While most Americans contend with the risks of gathering with loved ones this holiday season, the over two million people confined in America’s jails and prisons find themselves fighting for survival ...

Beginning in 2001, Yo La Tengo have spent most Hanukkahs performing 8 nights of sold out benefit shows across the festival of lights. These wonderful evenings had their inception at Maxwell’s in their ...

Solitary confinement is a traumatic experience. It’s been linked to lifelong physical and mental health problems, including anxiety, paranoia and depression. Some correction systems are moving away ...

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Andrea Bernstein is a Peabody and duPont-Columbia award–winning journalist and co-host of the Trump, Inc. podcast. She is also the author of the forthcoming book AMERICAN OLIGARCHS: The Kushners, the ...

James Joyce’s Dubliners, once considered scandalous, sacrilegious—and, for a decade, unpublishable—celebrated its 100th year in print in 2014. The stories in the collection peer into the lives of ...

Immigration is perhaps the most polarizing issue in our current political climate, and yet there are several policy proposals that have widespread support — what’s apparently lacking is the political ...

Building community. Organizing. Activating people. Civic engagement is key to creating change on any level. Hear from social entrepreneurs about how they’re creating greater civic engagement by ...

Michael Mwenso is a bandleader, singer, and one of the founders of the Shakes. To kick-off the residency, Michael will lead an Ancestral Communal Listening experience and sit down with an Album of the ...

Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw, co-founder and Executive Director of AAPF and bicoastal professor of law at both UCLA and Columbia, is a pioneering scholar and writer on civil rights, critical race theory ...

The Harlem Chamber Players are an ethnically diverse collective of professional musicians dedicated to bringing high-caliber, affordable and accessible live classical music to people in the Harlem ...

To mark Women’s History Month, The Other Box Project looks at how race has factored into this moment of #MeToo.