Funk, God, Jazz, and Medicine: Black Radical Brooklyn, was a walkable month-long art exhibition, in 2014, of four community-based art commissions by Xenobia Bailey, Simone Leigh, Otabenga Jones & Associates, and Bradford Young, produced by Creative Time and the Weeksville Heritage Center presented.
Black Radical Brooklyn launched from the site of Weeksville, a Brooklyn community established by free and formerly enslaved Black citizens 11 years after abolition in New York State. the exhibition drew inspiration not only from this story–achieving self-determination through the claiming and holding of a neighborhood–but also from radical local battles for land and dignity from the 1960s to the present.