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coming up on a black and white you'll be noted classical and jazz musician wynton marsalis is a new jersey artist sidney scary we spent the last eight years in paris enhancing his unique artistic style and a visit to atlantic city of the national conference of black mayors convention those lines this bill is better

this week though the marcellus trevor smith and i had a battle on the situation in black and white boston on the recent gathering of the national conference of black mayors and then we'll meet a former new jersey artist was clever the new brunswick that soured in paris and a world famous traveler who taught the facts of life at trenton central high school recently more than half of the nation's black mayors and hundreds of other dignitaries attended the twelfth annual convention of the national conference of black mayors in atlantic city the mayor's main purpose was to find more effective ways of helping each other reverse the tide of urban decay and financial devastation playing many of their city's record those has the story come on

there's a great line are you president of the national conference of black mayors the honorable marion barry mayor of our nation's capitol spoke about the political advances blacks have made during his lifetime how a genius as banks as liz sly states ranks these many

months of post mayor of the conference the honorable james us real atlantic city spoke about the significance of this gathering in his hometown i've been around the world practically a pre professional basketball other than a world class player with the world champions of things like that but none of those has given me all will give me the thrill that i had last night the night before and tonight a mingling with these great players being a part of this great history and recognizing the significance of the cops come here correspondent kate thompson asked about the difficulties in being the first black mayor in the playground of the world he came and now having to put together at an administrative team on short notice we came in there with a a city that was a racially a racially divided the city that was a geographically are divided and a city that was economically divided so that dudley did represent up quite a challenge for senate also our cause

us to to have to start from ground zero one night it was the first time that we in the city of atlantic city had had any elected mayor prior to that we had rain and they commissioned former government wants the five commissioners say that one of their own to be the mayor so that they're much of what we're doing now was a case of trauma and of these years have been difficult but i think they said there we have seen whether the end of the tunnel and that would make the founder of the national conference of black mayors and current president of the world conference of mayors the honorable john a ford mayor of tuskegee alabama announced plans to become a baptist minister and also to run for a seat in the us congress but his future plans have not interfered with his agenda as they are our agenda as mayors of cities is to improve our capacity to be able to take the office of mayor and they use the office of mayor to help improve the quality of life of people that's about that for us were cities with faces and difficulties

as mayors of cities cities are facing a financial crisis with a two billion dollar deficit at the national level there's a great decline in the amount of resources coming from the national government so those of us who are mayors of cities we must become very sophisticated now we must become financiers and developers we must become planners about cities must be a girl to manage finances the financial affairs abbas in his very effectively and to call the cities to actually make money for our city johnny ford has been mayor of tuskegee alabama since nineteen seventy two and says he along with other black mayors have always been concerned about getting blacks their fair share of the economic partially try to capture an eternal one thousand the black community we try to make sure that the corporate community spans when it should with the black community in and then an american unit and then we also make sure that the governmental dollars go where they should go and tourism of making sure that

blacks in the nineties get their fair share of black mayors have a responsibility to make sure that black people get their fair share without discriminating and without being less than fair to other ethnic groups entered the majority community governor thomas cain also talked about the responsibilities of black mayors went on to say that it's ultimately the voter can help to bring about change because historically the way people of more debt in this country is to make it all right political parties compete evokes both political parties try to come and say things in a meaningful and then to be judged on their actions it is just as wrong for one thought a to take the black community for granted as it is for another party to ignore the needs of the black community and international level the prime minister of guyana school to those assembled and refer to the mayor's as talented

and courageous achievers it has been as jesse jackson was acknowledged ms turner or for insurrection to the black mayors mask and not just organized mayors masterminds you're the flat palms objects ideas and ways also says the law denies the country jackson voiced concern for you and explain how the mayor should stand up to negative influences affecting me on and that travel deals citizen lobbyist to ask our children every day added

analysis more about us army private you know someone in a way through it's about one third will stay in america how did you know someone to israel would taste ropes all the bills than virtually winds haven't gotten jobs they get right back up write back right back up so it's obvious that god a man then mr lal daniel models like download to do it just the mayors and politicians in the country the god of weezer is bigger than politics the god we serve

so that we have will not save america and say it was well liked and god bless you the mayor has approved twenty one resolutions most of which concerned the impact of federal budget cuts on the city's but the question is will those resolutions turn out to be just convention rhetoric or a solid plan that they can put into action in black and white will be following this story four years ago after seventeen of his best paintings were stolen by the owner of the new york city art gallery new jersey cities get decided to move to france with the help of a friend some streets of good luck and an obvious talent has alluded the life of the stereo typical starving artist and given a gift to humanity in the interim kay thompson reports mostly these ideas just come they come up at very strange time sometimes they come

when i'm working a lot of times a common obstacles be paying attention to something else but i think their fantasies because it comes from being the child that never grew up that really is the source of my inspiration because i was always dreaming in and daydreaming as a child and i was always interested in fantasy cartoons and things and when i grew up i want to continue that sort of feeling and then it just came out of my childhood i think much of it just stuck with me and now i'm an adult child the city's gang has spent the last eight years in paris born into brunswick new jersey and educated at new york's pratt institute where he earned a bachelor's degree stang says he's in our mind at all of his life a slim red haired artist paints in a style that even he finds difficult to describe my word it's a mixture of a lot of things it's closely related to the surrealism that you can see what i'm trying to express it's

