November 19, 2025 at 12:00pm EST
In Person & Online

Register to watch online: https://tinyurl.com/3jnj3c7b

Register to attend in person: https://tinyurl.com/ycy4dsr3
Location: QCC’s Oakland Building Dining Hall

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 free 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.