Where Culture
Creates Opportunity
Tulsa, Oklahoma · September 25–27, 2026
Music · Film · Pathways to Ownership
Tulsa, Oklahoma · September 25–27, 2026
Music · Film · Pathways to Ownership
BWSN harnesses the power of music and film to celebrate and empower the people building what’s next.
Rooted in the legacy of Greenwood. Focused on the possibilities ahead.
A weekend of acclaimed artists, special guests, and inspiring moments that honor the resilience and spirit of Greenwood, from a Saturday evening Tulsa Theater gala to a Sunday celebration at historic Vernon AME Church.
Hosted at Langston University in partnership with NYU, the Film Summit brings together filmmakers, industry professionals, students, and emerging creators for screenings, showcases, mentorship, and industry access.
Entrepreneurial pathway programs, thought-provoking panels, community conversations, and leadership experiences designed to help elevate the next generation of creators, innovators, and builders.
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Rooted in the legacy of Greenwood, BWSN spotlights emerging creators, entrepreneurs, and community builders, attracts attention and opportunity to their work, and helps turn talent, ideas, and ambition into ownership.
Greenwood became one of the most prosperous Black communities in America before the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre destroyed nearly every home and business across 35 square blocks in a single day.
Its legacy endured.
Black Wall Street Nation begins here because the spirit that built Greenwood still has something to teach us about possibility, resilience, and opportunity.
Black Wall Street Nation is a national platform rooted in the legacy of Greenwood and dedicated to celebrating the creators, entrepreneurs, innovators, and community builders helping shape America's future.
Co-founded by Tulsa public educator and community builder Lincoln Cochran and media entrepreneur and bridge-building creator Marc Benjamin, Black Wall Street Nation brings together local leadership and national collaboration in service of a shared vision: celebrating culture, expanding opportunity, and helping amplify the people and ideas shaping America's next chapter.
Beginning in Tulsa, BWSN seeks to honor one of America's most powerful stories of resilience and achievement while helping elevate the people, organizations, and initiatives building what's next.
Featured collaborators include
alongside a growing network of community, cultural, educational, and entrepreneurial partners.
Black Wall Street Nation is being developed in close partnership with local innovators, artists, educators, entrepreneurs, storytellers, community leaders, and collaborators from across the country who share a belief in the power of culture to expand opportunity.
From Greenwood to classrooms, stages, campuses, businesses, and community institutions across Tulsa, BWSN is designed to amplify the energy, creativity, leadership, and momentum already shaping the city's future.
The platform continues to grow through collaboration with individuals and organizations committed to creating meaningful cultural experiences while helping expand pathways to opportunity and economic participation.
National and local organizations, institutions, philanthropies and businesses helping shape the inaugural Black Wall Street Nation Experience.
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Rooted in the legacy of Greenwood.
Focused on the possibilities ahead.