Mayor Mamdani officially named Dana Kaplan the inaugural Close Rikers czar on April 28. She has spent a decade working to close the jail.

A new report found that by 2025, only about half of U.S. full-time workers earned enough income to meet the cost of everyday necessities.

Employees at New York City’s most prominent reentry nonprofits are pushing to make the missions they promote apply on the inside as well.

It’s no coincidence that Ron Carter’s 89th birthday is the same day he began his five-day engagement at the historic Blue Note jazz club.

Lt. Jonathan Rivera pleaded guilty last week to an Abuse of Authority allegation for unlawful summons from a 2023 incident.

A new generation of African Americans is gradually returning to the game that was once a staple of Black communities across ...

In her 2026 State of the State address, Gov. Kathy Hochul issued a challenge to the tobacco industry’s latest play for New York’s youth.

African American voters are caught in the throes of jurisprudence semantics resulting in a disappearance of a raft of Black ...

Former New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani is hospitalized in critical but stable condition, his spokesperson said Sunday.

The Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater (AAADT) will return to the New Jersey Performing Arts Center (NJPAC) in Newark, NJ for ...

Kia Brown credits her introduction to church to her mother and grandmother, but insists that her current conviction is a personal one.

New York City’s environmental justice activists have been sounding the alarm about the effects of toxic pollution on communities of color.