On April 17, 1941, two New York bus companies and the National Negro Congress came to an agreement to end the NNC's boycott of city’s bus companies that had started a few weeks earlier over the refusal of the city to hire Black drivers. This...
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This is the grave of John Lindsay. Born in 1921 in New York, Lindsay grew up wealthy but not super elite levels of wealthy. Still, he got to go to.
Unlike left Twitter that had never thought about railroad unions for two seconds before Biden stopped them from striking, I tend to not judge unions I don't really know about.
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's at least worth 9 minutes of your time. https://www.youtube.com/embed/XEXrQgzPInA
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.
This is a fun little tourist documentary on Greenwich Village's hip bohemian scene in 1960. The folk music scene was just popping at this time, but the Village was well.
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 bought a lumberyard and then went into politics himself,...
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.
There's tons of neat tools today to visualize history and culture. I happen to have absolutely no ability in this field except for coming up with some good ideas that.
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. This moment helped vault the transit workers to be one of the...
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, leading some prominent elected officials.
On January 13, 1966, the New York City transit strike ended. This strike was notable both for the public sector unions putting newly elected New York Mayor John Lindsay in.