Over five-hundred Union High School students walk out of the building and line up shoulder to shoulder on a football field. Dozens of parents are on the bleachers supporting their kids. Regina Edwards of Union says she gave her daughter a choice to participate. “But she had to explain to me why she wanted to do it. If she couldn’t come up with a good reason, I was not going to allow her to do it,” Edwards said. “I didn’t want her to do it just to follow the others. She was able to state her case

Anybody with a Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, or any number of social media sites have mindlessly scrolled the feed. Sometimes a post with a picture or video catches your attention. “The macro trend we’re seeing is video is the way people prefer these days to consume information,” says Jason Hsiao, a former TV production professional, and a co-founder of Animoto. “[It's] an online tool that allows you to create professional looking videos very simply.” Hsiao says corporations caught on to the

I’ve known Bernie Williams since his early playing days with the New York Yankees. He was just another young man trying to make his way in the demanding world of Major League Baseball. What was different about Bernie the ballplayer was the acoustic guitar that he kept in his locker. Media might hear him play it on the odd occasion they arrived at the ballpark really early on a game night. Now the whole world hears Bernie play, and with some of the greatest musicians to ever touch an instrument.

An ongoing exhibition at the Whitney Museum in Manhattan is giving new meaning to the word “protest”. WBGO’s Molly Fichter takes us on a tour of the exhibition that has prompted many visitors to pause and reflect on the various forms of protest. The Whitney Museum is located at 99 Gansevoort Street in Manhattan.

New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy is directing the Board of Public Utilities to investigate the power companies’ response to the recent winter storms that knocked out electricity to hundreds of thousands of customers. “We’re going to examine what went wrong and whether the improvements to protect and strengthen our grid devised post Sandy have been implemented. We will look to see if all preparedness measures were taken before last Friday knowing a major event was coming. My gut tells me they were

Community Access Unlimited was founded over 35 years ago through a one-year grant to take people out of developmental institutions and put them into the community, says CAU Assistant Executive Director of Business Development Joanne Oppelt. “Whatever they needed. Supported housing, supported employment, getting people jobs, recreational trips, and advocacy trips in terms of speaking up for the rights of people with disabilities. There are a lot of civil rights issues involved for people with

Thousands of young men from the city of Newark descended on the Prudential center earlier this week for the pathways to success summit. Mayor Ras Baraka in partnership with the my brothers keeper initiative and prudential hosted the summit that provided mentorship opportunities, social services, on the spot hiring but the real goal of the summit was to change the paths of the city’s most disenfranchised and underserved demographic, young black men. “A lot of us young black males we don’t have a

Veteran writer and actor David Greenspan, the winner of five Obie Awards, brings his adaptation of Thornton Wilder 's The Bridge of San Luis Rey to Two River Theater through March 18th. This production is directed by Ken Rus Schmoll. This literary masterpiece which won the Pulitzer Prize in 1928 deals with the nature of love. David Greenspan also stars in the new production as the narrator and portrays the character Uncle Pio. Greenspan sat down with WBGO News Director Doug Doyle to discuss the

Birdman was the first film drummer Antonio Sanchez scored. A great challenge presented to him by director Alejandro G. Inarritu. “In the beginning I had no idea how to approach it,” Sanchez said. “But when Inarritu told me that what he wanted was me improvising, being really free, expressive and emotional like the way I try to be when I’m playing drums, then I understood. It was very easy once we figured out the approach.” Sanchez will perform a live set to Birdman as its projected on a screen

The Truth, Racial, Healing, and Transformation Campus Center, TRHT, is a grant program awarded by The Association of American Colleges and Universities to ten institutions of higher learning across the country. Dr. Sheri-Ann Butterfield is the Executive Vice Chancellor of Rutgers University Newark. “Association of American Colleges and Universities, AACNU, is guiding the development of the TRHT Campus Center on college and university campuses all across the country with the goal of creating 150