The Forbidden Frequency

"Beyond Tulsa: Uncovering America's Forgotten Black Wall Streets"


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Before Silicon Valley and the rise of Wall Street, Black communities across America built their own thriving economic centers—complete with banks, hospitals, schools, and newspapers. You've probably heard of Tulsa’s Greenwood District, but what if it wasn’t the only Black Wall Street?

In this powerful episode, host Davis unearths the hidden histories of places like Durham’s Hayti District, Richmond’s Jackson Ward, Atlanta’s Sweet Auburn, Chicago’s Bronzeville, and Boley, Oklahoma—communities where Black excellence wasn’t the exception, but the norm. Until it was systematically dismantled.

Through vivid storytelling and historical insight, “Beyond Tulsa” reveals how policy, infrastructure, and silence conspired to erase these legacies—and why reclaiming them matters now more than ever.

This isn’t just a history lesson. It’s a reclamation.

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