Faith Ringgold reached the height ... for anyone but the artist and the growing number of women prisoners on Rikers Island, the main holding site in New York City for those awaiting trial who ...

This briefing note seeks to provide a short overview of significant events in the preceding month, relating to Freedom Under ...

Jailed and disgraced movie mogul Harvey Weinstein is suing his brother and other executives at their now-defunct film company ...

That question inspired Alexandria Bellefleur to write her next romance novel (and her first paranormal!), The Devil She Knows ...

Faith Ringgold painted a vibrant mural at the Women’s House of Detention on Rikers Island. A few years later, it was ...

The Vatican decided to restore the ancient practice of permanent deacons after the Second Vatican Council in 1967 but ...

As the film tells it, the story of this mural is also that of the crisis at Rikers and of “prison” in spectacular decay — ...

Ringgold’s painting was not. It was Barbara Drummond, a correctional officer and a former volunteer at the Schomburg Center ...