Podcasts about Weeksville Heritage Center

Earlier this year, Epicenter NYC and the Weeksville Heritage Center teamed up to offer our members a special tour of what remains of the historic community. Epicenter's editorial director Femi Redwood joined the tour. In today's episode she explains how this once-forgotten community continues to impact our lives today. Read our full story: https://epicenter-nyc.com/weeksville-rediscovering-black-history-in-brooklyns-hidden-gem/  Visit or support Weeksville: https://www.weeksvillesociety.org/ See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The New York City Council began its formal review of Mayor Eric Adams' $112 billion spending plan for the city's next fiscal year. Advocates say the cuts to local parks would eliminate up to 700 jobs for maintaining the city's parks, playgrounds and recreation areas. Also, WNYC's Michael Hill and David Brand discuss federal investigations into Mayor Adams and what they mean. And finally, we highlight the Weeksville Heritage Center in Crown Heights, Brooklyn -- one of New York City's many neighborhood gems.

How to relocate an iconic 100 year old theatre to the third floor (TSX Broadway)In this episode, we dive into the remarkable story of relocating an iconic 100-year-old theatre to the third floor of TSX Broadway in Manhattan. Joining us are three experts integral to this incredible feat - Bill Mandara, CEO of Mancini Duffy, Joseph Levi, Construction Project Manager at TSX Broadway, and Ben Alper, Associate Principal at Severud Associates.Ben Alper, licensed as a structural engineer in California and Nevada, brings his expertise from diverse projects such as the TSX Broadway redevelopment, the Weeksville Heritage Center, and the LA Forum renovation. Ben's leadership in structural engineering extends beyond the office, as an active member of ASCE and involvement with NCSEA, NYC Buildings, and SEAoNY.Bill Mandara Jr., with a family legacy in construction, is the CEO and co-owner of Mancini Duffy, a design firm with a century-old history. Bill's journey from a teenager on his father's job sites to becoming a principal and co-owner reflects his unwavering commitment to client-centric values and consistent vision.Joseph Levi, boasting over 20 years of experience as a Construction Project Manager, is at the helm of the TSX Broadway project in Times Square. His expertise in programming and procedures has been pivotal in bringing to life the 550,000-square-foot, 48-story tower with unique features like a permanent outdoor stage and flexible retail spaces.Together, these experts share insights into the challenges and triumphs of relocating a historic theatre to an unconventional space, providing a behind-the-scenes look at the intricacies of the TSX Broadway project. This week at EntreArchitect Podcast, How to relocate an iconic 100 year old theatre to the third floor (TSX Broadway) with Bill Mandara, Joseph Levi and Ben Alper. Connect with Bill, Joseph and Ben online at Mancini Duffy, and find them on Instagram, X, or LinkedIn.Please visit Our Platform SponsorsGo to https://betterhelp.com/architect for 10% off your first month of therapy with BetterHelp and get matched with a therapist who will listen and help. Thank you to our sponsor BetterHelp for supporting our community of small firm entrepreneur architects.ARCAT.com is much more than a product catalog, with CAD, BIM, and specifications created in collaboration with manufacturers. ARCAT.com also offers LEED data, continuing education resources, newsletters, and the Detailed podcast. Visit https://ARCAT.com to learn more.

Join adrienne as she dives deep with Suhaly Bautista-Carolina. They discuss rooted energy, looking back, bruja-ness, plant magic, the Tao Te Ching, the snake skin of the way, childhood memories as stepping stones to where we are, growing up between two city parks, Mamá Tingó, being another beginning, burrowing under ground and using your unique skills and finally, figuring it out before it's too late. Suhaly (she/they/we/us) is an Afro Dominican herbalist, artist, cultural worker, and community organizer whose work lives intentionally at the intersection of plant power and people power. Before joining the American LGBTQ+ Museum as Director of Public Programs and Partnerships in 2023, Bautista-Carolina served as Senior Managing Educator of Audience Development and Engagement at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, where she led MetFest! and the Civic Practice Partnership Artist in Residence program. Bautista-Carolina is a 2021 Women in Power Fellow, an executive board member of ArtTable and Weeksville Heritage Center, and has worked in various capacities with organizations including the Caribbean Cultural Center African Diaspora Institute (CCCADI), Brooklyn Museum, the Laundromat Project, and Creative Time. Through her practice, Moon Mother Apothecary, Bautista-Carolina centers care, collective wisdom, and ancestral legacy, while creating spaces of agency to facilitate healing. She is based in her native home of New York City, (Lenapehoking) where she lives with her wife and their baby girl, Luna.  --- ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠SUPPORT OUR SHOW! - ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.patreon.com/Endoftheworldshow --- ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠TRANSCRIPT⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ --- Music by Tunde Olaniran, Mother Cyborg and The Bengsons --- HTS ESSENTIALS ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠SUPPORT Our Show on Patreon⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.patreon.com/Endoftheworldshow⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠PEEP us on IG⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.instagram.com/endoftheworldpc/⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/how-to-survive-the-end-of-the-world/message

