Gentrification has many of us thinking, just how long does one of America’s largest Black Community have before it is disappeared? We discuss Weeksville, Brooklyn’s first free Black Community with guests, Vivian Warfield whose family has a long Brooklyn lineage, and historian Aimee VonBokel.
Segment One: Mark and Veralyn talk to Vivian about her commitment and descendancy to Weeksville, while Aimee provides historical context and geographical orientation.
Segment Two: The Brooklyn Deep team wonders: Did Weeksville leave us any clues on how to contend with the displacement of the very Black community it helped bring into existence?
Segment Three: “Tell ‘Em Why You Mad”
LINKS:
Aimee VonBokel provides us with a walk thru another family’s economic timeline in Weeksville via the Carter-Mayo Properties.
Music heard in this episode was found via The Lost Jazz Shrines of Weeksville project and include clips from:
- Horace Silver Quintet: “Cookin at The Continental”
- Jim Europe’s 369th Infantry “Hellfighters” Band “On Patrol In No Man’s Land”
- EUBIE BLAKE & THE NICHOLAS BROTHERS. Pie, Pie Blackbird. 1932 All-Black Musical Film.
Intro and Outro theme Music:
“City Survival” by MC K-Swift featuring TreZure Empire.