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The exhibition, Greenwood’s Legacy: Shaping a City and a Nation, is a celebration of Greenwood’s victory in overcoming the decimation of the Massacre to rebuild and grow its vibrant neighborhood. The exhibit features 13 of Greenwood’s most influential citizens in…

We’ve begun to recognize the tragedy that happened in Greenwood a hundred years ago, but Greenwood is more than a memorial. It had a bustling past, an amazing recovery, and, sadly, a second ransacking — and it’s recovering again. Carlos…

Virtual Juneteenth Commemoration: The Illinois Holocaust Museum is hosting a special online event about the 100th anniversary of the Tulsa Massacre, in honor of Juneteenth. Join virtually on June 17 for a powerful discussion with Phil Armstrong, project director for…

Carlos Moreno, author of A Kids Book About the Tulsa Race Massacre, talks about the historic attack by a white mob on the neighborhood and Black residents of Greenwood. A Kids Book About The Tulsa Race Massacre (view book) Full…

Newly discovered sources dispel some of Tulsa’s persistent myths and inaccuracies about the events leading up to the Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921. The book also includes the story of Greenwood’s rebuilding, and of the institutions, such as Booker T….

In June 2018, Oklahoma became the incarceration capital of the world. Oklahomans are proud, resilient, hopeful, resourceful and kind. We are not more criminal than the rest of the world. The combination of punitive, inequitable, and dehumanizing practices in our…

What often gets erased in writing about the Tulsa Race Massacre is the 45 years of prosperity in Greenwood after the attack and the events that led to the neighborhood’s second destruction: The Federal-Aid Highway Acts of 1965 and 1968….

OU alumnus Carlos Moreno launched a children’s book about the Tulsa Race Massacre at Fulton Street Books and Coffee Tuesday afternoon in conjunction with Tulsa’s commemoration of the centennial to create a resource for children to learn about the massacre…

La rumeur exagérée de l’agression d’une femme blanche par un adolescent noir dans un ascenseur avait mis le feu aux poudres. Mais pour Carlos Moreno, la tragédie est à mettre sur le compte de « la cupidité » de la…

Families forever devastated by the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre are reflecting on its centenary while continuing to call for justice so far denied. A series of events will be held in Tulsa, Oklahoma on May 31 and June 1, exactly…