New York Times

February 21, 2014
Ruth Lovelace

HIGH SCHOOL BASKETBALL; A Woman as Coach at Boys and Girls

In September 1994, Ruth Lovelace walked into the office of Frank Mickens, the principal of Boys and Girls High School in Brooklyn. Mickens was juggling a variety of tasks at his desk, the phone cradled to his ear as he pointed to a stack of résumés...
November 28, 2003
NYTimes Ali

COLLEGE FOOTBALL; A Player’s Perseverance Is Rewarded

Darting and sprinting up the block, the little boy with the miniature football was as familiar a sight as the cabs that zoomed through Park Hill Avenue, the main artery of the Park Hill housing projects on Staten Island. Immaculately attired in charcoal gray slacks, a silk shirt and navy blue Buster Brown shoes, 4-year-old Gary Ham Jr. was playing with friends outside his apartment building on a humid summer morning in 1987. He was waiting for a church van to take his family to a Sunday service...
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