#Brooklyn Circle

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Ida B. Wells in Brooklyn

Just 30 years after the Civil War, the Gilded Age, with its emphasis on industrialization and progress, held a special promise for Black Americans. Ida B. Wells sought to realize that promise.

— By Cori Brosnahan | Published: February 2018 | November 04, 2023

On October 5, 1892, journalist and activist Ida B. Wells addressed a packed house at New York’s Lyric Hall. The subject was lynching. Wells had recently published an editorial that exposed the lies used to justify the loathsome practice. The white press had long maintained that lynchings were a response to the rape of white women at the hands of black men. After three of Wells’s friends were lynched in Memphis, she began to investigate the circumstances of their murders and of others. She found that the allegations of rape were false; rather, blacks were being lynched for things like registering to vote, starting businesses, or simply refusing to defer to whites in a manner they deemed acceptable. That night at Lyric Hall, Wells was there to share what she had learned.

The lynching editorial was in fact the reason that Wells was living in New York, rather than her home in Memphis, in the first place. Upon its publication, the offices of the Memphis Free Speech, the newspaper Wells co-owned, were destroyed and one of her partners was pistol-whipped. At the time, Wells was traveling, unaware of what was happening at home until she reached New York. Once arrived, she stayed, taking up residence in Brooklyn — at the time, its own city. Despite severe homesickness, she soon became involved in the area’s rich black cultural life.

The Gilded Age, with its emphasis on industrialization and progress, held a special promise for black Americans. Thirty years after the Civil War, they were going to school in record numbers. The illiteracy rate dropped precipitously, making way for a reading community large enough to support some 200 weekly black newspapers across the country. A rapidly growing number of lyceums sponsored lectures, discussions, and formal debates.

“In this period, we begin to see black consciousness being raised,” says historian Paula Giddings, author of Ida, A Sword Among Lions. “Black people are incredibly progressive because they think this enlightenment of society means the end of racism. The stakes are really high.”

It was at one of these lyceums, the Brooklyn Literary Union of the Siloam Presbyterian Church, that Ida debated Maritcha Remond Lyons, an assistant school principal. After the debate — apparently won by Lyons — Wells asked the older woman for public speaking tips. Through Lyons, Wells would be introduced to a circle of extraordinary women — journalists, educators, and reformers — who worked together to improve life for black Americans and women.

“This is a period where black women are moving into the public sphere and having their voices heard in ways that are unprecedented,” says Gidding. “They’re all trying to figure out what is the best, most effective representation. Wells’s anti-lynching campaign is a catalyst for them all coming together on this very important issue.”

Wells’s speech at Lyric Hall was a testament to their efforts. Proceeds from the event made it possible to publish Wells’s editorial as a pamphlet, which she dedicated to the “Afro-American women of New York and Brooklyn.” Wells would continue to spread her message on a lecture circuit, while black women’s groups continued to proliferate. Less than four years later, they would unite as the National Association of Colored Women's Clubs. Reflecting the spirit of self-empowerment and love for one’s community was its motto: “Lifting as we climb.”

Here are some of the Women in Ida B. Wells’s Brooklyn Circle:

1. Maritcha Remond Lyons

New York Public Library, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Photographs and Prints Division

Maritcha Remond Lyons taught in Brooklyn public schools for nearly 50 years. She was born in New York City, where her family’s home served as a stop on the Underground Railroad. After the racially-charged New York City Draft Riots in July of 1863, the Lyons family fled for safer ground. Maritcha’s parents sent her to Providence, Rhode Island, where segregation threatened to interrupt her education; the city had no high school for black students, and she was denied entry to the all-white high school. Lyons, just 16, successfully sued the state, and became the first black student to graduate from Providence High School in 1869.

Upon graduation, Lyons accepted a teaching job in Brooklyn. Over the next five decades, she would become an assistant principal. After helping to plan Ida B. Wells’s powerful anti-lynching testimonial, Lyons and Victoria Earle Matthews founded the Women’s Loyal Union of New York and Brooklyn, a club dedicated to civil rights and social service. Lyons would team up with Matthews again in 1897 to found the White Rose Mission, a shelter for young black, female migrants. The organization operated until 1984.

2. Sarah Garnet

New York Public Library, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division

Educator and suffragist Sarah Garnet was the first black female school principal in the New York City public school system. She was born in Brooklyn to a well-to-do family, the eldest of 11 and sister to Susan Smith McKinney, who would become the first black woman in the state of New York to earn a medical degree. She was 14 when she became a teaching assistant in 1845; she retired over 50 years later as a principal.

