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About Javier Wallace
Javier Wallace (@javierwallace512) is a Digital creator creator on Instagram, also filed under Entertainment and Travel Influencers. The account has 6,708 followers and 1,968 published posts. Recent posts average 1,262 likes and 21 comments, an engagement rate of 16.49%.
Javier Wallace belongs to the nano tier, the band usually drawn between 1,000 and 10,000 followers. Javier Wallace follows 1,249 accounts, so the audience is roughly 5.4 times the size of the list followed. Javier Wallace uses an Instagram professional account. Flinque files Javier Wallace under 3 categories, led by Digital creator and followed by Entertainment and Travel Influencers.
The Instagram bio for Javier Wallace runs to 16 words across 4 lines. The bio mentions @blackaustintours, @afrolatinotravel and @cbthemovie. The latest activity Flinque has on record for Javier Wallace dates from November 2025.
1,968 Posts
Of the 10 most recent posts shown for Javier Wallace, 7 are videos, 2 are single images and 1 is a carousel. That mix leans toward videos. Javier Wallace has built a substantial archive of 1,968 posts. Against the audience, that is roughly 3.4 followers for each post published. All 10 carry captions, averaging 156 words each. The captions are written mainly in English. Words that recur across them include black, these, trafficking, texas and through. The captions tag #blackaustintours, #blackhistory, #trueaustin, #basketballtrafficking and #panamastudyabroad.
intentionally approached Stephen because of his belief that art should continue telling stories long after its creation. As Stephen often says, he loves working with live models because they carry a lineage. Their families and descendants will one day be able to point to the work and say: “I know that person. That’s my family.”
That vision is central to Gone to Texas.
For this project, Jaiden honors his 6th great-grandfather, Hemsley Coursey, who was trafficked from Maryland, sold in New Orleans in 1835 at 17 years old, and ultimately forced into Texas through the domestic slave trade.
This is a glimpse into Stephen Hayes’ artistic process and the descendant-centered storytelling shaping this work. We are also working to involve additional descendants connected to these histories.
Big announcements are coming soon for those interested in participating.
Funded in part by the City of Austin Elevate Grant.
#blackaustintours #trueaustin
1st: the boys left their first school because they weren’t happy there. That’s important and it’s important to note and ask, what about when schools “aren’t happy” with students? The weight of the right fit is often placed on the student, which isn’t always the whole story. Especially when the school is responsible for authorizing the students F-1 Student Visa.
2nd: This case shows the clear need for more education about the use of the f-1 student visa because when we provide aid, we should know the rules. It’s important to protect the young persons, but ultimately I believe we should provide aid when needed. I was in this position before when the young person from Panama couldn’t stay at the initial private school that recruited him to the U.S. for basketball.
I talk about these issues in my book Basketball Trafficking: Stolen Black Panamanian Dreams you can comment BASKETBALL and get a copy of the Introduction sent to you.
What began as genealogical research and archival digging led me to Hemsley Coursey, my ancestor, who appeared in the historical record as cargo in the domestic slave trade. He trafficked from Maryland to New Orleans in 1835 at the age of 17 abroad a vessel named The Palestine.
This project turns archival data into descendant engagement, memory, and public storytelling through art. We found records of violence and separation, but also records of life, love, survival, and family. Hemsley later spoke lovingly of his wife and children in his will, reminding us that slavery was a part of his story, but not the entirety of his humanity.
Through GTT, we are reclaiming these narratives in public space alongside artist, using sculpture and descendant collaboration to tell this history in a deeply human way.
Supported in part by the City of Austin Elevate Grant.by the City of Austin Elevate Grant.
#blackaustintours #blackhistory
I had chance to share the origins behind the short film, which emerged from my dissatisfaction. I remember the first time when five were drafted to the and all were Black young men. I couldn’t take the invisibility of CB Claiborne any further. I decided to do something about it.
This was the origin of what has become CB: Power to the Player. I called and she agreed to help tell this important story. We have been in Oscar qualifying film festivals, and created a curriculum for the film that’s now in K-12 schools. Our goal is to make this into a feature length film.
We are the road to raising the funds for the production! We are on the way. I’m positive tonight’s screening is going to help. Make sure to let us know if you want to bring to your next event. We do schools, organizations, youth groups, and more.
#blackhistory
It was important for us to experience this space because the story we are telling through this project did not happen in isolation. The forced movement of enslaved people deeper into the South to places like Texas disrupted families, reshaped communities, and forever altered generations of Black life in America.
