Greenwood descendants shared their moving reflections with iOne Digital about the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre ahead of the commemoration of its centennial. — BY, ANOA CHANGA Six Greenwood descendants, representing three families, shared their moving reflections with iOne Digital about the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre ahead of the commemoration of its centennial. With each learning about […]
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In Tulsa, a pastor’s fight for reparations and racial justice | The Christian Science Monitor
Our reporters touch base with a prominent pastor in Tulsa, Oklahoma, about the evolving fight for reparations in the city. This is an update to Part 1 of our podcast “Tulsa Rising.” — BY, JESSICA MENDOZA & SAMANTHA LAINE PERFAS When our reporters met the Rev. Robert Turner in September, he was deep in […]
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9 Entrepreneurs Who Helped Build Tulsa’s Black Wall Street | History.com
Before the Tulsa Race Massacre, the city’s African American district thrived as a community of business leaders and visionaries. — BY, ALEXIS CLARK As more is learned about the Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921, including the discovery of mass graves, the stories of the African Americans who turned the city’s Greenwood district into “Black Wall Street” […]
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Viola Fletcher, Oldest Living Survivor of Tulsa Race Massacre, Celebrates 107th Birthday | People
“I’ll say that I’m Black and I’m proud,” said Viola Fletcher, who was 7 years old when as many as 300 people died in Tulsa — BY, RACHEL DESANTIS Viola Fletcher is the oldest known living survivor of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre — and she recently celebrated a milestone birthday. Fletcher, who was […]
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The Ground Breaking review: indispensable history of the Tulsa Race Massacre | The Guardian
On the centenary of the attack on ‘Black Wall Street’, one of the worst racist outrages in US history, Scott Ellsworth has produced an impeccable work — BY, MICHAEL HENRY ADAMS Under the subtitle “An American City and Its Search for Justice”, Scott Ellsworth has produced a much-needed book that acts like a mirror. Though […]
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Mass Grave Unearthed in Tulsa During Search for Massacre Victims | The New York Times
An excavation found 11 coffins in Oaklawn Cemetery, but painstaking work will be required to identify whether the remains are from Black victims of the 1921 race massacre. — BEN FENWICK, THE NEW YORK TIMES OKLAHOMA CITY — A forensic team in Tulsa, Okla., said on Wednesday that it had unearthed 11 coffins while searching […]
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Lebron James To Fund LA Filmmaker’s Documentary On The Tulsa Massacre | The Oklahoma Eagle
Los Angeles, Cali. – LeBron James’ entertainment company, Springhill Productions, is funding a filmmaker’s documentary on Tulsa’s Greenwood District and the 1921 race massacre. Salima Koroma, who made her directorial debut in “Bad Rap” a 2016 documentary about four Asian-American rappers, told The Oklahoma Eagle she pitched her documentary to Springhill in April. Springhill recently produced the Netflix […]
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Before Making Military History, She Witnessed One Of History’s Worst Race Riots | NPR WAMU 88.5
Olivia Hooker was a 6-year-old in Tulsa, Okla., when a race riot destroyed her community as well as her own home. [mc4wp_form id=”6042″] In less than 24 hours, mobs of white men destroyed more than 1,000 homes and businesses in the Greenwood District, an affluent African American neighborhood of Tulsa. It’s estimated as many as […]
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Now the Richest Black American, He’s Also One of America’s Biggest Philanthropists | Inside Philanthropy
Ade Adeniji, Inside Philanthropy [dropcap]Throughout[/dropcap] most of my (still relatively) young writer’s lifetime, Oprah Winfrey loomed large as the pinnacle of black American financial success. The 64-year-old Oprah recently denied presidential bid rumors on the heels of a rousing speech, and stars in the new Disney film A Wrinkle in Time, opening this week. Oprah […]
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The Mass Graves Of Tulsa (Video) | The Oklahoma Eagle
A century after the destruction of “Black Wall Street,” a city searches for victims.
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