After decades of underground organizing for cultural expression and political agency, establishment funding is flooding the neighborhood. But with millions tied to the city’s borough-based jails plan, is the bankroll worth the price?
We didn’t think it possible, but 2021 has tried its best to outdo 2020. The year kicked off with an attempted overthrow of democracy and seems defined by the scope of realities illogically denied: election results, vaccine efficacy, climate change, institutional racism. At Next City, our reporters forgo the obvious stories that enumerate the wrongs. Instead, they acknowledge those wrongs, then flip the script to center the people who work to make cities places of collective liberation. Despite the year’s dark narrative, our journalists uncovered many inspiring stories, including the demonstrated success and gathering momentum of guaranteed income; the inroads made to lower rates of evictions and homelessness; and the power of people who organize to counter big corporations. Join a panel of Next City reporters as they dig into the powerful stories that inspired them this year, and the stories they can’t wait to unfold in 2022. This conversation, moderated b