The Spirit of Black Wall Street with Nicole Oxendine

Reviving the spirit of Black Wall Street with Black businesses
During the late 1800s and early 1900s, Durham’s Black Wall Street was an African American entrepreneurial enclave full of Black-owned businesses like NC Mutual Life Insurance Company and M&F Bank. The 1960s urban renewal project removed much of Durham's Black Wall Street and destroyed the surrounding Hayti community.
Today, Nicole Oxendine, founder and CEO of Empower Dance Studio, is reviving the Black entrepreneurial spirit of Black Wall Street through movement and dance.
“We can build, we can establish, we can own businesses, we can do anything we want to do.”
- Nicole Oxendine
Learn more about Empower Dance Studio and Empower Corporation:
www.empowerdancestudio.com/
www.theempowercircle.com/
Special thanks to the North Carolina Collection at Durham County Library for providing the archival photos of Black Wall Street. See more of Durham's history:
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Explore more Black Stories of Durham’s past & present: www.discoverdurham.com/commun...
Check out the Durham African American Heritage Guide:
www.discoverdurham.com/resour...