Newark Stories

The next edition of Newark Today streams live at wbgo.org at 8pm on December 21

Resident-reporter, James Frazier chats with Newark First Fridays founder Isaiah Little and the 2021 festival season.

The Newark News & Story Collaborative at WBGO has selected Newark residents to join 10-week community media training.

The Newark News & Story Collaborative has opened applications for their media training program. Newark residents will receive a stipend and create media that we will publish and share with other city residents.

We're wrapping up our celebration of Newark's 350th Anniversary with a story from Sakina Pitts.In 1990, Pitts was an 8th grader at Chancellor Elementary…

In the heart of the Ironbound section of Newark, in an old brick factory building, sits the Shifman Mattress Company. Shifman has been making mattresses…

The history of Newark is full of stories of the many housing projects that came to define the city. It's actually where the city got it's beloved nickname…

Bill May has been photographing the worlds most famous jazz musicians for decades. He also taught music to children in Newark for forty years and retired…

Perched atop a hill on Martin Luther King Blvd in the heart of Newark’s central ward sits a soaring and powerful remnant of Newark’s rich history as an…

In 1933, when Hitler came to power in Germany, there was a place on Springfield Avenue in Newark, called Schwaben-Halle, where Nazis used to gather.But…