Urban League Centennial Ad Journal

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Friday, November 9, 2018 Crystal Plaza Livingston, New Jersey

When the community works together, the community works A vibrant community depends on the participation of its members. The more diverse their backgrounds, experience and skills, the more unique their contributions to the community can be. Bank of America recognizes Urban League of Essex County for celebrating individuality while supporting the common goals that bring progress to everyone. Visit us at bankofamerica.com/newjersey Life’s better when we’re connected® ©2018 Bank of America Corporation | SPN-128-AD | ARRYK5V8

The Board of Trustees Honorary Committee and The Urban League of Essex County Welcome you to the

Power of 100 Centennial Celebration Honoring: Mayor Ras J. Baraka, Dr. Joel Bloom, Morgan DeBaun, James Rhee and PSEG

The MCJ Amelior Foundation congratulates the Urban League of Essex County for one-hundred years of exemplary service to the residents of Essex County.

November 9, 2018 Urban League of Essex County 508 Central Avenue Newark, New Jersey 07107 Dear Friends of the Urban League of Essex County: On behalf of the people of Newark, I would like to extend my best wishes to you as you hold your Centennial Anniversary dinner this evening! Founded in 1917 in Newark as the Negro Welfare League of New Jersey, the Urban League of Essex County shares a rich legacy and history in this city, through two World Wars, the Great Depression, the Civil Rights Era, and our city’s 21st-century revitalization. It has been at the forefront of positive change from a time of steam trains to the age of the internet, seeing our first African-American President. For more than 100 years, the organization has connected generations of Newark residents to critical community resources, living wage jobs and affordable housing. Today, with programs and services in the areas of childcare, job readiness, housing, and community development, the League continues to lead the path for neighbors to become empowered and to thrive. The organization is essential in the efforts to make Newark a community of choice. Today, the Urban League faces greater challenges than ever. A century of work and progress is threatened by the policies of an increasingly racist administration, militarized police departments that disrespect the citizens they are sworn to protect and serve, and so-called “white nationalists” who are causing pain and tragedy across the nation to African-American and other communities. I know that the Urban League will face these challenges with greater energy than before, because its best days are in front of it. All the best for a joyous and memorable dinner and for another century of success! Sincerely,

Ras J. Baraka Mayor

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Letter from the President and CEO Dear Friends of the Urban League, I am pleased to welcome you to our Centennial Gala, “The Power of 100.� Thank you for coming to this historic event. It is a grand celebration of the legacy and power of the Urban League movement. The Urban League of Essex County was founded in 1917 to address the needs of African Americans migrating north from the Jim Crow South in search of jobs and a better life. Unfortunately, one hundred years later, the doors of opportunity are not yet fully opened to people of color. While our centennial year is a time to reflect on the rich history and legacy of the Urban League, these times call for us to come together and to take action. Barriers to opportunity still exist and that means the Urban League is needed to address the disparities of today. We want to use this moment to rally our friends and partners to join with us in tackling some of the most pressing and persistent problems facing families and communities. As we embark on the next 100 years of service, we invite you to share our mission of ensuring that all of Essex County’s residents can realize their potential and fully participate in the American dream. I appreciate your support and sincerely thank you for joining us in this landmark celebration as we move to the next 100 years of service to the Essex County community! Sincerely, Vivian

Celebrating Together URBAN LEAGUE OF ESSEX COUNTY

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Empowering Communities. Changing Lives.

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Special Guest: Marc H. Morial President & CEO National Urban League Marc H. Morial is one of the most accomplished servant-leaders in the nation. He has served as the President of the National Urban League since 2003. His energetic and skilled leadership has expanded the League’s work around an Empowerment agenda, which is redefining civil rights in the 21st century with a renewed emphasis on closing the economic gaps between whites and blacks as well as rich and poor Americans. Prior to joining the National Urban Leaue, Morial was the Mayor of New Orleans, from from 1994 to 2002. Morial was a popular chief executive with a broad multi-racial coalition who led New Orleans’ 1990’s renaissance, and left office with a 70% approval rating. Morial worked to institute fairness into the city's contracting policies. He reached out to black-owned businesses, encouraging them to apply for contracts. He also enforced the city's residency rule for police officers and other city workers, which had previously been unevenly enforced. A graduate of the prestigious University of Pennsylvania, Morial also holds a law degree from the Georgetown University Law Center, as well as three honorary degrees. He serves as an Executive Committee member of the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights, the Black Leadership Forum, and Leadership 18, and is a Board Member of the Muhammad Ali Center, and the NJPAC. He has been recognized as one of the 100 most influential Black Americans by Ebony Magazine, as well as one of the Top 50 Nonprofit Executives by the Nonprofit Times. Morial has an adult daughter, and married to broadcast journalist Michelle Miller. Together they have two children.

