Mane Media Network

08/04/2024

Freddie are you ready??

08/04/2024

Gearing up for a mane-ificent radio reboot! Stay tuned.

11/18/2022

10/13/2022

We are grateful for the businesses that support our mission. A special thank you to Visions Federal Credit Union for their support of our Community Starts at Home event! Join us on October 19th as we present an online discussion of solutions to the rental housing crisis and an in-person networking event.

10/13/2022

The Strong National Museum of Play turns 40-years-old this month. The museum will be celebrating its birthday on Wednesday with special activities, including free train and carousel rides, party hats, a tea party, photo booth, birthday card crafts, and more.

10/13/2022

After a two-year hiatus, RIT’s College of Art and Design reintroduced the Charrette, a unique, weeklong design challenge in which students must create a wearable sculpture that communicated the idea of memory. In addition to other prizes awarded, the work of 15 students was selected to appear on t...

10/13/2022

A prolific actor, Stoker appeared in The Six Million Dollar Man, Roots, The Incredible Hulk, Lou Grant, Falcon Crest, and many more.

10/13/2022

10/13/2022

Ashanti - October 13, 1980
HAPPY BIRTHDAY
Singer

10/06/2022

10/06/2022

10/06/2022

10/06/2022

PeriodT . . . . . .

10/06/2022

10/06/2022

The MLB wild-card round begins Friday! Here's the full schedule.

10/06/2022

Bernie Mac - October 5, 1957 – August 9, 2008
HAPPY BIRTHDAY - R.I.P.
Comedian and Actor

10/06/2022

On Saturday, the National Record and the NYS State Records, were broken for the largest pumpkins. It weighed in at 2,554 pounds, by local grower Scott Andrusz from Williamsville. The Pumpkin will be on display through October 16th at the Great Pumpkin Farm in Clarence.

10/06/2022

Heather Headley - October 5, 1974
HAPPY BIRTHDAY
Singer

10/03/2022

10/03/2022

21 years ago...

10/03/2022

You might have heard of Black Wall Street. Meet the founder, O.W. Gurley.

In 1905 Gurley and his wife sold their property in Noble County and moved 80 miles to the oil boom town of Tulsa. Gurley purchased 40 acres of land in North Tulsa and established his first business, a rooming house on a dusty road that would become Greenwood Avenue. He subdivided his plot into residential and commercial lots and eventually opened a grocery store.

As the community grew around him, Gurley prospered. Between 1910 and 1920, the Black population in the area he had purchased grew from 2,000 to nearly 9,000 in a city with a total population of 72,000. The Black community had a large working-class population as well as doctors, lawyers, and other professionals who provided services to them. Soon the Greenwood section was dubbed “Negro Wall Street” by Tuskegee educator Booker T. Washington.

Greenwood, now called Black Wall Street, was nearly self-sufficient with Black-owned businesses, many initially financed by Gurley, ranging from brickyards and theaters to a chartered airplane company. Gurley built the Gurley Hotel at 112 N. Greenwood and rented out spaces to smaller businesses. His other properties included a two-story building at 119 N. Greenwood, which housed the Masonic Lodge and a Black employment agency. He was also one of the founders of Vernon AME Church.

Source: https://www.blackpast.org/african-american-history/o-w-gurley-1868-1935/

10/03/2022

By Megan Sayles, AFRO Business Writer, Report for America Corps Member, [email protected] This September, the Harbor Bank of Maryland (Harbor Bank) celebrated its 40th anniversary. Since 1982, the commercial bank […]