Rebroadcast: Blocks and Brownstones
Aug 15, 2024•25 min•Season 8Ep. 9
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Episode description
Bedford-Stuyvesant is perhaps one of Brooklyn’s most iconic neighborhoods. Its tree-lined streets and grand brownstones have been here for over 150 years. This episode, a re-broadcast from 2019, tells the story of Bed-Stuy through the lives of three women who set down roots here in different ways: activist Hattie Carthan, writer Paule Marshall, and novelist Naomi Jackson.
Read a transcript of this episode here.
Further resources:
- Check out our list of books curated for this episode.
- Learn more about Hattie Carthan on our Brooklynology blog, or check out the Magnolia Tree Earth Center archive at the Center for Brooklyn History.
- Visit Magnolia Tree Earth Center. You can also attend their new art exhibition opening on September 7th.
- Read Paule Marshall's Brown Girl, Brownstones, or her 1983 essay, "From the Poets in the Kitchen."
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