‘Paint Me a Road Out of Here’: Faith Ringgold’s Gift to Prisoners
In 1971, the artist Faith Ringgold received a grant to make a painting for a public institution in New York City. She decided to ask the prisoners in the Women’s House of Detention on Rikers Island ...
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The Fate of Faith Ringgold’s Rikers Mural Is More Complicated Than You Think
The new documentary "Paint Me a Road Out of Here" details the history of a painting by Faith Ringgold, created for the Rikers ...
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Two charged in Flushing hit-and-run
A Queens woman who allegedly was driving the rental truck that killed Flushing resident David Opiela in a hit-and-run wreck ...
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New York Mayoral Candidates All Strut Their Green Credentials
Five of the Democratic candidates in New York City’s mayoral race committed at a forum Thursday night to shut down a ...
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Handcuffs and beach clean-ups: a Cuban migrant's seven months in Guantanamo Bay
Yeilis Torres, a 38-year-old Cuban woman, knows all too well the loneliness and anguish facing the migrants flown by the ...