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A Poet Recounts Teaching at Men’s Prisons in ‘Hummingbird’
From 1992 to 2008, award-winning poet and playwright Deborah Tobola taught writing to inmates at several men’s prisons in…
Oral History Preserves Bushwick One Story at a Time
At an April Community Board 4 meeting in Bushwick, city planners were repeatedly interrupted by the audience. “Affordable to…
Activist Scholars Take on Big Developers
Hudson Yards, New York City’s newest neighborhood, costing the city 5.6 billion taxpayer dollars, opened March 15. Who asked…
Lessons on Grassroots Campaigning from ‘Councilwoman’
Carmen Castillo is a housekeeper. A Dominican immigrant, she is raising three kids and lives in an impoverished neighborhood…
‘American Woman’ and More From the Tribeca Film Fest
American Woman, directed by Semi Chellas The Patty Hearst story is an odd, murky chapter in recent U.S. history,…
The American Worker Gets the Spotlight at the Tribeca Film Fest
Established in response to the Sept. 11 attacks on the World Trade Center, the Tribeca Film Festival has, since…
Dana Frank Offers Lessons from Latin America in ‘Long Honduran Night’
Indypendent readers most likely know Honduras as the site of a right-wing coup in 2009 and as one of…
Labor Conflict: With ‘Birth Strike’ Jenny Brown Tackles the Population Decline
It took more than a decade of litigation by feminist plaintiffs for Plan B, known as the “morning-after pill,”…
When Women Take on Mass Incarceration
If you feel fed-up with criminal justice reform efforts touted by the Koch brothers that leave our prison industrial…