Rev. Dr. David K. Brawley: Building the Village

Sheena Wright and David C. Banks sit down with Rev. Dr. David K. Brawley, senior pastor of St. Paul Community Baptist Church in East New York, Brooklyn, to talk about how Black communities survive — and flourish.

Rev. Brawley traces St. Paul's roots to 1927, shares the Ma'afa commemoration and the sacred memory work behind it, and lays out the blueprint his church is building: education, cooperative economics, and imagination — from the Imagine Me school to the Nehemiah housing effort's 4,000+ affordable homes. He closes on what's next — public land for public good, and holding leaders accountable — and why the work ends in abundance, not scarcity.