The Oklahoma Eagle News Today

A pair of U.S. senators have joined the call to create a national monument at the site of one of the darkest days in Tulsa's history.

Salvaged what they could and revived that paper. they renamed it "the oklahoma eagle" and you can still read "the oklahoma eagle" today. one of the people who bought and continued that paper was a man named edward goodwin. he and his descendents stayed in oklahoma after the massacre. they rebuilt what they could of the community. now his granddaughter is a state representative in oklahoma. her name is regina goodwin. she joins us now and represents the states 73rd district, which includes greenw...

Violence in our countrys history. white tulsans destroyed the citys greenwood district, a self-sufficient african-american neighborhood known as black wall street, all in all, killing hundreds of black tulsa residents, displacing thousands of people, leaving the neighborhood a smoking ruin. our next guest tonight is someone uniquely positioned to speak both to greenwoods history and its present. one of the near casualties of the tulsa race massacre was a black-owned newspaper called "the tulsa s...

90s and early 2000 i was doing a lot of freelance work for a black newspaper in tulsa and the tulsa starp which had existed since 1913 here in tulsa. i really learned quite a bit from the elders who were around at the time and the publishing family, the goodwin family who owned "the oklahoma eagle" and learned from state representative don ross and max -- maxine horner. this is a reflection of the greenwood taught to me by the elders 20 years ago when i was working for the newspaper. it really i...