Exclusive | Greenlanders speak out against Danish rule: ‘They stole our future’
NUUK, Greenland — Native Greenlander Amarok Petersen was 27 years old when she learned the gut-wrenching truth about…
Native American tribe claims part of Sunrise Highway illegal
A Long Island Native American tribe claims that part of Sunrise Highway was illegally built on its sovereign…
Twisted ‘time-out’ box in NY classroom for ‘special needs students’ spurs outrage: ‘This is sick’
Deeply disturbing photos of an upstate classroom’s wooden “time-out’’ box with bare walls and a padded floor surfaced…
Massapequa promises ‘fight’ isn’t over on school’s Chiefs mascot after court setback
Massapequa pledged to continue the “fight” to keep Chiefs as its school team name after a judge tossed…
A law license 176 years late for Ely Parker
Kathleen Sweet, president of the New York State Bar Association, issued a public statement on Friday on the…
The lawyer who literally wrote the legal terms for the end of the Civil War is finally a member of the New York State Bar, 130 years after his death
Ely Samuel Parker, a Seneca leader and Civil War officer who served in President Ulysses S. Grant’s cabinet,…
New York Faces Painful History as It Marks the Erie Canal’s Bicentennial
On an October morning in 1825, Gov. DeWitt Clinton of New York stood at the head of a…