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Thank you! Board of Directors Annie Sneed-Godfrey Archie Colander, Jr Samuel Baker Annamaria Porcaro Adenah Bayoh Isabel Daguet Vivian Cox Fraser Sherkera Green Denise Muhammad Donald C. Mullins, Jr.

Honorary Committee Pastor David Jefferson & First Lady Linda Jefferson Senator Cory Booker Congressman Donald Payne Mo Butler Nancy Cantor Marjorie Perry Suzanne Spero Ramelle Massey

Working Committee Mo Butler Patience Elliot Vivian Cox Fraser Sherkera Green Alyson Diaz Cordelia Donovan Jennifer Kohl Porche L. Hardy Diane Hill Scharron Little Kay Lucas Brett Savage-Simon Patricia Sermon Darrin Sharif Richard Spears Dedra N. Tate Denise Muhammad

Our History: The Power of 100

Our belief in the American dream - that everyone should have an equal opportunity to achieve success and prosperity through hard work, determination, and initiative - has taken the Urban League of Essex County through a century of empowering local residents. When we began our work 100 years ago, leather factories, iron works, breweries, and other factories thrived along the Morris Canal. Black workers streamed into Essex County from the South, escaping Jim Crow oppression and drawn by the plentiful jobs and available housing stock. The Urban League was formed “to improve the social, economic, and moral conditions” of these new arrivals, who found that discrimination had followed them northward, despite the greater opportunities. Our founders named William Ashby as their first leader; the son of black landowners in Virginia and a recent Yale graduate, and New Jersey’s first trained social worker. “The Urban League at that time was the only organization whose purpose and aim might give direction to the solution of some of the problems,” Ashby later explained in his memoir, Tales Without Hate. Prohibition and the Great Depression hit the area hard. Manufacturers left the city, and so did many of the people they employed; those who remained were predominantly poor and black. Under Mr. Ashby’s leadership, the League sought

“to obtain for Negroes more and better jobs, to find better houses for them to live in…and to have them fit in as responsible citizens in the community.” The Urban League of Essex County led social research and planning initiatives, provided job training, and assisted troubled youth. During the second half of the twentieth century the American economic base shifted again, this time from manufacturing to services. The Urban League of Essex County began to train local residents in the “soft skills” of business, successfully placing them in white-collar jobs that had previously been unavailable to blacks at companies such as Prudential Life Insurance Co. and New Jersey Bell Telephone. Even so, as job opportunities continued to dwindle for Newark’s black working class and racial and economic equality failed to materialize from civil rights victories, long-simmering tensions boiled over in 1967. The beating of a black taxi driver by white police officers set off 5 summer days of protest. Corporations left the area in the aftermath, along with white and more affluent residents. During this time the Urban League of Essex County found new ways to fortify the communities that remained. The League helped women heading households to transition to work. In the 1980s the ULTRA partnership with IBM taught data entry, word processing, computer programming and other in-demand technology expertise; while in the 1990s a Family Technology Center opened to address the digital divide in home computer access. Over the last decade, the Urban League of Essex County has transitioned from a social services agency to a comprehensive community development corporation. Our programs are designed to revitalize local neighborhoods, such as Early Childhood, Urban Youth Empowerment, Urban Seniors Jobs, Financial Opportunity Center, Housing Counseling, Real Estate Development, Community Development and ThriftWORKS. As the late Rutgers University professor Clement Alexander Price noted, “When Newark was at the center of New Jersey’s urban universe, the League was at the center of the quest for equal opportunity. And when New Jersey’s and Essex County’s suburbs distanced themselves from Newark, the League...led the charge to connect all residents… to a common ideal of justice, opportunity and progress for all.” As we embark on the next 100 years of service, we invite you to share our mission of ensuring that all of Essex County’s residents can realize their potential and fully participate in the American dream.

