Beat: Cumberland County, New Jersey

This page will encompass my assignments and stories for my Spring 2021 Multimedia Storytelling Course. Stories will center around the beat location Cumberland County, New Jersey.

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Nyah Marshall’s Timeline of Powerful Storytelling: Interactive Resume

Whew, I made it! Not just to the end of this class or to the end of this semester, but to the end of my collegiate career at Howard University. It was a bittersweet, but joyful moment reflecting on all I’ve accomplished these past three years while constructing my interactive resume. To give some background,…

Lost, But Unforgotten Black Towns

Many of us have heard about the lost City of Greenwood, Oklahoma, home to the Black Wall Street.  An entire community of Black businesses, homes, churches and schools were destroyed., burned down and had to be abandoned because a white woman claimed a Black man had attacked her. Unfortunately, the story of the Tulsa Massacre…

Environmental Injustice in Newark: New Jersey’s Biggest Crime Scene

“The people of New Jersey can’t use what should be one of their greatest natural resources because it was stolen from them by corporate greed years ago,” said U.S. Sen.  and former Newark mayor, Cory Booker, who spoke on the environmental racism the city suffers from. “I’ve said it before and I will say it…

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