Nora Neely Studio
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    • 2022 crowd installation at NEXT exhibition at the corcoran school of art
    • 2022 LIVE RECORD installation at dupont underground
    • 2021 concurring experiences web design for the corcoran luther brady art gallery
    • 2020 Three Rooms Project
    • 2019 Grab The Beehive, Cut it Down The Middle, Lick the Honey
    • 2019 Regarding The Narrative
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    • 2022 Black Wall Street documentary
    • 2021 Adele Kenworthy Bongseonhwa Flowerhands mini-documentary
    • 2021 Sweet Root Village mini-documentary
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    • 2020 Continental Correspondance
    • 2020 Portraits of PA
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  • Design
    • 2022 crowd installation at NEXT exhibition at the corcoran school of art
    • 2022 LIVE RECORD installation at dupont underground
    • 2021 concurring experiences web design for the corcoran luther brady art gallery
    • 2020 Three Rooms Project
    • 2019 Grab The Beehive, Cut it Down The Middle, Lick the Honey
    • 2019 Regarding The Narrative
  • documentary
    • 2022 Black Wall Street documentary
    • 2021 Adele Kenworthy Bongseonhwa Flowerhands mini-documentary
    • 2021 Sweet Root Village mini-documentary
  • Photojournalism
    • 2020 Continental Correspondance
    • 2020 Portraits of PA
    • 2019 On Paris, In Love
    • 2018 Like It Was A Continuation
    • 2018 We The Philosophers
    • 2016 - 2020 Long Exposures
  • Sketches
    • collage
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Black Wall Street

The history & impact of Black Wall Streets in the US in the early 1900s

"Black Wall Street" paints a picture of how former prosperous black communities of Richmond, Durham, and Tusla came to exist, and how they were ultimately destroyed by both physical and systemic racism.

Filmed, Edited and Produced by James Mertz & Nora Neely


​In the early 1900s, America had booming, successful, self-sustaining Black Wall Streets. These communities have since been systemically and violently destroyed. This short documentary video educates about stories of one thriving Black Wall Street – in Jackson Ward, Richmond, Virginia. It centers the histories of racially motivated, systemic violence against Black communities in the United States, and the continued impact of policies that sustain inequity today. This documentary not only focuses on the often untold realities of racial injustice and systemic economic violence towards Black communities in the US, but also actively uplifts Black people, greatness, and wealth.


​This project would not have been possible without Paul Rucker, VCUarts, and Dr. Spencer Crew, George Mason University. 
Produced by James Mertz & Nora Neely, 2022


  • Design
    • 2022 crowd installation at NEXT exhibition at the corcoran school of art
    • 2022 LIVE RECORD installation at dupont underground
    • 2021 concurring experiences web design for the corcoran luther brady art gallery
    • 2020 Three Rooms Project
    • 2019 Grab The Beehive, Cut it Down The Middle, Lick the Honey
    • 2019 Regarding The Narrative
  • documentary
    • 2022 Black Wall Street documentary
    • 2021 Adele Kenworthy Bongseonhwa Flowerhands mini-documentary
    • 2021 Sweet Root Village mini-documentary
  • Photojournalism
    • 2020 Continental Correspondance
    • 2020 Portraits of PA
    • 2019 On Paris, In Love
    • 2018 Like It Was A Continuation
    • 2018 We The Philosophers
    • 2016 - 2020 Long Exposures
  • Sketches
    • collage
    • Animation
    • composition
    • Street Panorama
    • Outtakes & Excerpts
  • projects
  • about