Newark Free Library will be closing for two years for a complete rebuild. The library will shut down on Friday, Feb. 28. Then, it will be torn down and rebuilt as a brand-new, two-story, 40,000-square ...

After a life of dealing drugs on the street, Puerto Rican-American rapper Hamza Perez turned his life around and became a Muslim in Pittsburgh. Perez’s story and the struggles that follow after the ...

Margie “Mia X” Johnson has been named Newark’s first poet laureate, Mayor Ras J. Baraka announced on March 12. The newly created position, which will be filled every two years, aims to promote the ...