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America but the very hope of a country. >> killing their brothers over drugs and money. >> mark leaven, executive producer of brick city and joins me now. explain to us what was it about newark that made you want to create "brick city"? what drew you there? >> one, i happened to grow up in jersey, and the second was when mayor cory booker took over, he promised he was going to make newark the model for urban transformation in america. that was a bold promise, and we, my partners, mark benjamin and forest whitaker want to see what does that mean? how do you change? especially the report you gav...

Production of processed foods but you might call junk food, and on the other hand they're trying to tell people not to eat it, and that's a dual mission not working very well. >> mark, let's talk about how some certain states, cities, opening up farmer markets in lower income areas, called urban deserts, getting fresh food, to allow fresh food to get to people who traditionally have less access to it. what else are we seeing in terms of good ideas that the government can do to help? what still needs to be done? >> one thing that got announced yesterday, which is terrific, a subsidy of use of f...

Familiar with the city of newark, some of the struggles that it's gone through? >> i would say two things. one, that civil servants, we often devalue them, make them faceless bureaucrats. you're going to see people on the front line who have sacrificed a tremendous amount trying to make a difference. we often overlook that. and on the other side, on the community side, on the streets and the schools, mentoring programs, again, community activists are also often devalued and made fun of and i think you watch the series, you're going to have a lot more respect for people in the grassroots level ...