A safe place of our own
To cultivate our identity
A place of economic prosperity and self sufficiency
Of political self determination and power
A haven for all Black people
United in our desire to create a free and independent community
Diverse in where we come from
Creating lasting Black institutions
Infused with African pride and racial consciousness
Ensuring a better future for ourselves and our descendants.
(inspired by Brooklyn's Promised Land: The Free Black Community of Weeksville, New York, by Judith Wellman)

What future do you desire for bedstuy?

beginning in 2020, the black utopia project is an ongoing public and socially engaged art project by Intelligent Mischief, created in light of the ongoing dramatic loss of Bedstuy’s Black population, community, and spaces to gentrification and displacement. The Project aims to invite remembrance, catalyze reclamation and create opportunities for collective imagination around the future of BedStuy as haven for all Black people.

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