Austin Barron
Features
You Can Get There By Candlelight
Twelve years ago, Shin landed in the U.S, from South Korea, family in hand, with the plan stipulating that they would only be here a couple of months, but as these things often go, they decided to stay.
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The Chaotic Birth of a Coffee Shop
In February of 2020, after building the store front with his father, and only a few weeks before COVID, Lynch and the family finally opened Downtown Coffeehouse in the Lower East Side.
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Black photographer’s work reveals the power and beauty of Blackness
His models hold their heads high, often looking down the barrel of the lens, their faces stoic, powerful.
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Black New Yorkers Want Manhattan’s First Black District Attorney To Be ‘Tough’
Bragg, Manhattan’s first Black DA, is welcomed by many New Yorkers as being home-grown, and for confronting issues important to the community.
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Celebrating the Everyday Normalcy in Black Life
“But I think that once we start to see the normalcy in everyday life as the thread that connects us all, there will be less of a conversation about why it's important to show the differences in Black life as opposed to why it's important to show that Black people are human beings. ”