The day after the German Reichstag was severely damaged by fire, in 1933, Adolf Hitler’s Nazi party, which had received only one-third of the popular vote a few months before, rammed through a decree ...

February is Black History Month, and while certain autocrats in power would like to undo that celebration, the Brooklyn Museum is honoring BHM in the return of “First Saturdays, ...

The Village Voice's September 5, 1963, eyewitness report on the March On Washington and Martin Luther King's "I have a dream" speech.

But you can leave all such bluster behind this Monday by joining fellow New Yorkers in honoring the Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. at the Brooklyn Academy of Music. This 40th-annual MLK event will ...

Village Voice Choices recommends a benefit "Concert for Maternity Care in Ukraine," which will take place on February 1, 2026.

Robert Greene’s haunting Bisbee ’17 finds America in a showdown with itself by Bilge Ebiri ...

She's an absurdly charming half-Japanese girl next door who somehow manages to be relentlessly sweet and deliciously filthy at the very same time. Petite and ridiculously cute, yes, sure—but also ...

[Editor’s note: Donald Trump has operated amid a swamp of corruption, self-dealing, and outright criminality ever since his real estate–developer father gifted him his first millions. For almost as ...

Given the lack of debate and discussion among educated blacks today, Harold Cruse’s remedies for the black intelligentsia’s failings seem more quixotic now than 20 years ago — particularly because ...

The initial idea was to create an overview of jazz (and jazz-related) records from 1900 to 2001. After several weeks of revelatory listening to music from the dark ages—rags, marches, cakewalks, ...

The other day I was talking on the phone with a friend who hangs out on the CBGB scene a lot. She was regaling me with examples of the delights available to females in the New York subway system. “So ...

On a gray, drizzly Friday in July, I joined Jeremiah Moss for a walk. We met at the Astor Place cube, as the artist Tony Rosenthal’s 1967 black Cor-Ten steel sculpture Alamo is known, in the shadow of ...