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Tulsa's first Black mayor proposed creating a $100 million private trust as part of a reparations plan for the impact of the Tulsa Race Massacre which took place more than 100 years ago.
Earlier this month, Nichols was elected the first Black mayor of Tulsa. Sue Ogrocki via Associated Press Earlier this month, former Oklahoma state Rep. Monroe Nichols (D) was elected the first ...
In a district demolished a century ago in the Tulsa Race Massacre and rebuilt from the rubble, state Rep. Monroe Nichols declared victory as the first Black Tulsan elected as the city’s mayor.
OKLAHOMA CITY — A World War I veteran is the first person identified from graves filled with more than a hundred victims of the 1921 Tulsa massacre of the city’s Black community, the mayor ...
Daniel was the first victim identified since that report was released, according to a news release. The city of Tulsa began exhuming graves in the Oaklawn Cemetery in 2018, in hopes to learn more ...
Over 100 years after a white mob attacked a then-thriving Black community in Tulsa, Oklahoma, the Department of Justice announced the first-ever federal probe into the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre.
Monroe Nichols will become the first Black mayor of Tulsa. Nichols, a state representative, edged out Tulsa County Commissioner Karen Keith in a runoff election to become the mayor of Oklahoma’s ...
(Mike Simons / AP) OKLAHOMA CITY — A World War I veteran is the first person identified from graves filled with more than a hundred victims of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre of the city’s Black ...