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C is for Closure: Public Education In Puerto Rico To Be Gutted
Six months after Hurricane Maria, the island’s Department of Education announces plans to close 283 public schools.
Crown Heights Residents Demand Justice for Saheed Vassell
Joey Katabi, who works at Carroll Street Food Corp on Utica Avenue in Crown Heights, offered a lighter to…
Echoes of May ’68 Reverberate Through France
Montpellier, France — On March 29, the ultra-conservative dean of the Montpellier University Law School was summoned to police…
Longtime education activist Mark Naison reflects on what’s behind the teachers’ strikes in Oklahoma, Kentucky and last month’s walkout in West Virginia.
A More Complex Portrait of Martin Luther King and the Civil Rights Movement
In A History More Beautiful and Terrible: The Uses and Misuses of Civil Rights History, Brooklyn College political scientist…
Indy Events Calendar April 5–11
The Indypendent’s events calendar comes out every Wednesday online and once a month in print. We provide this calendar as…
Meet the Nazi’s Next Door in ‘This is Our Land’
Two women in their forties are sitting eating salads in a diner. One says to the other: “It’s now…
After Suicides, Calls for Reforming New York’s Ride-For-Hire Industry
There have been four suicides in New York’s ride-for-hire industry in four months: livery drivers Danilo Corporan Castillo and…
Albany. Here in Gotham we rarely think of this quiet city of 100,000 people that lies on the west…
Fallout from Stephon Clark Killing Spreads to New York and Beyond
The memories, Hertencia Petersen tells me, resurface when she appears to speak at rallies. Her nephew, Akai Gurley, was…