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That is Jacqui Tricarico and this is a great series called "Remember Them."

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Hey Jacqui, why don't we line up the show today with two extraordinary historians all about the city of Newark, Brick City, where I was born and raised, and a lot of other people are connected to Newark, the largest, most populated city in New Jersey.

Talk about who we have today.

- Yep, well first up we have Dr. Timothy Crist that you interviewed back in 2016.

He is with the Newark Public Library and he talks about Charles Cummings, which is a fascinating person out of Newark who started working at the Newark Public Library in 1963, Steve.

And he was there for so many different things, so many historical events that happened in Newark, and he just knew everything about the city.

And so many people walked into those doors at the Newark Public Library, I know, including yourself, to receive some guidance from Charles Cummings for all different types of things, from if you're going to school, and you're doing some reports about the city of Newark, people just wanting to learn more, to famous authors who were seeking his guidance as well.

- You know, it's interesting.

As a kid growing up in Newark, the Newark Library, the Newark Museum, they were big parts of our world.

And for Charles Cummings, he was the go-to guy.

It was called the New Jersey Reference Room back in the day.

Now it's actually named after Charles.

Jacqui, the official name, if you can get it, what is it?

- The official name is...

Hold on, Steve, I don't wanna mispronounce it.

It is the Newark Public Library's Charles F. Cummings New Jersey Information Center.

(laughs) Little bit of a mouthful, but it's worth it.

- But Jacqui, back in the day, as I said, New Jersey Reference Room, everything about New Jersey, everything about Newark, I remember doing so many term papers while I was a student at Rutgers and in high school back at Essex Catholic High School in Newark.

That was the place to go.

And you always would see other kids, students from Newark in that reference room.

Charles was helpful to everyone.

Now, ironically, he came from the south, not born and raised in Newark, comes from the south, has a great appreciation for the city of Newark, and is a kind of historian that not only helped people understand the history of the city and the history of New Jersey, but helped them appreciate it, right?

- Right, and in this interview you did with Dr. Timothy Crist in 2016, that was an interview that you did to honor the 350th anniversary of Newark, the city of Newark.

And what they did then, and which still exists now if you go on the Newark Public Library's website, is they took Charles Cummings's articles that he wrote for "The Star-Ledger" over years, a span of many years, and put them into one resource that you can access online to read about all those articles that he wrote and learn more about Newark.

- Yeah, it was actually...

This series was called, in "The Star-Ledger," when "The Ledger" was "The Ledger," pre NJ.Com, it was called "Knowing Newark."

Charles wrote those.

So this interview was with Tim Crist talking about Charles Cummings.

Charles passed away in December, 2005, an extraordinary historian who made a difference.

And we must, Jacqui and I, along with you, remember him, remember all of them.

SOCIAL MEDIA >>WE ARE PLEASED TO BE JOINED BY DOCTOR TIMOTHY J. CRIST PRESIDENT OF THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES AT AN EXTRAORDINARY INSTITUTION, THE NEWARK PUBLIC LIBRARY GOOD TO SEE YOU TIM >>IT'S GOOD TO BE HERE STEVE >>THE NEWARK PUBLIC LIBRARY HOW IMPORTANT IS THIS GREAT PLACE IN CONNECTION WITH THIS GREAT CITY CELEBRATING IT'S 350TH ANNIVERSARY?

>>YOU KNOW STEVE IT'S AN ANCHOR INSTITUTION.

WE HAVE OUR MAIN LIBRARY DOWNTOWN, WITH SEVEN BRANCHES THROUGH THE COMMUNITY WE'VE BEEN HERE FOR MORE THAN 125 YEARS, AND WE'RE STILL SERVING NEWARKERS IN THE SAME WAY WE'VE DONE THROUGH THAT ENTIRE TIME YOU KNOW, OVER 1,000 NEWARKERS COME IN EVERY WEEK, LOOKING FOR HELP TO FIND A JOB.

OVER 10,000 VISIT THE MAIN LIBRARY AND THE BRANCHES EVERY WEEK AND WE DO HAVE THESE TERRIFIC RESOURCES TO HELP NEWARKERS MAKE BETTER... MAKE THEIR LIVES BETTER >>LET'S MAKE SURE WE... WE'RE GONNA PUT UP THE NEWARK PUBLIC LIBRARY INFORMATION, BUT I WANT TO TALK THIS.

