A Black Wall Street is establishing itself in Augusta, GA.
According to WJBF Channel 6, an eight-step plan focused on Black entrepreneurship, proposed by Lawrence Freeman Jr. and Thelonious Jones, aims to create a business district encompassing Walton Way, Laney Walker, Broad Street, East Boundary, and other areas. The goal is to promote economic growth and help entrepreneurs generate wealth, with a district modeled after the original Black Wall Street in Tulsa, OK.
The project is inspired by Viola Fletcher, “Mother Fletcher,” the oldest living survivor of the Tulsa Race Massacre of 2021, which saw more than 300 lives lost and the whole of Black Wall Street businesses destroyed, according to the Tulsa Library. Fletcher was 7 at the time and turned 110 in May 2024, notes People. She is still fighting to rewrite the wrongs of the massacre that left her family in poverty, per Justice For Greenwood…