I woke up to the news that Reverend Raphael Warnock-a Black liberation preacher a sexual health advocate a man, in short, too good for U.S. Like so many of us, I started the morning hopeful.
But my daughter and I are quarantining in the Boston area, in a suburb that voted overwhelmingly for President-elect Joe Biden, and where still “Back the Blue” and “We Love America” signs are posted by at least one house per block. Yesterday afternoon, though, as my family watched Trump supporters storm the Capitol and police, on camera, moving the barricades to allow them in, my mother told me to shut my blinds. One of my joys is sitting on my bed in a pool of sunlight. When I got my own apartment, I always kept my blinds open. Keeping the blinds shut kept him protected from white people who had firebombed and harassed similar families in other towns. It wasn’t until I was an adult that I realized he lived by that rule because of his legacy as the first Black family to live on the block of our Boston-area suburb. The shades facing the street were always closed. The windows in my grandparents’ house were covered in golden velvet drapes and sheer white nylon curtains. “We don’t want anyone to be able to see us inside,” he would tell me. When I was a kid, my grandfather would never let us open the blinds in his house. She sat on the board and practiced medicine at the Brooklyn.
From 1870 to 1895, she ran her own practice in Brooklyn and co-founded the Brooklyn Women's Homeopathic Hospital and Dispensary. She was the first Black female doctor in New York State and the third Black female doctor in the US. She was the daughter of one of Weeksville's landowners-her father, Sylvanus Smith, was a pig farmer and a relatively wealthy member of the community. Of the many accomplished people connected to the community, one was Dr. As Weeksville expanded throughout the nineteenth century, it became a destination for people escaping slavery as well as a bedrock for a burgeoning Black middle class.
Black landholders sold smaller lots to other Black people, hoping to give Black males enough land to qualify to vote in New York State elections and thus be able to steer the destinies of Black people in Kings County. Weeksville was a space explicitly dedicated to Black political power and self-sufficiency. Interview Beyond the Talented Tenth, an Essay byīefore I became a writer, I worked for many years at the Weeksville Heritage Center, which is a museum in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, dedicated to the history of the free Black community founded in central Brooklyn in 1838.
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