In the second part of Brooklyn Deep’s exploration of historic Weeksville, Mark Winston Griffith sits down one-on-one with Rob Fields, the new President and Executive Director of the Weeksville Heritage Center. As a caretaker of Central Brooklyn’s past and a cultivator of its cultural present and future, Rob discusses the role of Weeksville Heritage Center in keeping Black Brooklyn resilient in the face of relentless gentrification.

Followed by a "Tell 'Em Why You Mad" moment from our very own, Veralyn Williams.

LINKS:

http://weeksvillesociety.org/

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"

Intro and Outro theme Music:

“City Survival” by MC K-Swift featuring TreZure Empire.