THIS IS AN EXTRAORDINARY PUBLICATION IT'S CALLED "KNOWING NEWARK: SELECTED STAR LEDGER COLUMNS" BY CHARLES F. CUMMINGS >>CUMMINGS >>FOR THOSE WHO DON'T KNOW CHARLES CUMMINGS, CHARLES CUMMINGS, WE CAN SAY HE WAS THE NEWARK HISTORIAN, BUT THAT DOESN'T EVEN DO JUSTICE TO WHO CHARLES WAS THERE HE IS, WE'RE LOOKING AT CHARLES' PICTURE RIGHT THERE SO, FOR THOSE OF US WHO WE'RE AT...

IN SCHOOL AT RUTGERS UNIVERSITY, COULDN'T GET THROUGH WITHOUT CHARLES CUMMINGS, HELPED US THROUGH SO MANY PAP... NEWSPAP... GRADUATE TERM PAPERS, ESSAYS WHATEVER IT WAS, YOU'D GO INTO THE NEW JERSEY REFERENCE ROOM IT WAS CHARLES CUMMINGS HE WAS AN EXTRAORDINARY GUY HE WROTE A STAR LEDGER COLUMN FOR MANY MANY YEARS ON THE HISTORY OF NEWARK >>THAT'S RIGHT, CALLED "KNOWING NEWARK" FOR TEN YEARS OVER 500 COLUMNS >>DESCRIBE WHY CHARLES WAS SO SPECIAL?

>>CHARLES KNEW NEWARK, HE COLLECTED THE STORIES AND HE WANTED TO TELL THE STORIES, AND HE HELPED EVERYBODY.

HE HELPED YOU AS A STUDENT, HE HELPED PHILIP ROTH WHEN HE WAS WRITING HIS NOVELS PHILIP ROTH CALLED HIM "A GREAT HERO" AND IN A QUIET WAY, HE WAS.

HE WORKED IN THE IN THE LIBRARY FOR MORE THAN 40 YEARS, ALWAYS IN THE NEW JERSEY ROOM, ALWAYS LEARNING MORE ABOUT NEWARK'S HISTORY ALWAYS HELPING PEOPLE DISCOVER IT FOR THEMSELVES >>WHY PUT THESE COLUMNS TOGETHER?

>>WELL, WITH THE 350TH ANNIVERSARY OF NEWARK WE WANTED TO DO SEVERAL THINGS AT THE LIBRARY TO HELP THE CITY CELEBRATE WE PUT ON AN EXHIBIT THAT'S STILL UP, THAT RECORDS THE HISTORY OF THE CITY, WE'VE HOSTED GUY STERLING'S MONTHLY CONVERSATIONS WITH LEADING NEWARKERS, BUT WE WANTED TO DO SOMETHING LASTING, SOMETHING THAT PEOPLE COULD TURN TO AFTER THIS CELEBRATION YEAR AND WE THOUGHT "WHAT BETTER WAY THAN BRINGING A SELECTION OF CHARLES' STAR LEDGER COLUMNS ABOUT THE HISTORY OF NEWARK TO THE PUBLIC, AND GIVING IT AWAY FOR FREE?"

>>BY THE WAY, YOU HAD A COUPLE OF FAVORITE...

I HAVE A COUPLE OF MY FAVORITES, YOU HAVE A COUPLE OF FAVORITES OF CHARLES HIS COLUMNS, GO AHEAD >>WELL, IT'S, HE WROTE ABOUT SO MANY DIFFERENT THINGS BUT ONE THAT I REALLY LIKE IS ABOUT THE PASSAIC RIVER AND IT GOT SO POLLUTED WE ALL TURNED OUR BACKS ON IT BUT CHARLES UNDERSTOOD THE IMPORTANCE OF TELLING THE STORIES TO REMEMBER HOW IMPORTANT THE LIBRARY...