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Lift Every Voice and Sing:Negro National Anthem Lift every voice and sing Till earth and heaven ring, Ring with the harmonies of Liberty; Let our rejoicing rise High as the listening skies, Let it resound loud as the rolling sea. Sing a song full of the faith that the dark past has taught us, Sing a song full of the hope that the present has brought us, Facing the rising sun of our new day begun Let us march on till victory is won.

Stony the road we trod, Bitter the chastening rod, Felt in the days when hope unborn had died; Yet with a steady beat, Have not our weary feet Come to the place for which our fathers sighed? We have come over a way that with tears have been watered, We have come, treading our path through the blood of the slaughtered, Out from the gloomy past, Till now we stand at last Where the white gleam of our bright star is cast.

God of our weary years, God of our silent tears, Thou who has brought us thus far on the way; Thou who has by Thy might Led us into the light, Keep us forever in the path, we pray. Lest our feet stray from the places, Our God, where we met Thee; Lest, our hearts drunk with the wine of the world, we forget Thee; Shadowed beneath Thy hand, May we forever stand. True to our GOD, True to our native land.

Gala Program Master of Ceremony Tobias Truvillion

Invocation

Reverend Dr. David Jefferson, Sr. Esq.

The Negro National Anthem Lift Every Voice and Sing

Welcome

Vivian Cox Fraser President and CEO, Urban League of Essex County

Remarks

Marc H. Morial President and CEO, National Urban League

Urban League of Essex County Video Presentation Presentation

Victoria Foundation Grant

Dinner is Served Awards Ceremony

PSEG

Donald M. Payne, Sr. Award for Corporate Citizenship

Mayor Ras J. Baraka Whitney M. Young Award for Community Empowerment

Morgan DeBaun

Young Professionals Award for Entrepreneurship

James Rhee

William M. Ashby Award for Economic Development

Dr. Joel Bloom

Clement A. Price Award for Education

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Entertainment

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Master of Ceremonies Tobias Truvillion Tobias Truvillion is an ex-Ford model-turned-award-winning actor, film producer, philanthropist, and inner-city youth mentor, advocate, and arts instructor. The Queens, New York native, who Indiewire hails as a “transformative actor,” is known for a bevy of captivating TV, film, theatrical roles, including ‘Flesh and Bone,’ ‘White Collar,’ ‘Brooklyn’s Finest,’ ‘One Life to Live,’ ‘Hitch,’ ‘Blue Bloods,’ ‘Black Angels Over Tuskegee,’ ‘Person of Interest,’ Empire, and many other acclaimed productions. Shortly after his first acting role as Shango (the Yoruba religion’s God of fire and lighting) in late playwright Tunde Samuel’s theatrical masterpiece ‘Oya,’ he earned a prestigious AUDELCO Award for “Best Male in a Musical” (2001). In 2006, Tobias joined the cast of ABC’s hit soap “One Life to Live.” Despite chaotic schedules, Tobias and his wife Michelle Morgan-Truvillion worked with Rodney Gilbert and the Advantage Arts Program in Newark. They have inspired and trained hundreds of inner-city high school-age students. Together they shed light on the community’s artistic diversity and burgeoning young talent, and dismantle negative stereotypes. Areas of media-arts studies include acting, video production and editing, and stage and film storyline production. Through an established partnership at Drew University, and students are able to earn college credits. Program participants currently rank in the 90th percentile of high school students who transition into college enrollment.

