ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL CHANGES TO NEWARK SINCE 1967 RIOTS SUBJECT OF SYMPOSIUM
By John Abbott, WBGO News Newark. April 11, 2013
Documentary filmmaker and panelist Jerome Bongiorno, whose 2007 film “Revolution ’67” examined the riots incited by the alleged killing of a Black taxi driver named John Smith by two white police officers, says job creation is the critical issue.
"It’s an emergency. It’s like the Depression of the 20s and 30s, where people are suffering and you can’t wait for businesses to move themselves in…you can’t wait for a developer, you can’t wait for store owners. That’s what City Hall needs to do for Newark to get the people out of its misery: 28 per cent poverty rate—is to create jobs."
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