THE RIVER WAS, AND THE HISTORY OF OF NEWARK, THERE WERE REGATTAS THERE WERE FERRIES GOING BACK AND FORTH, THERE WERE PEOPLE FISHING AND IT SERVED TO SUPPORT THE INDUSTRY OF NEWARK, AND WHEN TI GOT SO POLLUTED, TOWARD THE BEGINNING OF THE 20TH CENTURY, WE IGNORED IT, BUT IT'S COMING BACK NOW >>RIGHT >>AND TO RECUR... TO TELL THOSE STORIES HELPS TO INFORM THE FUTURE, HELPS TO INFORM THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE NEWARK RIVERFRONT PARK, ALL ALONG THE PASSAIC >>THERE'S A CONNECTION THAT I FEEL TO THE CITY IS DEEP AND IT'S PERSONAL AND YOU KNOW IT VERY WELL AND IT'S CONNECTED TO MY DAD IN MANY WAYS, AND CHARLES AND MY DAD HAD A CONNECTION, AND YOU AND MY DAD HAD A CONNECTION.

HERE'S MY POINT.

FOR THOSE OF US WHO ARE TRULY CONNECTED ON A PERSONAL LEVEL TO THIS CITY IS IT HARD FOR US TO EXPLAIN TO OTHER FOLKS WHAT WE FEEL?

>>YOU KNOW THE... >>OR AM I MAKING TOO MUCH OF THAT?

>>WELL, THOSE OF US WHO LOVE THIS CITY FEEL THAT THERE'S A "THERE" THERE, AND GERTRUDE STEIN FAMOUSLY SAID ABOUT OAKLAND, "THERE'S NO 'THERE' THERE" >>I HAVE ALWAYS FELT THAT THERE'S A "THERE" HERE IN NEWARK >>YEAH >>AND ONE OF THE REASONS IS THERE'S 350 YEARS OF HISTORY WHAT HAPPENED IN NEWARK INFORMED WHAT HAPPENED ALL OVER THE COUNTRY, FROM THE NEW ENGLAND SETTLEMENT OF PURITANS THROUGH THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION, THE VAST MIGRATION OF PEOPLE FROM DIFFERENT COUNTRIES IN EUROPE LATER THE GREAT MIGRATION FROM THE SOUTH >>THE SOUTH, RIGHT >>OF BLACKS, MORE RECENTLY THE DIFFERENT HISPANIC GROUPS NEWARK HAS ALWAYS BEEN A PLACE OF HOPE.

A PLACE TO BUILD YOUR FUTURE.

AND WE'VE HAD OUR HARD TIMES.

CHARLES COLLECTED ALL THE STORIES, NOT ONLY ABOUT THE GOOD TIMES, BUT THE HARD TIMES >>HE SURE DID >>AND YOU KNOW, IN HIS 500 COLUMNS, I CALCULATED RECENTLY HE WROTE MORE THAN A MILLION WORDS ABOUT THE HISTORY OF NEWARK, AND WE'RE GONNA PUT ALL OF THEM UP ON A WEBSITE IN ADDITION TO THIS PUBLICATION WE HAVE "KNOWING NEWARK" WEBSITE, THE FIRST 100 COLUMNS ARE UP THERE, AND WE'RE GRADUALLY EDITING THEM ALL AND THERE WILL BE OVER 500 COLUMNS THAT CAPTURE ALL THESE STORIES ABOUT NEWARK >>TIM, LET ME ASK YOU THIS WHAT DO YOU THINK CHARLES WHO WAS IN THAT LIBRARY FOR 40 YEARS, LOVED IT, LOVED THIS CITY IN A WAY THAT NO ONE ELSE EVER COULD WHAT DO YOU THINK HE WOULD THINK ABOUT THE FUTURE OF THE CITY AS WE END, MOVE TOWARD THE BACK END OF 2016?

>>CHARLES WAS ALWAYS HOPEFUL HE ALWAYS WANTED TO SEE THE BEST IN THE CITY, AND THE BEST IN THE PEOPLE OF THE CITY AND I THINK HE WOULD SEE THINGS COMING TOGETHER IN A SPECIAL WAY WITH THE DEVELOPMENTS AROUND MILITARY PARK, THE MURALS AROUND THE CITY, THE WORK OF OUR CURRENT MAYOR.

