The Chinese-American Planning Council receives more than $200 million per year from Albany while engaging in rampant worker abuse and wage theft. Now, its legislative allies are trying to steer more money its way.
It’s Time for the Left to Embrace the Critical Race Theory Debate
Pretending CRT isn’t real robs us of the chance to mount a strong defense.
One Year Later: What the Language of the Capitol Insurrection Tells Us
The ‘excited utterances’ of Trump’s mob mirrored the mindset that has guided U.S. imperialism.
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.
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…
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.
Queens DA Faces Growing Pressure to Throw Out Prakash Churaman Charges
Latest court hearing draws largest crowd of supporters to date.
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…