Mara Silvers

Advocates say the Fair Housing Act of 1968 was a milestone, but housing discrimination is far from over.

This week, New Yorkers are voting on how they'd like to see city money spent on projects in their districts through Participatory Budgeting. And voters can be as young as 11 years old.

April 10th is Equal Pay Day, a reminder of the gender wage gap between the average American man and woman.

People in the Brooklyn neighborhood are calling for better community policing and accountability for the officers who shot Saheed Vassell. 

Police say 911 callers thought the man was brandishing a gun. He wasn't.

Hundreds of cities saw widespread protesting and violence after the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. was killed on April 4, 1968. Comparatively, New York City remained calm. 

A woman who says she was abused by a former teacher says New York state lawmakers need to pass the Child Victims Act.

Students at the New York Academy of Art work with the Medical Examiner's office to reconstruct faces of people who have gone missing.

The CEO behind The National Enquirer paid Karen McDougal for her story about her affair with the president, then intentionally didn't publish it.

A state law passed in 1971 shows the lack of black and Latino students in exam schools may not be an accident.

Yale's internal investigation process uses a lower standard of evidence than criminal trials, and is largely influenced by its campus culture of affirmative consent.

How #MeToo, #TimesUp, and #OscarsSoWhite factor into the contentious film competition. 

Miami-Dade Superintendent Alberto Carvalho reversed his acceptance of the job in a dramatic school board meeting in Florida.

A NY1 investigation shows that over 4,000 people from upstate prisons went into city shelters last year, almost double the number from 2014. 

Gun legislation is taking center stage in the wake of the mass shooting in Parkland, Florida.

Gov. Phil Murphy said the state will look into how tips are reported to, and reviewed by, law enforcement, and he also urged state lawmakers to craft gun control and safety bills.

Hundreds of drivers say they have been charged fines for tolls they had already paid.

The FDNY said two people have been taken to Bellevue Hospital in serious condition after a metal step fell seven stories. 

Mayor Bill de Blasio and the City Council say the new plan is a major step toward closing the jail complex.

A cluster of new lawsuits in Nassau and Suffolk challenge whether state law allows local law enforcement to hold immigrants wanted by Immigration and Customs Enforcement.