Graduating students from the William Alexander Middle School in Park Slope await their cue to enter the graduation ceremony at the Brooklyn Academy of Music Brooklyn on Thursday, June 21, 2018. Doing push-ups at the corner of Hoyt Street and Bergen Street in Brooklyn on Friday, August 26, 2016. Siblings on Hoyt Street […]
I don’t remember all that much about first grade. But I do recall my mother telling Ms. Deshora at P.S. 102 that I would be missing another day of school because of complications from my asthma. I should have been playing with my friends, and learning how to read, but I was stuck at home […]
From the sports they should play to the careers they should pursue, young girls are often told what they can’t do. But in a new children’s book, “A Girl Like Me,” Park Slope resident Nina Crews shows them that not even the sky is the limit. Crews uses photographs of girls from multicultural backgrounds in […]