Juneteenth rally for reparations

Tomorrow, Saturday, June 22nd, the People’s Organization for Progress (P.O.P.) and the NJ Institute for Social Justice (NJISJ) will cohost the annual Juneteenth rally for reparations. (Steve Hockstein | For NJ Advance Media/Steve Hockstein | For NJ Advance) Tomorrow, Saturday, June 22nd, the People’s Organization for Progress (P.O.P.) and the NJ Institute for Social Justice (NJISJ) will cohost the annual Juneteenth rally for reparations. The rally starts at 12 p.m. at the Lincoln Memorial, located at 12 Springfield Ave. in Newark. Endorsements for the rally come from a coalition of activist organizations, including the People’s Organization For Progress (POP), New Jersey Institute For Social Justice, Ironbound Community Corporation, Salvation and Social Justice, Our Revolution NJ, West Orange for Humanity, Pal-Awda NY/NJ Palestinian Assembly for Liberation, Action Together New Jersey, Paterson Juneteenth Committee, National Action Network-Greater Newark Chapter, National Action Network-Brick City Chapter, Showing Up For Racial Justice (SURJ) NJ, and other organizations. The annual march began several years ago to amplify the push for a NJ Reparations Bill, a law that would establish a commission to study how reparations should be developed based on New Jersey’s history with the slave trade and post slavery institutional racism. The demonstration is being...