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New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani and tenant activists rallied this morning outside the New York Apartment Association headquarters to denounce the landlord lobby group for giving $2.5 ...
A true classic of the genre, Harlan County, USA should be required viewing for every progressive and union-lover. This documentary (director Barbara Kopple’s first feature) chronicles the Brookside ...
In the past year, Elsa Martinez has seen utility bills from New York energy monopoly Con Edison soar to as much as $300 per month. The costs seemed inexplicable to Martinez, a disabled Harlem resident ...
The student activists have been suspended for participating in non-violent collective action demanding the university disclose and divest from its ties to Israel. Amba Guerguerian & Adrita Talukder ...
In December 2020, over 50 years after Helen Keller’s death, the renowned deafblind woman became ensnared in controversy, as she often had in life. “Helen Keller is not radical at all,” Black ...
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 ...
In her acceptance speech on the final night of the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, Kamala Harris promised new investments in the care economy, support for workers rights, reproductive ...
Read “This is how You Stymie a Movement” for a catalog of recent protest arrests made with excessive force. On the evening of September 17, a group of 60 immigrant-rights protesters left Foley Square ...
Housing courts opened Tuesday across New York State for the first time since the COVID-19 induced eviction moratorium expired on Saturday. There are 223,883 pending eviction cases in New York City ...
As thousands of migrant asylum seekers arrive on buses in New York City from the U.S. southern border — many sent without their consent by Republican governors in Texas and Florida who are playing ...
Our latest issue takes you from a Lower Manhattan courtroom to Cuba, Cairo and Azerbaijan before returning to the streets of New York City.