Venida Browder, the 63-year-old the mother of the late Kalief Browder, who committed suicide after spending three horrific years being abused on Rikers Island, died of complications of a heart attack, or as her lawyer noted, "of a broken heart."

Spike Lee has made quite an impact on New York City culture with his extensive film success, and now he has reached another milestone. The…

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Pittsburgh, Pa., police union leaders have accused their department’s chief of calling them racist because he held a sign that vows to challenge racism by…

You have to be a special kind of parasite to politicize death, but fortunately for those working in politics, media, and law enforcement such a strain can…

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Just two days after five New York City Democratic mayoral candidates spent the night in East Harlem’s Lincoln Houses public housing development,  Olivia Brown, 23,…