David Stone
Founder & Euro Editor
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December 2, 2025
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“No One Took Us Seriously”: Black Cops Warned About Racist Capitol Police Officers for Years
ProPublica is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative newsroom. Sign up for The Big Story newsletter to receive stories like this one in your inbox. This story originally appeared in ProPublica. by Joshua Kaplan and Joaquin Sapien/ProPublica When Kim Dine took over as the new…
For New Yorkers Brutalized in Black Lives Matter Marches, Response at Capitol Brings Disbelief and Bitterness
Rachel Holliday Smith and Eileen Grench, THE CITY This article was originally publishedon Jan 6 at 10:06pm ESTby THE CITY For many Americans, Wednesday’s insurrection at the Capitol proved shocking. For many New Yorkers who were harassed, arrested or brutalized…
Black Men Have the Shortest Lifespans of Any Americans. This Theory Helps Explain Why.
ProPublica is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative newsroom. Sign up for The Big Story newsletter to receive stories like this one in your inbox. This story was originally published by ProPublica. Republished with Permission: The Roosevelt Island Daily News by Joseph Singer, Nadia…
How COVID-19 Hollowed Out a Generation of Young Black Men
This story was originally published by ProPublica. ProPublica is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative newsroom. Sign up for The Big Story newsletter to receive stories like this one in your inbox. By by Akilah Johnson and Nina Martin/ProPublica The Rev. Dr. Kejuane Artez Bates…
Water, but not everywhere: Research sheds light on race and water access in metro areas
By Clark Merrefield Originally published in Journalist’s Resource Republished with Permission: The Roosevelt Island Daily News November 24, 2020 An estimated 1.1 million people living in the U.S. report lacking some access to running water in their homes, with nearly three-quarters…
NYPD Cops Cash In on Sex Trade Arrests With Little Evidence, While Black and Brown New Yorkers Pay the Price
One summer night in 2015, a community college student was driving home through East New York in Brooklyn when two women on a street corner waved for him to stop. He thought they might need help, so he pulled over…
CUNY’s STEM Graduates Nearly Double in a Decade but Disparities Persist, Study Finds
Gabriel Sandoval, THE CITY This article was originally published on Nov 24 at 10:00am EST by THE CITY Graduates of science and tech disciplines nearly doubled in the last decade at the public City University of New York, but racial…
Billy Eckstine’s Mirror, A Dark Image of Race in America
Billy Eckstine’s Dark Mirror, 70 years later, tells us how raw bigotry wrecked his career. The most popular singer in the country crossed a phony racial line and was brought down, based on skin color alone. Reporting by David Stone…
There are no races, never were. Period. End of story…
There are no races, and sadly, we know but ignore that established fact… at at our own expense. Reporting by David Stone Assorted Ideas, Large & Small As a journalist, founding editor and publisher of The Roosevelt Island Daily, I trust…
Behind the Counter, a New Political Force Takes On The New York Post and Trump
Behind the counter, a new political force… Yemeni-American bodega owners in New York City organized a boycott of the newspaper over what they see as anti-Muslim bias.
David Stone
Founder & Euro Editor