The Urban Civil Rights Museum will be part of a mixed-use Urban League Empowerment Center that also includes affordable housing, below-market office space for nonprofits, and retail.
Artist rendering of the Urban League Empowerment Center, part of a mixed-use development on 125th Street in Harlem, which will house what is being billed as New York's first museum dedicated to civil rights, and one of the first in the nation to focus on the history of civil rights in the North.
The New York center, on 117 W. 125th St. near Marcus Garvey Park, will also house the NUL’s headquarters along with 170 units of affordable housing, retailers like Target and Trader Joe’s, and office space with below-market rent for community groups and nonprofits including One Hundred Black Men of New York and Harlem’s Jazzmobile.“I am thrilled to lead this timely and special charge,” Scott said in a statement.
Earlier, as a museum director in Chicago, Scott advised Mayor Lori Lightfoot on the city’s monuments and Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker on genocide education for the state’s Holocaust commission.
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