GOOD THINGS ARE HAPPENING, AND I THINK HE WOULD LOOK TO FIND WAYS FOR THE LIBRARY TO BE IN THE MIDDLE OF THAT, AND TO ENCOURAGE THAT CONTINUING DEVELOPMENT >>IS THAT WHAT YOU SEE?

>>I DO.

AND YOU KNOW, STEVE I'VE BEEN HERE FOR 37 YEARS I SHOWED UP AT YOUR FATHER'S NORTH WARD CENTER, YEAH, IN A >>I REMEMBER >>BLUE BLAZER AND KHAKI TROUSERS, AS... >>[LAUGHTER] >>AN UNUSUAL PERSON AND HE SAID, "LET ME..." >>YOU WEREN'T, NO, YOU MEAN BY AN UNUSUAL PERSON, NOT SOMEONE FROM THE CITY WHO WAS WELL EDUCATED FROM THE SUBURBS >>WELL... >>AND WENT TO A GOOD SCHOOL THAT'S WHAT YOU MEAN?

>>WELL... >>AND HE SAID, "LET ME RENT YOU AN APARTMENT" AND HE DID AND THAT'S WHAT... >>THAT'S WHAT THE SORT OF PLACE NEWARK IS INVITE PEOPLE IN AND MAKE IT YOUR HOME >>OH MAN.

YOU CAN'T REPLICATE OR DUPLICATE THAT HISTORY >>NO >>AND I THINK THAT...

DOCTOR TIMOTHY J. CRIST IS THE PRESIDENT OF THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF AN EXTRAORDINARY ORGANIZATION, A GREAT ORGANIZATION CALLED THE NEWARK PUBLIC, VERY PUBLIC LIBRARY.

GO CHECK IT OUT AND THIS BOOK IS CALLED KNOWING NEWARK: SELECTED STAR LEDGER COLUMNS BY THE ICONIC, THE LATE CHARLES F. CUMMINGS THANK YOU MY FRIEND Wow, Jacqui, that taught us a lot about Charles Cummings, but we're gonna shift gears to another historian based in Rutgers Newark, Dr. Clement Price, Newark historian, New Jersey historian, Rutgers professor of history, again, came to Newark after the rebellion/riots of 1967, the summer of '67.

This interview was done...

When, Jacqui?

When did I do this with Clem?

- In 2014.

It was actually in July, 2014 at NJIT when we were doing some of our interviews out of the great NJIT in Newark.

And he, unfortunately, passed away just a few months later in November.

- Yeah, you know what's crazy about this?

Clem... And again, check out a documentary we did, a half-hour special.

I think it was called "If Not for Clem."

And our colleague Joanna Gagis, who was with us at the time, now with "NJ Spotlight News," did it.

She interviewed all kinds of people.

If it were not for Clem, if it were not for Clem Price, people would not know about Newark.

He used to take people on tours in these bus rides all around the city, through Branch Brook Park, a park that I grew up in, to see all the historical sites in the city.

If not for Clem, people would not come together.

Race has always been a problem in this country, probably will always be.

Clem Price, if it were not for Clem, people of different races, different ethnic, religion, religious backgrounds would come together.

Clem led an institute at Rutgers where all different people would come together and talk and try to understand each other.

How important would that be today?

And when you see Clem, you'll see why he was so important.

Jacqui, what was your takeaway from this?

- Right, and something else about Dr. Clem Price is that he was just a lover of music, he was in a glee club, he was a lover of the arts, and that translated into Newark as well.

I mean, he had his hand in the creation of NJPAC and so many others.

He did a lot of things with the Newark Museum.

So he contributed in so many different ways in the city of Newark.

And he became the Newark historian after the passing of Charles Cummings.

And something that he said when that happened, he did say that Charles treated me as if I was John Hope Franklin.

Succeeding Charles is a great honor, and I know that you could just hear that, see that from him.

He was so honored to be so ingrained in the city of Newark and he took such great pride in it.

- And finally, as Jacqui and I go to this clip as part of the "Remember Them" series about Dr. Clem Price from an interview I did with him in July of 2014, just a few months after, excuse me, before he passed, Clem was a mentor to me, for me.

He was a mentor to so many.

If it were not for Clem, so many of us who have been able to do anything meaningful in whatever, would not have been able to do that.

Clem was a mentor and a friend to so many.

The great late Dr. Clement Price.

