“Weeksville was a bastion of the idea of freedom in a land fundamentally unfree. It was a room without an exit—but we could huddle there and protect each other and comfort each other and tell stories.” —Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts To coincide with #FunkGodJazzMedicine, Creative Time Reports is featuring essays related to the history of African-American struggles for self-determination in Brooklyn. Here, novelist Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts meditates on the limits to freedom imposed by a legacy of institutionalized racism.
Posted on: Thu, 18 Sep 2014 14:00:00 +0000