Tulsa Race Massacre

This episode of Focus: Black Oklahoma features stories on Tulsa Mayor Monroe Nichols announcement of a new private charitable trust to benefit the Greenwood District, the investigation into the death of MarQuiel Ross, veteran responses to the Trump administration's military policies and more.

More than 100 ago, white residents of Tulsa destroyed a thriving Black neighborhood.

Tulsa’s first Black mayor launches $105 million Greenwood Trust to establish reparations for descendants of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre.

Black Tulsa rebuilt Greenwood after the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre. But what would come next would largely destroy the neighborhood — and much of its wealth — for good.

No restitution was ever made to those who lost loved ones or property in the 1921 massacre that razed the prosperous Black neighborhood of Greenwood.

This Saturday is Independent Bookstore Day. Matthew Viriyapah has some recommendations on books by Oklahomans you can pick up at your favorite local bookstore.

A sweeping plan to restore Tulsa’s Greenwood district, destroyed during the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, was announced Tuesday by the nonprofit advocating for its last living victims.

Federal officials said Saturday they cannot prosecute any person or government agency involved in the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre — but that doesn’t mean there aren’t other questions to be answered.

The U.S. Department of Justice released a new report Friday on the Tulsa Race Massacre more than 100 after publishing its first account.

Lessie Benningfield Randle, along with Viola Fletcher, were children when a white mob attacked their neighborhood known as Black Wall Street.