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Dec 29, 2024 | 
nj.com | Ande Richards
Mosaic is NJ.com’s news site dedicated to serving New Jersey’s diverse and underrepresented communities. Welcome to this week’s newsletter! On behalf of the Mosaic team, we wish you all the happiest of holidays. Trending reporter Vashti Harris has been keeping up with New Jersey’s Hip Hop superstar SZA.
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Dec 15, 2024 | 
nj.com | Ande Richards
Mosaic is NJ.com’s news site dedicated to serving New Jersey’s diverse and underrepresented communities. Welcome to this week’s newsletter! We’ve got some of everything for you today — delicious Mexican fare, troubling birth statistics, and a little bit of Hollywood. Food and culture reporter Karim Shamsi-Basha highlighted La Cocina de Maria in Newark, praising its tasty food and affordable prices.
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Dec 11, 2024 | 
mosaic.nj.com | Ande Richards
Thomas Pender was on his daily commute from Trenton to Newarkwhen he realized his wallet was missing. Looking back, he recalled how his mind started racing. At that moment, he put his hands in his pockets and thought, “Oh my gosh, my wallet is not there.”“I was going to call my mom, and everything started falling in front of me,” he said. “I had no control of my limbs, and I was in third-person mode in my own body. I started shaking. I couldn’t see anything.
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Dec 8, 2024 | 
nj.com | Ande Richards
Mosaic is NJ.com’s news site dedicated to serving New Jersey’s diverse and underrepresented communities. Welcome to this week’s newsletter! Our focus is on royalty with news about a legendary Latina star, a talk show diva and a cowboy for the ages. Trending reporter Vashti Harris highlights a new Barbie doll in her story, Legendary actress & activist Rita Moreno now has her own Barbie doll.
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Nov 29, 2024 | 
nj.com | Ande Richards
Mosaic is NJ.com’s news site dedicated to serving New Jersey’s diverse and underrepresented communities. Welcome to this week’s newsletter! We hope your Thanksgiving was everything you wished for — restful, celebratory, delicious and filled with love.
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Nov 19, 2024 | 
nj.com | Ande Richards
Mosaic is NJ.com’s news site dedicated to serving New Jersey’s diverse and underrepresented communities. It’s Native American Heritage Month, and we’re highlighting amazing events that celebrate Indigenous culture, along with a few compelling stories featured in Mosaic this week. Plus, if you’re still craving election results and political insights, we’ve included a couple of NJ.com stories to satisfy your inner politico.
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Nov 15, 2024 | 
mosaic.nj.com | Ande Richards
Elizabeth County Commissioners on Thursday met at the site where three enslaved men were unjustly burned at the stake in 1741 to recognize the atrocity outside the Union County Courthouse 283 years ago. The incident followed false reports in March of that year of a slave revolt in New York that had spread to New Jersey, according to historians.
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Nov 13, 2024 | 
nj.com | Ande Richards
Mosaic is NJ.com’s news site dedicated to serving New Jersey’s diverse and underrepresented communities. Welcome to this week’s newsletter! Presidential elections are always nail-biters, and New Jersey added to the excitement by electing the first Korean-American representative to the United States Senate. Congratulations, Senator-elect Andy Kim!“Look what we’ve been able to do,” Kim said in a victory-party speech. “A year ago, few believed we could show what we accomplished.
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Nov 12, 2024 | 
mosaic.nj.com | Ande Richards
Big Brothers Big Sisters of Essex, Hudson & Union Counties is seeking Black men to volunteer for its mentorship program, which provides support, guidance, and opportunities to help youth build confidence and achieve their educational goals. The organization, which has offered a one-to-one mentoring program for local youth in New Jersey for the past 16 years, aims to provide mentors for 341 youth — primarily African American — who are on the waitlist due to a shortage of volunteers.
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Nov 6, 2024 | 
nj.com | Ande Richards
Mosaic is NJ.com’s news site dedicated to serving New Jersey’s diverse and underrepresented communities. Welcome to this week’s newsletter! Hopefully you all made it to the polling booths yesterday. The City of Newark was a popular destination last week, showing off its new park and offering innovative health care services to its uninsured residents.
