One Year After Robert Brooks’ Death, Attendees at His Vigil Urge Gov. Hochul to Sign Prison Reform Bill Shocking prison ...

Mahmoud Khalil and Rep. Nydia Velázquez feted along with local Brooklyn activists (Photo credit: Luce Miyar-Mullan) ...

One year after the killing of Robert Brooks inside a New York prison, his family and community organizers gathered in Albany and New York City to honor his life and urge Governor Hochul to sign an ...

The police department’s penchant for corruption led to the political demise of William O’Dwyer, a former cop from Brooklyn who was elected mayor in 1945. Theodore Hamm May 17, 2023 Mob-connected ...

The gap between what people earn and what they have to pay for the necessities of life has the be closed by both an increase in what we earn and a decrease in the “cost of living." Paddy Quick Dec 10 ...

It’s 11 p.m. on a Saturday night, and the Union Square L train platform is swarming with Brooklyn-bound clubbers. Over the heat haze of hundreds of tightly packed bodies, a strange sound, like a ...

As of mid-February, Michael Bloomberg has spent over $400 million on his presidential campaign, including blanketing the air waves with ads and is on track to spend more than a billion dollars. As a ...

The War on Poverty comes to life in a new book that explores how welfare mothers in Las Vegas built an organizing juggernaut that transformed lives. The early successes of the National Welfare Rights ...

What is known today as Atlanta used to be a thriving trade hub for Native Americans. In 1821, the federal government began to force the Muscogee tribe out of what Atlantans now call the South River ...

A Ukrainian fertilizer magnate, a shady lawyer and the Koch Brothers are among the major campaign donors that the Democratic governor and Donald Trump share. Decca Muldowney Aug 7, 2018 Donald Trump ...

Ten years ago this fall a protest movement took root in Lower Manhattan that transformed how we think about inequality and reinvigorated the Left. It was the summer of 2011 and millions of Americans ...