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Join Tulsa at SXSW 2022 in a can't-miss exhibition, showcase and parties you're sure to remember long after you've left Austin.

Don Data, host of No One Man, shares five of his favorite albums of 2021, plus sixteen others that deserve more of your attention.

During segregation, North Tulsa and Greenwood was primarily Black and was called Little Africa. But it was home to one of the most prosperous Black communities in history, Black Wall Street. And on May 31 and June 1, 1921, a white mob with the support of local law enforcement attacked, burning dozens of homes and buildings and killing an estimated 300 people. Now 100 years later, a collective of Oklahoma hip-hop artists have released a commemorative project via Motown Records and Black Forum ti...

Fire In Little Africa executive producer Stevie Johnson when he arrived in Tulsa in 2019. Ryan Cash/Fivvish/Courtesy of the artist hide caption Steph Simon (pictured) and fellow rapper Dialtone were among the first artists contacted by Fire In Little Africa executive producer Stevie Johnson when he arrived in Tulsa in 2019. Ryan Cash/Fivvish/Courtesy of the artist Motown Records imprint Black Forum released Fire in Little Africa — an album written and record...

Motown Records imprint Black Forum released Fire in Little Africa — an album written and recorded by a collective of Oklahoma hip-hop artists — last

One Tulsa, LLC and its founder Fred Jones announced details about the multi generational, multi-genre compilation album 1921...The Black Wall Street Music Project. 

Days before the COVID-19 pandemic took hold of the world, more than 60 Oklahoma artists came together to produce Fire In Little Africa.

Stevie Johnson is the executive producer of Fire in Little Africa, a hip-hop album commemorating the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacres centennial that honors the citys past, while bridging new communities.

"But we're what it looks like when we got our own backs / And we're what it looks like when we build it back black / We're what it

Loading the player... Tulsa has big plans for the centennial of the 1921 race massacre that left the city’s Black community in ruins. Many residents say these efforts are important. But members of the city’s Black community say they’re just starting the process of mourning what they’ve lost – even as they’re trying to build something new. The Greenwood Art Project aims to make sure Tulsa and the country know the history of both the massacre and Black Wall Street. Program director J...