Dear fellow listers,

Below is a paragraph from today's New York Times on a situation that can

be AnyCity, USA, about the ten year anniversary of an accident that set
off racial riots in the Crown Heights section of Brooklyn. The Brooklyn
Museum is marking the anniversary with a banquet today hosted by 4
different neighborhood groups including the precinct police in effort to

bring the African American and Jewish commuities together and promote
healing in the community. Would the museum folks on the list like to
contribute the wonderful work they did in their efforts  to help heal
the community through their exhibit on Crown Heights many years ago?
What is their perspective on the process and what can they add to the
newspaper account about the the Crown Heights community today? What
similiar stories can other folks share about their communities and their

efforts to help provide a venue to bring people in their community
together for better understanding of each other?

"Ten years after Crown Heights exploded in New York's ugliest spasm of
racial violence in decades, the neighborhood's black and Jewish
residents conduct joint picnics and ice-skating parties, even a police-
supervised Halloween parade. There is a storefront mediation center, a
black and Jewish mothers group, and an effort to add black youngsters to

the private Jewish security patrols......In the years since the chaos of

August 1991,  blacks and Jews in this densely populated,
economically distressed Brooklyn neighborhood have made major efforts to

create institutional and informal ties. But despite the efforts of the
leaders, the elected officials and lots of the neighborhood's
ordinary residents, many of the old differences and distrusts remain,
buried just beneath the surface. These are communities that, almost by
definition, lead separate lives even as they live side by side."


Terri McNichol
Museum Consultant

For link to article:
In Crown Heights, a Decade of Healing After Riots, but Scars Remain

By JOHN KIFNER and FELICIA R. LEE

Ten years after the Brooklyn neighborhood exploded in New York's
ugliest spasm of racial violence in decades, many of the old
differences and distrusts remain between blacks and Jews

http://www.nytimes.com/2001/08/19/nyregion/19CROW.html?ex=999226145&ei=1&en=43382f3cf7a9fefd

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