Corporate Citizenship Awardee

PSEG has a one hundred fourteen-year history of calling Newark, New Jersey home, and supporting the communities it serves. The PSEG family of companies also provides funding to improve the quality of life in the communities we serve. Through corporate giving, they support events across their service and operating territories, as well as sponsorships for sports, arts and entertainment. Public Service Enterprise Group (NYSE: PEG) is a publicly traded diversified energy company with annual revenues of $10.4 billion. Its operating subsidiaries are: PSEG Power, Public Service Electric and Gas Company (PSE&G) and PSEG Long Island. Committed to their customers, shareholders, employees and communities where they do business, PSEG makes investments in the economy, environment and infrastructure to make New Jersey a better place to live and work. In 2017, PSEG made roughly $13 million worth of investments in New Jersey communities, including approximately $8 million in PSEG Foundation grants, $3 million in corporate giving and $2 million in Neighborhood Revitalization Tax Credits donated to charity. The PSEG Foundation (PSEGF) focuses on key areas including Science, Technology, Engineering & Math (STEM) and Workforce Development; Sustainable Neighborhoods; and Safety and Disaster Preparedness. More than thirty three percent, of all grant-making, supports diversity and inclusion objectives. PSEGF supports the Essex County College Energy Careers Program, partners with the Stevens Institute of Technology and granted $1.5 million to Stevens in support of research focused on energy conversion and storage. These programs strengthen middle- and high school STEM education. PSEGF also supports several programs at the New Jersey Institute of Technology, including their Summer Energy and Sustainability Program for students finishing seventh grade with academic instruction and hands-on immersion on energy, sustainability and engineering. PSEGF recently approved $150,000 in funding, which will provide free training for two hundred seventy-five under/unemployed Newark residents (ages 18+) who have an interest in entering the technology workforce.

Honoree: Ras J. Baraka Mayor City of Newark Ras J. Baraka is the 40th Mayor of the City of Newark. A native of Newark, whose family has lived in the City for more than 70 years, Mayor Baraka’s progressive approach to governing has won him accolades from grassroots organizations to the White House. With a forward-thinking agenda that reduced crime to its lowest levels in five decades, addressed affordability while maintaining steady growth, lowered unemployment, and returned local control of schools after more than two decades, Baraka defied expectations during his first term in office. He was re-elected to a second term in May 2018. As a part of his commitment to strengthen Newark’s position in the expanding technology space, Mayor Baraka has partnered with corporate stakeholders and institutions, such as NJIT (New Jersey Institute of Technology) on efforts that will capitalize on the 26 miles of dark fiber which lie beneath the City’s main corridors. Mayor Baraka was educated in the Newark Public Schools. He received a Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science and History from Howard University in Washington, D.C. and a Master’s Degree in Education Supervision from St. Peter’s University in Jersey City. His father, the late Amiri Baraka, was a legendary poet and playwright. His mother, Amina Baraka, is herself a renowned poet. The father of three daughters, Mayor Baraka is a published author and well-regarded in the entertainment industry for his appearance on the Grammy-award winning album, “The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill” in his authentic role as an educator.

Honoree: James Rhee Chairman and CEO Ashley Stewart James Rhee is an impact-focused entrepreneur, investor, operator and educator. He has been the CEO of Ashley Stewart since 2013. As both CEO and investment firm founder, Mr. Rhee has generated market-leading returns by creating bespoke capital and operational solutions through the contemporaneous application of algorithmic, technological and cultural change. He has a uniquely diverse network and knowledge base spanning the private equity, retail consumer, venture, and media and technology communities. Mr. Rhee is a visiting lecturer at Duke Law School and teaches his proprietary valuation and happiness class at leading educational institutions and professional organizations across the country. He is a regional winner of the E&Y Entrepreneur of the Year Award, the recipient of one of five 2016 Power Player Awards granted by the National Retail Federation, the 2017 recipient of the Black Retail Action Group Business Achievement Award and the 2018 Temple Fox School of Business Information Technology Innovator Award. Mr. Rhee received his AB with honors from Harvard College and his JD with honors from Harvard Law School, where he was an editor of the Harvard Law Review. He lives outside Boston with his wife and three daughters. He is a former high school teacher.

Honoree: Morgan DeBaun Founder & CEO Blavity Morgan DeBaun, Founder & CEO of Blavity, started her career in Silicon Valley. She is a serial startup entrepreneur, whose passions include building technology at the intersection of creativity and culture. Since its launch in 2014, Morgan has scaled Blavity to be one the fastest growing digital media startups, currently operating five brands: Blavity, 21Ninety, Travel Noire, Shadow and Act and AfroTech. Blavity has become a top website for black millennials in the world reaching over 20 million millennials a month, surpassing the digital traffic of many legacy black media brands. Since launching Blavity in 2014, the brand has quickly grown to be a strong voice for viral culture, social commentary and a platform for young creators to showcase their work. Morgan has been widely quoted as a millennials expert and media entrepreneur in top tier consumer and business publications like Forbes, Huffington Post, NPR, TechCrunch and many more. In addition to Blavity, Morgan consults with enterprises on how to reach low income black and brown communities specifically focusing on financial literacy and empowerment. Morgan was previously with Intuit as a mobile product manager and business development associate. She graduated with a B.A. from Washington University in St. Louis.

