MoCADA, the Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Arts, is a Brooklyn museum founded in 1999 by Laurie Cumbo, growing out of her graduate thesis on an African-focused art museum's potential to serve neighboring communities. It opened in a church-owned building in Bedford-Stuyvesant before relocating in 2006 to the James E. Davis 80 Arts Building in Fort Greene. After that space closed in 2024 for redevelopment, MoCADA reopened its flagship Culture Lab II gallery in Fort Greene in January 2025, alongside the Ubuntu Garden community space and a seasonal Governors Island residency, Abolition House. The museum focuses on art and culture connected to Africa and its diaspora and has run community programs such as concerts in public housing and the Soul of Brooklyn block-party arts series.