Students create website for Black Wall Street destroyed by White mob during Tulsa Massacre
An estimated 200 businesses that were part of Black Wall Street were destroyed during the two-day rampage in 1921.
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An estimated 200 businesses that were part of Black Wall Street were destroyed during the two-day rampage in 1921.
An estimated 200 businesses that were part of Black Wall Street were destroyed during the two-day rampage in 1921.
Now, a group of young students are bringing some of those businesses to life in a project that links coding and history. Ahead of the centennial commemorating the Tulsa Race Massacre in May-June 2021, Urban Coders Guild is working with local students to build websites for the businesses destroyed during the horrific event a century ago, as if those businesses were still around today. The project can’t undo the horrors of what came to be known as the Tulsa Race Massacre — one of the worst acts of racial violence in American history — but the people behind it hope that it will help spur ...
A charitable trust focused on supporting nonprofits that serve Tulsans of color has announced its first slate of grants — a total of $1 million. The