Recorded on the historical site of the Weeksville Heritage Center, this episode welcomes Najee_ (interdisciplinary artist and yogi) and Erica Harper (VP of Learning and Engagement at WHC). The conversation with Dr. Layla Zami addresses restful practices and restorative sounds, African-American liberation history and the meaning of community. An episode full of emotions and information!

Reynaldo Piniella is an actor, writer, educator and activist from East New York, Brooklyn. He is an Advocacy Leadership Institute Fellow with the National Association of Latino Arts and Cultures (NALAC). He currently serves on the Council of the Episcopal Actors' Guild, a nonsectarian charitable organization that provides food and financial assistance to actors in need. He co-runs Youth Onstage!, a free youth theater training program for young people from underserved communities across the country. As an actor, he's been seen Off-Broadway in The Death of the Last Black Man…, Venus (Signature), The Skin of Our Teeth (TFANA), Lockdown (Rattlestick), The Space Between the Letters (The Public/UTR), Terminus (NYTW Next Door). Regional work includes Baltimore Center Stage, Syracuse Stage, Sundance Theatre Lab in Morocco, the O'Neill and the Cleveland Playhouse. TV credits include Blue Bloods, Sneaky Pete, Flesh & Bone, Greenleaf, The Carrie Diaries, Law & Order: SVU, NYC 22, Us & Them, Louie and The Daily Show with Jon Stewart. Film credits include Madeline's Madeline, Shadows, One Percent More Humid and Broken City. His writing has been developed and commissioned by Baltimore Center Stage, the National Black Theater, San Diego Rep, Single Carrot Theater, Pioneer Theatre Guild, Shakesqueer Theater Company, HB Studio and NYU. Piniella's play Black Doves won the Thomas Barbour award for Playwriting. Philanthropic/Activist Causes: Episcopal Actors Guild National Association of Latino Arts and Culture, Weeksville Heritage Center

In collaboration with Weeksville Heritage Center's June Weeksville Weekend, we're celebrating Black Music Month.This week we're discussing:•Songs of the Summer•Rewind: Stephanie Mills & DJ Quik•Fast Forward: Fousheé & Griselda•The Drop: quantity vs. quantity in an artist's catalog•Beat Match: Back that Azz Up vs. PoisonOfficial Playlist: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2AKqYEgUf70XzoOE5OOQfB?si=aa177167949e4f46Email Us: behindthewheelspod@gmail.comSocials#BehindTheWheels DJ R-Tistichttps://twitter.com/DJRTistichttps://www.instagram.com/djrtistic/https://www.twitch.tv/rtistic310 EBhttps://twitter.com/eb4prezhttps://www.facebook.com/eb4prez Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Weeksville, the historic site and cultural center n Central Brooklyn, first established by free African-Americans before the Civil War, has a new status as a member of the City's Cultural Institutions Group. New CEO Dr. Raymond Codrington talks about how the center blends history with the contemporary, and the significance of joining CIG. For more, visit weeksvillesociety.org

Weeksville, the historic site and cultural center n Central Brooklyn, first established by free African-Americans before the Civil War, has a new status as a member of the City's Cultural Institutions Group. New CEO Dr. Raymond Codrington talks about how the center blends history with the contemporary, and the significance of joining CIG. For more, visit weeksvillesociety.org

We're back in Brooklyn for the month of May and this week we're doing something we've yet to do this project: basing a large portion of our marathon route off an existing tour. It's an educational program called 'In Pursuit of Freedom,' developed to highlight the rich history of the Brooklyn abolitionist movement. Areas visited this week include DUMBO, Downtown Brooklyn, Brooklyn Heights and the Weeksville section of Crown Heights. 'In Pursuit of Freedom' was developed by the Brooklyn Historical Society, the Irondale Ensemble Project and the Weeksville Heritage Center.

