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‘Angels in America’: The Other Side of the American Dream
For both conservatives and liberals during the 1980s, the explosion of the HIV/AIDS crisis felt like the result of…
Indy Events Calendar April 12–18
The Indypendent’s events calendar comes out every Wednesday online and once a month in print. We provide this calendar as…
Demanding Renewables Not Pipelines, Environmentalists are Heading to Albany
That’s it, we’re storming the castle. On April 23, thousands of New Yorkers are showing up at Gov. Andrew…
Remembering Winnie Madikizela-Mandela
She was born in 1936 and named Nomzamo Winifred Madikizela. What the world would come to know this South…
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…