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ROBERT BROOKS WAS SERVING A 12-YEAR SENTENCE AT THE MARCY CORRECTIONAL FACILITY IN NEW YORK WHEN HE WAS BEATEN AND CHOKED BY A SQUAD OF PRISON GUARDS. HE DIED DEC. 10.
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PRISON GUARD 'BEAT-UP SQUAD’ KILLED ROBERT BROOKS, OPERATED FOR YEARS, ATTORNEY GENERAL LETITIA JAMES'S OFFICE KNEW IT
2023 DEPOSITION IN FEDERAL CIVIL RIGHTS LAWSUIT WARNED STATE OFFICIALS OF PRISON GUARD ‘BEAT-UP SQUAD’ THAT KILLED ROBERT BROOKS
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CRAIG NEWMARK WATCH DAY 1
Teenagers were sold to men to rape on the Internet website that bears his name, Craigslist, and Craig Newmark's response was to defend his Cyberspace empire by falsely alleging journalists reporting it committed ethics violations. Now he’s reshaping journalism with millions of dollars in donations to news organizations, colleges and institutions.
THE PIMP IN THE NEWSROOM
Teenagers were sold to men to rape on the Internet website that bears his name, Craigslist, and Craig Newmark's response was to defend his Cyberspace empire by falsely alleging journalists reporting it committed ethics violations. Now he’s reshaping journalism with millions of dollars in donations to news organizations, colleges and institutions.
ENVIRONMENTAL ICON JOHN MUIR’S SECRET WHITE SUPREMACIST CABIN: 2 OF 2
JOHN MUIR'S 'IMMORTAL SOUL SYMPATHY' WITH HENRY FAIRFIELD OSBORN AND THE HUDSON VALLEY CASTLE THAT HELPED BIRTH HITLER
ENVIRONMENTAL ICON JOHN MUIR’S SECRET WHITE SUPREMACIST CABIN: 1 OF 2
JOHN MUIR'S 'IMMORTAL SOUL SYMPATHY' WITH HENRY FAIRFIELD OSBORN AND THE HUDSON VALLEY CASTLE THAT HELPED BIRTH HITLER
THROWBACK THURSDAY: August Rebellion: New York’s Forgotten Female Prison Riot
This week’s Throwback Thursday feature is a report I published in the Village Voice in 2016.
THE SECRET WHITE ‘SLAVE’ REVOLT THAT SPARKED THE REAL AMERICAN REVOLUTION: PART 2 OF 2
Farmers and native American allies rebelled against slave-like conditions on massive manors owned by a wealthy, privileged few and laid siege to New York City in 1766.
THE SECRET WHITE ‘SLAVE’ REVOLT THAT SPARKED THE REAL AMERICAN REVOLUTION: PART 1 OF 2
Farmers and native American allies rebelled against slave-like conditions on massive manors owned by a wealthy, privileged few and laid siege to New York City in 1766.
THROWBACK THURSDAY: HOW NY PRISON ‘SLAVE LABOR' POWERS A $50 MILLION MANUFACTURING ENTERPRISE
“In 2010 when the Syracuse Post-Standard visited New York’s maximum-security prison in Auburn to report on Corcraft’s license plate franchise, one prisoner working on the assembly line “called out that working on the line is ‘slave labor.’”
RIKERS’ PLAN TO BAN LETTERS WILL KILL: ONE PRISONER’S STORY
City officials want to replace letter mail in city jails with scanned electronic messages. That’s inhumane, and adds to the misery New Yorkers already suffer on Rikers Island.
HOW ANNA WINTOUR MADE A JOBLESS EX-CONVICT A JOURNALIST
FASHION WEEK 2006 WAS OLD NEW YORK IN FULL EFFECT
STRANGELOVE IN ALBANY: HOW I LEARNED TO STOP WORRYING AND LOVE NY'S WILD & CRAZY PROGRESSIVE BUDGET
ANNUAL BUDGET ANARCHY IN ALBANY IS PROGRESSIVE DEMOCRACY IN ACTION
INSIDE THE LONGSHOT REPUBLICAN LAWSUIT TO MAKE HECTOR LASALLE NY'S NEXT TOP JUDGE
COURT FIGHT OVER NEW YORK'S NEXT TOP JUDGE PITS DEMOCRATIC GOVERNOR WITH REPUBLICAN ALLIES AGAINST FELLOW DEMOCRATS
THROWBACK THURSDAY: THE END OF THE 'LOBSTER TRICK’ AND THE SLOW DEATH OF 24/7 NYC JOURNALISM
Throwback Thursday with this banger from 2019.
NYPD TO SILENCE POLICE SCANNERS, WON’T COMMIT TO JOURNALIST ACCESS
NYPD to digitally encrypt radio transmissions journalists rely on to independently gather news as it is happening, making them and public dependent on police for information after the fact. Part 2 of 2
JOURNALISTS REVEAL DRAMATIC RACE TO BEAT POLICE TO ERIC GARNER VIDEO
How a police scanner kick-started Black Lives Matter and why it matters now. Part 1 of 2.
ANTIFA SPY OR JOURNALIST?: THE GIG ECONOMY AND THE CAUTIONARY TALE OF TALIA JANE
The independent journalist and the duty to be fair, impartial and truthful.
ODE TO RAY’S CANDY STORE, LOWER EAST SIDE, NEW YORK
“It's easy to forget after the high-living Sex-and-the-City years when champagne flowed in the gutters instead of blood, but the streets of New York can be merciless.”
WHY IS ‘GREEN’ NY GOV. HOCHUL REBUILDING A LOGGING ROAD THROUGH THE ADIRONDACK’S MOST-TREASURED WILDERNESS?
The New York Forest Preserve includes the largest wilderness east of the Mississippi and is required by the State Constitution to be kept “Forever Wild.”
NEW YORK CITY SNOW STORMS, 2004-2016
Snow is what you’re missing. Snow is what we got. The Free Lance is your snow connection. Let it snow.
HOW THE SUPREME COURT KILLED TYRE NICHOLS BEFORE HE WAS BORN
The Supreme Court and the culture of police impunity its qualified immunity doctrine created is the real reason five cops felt they could kill Nichols on a public street, in front of cameras, and get away with it.