Daysi Calavia-Robertson
Multimedia Journalist and Columnist at The Star-Ledger
Multimedia Journalist and Columnist at NJ.com
Columnist @starledger & @njdotcom, former @Newsday reporter. Tweets, links are my own. Retweets 🚫endorsements. Nicaragüense/Española, 305 till I die.
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1 week ago |
nj.com | Daysi Calavia-Robertson
Jennifer Contreras should’ve been raising a glass and cheering the launch of Luxe by Jenni C, her new beauty business in Passaic. Instead, on what was scheduled as its opening day, her heartbroken loved ones, along with hundreds of others, gathered outside her childhood home on Hammond Avenue prayed and lit candles in her memory.
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1 week ago |
nj.com | Daysi Calavia-Robertson
Whenever I speak with Meachel and Delano Lopez, I always walk away with the refreshing feeling that the future is bright. The spouses, who are both Caribbean — Meachel’s Jamaican and Delano’s Trinidadian — and live in a beautiful home in Rockaway, N.J., are the proud parents of not one, but two certified whiz kids. Yes, certified. By Mensa, that is. Mensa is the largest and oldest high-IQ society in the world.
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2 weeks ago |
nj.com | Daysi Calavia-Robertson
A New Jersey woman celebrating her birthday in the Dominican Republic was among 218 people killed when the roof of an iconic nightclub in Santo Domingo collapsed during a merengue concert, her family said. Jennifer Contreras’ body was found by first responders underneath the rubble around 8 p.m. Wednesday night, according to her sister Luz Contreras. “It was her birthday. She was turning 24,” Contreras said in Spanish, in between tears.
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2 weeks ago |
nj.com | Daysi Calavia-Robertson
On Saturday morning, Raysa Hardy, a Black woman who lives in Hillside with her family, says she awoke to find something “deeply disturbing” outside of her home: Someone had written the “n-word” in large yellow letters on the sidewalk in front of her house. The “act of hate” instantly caused her and her family, as well as others in her Nottingham Way neighborhood, to feel grave “fear and insecurity,” she wrote on Facebook.
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3 weeks ago |
nj.com | Daysi Calavia-Robertson
For Dayana, a longtime Union City resident, the last month has been a total nightmare. Weeks ago, her worst fear suddenly became a reality: Her father, Rafael Gonzalez, a 57-year-old immigrant from Venezuela who was seeking political asylum here, was unexpectedly detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers while at a routine immigration appointment in Newark.
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