• Celebrate Black History Month through art, talks, and more at the Metropolitan museum of Art • Here are some details about the ongoing exhibit Before Yesterday We Could Fly: An Afrofuturist Period Room Seneca Village-a vibrant nineteenth-century community of predominantly Black landowners and tenants-flourished in an area just west of The Met, in what is now Central Park • By the 1850s, the village comprised some fifty homes, three churches, multiple cemeteries, a school, and many gardens • It represented both an escape from the crowded and dangerous confines of lower Manhattan and a site of opportunity, ownership, freedom, and prosperity • In 1857, to make way for the park, the city used eminent domain to seize Seneca Village land, displacing its residents and leaving only the barest traces of the community behind • This project has roots in the homes of Seneca Village, of which only a fragmented history remains

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  • Celebrate Black History Month through art, talks, and more at the Metropolitan museum of Art! Here are some details about the ongoing exhibit Before Yesterday We Could Fly: An Afrofuturist Period Room Seneca Village-a vibrant nineteenth-century community of predominantly Black landowners and tenants-flourished in an area just west of The Met, in what is now Central Park. By the 1850s, the village comprised some fifty homes, three churches, multiple cemeteries, a school, and many gardens. It represented both an escape from the crowded and dangerous confines of lower Manhattan and a site of oppo

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