On February 20, 1917, leftist women in New York City, led by the anarchist Marie Ganz, held a big protest against high food prices. This led to a boycott to drive prices down. It is also a great window into the history of women and...
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No wonder Donald Trump and Eric Adams are becoming buds. They surround themselves with the same kind of class acts: Jeffrey Maddrey, the highest-ranking officer of the New York Police.
This is the grave of William O'Dwyer. Born in 1890 in Bohola, County Mayo, Ireland, O'Dwyer was able to get an education in Ireland. He attended St. Nathy's College in.
This is the grave of David Dinkins. Born in 1927 in Trenton, New Jersey, Dinkins split his time as a child between Trenton and Harlem, as his parents divorced when he was young. He really tried to volunteer for World War II when he graduated...
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.
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 by my personal political predilections. So I have no real thoughts about this anti-union Times...
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.
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 known as a cultural experimental area going back a half-century before that. This is thus...
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.
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.