Gaylord News is a reporting project of the University of Oklahoma Gaylord College of Journalism and Mass Communication

Gaylord News

Gaylord News is a reporting project of the University of Oklahoma Gaylord College of Journalism and Mass Communication

Gaylord News

Gaylord News is a reporting project of the University of Oklahoma Gaylord College of Journalism and Mass Communication

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Joyce Smith-Williams celebrates the legacy of Greenwood’s Black Wall Street at the Legacy Festival. Smith-Williams, a longtime Greenwood resident, wears shirts to memorialize the experience of her people almost every day. PHOTO: Madeline Cantrell.

T-shirts serve a spirit of remembrance in two neighborhoods separated by state lines

Madeline Cantrell June 8, 2024

TULSA, OKLAHOMA AND MINNEAPOLIS Although they are both still grappling with acts of racial violence, there is a spirit of remembrance rooted in hope in the Greenwood District of Tulsa and the neighborhood...

The Vernon AME (African Methodists Episcopal) Church in the Greenwood District of Tulsa, was founded before Oklahoma statehood. During the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, people of the neighborhood sheltered in the church’s basement.  Vernon AME continues to serve and support the largely Black community of North Tulsa. SOURCE: Google Street Maps.

Faith and trauma define two neighborhoods 700 miles apart

Graham Dowers June 6, 2024

MINNEAPOLIS AND TULSA, OKLAHOMA The neighborhood surrounding 38th Street and Chicago Avenue in Minneapolis and the Greenwood district of Tulsa are communities that share a common bond through their...

Descendants of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre pose in front of the Doorways to Hope art
installation commemorating their ancestors. PHOTO: Cameron Williams

Tulsa’s Elgin Street underpass is home to Doorways to Hope

Cameron Williams and LJ Golston June 2, 2024

TULSA, OKLAHOMA – Community leaders and artists gathered under the Elgin Street underpass to unveil 20 murals depicting key figures of the Greenwood District of Tulsa on Saturday, June 1. The event,...

Tiffany Crutcher introduces a group of Japanese-American panelists at the Black Wall Street Legacy Summit. Maria Nairn/Gaylord News

Legacy and history are different concepts, Black Wall Street panelists say at festival

Teegan Smith and Ana Castillo June 1, 2024

TULSA, OKLAHOMA – Learning history and connecting with legacy are different concepts, according to at least one panelist at the fourth annual Black Wall Street Legacy Festival in Tulsa’s historic Greenwood...

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