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*”Brick City,” the award-winning documentary set in Newark, NJ and follows its mayor Cory booker, will premiere its second season Jan. 30 on the Sundance Channel, reports the Associated Press. [Watch trailer below.] Newark’s fiscal crisis is an undercurrent running through the six-part series, which will be shown on consecutive Sundays through March 6. The [...]
*Wanda Sykes, Sheila E and Andre Braugher were among the nominees announced this morning for the 62nd Primetime Emmy Awards. Sykes’ HBO special “I’ma Be Me” was recognized in the Outstanding Variety, Music Or Comedy Special category, alongside the MTV-produced telethon “Hope for Haiti Now,” CBS’ “The Kennedy Center Honors” and fellow HBO specials “Bill [...]
*Mayor Cory Booker may doing his best to resurrect Newark, but it looks like he’s fighting a losing battle, judging by Brick City, a riveting documentary focusing on the body count and wanton violence in the beleaguered New Jersey metropolis. The root of the problem is black-on-black crime emanating mostly from the neverending, bloody turf [...]
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