From the grassroots to cultural institutions, new initiatives seek to confront New York City’s legacy of slavery.
The plot of land in Flatbush, Brooklyn, offers a window into the history of slavery in Northern cities—and how that history is systematically erased.
Shared histories of police violence spark Asian American and LGBTQ+ groups to call for more community-focused solutions to anti-Asian attacks.
The New York State Legislature is voting on two bills that could transform the state’s parole system, especially for the elderly.
A petitioner under the Domestic Violence Survivors Justice Act achieved a hard won victory last week.
On May 1, tenants of 81 Bowery in New York City released a black and white banner from the top of their apartment building that said “Rent Strike!” in both English and Chinese. They joined thousands of tenants across the city and country who are demanding that landlords cancel rent.
On Friday, April 24, hundreds of graduate student workers at Columbia University went on a rent and work strike following the administration’s refusal to sufficiently protect them from the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. This movement comes on the heels of an unnamed student filing a class-action lawsuit against
On April 28, Darlene “Lulu” Benson-Seay, a woman incarcerated in Bedford Hills Correctional Facility, became the first woman in a New York state prison to die of COVID-19. While Benson-Seay’s story has come to expose varying forms of government and facility negligence—from the failure to release those who
Bedford Hills Correctional Facility, a maximum security women’s prison in New York’s Westchester County, might be known to many as one of the few U.S. prisons that allows new mothers to spend time with their children while incarcerated. While the unique program sets it apart from other
(Content note: This article contains mention of racial slurs and sexual vulgarity.) Retaliatory harassment, surveillance, caging, physical abuse, death threats, and poisoning are all tactics the United States government may classify as torture. Yet they have all been employed—and therefore tacitly sanctioned—by the New York City Police Department
Vivian and Alexa Rivera think of their mother, Ana Celia Martinez, as “a survivor.” Martinez and her siblings lost their parents when they were just children in Puerto Rico, forcing them to take care of each other and fend for themselves. When Martinez moved to the United States, she carved
Sheila’s 25-year-old son has been detained pretrial at Manhattan Detention Center (MDC) for almost three years. He hasn’t yet been convicted of any crime, but he’s losing hope that he’ll ever see home again. Two weeks ago, he told his mother that he’d lost his
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