The Black Wall Street Times commemorative magazine will feature 100 years of resilience. This unique project will include a history of the Greenwood community – destroyed in 1921 but rebuilt in the years that followed. We will also highlight the second destruction caused by gentrification. We will not only commemorate the … Read More
Wall Street Journal: Insurance Exclusions Left Black Tulsans Footing the Bill for the Massacre
The massacre took the lives of dozens of Black residents. It also left behind a devastated neighborhood and many property owners struggling to cover their losses. Ms. Williams was one of at least 70 Greenwood property owners who filed insurance claims after the massacre. After many of their claims were … Read More
UU World: In Tulsa, Faith Leaders Call for Massacre Reparations
The basement wall of the Historic Vernon A.M.E. Church is the only edifice of the original Greenwood neighborhood that survived the conflagration. On May 31, the church is holding a dedication for a planned Prayer Wall for Racial Healing at the site, which will eventually include a baptismal pool and … Read More
The Joplin Globe: A century later, story of America’s worst race massacre finally being told
Carlos Moreno, a Tulsa resident and author of the forthcoming book “The Victory of Greenwood,” said his book focuses on what happened after the massacre: the rebuilding of the district from the mid-’20s to the mid-’60s. “The history of Greenwood doesn’t end June 1, 1921,” Moreno said. “Why the rest … Read More
NPR: Code Switch’s Recommended Reads About The Tulsa Massacre
On this week’s episode of the podcast, we went to Tulsa to report on the 100th anniversary of the 1921 massacre, in which a white mob destroyed a Black neighborhood called Greenwood and killed an estimated 300 people, most of them Black. In addition to our reporting on Tulsa, we … Read More