Seven Decades

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

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

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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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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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.

Are you a loser on the slopes and between the sheets? Back in ’92, the Voice offered readers some gold medal advice.

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A couple of weeks after investigative reporter Jack Newhouse published a story about powerful New York senator Jacob Javits’s wife shilling for Iran, a Voice colleague laid out the facts about the regime’s terror.

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In America’s Bicentennial year, dogged reporter Jack Newfield revealed that Marion Javits was running PR cover for one of the world's most bloodthirsty despots.

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The ever-astute culture critic James Wolcott covered the fans, the stars, the ephemera, the merch, and the meaning of it all, live from the Statler Hilton in Midtown.

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In 1966 the civil rights leader faced down those who wanted to kill him.

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