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Black Wall Street ATLANTA
We celebrate Black entrepreneurs and professionals as well as the people who support them regardless of race.
When and where
Date and time
Wednesday, May 17 · 6 - 8pm EDT
Location
Absalom Jones Episcopal Center 807 Atlanta Student Movement Boulevard Atlanta, GA 30314
About this event
- 2 hours
- Mobile eTicket
We celebrate Black entrepreneurs and professionals as well as the people who support them regardless of race. To date, BMORENews.com & BlackUSA.News have honored over 2,000 individuals in 9 US cities: New York, Baltimore, Washington, D.C., Richmond, Atlanta, New Orleans, Birmingham, Las Vegas, & Tulsa.
The goal is to help preserve little-known Black Wall Street history nationally and also to inspire entrepreneurship beginning in the Black community. We believe that the stronger Black businesses become, the more likely they are to hire more Black people.
Special thanks to Dr. Catherine Meeks, Dr. Tyrone Taborn, Morocco Coleman, Robert Scott, Rondy Griffin, and the Absalom Jones Episcopal Center for Racial Healing.
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About the organizer
BMORENews.com was established on August 9, 2002, by DMGlobal Marketing & Public Relations, LLC. It is a digital news and information outlet based in Baltimore, MD. In December 2020 due to how COVID-19 impacted news coverage, we began streaming. The end-product of our pandemic pivot is BlackUSA.News where we stream 7 days a week from 6 US cities. Hence, we now have a national network comprised of both BMORENews.com and BlackUSA.News with regular contributors from New York, Maryland, Washington, D.C., Atlanta, Los Angeles, and Oakland, California.
In 2011, BMORENews.com and Sisters4Sisters Network, Inc. joined forces to present the first-ever Black Capital Awards in Washington, D.C. We also hosted a larger event - the BMORENews Global Forum on Women's Empowerment at the United Nations in Manhattan. The name morphed into the Black Wall Street Awards and we also added in the name of the man who made it possible - the late Joe Manns. He was a business owner who sincerely gave back to the community in a tremendous way - a way in which anybody would be proud - regardless of race, religion, upbringing, and the like.
To date, we have recognized over 1,900 individuals from 9 US cities with Joe Manns Black Wall Street Awards. By definition, we celebrate Black entrepreneurs and professionals as well as the people who support them regardless of race. The aim is to help preserve little-known Black Wall Street history nationally and to help encourage entrepreneurship, beginning in the Black community.
For more information on Black Wall Street, do check out Doni Glover's "I Am Black Wall Street" on Amazon. In this book, he shares how the people in Tulsa's Greenwood District first got there and from whence they came. His book shows that the Greenwood District was a part of a continuum of freedom colonies dating back centuries in the western hemisphere.