For New Jersey Assemblymen Chigozie Onyema, leadership didn’t start in a government office. It started in a classroom where something didn’t sit right. “I saw a few things wrong in the community,” Onyema said, reflecting on his early years growing up between Newark and Maplewood. In sixth grade, he noticed a troubling pattern: Black students were disproportionately placed in lower academic tracks. “Something felt wrong to me that children that l…
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