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About Common Justice: Common Justice develops and advances solutions to violence that transform the lives of those harmed and foster racial equity without relying on incarceration. Locally, we operate the first alternative-to-incarceration and victim-service programs in the United States to focus on violent felonies in adult courts. Nationally, we leverage the lessons from our direct service to transform the justice system through partnerships, advocacy, and elevating the experience and power of those most impacted. Rigorous and hopeful, we build practical strategies to hold people accountable for harm, break cycles of violence, and secure safety, healing, and justice for survivors and their communities. At the core of its work is the nation’s first and only restorative justice based alternative to incarceration for violent felonies in the adult courts. Common Justice knows that communities impacted by crime and violence—and crime survivors in particular—have essential...

About Weeksville Heritage Center: Recently announced as New York City's newest Cultural Institutions Group (CIG) member, the first since 1998, Weeksville Heritage Center (Weeksville) is one of New York City’s cultural treasures. Located in the heart of central Brooklyn, Weeksville is a multidisciplinary historic cultural center dedicated to preserving and modernizing the story of the 19th century African American community of Weeksville. Rediscovered in 1968 by community activists and restored and renovated in 2005, Weeksville includes three historic and fully furnished homes which date back to the 1860’s, 1900’s, and 1930’s, as well as a 20,0000 sq ft. cultural and educational center. Today the work of Weeksville is to document, preserve, and interpret the history of free African American communities and to create, inspire, generate, and catalyze innovative, contemporary uses of Black history through education, the arts, and civic engagement. Weeksville is a nationally...