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Chris Polansky / KWGS News Tulsa Mayor G.T. Bynum says he is not spending much time thinking about the international media coverage of the upcoming Tulsa Race Massacre centennial events, instead focusing on what the anniversary means for Tulsans. "I think about this event like when you're mourning as a family when you have the death of a loved one," Bynum said in a video message released Tuesday by City Hall. "You're really just concerned about your family and your friends and your neighbors. What people on the periphery have to say about it is of less importance." "I know that there wil...

By: Brooke Griffin TULSA, Oklahoma - On Friday, Tulsa’s Community Service Council is holding its latest Equality Indicators event focusing on the topic of “Justice." The city of Tulsa has partnered with the community service council to hold the five-part virtual series of equality indicators events that each rank and measure how well the city is doing on the topics of justice, education, housing, healthcare, and services. For Friday’s topic of justice, Tulsa only scored a 31 out of 100 due to the drop in two out of the nine factors being scored, that drop comes from the rise in child a...

Credit Tulsa Flag Tulsa city councilors and the mayor’s office met virtually on Wednesday for their annual retreat to lay out priorities for the coming year. Many big plans from 2020 are still on the table because they got derailed during the coronavirus pandemic. Those include neighborhood revitalization, raising all city employees’ pay to at least $15 an hour, and making permanent a joint mental health response team that includes Tulsa police, fire and mental health professionals. The Equality Indicators are still on many councilors’ minds. The annual report gauges disparities across ...