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Short Film Honors the Legacy of Black Wall Street
In Descended from the Promised Land, descendants of Greenwood entrepreneurs talk about what their families built and what was so violently taken away.
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Tulsa Race Massacre Descendant Talks Death Of Hughes Van Ellis, One Of Its Last Remaining Survivors
Anneliese M. Bruner, great-granddaughter of a Tulsa survivor, spoke to the The Root in order to place the loss of Van Ellis in a historical context.
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Oklahoma Supreme Court Will Consider Reparations for Tulsa Race Massacre Survivors
There are only three living survivors from the horrific 1921 attack.
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Tulsa Race Massacre Survivor Recalls Her Experience in New Memoir
In Don’t Let Them Bury My Story, Viola Ford Fletcher writes about living through the horrific attack on the country’s most affluent Black community
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Emmett Till Statue To Reside in Mississippi Town Near a Confederate Monument
The nine-foot statue will be ten miles away from Bryant’s Grocery & Meat Market, where the infamous whistling incident occurred.
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ATL-based Greenwood, the Gathering Spot Announce Merger
The two high-profile, Black-owned firms say they can better serve customers together
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The Gap Band’s Ronnie Wilson Dead at 73
Ronnie founded The Gap Band with his brothers Charlie and Robert Wilson in the late 1960s.
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2 Survivors of the Tulsa Race Massacre Arrive in Ghana for Week-Long ‘Dream’ Trip to Africa
While in Ghana, the siblings will meet government officials, visit historic sites and participate in a traditional naming ceremony.