Brooklyn Historical Society awarded $15K grant for Crown Heights oral history project
Brooklyn Historical Society (BHS) announced that it is a 2016 recipient of a Nissan Foundation grant. The grant will help fund “Voices of Crown Heights,” an oral history project that aligns with the Nissan Foundation’s mission of promoting the value of cultural diversity and building inclusive communities.
Launched in 2016, “Voices of Crown Heights” is a multi-year project that focuses on the history and future of Crown Heights, a neighborhood that has taken on continued national significance in conversations about ethnic relations, racial justice and urban renewal. “Voices of Crown Heights” acknowledges and affirms Crown Heights residents’ voices and their power to tell their own stories.
Through oral history interviews, a web-based listening portal and curated digital exhibit, listening stations based at BHS and in Crown Heights, podcasts, public conversations and listening sessions, “Voices of Crown Heights” seeks to immerse diverse audiences in unheard voices of the past and present that challenge any singular linear narrative of Crown Heights’s history.