UPrisings is a multimedia miniseries on the current movement, focusing on people making or stewarding systemic change and progress with a focus on Atlantic City. Through a series of profile videos, this project highlights the importance of centuries of civil rights fights coming to a head, and what’s possible looking forward. Profile videos produced and… Read More
By Katelyn Woolford, Stockton University
May 2019 marks the 70th anniversary of Mental Health Awareness Month, a national event for fighting stigma, providing support, educating the public and advocating for policies that help people with mental illness and their families.
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By Bill Sprouse, Route 40 News
Abdullah Anderson Sr., who is 48, cuts hair five days a week at Omar and Abdullah’s Hair Bazaar at 1208 Atlantic Avenue. He opens his shop at six a.m. two days a week (the other three days he opens at eight), and he works until six or eight p.m. every day.
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By Elinor Comlay, Route 40 News
You’d be hard pressed to say it was a thriving Main Street, but the barbershop, Mexican restaurant, pizza place, tobacco store, mini-mart and even the closed-looking gift store are all open on a short span of Atlantic City’s Ventnor Ave, between Harrisburg and Trenton. In an age of dying malls and online shopping, something is working here in the Lower Chelsea neighborhood.
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By Diane Stopyra, The Press of Atlantic City
It’s the middle of the third inning, and it’s not looking good for Atlantic City High School. Absegami is leading nine to zip. A lone spectator in the visitor stands sighs into her cell phone.
“These guys can’t catch a cold out here,” she says.
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