Greenwood Rising in Tulsa, Oklahoma, honors Black Wall Street's history and resilience after the 1921 race massacre.

Interactive program at Greenwood Rising and upcoming escape room explores resilience, entrepreneurship and the legacy of Jim ...

Students at Woodgate Elementary School in Matteson celebrated Black History Month by performing “Remembering Black Wall Street.” ...

We mapped out America’s once thriving yet forgotten Black business districts. Join us in giving them their well-deserved flowers.

The real shock came last year when Ashford received an email that would connect him directly to the Tulsa Race Massacre. A genetic genealogist working with the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre DNA ...

Viola Fletcher, who has died aged 111, was the oldest survivor of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre; 100 years later she testified to Congress about the two days of arson, looting and murder. A US Justice ...

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DALLAS -- Viola Ford Fletcher, who as one of the last survivors of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre in Oklahoma spent her later years seeking justice for the deadly attack by a white mob on the thriving ...

DALLAS (AP) — Viola Ford Fletcher, who as one of the last survivors of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre in Oklahoma spent her later years seeking justice for the deadly attack by a white mob on the ...

Viola Ford Fletcher, the oldest survivor of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, died at the age of 111 on Monday, in a hospital surrounded by her family, according to her grandson. “Mother Fletcher endured ...