In October 2020, without consulting the community, the City announced a high-rise housing development at the corner of Bedford and Church Avenues in Flatbush. The site is the last remaining section of an African Burial Ground dating at least to the 1700s.

For 6 months starting on Juneteenth 2021, we spearheaded a movement that stopped a planned housing development on the ancestral burial site using a cultural strategy that included history walking tours and teach-ins that brought hundreds of community members together to learn, heal, strategize, and build.