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Category Archives: Human Rights

BASIE HOSTS TWO RIVER PRIDE EVENT
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Red Bank Mayor Pat Menna delivers a special proclamation, and Josh Zuckerman provides the live music, as the annual Two River Pride event comes to the Count Basie on JuneContinue reading "BASIE HOSTS TWO RIVER PRIDE EVENT"
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June 3rd, 2014 @ 6am
Remember: Nothing makes a Red Bank friend happier than to hear "I saw you on Red Bank Green!"
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RED BANK: MORE ‘TROUBLE,’ BUT WORTH IT
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Brenda Pressley takes center stage as Willetta, a 1950’s African American actress at work on a play-within-a-play, as TROUBLE IN MIND continues through the weekend at Two River Theater. (PhotoContinue reading "RED BANK: MORE ‘TROUBLE,’ BUT WORTH IT"
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April 18th, 2014 @ 9am
RED BANK: BURNHAM REOPENS WATER VALVE
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Councilwoman Cindy Burnham, right, listens as Councilwoman Kathy Horgan reads an Environmental Commission resolution that denounced any move to privatize Red Bank’s water utility. (Photo by John T. Ward. ClickContinue reading "RED BANK: BURNHAM REOPENS WATER VALVE"
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February 27th, 2014 @ 10am
RED BANK: SEEKING EQUALITY, THEN AND NOW
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On the panel were longtime housing advocate Flo Apy, at left above; former borough Councilwoman Sharon Lee; and Monmouth University history professor Walter Greason. (Photo by John T. Ward. ClickContinue reading "RED BANK: SEEKING EQUALITY, THEN AND NOW"
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February 11th, 2014 @ 11am
ELKS HOST TRTC’s ‘EXPLORATION OF JUSTICE’
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Monmouth University professor Walter D. Greason, former Red Bank council member Sharon Lee, and Frank Talk’s Gilda Rogers are among the guest panelists discussing “The Fight for Equality in RedContinue reading "ELKS HOST TRTC’s ‘EXPLORATION OF JUSTICE’"
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February 6th, 2014 @ 6am
RED BANK: EDGY, SEXY LIT FOR VIXENS
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‘Literary Vixens’ Jacqueline Tobacco (left) and Melissa Bartolone flank author Suzanne Palmieri during her reading at Red Bank’s Lambs and Wolves salon earlier this month. (Photos by Alexis Orlacchio. ClickContinue reading "RED BANK: EDGY, SEXY LIT FOR VIXENS"
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September 27th, 2013 @ 7am
FAIR HAVEN EDGES TOWARD SMOKING BAN
Smoking could be banned, or segregated, in borough parks and at parades. (Click to enlarge) By SARAH KLEPNER Fair Haven’s borough council engaged in a lively discussion about the prosContinue reading "FAIR HAVEN EDGES TOWARD SMOKING BAN"
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May 14th, 2013 @ 8am
RFH: A GAYLA TO ‘JUST BE THEMSELVES’
Vanessa Cameron, David Ramos and Christina Mekheil at the Gayla prom held at RFH Friday night. (Photo by Sarah Klepner. Click to enlarge) By SARAH KLEPNER About 100 high schoolContinue reading "RFH: A GAYLA TO ‘JUST BE THEMSELVES’"
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May 13th, 2013 @ 9am
RED BANK: RISING TO HELP REPRESSED GIRLS
Zakiyah Godsey, left, and Natashsa Cargill of the Red Bank branch of the Boys & Girls Club of Monmouth County write letters to girls featured in the documentary film ‘GirlContinue reading "RED BANK: RISING TO HELP REPRESSED GIRLS"
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May 9th, 2013 @ 11am
RED BANK: KING DAY, IN SONG AND STRIDE
A commemoration of the life of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. at Pilgrim Baptist Church featured musical performances and readings by students from local schools. Below, Red Bank Charter SchoolContinue reading "RED BANK: KING DAY, IN SONG AND STRIDE"
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January 22nd, 2013 @ 7am
LGBT YOUTH MAKE RED BANK PROUD
“The heat of her breath fills the hollows of my bones with helium and lifts my ribcage just long enough to feel again.” That’s how Chris Hennessy, 19, of Oceanport,Continue reading "LGBT YOUTH MAKE RED BANK PROUD"
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June 22nd, 2012 @ 1am
HUMANISTS FIRE BACK IN ‘WAR ON WOMEN’
Pat Barr, a self-described “anti-demonstration demonstrator,” tells fellow humanists about her experiences as pro-choice picketer. (Click to enlarge) By STACIE FANELLI In a presentation heavy on how labels are deployedContinue reading "HUMANISTS FIRE BACK IN ‘WAR ON WOMEN’"
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June 11th, 2012 @ 3pm
GAY PRIDE TO PLANT A RED BANK FLAG
The June 20 event, at the Two River Theater, will feature an open mic for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender youths to tell their stories. (Click to enlarge) By DANIELLEContinue reading "GAY PRIDE TO PLANT A RED BANK FLAG"
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May 25th, 2012 @ 7am
RED BANK: TRAYVON MARTIN VIGIL SLATED
Councilwoman Sharon Lee, wearing a hoodie in memory of Trayvon Martin, talks with Mayor Pasquale Menna before Wednesday night’s council meeting. (Click to enlarge) By JOHN T. WARD Three RedContinue reading "RED BANK: TRAYVON MARTIN VIGIL SLATED"
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March 29th, 2012 @ 8am
DIVERSITY PLEDGE MAKES ROOM FOR ATHEISM
Red Bank has adopted a diversity statement as a “tremendous strength and asset to the community.” (Photo by Dustin Racioppi; click to enlarge) By DUSTIN RACIOPPI The Red Bank HumanContinue reading "DIVERSITY PLEDGE MAKES ROOM FOR ATHEISM"
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June 1st, 2011 @ 10am
NAACP Red Bank chapter president Rev. Henry P. Davis quotes Jefferson to Mayor Pasquale Menna. Red Bank's governing body recently honored what Mayor Pasquale Menna called "one of our anchor institutions," the local chapter of the National Association for the...
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June 4th, 2009 @ 7am
'The Laramie Project' is back in Monmouth County — minus, so far, any hint of the outrage that made it a hot topic last year in Ocean Township. That's when the high school principal and the district superintendent tried putting...
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October 9th, 2008 @ 6pm
Some redbankgreen readers gave the sign a chilly welcome when it was installed in the spring. Last time we wrote about Red Bank's new inclusive community sign, in June, it set off quite a barrage of adverse commentary. Critics called...
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August 18th, 2008 @ 10am
The new sign, visible from Route 35/Riverside Avenue heading south across West Front Street. A welcome sign that the Red Bank Human Relations Committee bought got for free earlier this year to promote community togetherness has been posted at Veteran's...
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June 9th, 2008 @ 6am
Undaunted by sprinkles and a brief downpour, students from the Red Bank Regional High School chapter of STAND held a vigil in Marine Park last night to mourn the rapes, displacements and killings of millions of Darfurians in what the...
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May 22nd, 2008 @ 7am
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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.
HELL STRIP FIREWORKS
Revelers launched fireworks from the hell strip in front of a home on Drs. James Parker Boulevard on July 4, one of many impromptu and quest ...
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SWIMMING, ER, SCULLING RIVER?
Partyline photo captures a single rower working their way up the Swimming River.