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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: 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: 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: 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

BCC HOSTS T. THOMAS FORTUNE SYMPOSIUM

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Press release from The T. Thomas Fortune Project On Saturday, June 14, the nonprofit T. Thomas Fortune Project will present a symposium at Brookdale Community College entitled “Shining a Light Continue reading

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May 5th, 2014 @ 6am

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. Click Continue reading

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February 11th, 2014 @ 11am

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Bailey Bryce Holiday and her father Bobby Holiday Jr. paint the lawn at Riverside Gardens Park Tuesday in preparation for the upcoming comme ...

PILGRIM BAPTIST TO JAMAICA

Recently, Pilgrim Baptist Church of Red Bank traveled to Trelawny Parish of Jamaica on a Relief & Recovery Mission Trip. The Mission T ...

Overnight rains and warm humid temperatures brought out a parade of snails along the access path to the Red Bank Primary School near Locust ...

ECHOES OF THE PAST IN TILE

Next to Playa Bowls. Always fascinated how this has stood here this long. (Submitted by Joseph Jakub)

VIVA LA ELSIE’S

redbankgreen Partyline captures French visitor enjoying a pickle sub from Elsie's.

Truck strike downs pole

A truck struck a utility pole at the intersection of Catherine Street and Shrewsbury Avenue at about 8 am Monday morning. The pole wss compl ...

THRONGS FLOCK TO RED BANK STREET FAIR

redbankgreen Partyline: Thousands fill the streets of Red Bank for street fair.

PORTA POTTY X-ING

redbankgreen Partyline captures porta johns moving down the railroad tracks.

(G&G) DOG DAYS OF SUMMER

A solid lunchtime line at the G&G hot dogs truck on Shrewsbury Avenue on Monday afternoon. Driving this stretch of road when G&G i ...

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 ...