Groups of teenage students lined up outside Elander Williams’s brownstone in the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood of Brooklyn last month for an intimate tour of her cellar. Ms. Williams has been welcoming curious individuals inside her home for years, but this February was the first time school classes visited. Her neighbors describe her cellar as a private museum on American slavery and the black experience. Ms. Williams prefers to call it simply “an exhibit,” since her collection contains more narrative tools than authentic...

Source: Wall Street Journal March 02, 2019 18:00 UTC