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Newark, New Jersey, is home to more than 30,000 Puerto Ricans who live alongside Black, Portuguese, Haitian, Brazilian, and other Latin American communities. Puerto Ricans arrived in Newark in the 1950s, and today Newark remains home to many immigrants who have been similarly displaced by colonization. In Newark, these communities have struggled together for decades, fighting against city systems that have often failed us. In the face of antiblackness and police violence, Newark has stood together and radically transformed the city. That unity is called on yet again, at a critical moment of performative governance, the growing threat of gentrification, […]