Tulsa Race Massacre

NPR's Michel Martin talks to Victor Luckerson, author of Built from the Fire, and Oklahoma state Rep. Regina Goodwin, about the lasting effects of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre.

The work is part of a years-long effort to get an accurate count of how many people were killed when a white mob decimated the city's prosperous Greenwood enclave, leaving upward of 300 people dead.

The Beyond Apology session is scheduled for Tuesday, with three more in the coming months.

This episode of Focus: Black Oklahoma features reports on the status of school voucher bills at the State Capitol, the meaning of the term Black Excellence and a documentary called "Oaklawn," that explores the story of the search for a mass grave at a Tulsa cemetery that dates back to the 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.