Liberty Harbor Residences is back for a 3rd year with their annual Block Party! Together with Marketplace JC, this Block Party will fill the streets with local vendors, food trucks, and bring back our backyard games, live music by Guy Smiley, and crafts and a bounce house for the kids This event is free and […]
Mayor Steven Fulop, the Jersey City Municipal Council, the Office of Cultural Affairs and the Jersey City Christopher Columbus Day Parade Committee presents the Annual Italian Flag Raising. The flag raising will be held in City Hall Chambers on Monday, October 1, from 4:00 - 5:00 pm. The Christopher Columbus Day Parade will be held […]
Mayor Steven Fulop, the Jersey City Municipal Council, the Office of Cultural Affairs and Jersey City Public Schools presents the annual Week of Respect Anti-Bullying Ceremony and Flag Raising. The flag raising will take place at City Hall Plaza and is FREE and open to the public.
Five Corners Branch Library and Heightened Independence and Progress (hip) invites the public to an Adjustment to Vision Loss Support Group, to be held every fourth Thursday of each month, from 12:00 - 2:00 pm at the Five Corners Library Board Room. This is a FREE support group and is open to the public. Please […]
A Sunim Tea Ceremony will be held at the Korean War Memorial on Monday, October 20, from 10:00 am - 12:00 pm. This event is free and open to the public. For more information, please contact the Office of Cultural Affairs at (201) 547-6921
In conjunction with Journal Squared and Journal Square SID, Marketplace JC is joining forces to bring a curated selection of 20+ artisans, crafters, chefs and vintage sellers to the neighborhood. Come on out for the newest pop-up location located in the newly renovated plaza behind Journal Square PATH (the plaza facing Magnolia Avenue) and adjacent […]
The City of Jersey City and the Saraswati Cultural Association of Lights presents the 2018 Diwali Festival of Lights. The event will include cultural and folk dance, live performances, music and food vendors and more! This event is free and open to the public. For more information, please contact Anita Chadha at sca1991nj@gmail.com or call […]
Mayor Steven M. Fulop, the Jersey City Municipal Council, Council President Rolando R. Lavarro, the Office of Cultural Affairs and the Division of Economic Development JC presents Sister Cities Signing Ceremony. On Wednesday, October 24 at 11:00 am, we welcome District Chief Executive for Gomoa West District of Ghana, Bismark Baisie Nkum.
**Rescheduled to Sunday (10/28) due to rain** Due to tomorrow's weather forecast, the Halloween Pumpkin Patch & Fall Festival has been cancelled on Saturday. Sunday's hours are extended from 10:00 am - 7:00 pm! Come out to the Urby (200 Greene St, Jersey City, NJ 07302) and enjoy Sunday's beautiful weather with bounce houses, magic […]
The City of Jersey City, Mayor Steven M. Fulop, the Jersey City Municipal Council, the Office of Cultural Affairs were honored to commemorate The Chadian Independence today Friday, August 11, 2023. The Chadian Community of New Jersey has directly contributed to the diversity and positive growth of Jersey City in various fields, including education, entrepreneurship, government as well as all aspects of life throughout the United States and abroad. Today the City of Jersey City and members of the Chadian community commemorate this day August 11, 2023 by proudly displaying the flags of the United States and the Republic of Chad together, high above City Hall in recognition of the socially adopted culture and ethnic diversity of our community of Jersey City.
The Republic of Chad is a landlocked country at the crossroads of North and Central Africa. It is bordered by Libya to the north, Sudan to the east, the Central African Republic to the south, Cameroon to the southwest, Nigeria to the to the southwest (at Lake Chad), and Niger to the west. Chad has a population of 16 million, of which 1.6 million live in the capital and largest city N’Djamena.
Beginning in the 7th millennium BC, human populations moved into the Chadian basin in great numbers. By the end of the 1st millennium AD, a series of states and empires had risen and fallen in Chad’s Sahelian strip, each focused on controlling the trans-Saharan trade routes that passed through the region. France conquered the territory by 1920 and incorporated it as part of French Equatorial Africa. In 1960, Chad obtained independence under the leadership of François Tombalbaye. Resentment towards his policies in the Muslim north culminated in the eruption of a long-lasting civil war in 1965. In 1979 the rebels conquered the capital and put an end to the South’s hegemony. The rebel commanders then fought amongst themselves until Hissène Habré defeated his rivals. The Chadian–Libyan conflict erupted in 1978 by the Libyan invasion which stopped in 1987 with a French military intervention (Operation Épervier). Hissène Habré was overthrown in turn in 1990 by his general Idriss Déby. With French support, a modernization of the Chad National Army was initiated in 1991. From 2003, the Darfur crisis in Sudan spilt over the border and destabilized the nation. While many political parties participated in Chad’s legislature, the National Assembly, power laid firmly in the hands of the Patriotic Salvation Movement during the presidency of Idriss Déby. After President Déby was killed by FACT rebels in April 2021, the Transitional Military Council led by his son Mahamat Déby assumed control of the government and dissolved the Assembly. Chad remains plagued by political violence and recurrent attempted coups d’état.
Today’s flag raising reflects the camaraderie built between the United States and Republic of Chad and our enduring love for freedom, liberty and democracy that today the world is still inspired by.
