SCHOLARSHIP CELEBRATION

Reverend Cornell William Brooks, a public interest attorney, civil rights litigator, writer and fourth-generation ordained minister who is executive director of the New Jersey Institute for Social Justice (NJISJ), a Newark-based urban research and advocacy organization dedicated to the advancement of New Jersey’s urban communities and residents, delivered the keynote address at NJCU’s 20th annual Martin Luther King, Jr. Scholarship Celebration. Gathered with Rev. Brooks were, from the left, Dr. Joanne Z. Bruno, NJCU interim vice president for academic affairs; Jennifer-Leigh Oprihary of Garfield, an NJCU English major with a 3.5 grade point average who is one of two Martin Luther King, Jr. Scholarship recipients, and Dr. Antoinette Ellis-Williams, director of NJCU’s Lee Hagan African Studiers Center. Based on the theme, “The Politics of Hope in a Post-King Era,” the program, which benefited NJCU scholarships, was sponsored by NJCU’s Lee Hagan Africana Studies Center and Office of the Vice President for Academic Affairs.