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May 17, 2024
“North Tulsa remains a place of light and hope in the community," Oklahoma Sen. James Lankford testified at the hearing.
November 11, 2023
Tulsa Race Massacre survivors may lean on the U.S. Congress if the Oklahoma Supreme Court does not reverse a lower…
August 1, 2023
The neighborhood once known as Black Wall Street, is getting a makeover with the united help of Black Tech Street…
Tulsa race massacre
October 26, 2022
The latest exhumations at Oaklawn Cemetery will be followed by another excavation for bodies' remains to gather more DNA.
Lessie Benningfield Randle, Viola Fletcher, Hughes Van Ellis, theGrio.com
May 18, 2022
Business for Good co-founders say Viola Ford Fletcher, Lessie Benningfield Randle and will share the donation.
November 3, 2021
Wilson's widow, Linda Boulware-Wilson, confirmed that he died peacefully Tuesday at his Tulsa home.
African American money thegrio.com
June 16, 2021
The Executive Leadership Council announced a new initiative with Goalsetter to grow and protect wealth in Black America.
Tulsa thegrio.com
June 10, 2021
A team of researchers in Oklahoma uncovered 27 coffins during a search for 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre victims.
Black Wall Street thegrio.com
June 4, 2021
The owners of the Black Wall Street Gallery in New York City are speaking out after the space was vandalized…
Tulsa race riot
June 3, 2021
Survivors of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre will be gifted $100,000 each on the heels of the 100-year commemoration.
U.S. President Joe Biden
June 2, 2021
theGrio's April Ryan questioned President Biden about a U.S. apology for the Tulsa Race Massacre at the 100-year commemoration in…
Tulsa "Black Wall Street" sign is seen during the Juneteenth celebration
May 31, 2021
O.W. Gurley’s investments in Greenwood's Black Wall Street is an economic model of community determination, economic power, and resilience.
Tulsa thegrio.com
May 31, 2021
Tulsa: The Fire and the Forgotten is a documentary that tributes those who lost their lives and celebrates those still…
May 30, 2021
Each documentary dives into the thriving Greenwood community, dubbed Black Wall Street, destroyed in a two-day attack by a white…
Monument Marks Tulsa Race Riot Of 1921
May 28, 2021
Motown Records has released "Fire in Little Africa" a hip-hop component to the Tulsa race riots centennial celebration.
Tulsa thegrio.com
May 28, 2021
The two-hour documentary 'Tulsa Burning: The 1921 Race Massacre' will commemorate the 100th anniversary of the tragedy.
theGRIO.com
May 12, 2021
Viola Fletcher, the oldest known living survivor of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, recently celebrated her 107th birthday.
OWN thegrio.com
May 12, 2021
OWN is set to air a two-part special honoring the pioneers of Black Wall Street, shedding light on an area…
Tulsa race riot
January 2, 2021
Oklahoma began a centennial remembrance Friday of a once-thriving African American neighborhood in Tulsa decimated by deadly white violence.
Tulsa Mural theGrio.com
August 5, 2020
A mural painted on a street in Tulsa’s Greenwood District in June was set to be removed because it did…