Tag: Brooklyn

  • Episode 12: Brooklyn Underhill Stories: All Global Soul

    A long time resident on Brooklyn’s Underhill Avenue shares story of Cheryl’s Global Soul: a small-minority-woman-LGBTQ owned business is the heart of a block “making it” despite no start-up capital, gentrification and a pandemic. “Our windows framed Underhill Avenue. We saw everything. Cars lost tires & hubcaps, shots fired, Labor Day eating roti, goat &…

  • Episode 11: Daughter of Brooklyn Finds the Circus

    Past stories that inform present life on Underhill Avenue & Eastern Parkway – artists, entrepreneurs, a changing community. A black Brooklyn woman becomes an international circus star. Susan is an aerial artist, dancer and choreographer, an international circus star, a black woman who went to Brooklyn public schools, graduated from Stanford University and worked on…

  • Episode 11: Daughter of Brooklyn Finds the Circus

    The Usable Past explores past stories that inform the present. Brooklyn Underhill Stories are about life on Underhill Avenue and Eastern Parkway including artists, entrepreneurs, a changing community. A black Brooklyn woman becomes an international circus star. Susan is an aerial artist, dancer and choreographer, an international circus star, a black woman who went to…

  • Episode 9: Brooklyn Moves Water

    For 20+ years, a diverse community of Brooklyn women (and a few men), have learned from Torello Cabrol how to build a community workout with love, care and respect for each other.