The Slave Theater Lives On Through Crystal Z. Campbell
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Installation view, Go-Rilla Means War. Photograph courtesy of BRIC and Etienne Frossard.
In 2016, a year before the Slave Theater in Brooklyn’s Bed-Stuy neighborhood was demolished, the artist Crystal Z. Campbell was walking along Fulton Street with a friend. As they passed by the theater, the two decided to venture inside. Layers of paint were peeling from the ceiling and the floors were covered in bottles and empty food containers, but the murals of prominent black figures from history still held her gaze. It was her first
