A New Exhibit Brings to Life the History of Racism and Resistance in Brooklyn
The Brooklyn Center for History’s new exhibit comes just in time for Juneteenth
The Indypendent
Black Lives Matter
Black Lives Matter Inspires the Whitney
What a way to go. For his 2003 video “Self-Portrait Piñata,” artist Dave McKenzie cast his image as a…
Police and Prisons, What Are They Good For?
Last summer’s protests put police and prison abolition on the progressive agenda. Yet it remains difficult to imagine a…
Family vows to file a wrongful death lawsuit, demonstrators demand infamous jail be closed.
How Critical Race Theory Became The New Conservative Bogeyman
Critical race theory is not primarily about history. It is about the effects of history on institutions, policies, laws, and, most importantly, ideas. And that makes the rightwing deeply uneasy.
Black moms suffer disproportionately when giving birth. New York could begin to address that by empowering more Black midwives.
Protester Alleges NYPD Stripped Her in Public
“He pulled my pants down to my ankles and then made me walk across the Brooklyn Bridge naked,” she says.
Why Americans Can’t Have Nice Things
In the summer of 2010, 15-year-old Dekendrix Warner slipped down a clay-surfaced bank in a shallow recreation area in…
The Walgreens nurse jabbed me with the needle and it felt like a key opening a jail cell. After…
“The cops don’t know when they’re not supposed to shoot”: Bikers Take the Streets for Daunte Wright
About 150 bikers gathered yesterday evening at Barclays Center for a “Justice for Daunte Wright” protest organized by Riders…
