‘A lack of openness’: Angela Beallor discusses organizing around police reform in Troy
Angela Beallor is currently the Documentarian in Community Co-Creation for MDOCS at Skidmore College. She has been involved with Reimagine Troy, a group formed last...
Sidewinder photog releases N-word apology, re-opens blog
WARNING: This article contains an uncensored racial slur. In an apparent reboot, Sidewinder Photography owner and self-identified journalist Jeff Belschwinder in a statement expressed penitence...
You could own an alt-right pastor’s church
It’s under $300,000. It’s refurbished with new heating, plumbing, and water systems. It’s known throughout the Capital Region for gun giveaways, hate speech, and politically-charged...
Despite calls for change, Troy’s old ways remain in police reform process
Last summer nearly 11,000 people — more than a fifth of the city’s actual population — took to the streets of Troy in a call...
Housing activists to remain under Troy landlord’s restraining order
Three of four women arrested at landlord Michael Ginsberg’s workplace in October while protesting an alleged eviction plead guilty to trespassing violations on Monday. Queena...
Troy judge shuns pleas to re-rent allegedly forced out tenant’s unit
Troy landlord Michael Ginsberg can’t get a new tenant in a vacant apartment formerly occupied by a 26-year-old single mother, as he is constricted by...
GALLERY: Protesters await Joe Abelove verdict in perjury, cover-up case
This article originally appeared on Them+Us Media Vehicles honked at a cluster of protesters, waiting for outside Rensselaer County Courthouse for word on the fate...
Troy 11-year-old wanted to ‘save the city’ months before his killing
This article originally appeared on Them+Us Media Seventy-six days before Ayshawn Davis was fatally shot, the 11-year-old boy stood against violence and hatred outside an...