A GOOD FRIEND SOMEONE WHO'S BEEN A MENTOR TO SO MANY OF US HE'S THANK YOU STEVE DOCTOR CLEMENTE PRICE BOARD OF GOVERNORS DISTINGUISHED SERVICE PROFESSOR RUTGERS UNIVERSITY OF NEWARK WHO HEADS UP AN OPERATION AT RUTGERS NEWARK THE OFFICIAL NAME OF THE CENTER IS?

THE INSTITUTE ON ETHNICITY CULTURE AND THE MODERN EXPERIENCE STEVE IT'S... CENTER NOT... CENTER NOT TO BE CONFUSED WITH AN INSTITUTE WHICH IS EVEN MORE PRESTIGIOUS THAT'S RIGHT THERE YOU GO CLEM YOU KNOW AND I MEAN THAT AND YOU KNOW THAT FOR A LOT OF US YOU HAVE BEEN A MENTOR YOU HAVE BEEN THERE FOR SO MANY OF US WHEN I CAME UP WITH THIS IDEA WITH DOCTOR JOEL BLOOM MM HMM I'M DOING THIS I CALLED YOU ANDI SAID CLEM WHAT ARE YOU THINKING YOU SAID LET'S DO THIS ABSOLUTELY WHY IS NEWARK AT A CROSSROADS?

AND WHAT IS THAT CROSSROADS ABOUT?

WELL PERIODICALLY NEWARK FACES A CROSSROADS USUALLY HAVING TO DO WITH TWO THINGS DEMOGRAPHIC SHIFTS AND THE PERCEPTION OF THE CITY AND I THINK WE ARE IN THE MIDST OF BOTH.

NEWARK IS BECOMING A BROWNER CITY IT'S BECOMING A MORE IMMIGRANT CITY AND THE TALES OF WOE THAT USED TO SO MUCH HAUNT NEWARK THE PERCEPTION THAT NEWARK WAS DEAD A FAILED CITY THAT THERE WAS NOTHING REALLY TO DO HERE I THINK THAT IS NOW A PART OF OR CONTEMPORARY PAST.

MOST PEOPLE SEE NEWARK AS A STRUGGLING BUT VERY COMPLICATED SURVIVAL OF A SURVIVING CITY NOTHING LIKE SOME OF THE OTHER WE CALL THEM NOW LEGACY CITIES WHO WOULD HAVE THOUGHT WHAT 20 25 YEARS AGO THAT BROOKLYN WOULD BE THE PLACE ONE WANTS TO LIVE IN IN THE FIVE BOROUGHS OF NEW YORK WHO WOULD HAVE THOUGHT THAT CLEVELAND WOULD REINVENT ITSELF AS THIS REALLY KIND OF HIP MIDWESTERN TOWN AND I THINK NEWARK IS GOING THROUGH THE SAME THING UM BY THE WAY FOR THOSE OF YOU WHO DO NOT KNOW DOCTOR CLEMENTE PRICE IS NOT ONLY THE HISTORIAN FOR THE CITY OF NEWARK HE'S ONE OF THE GREATEST HISTORIANS IN THIS COUNTRY AND UNDERSTANDS PERSPECTIVE ON THESE ISSUES BETTER THAN MOST.

QUESTION...

I'VE ASKED SEVERAL PEOPLE THIS BUT YOUR PERSPECTIVE ON IT'S REALLY IMPORTANT.

1967 REBELLION RIOTS IN NEWARK THIS MANY YEARS LATER I'M NOT GONNA ASK WHETHER WE'VE EVER RECOVERED THAT'S NOT THE QUESTION I'M CURIOUS ABOUT WHAT IS THE ENDURING IMPACT OF THOSE RIOTS EVEN TODAY WITH ALL THE POSITIVE THINGS YOU JUST TALKED ABOUT?

THE MOST ENDURING IMPACT OF THE RIOTS IS THAT WE NOW STUDY THE RIOTS.

THEY'RE NOT AN ABERRATION ANYMORE.

