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 ...

New Yorkers, however, long ago had their bullshit detectors redlined by the always self-promoting, self-dealing, and responsibility-dodging POTUS — he lost the city 70% to 30% in 2024 — and have never ...

The Village Voice reports on an evening of readings by young writers who have studied in the Cosmic Writers program.

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

→ This article from the archives is part of a series celebrating the Platinum Anniversary — 70 years! — of the Voice. The first issue hit the stands on October 26, 1955. ← Editor’s note January 6, ...

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 ...

The collective that created the Silence = Death poster is back after thirty years to recall its origins and launch new art This is a to-do list from 1986, written in the journal of Avram Finkelstein, ...

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 ...