Bowl of Dreams U.0 (2024) (2023)

A film about black-owned businesses on U Street, known as "The Black Mecca". Family-owned businesses such as Lee's Flower Shop, family Owned Since 1910, Ben's Chili Bowl, family-owned since 1958, The Industrial Bank of Washington stand as a testament to the black business movement that began in the 1880s in downtown Washington and spread to the U Street area by the 1900s. The bank was founded in 1913 by laborer and entrepreneur John Whitelaw Lewis as the Industrial Savings Bank. Martin Luther King, Malcolm X, and Stokely Carmichael made this their think tank.