Aging
Ex-boxer aids residents of his boyhood, Brooklyn neighborhood
By Jaxon Gay Before Shannon Briggs was “The Cannon,” a World Boxing Organization heavyweight champion, he was just a kid growing up in the 1980s and ‘90s in a rough, tough Brownsville, Brooklyn neighborhood. He’d never met his father. Before a heroin addiction derailed his mother’s life, she had enrolled him in private school. To […]
‘Griot Circle’ is a haven for Black LGBTQ elders
By Justus Wilhoit The night they met in 2005, Regina Shavers offered Sandie Green an opportunity. Green, queer and Black like Shavers, immediately agreed to volunteer — on a full-time basis — to organize what now is a 30-year-old center reserved for LGBTQ people who look like them. “It’s very hard when it comes to […]