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Newark honors slain teenager Sakia Gunn with a street-naming and the latest on plans for new Lenape cultural center in South Jersey

By Doug Doyle

Published November 4, 2023 at 6:36 AM EDT

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Friends and family of Sakia Gunn at the October 28

On the November 4 edition of the WBGO Journal....

Reporter Jenna Flanagan takes us to an emotional street naming ceremony in Newark, honoring Sakia Gunn, the teenager who was murdered 20 years ago….

Friends and family gathered for the "Sakia Gunn" street re-naming ceremony in Newark

WBGO’s Kenneth Burns reports on a new cultural center in Salem County to teach visitors about conversation and the Lenape culture...

Tyrese Gould Jacinto finds the names of family members on an 1876 map of Quinton Township.

Host Doug Doyle chat swith violin virtuoso, Midori about Sunday's NJPAC concert

Midori in concert

and NEA Jazz Master Dee Dee Bridgewater shares stories about the late saxophonist James Moody. NJPAC's TD James Moody Jazz Festival is underway in Newark

Bill Charlap and Dee Dee Bridgewater started collaborating in 2019

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Doug Doyle

Doug Doyle has been News Director at WBGO since 1998 and has taken his department to new heights in coverage and recognition. Doug and his staff have received more than 250 awards from organizations like PRNDI (now PMJA), AP, New York Association of Black Journalists, Garden State Association of Black Journalists and the New Jersey Society of Professional Journalists.

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