The Elaine Race Massacre left hundreds dead in 1919. “Rise Again” director Dawn Porter says like Tulsa, it was sparked by racist anger of Black progress.
Burton Village BBQ Co. opens as Black Wall Street flagship business in the Burton St., Eastern Ave. area. Black Wall Street GR hopes it’ll lure other businesses to the area in an effort to recreate..
100 years after the bloody destruction of “Black Wall Street,” historians Scott Ellsworth and Keisha N. Blain reflect on what happened and the need for reparations.