Join Us for the Ultimate Girls Streetball Experience! Basketball in its purest form is learned—and loved—on community courts. In fact, professional players often credit their time on community courts for giving them their start in the game. But for girls, streetball courts aren’t always welcoming, and the chance for unstructured play is not always encouraged […]
Join the HDSID for the Annual Holiday Lighting Ceremony at the Pedestrian Mall! Together with the Mayor, City Council, and the Smile Preschool & Nursery, we'll kick off the festive season by illuminating the Christmas Tree in the Village area, along with the trees adorning the Mall and the Menorah. Plus, don't miss out on […]
A Children's event where they can take pictures with Santa & The Grinch while being able to enjoy Donuts and Milk/Juice.
Listen & Move Fundamentals is a kids workshop that teaches kids the connection between music and movement. Based on the format of our adult sessions, we’ll explore the creative outlets in the house music and other electronic music cultures including DJing, dance and fitness. Our kids sessions add a bit of structure to the experience […]
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The Art Crawl Downtown focuses on a single, walkable neighborhood, bringing together arts events and exhibitions with local businesses, which offer discounts or other promotions for the Art Crawlers. Start your crawl at our headquarters located at 157A 1st Street, Jersey City NJ 07302
Join us on Saturday, April 20 for a Maker Space activity for families: Flavin in Motion, a collective art project in connection with the permanent art presentation of Dan Flavin. In this Maker Space activity, we will explore ways of seeing and drawing the space around us while incorporating elements in motion, in dialogue with […]
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.
