In Memory of Wanda: Shacazia Brown’s Healing AIDS Walk Journey

It was Shacazia Brown’s mother who inspired her to start In Memory of Wanda, the AIDS Walk New York team she’s led for almost 30 years. What started with just a handful of siblings and co-workers has grown to one of New York’s largest AIDS Walk teams, propelled by Brown’s vision of bringing joy and […]

Fraught Times Inspire Star Walker’s Return to AIDS Walk NY from France

Ray Hägg thought he had done his last AIDS Walk New York in 2018. Soon after, he retired to Saint-Laurent-de-Cerdans (pop. 1,020) in southern France, leaving New York City behind for a bucolic life tending his dogs and chickens, while acting in amateur theatricals the next village over. He’d had a good run. Over a […]