tulsa, oklahoma
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Did Obama Low-Key Take the First Steps Towards Reparations?
How The Department hopes to finally seek justice for Tulsa Massacre survivors with the help of an Obama law
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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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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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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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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 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