Food Insecurity
Sharawn Vinson, front left, and family members and friends cheer for her daughter, Maddison Washington, 11, as they watch her virtual graduation from middle school in the living room of their three-bedroom apartment in Brooklyn, New York, on Friday, Aug. 21, 2020. After months of pandemic isolation and living with the fear of hunger as bills piled up, Vinson and her kids continued volunteering to help feed their own community. (AP Photo/Jessie Wardarski)
Mason Washington, 11, reaches for a hug after being awakened by Sharawn Vinson, his mother, in their three-bedroom apartment in Brooklyn, New York, on Thursday, Aug. 13, 2020. (AP Photo/Jessie Wardarski)
Mason Washington, 11, stands in the kitchen of his family’s apartment after browsing the refrigerator for a mid-morning snack on Thursday, Aug. 13, 2020, in Brooklyn, New York. The family has struggled to keep food in the cupboards during the pandemic: “It was hard feeding them three times a day,” said Sharawn Vinson, his mother. (AP Photo/Jessie Wardarski)
Hunter Stewart, 5, helps pack and deliver food to residents of the Lafayette Gardens housing development on Saturday, Aug. 8, 2020, in Brooklyn, New York. Stewart currently lives in a shelter for families with his mother. After he and his family struggled to put food on the table in the first months of the pandemic, they volunteered to help distribute supplies to neighbors who also were having difficulty staving off hunger. (AP Photo/Jessie Wardarski)
Maddison Washington, 11, carries her nephew Hunter Stewart, 5, down the hallway toward her mother’s bedroom at the Lafayette Gardens housing development in Brooklyn, New York, on Thursday, Aug. 20, 2020. Washington’s mother sent her and her twin brother to stay with their father in North Carolina for part of the summer while she saved money, food stamps and Pandemic Electronic Benefit Transfers (PEBT) to ensure the family had enough food when the siblings returned. (AP Photo/Jessie Wardarski)
Jasmin Vinson, 25, puts shoes on her 5-year-old son, Hunter Stewart, while visiting her mother and siblings at the Lafayette Gardens housing development in the Brooklyn borough of New York on Friday, Aug. 7, 2020. (AP Photo/Jessie Wardarski)
Maddison Washington, 11, stands beside a park bench and a small memorial for a young boy who was recently shot and killed at her family’s housing development in Brooklyn, New York, on Thursday, Aug. 13, 2020. Washington’s mother sent her and her twin brother to stay with their father in North Carolina for part of the summer while she saved money, food stamps and Pandemic Electronic Benefit Transfers (PEBT) to ensure the family had enough food when the siblings returned. (AP Photo/Jessie Wardarski)
Mason Washington, 11, center, warms up with teammates at the first football practice of the season on Sunday, Aug. 9, 2020, in Brooklyn, New York. (AP Photo/Jessie Wardarski)
Mason Washington, 11, runs a drill with teammates at the first summer practice of the Brooklyn United Youth Football league season on Sunday, Aug. 9, 2020, in Brooklyn, New York. (AP Photo/Jessie Wardarski)
Malachi Keller, 15, right, leans back in an office chair while watching a Black History Month police promotional video during a meeting with police at One Police Plaza in New York City on Monday, Aug. 24, 2020. (AP Photo/Jessie Wardarski)
Maddison Washington, 11, stands at her bedroom mirror as she finishes getting ready for her virtual graduation from middle school on Friday, Aug. 21, 2020, in Brooklyn, New York. “Everybody else had a graduation, even her twin brother. ... And she has to have a virtual graduation,” said Sharawn Vinson, Washington’s mother. “So it makes you sit back and think, what is their life going to be like going forward, what’s going to happen?” (AP Photo/Jessie Wardarski)
Sharawn Vinson, front left, and family members and friends cheer for her daughter, Maddison Washington, 11, as they watch her virtual graduation from middle school in the living room of their three-bedroom apartment in Brooklyn, New York, on Friday, Aug. 21, 2020. After months of pandemic isolation and living with the fear of hunger as bills piled up, Vinson and her kids continued volunteering to help feed their own community. (AP Photo/Jessie Wardarski)