The Magnolia Tree Earth Center is in danger of losing their site if they don’t raise enough money for much-needed repairs.
Brooklyn Borough President Antonio Reynoso held a conference about preserving Bed-Stuy’s Magnolia Tree Earth Center July 12.Sign up for our acclaimed free newsletter Editorially Black with the top Racial Equity stories of the day to your inbox!
to pay for required repairs to the front facade of the brownstones and to take down the scaffolding, said Devonish. “She was from the South, and she saw that a tree was about to get knocked down, the Magnolia grandiflora, and the buildings,” said Devonish. “She remembered those trees from her childhood in the South. And she said, ‘There’s no way you’re going to knock that down’.”
By 1976, the plans to develop the block changed, and Carthan was able to buy the brownstones altogether and renovate them. Devonish said she dedicated her senior years to planting over 1,500 trees in the community and turning the Center into an environmental, education, and community hub. Carthan is considered one of the first Black community-based ecology activists.
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