On the Friday morning before Donald Trump’s inauguration, employees at the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division were ...

Survivors of the 1921 massacre and their descendants contemplate the meaning of reparations in today’s Tulsa, Okla.

The two last survivors of the Tulsa Race Massacre, Lessie Benningfield Randle and Viola Fletcher, released a joint statement ...

Only the most thoroughgoing account of the massacre mentions the heroic stance of “Peg Leg Taylor,” who single-handedly fought off a dozen white attackers. There was also J.B. Stradford, a hotel owner ...

Devastation of Greenwood District after Race Riots, Tulsa, Oklahoma in June 1921 ... 1921 report asserts that the massacre (then called a riot) was not the result of 'racial feeling,' perpetrators ...

Of interest were statements from federal agents' reports filed soon after the massacre, including about rumors of an attack that had prompted officials to prepare "for the defense of Tulsa." ...

The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) has formally recognized the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre as "a coordinated, military-style attack" on the thriving Black community of Greenwood, marking its first ...

Greenwood Ave ... says the massacre was not a "race riot" because it was not the “result of racial feeling, or agitators.” Instead, Weiss blamed Tulsa County Sheriff W.M. McCullough for ...

A DOJ report has found the mob that destroyed "Black Wall Street" in Tulsa and murdered hundreds of people was a coordinated ...

Kristen Clark, Assistant Attorney General Clarke is expected to convene with members of the Greenwood District, survivors and descendants of the Tulsa Race Massacre, the Tulsa civil rights ...

More than a century ago, Greenwood, a Black neighborhood in Tulsa, Oklahoma, was destroyed in a violent spree by a white mob. It was one of the worst episodes of ...