A new documentary by Catherine Gund tracks the loss, painting over and recovery of Ringgold’s motivational composition “For ...

Faith Ringgold painted a vibrant mural at the Women’s House of Detention on Rikers Island. A few years later, it was ...

As the film tells it, the story of this mural is also that of the crisis at Rikers and of “prison” in spectacular decay — ...

Harvey Weinstein urged a New York judge on Wednesday to move up his April sexual assault retrial amid continued health issues and "medieval" conditions at New York City's Rikers Island.

Ringgold’s painting was not. It was Barbara Drummond, a correctional officer and a former volunteer at the Schomburg Center ...

which was created for the notorious prison at New York’s Rikers Island, a facility that has has proven increasingly deadly as it has become disastrously overcrowded. Advocates for reform have ...

“There are so many people suffering at Rikers Island. So many of the people I’m with in prison are going through ... and tormented scores of young women over the course of his career ...

Instead, her canvas — entitled “For the Women’s House” and installed at the prison in January 1972 ... specifically within Rikers Island, which New York City is required by law to ...

On Jan. 29, the ailing Hollywood producer asked a Manhattan judge to move up his retrial date because he doesn't know how long he can last on Rikers Island ...

“There are so many people suffering at Rikers Island ... 16 years in prison for those crimes. (Weinstein was also acquitted of one Los Angeles charge which involved one of the women who ...