The 'Other Rosa Parks' Speaking in Newark and a 300-Year-Old House for Sale

This week in Patch, we’ll be reporting on the city’s oldest house, a North Ward home built in 1712 that is now up for sale.

On Thursday at 6 pm at Essex County College, the candidates for the Newark School Advisory Board will be holding a public forum to discuss issues facing the district, which, in a controversial move, recently laid off dozens of administrators. The district made history last year when it became the first in the state of New Jersey to approve a contract awarding teachers merit pay. The election is next month.

Later this week, youth from throughout the city hit the court at the JFK Recreation Center for the annual Mayor’s Spring Break Challenge, a basketball tourney sponsored by Cory Booker.  The final round will be Saturday.

And just an FYI to the community at large -- Claudette Colvin, a civil rights activist who preceded Rosa Parks in refusing to surrender her seat to a white person on a Montgomery, Ala. bus (a move that would eventually touch off the historic Montgomery boycott), will be appearing in Newark Thursday, March 28 at Abyssinian Baptist, 224 W. Kinney St., at 6:30 pm. Come out and here this legend of the movement speak!