Juanita Carmichael

Brooklyn in the late summer of 1999 was already a city of noise and motion, but certain corners of Williamsburg and Bedford-Stuyvesant carried a different kind of hush—one that settles in when people start counting the missing and watching rooftops, vacant lots, and dim utility spaces with dread. Juanita Carmichael, 34, a Black woman from Brooklyn, is associated with that frightening moment in time, yet the surviving public accounts available today do not preserve a clear, standalone narrative ...