Forty Year Update of the Kerner Riot Commission
Poverty, Race, Inequality
And Crime in Newark
Since the 1960’s
A Hearing for the Citizens of Newark
December 1, 2007
The New Jersey Historical Society
Newark
Welcome
Linda Epps
President and CEO
The New Jersey Historical Society
Fred Harris
Former U.S. Senator
Member of the Kerner Commission
Alan Curtis
President
Milton S. Eisenhower Foundation
Roland V. Anglin
Executive Director of the Initiative for Regional and Community Transformation
School of Planning and Public Policy, Rutgers University
Monsignor William J. Linder
Founder, New Community Corporation, Newark
Dr. Max Herman
Research Associate Professor
Ecologies of Learning Project, NY Theological Seminary
Cuqui Rivera
Outreach Manager
Hispanic Director’s Association of New Jersey
Richard Cammarieri
Director for Special Projects
New Community Corporation
Dr. Akil Kokayi Khalfani
Director, The Africana Institute
Associate Professor of Sociology, Essex County College
Linda MacDonald Carter
Dr. Christina Collins
Geraldine R. Dodge Post-Doctoral Fellow
Institute on Ethnicity, Culture, and Modern Experience
Rutgers University
Cheryl Lusane
Educator, History High School
Junius W. Williams, Esq.
Director of the Abbott Leadership Institute
Department of Urban Education
Rutgers University, Newark
Jiles Ship
President, Northern NJ Chapter of the National Association of Black Law
Enforcement Executives
Joe Bongiorno
Filmmaker
Bonjiorno Productions
Marylou Bongiorno
Filmmaker
Bonjiorno Productions
Komozi Woodard
Author
Paula Dow
Essex County Prosecutor
State of New Jersey