Brightwood
Black Economic Development Zone in Durham, NC
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Our communal resource center will include: kitchen, recreation/fitness area, lounge, and sleeping quarters, and will be our home base while we clea... Read more
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About Phase 3
Published on August 1, 2020 by Jane Tandler
Year 3/Phase 3: A period of self sustainability and major growth. A BLACK ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ZONE 20 like minded individuals willing to work together in mutualism and community. Black people willing to live a holistic/natural life of farm...
About Phase 2
Published on August 1, 2020 by Jane Tandler
Year 2/Phase 2: once our infrastructure is established, we expand the compound to include customized BUT TASTEFUL AND FUNCTIONING tiny home/ treehouses or cargo dwellings. Only the people who work there or own a business in BRIGHTWOOD can l...
About Phase 1 - $50,000 goal
Published on August 1, 2020 by Jane Tandler
Year 1/Phase 1: infrastructure development and agricultural commerce. Compound lifestyle where we work, play and outreach. We create our anchor business “THE BRIGHTWOOD MARKET” a large farmers market made from an existing structure on the p...
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After Black Wall Street’s downfall, we have been looking for true economic independence!
We are caught in a trap where the people in power want our culture but don’t value our lives. An economy that doesn’t value our work, our dollar and will do anything to keep us from achieving our goals of being “equal”.
We’ve seen time and time again that black people CAN achieve COMPLETE AUTONOMY (it happened right here in NC twice) but only until white people decided to burn it all down. NOW IS OUR TIME! Angry white mobs can’t run into a black community with torches and shotguns anymore! America knows that we are under a microscope and are vulnerable. Not to an enemy, but vulnerable in the sense that black people can unite and defeat that economic bully system. The patriarchal, old white hand manipulating systemic racism
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Jane Tandler
Skip Gibbs