Photos from the Brooklyn Book Festival

Books on sale at the Brooklyn Book Festival.

Carmen Maria Machado and others spoke at a panel on love and desire.

Vendors advertised at the Brooklyn Book Festival.

New Yorkers attend a panel for the Brooklyn Book Festival.

New Yorkers enjoy the Brooklyn Book Festival.

Brooklyn Poets had a table at the Brooklyn Book Festival.

Photos from the Flatbush Frolic

A sign advertises the annual Flatbush Frolic.

The view from Cortelyou Road.

The band setting up on Rugby Road.

Flatbush residents attend an annual event.

Vendors sold goods at the Flatbush Frolic.

Activist Mia Ives-Rublee is a disabled, transracial adoptee working to make spaces more accessible to all.

Sept. 22 marked the 33rd annual Broadway Cares event.

Tourists and New Yorkers alike attended Broadway Cares.

Several tables at Broadway Cares sold or auctioned off Broadway merchandise.

Several women in Waitress-themed T-shirts worked the 33rd annual Broadway Cares event.

A Broadway Cares attendee stopped to take a break on 45th street.

Sam Manas talks about what it means to be mixed-race and pass as white.

In 2009, the author spent five days in a psych hospital in Westchester County. Ten years later, she wrote about it.

Over 50 years after Loving v. Virginia, Zyda Culpepper-Mellon and Ricardee Franks talk about what it means to love someone of a different race.

Katie Bullard and Jesse Chen both belong to mixed-race families, but have very different experiences.

Listen to Nicole Zelniker interview Justyn Melrose and Danielle Douez about what it means to be mixed-race.

There’s no end in sight to the U.S.-China trade war.