Our Mission
To provide a economic model that drives Commerce & Equity to Tulsans and the Black diaspora.
WE ARE DEVELOPING Tulsa INTO A GLOBAL CULTURE HUB, BY INVESTING IN MUSIC, ART, FILM, & EDUCATIOn.
Fire in Little Africa is a music and multimedia project coinciding with the 100-year anniversary of the Tulsa Race Massacre. The project is made up of more than fifty rappers, singers, producers, and creatives based in the state of Oklahoma and was partially recorded in Tulsa’s Skyline Mansion, a former home to Tulsa Ku Klux Klan leader W. Tate Brady.
Dreamland Festival, (f.k.a World Culture Music Festival) is Oklahoma’s largest hip-hop festival. In 2022, the festival took place Sept. 16-18 and featured nearly 100 musical performances from some of the best local talent and national acts like Grammy-nominated Rapsody, plus LaRussell, Murs and Father. There were also art installations featuring regional artists and numerous panels.
“DREAMWOOD PARTNERS WITH dreamers WHO ARE INVESTED IN CREATING models FOR THE CULTURE TO THIVE”
— Dr. Stevie Johnson, Dreamwood CEO
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Case Study
Motown Records released the album on May 28, 2021. The collaborative Fire in Little Africa musical project was a concept originally proposed by Dr. Stevie Johnson, also known as Dr. View.
Johnson’s inspiration for the project came partly from his own dissertation work while completing his doctoral program at the University of Oklahoma, which won the 2019 Bobby Wright Dissertation of the Year Award.
By bringing influential Tulsa area artists Steph Simon and Dialtone into the fold, they collaboratively worked to bring in other artists they knew who fit the mold of the project. In an interview with Rolling Stone, Simon says, "The whole point of making this album is because we need representation from people from here, people who live here, eat here, spend here."
