Israel’s notorious Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu stayed in New York City for less than eight hours while 100 protesters were arrested at a sit-in and thousands marched to the UN in solidarity…

The co-founder of the The Living Theatre, Karen Malpede writes, was a

The main obstacle is a lack of political will and imagination.

Students and teachers gathered on City Hall steps to promote high school journalism — and advocate for its expansion.

The New York City Economic Development Corporation, described by an expert as “the mayor’s private company,” could be a source of public good.

NYPD data nerd Jack Maple and billionaire mayor Michael Bloomberg are featured in this selective retelling of the past half-century of NYC’s history.

One family in Washington Heights would rather share a single apple among three children than risk standing in a…

NYC’s most under-paid educators got organized – and are now caught in a complicated political crossfire.

In his new book, Historian Shane White tells the story of a vibrant community of Black Americans and of integration in the years before the Civil War.

9/11 and Occupy Wall Street took place within a block of each other at the center of American Empire. Their legacies couldn’t be more different, nor the futures they point to.

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1. Putting Inequality on the Agenda Before Occupy came along, the Tea Party narrative was dominant in American politics.…

The Mamdani Effect plus some valuable assistance from NYC-DSA helped a charismatic underdog knock off an incumbent mayor 200 miles from New York City.

Occupy Wall St. alum vows to bring her social movement values with her when she joins the New York City Council on January 1.

When the unthinkable happened, The Indypendent was there to cover it. Editor-in-chief John Tarleton reflects on the 25th anniversary of 9/11.

-Edited to add: this morning (Tuesday, September 20th) several protesters, including members of the Occupy Wall Street media team…

Twenty years after September 11, the World Trade Center redevelopment story encapsulates the political, economic, and cultural forces that…

As New Yorkers mark the 10th anniversary of 9/11, it’s hard to imagine that the 16 acres in Lower…

The smell of the “Pile,” the media elevation of Rudy Giuliani to near-sainthood and the sudden disappearance of the global justice movement are memories I would like to forget but can’t.

Under the exploding Twin Towers, you see her face. In early March Republicans displayed a poster in the West…

Haven’t you heard the whispers? In the background, hands cup a tunnel between ear and mouth. A secret map…

I know. 9/11 stuff. It's a complicated historical event. I've lived in NYC all my life and should speak…

The impact we made by distributing our post-9/11 special issues at Union Square, where ordinary people were asking extraordinary questions, is what truly ignited the passion for independent reporting…

The smell of the “Pile,” the media elevation of Rudy Giuliani to near-sainthood and the sudden disappearance of the global justice movement are memories I would like to forget but can’t.

Within 24 hours the paper was published.

It feels so good to be a New Yorker. But… why now exactly? Why is this our moment?

Two new books shed light on 30 years of struggle to end immigrant detention in New Jersey and beyond.

The exhibit at El Barrio’s Artspace PS109 tells the story of Alianza Islámica and its revolutionary contributions to Latine Muslim culture and community development.

Longtime attorney Flint Taylor’s new book tells the story of the People’s Law Collective which grew out of the radical movements of the late 1960s.

Meanwhile, the judge in the long-running case has recused himself due to past ties to disgraced attorney who encouraged perjury against the defendant.

Organizers with TW4C (a coalition of theater workers in solidarity with Palestine) and the BDS campaign determined that the play violated BDS' anti-normalization guidelines.

NYC’s busiest airport has emerged as a key hub for shipping munitions to Israel.

Kings County Democratic Party Chair Rodneyse Bichotte Hermelyn and her allies rewrote the rules at the last minute to keep themselves in power. Will it stick?