Newest Americans

Newest Americans Newest Americans is a multimedia collaboratory of journalists, media makers, artists, and students. We are also rooted in an urban metropolis.

Newest Americans tells stories from the global city of Newark, NJ while documenting the world of the newest Americans and a vision of our demographic future. We are situated on the campus of the most diverse university in the nation, a public university with immigrant students from around the globe. These elements—diverse, public, immigrant, urban, metropolitan—inform the stories we have to tell.

It is here in Newark that their stories converge with those of immigrant Jews and Catholics, Portuguese, Germans, Italians, and Irish, as well as African-Americans who arrived as part of the Great Migration, the largest internal migration in American history. Thus Newark, a crucible for the construction of new American identities, is a connective thread in the tales we will be weaving.

Join us October 13 for a dynamic exchange of ideas and meet artist Michelle Angela Ortiz/ Artist who will be creating a ...
09/26/2025

Join us October 13 for a dynamic exchange of ideas and meet artist Michelle Angela Ortiz/ Artist who will be creating a monument in North Jersey to honor immigrant labor.

NJ Monuments to Migration and Labor
coLAB Arts
Rutgers-Newark American Studies Program
Rutgers University—Newark
Guarini Institute for Government and Leadership

07/28/2025
Join us August 9th! Our next community dialogue for the NJ Monuments to Migration and Labor project will focus on Asian ...
07/22/2025

Join us August 9th! Our next community dialogue for the NJ Monuments to Migration and Labor project will focus on Asian American workers. Help tell the story of how immigrants have helped build this great state. Participants’ input will inform the creation of three monument installations that honor our diverse heritages.

NJ Monuments to Migration and Labor
coLAB Arts
Talking Eyes Media

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