In 1953, Wesley McDonald Holder, an advisor in the Brooklyn District Attorney's office, decided to get involved in the borough's Democratic Party organization and...
In the 21st-century world of social networks, messaging apps, and viral videos, it's hard to remember a time when people weren't programmed to record...
The United States Department of Justice has charged three men with conspiring to murder an Iranian-American writer and activist known for speaking out against...
While gangs certainly existed in Brooklyn before the fifties, the emergence of teenage gangsters was a frightening, new, and previously unseen phenomenon. Brooklyn had...
The founders of the Brooklyn-based grassroots political organization, the New Kings Democrats, were Rachel Lawler and Matt Cowherd. Following the 2008 election campaign, which...