THERE'S BEEN NEARLY A GENERATION OF SCHOLARSHIP SOME OF IT FOCUSING ON NEWARK THAT RAISES THIS QUESTION WHAT HAPPENED TO URBAN AMERICA IN THE FOUR TO FIVE DECADES AFTER THE END OF WORLD WAR II WHEN YOU RAISE THAT QUESTION WITH RESPECT TO NEWARK AND IT'S BEEN RAISED NOW FOR 30 YEARS AND THE ANSWERS ARE BECOMING PRESCIENT IN THE SCHOLARSHIP MOST SCHOLARS KNOW THAT NEWARK'S DECLINE BEGINS IN THE 1930'S AND ACCELLERATES IN THE 1950'S AND 60'S WE DIDN'T REALLY KNOW THAT SAY IN 1965 66 67 IN FACT WHEN NEWARK CELEBRATED ITS 300TH ANNIVERSARY WE'RE ABOUT TO CELEBRATE THE 350TH YOU WOULD NEVER HAVE A SENSE THAT THE CITY WAS IN TROUBLE HMM BUT NOW WE KNOW THAT TROUBLE WAS THREADED THROUGHOUT NEWARK'S DNA AND THE CITY HAS ALWAYS YOU KNOW PUSHED BACK AND FOUGHT ON AND SURVIVED YOU KNOW WE'VE ALWAYS IF YOU READ BOB CURVIN'S BOOK AND YOU KNOW IT WELL AND WE HAVE BOB CURVIN IN THIS SERIES WITH GOOD JUNIUS WILLIAMS WHO MM HMM IS PART OF THIS SERIES AS WELL MM HMM A LOT OF THOSE BOOKS AND OTHERS WHO WRITE ABOUT NEWARK A LOT ARE LOOKING FOR A SAVIOR.

THE NEXT MAYOR OF NEWARK'S GONNA BE A SAVIOR CORY BOOKER'S GONNA BE A SAVIOR SHARPE JAMES WAS A SAVIOR IN 1970 KEN GIBSON IS ELECTED AFTER A CORRUPT MAYOR MM HMM HUGH ADDONIZIO GOES TO JAIL BECAUSE HE'S ALL MOBBED UP AND MM HMM ET CETERA IS THAT THE WRONG THING TO BE AND NOW RAS BARAKA IS THE MAYOR OF THIS CITY LOOKING FOR A SAVIOR BAD STRATEGY?

TERRIBLE VISION.

WHAT SAVES CITIES IS A SENSE OF CIVIC FELLOWSHIP.

SO HOLD ON.

PEOPLE ASK QUESTIONS CAN RAS BARAKA TURN IT AROUND?

THAT'S NOT EVEN THE RIGHT QUESTION THAT'S NOT THE RIGHT QUESTION GO AHEAD WHY WOULD WE PUT NEWARK'S FOUNDATIONAL TURNAROUND ON ONE MAN OR ONE WOMAN'S SHOULDER SO I THINK THAT WHAT NEEDS TO HAPPEN AND YOU SEE SOME OF THIS IN BARAKA'S RHETORIC DURING THE CAMPAIGN WHEN I BECOME MAYOR WE BECOME MAYOR AND I THINK WHAT RAS WAS DOING AND I THINK HE DID IT SUCCESSFULLY CERTAINLY HE WAS ELECTED IS BEGIN TO SPREAD THE RESPONSIBILITY FOR WHAT BECOMES OF NEWARK SO I THINK WE MAY BE ENTERING AN ERA IN WHICH PEOPLE WILL RECONNECT TO NEWARK PEOPLE WHO ARE IN NEWARK RECONNECTING TO THEIR CITY AND PEOPLE WHO LEFT THIS CITY 40 50 YEARS AGO FINDING SOME SPIRITUAL WAY TO IDENTIFY WITH THE CITY WHEN NEWARK TURNS 350 YEARS OLD IN 2016 WE HOPE TO USE THAT OCCASSION TO INTERROGATE THE HISTORY OF THE CITY TO CELEBRATE THOSE THINGS THAT SHOULD BE CELEBRATED AND TO ACKNOWLEDGE THE WORK YET TO BE DONE AND IF WE CAN DO THAT WE WILL HAVE SHOWN NOT ONLY OURSELVES BUT THE NATION THAT 100 YEARS AFTER NEWARK BECAME 250 THE CITY IS NOW A MATURE PART OF THE URBAN METROPOLIS THE SUPERINTENDENT OF THE NEWARK PUBLIC SCHOOLS CAMI ANDERSON PUT THERE BY THE STATE OF NEW JERSEY BY GOVERNOR CHRIS CHRISTIE WILL BE PART OF THIS SERIES MM HMM UM YOU KNOW THE PUBLIC SCHOOL SYSTEM VERY WELL YEAH AND I KNOW CAMI VERY WELL HOW MUCH OF THE SUCCESS OR THE FUTURE OF THE CITY AS WE ARE AT A CROSSROADS IS GONNA BE DEPENDENT UPON THE SUCCESS OF THOSE I USED TO SAY 50,000 KIDS IN THE PUBLIC SCHOOL SYSTEM IT'S NOT THAT NUMBER ANYMORE RIGHT IT'S SIGNIFICANTLY LESS MM HMM THAN THAT HOW MUCH OF IT DEPENDS UPON THE SUCCESS OF CAMI ANDERSON AND THOSE WHO ARE RUNNING THE NEWARK PUBLIC SCHOOLS?

