On Wednesday night, rage, anguish and disbelief bubbled on the same sidewalks of New York City where a white police officer choked to death Eric Garner, a black man accused of selling loose, untaxed cigarettes.
We’ve partnered with Nitehawk Cinema for a series on journalists in film. Things kick off on May 27th with Haskell Wexler’s Medium Cool featuring a special recorded introduction by Robert Forster!
The history of Egypt’s revolution — and of the waves of repression that followed it — was written on the walls and streets of Cairo, but also those of Paris and Brooklyn.
Bed-Stuy’s Volunteer Ambulance Service
Brooklyn’s Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood is well past the notoriety it had in the 1980s and 1990s, when the area was neglected and crack dealers violently ruled the streets. Back then, two men began providing much needed help to their underserved community. The Bed-Stuy Volunteer Ambulance Corp was founded in 1988 by Captain James “Rocky” Robinson, an EMS tech, and Specialist Joe Perez. Rocky is still at the helm today, 26 years later, training a new generation to follow in his footsteps. With the community now much safer and better served, he has changed the BSVAC’s original mission of saving lives to changing lives — helping young men and women who may not have any other options receive free training and eventually find jobs in the medical field.