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Statewide Youth History Contest Workshop with Guest Artist at Washington Library

Efforts to restore the historic, largely Black neighborhood should include people most impacted by freeway construction

Washington for Justice Seeking Students’ Submissions for State History Contest

Easier to hold oil companies to account. after this week it is clear that the status quo for big oil companies will no longer be accepted. the science is clear. the verdict is in. climate change is real. fossil fuels are a big part of the problem. rather than resisting, the oil industry would be wise to get on the right side of this issue. well, monday marks 100 years since the massacre in tulsa, okay objection, the single most horrific incident of racial terrorism since slavery. a white mob destroyed tulsa's greenwood district known as black wall street from the ground and from the air using ...

Seen as insensitive, obviously. and it was scheduled because there was a lack of awareness of this history. so i think it's so essential that you are teaching people about this. what is greenwood like today? >> it's funny when we talk about greenwood, we talk about the massacre. it was 100 years ago. but the effects are still felt 100 years later. so today, what greenwood used to be was this thriving black community and it was 30 blocks of black businesses and homes and 10,000 people living in this pl place. almost this bubble, again, black utopia. and, you know, 100 years later, you have -- i...