This is Karen Hunter and welcome to the hub. I want to talk about the anatomy, the blueprint for actually building Black Wall Street.

We've talked a lot about it primarily because Watchmen opened up this season on HBO with the decimation of Greenwood,

Tulsa, Oklahoma, Black Wall Street, and millions of Americans who had never heard of Black Wall Street

finally got to get a bird's eye view

of what that community was with the movie theaters

and the opulence in the wealth,

a black community in the center of Oklahoma, powerful, wealthy, taken down over a two-day period.

But I want to talk about Black Wall Street because I've been talking about Black Wall Street

for several years now without all of the knowledge.

So, you know, we're about to do a book club on YouTube,

live on YouTube starting in February, the fourth Sunday in the month.

And one of the books is going to be Black Fortunes.

That's not the first book.

We're starting again with Carter G.

Woodson's, The Miseducation of the Negro.

But Black Fortunes is on the list.

Shimari Wills, thank you, sir.

Because for years and years I was talking about

O. W. Gurley and J.B. Stratford and how these two men built Black Wall Street, which is true.

But before there was O.W. Gurley, and before there was J.B. Stratford,

there was Robert Church from Memphis, a powerful man who literally built Bill Street.

Beel Street in Memphis, one of the most amazing communities of black folk in Memphis,

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