After her first husband died, Garnet married abolitionist and minister Henry Highland Garnet, who was appointed U.S. Minister to Liberia in 1881, but died two months into his posting. When Ida B. Wells met Garnet, she was living on De Kalb Avenue, where she hosted events like a black art exhibit that Wells reviewed. Garnet also ran a seamstress shop in Brooklyn for nearly 30 years. The shop would become a meeting place for members of the Equal Suffrage League, which she founded in the late 1880s. Garnet, who worked with white suffragists like the wealthy Alva Vanderbilt, was able to draw many black women into the movement. After the National Association of Colored Women Clubs was founded in 1896, she served as superintendent of suffrage.

3. Susan Smith McKinney

New York Public Library, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Photographs and Prints Division

In 1870, Susan Smith McKinney became the first black woman in New York state — and the third nationwide — to earn a medical degree. McKinney was born in Brooklyn to successful farmers; her sister was Sarah Garnet, who would become the first black female school principal in the New York City public school system. Initially, she studied music, but ultimately decided to pursue a career in medicine — perhaps inspired by the New York cholera outbreak of 1866 and the death of two of her brothers during the Civil War. She graduated as class valedictorian from the New York Medical College for Women in 1870.

McKinney ran a private practice in her home for 25 years, which was so successful that she opened up another office in Manhattan. Her practice focused on prenatal care and pediatrics, and she treated a diverse group of patients. In 1881, she co-founded the Brooklyn Women's Homeopathic Hospital and Dispensary to serve the black community. She also practiced at the Brooklyn Home for Aged Colored People, where she sat on the board. Active in the social issues of the day, McKinney was a member of the Women's Local Union, founded by Maritcha Lyons and Victoria Earle Matthews, as well as the Equal Suffrage League, founded by her sister.

4. Victoria Earle Matthews

Victoria Earle Matthews was a writer and activist, whose articles and short stories explored black struggle and identity. Matthews was born in 1861 to an enslaved woman and a white man — likely her master. After the Civil War, her mother brought her to New York City, where Matthews worked as a maid, but managed to educate herself in the library of one of her employers. As a young woman, she became a journalist and short story writer, and increasingly dedicated herself to the issues of suffrage and civil rights. It was Matthews who suggested that Ida B. Wells give an anti-lynching testimonial. Afterwards, she worked with Maritcha Lyons to establish the Women’s Loyal Union of New York and Brooklyn.

When Matthews’s only son died at the age of sixteen, she pledged to care for the children of others. She found ample opportunity to do so after an investigation into so-called “employment agents” revealed that the poor, young, black women they lured from the South to the North with the promise of work were really being handed over to brothels. To provide the young women with shelter, education, and services, Matthews teamed up with her friend Maritcha Lyons to found the White Rose Mission in 1897.

5. Ida B. Wells

Mary Garrity/National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution

Journalist and activist Ida B. Wells rose to national attention with her anti-lynching campaign, and spent the rest of her life fighting for the rights of black Americans and women. Wells was born into slavery in Mississippi just a few months before the Emancipation Proclamation. When she was a teenager, both of her parents succumbed to a yellow fever epidemic, leaving Wells in charge of her siblings. She raised them while working as a teacher, eventually moving the family to Memphis, where her aunt lived and the pay was better.

In 1884, Wells was on a train when the conductor demanded she give up her seat in the first-class ladies car and move to the smoking car. When she refused, she was dragged out of the car. Outraged, Wells wrote an article about the incident and successfully sued the Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad Company for violating the 1875 Civil Rights Act. When the railroad company managed to get the verdict reversed, Ida was left disappointed — but determined.

Wells soon began writing articles about race in black newspapers, and bought a share of her own, the Memphis Free Speech, in 1889. When one of her friends as lynched, Wells began an investigation into his killing and others. When she published an editorial on her findings, a mob destroyed the offices of her newspaper and pistol-whipped one of her partners. Wells, who had been traveling at the time, was effectively exiled, and took up residence in Brooklyn and then Chicago. She spent much of her time on the road, traveling throughout the country and in Europe on her anti-lynching campaign. A founding member of the NAACP, she also advocated for suffrage and urban reform.

