RUST premieres May 18 on PBS
RUST is the third documentary in Newark filmmakers Marylou and Jerome Bongiorno s 3Rs Trilogy on Urban America.
Following the success of critically-acclaimed, award-winning national PBS broadcast REVOLUTION 67 (2007) on riots/rebellions of the 1960 s and THE RULE (2014) on urban school reform, RUST uses Newark, New Jersey as a microcosm to take a deeper look into Rust Belt poverty, racism and mass incarceration while detailing industrialization and deindustrialization. Marylou and Jerome Bongiorno join WBGO News Director Doug Doyle on a Zoom chat to talk about their RUST documentary on PBS
The Bongiornos joined WBGO News Director Doug Doyle for a Zoom chat about RUST which is being screened on May 3 at 7pm. The virtual event hosted by Prudential Financial. More information about that event can be found at www.bongiornoproductions.com.
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Police officers in Newark didn’t fire a single shot in 2020, which means the city did not have to pay to settle police brutality cases, according to
Crime has reportedly dropped in the city with police recovering nearly 500 illegal firearms from the street last year.
Aqeela Sherills, head of the Newark Community Street Team, a group consisting of former offenders working to actively defuse violence in the city’s most violent areas, said “This is significant.”
People walk by a police car in downtown on May 13, 2014 in Newark, New Jersey. Voters in New Jersey’s largest city go to the polls on May 13, to choose a new mayor following Democrat Cory Booker’s departure to the U.S. Senate. Newark, which is approximately 12 miles from New York City, is struggling with a rise in violent crime and unemployment. Shavar Jeffries, 39, and Ras Baraka, 44, are the two democrats running for the job in the heavily Democratic city. (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Im
By TOM WIEDMANN
April 21, 2021 at 6:18 PM
Newark Mayor Ras Baraka joined community leaders and social justice advocates on April 21 in front of the Lincoln statue at West Market Street to call for police reform measures.
Newark Mayor Ras Baraka joined community leaders and social justice advocates on April 21 in front .
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Jason De Sousa (left), a high school student from Elizabeth, and Giovana Castaneda, a student at Rutgers-Newark, came out to the rally on April 21 to show their solidarity with the community.
Jason De Sousa (left), a high school student from Elizabeth, and Giovana Castaneda, a student at .
N.J. needs to do more, activists say at rally after Derek Chauvin verdict
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The People s Organization for Progress (POP) holds a rally in Newark the day after the verdict comes down in the Derek Chauvin case. Wednesday, April 21, 2021
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It was a reminder that New Jersey politicians have promised accountability in policing since Chuavin killed Floyd, but little has been accomplished yet.
“Since Mr. Floyd’s killing a year ago, New Jersey has done precious little in the area of building accountability into policing in this state,” said New Jersey Institute of Social Justice President Ryan Haygood.
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