Who doesn’t like some avant-garde filmmaking showing New York? Ok, lots of people, but in any case, here is 1985’s Battery Film, directed by Richard Protovin and Franklin Backus. It’
New York is studying the impact of environmental racism and injustice in creating conditions that lead to high deaths from COVID-19. The impact should not surprise you: Communities of color that have
This is the grave of Jimmy Walker. Born in 1881 in New York, James John Walker came out of the Irish politics of the turn-of-the-century. His father was a working class guy, a carpenter who eventually
The police have basically always existed as a racist institution. And here’s an example of this from mid-19th century New York City. No one individual embodied the brawling roughness of New York
On August 10, 1935, members of the Transport Workers Union (TWU) descended on the New York courthouse to demand the release of their leaders after arrests they had been jumped by anti-union thugs. Thi
The NYPD–that paragon of goodness and morality–is at it again. Tensions are increasingly flaring in black and Hispanic neighborhoods over officers’ enforcement of social-distancing rules
This is the grave of Fernando Wood. Born in 1812 in Philadelphia, Wood’s Spanish first name, highly unusual for an English-American at the time, came out of a gothic novel his mother liked. His
On April 6, 1712, a group of slaves gathered in Manhattan, setting fire to a building on Maiden Lane, near Broadway. When whites gathered to put out the fire, the slaves attacked with hatchets, guns,