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The Festival of Youth was a success! Lyric & Legend were allowed to make their mini vlog for Grandma and Grandpa. Bailey and Q did not avoid timeout, but managed to shorten their sentences. Rebi only got an attitude twice, and declared her love for Yamachan and her country.

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SLEEPY HALLOW SHARES NEW SINGLE "WINNERS IN PARIS"

Following a pivotal 2023 year that saw him release his acclaimed album,Boy Meets World, Brooklyn star Sleepy Hallow has just shared his new single “Winners in Paris” along with an accompanying music video via Winners Circle Entertainment/RCA Records. An uptempo, summer-ready track bolstered by its visual’s comedic narrative, the melodic song sees Sleepy Hallow toast to life’s finer things with a bold, poppy hook (“She says she a savage, she over 21 / See n—- in Paris, she says she wanna come”). Widely hailed as one of Brooklyn’s artists to watch, the track marks Sleepy Hallow’s first release since February’s 112-sampling “Cupid’s Guidance”, which HipHopDX hailed as a “vibrant and upbeat joint.” An artist who draws inspiration from pop stars like Ed Sheeran and Olivia Rodrigo as much as his early hip-hop influences, Sleepy Hallow is ushering in a new era with “Winners in Paris”, his second single of 2024, showcasing why Rolling Stone hailed him as an artist that’s “expanding the definition of drill rap.”

Sleepy Hallow first exploded onto the national stage in 2020 with RIAA Certified Platinum track “Deep End Freestyle” (600M streams) before making his major label debut with 2021’s Still Sleep?, which charted in the top 20 on Billboard and received praise from COMPLEX as a project that “sees Sleepy take a well-deserved victory lap.” The artist co-founded independent label Winners Circle Entertainment alongside fellow Brooklyn rap mainstay Sheff G and has continued to carve out his own lane as one of the scene’s rising stars ever since, receiving high honors from Billboard, HipHopDX, and BET as well as making appearances at Rolling Loud and Day N Vegas.

Most recently, Sleepy Hallow made waves with 2023 album Boy Meets World, which featured the likes of Marshmello, Fivio Foreign, and Lil Tjay and boasted hit tracks “Die Young” featuring 347aidan (530M streams) and “A N X I E T Y” featuring Doechii (124M streams). With over 2.5 billion streams and 427 million video views worldwide, Sleepy Hallow is continuing to cement his name as one of rap’s breakout stars as he prepares to release even more music in 2024.

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I want an episode of Korra but it’s just the safe house episode of Brooklyn 99 where Kevin is in danger so Holt puts him in a safe house and Jake stays with Kevin but then they dress up like perverts and go to a library. But instead of Brooklyn 99 characters, it’s Lin, Kya, and Korra.

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Advent Calendar: Day 16 @nytehavyn-circle​

When Beth asked Tolaas if he’d come and sing carols with her at the park, she hadn’t expected him to really say yes. He’s so much of an enigma to him as far as new friends go. Sometimes she wonders if he’s real or not. And to someone like her that isn’t insignificant. When she allows her awareness to blossom and reach out, she feels a sense of life shining through him and reaching back. Sometimes though there are parts of him and places that she can only describe as dark or empty, devoid of any sort of connection  She’s only brushed against that feeling once before in a Kindred friend of hers, one of the dead who still walks. Maybe a part of her is afraid to ask because she doesn’t want to know the answer. One of her sacred duties is to foster life wherever she can, to live within the laws of nature, and another is to fight against what is wrong or evil within those laws. So instead she tends to ask him other things. If he’d like to take in a movie ~and sometimes, explain what she missed through the dialogue when she doesn’t hear things right~ or if he wants to meet at the park and spend time with her by the lake, taking in the air of the Ramble, and the sunshine. Watch the ducks and the swans swim by. Not something that they can do in winter when ice begins to glaze the waters. Sometimes he agrees and brings his guitar. Sometimes Tolaas will sing. A comforting thing, one that reminds her of her brother, even if that’s almost as far as the resemblance goes. The other thing she hesitates on is the weapons. She’s keen eyed enough to make note of where he keeps his knives and the like, just as she’s sure he knows she keeps her athame ~her bone dagger~ against her thigh beneath her skirts. But yule celebrations, the solstice or winter holidays, are a time to rest and to treat one another with peace and kindness. She honours that by leaving hers at home, and watching him get ready, she doesn’t complain. Merely lifts a brow when it seems like he’s contemplating some far more serious hardware. After all, the worst possible case being around Sleepers is that maybe someone calls the cops, and things get dramatically out of hand from there. Alternatively, some other source of law enforcement ~the kind that come with mirror shades and trenchcoats~ decide to sanitise most of the park. And while Beth could absolutely bail him out in the first case, she’d really rather not risk the second. There’s rules, after all. And things only work out when everyone plays by them. Still, as they walk across the park, she winds an arm around his, pulling at one of the gloves she’s encouraged him to wear against the cold higher up on his wrist. “Mahalo for comin’ out wi’ me li’dis. Was a small kine surprise you said yes, but I’m really glad. Hopefully we don’ get snowed out tonight, yeah? What’s your favourite carol, ya t’ink?”

