Monday marks one year from the August 31, 2027 deadline to close Rikers Island and repurpose the land toward future environmental use.

The mayor has backed off calls to defund the police. Advocates say the NYPD under Mamdani and Commissioner Jessica Tisch is still focusing too much on low-level crimes.

Advocates confront yet another mayor apparently committed arresting lots of people on low-level charges.

The former Black Panther’s lawyers ask a UN panel to review his detention after US legal avenues were exhausted

Leader of the Renewable Rikers Coalition Michael Higgins, Darren Mack, of the Freedom Agenda, and Tom Grech, of the Queens Chamber of Commerce, join the show this week.

Advocates and City Council members seeking to get the city moving on closing Rikers Island say Mayor Zohran Mamdani needs to allocate tens of millions more in

Historians like the Pulitzer Prize winner David Blight have tried to raise awareness of freed slaves who decorated soldiers' graves in 1865

BLEED is a new site-specific commission by French and Canadian multimedia artist Kapwani Kiwanga. Installed in the Museum’s second-floor project gallery and on view from March 13, 2026, until April 1,...

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Bookstores fight for communities through activism, despite backlash.

Advocates are urging the Mamdani administration to transfer a long-vacant Rikers Island jail facility out of Department of Correction control, saying the city must revive a jail decommissioning proces...

We are in the midst of a crisis at Bedford Hills Correctional Facility, the largest women’s prison in New York, where there have been three deaths in roughly four weeks, two of them suicides. Incarc...

The city plans to open 190 new affordable units, paired with support services, for people who cycle between jail and homeless shelters.

In her latest book, Queen Mother, Farmer documents historical figure Audley Moore.

This Long Overdue tribute honors C. L. R. James, journalist and historian, who died in 1989.

When New Yorkers dial 911, they expect help — fast, skilled and lifesaving. Yet for too long, the city’s emergency medical services — FDNY EMS — have been treated like a side note instead of a pillar...

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New York City spends more than $2.8 billion a year to prop up Rikers — a failing, decrepit jail complex that delivers none of the outcomes we need. Closing Rikers is the law and is absolutely neces…