“Today, in passing the Marijuana Regulation and Taxation Act, the New York State legislature took enormous strides toward ending the decades-long war on drugs and its discriminatory impact on people of color.”

A leviathan of corruption too big for a single fall guy

"This is definitely a ‘don’t let the perfect be the enemy the good’ situation."

“We have to stand up because the people in the state and city have to know our poverty level does not determine the level of healthcare that a person should receive.”

For campaigns, TV advertising is the least efficient but most effective way of reaching a broad swath of voters when pressing the flesh isn’t an option

NIVA and NITO have taken on Congress and they’re not done yet

While other documentaries about Biggie have chronicled his glory days, what’s refreshing about this one is the way it explores his modest, humble beginnings

A show of the multi-faceted artist arrives just in time for Women’s History Month

"Terror and pity: Ferlinghetti stirs up a pity for his sincere nervousness, or nervous sincerity, in quite confessional work."

By day that gig was housekeeping; by night she’d take the 41 bus to sing at neighborhood spots like the Night Cap on Flatbush Avenue