Jacqui Wood, a longtime Bed-Stuy resident and the arts manager at the Bedford Stuyvesant Restoration Corporation curated “Eyewitness: Black Brooklyn,” a photography exhibit at the Bedford Stuyvesant Restoration complex’s Skylight Gallery featuring dozens of rare images from the 1960s to the 1980s…
Five award winning black Brooklyn photographers, capture the people, spiritual life, community events and protests in Brooklyn from the 1960s through the 1980’s.
The show includes powerful images of life in black Brooklyn at the height of the Civil Rights Movement. Photographers represented are: Leroy Henderson, Marilyn Nance, Beuford Smith, David Mills and Randy Waterman.
“Eyewitness: Black Brooklyn” will be at Bedford Stuyvesant Restoration complex’s Skylight Gallery [1368 Fulton St. between Brooklyn and New York avenues in Bedford-Stuyvesant, (718) 636-6949], now through Sep. 30. For info, visit www.restorationplaza.org.
I am definitely going to check this out. My fiance’s African-American and Spanish. This is very important to keep up with and know. It might be hard to see, but it shows how far we have come along and we are still progressing.