usually not as morbid a ghoulish as the stimulus they use a lot of skeletons in a lot of the jury things in their paintings i try to avoid that sort of thing my paintings i like more vibrant colorful playful symbols bystander yo ma for painting i was drawing i had to learn how to paint it learned in high school i took a summer painting course and i was taught how to mexico isn't what the colors were and actually put the plane down the subject came later i never no one taught me how to play the type of things that i do have a huge ms kang says he drew on everything all over the house and at school he would draw instead of going to school were even then it was clear just think that one day he would be an artist but his family wasn't quite so clear a lot of nigerians in the beginning and they were horrified at the thought that i want to paint in that i didn't want to go get a job in the factory down the street now well i did that because my family is a working class family i am not

the middle class at that time they were all telling me this and you must be out of your mind you like the job picture is that a very pretty and you can't do that that's not the real world this is the real life you have these kids you buy this house about the idea here and i really want the paint so it either compromised by going to school as first art teacher illustrator and then finally as a painter by that time i was beginning to make some contacts in our world because it really is through contacts that you succeed was the boat's elements and trying to make it in this country as an artist but fell on hard times he then decided to pursue his career in paris when he went to europe and start showing your paintings in here you find the opportunities for black caucus were better organized a crusade and they asked do exactly the same thing only difference for me is that i am now the autism with

passing came back an ally in the artist's from paris before i was the otter's from new jersey living in brooklyn and younger and they are not very experienced and it and people really did and didn't pay much attention to what i was doing and even in europe the reaction was little strange because they'd never seen the kind of thing i was doing was very new and very unpolished i think a difference like to let some things that are all the traditional and tried and true with its difficult it must be good now what we have your city and one if you could explain that particular figure well first what this painting is the fashion at the hotel st regis it's a painting of a fashion show based on a real fashion show that i went to a few years ago and this figure is a watch to watch sitting down having a glass of scotch with a market was having a glass of champagne will form of this painting is to show how people at a fashion show a more spectacularly dressed

then the models on the runway to show that i have a naked girl dressmakers american media platform i would say it's a reaction to something about it made me angry because this was a fashion show that was two hours late and the show is not good to think overpriced and i was just annoyed at the end the whole situation but at the same time i was fascinated by these people who were really more interest than anything i've ever seen an infected the year close to go more importance than the people did so i imagine it for two hours i was a room full of close ranks there's art has to do with beauty and it has nothing to do with being black or white or with money to be honest and you have to simply be an artist how you make your money how you get your food and closes all secondary the important thing is to be an artist now that he's found his niche city's gang called still be an inspiration to other young minority artists were searching to find their own identities in the art world but he intends to stay on in paris where he says he didn't think it'd

be more creative where he has growing success and where he feels people really take the time to live we'll be back with more in black and white it's been whether your

favorite music is classical or jazz or almost certain the law by wynton marsalis the history making mall type talented twenty four year old trumpeter is recognized musical genius speaks out strongly against the ignorance of today's youth about their own culture and their lack of concern for their futures record those reports it's better to pay as saddam album as amanda desire learned

and does that express what i feel in this kind of music i was more important television at their philosophy philosophy you figure out exposure for the city of music winton marcellus development philosophy through growing up in a musical family born in new orleans twenty four years ago is the second of six songs a widely respected musician composer and educator ellis marsalis point it was given his first trumpet when he was six didn't take the instrument seriously until age twelve when he began studying classical music legend says he still respects classical music and likes playing it but he enjoys the challenge for playing jen oh so

this is an iphone is about expanding the possibilities in the amazon launches their culture makes people would beyond that money and not not not politics and nickel just reaffirms that sense of self interest in keeping with this thing the rapture as in this country is the fact that our farms in arkansas people are historians are literary jazz band on monday on many people on the new law clinton appears to be clear about who he owes and is very concerned that the youth of today understand themselves recently he spoke yesterday and said trenton central high school and was accompanied by former trenton high students over adams there's now a member of the people getting jobs and they do not know most of people wanting to start is there one

person has died in and they can imagine well i don't want to raise the boy she likes or something they commanded us lawmakers have to do what we supposed to be doing we're going to be in the games it is humid twenty three it will enable you to be and when it would jump understand is that you were in the process of making itself into what it is paramount include now using his affirmation you've got president has not wholly you get to develop a family can come out of that not only did want and try to impress upon the students the importance of

education he also demonstrated the complexity of tears i wanted to present our propositions of law is that you're supposed to make something is extremely difficult seem easy president puzzles as jews movement something explain these suburbs in the seventies he went beyond you know i see a volunteer would be the same as the noble sad i can sound to us like there's like you to meet people who critique a bomb planted by the span of publicity les miserables and

as long as they have a seventeen years they'll all a little milo why some companies in nineteen eighty four went and made musical history when he became the first instrumentalist to win back that their grammy awards in the categories of jazz and classical music and i needed to read the season you travel around and play and will really be promptly as it is you have to create their promise to play and that's what the big problem is the big question is if you have the creative i'm deeply parties you have to create an ominous they just have to create their vomit player

soon as possible that ad show template as it is a weapon is totally committed to jazz as the original an important american art form yes muscles but you know he's also committed to the young people and he really impresses me because he doesn't mince any words when it comes to putting them on the right track to strike that we'll be back in a moment fb

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it's b in black and white is your program so we appreciate and look forward to your ideas and suggestions in may right message in black and white and characters in that were see and seven seven seven fifteen seventy three parkside avenue trenton new jersey whose airways sixty five repeat c and seven seven seven fifteen seventy three park site of the trenton new jersey year wait sixteen four and that's it for this edition of in black and white we send our best wishes to the two hundred ninety one black mayors trying to make life better for their constituents in cities across america and we express our appreciation for artists of these gang and musician wynton

marsalis rather important and lasting contributions to american culture were in black and white by marcello stress that again they tell you today because i mean i have this opportunity again because tomorrow is not promised to any of us does nuland toll on a baptist minister a crisp and clothes for running for the united states congress and alabama crimson tide one more time

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