The limelight is once again shining on the inhumane conditions at the notorious city jail. Two abolitionists explain how to shut down operations on the island without expanding NYC’s carceral system.
Tear Down the System, Not Each Other
Social media-fueled cancel culture is a dead end. Only leading with love will take us where we need to go.
“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.
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