Shirley Chisholm was a true Brooklyn trailblazer. From the daughter of working-class immigrant parents to her success as a voice for the people in Congress,…
Brooklyn’s Black history is deeply tied to housing and resilience. Enslaved African Americans lived in Brooklyn until New York abolished slavery in 1827. After gaining…
A Tribute to the Lenape People This November, IMPACCT Brooklyn honors the land we’re on—the ancestral homeland of the Lenape people, known as Lenapehoking. Spanning…
Shirley Chisholm, a trailblazer in American politics, made history as the first African American Congresswoman. As we commemorate what would have been her 100th birthday,…
In 1964, the Pratt Area Community Council (now IMPACCT Brooklyn) was born out of a need to combat the disinvestment plaguing specific neighborhoods, a consequence…
