Help us raise $20,000!

At Prism, we’re proud to go where justice requires; now, we need your help to grow where justice requires by setting up our truth-seeking & independent journalism to continue growing. When you invest in Prism with a donation during this end-of-year season, you’re helping us grow our grassroots, community-based journalism and plant the seeds for the media landscape we want to inhabit.

With the help of Newsmatch, by donating today you can triple your impact!

Donate today, triple your impact!
  • Subscribe
  • Donate
  • Race
  • Economy & Workers’ Rights
  • Gender & LGBTQIA+
  • Immigration
  • Crime, Reform & Abolition
  • Politics & Democracy
  • Climate & Environment
  • Education
  • Health
  • Movement for Palestine
  • The March Continues
  • Abortion Rights Post-Roe
  • COVID-19
  • Disability Justice
  • Right to Write Project
  • Facebook
  • Twitter
  • Instagram

About

  • Mission & Vision
  • Who We Are
  • Ways to Give
    • Membership
    • Our Supporters
  • Jobs
  • Call for Pitches
  • Code of Ethics
  • Distribution Guidelines
  • Community Guidelines
  • Events
  • Reflective Journalism Project
  • Right to Write Project

Focus

  • Race
  • Crime, Reform & Abolition
  • Gender & LGBTQIA+
  • Immigration
  • Economy & Workers’ Rights
  • Politics & Democracy
  • Climate & Environment
  • Education

Sections

  • News
  • Opinion
  • Explainers
  • Culture
Skip to content
  • Movement for Palestine
  • The March Continues
  • Abortion Rights Post-Roe
  • COVID-19
  • Disability Justice
  • Right to Write Project
  • Facebook
  • Twitter
  • Instagram
Prism logo

Prism

Justice Requires the Full Story

  • Subscribe
  • Donate
  • Race
  • Economy & Workers’ Rights
  • Gender & LGBTQIA+
  • Immigration
  • Crime, Reform & Abolition
  • Politics & Democracy
  • Climate & Environment
  • Education
  • Health

Tag: Brooklyn

Posted inOpinion

New York City landlords benefit when renters don’t know their rights

by Jenika McCrayer June 20th, 2023November 27th, 2023

In a housing crisis created by the unmitigated greed of corporate property owners and landlords, tenants need to know their rights

a photograph of a crowd of protesters facing to the right of the camera. they hold signs saying "shut them down" and "people over profits"
Posted inEconomy & Workers' Rights

Brooklyn housing advocates sustain models of care beyond displacement

by Frances Nguyen November 9th, 2022May 8th, 2023
Posted inEconomy & Workers' Rights

Deed theft in Brooklyn targets the most vulnerable

by Mikhal Weiner August 8th, 2022August 15th, 2022
Posted inCrime, Reform & Abolition

Abolitionists push back against New York City’s proposed plan for a ‘feminist jail’

Tamar by Tamar Sarai July 7th, 2022July 7th, 2022
Posted inEconomy & Workers' Rights

I resigned from Trader Joe’s after watching the company fail its workers, but I’m still advocating for change from the outside

by Noella Williams June 14th, 2022June 15th, 2022
From arbitrary judgment calls to material bans, information censorship protects the carceral system at the expense of the incarcerated
Posted inCrime, Reform & Abolition

Incarcerated people have few ways to fight back against censorship in prisons

Tamar by Tamar Sarai March 23rd, 2022March 23rd, 2022
Posted inRace

Brooklyn pop-up bookstore The Garden provides fertile ground for abolitionist education and community building

Tamar by Tamar Sarai January 19th, 2022January 24th, 2022
Posted inRace

Reclaiming history, renaming the world

Tamar by Tamar Sarai August 18th, 2021August 24th, 2021
Posted inRace

As NYC officials eye an enslaved African burial ground for real estate, community organizers demand preservation

Tamar by Tamar Sarai July 23rd, 2021July 23rd, 2021
moms.jpg
Posted inUncategorized

Sisters who lost their mother to COVID-19 now demanding justice for senior citizens

Tina Vasquez headshot by Tina Vásquez May 8th, 2020April 15th, 2022

Categories

  • Race (767)
  • Politics & Democracy (417)
  • Gender & LGBTQIA+ (407)
  • Crime, Reform & Abolition (359)
  • Economy & Workers' Rights (288)

Tags

  • News (876)
  • Opinion (256)
  • COVID-19 (220)
  • Feature (196)
  • racial justice (163)

Year

  • 2023 (346)
  • 2022 (423)
  • 2021 (387)
  • 2020 (489)
  • 2019 (101)

Our Latest Stories

  • Columbia University student activists say they won’t be deterred after school suspends pro-Palestine student groups December 4th, 2023
  • Animal Legal Defense Fund and ALDF United ratify their first collective bargaining agreement December 4th, 2023
  • Palestinian authors grapple with a wave of censorship November 30th, 2023
  • Why I am renouncing my Israeli citizenship November 30th, 2023
  • Wartime propaganda experts explain why Israel’s social media strategy is targeting the West November 29th, 2023
  • Flint searches for environmental justice 10 years after water crisis November 29th, 2023

Sign up for our newsletter to get updates that make you think and act—directly to your inbox.

By clicking submit, you agree to share your email address with the site owner and Mailchimp to receive marketing, updates, and other emails from the site owner. Use the unsubscribe link in those emails to opt out at any time.

Processing…
Success! You're on the list.
Whoops! There was an error and we couldn't process your subscription. Please reload the page and try again.

Categories

  • Race (767)
  • Politics & Democracy (417)
  • Gender & LGBTQIA+ (407)
  • Crime, Reform & Abolition (359)
  • Economy & Workers' Rights (288)

Tags

  • News (876)
  • Opinion (256)
  • COVID-19 (220)
  • Feature (196)
  • racial justice (163)

Year

  • 2023 (346)
  • 2022 (423)
  • 2021 (387)
  • 2020 (489)
  • 2019 (101)
  • Facebook
  • Twitter
  • Instagram

Sections

  • News
  • Opinion
  • Explainers
  • Culture

Focus

  • Race
  • Crime, Reform & Abolition
  • Gender & LGBTQIA+
  • Immigration
  • Economy & Workers’ Rights
  • Politics & Democracy
  • Climate & Environment
  • Education

About

  • Mission & Vision
  • Who We Are
  • Ways to Give
    • Membership
    • Our Supporters
  • Jobs
  • Call for Pitches
  • Code of Ethics
  • Distribution Guidelines
  • Community Guidelines
  • Events
  • Reflective Journalism Project
  • Right to Write Project
© 2023 Prism. Proudly powered by Newspack by Automattic Privacy Policy