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1950s Brooklyn NY Park Circle Roller Rink Decal by Vinnie DeVille Via Flickr: Vintage unused 1950s Brooklyn NY Park Circle Roller Skating Rink Decal. Nice graphics and vintage advertising. It’s always a thrill when it’s from Vinnie DeVille!

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Passing under the Brooklyn Bridge at night Oct 31, 2022

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𝐒𝐮𝐦𝐦𝐚𝐫𝐲: 𝐘𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐂𝐥𝐚𝐲’𝐬 𝐩𝐚𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐬 𝐡𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐛𝐞𝐞𝐧 𝐞𝐧𝐞𝐦𝐢𝐞𝐬 𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞���� 𝐠𝐨𝐭 𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐨 𝐛𝐮𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐬𝐬 𝐛𝐮𝐭 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐂𝐥𝐚𝐲 𝐝𝐞𝐜𝐢𝐝𝐞 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐭𝐨 𝐛𝐞 𝐚 𝐩𝐚𝐫𝐭 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐢𝐫 𝐩𝐥𝐚𝐧𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐲𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐞

𝐖𝐚𝐫𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐬: 𝐏 𝐢𝐧 𝐕, 𝐮𝐧𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐭𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐞𝐝 (𝐳𝐨𝐧’𝐭 𝐳𝐨 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭!) 𝐚𝐥𝐦𝐨𝐬𝐭 𝐠𝐞𝐭𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐜𝐚𝐮𝐠𝐡𝐭, 𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐂𝐥𝐚𝐲’𝐬 𝐡𝐞𝐚𝐥𝐭𝐡, 𝐬𝐡𝐨𝐫𝐭 𝐚𝐟𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐜𝐚𝐫𝐞.

𝐏𝐚𝐢𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠: 𝐅!𝐑𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐞𝐫 𝐱 𝐂𝐥𝐚𝐲 𝐁𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐝

𝐀/𝐍: 𝐰𝐡𝐨𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫 𝐫𝐞𝐪𝐮𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐈 𝐥𝐨𝐯𝐞 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐬𝐦 𝐦𝐰𝐚𝐡! 𝐇𝐨𝐩𝐞 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐞𝐧𝐣𝐨𝐲💗

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“You are not serious right now.” You giggled as he moved on top of you, still inside of you. “Clayton.” You warned as he pressed his pelvis right against yours, slightly rocking the bed against the wall.

“Your mother will hear.” You gasped slightly as he hit a deep spot inside of you. “Clay.” 

He didn’t respond. The only thing that he did was softly place his thumb on your clit to rub gentle slow circles against your bundle of nerves. 

You heard the constant rocking of the bed against the wall, the concern inside of you growing with the pleasure that was building up in your lower stomach.

Lilith could walk upstairs any time she would like and there would be your good girl reputation laying in front of her legs.

“Clay.” You whined this time as he brought your hips closer to his while laying down his torso on top of yours, holding himself up by his hands.

“That’s it, Darling.” He said while speeding his movements up, making you moan into his mouth and grasp at his back.

You let out a cry, harder this time as you tried burying your face in his shoulder.

“Clayton is everything alright?” You heard Lilith’s voice echoing through the hall.

The sweat fell from your forehead down onto his skin from the sudden shock that earnt your ears. 

“Yes mother, don’t worry about it.” He replied casually as if he wasn’t just railing you on his bed.

“Stop.” You whispered as you heard her heels tapping against the tile that was set down in the corridor coming closer. “Please.” Your fingers squeezed his shoulders, but Clay smirked at you and lifted your hips up with his, grabbing a pillow and placing it under your bottom.

