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Brownsville Heritage House

Brownsville, Brooklyn

Credit: Courtesy of Brownsville Heritage House

Sat, October 19th, 2024

10:00am — 5:00pm

The Brownsville Heritage House is a hidden gem nestled on the second floor of the Stone Avenue Library—one of the last library branches built in the city with funds donated by industrialist Andrew Carnegie. Visitors will enjoy a newly redesigned reading room showcasing melanated people of the diaspora. Donated literature, paintings, and private collections reveal a treasure trove of Black culture.

Guided tours of the facilities will be offered on an ongoing basis.

Saturday Program: From 3-5pm, join a book discussion on “Spatial Futures: Difference and the Post Anthropocene” edited by: Latoya Eaves, Heidi J. Nast, Alex F. Papadopoulos. Peter Robinson and Heidi J Nast will discuss The Black Space Manifesto: ‘Living’ Black Liberatory Futures.

No motorized electric scooters or bikes are allowed in the building.

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1914; William B Tubby