This 1971 article from the Village Voice archives looks at trumped up charges against the Black Panthers that a jury found ludicrous.

The Black Panthers were accused of planning heinous crimes. The prosecution’s case was way too imaginative for a jury of street-level New Yorkers.

The Village Voice reviews Martha Schwendener’s new book on Vilém Flusser (1920-1991), who prophesied the dangers of digital tech.

The Village Voice revisits the Hunter Thompson's 1972 riffs on ibogaine as President Trump fast-tracks the drug to help vets with PTSD.

The Village Voice revisits the Hunter Thompson's 1972 riffs on ibogaine as President Trump fast-tracks the drug to help vets with PTSD.

The labor solidarity May Day march — and party — happening on Friday, May 1st, at Union square is a Village Voice Choice for that week.

Finding good gay chat rooms is harder than it should be. You open a few sites, click around, and most of them either feel empty or filled with fake profiles. You end up wasting time just trying to ...

Given the lack of debate and discussion among educated blacks today, Harold Cruse’s remedies for the black intelligentsia’s failings seem more quixotic now than 20 years ago — particularly because ...

Brandon Teena (right) with Lana Tisdel in 1993. On December 31, 1993, a 21-year-old trans man named Brandon Teena was shot and stabbed to death near Falls City, Nebraska, by two other young men ...

The citizen secures himself against genius by icon worship. By the touch of Circe’s wand, the divine troublemakers are translated into porcine embroidery. Dostoevsky’s Notes From Underground and its ...

The collective that created the Silence = Death poster is back after thirty years to recall its origins and launch new art This is a to-do list from 1986, written in the journal of Avram Finkelstein, ...

Arabian swelter, and with the air-conditioning broken, CBGB resembled some abattoir of a kitchen in which a bucket of ice is placed in front of a fan to cool the room off. To no avail of course, and ...