He then grabbed both of your thighs and lifted your legs up into the air, holding both of your ankles with his left hand.

“You sure? I heard panting. Did you take your pills this morning before work?”

“Yes. Don’t worry.” He responded while slowly sliding out of you but keeping his head in.

“Clay, I don't want you sick in this house.” Lilith’s voice showed concern as you were trying to keep your breaths steady.

“I’m completely and utterly healthy.” He started while slamming his entire length back into you.

You had to squeeze your eyes shut if you wanted to really stay quiet.

He slid out again.

“No.” You mouthed as if he could hear you.

“Don’t worry mom. Now I would need to finish one of my projects.” He said while you rolled your eyes, feeling him slam back into you.

A soft moan left your mouth and you immediately hid your mouth with one of your hands.

“Okay. I’m going to Brooklyn with Stephanie. Please make dinner until I get home.” Lilith said before you heard her heels clapping against the tile, distancing themselves from his room.

Clay smirked at you before slamming himself back again and letting your ankles go, laying himself on top of your torso as he kept his pace.

“Come on Sweetheart give it to me.” He said while you arched your back the moment he hit that deep spot inside of you.

“Clay.” You moaned. “Wait until she leaves.” You gasped and grabbed his shoulders again, your finely manicured nails pressing into his skin.

“I want to feel you now.” He said while his hand ran down on your stomach.

“Don’t..” You gasped when you couldn’t form your sentence because of his fingers circling slowly around your clit.

Clay heard the door being shut as his mother left the house, making him speed up his movements while you were panting under him, writhing and moaning his name.

“Come.” He whispered while aligning his face with yours. He pressed his lips against yours once again before your hands slid down on his biceps, squeezing the muscle hard as you eased up around him.

“That’s it.” He praised as you felt the fire pool down to your middle, the bubble of pure pleasure exploding inside of you as you threw your head back in ecstasy. 

“Y/N look at me.” He commanded as you tilted your head to look at his face, wanting to just kiss him and lay with him like this for the rest of your lifes.

You felt him easing up inside of you, sighing once you felt him coming. You then wrapped your arms around his shoulders, kissing his lips before rolling you over.

“Hey.” You said while grinning down at him.

He smiled.

“Hey pretty girl.” His hand stroked your back as you kept smiling at him.

You laid your head down on his naked chest as he pulled the covers over you, kissing the top of your head.

He nuzzled his nose into your head while you listened to the soft beats of his heart rate.

“I love you.” He murmured while hugging and pulling you closer.

“I love you more.” You said while smiling into his chest.

“Not possible.”

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Brooklyn Superstar Sheff G Releases Homecoming Single "Everything Lit"

Brooklyn rap cornerstone Sheff G has returned with new single “Everything Lit” produced by longtime collaborator Great John along with an accompanying video following an emotional homecoming in the wake of a grueling struggle with the New York legal system — out now via Winners Circle Entertainment/RCA Records. Propelled by triumphant lyricism and deep-toned 808s, Sheff G’s latest release sees the rapper take an impassioned victory lap as he makes his celebratory return to the Brooklyn rap scene. This also arrives on the heels of his long-awaited On The Radar Freestyle which was met with a thunderous appluase by fans. A pioneer of the borough's drill movement, Sheff G first began making music while he was still in high school. He quickly garnered buzz with his debut track “4 Them Racks”, a release that led to his 2017 breakout moment with explosive underground hit “No Suburban” (33M Streams). A strong run of releases followed, including his critically-acclaimed debut album One and Only, as he ascended through the genre’s ranks, collaborating with fellow rap mainstays A Boogie Wit da Hoodie (“Run It Up”), King Von (“PICASSO”), Eli Fross (“ISO”), Polo G (“On Go”), and Fivio Foreign (“Waiting”), racking up millions of streams and video views in the process.

Now at just 25 years old, Sheff G is already paying the way forward for the next generation of artists alongside longtime friend and collaborator Sleepy Hallow, with whom he co-founded independent label Winners Circle Entertainment. A community-oriented artist to the core, Sheff G is also dialed-in with his non-profit organization Love On Life Foundation, which he founded while still behind bars to address mental health and income disparities in his community.

“Now we can sign other artists and give people opportunities to feed their families also,” he explains. With new single “Everything Lit”, Sheff G is making up for lost time as he prepares to release the long-awaited follow-up to 2022’s From The Can later this year.

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