Heritage, Culture and Community at the Weeksville Heritage Center

Schedule

Wed Nov 19 2025 at 12:00 pm to 02:00 pm

UTC-05:00

Location

Queensborough Community College | Queens, NY

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Join for a conversation about memory, historic preservation, & the connections of cultural heritage institutions to their local communities
About this Event

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 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 Harriet and Kenneth Kupferberg Holocaust Center 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.


**To attend in person: The event is free and open to all, but registration ahead of time is required and visitors must show ID upon entering the campus at Queensborough Community College (QCC). For directions to QCC’s campus, please visit https://www.qcc.cuny.edu/about/index.html#gettingHere.


**This event will take place in the Oakland Building Dining Hall. For a map of QCC's campus, please visit https://www.qcc.cuny.edu/map/index.html.

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Queensborough Community College, 222-05 56th Avenue, Queens, United States

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