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Nikole Hannah-Jones, a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter and creator of The New York Times' “The 1619 Project,” spoke at The Ohio State University this week about her landmark project on the history of slavery in the United States and made the argument

A predominantly Black Oklahoma City school district says a new state law blocking certain racial topics has not stopped classroom discussions on race.

On May 31, 1921, a group of white locals launched an attack on a thriving Black neighborhood in Tulsa, Okla. The Tulsa Race Massacre was one of the worst incidents of racial violence in U.S. history.

100 years ago, a White mob in Tulsa, Okla., killed 300 Black people and reduced a thriving Black community to ashes. New York Times columnist Charles M. Blow talks about one of the most notorious massacres in U.S. history and those who witnessed it.

The Rockefeller Foundation Updates I was in eighth grade when I first learned about the terror inflicted on the lively and prosperous community of Tulsa’s Greenwood District in 1921. I held back tears then, but I couldn’t earlier this month as I listened to Viola Ford Fletcher, now 107, testifying before Congress about that night. Her quiet dignity made me think of my own Mississippi grandmother.  “I still see Black men being shot, Black bodies lying in the street,” said Mother Fletche...