ECC Participates in Positive Community Magazine’s Great American Emancipation Awards Program

Essex County College was well represented at the Positive Community Magazine’s Great American Emancipation Awards program held on Saturday, February 24 at the Robert Treat Hotel in Newark.

The annual program this year observed the 161^st anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation, issued on January 1, 1863 by President Abraham Lincoln.

Attending the event from Essex County College were, from left, President Dr. Augustine A. Boakye, Chair of the Division of Social Sciences Dr. Mamie Bridgeforth, and Executive Dirctor for Institutional Advancement Alfred Bundy.

Dr. Boakye congratulates the Rev. Al Sharpton of the National Action Network. Rev. Sharpton was one of the honorees at the program.