NJ Protests

Mayor Ras Baraka said the city removed the statue that has stood in Washington Park since 1927 in order to avoid the risk of people taking it down on their own.

Authorities in Absecon say a peaceful Black Lives Matter demonstration will be held this afternoon starting at 2:00.

“So on July the 4th, we’re going to shut Atlantic City down,” said activist Steve Young on WPG's Hurley in the Morning program Friday.

The union says that releasing the names would violate longstanding agreements to keep disciplinary records confidential and that identifying troopers would lead to harassment of their families.

A corrections officer who was part of a group of people who mocked the death of George Floyd along the route of a Black Lives Matter rally is on track to lose his job over the incident.

A Wawa worker who was told he could not wear a "Black Lives Matter" mask has retained a lawyer who says the convenience store is discriminating against Black people.

Several more New Jersey law enforcement agencies have set dates to release information on officers who have committed major disciplinary violations.

Legislation aims to address what Murphy says have been years of putting incinerators and refineries that pollute the air and water in cities and towns with mostly Black populations.

Monmouth U. will remove the name of Woodrow Wilson from the building he once used as his "summer White House," and Camden will change the name of its high school after 90 years.

About 100 kids in Lakewood took to the streets chanting "kids lives matter" and "no camps no peace" to protest New York State's decision to not allow sleepaway camps to open in this summer.