JC Fridays
Celebrates the arts across Jersey City during this quarterly arts festival sponsored by Art House Productions. Click here for a calendar of events so you can plan your evening festivities!
Celebrates the arts across Jersey City during this quarterly arts festival sponsored by Art House Productions. Click here for a calendar of events so you can plan your evening festivities!
Denver Art Society Group Exhibition City Hall: Rotunda Gallery 3rd floor Curated by Roland Ramos December 4-31 Reception: Friday, December 8, 6-8 PM
The Historic Downtown Special Improvement District presents its Annual Historic Downtown Tree Lighting and Menorah Ceremony at the Pedestrian Mall on December 7 at 6:45 PM. Please join Mayor Fulop and Santa in celebrating the holiday season. There will also be a special caroling performance by The McNair Academic High School Chamber Choir & The […]
The HDSID, Artist & Maker Market and Midnight Market NJ are pleased to present the Holiday Market & Craft Fair! Enjoy a warm and cozy "Shopping Village" in a heated tent filled with unique and fun specialty goods to satisfy all of your holiday shopping needs. The "Winter Wonderland" will feature one-of-a-kind and diverse gift items created by artisans and […]
The HDSID, Artist & Maker Market and Midnight Market NJ are pleased to present the Holiday Market & Craft Fair! Enjoy a warm and cozy "Shopping Village" in a heated tent filled with unique and fun specialty goods to satisfy all of your holiday shopping needs. The "Winter Wonderland" will feature one-of-a-kind and diverse gift items created by artisans and […]
Get in the holiday spirit and join your neighbors at @ Ercel Webb Park (Lafayette Park), 264 Van Horne Street for a festive tree lighting!
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.