Word: brooklyn
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...year later. While going over his parents' effects and papers he discovered, among the many things they had saved, family letters dating as far back as 1855. Eventually he put nearly everything into two boxes -- the dad museum and the mom museum -- and hauled them back to his Brooklyn apartment. These papers led him to take trips across the country to look at old houses and churches and to interview relatives. The process took years -- Frazier does not say it obsessed him, but his descriptions of his pursuit have that feel about them -- and Family is the result...
Zola B. Mashariki, a first-year law student, said that after seeing her parents battle for civil rights and her brother struggling through a Brooklyn high school, she felt indebted to use her education to help the Black community...
...Brooklyn-born Alvin Singleton, 53, also comfortably bridges the gap between European and black forms, though many of his pieces explore black themes. His orchestral composition Even Tomorrow, for example, is an homage to Thurgood Marshall, but the music itself is strictly formal in style...
Preston, the final panelist, offered a personal account of her life. She grew up in a public-housing project in Brooklyn, she said, and still lives in the same neighborhood...
...commemorate the start of the World Cup soccer tournament in America, the government of Norway gave an elaborate gift to Red Hook, an American neighborhood in Brooklyn, New York. Norway Field was a miniature soccer green with a high-performance artificial all-weather surface, which the Norwegian government wanted placed in an underprivileged neighborhood...