BEFORE IT'S GONE: ARCHIVE TO SURVIVE

Before It's Gone: Archive to Survive is a community story collection project by the Brooklyn Hi-Art! Machine (Mildred Beltre and Oasa DuVerney). Gathered over two years and created to preserve and share the history of our longtime community in Crown Heights Brooklyn, Archive to Survive documents experiences of longtime community members. BHAM hopes to preserve our history as told through our stories before it (and we) are erased and forgotten like so many other communities wiped out by gentrification and the racial and economic discrimination it creates. Archive to survive is a book containing stories, photographs and artworks which stand as communal testimony of the lives lived on our block.

BOOK DETAILS: Embossed paperback, three ribbon bookmarks, 168 pages of full color photos, artwork, and text. 9x8x0.75 inches