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In June 2016, President Obama proclaimed the first LGBTQ+ national monument in the United States at the site of the 1969 Stonewall Uprising in New York City.

How East New York was ransacked by the real estate industry and abandoned by the city in the process.

The end of the big-city columnist.

Marronage as a placemaking practice, pointing to histories that shape and inspire abolitionist struggles.

Because of the growth of the Prohibition state, police abuse fomented considerable discussions among police and lawyer associations, criminologists, and others.

George Leonidas Leslie is still waiting for his HBO series.

Modern surveillance policing is rooted in approaches adopted a century ago.

Police from as far away as Alabama were watching.

The records of a New York surveillance committee from the time of the First Red Scare document a radical world—and its demise.

Police have been using the snapshots in criminal investigations since the advent of commercial photography

Involuntarily committing people with serious mental illness, however well intended, has long served to remove them from society instead of providing treatment.

Three recent books examine the discrimination and hypocrisy at the heart of policing “vice.”

Lee's life and work suggested that Asian American identity did not possess—and did not need—any underlying reality beyond solidarity.

A new book about Rikers Island is essentially a labor history, revealing how jail guards seized control from managers, politicians, and judges.

For a century, student activists have demanded a say in their schools.

The Young Lords took over Lincoln Hospital in the Bronx on July 14, 1970. Their demand? Accessible, quality health care for all.

The history of patrolling sex in public.

A new documentary goes inside the battles that have riven the institution and shaped the historical legacy of the attack.

Orisanmi Burton reflects on the legacy of the Panther 21 on the 50th anniversary (to the day) of their acquittal.

What I relearned (about well-meaning liberalism, race, my late father, and my young gay self) rewatching the TV cop shows of my 1970s youth.

Open container laws criminalize working-class people and make public life less fun. We need to legalize public drinking.

We are at the end of an era, as choices made in the 1970s have created a society that seems unable to cope with a crisis such as that posed by the coronavirus.

Harmony Holiday dreams of a Black sound unfettered by white desire.

The controversial version of the U.S. flag has been hailed as a sign of police solidarity and criticized as a symbol of white supremacy.

The harmful policy was built on a shaky foundation.

“¿DEFACEMENT?,” Inspired by the 1983 Police Murder of Michael Stewart.

In a span of less than 12 hours a German college professor set off a bomb in the U.S. Capitol & assaulted J.P. Morgan Jr. at his home on Long Island.

Futuristic control rooms with endless screens of blinking data are proliferating in cities across the globe. Welcome to the age of Dashboard Governance.