  Rob Fields brings over three decades of marketing, programming and cultural advocacy and general business experience to his work as an arts leader.  He is the founder of NBI Festival, a celebration of the Black people and ideas that are pushing contemporary culture forward.  Rob is the former president and executive director of Weeksville Heritage Center, the Brooklyn-based cultural center and historic house museum.  Over the course of his career, he’s been a marketer for big brands, cultural institutions and indie artists; a cultural programmer; a publisher of an online magazine for over a decade; and has written about the connection between marketing, business and contemporary culture for Forbes.com and Huffington Post, among the several outlets where his work has been published. http://RobFields.com  

[REBROADCAST FROM JANUARY 10, 2019] Keisha TK Dutes, a podcast producer and educator, and Rob Fields, the executive director of the Weeksville Heritage Center, join us to discuss Dutes's audio drama called The Weeksville Project, which offers a unique take on the history of Weeksville. Located in Brooklyn, Weeksville became one of the largest free black towns in the US before the Civil War.  

Things We Referenced:Pan-AfricanismThe Weeksville Heritage CenterJoan MaynardQueen Nzinga MbandiZora Neale HurstonJosephine BakerFollow us on social media Email us at vanguardoftheviragoes@gmail.com DONATEPaypal: paypal.me/vanguardofviragoesSHOW INFOThis podcast was created and hosted by ChelseaDeeThis podcast was executive produced by ChelseaDee and Neruda Williams. This episode features the vocal performances by ChelseaDee and Neruda WilliamsOur theme song, “Crown On”, was created by Niambi Ra and Le'AshaTheme song available for purchases hereOur logo was created by Denzel Faison

In this episode we’re talking to Fatima Jones, who I check in with almost weekly, getting a read on everything from the Black cultural landscape and how to keep my proverbial wig on straight when folks try us (you know how that goes), to understanding how to make the marketing and communications of our Black arts spaces sing, and whose family I love love love. We met through a mutual sister-friend Jessica Lynne, and continue to be sisters in this space and beyond. Fatima has joined hands with the Red Olive Universe and hosted one of the last in-person events known to man: a brunch in her house in Bed Stuy Brooklyn before we all retreated into our homes. That communal connection—around Black art, Black culture, small and community-based Black arts organizations, and the new and old friends who love them—has continued to inspire me through the past year. Fatima Jones is a cultural strategist, marketing, public relations and reputation management leader. She currently serves as Senior Director of Marketing and Communications at the Apollo Theater, a nonprofit arts and cultural anchor committed to Black artists and audiences, located in Harlem, NY. She is the former Director of P.R. for the Brooklyn Museum (BKM) where she led the media relations and social media campaigns for all of its exhibitions, including the critically acclaimed David Bowie Is and the transformative We Wanted A Revolution: Black Radical Women. Prior to Brooklyn Museum, she spent almost a decade at the Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM). Her consultancy experience includes work with Ronald K. Brown/Evidence Dance Company, Weeksville Heritage Center and 651 ARTS. She is a former voting member of the Bessies Dance and Performance Awards and has served on many granting panels, including NYSCA and Mid-Atlantic Arts Foundation. She is a mother and wife, currently living in Brooklyn, NY. Connect with Fatima: LinkedIn: @FatimaJones Instagram: @LovejonesPR This episode was recorded on December 6, 2020 Produced by Lauren Francis Music by audionautix.com

Deep in the Work Intro—Stephanye Watts In this episode, we’re talking to Stephanye Watts, who is a Philly native, music fan, and one of the biggest and most-active HBCU Alumni reps I know. A graduate of Clark Atlanta University, Stephanye is the Assembly Program Coordinator at Recess, an artist-led alternative to incarceration empowering court-involved young people to take charge of their own life story and imagine a positive future through art. Stephanye served her community in her previous post as Community Engagement Manager at Weeksville Heritage Center and continues to do so as a member of the Association of African-American Museums, CAU's alumni association, UNCF's Inter-Alumni Council, and the HBCU Hub. When the Philadelphia native isn't pushing the Black agenda, she is the woman behind the world's only R&B trivia night, #RhythmNBodyroll, a podcast, The Psyce, and the Be Reel Black Cinema Club. This conversation was recorded on May 18, 2020 Enjoy! Produced by Curtis Caesar John Music by audionautix.com

