A call to action from students, joined by several members of Jersey City’s City Council, who all say they are fed up with gun violence and what they describe as “pick and choose” decisions in the media that dictate what high profile, shootings – in downtown, for example - make headlines, while others are ignored.
Read MoreA 17-year-old Liberty High School student has joined the Jersey City school board as the board's first "voice for the students."
Read MoreAmbitious and determined, 20-year-old Mussab Ali wants to be a powerful voice for students as the youngest member ever elected to the Jersey City school board.
"I think it's important to get younger people involved," he said. "And especially people that can look at me and say, hey if he can do it, I can do it too."
Mussab Ali, a Rutgers-Newark student who was named a Truman Scholar last year, was sworn in to his one-year term last night by Passaic County's first Muslim freeholder, Assad Akhter.
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