“I’m going to be a fighter for the people,” says the former legislative staffer who broke with the Jersey machine early in her career and is now running to replace Donald Payne Jr. who inherited his congressional seat from his father 10 years ago.
Brooklynites woke up last Thursday to find a newly erected, 14-foot-tall bust of George Floyd had been defaced overnight…
A New Exhibit Brings to Life the History of Racism and Resistance in Brooklyn
The Brooklyn Public Library’s Center for Brooklyn History opens its outdoor Brooklyn Resists exhibit tomorrow on Juneteenth. “We realized during COVID that…
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…
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