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May 30, 2024
Before the Tulsa Race Massacre in 1921, Greenwood Avenue featured luxury shops, restaurants, movie theaters, a library, pool halls and nightclubs.
November 16, 2023
Adrienne Warren is set to star in Dreamland, a period drama series in development at Peacock from Aaron Kaplan's Kapital Entertainment.
August 20, 2022
Peter Gelderloos Anarchy Works 2010 Anarchy Works was originally published by Little Black Cart and can be found in book form here.
May 30, 2021
The long-hidden racist attack on “Black Wall Street” and its residents is finally in the open — and raising questions about all that Americans don’t know and have tried to hide.
May 30, 2021
The racist, violent attack on Black Wall Street and its residents is finally in the open — and raising questions about all that Americans don’t know and have tried to hide.
May 29, 2021
The city's "Black Wall Street" was among the most prosperous neighborhoods in America, and a Black utopia — and then it was burned to the ground.
May 24, 2021
We created a 3D model of Greenwood, home of “Black Wall Street,” as it was before a white mob set it on fire 100 years ago.
May 10, 2021
0:57 Cincinnati Museum Center (CMC), Cincinnati & Hamilton County Public Library (CHPL), the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center, and the Woman’s City Club of Cincinnati will host The panels aim to gather journalists, activists, leaders and academics to talk about what weve learned, forgotten, and ways to move forward. That includes looking at the civil unrest following Thomas death and the current Black Lives Matter movement. Eric R. Jackson, Ed.D. is a professor of history and dir...
February 9, 2021
University of Tulsa celebrates Black History Month The University of Tulsa is marking Black History Month this year with a number of events meant to highlight the culture and accomplishments of Black Americans. Several of these will repeat weekly. The United States has celebrated Black History Month in February for more than 50 years, using this month as an opportunity to spotlight Black people in American history; other countries like Canada and the Netherlands have also started a comparable t...
January 19, 2021
Digital Black-owned bank aims to tackle economic injustice • 9 min read Uncovering the history of the Tulsa massacre Oklahoma Rev. Dr. Robert Turner discusses his efforts to identify victims of the 1921 race massacre.Courtesy of Greenwood Part of the conversation about the recent racial reckoning in the United States amid the Black Lives Matter movement surrounds economic injustice. Inequity in home ownership between white and Black Americans, a scarcity of banking options available in Black ...