The Same Table

The future of journalism lies not in building the right app, but in developing deep and meaningful connections between newsrooms and the communities they serve.

Immigrant Women Detained In Texas Go On Hunger Strike

More than 20 women have begun protesting the conditions at the T Don Hutto immigration detention center in Texas this past week. The women are denying food as a response to “inedible food, poor medical care, inadequate legal…