Tulsa Juneteenth News Today

Juneteenth is a national holiday celebrating the United States’ emancipation of slavery on June 19, 1865.

One new addition this year is the Black Wall Street Pitch Competition, modeled after the popular TV series "Shark Tank."

Juneteenth celebrates freedom dating back to June 19, 1865, when federal troops arrived in Galveston, Texas, to ensure all enslaved people be freed. In Tulsa, the annual celebration is the

Police discovered Sherry Gamble Smith, 55, dead; her husband died later in what police say was the result of a domestic dispute.

Grammy Award winner Mya will headline the second annual Juneteenth on the East, which has been expanded to three days of festivities.

TULSA, Okla. (AP) — The city of Tulsa and Tulsa County have each announced they will...

In 1921, a white mob attacked Tulsa’s Black Wall Street, killing an estimated 300 people, but it wasn’t talked about until recently

‘They didn’t talk about it’: how a historian helped Tulsa confront the horror of its past David Smith © Provided by The Guardian Photograph: Universal History Archive/Getty Images There was no memorial to it in town. Teachers made no mention of it, not even during a half-semester devoted to local history. The white schoolboy Scott Ellsworth of Tulsa, Oklahoma, was left to wonder what the city’s darkest secret could be. “As a 10- and 11-year-old, I would occasionally...