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Old ‘Colored School’ to be museum chronicling N.J. district’s Black history
On an out-of-the-way block along the Route 280 embankment in Newark sits the vacant 179-year-old State Street Public School, the oldest building in New Jersey’s largest school district and the only remaining location of the city’s former school for African …