How the labor leader disserved his dream.

A new kind of movement found its moment. What will its future be?

“Film people are film people,” the director said. “There’s no place they’d rather be than in a theatre.”

In the nineteen-seventies, you would see crime, drugs, and dead bodies on the infamous strip; you might also spot Debbie Harry, Mick Jagger, or the founding members of Talking Heads.

“Modern Housing,” by Catherine Bauer, argued—as many activists do today—that a decent home should be seen as a public utility and a basic right.

The artist on the two-party system, Black liberation theology, and learning from his mistakes.

At Romeo and Milka Regalli’s Crown Heights restaurant, vegan proteins stand in for meats, and tangy, fermented injera soaks up sauces spiked with traditional berbere spice or puckery lime.

The writer had a dazzling intelligence and was once the best-read woman in America, but a public hungry for transgressive heroines has failed to embrace her.

From 1967: Seven months after the death of the Black writer, Professor James P. Shenton acknowledged at a memorial, “For a while, there lived a poet down the street from Columbia, and Columbia never took the time to find out what he was about.”

“The people had done it so many times that they only half listened to the directions; most of them were quiet, wetting their lips, not looking around.”