Where resilience meets opportunity​​
Building a generation of empowered young entrepreneurs who rise above barriers, rewrite their stories, and contribute to Durham’s economic and cultural legacy.
Our Mission
We equip justice-involved and underserved youth with mentorship, financial literacy, hands-on business training, and real-world entrepreneurship opportunities. Rooted in the history and spirit of Black Wall Street, we help young people transform from liabilities into assets—capable of leading, creating, and contributing to their communities.
Rooted in Durham's Rich Black History
W. E. B. Dubois, an American sociologist, historian, author, editor and activist visited Durham, North Carolina, in 1912.​
After that visit, DuBoi wrote, of Durham's Black-owned North Carolina Mutual and Provident. Association...
"Today there is a singular group in Durham where a black man may get up in the morning from a mattress made by black men, in a house which a black man built out of lumber which black men cut and planed; he may put on a suit which he bought at a colored haberdashery and socks knit at a colored mill; he may cook victuals from a colored grocery on a stove which black men fashioned; he may earn his living working for colored men, be sick in a colored hospital, and buried from a colored church; and the Negro insurance society will pay his widow enough to keep his children in a colored school. This is surely progress.”
