by October Gallery
As calls to defund the police intensify across the United States in the wake of countless incidents of killing and military-style violence by police, art museums are facing a reckoning…
The sculptures of Ursula von Rydingsvard have always been somewhat enigmatic, towering structures made of wood—and sometimes other materials—that are at once poetic and deeply awe-inspiring. There’s a subtleness and…
Alex S. Vitale has had a busy week. The Brooklyn College professor and author of “The End of Policing,” and his academic peers, all experts in the history of American…
The daughter of slain civil rights icon Martin Luther King Jr. said Thursday that people are misconstruing his quotation about riots. In a “Tonight Show” interview about the mostly peaceful…
Donald Trump has not had a great year. It started with an impeachment trial, then a pandemic, and now widespread demonstrations against police brutality toward Black Americans. But hardly anyone…
The economic impact of coronavirus is hitting Black communities disproportionately hard. The Black unemployment rate was 16.7% in April, compared with 14.2% for white workers. Expect those numbers to get…
As protests prompted by the killing of George Floyd, a Black man, at the hands of a white Minneapolis police officer, continued this week, some state and local leaders are…
As unemployment rates increased due to the coronavirus pandemic, so too did the number of people relying on food pantries to survive. Over the past week, the destruction of property…
Sharpton announced the plan Thursday while delivering a eulogy for Floyd, a Black man who died last week after a white Minneapolis police officer knelt on his neck for nearly…
That they’re happening widely in the middle of a global pandemic only speaks more truth to the urgent need for change. The guidance around COVID-19 as it pertains to going…