Fire in Little Africa Set for May 28 Release Via Motown Records/Black Forum in Partnership with the Bob Dylan Center® and Woody Guthrie Center®
Album Brings Fresh And Important Perspective To The 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre And Celebrates The City s Vibrant Hip Hop Scene
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LOS ANGELES, April 5, 2021 /PRNewswire/
Fire in Little Africa – a groundbreaking album of original material, written and recorded by a collective of Oklahoma hip hop artists to commemorate the 100
th anniversary of the Tulsa Race Massacre – will be released on May 28 by Motown Records/Black Forum in partnership with Tulsa s Bob Dylan Center
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“A place like Tulsa is big enough to have all the amenities that I wanted from a big city it just doesn’t have any duplicates,” Holk says. “If you want your ‘80s-themed video-game barcade, we’ve got one. We just don’t have three.”
Tulsa Remote, as Next City previously reported, is a program launched by the George Kaiser Family Foundation that offers money to young remote workers to entice them to make Tulsa home. In the year following its launch, the program got 10,000 applicants. Now, says Ben Stewart, the program’s executive director, more than 50,000 people have applied, and more than 600 have actually moved to Tulsa. Recently, the group made an upgrade to the incentive. While the $10,000 was previously split up into a handful of payments distributed over the course of a year, Tulsa Remote is now offering workers a $10,000 lump sum to make the move, advertising the money as a partial down payment on a house. The terms of the program still require people to l
Some cities and regions in the heartland want to bring energy and vitality to their towns by attracting dynamic workers. The programs are getting a lot of attention during the pandemic.