The City Museum celebrates and interprets New York City, connecting its past, present and future. The Museum of the City of New York presents Jacob A. Riis: Revealing New York’s Other Half, a one-of-a ...

Photo by Jacob A. Riis. Image via Museum of the City of New York, Gift of Roger William Riis Today, most people probably know of journalist and social reformer Jacob A. Riis through the photographic ...

“I’ve been going to Jacob Riis Beach ever since my friend, Kenyon Farrow, a Black, queer activist, brought me there in 2005,” said activist and filmmaker Tourmaline of “The People’s Beach” of New York ...

Last month, we shared with you a curator walkthrough of the fascinating exhibit, Jacob Riis: Revealing New York’s Other Half at the Museum of the City of New York. Here are 10 highlights of the ...

Jacob A. Riis is known to many as the father of photojournalism and a muckraking reporter who exposed the plight of the urban poor in the late 19th century. Riis’ many published works drove a movement ...

Through photos and writings documenting poverty in New York City in the late 19th century, a Danish immigrant became a famous campaigner against... Jacob Riis: Shedding Light On NYC's 'Other Half' ...

Mae Ngai’s “The Chinese Question” looks at an issue that has disturbed the Anglophone world for decades, and continues to produce divisions today. By Yunte Huang A look at one of the entries that ...