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Category Archives: Human Rights

LINCROFT: A SPIKE IN ATTENDANCE AT UUCMC
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LINCROFT: A free set by jazz pianist Spike Wilner highlights a Sunday of special guest speakers and Social Action films at the Unitarian Meetinghouse.
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January 26th, 2017 @ 12pm
Remember: Nothing makes a Red Bank friend happier than to hear "I saw you on Red Bank Green!"
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RUMSON: A HISTORY LESSON FOR RCDS KIDS
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RUMSON: Students at Rumson Country Day School take part in special events on the history of the civil rights struggle, and their own school's anniversary.
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January 26th, 2017 @ 5am
RED BANK: CHARTER KIDS MARCH FOR MLK
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RED BANK: Charter School students attend class on MLK Day, and take part in a full day of activities.
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January 24th, 2017 @ 5am
RED BANK: WOMEN UNITE AGAINST (UNNAMED)
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RED BANK: As millions gathered in cities and town across America, hundreds gathered here to protest the new "administration" in DC.
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January 23rd, 2017 @ 8am
RED BANK: Area women to hold "nonpartisan" rally today on theme of "committing to reminding ourselves and our leaders that we are one community."
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January 21st, 2017 @ 7am
RED BANK: WOMEN PLAN ‘NONPARTISAN’ RALLY
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RED BANK: Area women plan "nonpartisan" rally day after Trump inauguration "committed to reminding ourselves and our leaders that we are one community."
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January 9th, 2017 @ 5pm
ON THE GREEN: Pilgrim Baptist Church and Monmouth Reform Temple team up to extend Martin Luther King Day into a Social Awareness Weekend of events, January 13 through 16.
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January 9th, 2017 @ 5am
SHREWSBURY: Y HOSTS MLK ESSAY CONTEST
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SHREWSBURY: The CYMCA invites high schoolers to enter an Essay Contest, with winners awarded at at the annual MLK Memorial Breakfast.
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December 30th, 2016 @ 5am
ON THE GREEN: AUTHOR! AUTHOR! AUTHOR!
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ON THE GREEN: A highly lauded nonfiction writer and two novelists read and answer questions at events in Fair Haven, Shrewsbury and Lincroft in coming days.
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November 11th, 2016 @ 1pm
RED BANK CHARTER DANCES FOR KINDNESS
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RED BANK: The Charter School joins the world in preparing for the fifth annual Dance for Kindness, with a November 13 flash-mob event on Broad Street.
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November 3rd, 2016 @ 5am
RED BANK: CYMCA HOSTS TALK ON JERUSALEM
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RED BANK: Positive relations between Israeli and Palestinian communities is the topic of two special guest speakers, November 11 at the Community YMCA.
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November 1st, 2016 @ 5am
LITTLE SILVER: LET’S TALK GENDER AT RBR
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LITTLE SILVER: Author and activist Sam Killermann visits Red Bank Regional for a well-received talk on the issue of Gender Identity in American society.
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October 31st, 2016 @ 5am
FAIR HAVEN KIDS EMBRACE ‘THE OTHER R’
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FAIR HAVEN: The Sickles School hosts a Week of Respect that reinforces the theme "It's OK to Be Different."
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October 17th, 2016 @ 5am
RED BANK: FORTUNE SMILES ON “LET’S TALK”
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RED BANK: An update on the plan to rescue and restore the historic Fortune House is the focus of this month's "Let's Talk About Race" forum, Wednesday night at the Public Library.
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September 26th, 2016 @ 12pm
LINCROFT: UUC HOSTS BLACK LIVES RALLY
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LINCROFT: The Unitarian Meetinghouse is the scene for a September 25 community rally in support of Black Lives Matter.
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September 12th, 2016 @ 5am
RBR FRESHMEN DISCUSS HISTORY, HARMONY
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LITTLE SILVER: Students of Red Bank Regional's Summer Slam program are treated to special guest presentations on racial tolerance, and the legacy of Red Bank's T. Thomas Fortune.
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August 22nd, 2016 @ 5am
RED BANK: FORTUNE HOUSE’S GOOD FORTUNE
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RED BANK: The crumbling Fortune House gives journalism students a taste of what it's planned to become: a cultural and educational center.