The history of black and African-American settlements and neighborhoods which once existed in New York City in the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries. Today we sometimes define New York City's African-American identity by the places where thriving black culture developed -- Harlem, of course, and also Crown Heights and Bedford-Stuyvesant, neighborhoods that developed for groups of black residents in the 20th century. But by no means were these the first in New York City. Other centers of black and African-American life existed long before then. In many cases, they were obliterated by the growth of the city, sometimes built over without a single marker, without recognition. This is the story of a few of those places.  From the 'land of the blacks' -- the home to New Amsterdam and British New York's early black population -- to Seneca Village, a haven for freed people of color in the early 19th century that was wiped away by the need for a city park. From Little Africa -- the Greenwich Village sector for the black working class in the mid 19th century -- to Sandy Ground, a rural escape in Staten Island with deep roots in the neighborhood today. And then there's Weeksville, Brooklyn, the visionary village built to bond a community and to develop a political foothold. In this collection of short historical stories, Greg welcomes Kamau Ware (of the Black Gotham Experience) and Tia Powell Harris (formerly of the Weeksville Heritage Center) to the show. The episode is a rebroadcast of a show which first aired on June 9, 2017. Stay tuned to the end of this show for some newly written material and an update on the Black Gotham Experience and the Weeksville Heritage Center. Visit our website for more images and information. Support the show.

In this excerpt of the full episode, Stephanye and DéLana reminisce about their year together in 2016 at Weeksville Heritage Center, "dreaming up possibilities with pennies." DéLana reminisces on the day Stephanye came into her office with a red wool coat and found a place for her, and what it means to look for a place for Black women with divergent careers, and then with the blessing and love from a Black woman, Tia Powell Harris program and fund a new 19,000 sq ft building with---inadequate funding from philanthropy, and yet! And yet! The work we did was not at all visible part of the contemporary story of Weeksville's "saving" so we had to do some documenting. And storytelling--what we do best. A graduate of Clark Atlanta University, Stephanye R. Watts is the newly appointed Assembly Program Coordinator at Recess. Stephanye served her community in her previous post as Community Engagement Manager at Weeksville Heritage Center and continues to do so as a member of the Association of African-American Museums, CAU's alumni association, UNCF's Inter-Alumni Council, and the HBCU Hub. As a non-traditional arts worker, Stephanye is invested in nurturing a generation of people like her to create a true representation of what diversity looks like in the arts.

In conversation with curator Larry Ossei-Mensah, artist Damien Davis discusses the research surrounding his booth presentation with LatchKey Gallery and forthcoming solo exhibition at the Weeksville Heritage Center, titled “Collapse: Black Wall Street”. This exhibition is centered around the history of the Tulsa Race Riot of 1921, recently depicted by the HBO series Watchman and highlighted in the New York Times.

Yemi Amu, from Oko Farms in Brooklyn, talks to Julia about aquaponics, expansion, and the healing capacity of her work. Yemi is the farmer and educator behind Oko Farms in Brooklyn, New York, an aquaponics farm that not only produces fish and produce and flowers, but also works as an educational farm. Our food community is at its best with people like Yemi doing the work she’s doing. She’s in the middle of raising money to expand into a second location at the Weeksville Heritage Center— please consider supporting her and her important work. The link to donate is below.Follow-up links:Oko FarmsDonate to Oko Farms's expansion!Weeksville Heritage CenterNaina Marballi’s Ayurvedic practice Great Jones (be sure to use the code 'CALM' for 15% off!!)Julia Turshen

Lavett Ballard is an Artist, Art historian, Curator, and Author. I hold a dual Bachelor’s in Studio Art and Art History with a minor in Museum Studies from Rutgers University, and a MFA in Studio Art from the University of the Arts in Philadelphia. Ballard’s art has been included in literary, film and theatre productions and museum, galleries, public, private institutions and exhibitions nationwide. Among other accolades she has been named by Black Art In America as one of the Top 10 Female Emerging Artists to Collect, and have been nominated for the inaugural Art for Social change Pew Foundation funded Residency among other distinguished honors. Her work has been included in prominent collections such as the Smithsonian, the African American Museum of Philadelphia, the T. Thomas Fortune Cultural Center, Weeksville Heritage Center, the Nixon Family and the Grant and Tamia Hill private Collections. Ballard views her art as a re-imagined visual narrative of people of African descent. Her use of imagery reflects social issues affecting primarily Black women’s stories within a historical context. Her current body of work, uses collaged photos adorned with paint oil pastels and metallic foils .These photos are deconstructed, and layered on reclaimed large and small aged wood fences. The use of fences is a symbolic reference to how fences keep people in and out, just as racial and gender identities can do the same socially. Hey Black Child 72" x46" , 2018 Mother May I panel, diptych

