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In the 1920s, there was a Strong Black Community here in tulsa called greenwood. These people were the core of black entrepreneurship. People call it The Black Wall Street. Greenwood was like putting harlem, Bourbon Street, and Chocolate City all in one place. But White Tulsans talked about greenwood as Little Africa or [bleep] land. Tulsa was a powder keg, needing only something to set the community alight. Between 100 and 300 people, most of them black, were killed. Today we call it a massacre...

By Alexis Taylor | The AFRO | Word In Black This post was originally published on Afro Credit: AFRO Photo/Stephen Hopkins (WIB) - Viola

On the eightieth anniversary of the riot in that city, we commemorate the report written for this magazine by a remarkable journalist.

Oklahoma’s Supreme Court has agreed to hear an appeal of a lawsuit filed by the last three living survivors of the Tulsa Race Massacre. The 2020 lawsuit filed by Viola Fletcher, Hughes Van Ellis Sr. and Lessie Benningfield Randle was dismissed by a lower court in July. But the state’s top court agreed to hear…

By BlackManStreet.Today | Special to the Trice Edney News Wire Viola Ford Fletcher with Hughes Von Ellis, survivors if the Tulsa Massacre

>> theres not a restroom facilities in the shine parlor. so the white owner has arranged for them to walk down main street to the drexel building. on the fourth floor, there was, quote, a colored restroom. something happens when he enters the elevator. elevators are manually operated by a wheel. it takes a great amount of skill to get the floor of the elevator and the actual floor to line up. that particular elevator was very difficult to center. so the belief is that sarah didnt quite have it l...

The Florin Square Shopping Center is home to more than 200 businesses, retail stores and nonprofits -- 90% Black-owned.

It's been 101 years since the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre.

It's been 101 years since the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre.

>> theres not a restroom facilities in the shine part. so the white owner has arranged for them to walk down main street to the drexel building. on the fourth floor, there was, quote, a colored restroom. something happens when he enters the elevator. elevators are manually operated by a wheel. it takes a great amount of skill to get the floor of the elevator and the actual floor to line up. that particularly elevator was very difficult to center, so the belief is is that sarah didnt quite have i...