Howie Evans was a proverbial giant. Even though standing just 5-10, he was a towering sports and cultural icon.

We at the Amsterdam News wanted to take a second to talk about the U.S. Constitution, one of the most influential and “living ...

The news mainstream media just doesn’t cover. Racial justice journalism since 1909.

There’s something inherently dangerous about traveling alone across the country. America is wide, vast, and in many ways experiencing a constitutional crisis. Throw in the added layers of being female ...

As of now, the city law, passed in 2019 under former Mayor Bill de Blasio, mandates that Rikers be closed by 2027 and replaced by borough-based jails. Adams has been slammed for “abandoning” the plan.

The challenges that immigrant educators face in higher education and academia also permeate K-12 public education in New York City.

Governor Kathy Hochul announced that she and the State Legislature reached an agreement on the budget for fiscal year 2026.

Brown spent 23 years out of a 40-year sentence in prison for a 1999 shooting which injured two men, leaving one victim paralyzed. During the original trial, his previous lawyer failed to mention a leg ...

The book is essentially about a success story, the realization of a dream Lonnie had after re-reading Albion Tourgee’s 1879 novel “A Fool’s Errand.” Lonnie said that he saw “the journey to build a ...

Due to traffic, the bus runs significantly slower than the citywide average, moving at just four miles per hour in some busier segments. Last summer, the city unveiled formative plans to paint a ...

Leopoldo Fleming, the conguero and percussionist, and composer whose multi rhythms ignited the definitive sounds of Miriam Makeba, Nina Simone, and Harry Belafonte, died on April 28 in Paterson, N.J.

The Zora Neale Hurston/Richard Wright Foundation is changing the name of its annual Legacy Awards for literature to the Zora Awards.