Muhammad Aziz was falsely convicted in Malcolm X’s 1965 murder and exonerated in 2021. His $40 million lawsuit names 19 FBI officials involved in the incident, investigation and cover-up, including former FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover.
Alternatives to Policing: These Unarmed Groups Stop Violence Before it Starts
A profile of two Brooklyn community organizations that run violence-interrupter programs.
The case against Carl Miller has collapsed since he was convicted of an infamous 1979 murder. But winning exoneration remains elusive.
Sci-Fi Short Film Interprets How Mass Incarceration Affects the Black Family
Some Kind of Heavenly Fire takes place in Detroit amid the prolific northeast blackout of 2003.
Dismay Grows After City Budget Deal Axes Rikers Rehabilitation Programs
The Fortune Society and five other outside organizations have conducted programs at Rikers since the early 1990s that help prepare incarcerated people to have a successful re-entry once they are released.
NYPD’s Internal Trial of Two Killer Cops Became a Theater of the Absurd
The New York Police Department sure has a funny idea of what justice looks like.
On June 3, 2020, Floyd was experiencing a mental-health crisis while being held at the Metropolitan Detention Center. Guards responded by blasting him with several canisters of pepper spray.
This is Not a Watermelon: A Brooklyn-Palestine Solidarity Event in Dialogue with Protest Art
‘Making sure we remember every possible way — through education, through music, through dance, through art — is a part of resistance.’
As City budget negotiations commence tomorrow, all departments are on the chopping block except the NYPD, with many community programs at risk of being cut.
The NYPD’s Sordid History Chronicled in New Report
The Police Reform Organizing Project provides a detailed summary of the NYPD’s nefarious ways from its founding in 1845 to the present day.