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Greenwood Rising marks five years of keeping Black Wall Street history alive
3+ hour, 37+ min ago (267+ words) The lyrics of "Strange Fruit" are displayed in an exhibit at Greenwood Rising. Nearly five years ago community members gathered at the intersection of Archer Street and Greenwood Avenue to mark the opening and dedication of the Greenwood Rising Black…...
Black Wall Street Legacy Festival features Greenwood 120 gala, awards
1+ day, 12+ hour ago (131+ words) John W. Rogers Jr. grew up with his mother educating him on their family's history. Tulsa World General Assignment Reporter For the first time since the Helmerich Center for American Research'opened in 2014, the public will be able to visit to see…...
Focus of John Hope Franklin symposium: Black homesteaders
1+ week, 6+ day ago (158+ words) Experiences of Black homesteaders focus of John Hope Franklin National Symposium Tulsa World Javascript is required to use this website. Relatively few Americans own farms today, but there was a time that owning land was the epitome of American success....
Dolores Huerta ends her silence, champions decades of advocacy for marginalized groups
2+ mon, 1+ week ago (203+ words) Labor rights activist Dolores Huerta revealed she was among women and girls who say they were sexually abused by C'sar Chavez, the long-admired Latino icon, while he led the United Farm Workers union. ALBUQUERQUE, N. M. " It was Dolores Huerta who coined…...
Lincoln Christian vs. Douglass
2+ mon, 2+ week ago (140+ words) Tulsa World Javascript is required to use this website. Lincoln Christian's Alexis Leyva drives the ball against Douglass' Khloe Smith in their state championship basketball game at the OG&E Coliseum Friday, March 13, 2026 in Oklahoma City, Okla. Coweta High School…...
Latest Oaklawn Cemetery dig ends, maybe for the year
6+ mon, 3+ week ago (168+ words) The latest search in Oaklawn Cemetery for unmarked burials from Tulsa's 1921 Race Massacre is shutting down, probably for the year, but weeks of analysis remain. Eighty-three unmarked graves have been documented. Most are thought not to be connected to Tulsa's…...
A guide to what the Juneteenth holiday is and how to celebrate it
11+ mon, 1+ week ago (1705+ words) Many Americans are celebrating Juneteenth, marking the day in 1865 when the last enslaved people in the United States learned they were free, in Galveston, Texas. It was 160 years ago that enslaved people in Galveston, Texas, learned they had been freed…...
The Tulsa Race Massacre was a taboo subject when Ed Wheeler's story published in 1971
11+ mon, 4+ week ago (1876+ words) Editor's note: To recognize the beginning of what would become the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, we are republishing this story that was part of the Tulsa World's coverage in 2021 that looked at the event 100 years earlier. Ed Wheeler died a few…...