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Through a mixture of hubris and active malice, Tulsa city leaders undermined the rebuilding of Greenwood. Black people brought the neighborhood back anyway. The tents stretched across the burned-out prairieland for acres, surrounded by dirt and rubble and trees stripped…

Carlos Moreno, from the Victory of Greenwood, and Jennifer King, grand-niece of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre survivors Mabel and Pressley Little, discuss Pressley Little’s family and legacy with Gilcrease Museum. Video Link: https://www.facebook.com/GilcreaseMuseum/videos/295698251939001

The Victory of Greenwood project is not only about the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, but about Greenwood’s founders, its rebuilding and resurgence with the upcoming centennial of the Massacre. The focus on racial inequities has boosted interest in the history…

The Lacy Park story is part and parcel with that of the pioneers who helped make it a reality. In 1929, Simon Berry, a businessman from the area, donated 13.4 acres of parkland to the City of Tulsa, for a…

As city streets throbbed with protests (and what some might call uprisings) during the summer of 2020, two science fiction dramas recalled the massacre of Tulsa, Oklahoma, which took place 100 years ago this spring. Watchmen and Lovecraft Country, both…

Carlos Moreno joins Jesse and Chris to discuss the Victory of Greenwood, a project that endeavors to tell the story of Greenwood from the perspective of the heroes and entrepreneurs who built Greenwood and then rebuilt it after its destruction….