AGAIN I WOULDN'T PUT TOO MUCH ON CAMI ANDERSON'S CONSIDERABLE SHOULDERS BUT WE KEEP DOING THAT WE KEEP SAYING HOW DID THAT SUPERINTENDENT DO?

WELL WELL THAT'S JUST POOR... IS THAT A SETUP?

THAT'S POOR VISIONING AND IT MIGHT BE A SETUP.

CAMI ANDERSON HAS PERHAPS THE TOUGHEST JOB IN NEWARK AND SHE IS GOING TO HAVE TO RELY ON PEOPLE LIKE YOU AND ME LET'S CALL OURSELVES CIVIC STEWARTS TO PROVIDE SOME SPACE AND MANY OPPORTUNITIES FOR HER TO SUCCEED.

THE WHERE DO WE GO FROM HERE TO TAKE ADVANTAGE OF OUR LOCATION?

THE AIRPORT WE'RE GONNA BE TALKING TO THE HEAD OF UNITED AIRLINES.

WHERE DO WE GO FROM GIVEN THE FACT THE NJPAC IS DOING WELL THAT PRUDENTIAL'S HERE PANASONIC IS HERE DOWNTOWN'S HAPPENING RIGHT CLEM?

RIGHT WHERE DO WE GO FROM HOW DO WE PARLEY THIS?

HERE?

AND I'M GLAD THAT YOU'LL SPEAK TO BOB FOR THE LONGEST TIME BOB CURVIN BOB CURVIN?

THE GREAT BOB CURVIN HAS SAID THINGS ARE ACTUALLY IN PLACE IN NEWARK WE JUST HAVE TO CONNECT THE DOTS AND I'LL LEAVE THIS ONE THOUGHT WITH YOU HOW IS IT THAT A CITY THAT HAS MORE UNIVERSITY AND COLLEGE STUDENTS THAN ANY OTHER CITY IN NEW JERSEY DOESN'T FEEL LIKE A COLLEGE TOWN DOENS'T TAKE ADVANTAGE OF THE ASSETS OF HAVING A UNIVERSITY TWO THREE UNIVERSITIES WITHIN ITS BORDERS NJIT RUTGERS SETON HALL RIGHT BERKELEY THAT'S RIGHT ESSEX COUNTY COLLEGE YOU GO ON AND ON YET WE DON'T FEEL LIKE A... YOU GO ON AND ON AND YOU CAN PICK YOUR SECTOR HIGHER EDUCATION THE ARTS THE HUMANITIES ARCHITECTURE I MEAN I HOPE YOU HAVE WALKED THROUGH MILITARY PARK OH MY GOD WE'RE DOING...

WHEN DAN BIEDERMAN WAS JUST HERE YEAH JUST...

SO WE DON'T FEEL ENOUGH LIKE A COLLEGE TOWN?

NO WHAT WOULD IT TAKE?

MORE COLLEGE STUDENTS ON THE STREETS OF NEWARK MORE COLLEGE STUDENTS MAKING THEIR WAY ACROSS BROAD STREET TO GO TO NJPAC.

MORE COLLEGE AND UNIVERSITY STUDENTS VISITING THE GLORIOUS GALLERIES OF THE NEWARK PUBLIC LIBRARY.

