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Tulsa City Councilor Vanessa Hall-Harper said some local Black business leaders have so little faith in the Greenwood Chamber that they established a rival organization, the Black Wall Street ...
TULSA, Okla. — The 4th Annual Black Wall Street Rally will roar into the historic Greenwood District from May 15–17, bringing motorcycles, music, and a message of Black economic power to the ...
CultureVations, founded by Tyreek Moore, will host “ The Black Wall Street Homecoming, ” a three-day event June 15–June 17 in Tulsa, Oklahoma, that will focus on equipping underrepresented ...
More than 100 years ago, the Tulsa community known as Black Wall Street was burned by a white mob in what would later be recognized as one of the worst racial massacres in American history.
The event’s organizers encourage everyone to attend and learn more about Black Wall Street’s next era. The weekend festivities will commence with a citywide meet-and-greet and comedy show.
More than a century after it was destroyed in the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, the historic Greenwood neighborhood, known as Black Wall Street, could soon become a national monument. A bipartisan ...
For some, there is also the importance of building back the storied "Black Wall Street" that was violently taken from people that looked like them, in Tulsa, just a century ago.
Survivors of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, Hughes "Uncle Red" Van Ellis and Viola Fletcher, visit the 1921 Black Wall Street Memorial after a march, May 28, 2021, in Tulsa, Okla.
“The 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre temporarily stilled the economic engines that revved on Black Wall Street. That said, the community quickly rebounded and rebuilt, peaking economically in the 1940s ...