After the state restricted how lessons on race and gender could be taught, activist Kristi Williams turned anger into ...

More than 12% of Oklahoma's population is Black. Of this population, less than 1% live in rural Oklahoma in towns that were settled by their Black ancestors. These 13 towns are what remain from as ...

Tulsa's mayor is proposing a different kind of reparations plan, focusing on creating a private trust to help atone for one ...

Juneteenth may mark the day in 1865 when enslaved people in Galveston, Texas found out they had been freed, but thousands of ...

During a recent tour in Oklahoma we saw monuments and markers of two of the deadliest acts of racial violence in American ...

In October 1907, eleven black leaders from the “Twin Territories,” out on the frontier, traveled to Washington, D.C. in a last-ditch effort to prevent Oklahoma from becoming a state.

Beyond the OKC Thunder playing in the most important pro sports day in Oklahoma's history was arguably one of the most ...

Michael Mayes, National Register coordinator with the Oklahoma Historical Society, said the nominations were on behalf of ...

From James Beard winners to soul food legends, these spots show Oklahoma City’s Black culinary scene has been ...

It's the day in 1865 when the last enslaved people in the U.S. were freed.Here at KOCO, our team had the privilege of hearing from Anita Arnold this week for a lunch-hour conversation about what ...

Black churches back embattled Smithsonian African American history museum after Trump’s order. In a March 27 executive order, Trump alleged that Smithsonian exhibits had disparaged the nation's ...