Look Back: Feb '72 issue of Transitions Press, which featured this Art & Poetry supplement. Based out of the Langston Hughes Community Library, the local Corona/East Elmhurst newspaper focused on the Black community🤎
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😭 Federal agents busted into an #EastElmhurstQueens apartment early morning and pointed guns at a woman and her four children.
Agents came looking for a relative who no longer lived there and didn’t show a warrant or identify themselves.
www.nbcnewyork.com/queens/ice-a...
A father holds his toddler daughter in his arms - both are smiling.
A father in a jacket and tie holds his 1 year old daughter in is arms in front of a parking lot with the elevated tracks for the subway in the background.
A smiling dad holds his 3 year old son in a Ridgewood Queens backyard.
This Sunday, we're celebrating #FathersDay with 1980s Queens dads from #QPLarchives!
c. 1985: Father & daughter at Langston Hughes Library #EastElmhurstQueens
1985: James & Sarah Mott #WoodhavenQueens
1981: Bob & Rob Monahan #RidgewoodQueens
Happy Father's Day! #1980snyc