Weeksville Heritage Center launches its 2020 Artist-In-Residency with performance artist, culture strategist, and 2020 Creative Capital grant recipient, Ebony Noelle Golden. Through this residency, she will develop Jubilee 11213, a multi-generational and multi-year program that includes the exploration of Weeksville’s archives and historic themes.

Since the emergence of 1838, when James Weeks — a free man — purchased land in New York that would become one of the largest independent Black communities in pre-Civil War America, Weeksville has represented a space of self-reliance, transformation and liberation of Black persons in America.

The past six months have been an extraordinary time in history with our nation, cities and communities, facing unprecedented challenges. There is no doubt, we are all navigating uncharted territories as we try to return to some kind of new normal.

(Brooklyn, NY)-- Weeksville Heritage Center (WHC), a one-of-a-kind historic house museum that brings to life the history of one of the largest free black communities in pre-Civil War America through its arts, culture and preservation efforts, announces the start of much-needed preservation work on its key historic assets, the Hunterfly Road Houses.

The recent extrajudicial murders of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor and Ahmaud Arbery add to a long list of Black men and women who have fallen victim to the pernicious afflictions of racism and white supremacy.  Their murders have further traumatized our community, which is still reeling from the disproportionate impact of not only the coronavirus pandemic, but also decades of systematic healthcare and economic disparities.