Sippin On Rachel Miller's (@the_rewm) article "It's OK To Feel Sad In the Summer" Update on the Weeksville Heritage Center: designated as a Cultural Institutions Group — the first new addition in more than 20 years, and the first black cultural center in Brooklyn to make the list. Impact Influencers Sara Elhassan (@bsonblast), teaching us about the Sudan uprising since before you likely saw it on social media or the news. Also a podcast host. Kim Kardashian West (no, she doesn't need us to link to her instagram): Can a problematic woman also be using her power and influence for good? We hash this one out. The Discussion @hadyouatsalaam @bsonblast Spring Awakening: How an Egyptian Revolution Began on Facebook Fake Instagram Accounts are Hijacking Sudan Solidarity Campaign --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/communitea/support

This week, join host David Rheinstrom in a conversation with podcast doula Keisha TK Dutes to talk about Bondfire's The Weeksvile Project, Brooklyn, Beyonce, and creating things for yourself. You can find more about the Weeksville Heritage Center here: https://www.weeksvillesociety.org/You can read the Mahogany L. Brown poem Wil read in this episode here: http://www.literarybohemian.com/index.php/poetry/poem/four-poems-by-Mahogany-L.-Browne/P0/

The story of a family, of time, and the changes that come to Weeksville, a town in Brooklyn forgotten until recently, The Weeksville Project is the focus of this week's Radio Drama Revival. Join us for a three-part mini-series look into the past.You can find more about the Weeksville Heritage Center here: https://www.weeksvillesociety.org/ You can read the Mahogany L. Brown poem Wil read in this episode here:http://www.literarybohemian.com/index.php/poetry/poem/four-poems-by-Mahogany-L.-Browne/P0/

Weeksville Heritage Center is a museum dedicated to preserving the history of the 19th century African American community of Weeksville, Brooklyn -- one of America's many free black communities. President Rob Fields discusses financial challenges for Weeksville and their initiative to secure permanent funding from New York City. For more events and their crowdfunding campaign, visit weeksvillesociety.org.

Weeksville Heritage Center is a museum dedicated to preserving the history of the 19th century African American community of Weeksville, Brooklyn -- one of America's many free black communities. President Rob Fields discusses financial challenges for Weeksville and their initiative to secure permanent funding from New York City. For more events and their crowdfunding campaign, visit weeksvillesociety.org.

Weeksville Heritage Center is a museum dedicated to preserving the history of the 19th century African American community of Weeksville, Brooklyn -- one of America's many free black communities. President Rob Fields discusses financial challenges for Weeksville and their initiative to secure permanent funding from New York City. For more events and their crowdfunding campaign, visit weeksvillesociety.org.

Alexis Fair, a masters candidate in the Cooper Hewitt/Parsons program, sat down with me to talk about the Weeksville Heritage Center. Which she covered in a course on period rooms. Founded in 1838, Weeksville was the second largest free, African American community in the U.S. in the pre-Civil War era. The settlement was named for James Weeks who, along with a group of African-American investors, acquired property in the area. Weeksville was almost lost to history when urban development threatened to erase the physical memory of the historic community. A grassroots effort to document the history of Weeksville and preserve the remaining properties emerged in 1968 through the leadership of local historian James Hurley, Dr. Barbara Jackson, and artist and activist Dr. Joan Maynard (the found Executive Director). Today Weeksville stands as a multi-dimensional arts and cultural space. The Hunterfly Road Houses are New York City landmarks and have been listed on the National Register of Historic Place since 1989. Here are some of the links for the places, people, and articles discussed. Twitter: @DecArtsPodcast Department of Cultural Affairs, Chakaia Booker Heather Lynn McDonald’s thesis on The National Register of Historic Places and African-American Heritage Brooklyn Life, Seán Devlin

The Brooklyn Navy Yard, more than two centuries old, is a big part of the borough's future... the Weeksville Heritage Center hits 50 and its new head talks about its role in Black history... and Chinese New Year -- entering the Year of the Dog! 112BK is hosted by Ashley Ford and is written and produced by Ross Tuttle, with Fred Brown, Shirin Barghi, Emily Boghosssian, Kritzie Roberts, Clinton Philson, Jr, Charmaine Lam and Ariana Rosas. Our editors are Clinton Philson, Jr. and Khyriel Palmer, our Technical