At Stagville, the focus is not centered on glorifying enslavers, but on acknowledging the lives, labor, resistance, and humanity of the people who were enslaved there. Visiting this site helped deepen our understanding of the violence of slavery and the systems that helped create places like Texas as we know them today.
For Jaiden, a direct descendant connected to this history, this was more than a visit. It was part of understanding how these histories live within us and continue to shape the present.
This research and storytelling process is part of Gone to Texas, supported through the City of Austin Elevate Grant, in collaboration with artist and the development of a new public sculpture project exploring memory, forced migration, and Black life.
#blackaustintours #trueaustin #blackhistory
Coursey, now Cosey in Central Texas, was one of more than one million enslaved people forcibly moved from the Upper South into the expanding cotton South and Mexican Texas through the domestic slave trade. This movement created many of the Black families and communities that exist in Texas today.
As part of our Gone to Texas (GTT) project, Jaiden stood in for Hemsley Coursey to be molded by world-renowned sculptor for a public art installation funded through the City of Austin Elevate Grant.
came up with this project after years of trying to make sense of how his family became Black Texans. He went and found the records of his family’s forced movement in Texas and realized that for them Gone to Texas meant something far different than non-enslaved Anglos looking for opportunity in Texas.
What makes this project different is that we are not telling these stories broadly or abstractly. We are tracing this history through descendants themselves. Through people like Jaiden, whose very existence is tied to the survival, rebuilding, and remaking of Black life after forced migration into places like Texas.
The slave manifest recorded Hemsley Coursey’s age, height, and weight on the ship Palestine. We traced where the ship went before and after trafficking Hemsley and other enslaved people Deep South.
Nearly 200 years later, his descendant stands in his place to help tell the story.
#blackaustintours #trueaustin #blackhistory
That can happen through reading a book like Basketball Trafficking: Stolen Black Panamanian Dreams, watching a documentary like, or experiences like study abroad!
This spring, I partnered with Foundation for a one-week spring break program in Panama. These students engaged with incredible community leaders of, histories, and experiences, and I truly believe all of us left better because of it.
I’m looking forward to creating more experiences like this in the future. If your school, university, organization, or group is interested in building an educational study abroad experience grounded in history, culture, and meaningful engagement, let’s connect.
Shoutout for making this come together with the logistics and community connections!
#panamastudyabroad
I’ve seen too many cases where coaches are evaluating athletes on athletic performance, but use academics to adjust a student’s visa status.
During a keynote address at Sport Leadership for Community Impact Conference at I shared this with the audience.
Thanks to and for the invitation and ensuring all attendees received a copy of my book, Basketball Trafficking: Stolen Black Panamanian Dreams.
If you want to read the introduction to the book for free, comment Basketball below and I’ll send you a link to download it.
📘 Basketball Trafficking: Stolen Black Panamanian Dreams is out now from Duke University Press.
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Pre-order now to receive exclusive access to an expert panel on global basketball migrations + insider strategies to keep youth safe. Plus, you’ll get a special discount code just for early supporters.
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Javier Wallace's engagement
Javier Wallace's engagement rate on Instagram is 16.49%, over 6%, more than 6 likes and comments per 100 followers. On a typical post that comes to about 1 like or comment for every 6 followers. Likes outnumber comments by roughly 60 to 1, with 1,262 likes and 21 comments on an average post, so most reactions are taps rather than replies.
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Javier Wallace (@javierwallace512) is a Digital creator creator on Instagram, also filed under Entertainment and Travel Influencers. Javier Wallace uses an Instagram professional account. The Instagram bio for Javier Wallace runs to 16 words across 4 lines.
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Javier Wallace has 6,708 followers on Instagram (6.7K). Javier Wallace follows 1,249 accounts, so the audience is roughly 5.4 times the size of the list followed. Javier Wallace has built a substantial archive of 1,968 posts.
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Javier Wallace's engagement rate on Instagram is 16.49%, over 6%, more than 6 likes and comments per 100 followers. On a typical post that comes to about 1 like or comment for every 6 followers. Likes outnumber comments by roughly 60 to 1, with 1,262 likes and 21 comments on an average post, so most reactions are taps rather than replies.
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Flinque files Javier Wallace under 3 categories, led by Digital creator and followed by Entertainment and Travel Influencers. Of the 10 most recent posts shown for Javier Wallace, 7 are videos, 2 are single images and 1 is a carousel. The 10 recent Instagram captions Flinque holds for Javier Wallace repeatedly use the words black, these, trafficking, texas and through. Javier Wallace's captions carry hashtags such as #blackaustintours, #blackhistory and #trueaustin. Javier Wallace writes those captions mainly in English.
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