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SEVEN DECADES

SEVEN DECADES

A Monument to a Corrupt POTUS – 1977 Version

Three years after Richard M. Nixon resigned, the Voice ran a contest to determine an appropriate memorial for the disgraced Commander in Chief.

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SEVEN DECADES

A Government Show Trial in 1971 Echoes Trumped-Up Charges Now

The Black Panthers were accused of planning heinous crimes, but the prosecution’s case was way too imaginative for a jury of street-level New Yorkers.

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SEVEN DECADES

When the Pentagon Screened ‘The Battle of Algiers’

In 2003, the U.S. was mired in the Iraq War and the Voice revisited a film that has long been a cautionary tale for empires everywhere.

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SEVEN DECADES

Afrika Bambaataa Gave Voice to Music ‘Never Heard Before’

More than four decades ago, the Bronx DJ was already a hip hop legend, known as the “Master of Records.”

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VOICE CHOICE

Nell Blaine: A Painter Who Worked Against the Grain

A fresh exhibition features the first art director of the Village Voice, who overcame debilitating disease to create vibrant, New York School-ed realism. 

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SEVEN DECADES

A Sex and $$ Scandal During the Age of Reagan

In 1982, Brooklyn congressman Fred Richmond attempted to use money and powerful connections to maneuver his way out of a sex scandal.

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SEVEN DECADES

In 1973, the Forever War in Vietnam Came to an Inconclusive Close

A little over half a century ago, a president mired in an unpopular war finally declared the beginning of the end, and the Voice covered the damage left behind.

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VOICE CHOICE

Whose Head is That? The Movie That Almost Ended the Monkees

With the only remaining Monkee, Micky Dolenz, back on the road in 2026, it's worth remembering that “Head” is a terrific movie. Too bad it messed too much with the audiences’ — and the band’s — heads.

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SEVEN DECADES

Beaten or Stoned? Was 1968 the Beginning of the End of the Sixties?

Fifty years ago this week, the Voice reviewed the “White Album” and “Beggars Banquet,” two records that caused a raft of trouble.

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SEVEN DECADES

In 1957, Four Voice Staffers Recalled Their Shock at Hearing FDR Had Died

This Presidents’ Day, we look back on how the news about the four-term POTUS — who'd been in office as a generation of Americans came of age and then went off to war — still hit hard a dozen years later.

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