On Christmas Day, Richard Green, head of the Crown Heights Youth Collective, walked toward his rundown white van with a group of cops after giving out toys to kids at Brooklyn’s Kings County Hospital.

Around 20 masked activists stood on a street corner on Aug. 19 in Crown Heights, distributing fliers accusing “zionist white supremacists” of murdering a child whose accidental death sparked ...

NEW YORK • It was the most searing racial clash in a generation in the nation’s biggest city, spiraling out of the deaths of a black child and a Jewish doctoral student. Yet the 25th anniversary of ...

Brian Lehrer leads the conversation about what matters most now in local and national politics, our own communities and our lives.