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After the state restricted how lessons on race and gender could be taught, activist Kristi Williams turned anger into ...
American Western culture is rooted in the Black experience, no matter which way the history books try to spin it.
Michael Mayes, National Register coordinator with the Oklahoma Historical Society, said the nominations were on behalf of ...
For descendants of people who were enslaved by tribal nations, Juneteenth is both a celebration of freedom for people of ...
According to the Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture, the Tulsa Race Massacre is believed to be the single worst incident of racial violence in American history. During 18 hours on May 31 ...
Tulsa's new mayor on Sunday proposed a $100 million private trust as part of a reparations plan to give descendants of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre scholarships and housing help in a city-backed ...
Tulsa’s new mayor on Sunday proposed a $100 million private trust as part of a reparations plan to give descendants of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacrescholarships and housing help in a city-backed ...
Amos T. Hall, a quiet, peace-loving, humble Tulsan who was a leader in the fight for desegregation and who became Oklahoma's first elected black judge, would have been impressed by the list of ...
It took decades of research by historians and journalists — and reports by state and federal commissions — to uncover the violence that claimed more than 300 Black lives.
During a recent tour in Oklahoma we saw monuments and markers of two of the deadliest acts of racial violence in American ...
The Trump administration’s framing of Black history as “D.E.I.” — and “D.E.I.” as harming white Americans — recasts its attack on Black history as protecting white Americans.