Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I'm co-founder & CEO with 30+ years in community economic development. In the early 20th century in the heart of Tulsa, Oklahoma, ...

Old black and white pictures inside the Greenwood Cultural Center in Tulsa, Oklahoma, gives a small glimpse into Tulsa's historical Black Wall Street. "Black Wall Street was a thriving Black-owned ...

“Beautiful, bustling, and Black”—that was how author, attorney, and activist Hannibal B. Johnson described Tulsa, Oklahoma’s Greenwood District in his book “Black Wall Street: From Riot to Renaissance ...

On Nov. 10, 1910, Booker T. Washington said that of all the Southern cities he visited, he saw the sanest attitude of white people toward the Black community in Durham. He said that he never had seen ...

Black Wall Street was a wealthy and prosperous Black business district in Tulsa, Okla., in the early 1900s. A White mob carried out the Tulsa race massacre of 1921, burning over 1,400 homes and ...

When people hear the term “Black Wall Street,” most immediately think of Tulsa, Oklahoma — the site of one of the most infamous episodes of racial violence in American history. But Tulsa was not alone ...

But are tech skills and new business enough to restore what was lost in 1921? A century ago, the Greenwood district of Tulsa, Oklahoma, buzzed with Black entrepreneurship, creating a thriving Black ...

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — Working to lift up Black business owners, modern-day Black Wall Streets in West Michigan are offering training sessions, curating business directories and developing Black ...

"Beautiful, bustling, and Black"—that was how author, attorney, and activist Hannibal B. Johnson described Tulsa, Oklahoma's Greenwood District in his book "Black Wall Street: From Riot to Renaissance ...