Nikita Stewart

In “Live to See the Day,” the sociologist Nikhil Goyal tracks the lives of three teenagers as they try to balance school and survival in Philadelphia.

The move of 300 men to the upscale Upper West Side neighborhood led to complaints and the threat of a lawsuit.

How our day at the food pantry hit close to home. Plus, your questions about vaccine distribution, answered.

Thousands more New Yorkers have showed up at the city’s food banks since the pandemic began. As federal and city benefits are tied up in politics, New Yorkers are left to figure out how to get by.

1.5 million New Yorkers can’t afford food. Pantries are their lifeline. (Published 2020)

A novice camper needed a vacation. What are the options during the summer of Covid-19?

A Ferguson activist will lead the Children’s Defense Fund at a time when an impassioned civil rights movement is challenging racial injustice.

Children who lost their parents in the pandemic are fighting to hold on to what is left of their families.

The coronavirus has shattered the system that protects children, leaving some confined in troubled homes or lingering in foster care.

For some parents, work outside the home is impossible as they navigate complicated and frustrating systems for help. But they don’t have to go it alone.

Ms. Sanger, a feminist icon and reproductive-rights pioneer, supported a discredited belief in improving the human race through selective breeding.

Though black protesters have been heartened by the many white people joining them in the streets, some wonder if this newfound commitment will last.

Recent protests that have stirred a reckoning on racism helped bring thousands out to celebrate a holiday commemorating the end of slavery in the United States.

The confrontation between a black bird watcher and a white woman walking her dog reminded many black residents that a diverse city can also be hostile.

New Yorkers with no better place to go keep riding and sleeping on otherwise empty trains, stirring public health fears and prompting a nightly shutdown for cleaning.

The deaths revealed lapses in the monitoring of people sent to isolation, a critical part of the city’s efforts to slow the outbreak.

New York City’s pantries for low-income residents and meal-delivery services for shut-ins are dependent, now more than ever, on drivers who keep the food moving.

The virus is spreading where social distancing is nearly impossible. But there’s no staying at home when you do not have one.

Thousands of students living in shelters and doubled up in overcrowded apartments have not received web-enabled devices for online learning.

“Sometimes, the underdog gets their say, and it works out,” a supporter said of the fight for the rent-controlled unit.