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Organized by the city Department of Arts, Culture, and Tourism in partnership with The Breed Entertainment, a New Haven-based music production and entertainment company, the Black Wall Street Festival ...
The event’s organizers encourage everyone to attend and learn more about Black Wall Street’s next era. The weekend festivities will commence with a citywide meet-and-greet and comedy show.
"Dreamland: The Burning of Black Wall Street" is a new documentary that explores the history of Black Wall Street and the violent events of late May and June 1921 in Tulsa, Oklahoma, that resulted ...
A ribbon cutting for Nineteen 21 Lounge is set for Friday, Feb. 28, along with an outdoor Black vendors night market. Learn more about the event, new lounge and SF Black Wall Street Foundation here .
This story is told twice in “The Wall of Respect: Public Art and Black Liberation in 1960s Chicago,” edited by Abdul Alkalimat, Romi Crawford and Rebecca Zorach, and it provides an insight ...
A half century ago, on Aug. 27, 1967, local residents, poets, painters, photographers and gang members gathered to dedicate the “Wall of Respect,” a mural painted on the side of a dilap… ...
• Learn about Black Wall Street: What it was like 100 years ago• Hear from a descendant: An incredible story of survival lives on in this Chicago shop• Impact Your World: Ways to champion ...
On June 1, 1921, white rioters looted and burned the all-black Greenwood neighborhood of Tulsa, Okla., known as Black Wall Street. Angry at the economic ...
A block from where his coffee shop, Black Wall Street Liquid Lounge, opened on New Year’s Day in 2020, his great-aunt ran a salon and beauty school in the late 1940s and early ’50s that was ...
A Black Wall Street(s) would have to address the barrier of access to capital which has plagued Black businesses since slavery. Black asset management firms manage only 1.1% of the total $71.4 ...
It's estimated around 300 Black people were killed during the destruction of Black Wall Street. "It was economically devastating but also mentally, emotionally, and spiritually traumatizing to the ...