Last week, in the wake of protests over SOPA and PIPA, the controversial Internet anti-piracy legislation in Congress, Twitter released a database tha...
As a tide of poverty rises throughout the country, the Bronx stands out as a place where the waters have climbed especially high. So it's no great sur...
In early June, about three weeks before Beyonce's latest album came out, one of her songs, a collaboration with the rapper Andre 3000, made its way to...
Homeless kids have the right to an education. That's the basic rationale behind the McKinney-Vento Act of 1987, a law meant to ensure that homeless ki...
Every night, homeless shelters across the country turn away thousands of people seeking beds -- and not just because they're full, though they often a...
After the Apontes lost their Long Island home and moved into a motel, Yolanda and her husband began worrying about their youngest son, who had turned ...
In the last decade, the number of children living in areas of concentrated poverty grew by 1.6 million, according to a new study released by the Annie...
In early November, Nathan Kleinman, an Occupy protester in Philadelphia, received an email from someone named Michael Pollok who said he was part of a...
After hearing a Lin-related pun for the 500th time in about two weeks, I called Eddie Chiu, a community leader in Manhattan's Chinatown, who said he c...
NEW YORK -- In cities around the country today, hundreds of Occupy protestors gathered for what the movement described in a release as its "largest co...
