9. Head to Brooklyn Heights for the Official Launch of Brooklyn Resists
On June 19th, the Brooklyn Public Library’s Center For Brooklyn History (CBH) will launch Brooklyn Resists, an ongoing multifaceted public initiative exploring Brooklyn’s history of racial protest from abolition to the present. Brooklyn Resists aims to tell the story of the fight against racial injustice from the lens of Black Brooklynites and their allies who over the years have laid their lives on the line in pursuit of social justice reforms.
The launching of Brooklyn Resists will include the opening of an outdoor exhibit at CBH’s 128 Pierrepont Street building. It will be projected onto the building’s wall and will feature historic texts and images from CBH’s archives interspersed with new photographs from the 2020 Black Lives Matter protests. In addition, an online version of the exhibit will include additional content for readers, including exclusive photographs, oral histories, and historic documents. The exhibit will open for display at 3 p.m. and will remain up through September 30, 2021.
