Bed-Stuy Votes
Walk the streets of Bed-Stuy and you’re liable to pass an around the way girl, a hipster, a rasta, an Ivy League educated attorney and an ex-offender all on the same block. On election day, Bed-Stuy hummed at the prospect of Change-with-a-capital C personified by Barack Obama. Some volunteered and phonebanked for him. Many others watched the election fever from the sidelines. All soared a little bit higher later that night, when word came down that Barack Obama had become the President of the United of States.