Tulsa Race Massacre

This episode of Focus: Black Oklahoma features a highlight reel of our best stories of the year.

Tulsa, Okla., has offered a blueprint, however imperfect, for how to confront a history of racial violence. In neighboring Arkansas, the city of Elaine has found the Tulsa model hard to replicate.

Historians say up to 300 Black people were killed in the 1921 attack and the days that followed. Nearly all are believed to have been buried in mass graves approved by white authorities of the time.

Some of the 19 bodies taken from a Tulsa cemetery and later reburied that could include remains of victims of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre will be exhumed again starting Wednesday.

This episode of Focus: Black Oklahoma features reports on a lawsuit by Tulsa Race Massacre survivors moving forward, Oklahoma political candidates and the conservation and culture of the prairie chicken.

This episode of Focus: Black Oklahoma features reports on the case of a Black man shot and killed in Norman, what candidates are filing for office in 2022 and firefighters of the Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes defending western Oklahoma from wildfires.

The last known survivors of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre learned a lawsuit against the city of Tulsa can move forward. The plaintiffs said the government was partly to blame for the massacre.

An Oklahoma judge has ruled that a lawsuit seeking reparations for the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre can proceed, bringing new hope for justice for three centenarian survivors of the deadly racist attack.

Blindspot: Tulsa Burning, a collaborative podcast between KOSU, Focus: Black Oklahoma, WNYC Studios and The History Channel, has been selected as a Peabody Awards Nominee.

A bill that enhances a college scholarship program intended for the descendants of survivors and victims of the Tulsa Race Massacre passed in the House Monday.