The nonprofit Justice for Greenwood donated $21,000 in funds to churches and a school that were targeted in the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, a terrorist act carried out by white supremacists. “These ...
It’s been 104 years since one of Tulsa’s darkest days. In 1921, a white mob destroyed the thriving Black community of Greenwood, known as Black Wall Street. 35 blocks filled with homes, businesses, ...
In Tulsa’s last Black-owned building left from the 1921 race massacre, Vernon AME is turning its basement, where survivors once hid, into a museum to save threatened Black history.
A powerful night of reflection and unity took place at Historic Vernon AME Church in Greenwood, where community leaders and residents gathered for a prayer vigil and community rally. TULSA, Okla. - A ...
TULSA, Okla. — Tulsans gathered at the historic Vernon AME Church in Greenwood for a prayer vigil and community rally after the recent gun violence in Tulsa. "We rally here at Vernon Church, not only ...
NPR's Ayesha Rascoe asks Sean Jarrett, pastor of New Jerusalem Baptist Church in Tulsa, Okla., about receiving a grant from the Preserving Black Churches program.
This short trailer previews the Harold M. Anderson Black Wall Street Film Collection. Created from footage captured between 1948 and 1952, Anderson’s collection documents the daily life of fellow ...