The Newarker

19/08/2025

Our latest issue is hot off the press!!!!!!! Featuring tales of summer, dreams of yesteryear, meditations on kindness, the profile of locally famed , thoughts on the difficulty of our times, and BIG NEWS for The Newarker!!!

Link in Bio, give it a read and share your favorites!

15/06/2025

Happy Father's Day from the Newarker.

Our regular contributor, Danny Vazquez, shared this reflective piece, and we thought it fitting to post.

Read more of his work at newarkermag.com , and send us submissions and ideas for our next issue to [email protected]

19/05/2025

The NJ Transit Rail strike has ended.

09/05/2025

09/05/2025

Newark mayor Ras Baraka was arrested today after a tense situation with Federal authorities at an ICE detention center in Newark.

09/05/2025

https://newarkermag.com/2025/05/03/on-art-life-project-2025/

By Sean Battle Rescind. Defund. Disappear. I have heard these words within the last three-and-a-half months more than I care to admit. I also knew they were coming.  Many were warned: do not l…

09/05/2025

https://newarkermag.com/2025/05/03/100-days/

By Lawrence Krayn 100 days of disbelief100 days of not surprised100 days of mean-hearted gloating100 days of damn it all On Day 1 – maybe I’ll liveDay 21 – there’s the cliff! Day 63 – nothing…

09/05/2025

https://newarkermag.com/2025/05/03/persephone-on-the-passaic/

By Anastasia Bez the cherry blossoms came early they keep disappearing people impatiently we buy stone fruit the geese returned roosting in a grassy median just past the new jersey turnpike exit ye…

07/05/2025

ANTOINETTE ELLIS-WILLIAMS
Final Set, 2023, 60x40, Mixed media (oil, paper, marker) on canvas

COLOR VIBRATIONS
Curated by: Laura Bonas Palmer

Exhibition Open from 03/22/25 to 06/07/25

Contact Gallery to Purchase
(917) 260 9122
Akwaaba Gallery
509 S. Orange Avenue
Newark NJ 07103

Gallery Hours:

Sun: Closed
Mon: Closed
Tues: 10am-6pm
Wed: 10am -6pm
Thur: 10am-6pm
Fri: 10am -6pm
Sat: 10pm - 6pm

EXHIBITING ARTIST

Ezedire Victor Agbakwuru
Mashell Black
Cedric Michael Cox
Antoinette Ellis-Williams
Samar Hussaini
Aimee Mower Lally

   

07/05/2025

A reminder on this Beautiful Spring day, that if you haven't yet read our latest edition, there are a bunch of brand new pieces from a diverse array of talented minds right here!

History, Culture, Politics and Society

03/05/2025

https://newarkermag.com/2025/05/03/100-days/

03/05/2025

https://newarkermag.com/2025/05/03/nothing-was-the-same-except-the-theater/

By Keenan “Rev” Jasper I didn’t have a COVID experience like most people. I caught it early—like a Jordan drop. March 14, 2020. St. Patty’s Day weekend. I’d come home from a day of bar-…