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RED BANK: FORTUNE HOUSE WELCOMES MELBA MOORE
Disco, soul pioneer and Tony Award winner Melba Moore comes to Red Bank for a pre-Mother's Day meet and greet. (click to read)
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May 4th @ 1pm
Remember: Nothing makes a Red Bank friend happier than to hear "I saw you on Red Bank Green!"
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PODCAST: GILDA ROGERS ON RED BANK’S BLACK HISTORY – AND FUTURE
New episode of the redbankgreen podcast! An illuminating sit down with Gilda Rogers, executive director of the T. Thomas Fortune House Cultural Center. (Click to read.)
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February 13th @ 12pm
RED BANK: SPOTLIGHT ON FASHION’S HISTORIC ROLE
RED BANK: Fortune Center and Two River Theater team up to showcase the Ebony Fashion Fair and its role in Civil Rights history.
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March 25th, 2024 @ 8am
RED BANK: NURTURING FORTUNE’S LEGACY
RED BANK: Opening this month, exhibit honoring editor and activist T. Thomas Fortune looks at his life, work and legacy.
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October 9th, 2023 @ 12pm
RED BANK: ‘FORTUNE TELLERS’ GET READY
RED BANK: Ahead of an October exhibit on the history of the Black press, students learn docent skills at T. Thomas Fortune Center.
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August 1st, 2023 @ 7pm
RED BANK: KEEPING FORTUNE’S VOICE ALIVE
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RED BANK: Suubi Mondesir has helped give voice to the ideals of the Fortune Cultural Center since she was in high school – and the center was still a dream.
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August 9th, 2021 @ 7am
RED BANK: FORTUNE TO HOST PARKER ROOM
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RED BANK: T. Thomas Fortune Center to host permanent exhibit on father-and-son physicians Drs. James Parker Sr. and Jr. under Monmouth Medical Center sponsorship.
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June 23rd, 2021 @ 9am
RED BANK: MARCH INAUGURATES JUNETEENTH
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RED BANK: Juneteenth holiday inaugurated with march bookended by events at Pilgrim Baptist Church and T. Thomas Fortune Cultural Center.
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June 21st, 2021 @ 7am
RED BANK: DEMOCRATS FORM BLACK CAUCUS
RED BANK: Democrats announce creation of Black caucus to "bring forward future civic leaders and field future candidates," among other objectives.
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January 19th, 2021 @ 7am
RED BANK: JAZZMAN VISITS FORTUNE CENTER
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RED BANK: Before taking the stage at the Basie Wednesday night, Branford Marsalis paid a pre-concert visit to the T. Thomas Fortune Center.
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February 27th, 2020 @ 6am
RED BANK: FORTUNE SETS ‘BASIE 2020’ SKED
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RED BANK: T. Thomas Fortune Cultural Center sets 'Basie 2020' slate of events to commemorate 85th anniversary of the Count Basie Orchestra.
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February 18th, 2020 @ 7am
RED BANK: FORTUNE CULTURAL CENTER OPENS
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RED BANK: With a mission of promoting civil rights, T. Thomas Fortune Cultural Center opens in house that came perilously close to being bulldozed.
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May 24th, 2019 @ 9am
RED BANK: FORTUNE ‘MIRACLE’ COMPLETED
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RED BANK: Once facing demolition, the onetime home of pioneering civil rights journalist T. Thomas Fortune has now been restored. You can tour it this weekend.
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February 21st, 2019 @ 11am
RED BANK: NEW HISTORY IN FORTUNE HOUSE
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RED BANK: Builder finds new history, and a lot of rot, in effort to restore Fortune House, onetime home of pioneering civil rights journalist.
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November 14th, 2017 @ 11am
RED BANK: FORTUNE HOUSE LAUDS VOLUNTEER
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RED BANK: The committee seeking to preserve the historic T. Thomas Fortune House honored a young volunteer at a fundraiser held earlier this month.
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October 24th, 2017 @ 12pm
RED BANK: RACIAL ROOTS OF MEMORIAL DAY
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RED BANK: As part of a series called "Let's Talk About Race," the library hosts a lecture Wednesday night on "The Surprising Origins of Memorial Day."
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May 31st, 2017 @ 5am
RED BANK: A FORTUNE HAPPY HOUR
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RED BANK: The historic T. Thomas Fortune House committee toasts its good fortune while bolstering its coffers with a Happy Hour fundraiser later this month.
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May 3rd, 2017 @ 11am
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
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
Partyline
RBG CUB SIGHTING
A Partyline contributor positioned on the dais at Thursday's meeting of the Zoning Board of Adjustment captured redbankgreen reporter intern ...
DOWNPOUR STRAINS DRAIN
Partyline captures video of a flooded intersection during Tuesday's afternoon thunderstorm.
STILL ‘OPEN’ SPACE
Next to Fins and Feathers, very surprised to see an overgrown parking lot that still sits there…overgrown and with blacktop. (Photo and te ...
DARK COMEDY BY JERSEY DIRECTOR OPENS FILM FEST
Indie Street Film Festival kicks off with "In Memoriam," a dark comedy about an actor with six months to live.
Indie Street Film Festival Kicks Off
Indie Street Film Festival kicks off.
KUDOS FOR RBCS FINANCE WHIZZES
Monmouth County Board of Commissioners and Borough Council honor Red Bank Charter School students who took second place in a national financ ...
MARINE PARK HOT DOGS
Red Bank's newly remade Marine Park also has a new lunch option, a newly licensed hot dog cart.
MATCHA CLOSE UP
Partyline captures a photographer working for Aura Coffee Roaster angles for the perfect shot of two iced matcha lattes on Broad Street Mond ...
SOUTH STREET AUTHOR TO READ AT LIBRARY SATURDAY
South Street resident Scott Robertson will read selections from his book, Contents of a Curious Mind, Saturday, Aug. 8, from 11:30 a.m. to 1 ...
EARTH SPIRIT FOUNDER DIES
Jocelyn Ruth Midose, longtime owner of Earth Spirit New Age Center has died.
A PERFECT NATIONAL NIGHT OUT
The annual National Night Out event organized by the Red Bank Police Department drew hundreds to frolic amid the green grass and cotton cand ...
Blackhawk Helicopter Arrives for National Night Out
The Blackhawk helicopter has arrived. Everyone’s favorite part of each National Night Out hosted by the Red Bank Police Department jus ...
PARKING METER MOMENT
Patty Bishop of Verona was halfway through her haircut at Fox & Jane when she realized she needed to feed the parking meter. After she p ...
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 ...