Carol Brown

ABOUT THE PHOTOGRAPH:

“The picture is important to me because it [shows us] empowering young women to grow up and be strong and powerful young women in the neighborhood. I bring my girls here to Third Church, and we had a mother-and-daughter basketball game. And I just felt the need to show that we can have a positive impact on East Westwood. This is where most of my girls are from, and the group is called Young Girls’ Empowerment. How they connected to me, I came from the same place they came from, which is a hard time, and I just wanted to build them up because I've been where they've been. And they've been just so strong and being positive. It shows that we can deal with other young girls. . . I felt awesome because I’ve seen all positives. And it was great for the mothers and daughters to come together as one and see the smiles that they probably haven't seen, because sometimes our parents don't have time for their daughters. And they need that attention. They need that one-on-one attention. So I thought it was a beautiful thing to bring them together.”