RocaNews on Instagram: "Until 1960, Newark, New Jersey boomed Then, people left for the suburbs, and in 1967 the police beating of a black man triggered riots that left 26 dead and made the city notorious Newark was once known as the “brick city,” but it had much more than bricks — breweries, steel, manufacturing, and more People came to Newark for jobs as jobs disappeared, and the city became synonymous with crime, violence, and neglect We went to different parts of the city to see how things a