Ignored by the media and pushed aside by the police, families and supporters of Black women are building their own missing persons operations online. Source: New York Times
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The East Shaped Black Life in 1970s Brooklyn. A New Film Shows How.
By Gotham Rex on February 11, 2022
A documentary premiering this month chronicles the history and impact of The East, an organization and meeting place that served as a “microcosm of Black nationhood” in Central Brooklyn. Source: New York Times
BAM Taps Former Leader of Its Film Program as Its Next President
By Gotham Rex on February 8, 2022
Gina Duncan, who had been working at the Sundance Institute since 2020, will return to the Brooklyn Academy of Music to lead it out of the pandemic. Source: New York Times
Two Connecticut Officers Suspended Over Handling of Women's Deaths
By Gotham Rex on January 31, 2022
The mayor put the officers on leave over their handling of the cases of Lauren Smith-Fields and Brenda Lee Rawls, who died in Bridgeport, Conn., on the same day. Source: New York Times
The Art Design for Abolitionist Place in Brooklyn Moves Forward
By Gotham Rex on January 28, 2022
Despite an ongoing legal challenge, New York City is going ahead with a plan for artwork at a new park that will feature messages of social justice, not the statuary some had sought. Source: New York Times
Lauren Smith-Fields Was Found Dead. Her Family Had to Beg for Answers.
By Gotham Rex on January 27, 2022
Ms. Smith-Fields, 23, died in her Connecticut apartment in December after a date with a man she had met on Bumble. More than a month later, the police opened a criminal investigation. Source: New York Times
A Staunch Critic of the N.Y.P.D. Grapples With Deaths of 2 Officers
By Gotham Rex on January 26, 2022
Harlem Councilwoman Kristin Richardson Jordan, who has equated the policing system to slavery, is now considering how to deliver her message in a district mourning for two officers. Source: New York Times
Brooklyn Mourns the Sudden Closing of the Court Street Regal Cinema
By Gotham Rex on January 21, 2022
A rowdy movie house suddenly goes dark, inspiring an outpouring of dismay and reminiscences. Source: New York Times
7 Ways to Remember Martin Luther King in New York
By Gotham Rex on January 12, 2022
From in-person and virtual performances to exhibitions and tours, the city offers plenty of options for honoring the civil rights leader this year. Source: New York Times
What This Portrait of Mayor Adams's Mother Means to New Yorkers
By Gotham Rex on January 9, 2022
Dorothy Mae Adams-Streeter posed for a portrait at her 75th birthday party. Her image, floating in a brandy snifter, has a powerful resonance. Source: New York Times
Meet the Next Big Fashion Group
By Gotham Rex on December 16, 2021
Kerby Jean-Raymond has spent the last year and a half secretly trying to change the game for minority designers. Source: New York Times
Anthony Broadwater Was Convicted of Raping Alice Sebold. Then the Case Unraveled.
By Gotham Rex on December 15, 2021
Anthony Broadwater was exonerated in the 1981 rape of Ms. Sebold, now a best-selling author. When his lawyers saw the trial transcript, they could only wonder what took so long. Source: New York Times
Rev. C. Herbert Oliver, Civil Rights Activist, Dies at 96
By Gotham Rex on December 11, 2021
He helped focus the nation on bombings and police abuse in Alabama in the 1960s and, later, on problems with the education of Black students in Brooklyn. Source: New York Times
Ernesta Procope, Pioneering Black Insurance Broker, Dies at 98
By Gotham Rex on December 9, 2021
She broke ground in the business as a woman, too, and also in transplanting her firm from Brooklyn to Wall Street. Source: New York Times
In a Picture-Postcard New York Town, Racist Incidents Rattle Schools
By Gotham Rex on November 27, 2021
When students in Pittsford, a suburb of Rochester, returned to school in the fall, a disturbing video of a white student threatening to kill Black people renewed concerns about racism. Source: New York Times