Photographer: Bob Adelman
Two exhibits at the Bronx Museum of the Arts explore the civil rights movement — one though iconic and obscure documentary photos, the other through contemporary multi-media produced by artists born after the movement.
Opinions are mixed about whether pro-independence political prisoner Carlos Alberto Torres should receive a hero’s welcome when he was released from prison Monday.
Gov. Paterson is expected to sign a bill that would mandate that physicians routinely offer their patients HIV testing, a move that experts say would reduce the rate of infection.
About 150 residents gathered Wednesday evening to vent their frustrations with the police, in the aftermath of the stop-and-frisk scandal that recently surfaced in their precinct. Gov. Paterson signed into law a bill that would prevent police from retaining some of the information collected during their stops.
Thirteen housing activists were arrested Monday afternoon at a sit-in outside the office building of the New York City Housing Authority at 250 Broadway in lower Manhattan.
City Limits toured a few downtown cooling centers during today’s heat wave to find out what happens there.
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