Akosva Albritton

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Akosva Albritton, current executive director at Erasmus Neighborhood Federation shares her experiences in Coney Island when she was an employee at Astella Development Corporation two decades ago. In this candid interview, Akosva describes Coney's three distinct, racially divided neighborhoods of the 1980s and the efforts of Astella to bridge the neighborhood housing gaps. Presently, Aksova teaches a summer class called The History of Blacks on Brooklyn where she brings her students to the Coney Island beach to do an ancestral observation.