A black mecca, in the United States, is a city to which African Americans, particularly singles, professionals, and middle-class families, are drawn to live, due to some or all of the following factors: superior economic opportunities for black people, often as assessed by the presence of a large black upper-middle and upper class black businesses and political power in a city leading black educational institutions in a city a city's leading role in black history, arts, music, food, and other cultures harmonious black-white race relations in a city New York City, in particular Harlem, was referred to as a black mecca during the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s, 1930s, 1940s and still is today. Atlanta has also adopted the name and has been referred to as a black mecca since the 1970s, while Black Enterprise has referred to Houston as the emerging equivalent.
