The Institute for State and Local Governance at the City University of New York (CUNY ISLG) released a significant new report on Thursday, supported by Arnold Ventures, scrutinizing the real-world ...

Governor Kathy Hochul sometimes reminds me of my first teachers, the mostly Irish nuns from the Dominican Sisters order who ran the Annunciation School on West 131st Street in Harlem in the 1960s. I ...

The rapper founded REFORM Alliance, a new criminal justice reform organization. Platinum-selling rapper Meek Mill appeared on "Good Morning America" Thursday and reflected on how the challenges he ...

This story originally appeared in New York Focus, a nonprofit news publication investigating power in New York. Sign up for their newsletter here. Before Governor Kathy Hochul released her proposal to ...

Voting rights for former inmates varies state by state. Philadelphia, PA -- The cell blocks at the Eastern State Penitentiary are empty now, and have been for years, but new voices filled the vaulted ...

New York's bail reform law has led to a decrease in bail-setting and pretrial detention, but bail has become less affordable and racial disparities persist, according to a new statewide report.

Several Democratic presidential hopefuls made stops in Atlanta this weekend at the Young Leaders Conference. They spoke with African American church leaders and to thousands of black millennials about ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Beyonce and Jay-Z arrive on the red carpet at the Costume Institute Benefit at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City on ...