Honoree: Dr. Joel Bloom President New Jersey Institute of Technology Dr. Joel Bloom started his 27-year career at New Jersey Institute of Technology as a Vice President. NJIT is the state’s poly-technical university, baccalaureate through PhD. As President, since 2011, Dr. Bloom and his team have added a million square feet of teaching and research facilities, appointed 120 new faculty, grown the research expenditures to over $150 million, 215 patents and 70 pending, and created the New Jersey Innovation Institute to partner with companies, government and other universities for the purpose of economic development. NJIT’s annual economic impact for the state of New Jersey is $1.74 billion. Dr. Bloom started his career in industry working as an economist. He subsequently became an educator and administrator for the New York City public schools. He later joined Teachers College, Columbia University as a research director and led a federally funded project focused on answering the question, “Does increased funding improve the outcomes of urban education?” From 1983 through 1990, Dr. Bloom was a member of the administration of New Jersey’s Governor Thomas Kean, serving as an assistant commissioner in the Dept of Education. schools; and initiated high school academies for science and technology. Dr. Bloom holds a Master’s degree and a Doctorate from Teachers College, Columbia University. He also earned Master's and Bachelor’s degrees from Hunter College of the City University, New York City.

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THE URBAN LEAGUE OF ESSEX COUNTY OPPORTUNITY CORPORATION Â SALUTES THE URBAN LEAGUE ON ITS CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION

TRUSTEES Jasmine A. Cordero Rutgers University Board of Directors

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OFFICERS Chair Archie Colander, Jr. Colander and Associates, LLC

Vivian Fraser Urban League of Essex County

Secretary, Treasurer Annie Sneed-Godfrey Johnson & Johnson

Reginald Jenkins Jr., Esq CHASAN LAMPARELLO MALLON & CAPPUZZO, PC Ida B. Williams

Congratulations Urban League of Essex County for 100 years of continuous service to residents in Newark and the surrounding areas. Best wishes to Vivian Cox Fraser from your loving family for your leadership, dedication, and hard work as CEO & President serving the community for the past 10 years. Love, Leon, Andrea, Alyson, and Lauren

CONGRATULATIONS TO

The Urban League of Essex County

For Celebrating their 100th Year of Serving and Empowering the Community

Best Wishes to this Year’s Honorees for their Leadership, Community Contributions & Achievements

Mayor Ras Baraka Dr. Joel Bloom Morgan DeBaun James Rhee PSE&G

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Congratulations Urban League of Essex County on your Centennial Anniversary! Thank you for recognizing the efforts of James Rhee, CEO of Ashley Stewart & Corporate Citizen Award Recipient, PSE&G Al & Pat Zollar

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Urban League of Essex County On your Centennial Celebration!!

Let’s continue to collaborate and work together for the good of our communities through advocacy and service!

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URBAN LEAGUE OF ESSEX COUNTY The Power of 100 Morgan DeBaun CEO Blavity

Ras Baraka Mayor Newark

Dr. Joel Bloom President, NJIT

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Bro. Horner Williams, President – Bro. Alvin Bell, MD Vice President Bro. mark Smith, Immediate Past President www.AAL1926.org

The ULEC Board of Directors congratulates The Urban League of Essex County on 100 years of service to the Essex County Community Annie Sneed-Godfrey Chair Johnson & Johnson Archie Colander, Jr Vice-Chair Colander and Associates, LLC Samuel Baker Treasurer American Express Annamaria Porcaro Secretary Ascena Retail Group, Inc.

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Celebrating 100 Years Centennial Gala & Awards Dinner

Congratulations to the Honorees: Mayor Ras Baraka Joel Bloom Morgan DeBaun James Rhee PSEG

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Congratulations URBAN LEAGUE OF ESSEX COUNTY ON YOUR CENTENNIAL ANNIVERSARY Best Wishes and Continued Success On your commitment to “Empowering Communities. Changing Lives.”

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