Michael McShane asked his students their favorite color on the first day of school. Some students gave him blank stares; one immediately responded: “Pizza.”
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October 3, 2013September 30, 2019Brooklyn Life
Hard Day at a Murder Trial: a Family Hears the Witnesses
Yonette Newton and Yootha Pierre, mother and aunt of Natisha Barrow, still live in the Flatbush building where Barrow was murdered in 2011. Newton has been caring for her granddaughter, Aaliyah, since Barrow’s death 2 ½ years ago. Newton keeps family pictures of Barrow and Akeem Deane—Barrow’s accused murderer and the father of Barrow’s child—in...
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August 29, 2013September 30, 2019Brooklyn Life
Tenants displaced from collapsing Bushwick building
Tenants displaced from collapsing Bushwick building