Media Gallery
Superman celebrates its 75th anniversary this year with some ado, but for many, it’s impossible to think of the comics without remembering those laughably offensive chink villains from the earliest issues of Detective Comics. With Jerry Seigel and Joe Schuster’s ethnocultural Jewish heritage in the landscape, historians like to position their Superman in the archaeology of anti-fascism, but is the enemy of one’s enemy always our friend?
Professor Darren Reid made this bit of educational video to commemorate racism in the Golden Age of Superhero Comics. It’s incredibly slow and awkwardly soundtracked but as NBC says, “The more you know…”
“81 Bowery is their home and their only choice for a place to live.”
Maroosha Muzaffar talks to a taxi-dancer, who works at one of the many taxi-bars in Jackson Heights, Queens, where lonely immigrant men pay for a dance and a shot at love.
There are 42,000 cab drivers in New York City--and 82% of them are immigrants. Many from them from white collars jobs back in their home country.
Writer Katie Salisbury goes on a quest to Mission Chinese to check out the monster success of Asian hipster cuisine.
Kyla Cheung talks to Ashok Rajamani about his uniquely humor-filled memoir recovering from an aneurysm at the age of 25.