Slave Theater
Slave I | |
Street view of the Slave Theater marquee, before the theater was demolished in 2016 | |
Interactive map of Slave Theater | |
| Former names | Regent Theater |
|---|---|
| Address | 1215 Fulton Street |
| Location | Brooklyn, New York 11216 |
| Coordinates | 40°40′50″N 73°57′10″W / 40.680677°N 73.952772°W |
| Type | Movie theater |
| Construction | |
| Built | 1910 |
| Opened | 1986 |
| Closed | 2012 |
| Demolished | 2016 |
Slave Theater, also called the Slave I, was a movie theater located at 1215 Fulton Street in Bedford–Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, New York City. The theater was founded in 1984 by Brooklyn judge John L. Phillips Jr. to screen a film he had produced and became a center of civil rights organizing in Brooklyn.
Phillips named the theater as a reminder of slavery as the origin of African-American and black American history. The name had a mixed reception by the Bed–Stuy community, but the theater became an emblem of Black pride in Brooklyn. After a complicated legal battle over ownership after Phillips's death, the theater was sold in 2013 and demolished in late 2016.