Revolutionary Times http://www.atlanticcityweekly.com/arts-and-entertainment/Revolutionary-Times-65791722.html
Stockton's Carnegie Library presents free screening of Revolution '67, an acclaimed documentary about the 1967 Newark riots By Lori Hoffman Oct. 23, 2009 The Richard Stockton College of New Jersey Carnegie Library Center will be hosting a film screening of Revolution '67 by filmmakers Marylou Tibaldo-Bongiorno and Jerome Bongiorno on Thursday, Oct. 29, at 6pm. The screening, free and open to the public, will take place at the Carnegie Library Center located on 35 S. Dr. MLK, Jr. Boulevard in Atlantic City. The filmmakers will attend the screening and there will be commentary by New Jersey State Superior Court Judge Nelson Johnson, author of Boardwalk Empire. According to the PBS Web site for their documentary series POV, "Revolution '67 is an illuminating account of events too often relegated to footnotes in U.S. history the black urban rebellions of the 1960s." The film features activists and people who were there including Tom Hayden and Amiri Baraka, journalist Bob Herbert, Mayor Sharpe James, and other officials, National Guardsmen and Newark citizens who talk about what happened and why. Filmmaker Tibaldo-Bongiomo explains in an interview with PBS why she made the film. "I'm a native daughter of Newark, and a lifelong resident of the city. For as long as I can remember, Newark has been stigmatized by the riots of 1967. So for my husband, Jerome, and I, who have been living there for so many years, there are questions that persisted about the riots: Why did they happen? Who's to blame? Why is the city in the condition that it's in? Why has the city not recovered? So it was to get the answers to these questions and to discover why Newark is in the condition that it's at that led us to make this film." . -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Sixties-L" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sixties-l?hl=en.
