By: ROXANNA ASGARIAN | November 21, 2014 on JJIE.org I was 13, and my girlfriends and I had just begun to hang out with some older boys. It was the summer before the eighth grade, and they were 16, going to be juniors, and they had a car. We’d hang out late at night, each […]
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Harlem Raid Families from Both Sides Make a Plan
By: ROXANNA ASGARIAN | September 10, 2014 JJIE.org NEW YORK — It was early August, exactly two months after the largest raid in New York City history at the Grant and Manhattanville housing projects, when 20 people, mostly older folks, crammed into the Community Board 9 office in a tiny storefront in Harlem. Domino’s boxes were spread across […]
A Rigged System
Originally appeared in Bitch Magazine.
Aches and Pains Offer Window to Deeper Problems
July 28, 2014 3:40 pm By Roxanna Asgarian | VOICES OF NY Gloria Huh was 26 and juggling multiple jobs while earning her master’s degree in psychology at the University of Pennsylvania when she got a persistent twitch in her eye. She had been gaining weight, and her muscles ached. She went to her doctor, hoping to get a medical […]
The Two Sides of Raise the Age in New York
By: ROXANNA ASGARIAN | July 7, 2014 NEW YORK — It was the tail-end of rush hour on a Thursday in March, and commuters were packed tightly onto a Brooklyn bus in Bedford-Stuyvesant. Passengers included a woman with her two small children, a Brooklyn father on the way from one job to another, and a couple of kids […]
Kira Kazantsev of Manhattan named Miss New York 2014
Vocalist and future law student Kira Kazantsev took home the title of Miss New York 2014 Saturday night. Kazantsev will continue on to compete for the Miss America 2015 title, in hopes of giving the Empire State a third consecutive win. BY ROXANNA ASGARIAN NEW YORK DAILY NEWS Sunday, May 25, 2014, 1:53 AM The […]
Families Open Up About Trauma at Conference for Survivors of Institutional Abuse
By: ROXANNA ASGARIAN | May 12, 2014 in JJIE.org NEW YORK — Erica Harvey began displaying signs of mental illness in the eighth grade. Her mother, Cynthia, says Erica began cutting herself, became depressed and then suicidal, and started medicating herself with illegal drugs, which were made even more harmful by mixing with the psychotropic drugs she had […]
Connecticut a Model for New York to Raise the Age of Criminal Responsibility
By: ROXANNA ASGARIAN | March 26, 2014 in Juvenile Justice Information Exchange This story is part of a series on efforts to raise the age of criminal responsibility in Connecticut, New York and North Carolina. By 2005, 17-year-old David Burgos had been in and out of group homes in Connecticut for years. He was bipolar and had ADHD, […]
Commuters on crime-ridden B15 bus more frightened than ever after shooting of Brooklyn dad
Drivers on the now infamous route from Bedford–Stuyvesant to JFK have been assaulted or harassed 20 times in the last year BY ROXANNA ASGARIAN , PETE DONOHUE NEW YORK DAILY NEWS Saturday, March 22, 2014, 6:06 AM The B15 is one tough ride. The route goes through some of the city’s roughest neighborhoods, where some kids too young […]
50 Years Late, Superman/Kennedy Comic Finally Finds a Home at JFK Library
By Roxanna Asgarian on January 17, 2014 in Library Journal A Superman comic depicting John F. Kennedy, originally released shortly after the president’s assassination, on January 9 finally made its way to the JFK Library in Boston, where illustrator Al Plastino had thought it had been for nearly 50 years. “That’s the story we would hear when we […]