Shortly before dying, Rubin (Hurricane) Carter made one last plea for the Brooklyn district attorney to revisit the 1986 murder and kidnapping conviction of David McCallum, who says he is innocent.

The Story Behind “Hurricane” by Bob Dylan When Dylan wrote the song, Carter had not yet been freed from prison. Carter was found guilty in 1966, and Dylan released the song in 1975.

In 1984, they began their Carter Work Project, which was a weeklong event to help families in need of safe, affordable housing. In 2008, three years after Hurricane Katrina, the Carter Work ...

Selwyn Raab, an investigative journalist whose reporting into wrongful prosecutions helped overturn the murder conviction of boxer Rubin “Hurricane” Carter and cleared another suspect in a ...

Rubin will test its systems throughout most of 2025 and plans to begin the LSST survey late this year or in early 2026. Twelve to 14 months later, the team expects to reveal its first data set.

Megan Thee Stallion’s defamation lawsuit against blogger Milagro Gramz sparks a free speech debate reminiscent of the controversy surrounding Bob Dylan’s “Hurricane” and Rubin Carter’s ...

Jennifer Rubin is a columnist for The Washington Post and commentator for MSNBC. Once upon a time she was considered a conservative writer—indeed, her hiring by The Post in 2010 was met with ...

Over the decades, the commune bought or rented mansions in some of Toronto’s toniest neighborhoods. And it spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on Rubin Carter’s case during the 1980’s.

The fight to free Rubin "Hurricane" Carter and John Artis, who were convicted in 1967 of the murder of three people at a New Jersey bar, was even longer and more complex.

Scientists have predicted they could soon be awash with data about thousands of new brown dwarfs, thanks to the decade-long LSST, which will be conducted by the Vera C. Rubin Observatory. Rubin is ...

I’m talking about the award-winning film The Hurricane. This 1999 feature chronicles the plight of Rubin “Hurricane” Carter, a middleweight boxer wrongfully convicted of murder.