Memorializing Black History: Heritage, Culture and Community at the Weeksville Heritage Center

KHC Event Cosponsored by HHREC

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Event presented by HHREC in partnership with KHC. The Weeksville Heritage Center is a historic site and cultural center in Central Brooklyn that uses education, arts, and a social justice lens to preserve, document, and inspire engagement with the history of one of the largest free Black communities in pre-Civil War America. Join Dr. Raymond Codrington, Weeksville’s President and CEO, and Irvin Weathersby, Jr., author of In Open Contempt: Confronting White Supremacy in Art and Public Space (Penguin Random House, 2025), for a conversation about memory, historic preservation, as well as the connections of cultural heritage institutions to the local communities in which they are based.

This event is part of Queensborough Community College’s (QCC) Unseen Threads initiative, a partnership between the KHC and QCC’s Truth, Racial Healing, and Transformation Campus Center. It is co-sponsored by the Holocaust & Human Rights Education Center in White Plains; the Center for Genocide and Human Rights Research in Africa and the Diaspora at Northeastern Illinois University; the Center for the Study of Genocide and Human Rights at Rutgers University; the Holocaust, Genocide & Interfaith Education Center at Manhattan University; the Ray Wolpow Institute for the Study of the Holocaust, Genocide, and Crimes Against Humanity at Western Washington University; the Reiff Center for Human Rights & Conflict Resolution at Christopher Newport University; and the Institute for Genocide and Mass Atrocity Prevention at Binghamton University.