The team's formal attire will be black and white ... but they are officially the Brooklyn Nets," said Ratner, who faced both legal and political resistance to the building of the arena and ...

Brooklyn’s schools did not admit Black pupils, many adults could not read and ... Many of Bedford Stuyvesant’s established white churches sold their buildings to African American congregations and ...

meaning liberal white people living in 19th-century Manhattan would give the first lot of money to the African school system. In Brooklyn, it was a Black-led initiative. By the mid-19th century ...