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We are on Sacred Ground.

Positioned at the the epicenter of what is known as the “Borough of Churches”, Flatbush Mixtape is a platform for community, learning, solidarity & unapologetic cultural appreciation. We honor and uplift neighbors of all walks on the basis that before we arrived the land we are currently on was called Lenapehoking and is the ancestral land of the Lenape and the Canarsee people..

 

We refuse to allow the continue its pattern of devaluation and desecration of our bodies and our histories.

Eve was the beloved enslaved African woman who lived, worked and died in the village of Flatbush. She was enslaved to Lawrence Voorhes, one of the largest slave holders in the village of Flatbush as well as in Kings county.

Her remains are here at the burial ground and according to her obituary, Eve spent the summer months "by her own choice, the dressing of a garden spot..." We will never know the exact location of Eve's garden spot and yet this ground, now renamed Eve’s Garden, will yield such a mighty harvest as we come together to do this work.

Imagine how dope she must have been that hundreds of years later we speak her name and lift up her legacy.