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Join Prospect Park Alliance and the 67th Precinct Clergy Council for a Black History Month event centered on the theme, "Peace Over Prejudice." Enjoy an afternoon of painting, history, food, and community at Lefferts Historic House in Prospect Park. This unique spin on the traditional "sip and paint" invites our community to contribute to a collective artwork, which will be unveiled at the end of the event. This event blends creativity, history and community-building while standing against hate and taking time to recognize Black history.
This event is part of the Alliance’s ReImagine Lefferts initiative to re-envision the mission and programming of the Lefferts Historic House Museum in Prospect Park to focus on exploring the lives, resistance, and resilience of the Indigenous people of Lenapehoking, whose unceded ancestral lands the park and house rests upon, and the Africans enslaved by the Lefferts family.
By focusing on stories of resistance, resilience, empowerment, and joy, while also recognizing the legacies of dispossession, enslavement, and oppression, the Alliance seeks to create a safe space for engaging with our collective past as well as contemporary issues affecting our communities today.
