Arts

Now that 2023 is recent history, looking back at one of the groundbreaking events was the opening of the Cultural Museum of African Art, Inc., The Eric Edwards Collection’s phenomenal museum opening in Bedford-Stuyvesant’s Restoration Corp. on November 18, 2023.  This is the largest privately-owned and publicly-funded collection of African artifacts to ever go public.

During one sweltering summer day in Brooklyn, a group of musicians formed a circle in Prospect Park to continue a tradition that has been taking place on Sundays for 55 years.

At a space named Congo Square in honor of the antebellum site in New Orleans where former enslaved Africans gathered for cultural expression and entertainment, drummers began to beat on their African styled Congo drums.