Barista Angel Jamison talks with Yvette Troupe, an owner of the Black Wall Street Liquid Lounge coffee shop, whose name is an homage to the successful Black business district destroyed a century ago. The Yars say they strive for their developments to be the “21st-century version of Black Wall Street,” naming Black tenants in GreenArch, including a yoga and spin studio, a sneaker boutique, an art gallery and Troupe’s coffee shop. “This really is the way that Black Wall Street functioned. [In Syracuse, a road and reparations]Bobby Eaton Sr. often chats with tourists visiting Black Wall Street, informing them of Greenwood’s history. “If you don’t own it, they dictate to you what you do.”Down the street at his cafe, Troupe said an “economic stimulus” package for Black entrepreneurs to create a new Black Wall Street elsewhere may be more politically palatable than reparations.

Source: Washington Post January 17, 2021 15:01 UTC