GREENWOOD Dist.-- Historic Vernon A.M.E. Church will serve as a polling place during Presidential Primary elections on Super Tuesday, March 5, from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. for residents of Tulsa's Greenwood District. While it's no stranger to hosting town halls and other civic events, the decision marks the first time Vernon A.M.E. has served […]

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GREENWOOD Dist.--Less than a year after Juno Medical opened a Black-owned clinic on Black Wall Street in Historic Greenwood District, the business closes its doors. A sign posted on the door reading "operations at Juno Medical in Tulsa have ceased as of end of business on Feb 26, 2024," was the only warning patients received, […]

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GREENWOOD Dist.--The Oklahoma Supreme Court has scheduled oral arguments for the two last known living survivors of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre in their appeal seeking reparations for the 103-year-old government-sanctioned racial domestic terror attack. The oral arguments will take place on April 2, 2024 at 1:30 p.m. at the Oklahoma Supreme Court, according to […]

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GREENWOOD Dist.--Urban Coders Guild and Atlas School are teaming up again for this year’s Black Futures Hackathon, when students will honor the Black pioneers of the past and future. Tulsa middle and high schoolers will cruise through the intersections of tech and Black history as they collaborate on creating their own projects from 9 a.m. […]

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GREENWOOD Dist.--Tyrance Billingsley II, founder of Black Tech Street, will connect Black Tulsans with AI technology to test Large Language Models (LLM) at Hack the Future Greenwood on Thursday, February 22 and Friday, February 23 inside Tulsa’s Greenwood Cultural Center. As the brainchild of a bold initiative to get at least 1,000 Black Tulsans trained […]

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