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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

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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’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

RED BANK: STATE BIDS FOR FORTUNE HOUSE

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The home of pioneering human rights journalist T. Thomas Fortune has been vacant for many years. Below, an undated photo of Fortune, who owned it from 1901 to 1911. (Photo above Continue reading

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September 24th, 2015 @ 7am

Sunday’s edition of the New York Times includes an article on the divergent fates of two historic New Jersey homes, one of them the Red Bank abode of early 20th-century Continue reading

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June 20th, 2015 @ 8pm

RED BANK: $100K PLEDGE FOR FORTUNE HOUSE

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A volunteer group hopes to acquire the onetime home of pioneering human rights journalist T. Thomas Fortune for use as a cultural center. Below, an undated photo of Fortune. (Photo above Continue reading

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March 13th, 2015 @ 5am

RED BANK: DEMOLITION HITS FIRST POTHOLE

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The house, at 94 Drs. Parker Boulevard, was once the home of African American journalist T. Thomas Fortune. Below, a detail of the soffit. (Click to enlarge) By JOHN T.Continue reading

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September 18th, 2014 @ 1pm

RED BANK: FORTUNE HOUSE MAY BE RAZED

The house, at 94 Drs. Parker Boulevard, was once the home of African American journalist T. Thomas Fortune. (Click to enlarge) By JOHN T. WARD A day that Red Bank Continue reading

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September 16th, 2014 @ 2pm

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 ...