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July 28th, 2016 @ 10am
RED BANK: FORTUNE HOUSE RESCUE PLAN OK’D
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RED BANK: A plan to save the Fortune House, and build 31 apartments out back, wins zoning board approval..
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July 22nd, 2016 @ 1am
RED BANK: FORTUNE HOUSE PLAN SCHEDULED
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RED BANK: A developer's plan to preserve the Fortune House, and build 32 apartments, goes to the zoning board this week.
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July 18th, 2016 @ 9am
RED BANK: BUILDER EYES FORTUNE HOUSE SITE
RED BANK: Developer Roger Mumford has a plan to save the Fortune House, but it comes with a catch.
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June 28th, 2016 @ 9am
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JOIN US AT JJ’S – PLEASE!
A doe-eyed sect of sentient boba teas sweetly beseeches us to join their adorable cult outside of JJ Delicacies this sticky August Sunday!
NEIGHBORS GATHER AT TINO’S
Chris Havens of River Street gathered group of Red Bankers for dinner on Thursday night. The gathering was in the back patio of Tino’s Mex ...
TREE BRANCH VS CAR
A tree branch fell on a parked car on Chestnut Street near Pearl Street Sunday. Submitted by Brian Donohue
APOSTROPHE CATASTROPHE
As a curmudgeonly curator of terrible punctuation on public signs, I’ve seen and shaken my head at a lot of gratuitous quotation marks ...
DANE FOR DEMOCRACY
redbankgreen Partyline captures a great dane who, all signs indicate, has had enough.
SUNFLOWER GAUNTLET
On the Partyline: a sunflower guantlet on River Street.
VIGIL FOR 68 DEAD
About 100 people attended a Saturday vigil at Johnny Jazz Park in Red Bank as part of a nationwide series of events to mourn the lives of pe ...
LITTERBUGS HIT MARINE PARK
Partyline PSA: Please don't leave your trash in our nice new park!
PARKING SUCCESS AT RED ROCK
All these people found parking for the Cliffs at Red Rock!
SHO AND TELL
A peak inside Sho Asian Table a new restaurant still under construction and slated to open later this summer at 8 West Front Street in Red B ...
“Night of the Living Nick” Halloween Car Turns Heads
Nick Brown, a special effects artist from the Atlantic Highlands, was seen driving his creatively decorated Halloween car around Red Bank th ...
“HOLY F***!” LIGHTNING STRIKE FROM WASHINGTON STREET BACKYARD
Lightning struck during Saturday’s storms in the backyard of Washington Street resident Kimberly Johnson. The strike obviously caught ever ...
SMOKY NAVESINK SUNRISE
redbankgreen's partyline photographer Karly Swaim captured the sun rising through hazy, smoky skies above the Navesink River from NJ Transit ...
MAGGIE’S HEAT WAVE HAIRCUT
Maggie, a golden doodle who belongs to Sara Horan, shows off her new shorter-for-summer hair cut outside Fins & Feathers on Monmouth Street ...
PEACE, LOVE AND JUGGLING
Music and flow arts filled Riverside Gardens Park Friday night at the free flow arts meetup hosted by Cirque de Peace, with guest band Sweet ...
IMMIGRATION PROTESTS CONTINUE
Protests against a wave of immigration arrests in Red Bank and nationwide continued for a third and fourth straight day on Shrewsbury Avenue ...
CARS, BARS AND VANS
Middletown resident Rob King was cruising through the Red Bank municipal parking lot behind the Dublin House Saturday night in his 1969 Plym ...
TWO SHORTS IN FILMONEFEST
Leonardo Morales Pitalua, a 20-year-old animator who lived in Red Bank until February, will have two short films shown at FilmOneFest in Hig ...
LONG DOGGONE WAIT
Partyline photo: The driver of an e-bike and his human passenger wait at the Monmouth Street train crossing while a northbound NJ Transit tr ...
WE’RE LICHEN THIS FUNGHI!
A mushroom sprouts from the mouth-like hole in this lichen-covered tree on the grounds of Red Bank Primary School Tuesday morning.