Angela McKnight Archives - New Jersey Globe

McKnight, Schaer, Wimberly introduce resolution supporting federal anti-lynching law

May 11, 2022 12:44 pm

A month after President Joe Biden signed the Emmett Till Antilynching Act into law, Assemblymembers Angela McKnight (D-Jersey City), Gary Schaer (D-Passaic), and Benjie Wimberly (D-Paterson) have introduced a resolution in the State Assembly in support of the new national...

Bill requiring menstrual products in school bathrooms clears Senate committee

May 9, 2022 4:06 pm

The Senate Education Committee passed a bill requiring that school districts provide feminine hygiene products, defined in the bill as “tampons and sanitary napkins for use in connection with the menstrual cycle,” in school bathrooms for grades 6 through 12,...

Policing and racial bias bills pass Assembly, with some Republican opposition

February 28, 2022 6:28 pmFebruary 28, 2022 7:21 pm

Three bills addressing police accountability and racial bias training passed the Assembly today, marking the final day of Black History Month and the first controversial pieces of policy-focused legislation of this session. If eventually signed into law, the three bills...

Kearny mayor wants a say in 31st district delegation

February 23, 2022 5:25 pmFebruary 24, 2022 8:54 am

Since New Jersey’s 40-district system was established in 1973, the 31st legislative district has had a straightforward arrangement: with about most of the district’s population in Jersey City and the remainder in Bayonne, the former usually gets two seats in...

Assembly bill requiring police departments to hold regular roundtables advances

February 14, 2022 11:15 amFebruary 14, 2022 4:42 pm

Nearly two years after the murder of George Floyd caused a statewide and national reckoning on police-community relations, a bill that would require the chiefs of New Jersey’s police departments to hold community roundtables twice every year advanced from the...

Cunningham, McKnight, Sampson win in the 31st district

November 2, 2021 8:02 pmDecember 17, 2021 4:37 pm

The New Jersey Globe is projecting that State Sen. Sandra Cunningham (D-Jersey City) and Assemblywoman Angela McKnight (D-Jersey City) have won re-election to the 31st legislative district, and that Democrat William Sampson IV has won his first term in the...

34 candidates, including incumbents, failed to file financial disclosures with ELEC

June 15, 2021 10:26 amJune 20, 2021 10:15 pm

State Sen. Declan O’Scanlon told the New Jersey Globe he filed his disclosure after this story was published. The missed deadline, he said, was the result of confusion related to similar but separate disclosures sitting legislators file with the Office...