In 1976, longtime Village Voice columnist Nat Hentoff looked at the state torturing and killing its own citizens under the Shah of Iran.

A 1976 article from the Village Voice archive exposed the fact that Marion Javits, wife of the powerful U.S. senator, was lobbying for Iran.

A 1976 article from the Village Voice archives looks at a Star Trek convention held in midtown, 10 years after the show debuted on TV.

The day after the German Reichstag was severely damaged by fire, in 1933, Adolf Hitler’s Nazi party, which had received only one-third of the popular vote a few months before, rammed through a decree ...

February is Black History Month, and while certain autocrats in power would like to undo that celebration, the Brooklyn Museum is honoring BHM in the return of “First Saturdays, ...

From the moment Caireen starts talking, you’re not sure if she’s here to seduce you or just absolutely roast your prudish Aunt Linda. She does that very Canadian thing of acting wholesome while saying ...

Confession time: watching this inked goddess feels a bit like I’ve stumbled into something I shouldn’t have, which only makes it better. Her tattoos aren’t random filler, each one feels meticulously ...

Plaster casts of Leonard Nimoy’s head crowded one display table. Life-sized posters of William Shatner striking various heroic poses covered the walls. The air was filled with a cacophony of ...

Who defeated Charles Van Doren? / Which movie won the Oscar for Best Picture in 1955, and why did Herbert Stempel have to pretend that he didn’t know? / What did President Eisenhower call “a terrible ...

Clockwise from upper left: George Gershwin dazzled, Gil Scott-Heron presaged rap, Jennifer Lopez brought a Latin sound to poppy r&b, and Sonny Rollins found bliss beneath the Williamsburg Bridge.