"If you can't fly, run. If you can't run, walk. If you can't walk, crawl -- but move." Martin Luther King Jr. uttered those words in a speech he gave to a crowd of 2,000 jammed inside the Metropolitan A.M.E. Zion church in Jersey City on March 27, 1968. Eight days later, the civil rights leader was slain by an assassin's bullet.
Martin Luther King Jr.'s children and the pastor of an Atlanta church where he preached decried disparaging remarks President Donald Trump is said to have made about African countries, while protests between Haitian immigrants and Trump supporters broke out near the president's Florida resort as Trump golfed yesterday, the official federal holiday honoring King.
Hoboken officials and residents fighting the sale of riverfront property to NJ Transit for use by NY Waterway as a maintenance facility won a small victory , when the agency delayed the purchase.
A 41-year-old Bayonne man convicted of a theft charge died at Hudson County jail yesterday, the same day jail official said another inmate attempted to hang herself.
Gov. Chris Christie leaves center stage this week, but don't expect him to sit down and shut up any time soon. The colorful, candid, at-times crude and historically unpopular two-term Republican governor, who captured national headlines with his unique turns-of-phrase and gigantic personality, leaves office today as Democrat Phil Murphy takes the helm.
A six-story, 48-unit residential building slated for Perrine Avenue that was denied by the Jersey City Planning Board in 2016 was approved by the board last week following a judge's order that the panel give the application another hearing.
In sports, Snyder defeated the Dickinson boys basketball team. Hudson Catholic impressed at the Hoophall Classic in Massachusetts.