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Redefining And Revoicing New York City's Public Narratives
Black and white image of Mark Winston Griffith who is redefining and re-voicing New York City's public narratives.

Winner

Mark Winston Griffith

Redefining And Revoicing New York City's Public Narratives
Black and white image of Mark Winston Griffith who is redefining and re-voicing New York City's public narratives.

Website

Brooklyn Deep

Year

2022

Organization

Brooklyn Deep

Sector

Creativity & Culture

Borough

Brooklyn

Mark, a Central Brooklyn leader, co-founded the Brooklyn Movement Center, leads Brooklyn Deep, and produces the award-winning podcast School Colors.

 A serial community-builder in Central Brooklyn, Mark has worn an astonishing number of hats. He began organizing Bed-Stuy and Crown Heights residents back in the ‘80s. In the ‘90s he built a community credit union for low-income residents. In 2009 h…
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Publication

NY1

Two winners talk about David Prize award

By Spectrum News Staff
October 28, 2022
Five New Yorkers have been awarded a prestigious award to support efforts to making the city a better place. The initiative, known as the David Prize, doles out $200,000 to each individual without any strings. Past winners h…

Podcast

School Colors

S1E1: Old School
By Mark Winston Griffith
Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn is one of the most iconic historically Black neighborhoods in the United States. But Bed-Stuy is changing. Fifty years ago, schools in Bed-Stuy's District 16 were so overcrowded that students went…

Publication

Brooklyn Magazine

BK 50: Mark Winston Griffith, Community organizer Journalist

By Brooklyn Mag Staff
July 13, 2021
For more than three decades, Mark Winston Griffith has led a combination of social justice organizations, cooperative institutions, community organizing campaigns and economic justice projects in Central Brooklyn. A second-ge…
Black and white image of Mark Winston Griffith walking on a Brooklyn rooftop

Publication

Chalkbeat

NYC Chancellor David Banks talks about diversity and integration on ‘School Colors’ podcast

By Michael Elsen-Rooney
January 23, 2023
To make the second season of School Colors — the critically acclaimed podcast examining race, class, and power in New York City schools — creators Max Freedman and Mark Winston Griffith spoke with more than 120 parents, educa…
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