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Why Tulsa Having A Permanent Black Woman Superintendent Is A Big Deal
The community of Tulsa, OK., has a complicated relationship with race. The appointment of Dr. Ebony Johnson marks an important inflection point.
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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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OWN’s Rebuilding Black Wall Street Honors Tulsa’s Tragic History While Healing Old Wounds
‘The beauty that can come from the ashes of decimation is a real thing,’ building/construction consultant Ananda Lewis told The Root.
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Tulsa Massacre Survivors Continue Their Fight for Reparations
Survivors and descendants of the Tulsa Race massacre appeal to the Oklahoma Supreme Court after a lower court dismissed their case last month.
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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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Black Tech Street is The Rebirth of Tulsa’s Black Business District
The legacy of Black Wall Street lives on through a new generation of Black entrepreneurs.
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Tulsa Massacre Survivors Get $1 Million Donation
Philanthropist Ed Mitzen wanted to help out the centenarians.
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Black People in Oklahoma and Beyond Still Feel the Effects of the Tulsa Race Massacre
100 years after the Greenwood area in Tulsa was destroyed by white attackers, the Black community has yet to fully recover.
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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.