and its address — which is part of an area known as Black Wall Street. It was the business occupying Cooper's building before it was destroyed during the Tulsa Race Massacre more than a century ago.

The establishment of the (national monument) serves as a critical step toward recognition and commemoration, providing a ...

Survivors of the 1921 massacre and their descendants contemplate the meaning of reparations in today’s Tulsa, Okla.

On the Friday morning before Donald Trump’s inauguration, employees at the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division were ...

The last two living survivors of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, Lessie Benningfield Randle and Viola Fletcher, both 110, have ...

The two last survivors of the Tulsa Race Massacre, Lessie Benningfield Randle and Viola Fletcher, released a joint statement ...

Justice has not been with Tulsa’s Black victims during a ... so prosperous it was called “Black Wall Street.” Like many acts of violence, the massacre began with a lie.

At the time of the massacre, Tulsa was dubbed "Black Wall Street" due to the thriving businesses and community established by Black residents. However, white residents who lived in the city and ...

a predominantly Black community known as Black Wall Street. “The Tulsa Race Massacre stands out as a civil rights crime unique in its magnitude, barbarity, racist hostility and its utter ...

In the weeks after the Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921, in which white mobs burned the Oklahoma city’s vibrant Black neighborhood to the ground, a federal agent quickly concluded that the attack ...