In the second part of Brooklyn Deep’s exploration of historic Weeksville, Mark Winston Griffith sits down one-on-one with Rob Fields, the new President and Executive Director of the Weeksville Heritage Center. As a caretaker of Central Brooklyn’s past and a cultivator of its cultural present and future, Rob discusses the role of Weeksville Heritage Center in keeping Black Brooklyn resilient in the face of relentless gentrification. Followed by a "Tell 'Em Why You Mad" moment from our very own, Veralyn Williams. LINKS: http://weeksvillesociety.org/ Music heard in this episode was found via The Lost Jazz Shrines of Weeksville project and include clips from:  Horace Silver Quintet: "Cookin at The Continental" Intro and Outro theme Music: “City Survival” by MC K-Swift featuring TreZure Empire.

This week features the curators and conservator behind the exhibition: Fashioning the Women of Weeksville, currently at the Weeksville Heritage Center in Brooklyn, New York. The show is a rare opportunity to see the material culture of the African American women who lived in Weeksville in the nineteenth and twentieth-century. In the first half of the episode, Joy and Jasmine talk to the curators Noel Corbin and Natalya Mills. In the second half of the episode Dana and Jasmine talk to Kristine McPartlin, who is responsible for conserving and dressing the wedding dress featured in the exhibition. On September 16, 2016, Fashioning the Self in Slavery and Freedom is hosting the conference Community Curating: Stitching Together a History of a People at the Weeksville Heritage Center. For more information visit @fashioningtheself on Facebook. Noel Corbin instagram: @noelbynoelb Natalya Mills instagram: @from_natalya_with_love Kristine McPartlin instagram: @karamel_thunder Visit Weeksville: http://www.weeksvillesociety.org/ Visit Fashioning the Women of Weeksville: http://www.weeksvillesociety.org/current-exhibition/ Image credit: The Weeksville Lady, tintype, c.1880. Weeksville Heritage Center. Find out how The Weeksville Lady was discovered here. Visit us below for images and fashion: www.unravelpodcast.com Instagram: @unravelpodcast Twitter: @unravelpodcast Facebook: www.facebook.com/unravelpodcast/ Pinterest: unravel: a fashion podcast www.pinterest.com/afashionpodcast/

Today we sometimes define New York City's African-American culture by place – Harlem, of course, and also Crown Heights and Bedford-Stuyvesant, neighborhoods that developed for groups of black residents in the 20th century. But by no means were these the first in New York City. Other centers of black and African-American life existed long before then. In many cases, they were obliterated by the growth of the city, sometimes built over without a single marker, without recognition. This is the story of a few of those places.  From the 'land of the blacks' -- the home to New Amsterdam and British New York's early black population -- to Seneca Village, a haven for early African-American lives that was wiped away by a park. From Little Africa -- the Greenwich Village sector for the black working class in the late 19th century -- to Sandy Ground, a rural escape in Staten Island with deep roots in the neighborhood today. And then there's Weeksville, Brooklyn, the visionary village built to bond a community and to develop a political foothold. Greg welcomes Kamau Ware (of the Black Gotham Experience) and Tia Powell Harris of the Weeksville Heritage Center to the show!   boweryboyshistory.com blackgotham.com weeksvillesociety.com Support the show.

A look at the historical and present-day connections between democracy, land, housing and economic development. The history of the US is packed with people of color and poor people who've been stripped of their rights - to vote, to wages, to housing or even just the right to stay in the country -  through incarceration, segregation, slavery and deportation. For just as long, black communities have created safety, and won a say in democracy, through buying and keeping land cooperatively.  It's not just history, either. Mark Scott is an organizer of #blacklandmatters, a group working today, and Tia Powell Harris is the director of the Weeksville Heritage Center, Brooklyn's largest African-American cultural institution, which is dedicated to preserving the history of the 19th century African American community of Weeksville - one of America's first free black communities. This episode also features an exclusive report, Cooperation vs. Gentrification: Bed Stuy Strives to Stay Local, which explores ways people in the Bed Stuy neighborhood of Brooklyn are using co-ops to find ways to benefit local communities and prevent the displacement caused by gentrification.

April 25, 2013 Jennifer Scott is an Anthropologist, Public Historian, and Curator. She serves as the Vice Director/Director of Research at Weeksville Heritage Center, a historic house museum specializing in innovative study and applications of history, culture, the arts and civic engagement. In this public workshop, Scott discusses the role and possibilities of oral history for understanding activism and social change in the founding and expansion of a public history center. Columbia Center for Oral History