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On Thursday, crews exploring a Tulsa cemetery for the 1921 Race Massacre victims discovered five more coffins, bringing the total number of coffins discovered at a mass-grave site there to 20, according to municipal officials. After completing much of the excavation and investigation at Oaklawn Cemetery this week, city authorities …

Investigators are searching for victims of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, and in the midst of searching have found one set of remains and possibly another. One of the most heinous crimes inflicted upon the Black American community was the Black Wall Street domestic terrorist massacre that took place in …

A 105-year-old woman who survived the 1921 Tulsa, Oklahoma white supremacist domestic terrorist attack, is leading a lawsuit that is demanding reparations for the damage done to the first Black Wall Street. Back in 1921, Lessie Benningfield “Mother” Randle was just a little girl when an angry, jealous white group …

A little over two weeks ago, Donald Trump held a campaign rally at an indoor arena in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and now the city is experiencing a surge in new coronavirus cases. According to CNN, it was reported by Dr. Bruce Dart, Executive Director of the Tula Health Department, that there …

Back in April, Ashleigh Di Tonto, who is the VP development for Trailblazer Studios, pitched a documentary miniseries on the 1921 Tulsa race massacre. She was turned down multiple times. “No one knew the story other than through Watchmen,” Di Tonto recalls, saying that Damon Lindelof’s HBO series featured a …

Donald Trump says he should get credit for making #Juneteenth “very famous.” Juneteenth, also known as Freedom Day, Jubilee Day, Cel-Liberation Day and the Black Fourth of July, is a day that Americans, specifically Black Americans, celebrate the  Union army general Gordon Granger’s reading of federal orders in the city of Galveston, Texas, on …

Two Black teens were stopped and arrested for jaywalking on a street that had no sidewalks.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Black people can literally be doing nothing at all and still be harassed by police. The latest report comes from Tulsa, Oklahoma, where police officers arrested two Black teens for jaywalking on a street …

Amid the countrywide protests seeking justice against the police officers involved in George Floyd’s death, executive producer Dream Hampton has announced a new Black Wall Street series in the works. Hampton is known for her work as the executive producer of ’Surviving R.Kelly,’ now she is set to direct the …

The infamous 121 Tulsa Race Massacre, which took place in Tulsa’s affluent Greenwood District, more commonly known as Black Wall Street for its cluster of black-owned businesses and self-reliance, has long been exempt from textbooks. What we know of the massacre was often recounted from first-hand accounts and historian documents. …

On Friday, demonstrators filled the streets of Tulsa, Oklahoma to protest the police shooting of a black man with mental health issues.   Two Tulsa County Sheriff’s deputies and a Tulsa officer visited the home of 29-year-old Joshua Barre to pick him up for a mental health issue. The three …