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.--Beneath the backdrop of Black History Month, Principal Chief Chuck Hoskin Jr. is pushing his people and the United States Congress to expand equal rights to descendants of Freedmen who were formerly enslaved by the Cherokee Nation. Hundreds of tribal members and friends of the Cherokee Nation packed into Tulsa’s Greenwood Cultural Center Friday, […]

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My father would wear his shirts to death. His decades-old Hard Rock Cafe muscle tee was riddled with holes and holding on by a thread. He called it his “good shirt.” He’d wear it when working in the garage or mowing the lawn. When the straps would eventually snap, he’d cut them into smaller pieces […]

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By Kristi Williams On February 7, 2024, a landmark moment took place as representatives from the Beyond Apology team, Greg Robinson II, Kristi Williams along with members from The Public Work Project at OSU-Tulsa, Tami L. Moore, Ph.D, Cynthia Soto-Render, and Landon Wolf, presented the Beyond Apology report to the Tulsa City Council. The report, […]

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STILLWELL, Okla. — Only two days before the Oklahoma Legislature convenes in Oklahoma City for the second half of the 59th legislative session, more than 100 cockfighters gathered at a metal building in a remote area of Adair County. They engaged in eight hours of cockfighting and unregulated gambling, both of which are felonies in […]

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