MORE COLLEGE STUDENTS PUTTING DOWN A CIVIC INVESTMENT IN THE CITY IN OTHER WORDS THIS CITY HAS BEEN ENORMOUSLY GOOD TO ME HMM AND WHATEVER LITTLE I CAN DO TO REPAY THE INVESTMENT THE CITY MADE IN ME I SEE IT AS MY PRIVILEGE AND MY DUTY AS A RESIDENT OF THIS TOWN BUT YOU KNOW YOU TAKE PEOPLE ON TOURS ALL THE TIME YEAH AROUND THE CITY.

IT'S ALWAYS FASCINATING WHEN PEOPLE SAY I HEARD... YOU KNOW THEY SAY CLEM PRICE TOOK ME ON A TOUR AND I SAY WHERE DID HE TAKE YOU?

YOU TAKE PEOPLE THROUGH BRANCHBROOK PARK SURE YOU TAKE PEOPLE UP IN MY OLD NEIGHBORHOOD AND SURE I LIKE TO CALL IT FOREST HILL BT WE NEVER ACTUALLY LIVED IN FOREST...

RIGHT FOREST HILL IS THE RICHER SECTIN OF THE NORTH WARD WHERE I YEAH RIGHT RIGHT ACTUALLY LIVED IN THE NORTH WARD.

TAKE THEM UP THERE YOU TAKE THEM TO WEEQUAHIC YOU TAKE THEM ALL OVER THE CITY ARE THEY MOSTLY SUBURBANITES?

I WOULD SAY YES MOST... WHAT'S THEIR REACTION?

UM TO BE BLUNT OH MY I HAD NO IDEA THIS CITY HD [LAUGHTER] SO MANY ASSETS.

AND LET ME JUST MENTION ONE THING ABOUT THOSE TOURS.

THE PART OF THE TOUR THAT I'M GETTING THE MOST OUT OF AND CAUSE IN MANY WAYS IT'S THEATER IF IT'S A MINIBUS OR A MANAGEABLE NUMBER OF PEOPLE WE GET OFF THE BUS, WE WALK ACROSS... WHAT WOULD THAT BE?

WEST MARKET YES AND WE SIT WITH PRESIDENT LINCOLN THE GUTZON BORGLUM OH MY GOD.

BY THE WAY JACUI IF E STATUE.

PEOPLE USED TO BRING KIDS WITH... YOU SIT ON LINCOLN'S KNEES YOU'RE SITTING NEXT TO THE PRESIDENT [LAUGHTER] YOU SIT ON LINCOLN'S KNEES THAT WAS ONE OF THOSE NEWARK CIVIC RITUALS AND WE DON'T DO IT ANYMORE I DO IT BECAUSE I THINK WHEN YOU CAN SHOW SOMEONE THE POWER OF ART OR AS YOU JUST PUT IT SO WELL WHEN YOU CAN LOOK EAST AND SEE HOW NEWARK RISES UP FROM THE PASSAIC RIVER I MEAN DOESN'T GET ANY BETTER THAN THAT.

SO THAT'S JUST ONE OF THE ASSETS THAT THE CITY HAS AND IT NEEDS TO DEPLOY THAT ASSET IN SCHOOLS AND IN CHURCHES IN THE WAY WE LOOK AT OURSELVES IN THE 21ST CENTURY.

DOCTOR CLEMENTE PRICE I WAS VERY GLAD THAT YOU TOOK MY CALL SEVERAL MONTHS BACK ALWAYS AND I SAID CLEM YOU THINK WE SHOULD DO THIS?

AND JOEL BLOOM THINKS WE SHOULD DO IT AND HE SAID LET'S... WHO SHOULD WE GET TOGETHER AND HE GAVE US SOME SURE GREAT NAMES AND I'M SO GLAD YOU FOUND THE TIME TO BE WITH US ABSOLUTELY CAUSE IT WOULD NOT BE COMPLETE WITHOUT YOU THANK YOU STEVE NEWARK IS AT A CROSSROADS AND I'M GLAD YOU'RE WITH US YOU BET - [Narrator] Remember Them with Steve Adubato has been a production of the Caucus Educational Corporation.

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