Attorney General Letitia James stands with civil rights leaders in salute to FDNY’s bold stance
Sixty years after a brutal response to a peaceful civil rights march...
Juneteenth Symposium to illuminate the legacy of Reconstruction Amendments
The Franklin H. Williams Judicial Commission will host its annual Juneteenth Symposium...
Religious freedom and gay rights are clashing in schools and on campuses: Courts are deciding
Disputes over religious freedom and LGBTQ rights in the United States have...
Orthodox Judaism can be difficult for LGBT Jews, but the tide is slowly turning
Yeshiva University, the storied modern Orthodox Jewish university in New York, is...
AP finds most arrested in protests aren’t leftist radicals
President Donald Trump portrays the hundreds of people arrested nationwide in protests...
It’s official: Subway signs, maps now say ‘Medgar Evers College’
Two 100-year-old subway stations in Brooklyn now have new co...
Assemblymember Jo Anne Simon launches bid to be Brooklyn’s first female Borough President
Assemblymember Jo Anne Simon (D-Brooklyn, 52nd AD) on Thursday announced her...
In move ‘away from brute force,’ NYPD closes anti-crime units linked to death of Eric Garner
New York City’s police department is disbanding the type of...
Brooklyn gathers to keep Martin Luther King Jr.’s dream alive
Nothing short of a night to remember, the 10th annual A Shared...