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.
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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…
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…
The city discovered five more potential burials from the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre at Oaklawn Cemetery on Thursday, bringing the total to 20.
As people come to terms with the horrific truth of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, a Harvard University professor says there isn't one definitiv…
The Justice for Greenwood Foundation presented Hughes Van Ellis Sr., Lessie Benningfield Randle and Viola Fletcher $100,000 during a ceremony …
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The performance, which will feature Wynton Marsalis and the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra, the Tulsa Symphony Orchestra and Festival Chorus…
"Should our schools now teach the truth about Tulsa? Yes, and they should also stop the battle to whitewash curriculums to avoid discomfort fo…
The nonbinding document, which describes the events of May 31-June 1, 1921, in Tulsa as the “single worst incident of racial violence in Ameri…
The lawsuit seeks a victims' compensation fund, a hospital to be built in north Tulsa, a scholarship program, and for Black Tulsans to no long…
The words and ideas are still there, even if Parkinson's disease has taken some edge off the powerful voice Americans have known for nearly 60 years.
The $18.2 million legacy project of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre Centennial Commission was funded with local and state dollars and private don…
Researchers returned to Oaklawn Cemetery to begin the exhumation of potential graves indentified in October.Revisit the history of the 1921 Tu…
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