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Group aims to help rebuild Tulsa's Black Wall Street By: WXYZ Staff and last updated 2021-06-02 13:18:16-04 DETROIT, Mich. — One hundred years ago, an angry white mob in Tulsa, Okla., burned the nation’s wealthiest black business district to the ground. It was an area known as Black Wall Street. Hundreds of people were killed, and thousands lost their homes. “The money and wealth that was lost, there were people there who were millionaires who died broke, never recaptured,” said Rev. Horace Sheffield, Chairman of Restore Black Wall Street Project. “The...

Hill Harper, who stars on ABC's "The Good Doctor" and owns Detroit’s Roasting Plant Coffee, is a co-chair on the Restore Black Wall Street Project. He met with two survivors in Tulsa on the weekend of the centennial.