"The thing that hurt them the most was hearing people say they were not injured, that they did not have a specific injury related to the massa…
A prayer rally was held Monday evening in advance of Tuesday morning's hearing on a motion to dismiss a 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre reparations lawsuit.
Eight years ago today, then-Tulsa Police Chief Chuck Jordan said he was sorry that the Tulsa Police Department did not protect its citizens du…
A service is set for 10 a.m. Saturday at Moore’s Southlawn Funeral Home.
A Tulsa-based advocacy group led by a local attorney has asked the U.S. Department of Justice's Civil Rights Division to investigate the city …
An all-expense-paid trip to Accra, Ghana, for Viola Fletcher, 107, and her brother, Hughes Van Ellis, 100, is being co-sponsored by Our Black …
“I wish we had this when I was learning Oklahoma history," John Thompson of Tulsa said of the exhibits showing the historic Greenwood neighbor…
The museum held a sort of preview opening in late spring to coincide with centennial activities, but Wednesday was its grand debut.
Four oversight committee members, including City Councilor Vanessa Hall-Harper, spoke during an afternoon council committee meeting.
A dedication and limited opening for the $18.6 million facility were held in June as part of the Tulsa Race Massacre centennial commemoration.…
The remains of 19 people exhumed from a mass grave at Oaklawn Cemetery earlier this summer were reinterred Friday over the loud objections of …
The bodies were exhumed earlier this summer as part of the city's search for unmarked burials from Tulsa's 1921 Race Massacre.
How the recent expansion of Medicaid in Oklahoma could help with community health disparities that trace back to the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre …
The $18.6 million facility had originally been scheduled to reopen Saturday, but the target date has now moved to Aug. 4.
That set, of a Black male, bore the marks of multiple bullet wounds. The remains were found among a row of children's graves, but buried much …
Some differences in the way coffins were buried are causing researchers to leave open the possibility that “perhaps we’re looking at separate …
Scott Ellsworth hadn’t planned on writing another book about the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre.
Researchers aren't certain whether the burials are connected, but it would boost the number of confirmed dead from the May 31-June 1, 1921, ma…
"That economic engine can be restarted," Greenwood Rising's project director says of Black Wall Street. But another Greenwood leader's fear is…
The history center began receiving visitors on a limited basis Thursday. “Yes, it’s painful, but to not acknowledge it doesn’t give us the opp…
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Among the most notable findings, according to one researcher: Oklahoma at one point before 1921 had more Black lawyers practicing than any oth…
Wynton Marsalis may not have written his first symphony in response to the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre. But one would be hard-pressed to think of…
The concert was presented in collaboration with the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre Centennial Commission.
“Women of Black Wall Street,” a website created by Oklahoma State University history students and their professor, focuses on women who were i…
"A Song of Greenwood," a musical centered on the Tulsa Race Massacre that premiered in Tulsa more than two decades ago, may be coming to a tel…
The $20 million project which sits at the corner of Greenwood Avenue and Archer Street honors the icons of Black Wall Street and memorializes …
Descendants of the freed Black people enslaved by Native American nations who once owned much of the land under Tulsa, say financial stability…
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