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The City That Raised Us: Three Memoirists on Brooklyn, Memory, and Survival

Thursday, October 29
6:00 PM EDT
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Patrick Dougher, Katrina Brownlee, and Dr. Rob Gore discuss growing up in Brooklyn during the 1970s and 1980s, exploring identity, resilience, violence, creativity, healing, and personal transformation. Moderator Regina Brooks leads a public conversation about survival, self-discovery, and the lasting impact of place.

Award-winning memoirists Patrick Dougher, Katrina Brownlee, and Dr. Rob Gore, with moderator Regina Brooks, discuss growing up in Brooklyn during the 1970s and 1980s, exploring themes of identity, resilience, violence, creativity, healing, and personal transformation. Through powerful stories of survival and self-discovery, this free public conversation offers a vivid portrait of a changing Brooklyn and the lasting impact of place on the people it shapes.

Photo: Spencer Means, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Openverse

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