Behind every storefront window and inside every apartment building, there are limitless stories that tell the history of a place, and offer lessons on resilience, empathy, and care.

In the past six months, Fort Greene Brooklyn has stayed strong in the face of the pandemic, as a site of racial justice activism, mutual aid, and heroic health care. The residents and businesses have built on long legacies of arts, culture and struggle in the face of gentrification to offer new ways of being a community.

In this program, members of the Future Historical Society will share Fort Greene stories, while reflecting with community partners on how the pandemic and current uprisings protesting racial violence against Black people have altered the course of this corner of Brooklyn.

This event will include live transcription.

Fort Greene Forever is hosted by Future Historical Society founding members Ramona Candy and Danny Mefford.

Join us to hear from community partners including:
Ralph Jawad, Ralph’s Bodega
Reverend Telfort, Lafayette Avenue Presbyterian Church
Glen Ettienne , De Lux Gallery Natural Hair Salon
Terri Lewis Ball, Fort Greene SNAP
Shaquana Boykin, AD 57 District Leader

Interviews, audio stories, videos, photography and production by Future Historical Society members Tanja Richardson, Jerry Pura, Corazon Aguirre, Raha Behnam, Beryl Benbow, Shaquana Boykin, Ramona Candy, Jamilla Carr, Ryan Conarro, Danny Mefford, Terri Patterson, Nia I'man Smith, Celeste Staton, Jessica Sucher, and FHS lead artist Yazmany Arboleda.

The Future Historical Society is a community storytelling project commissioned by BRIC.