LES Black & Red by artist Dennis RedMoon Darkeem was created to honor Black and Indigenous histories of the Lower East Side. The project includes four ‘light boxes’ each...
by Imani Vieira as part of a series honoring Black Histories in the LES Image: Five Points streets intersection painted by George Catlin in 1827 Five Points was the site of...
by Dakota Scott as part of a series to better know the history of policing in Lower Manhattan Since 1647, there have been paid and voluntary positions for white men...
by Dakota Scott for ReparationsNYC Too often New Yorkers look with horror at the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre or the Rosewood Massacre in Florida and allow themselves a bit of...
by Imani Vieira As part of a series honoring Black Histories in the LES Education for enslaved people in New York during Antebellum America was a rarity. But there were...
written by Dakota Scott as part of a series to better know the history of policing in Lower Manhattan Tammany Hall. The infamous political force. In 1798, the Tammany Society...
