What if the story of America was hiding just across the river from New York? 🔔 Subscribe and join us on this journey around the world → https://bit.ly/WorldView-Documentary 00:00 – Introduction: A City in the Shadow of Manhattan 07:50 – Art as Resistance: Spirit House and Black Aesthetics 15:59 – Urban Renewal: Displacement in the Name of Progress 23:35 – The 1967 Rebellion: Rage, Police Brutality & Aftermath 31:40 – Changing Neighborhoods: Weequahic and Route 78 42:04 – Discrimination at Work: The Roth Family's Experience 50:03 – Mothers, Memory & Honesty 57:08 – Legacy of Roth and Baraka Newark, a river across NY, has always been in the shadow of the city of light. This is the history of a the city of Newark revealed through the story of two families, those of Black writer Amiri Baraka and famous Jewish writer Philip Roth as they struggle with the meaning of American identity. This documentary explores the forgotten history of the city. Newark lies just across the river from New York, in the shadow of Manhattan, its particularity mostly lost to forgetting. Set against the rise and fall, the film recounts the histories of two Newark writers’ families, the Afro-American Amiri Baraka, the other Jewish, that of Philip Roth. Their generational destinies inescapably intertwined with Newark’s prosperity and decline. WATCH NEXT: From Paris to New York: The Birth of Lady Liberty https://youtu.be/886gxnEFE8A Inside Saddam’s Fall: Untold Iraqi Voices of the U.S. Invasion https://youtu.be/_x3c4LGNBK8 Supermax & the Prison Empire of Colorado https://youtu.be/z1GjgoJHzcw 444 Days of Terror: The Story of U.S. Diplomats Held Captive in Iran https://youtu.be/8yoFduWGSI8 How China and the US Hijacked Global Health? https://youtu.be/rfMpJYC0pmw Can You Buy a Judge? Inside America's Corrupt Court Elections https://youtu.be/X7_6YWNJzT4 THE BARDS OF NEWARK Directed by FAIGENBAUM Stephen All Rights Reserved #NewarkDocumentary #AmiriBaraka #PhilipRoth #ForgottenCities #BlackHistory #JewishHistory #AmericanIdentity #UrbanHistory #HistoricalDocumentary #WorldViewDocs #thebardsofnewark
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Proud Cuban Born in New York, lived in the Bronx , Manhattan moved to Newark and raised in Newark loved everyone there
What street are they playing on
What the media won’t tell you is how the govt does not put any money into any of the black urban communities that were destroyed by race riots/protests etc. it’s like a form of “we will punish you”
I love Newark because it is a beautiful City from the 60 s to the 90's. And today Newark is rebounding. And it's still growing. I love my black City! Because the black experience is great.
I love *Nork!* ❤🙏🏽😊
Not a mention of Mayor Sharpe James?...
Weird totally missed the part where Leroi Jones married a white woman and had two kids with her…
So you felt you were being oppressed so you decided to burn down your own homes and drive out business. Very stupid if you ask me. Never understood that. What about peaceful goal oriented protest! Minnesota did it worse!
Newark is a dump. Don’t get caught there after dark. It is horrible!! Stay away!
Great documentary…
I was born and raised in Newark since 1968. Watching this video, there is alot that i want to say but cant say here. But, Newark is like every other black city that has been affected by politics, racism and greed. Thats all i will say.
This is a powerful documentary I’ve learned more about Newark than I ever knew before. I wasn’t familiar with the Baraka family, but now I clearly see where Ras Baraka gets his drive and purpose from.
Newark really went through some sh!t in the past and still has a way to go but I still love my brick city. 💪🏽
Why is this documentary called Newark Across the River from NYC??? when the Actual Cities of NJ that’s across the Hudson River is HOBOKEN, JERSEY CITY, BAYONNE & WEEHAWKEN!!!.. as we all know Newark is across from Jersey City/Kearny.
Hy wow same story thousand years old . humans.good an bad .an God Jesus Christ lives he wants Peace 🙏
I moved to Newark in 2019. I lived in Lincoln Park West Ruyne South 17 st by West Side Park I lived over Ideals on Frelinghuysen across the st from the DMV and the last 3 years I been living on top of Frelinghuysen in the Projects. I love it out here it's a beautiful historic city and in every neighborhood I moved to all the neighbors have been nice and welcoming. I never had any problems but also I mind my business and keep it pushing and I treat everyone the way I wanted to be treated back . Newark can be dangerous but once again I am not from Newark so I don't belong to any set or any block so I don't have any opps and because I mind my business and don't start shit no one fucks with you.
Newark is a beautiful complex culturally rich place. It just needs love and restoration.
What really effects newark is the drugs alot of drugs and the thing is its alot of people who are just trying to get by but there's also people who ruined their life and then went so deep into the drugs there's no turning back in their mind and they chose that themselves im from passaic grew up in Paterson etc and newark is very connected to passaic i would go to chipeos every weekend and I drive thru newark daily its not that its necessarily a bad place but its a matter of the type of people you put yourself around while u in newark well north jersey as a whole just gotta be careful who u get close to some people understand and some dont all dependent on the person ive never had an issue and id ride thru newark at night when others are scared to go there during the day its not as much opportunity as u may think out in newark unless u work a blue collar job or in a corporate setting
Just one point: not a “small American city.” It’s NJ’s largest city and one of the biggest in the northeast…
Forever love brick city ! Beth Israel born , southward raised , arts high school graduate . Love nork! Lol