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Tulsa’s Great Raft Race is not happening in 2025, organizers say, with no plans to revive the event in the future. A sunset celebration is set for Aug. 16. Mike Simons, Tulsa World Archive ...
Three years after the scholarship program was revitalized, an effort to expand the program stalled in the Oklahoma ...
For decades, funding for a state scholarship program memorializing the 1921 burning of Black Wall Street was limited, and students related to massacre victims weren’t prioritized in the selection ...
Business owners in Tulsa’s historic Greenwood District said it is safe to visit, shop, and tour Black Wall Street after a shooting during Juneteenth that left one man dead.
A black-and-white photographic postcard depicting the charred body of an unidentified victim of the Tulsa Race Massacre. The image shows the charred skeletal remains of a figure half buried beneath ...
Photo postcards of the Tulsa Race Massacre were widely distributed following the massacre in 1921. Like postcards depicting lynchings, these souvenir cards were powerful declarations of white racial ...
After the state restricted how lessons on race and gender could be taught, activist Kristi Williams turned anger into action—launching a Saturday school that now draws hundreds of Black families ...
Tulsa's mayor is pushing for a $105 million private trust to give descendants of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre housing help and scholarships in a plan that has garnered support across party lines.
Juneteenth commemorates delayed freedom. New Jersey built wealth on Black backs; it can now build a future on Black ...
A major development Wednesday afternoon in the recovery of the Tulsa Race Massacre investigation, as a second victim has been identified.
New Tulsa Race Massacre victim identified in Oaklawn Cemetery mass grave research efforts Tulsa Mayor Monroe Nichols and forensic experts revealed significant findings on Wednesday regarding ...