The Village Voice's September 5, 1963, eyewitness report on the March On Washington and Martin Luther King's "I have a dream" speech.

But you can leave all such bluster behind this Monday by joining fellow New Yorkers in honoring the Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. at the Brooklyn Academy of Music. This 40th-annual MLK event will ...

Village Voice Choices recommends a benefit "Concert for Maternity Care in Ukraine," which will take place on February 1, 2026.

Given the lack of debate and discussion among educated blacks today, Harold Cruse’s remedies for the black intelligentsia’s failings seem more quixotic now than 20 years ago — particularly because ...

Brandon Teena (right) with Lana Tisdel in 1993. On December 31, 1993, a 21-year-old trans man named Brandon Teena was shot and stabbed to death near Falls City, Nebraska, by two other young men ...

The other day I was talking on the phone with a friend who hangs out on the CBGB scene a lot. She was regaling me with examples of the delights available to females in the New York subway system. “So ...

John Maynard Keynes was twitted with changing his mind. He replied, “When the facts change, I change my opinion. What do you do, sir?” My favorite example of a change of mind was Norman Mailer at The ...

On a gray, drizzly Friday in July, I joined Jeremiah Moss for a walk. We met at the Astor Place cube, as the artist Tony Rosenthal’s 1967 black Cor-Ten steel sculpture Alamo is known, in the shadow of ...

The citizen secures himself against genius by icon worship. By the touch of Circe’s wand, the divine troublemakers are translated into porcine embroidery. Dostoevsky’s Notes From Underground and its ...

The cake was a two-foot version of his face. The confectionary eyes were clear of the bloodshot coarseness that normally colors them, but the small, balding head still had the shape of a bullet. His ...

“Incident” looks at a police shooting through a prism of body-cam footage and surveillance video. That Morrison’s most overtly relevant work to contemporary U.S. society launched at rarefied festivals ...

[Editor’s note, May 7, 2024: Here at the Voice we’re thrilled that the great Greg Tate has been given a posthumous Pulitzer. We’re not as happy that the Pulitzer committee failed to note that so much ...