Kokobar owners Rebecca Walker and Angel Williams, both 26, have fused the fashion of gourmet cyberlounges with multiculti values to create the first African-American and women-owned Internet javahouse and bookstore. After the two spent months as the only black women in the Expresso Bar, a popular Greenwich Village cybercaf�, Williams decided to transport the concept across the Manhattan bridge. Located off the beaten track in the Fort Green section of Brooklyn, Kokobar aims to draw more people of color to the Internet by providing inexpensive access in a public space. "I thought it would be a good idea if someone put an espresso bar in the 'hood," Williams says, looking around at the sparsely decorated caf� pulsing with hip hop tunes. "The of-color community is in danger of missing out on the information revolution," says Walker.
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