Investigators will search two more areas in historic cemetery where a previous dig found no victims.
Success of new Tulsa Race Massacre reparations lawsuit hinges on state's nuisance law, attorneys say
The plaintiffs include one massacre survivor, 105-year-old Lessie Randle; a handful of descendants of survivors; Vernon AME Church; and the Tu…
On Tuesday, John Hope Franklin Reconcilation Park, 321 N. Detroit, officially joined the African American Civil Rights Network during a brief …
Born Oct. 8, 1919, in Tulsa's Greenwood District, Harold Joseph “Cornbread” Singer rose to jazz fame in the 1940s.
"This will be a world-class facility where people can come and see that not only did black lives matter in Greenwood then, but they will matte…
Hannibal B. Johnson returns to a subject he knows as well as anyone with his new book, “Black Wall Street 100: An American City Grapples with …
Archaeologists concluded no burials of any kind occurred on the site, though officials have indicated further testing in Oaklawn is likely, pr…
The group of people who stood with Turner marched with him to his church where a man was sitting outside. Turner knelt down and washed the man…
Excavation in the cemetery Tuesday unearthed something "quite different than what we were seeing elsewhere. Context is everything, so that was…
"I want to find the victims of the Race Massacre," Brenda Alford said. "Being the descendant of survivors and Black Wall Street entrepreneurs …
"This is the early stage of a long-term commitment by the city of Tulsa," Bynum said. "While it's taken 99 years to get to this point, we're f…
The stained-glass windows, inscribed with the names of 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre who helped build the historic church, will benefit from a $150…
After having suspended efforts April 1 amid the COVID-19 pandemic, crews resumed test excavations at a site potentially holding victims of the…
The mayor has made a priority of bringing some degree of resolution to the long-standing stories that bodies of people killed in the violence …
"We are fully committed," said State Archeologist Kary Stackelbeck. "We are either going to find the graves in the this location or we are goi…
The workers found a shell casing and some animal bones, momentarily halting work, but the team was satisfied the artifacts were unrelated to T…
State Archeologist Kary Stackelbeck said the fill material causes the scientists to still believe the site at the west end of the cemetery is …
Examination in Oaklawn Cemetery, 1133 E. 11th St., stopped because travel restrictions made it difficult for team from the state archaeologica…
The work was put on hold in late March because of the COVID-19 pandemic.
The Youth Entrepreneurship Shadow (YES) program pairs African American high school students with business owners in an effort to create Tulsa’…
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Fifth District Congresswoman Kendra Horn continued lead Oklahoma's House members in fundraising, with more than $400,000 during the pre-primar…
Two-term incumbent Carol Bush and 21-year-old newcomer Taylor Woodrum will decide the state House District 70 race in the June 30 Republican primary.
Stitt had proposed taking President Donald Trump on a tour of Greenwood during Trump's time in Tulsa, but black leaders strongly objected. The…
Watch the "60 Minutes" episode that debuted Sunday night about the Tulsa Race Massacre.
A crowd of more than 300 marchers participated in the Unity Over Violence Prayer March Monday, beginning at the Greenwood Cultural Center then…
Correction: In the original version of this story, the first name of "Watchmen" creator Damon Lindelof was incorrect. The story has been updated.
It isn’t that Tulsa did nothing for the victims of the race massacre. It’s that it didn’t do as much as it could have or, in the opinion of ma…
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