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Councilors, City Leaders to Host Fourth Community Conversation in Midtown on Thursday, North Tulsa on Monday
Following a strong turnout at the first three Community Conversations events in South, East, and West Tulsa, Mayor Monroe Nichols, members of the Tulsa City Council, and other City leaders will continue the series in Midtown on Thursday, May 15.
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The Oklahoma Eagle
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Key Legislation Impacting Tulsans Has Advanced At The State Capitol
March 6 marked the Oklahoma Legislature’s deadline to advance policy bills from their assigned committees. The Oklahoma Eagle is highlighting five bills for our readers that have advanced out of committee and could affect underserved communities in Tulsa. One of the proposed bills could impact health care while another bill would give more time to those who face potential convictions.
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Joe Tomlinson, The Oklahoma Eagle
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Scholarship Supports Greenwood Legacy, New Generations of Tulsa
Two great-grandchildren of 110-year-old Mother Lessie Benningfield Randle are committed to continuing their ancestral legacy as the recipients of college scholarships that will prepare them for careers and equip them with the knowledge and skills to preserve their elder’s work to keep the legacy of the Greenwood District alive.
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Kimberly Marsh, The Oklahoma Eagle
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Jocelyn Lee Payne: A Life Devoted To Scholarship, Education, Mentorship, Advocacy, Family, And Friendships
Dr. Jocelyn Lee Payne was an inspiring and impactful scholar and leader in higher education in Oklahoma, a fierce advocate for social and racial justice and a caring mentor to several generations of Oklahomans, particularly women. Jocelyn embodied the principles of Black Excellence long before the term became popular and inspired anyone who came into her orbit to reach for the stars in whatever field they chose.
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Gary Lee, The Oklahoma Eagle
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Kyra Carby Wins District 3 TPS Seat
Kyra Carby, a Black/Mvskoke Creek former educator, has won the District 3 seat for the Tulsa School Board. With all 18 precincts reporting, Carby won with 66.6 percent of the votes. Her opponent, Dorie Simmons, took 33.3 percent. A total of 842 votes were cast in the election. District 3 encompasses a large part of north Tulsa and includes McLain High School. The seat was recently vacated by Dr. Jennettie Marshall. She decided not to run again.
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Kimberly Marsh, The Oklahoma Eagle
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Community Wins at Dreamland Kickball
Tulsans from across the city came together at ONEOK field March 23rd, all in the name of community and kickball. They gathered to participate in a kickball game that also served as community fundraising event in celebration of ten years of the Dreamland Festival, a community event featuring music and other arts, scheduled for September.
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Sam Levrault, The Oklahoma Eagle
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We Live In Troubled Times. Here’s How 10 Tulsans Are Coping
In this unstable period, Tulsans are focused on their local communities, but they are also navigating a period of national and global uncertainty. The ongoing flurry of policy changes at the federal level is causing economic challenges.
CONTRIBUTOR
Kimberly Marsh, The Oklahoma Eagle
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Tulsa School Board District 3 Candidates
Kyra Carby and Dorie Simmons, Tulsa Public School board candidates vying for a seat to represent North Tulsa’s District 3, have rounded off their stances on issues for the general election set for April 1. Their platforms reflect agreement on several fronts, but differ vastly in their approach to the role.
CONTRIBUTOR
Kimberly Marsh, The Oklahoma Eagle
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State Audit Reveals Massive Mismanagement of Funds at TPS
On Feb. 26 Oklahoma State Auditor and Inspector Cindy Byrd released a long-awaited state audit of Tulsa Public Schools, and it documented a wide range of financial irregularities, including bonus payments made to TPS employees by the TPS Foundation that bypassed school board authorization.
CONTRIBUTOR
John Neal, The Oklahoma Eagle
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Bills Proposed In OKC Could Affect Child Caregiver Wages And More
Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt is urging state lawmakers to cut the state’s 4.75% personal income tax and 4% corporate income tax by half a percentage in the current 60th legislative session.
CONTRIBUTOR
Joe Tomlinson, The Oklahoma Eagle
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Beyond Apology Commission: A Shift from Debate To Action
Tulsa’s Black leaders have elevated their efforts to repair the harm caused by the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, calling upon City officials to use existing city funds designated for housing initiatives to respond to the damage done and help Tulsans restore generational wealth.
CONTRIBUTOR
Kimberly Marsh, The Oklahoma Eagle
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Greenwood Business Center Free 3rd Annual Women’s Summit Set for March 4 Virtual Venue
The 3rd Annual Women’s Summit, hosted by the Greenwood Business Center, will explore the impact that Artificial Intelligence, known as AI, can play in empowering women business owners.
CONTRIBUTOR
Kimberly Marsh, The Oklahoma Eagle
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Whodunit? Based On The Board Game, ‘Clue: A New Comedy,’ Comes to Tulsa
The classic detective board game that was turned into a 1985 movie is now coming to life on a Tulsa stage. Celebrity Attractions presents “Clue: A New Comedy” at the Tulsa Performing Arts Center from Feb. 11-16, 2025.
CONTRIBUTOR
Kimberly Marsh, The Oklahoma Eagle
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Speaker Highlights The Role Of Religious Institutions
Parishioners packed into the Grace Lutheran Church sanctuary on Feb. 2 to hear Dr. Jonathan Lee Walton, president of the Princeton Theological Seminary, deliver an interfaith lecture on how religious institutions can teach “the common good” in a society focused on individual spirituality.
CONTRIBUTOR
Joe Tomlinson, The Oklahoma Eagle
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Mayor Nichols Presses On To Fulfill Campaign Commitments
During a cold weather spell just a few weeks after his Nov. 5, 2024, election, Tulsa Mayor Monroe Nichols personally visited city warming stations and shelters to check on the well-being of people seeking services there. He spent some time with three people, and the experience deepened his sense of humanity. It also reaffirmed his commitment to addressing the needs of Tulsa’s homeless population and providing affordable housing for the city’s residents.
CONTRIBUTOR
Kimberly Marsh, The Oklahoma Eagle
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Tulsa Artist Inspires Urban Greenspaces Through Mosaic
Tulsa artist Zadith Rodriguez is reimagining a greener Tulsa through her artwork, hoping to inspire future generations while connecting to her South American roots. Rodriguez is a native of Peru.
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Kimberly Marsh, The Oklahoma Eagle
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The Oklahoma Eagle Is Spreading Its Wings
The Oklahoma Eagle is expanding. The weekly print and digital newspaper will leverage 102 years of news production in Tulsa, Okla. to join with a coalition of Tulsa media, community and philanthropy leaders that have formed the Tulsa Local News Initiative, set to launch in 2025.
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Kimberly Marsh, The Oklahoma Eagle
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“It Was What People Do.”
Pastor Bailey, twice convicted by Tulsa County District Courts of Child Abuse by Injury, and the prior subject of a Lewd Molestation filing, led St. Andrew Christian Church "according to the blueprint of Holy Scripture” throughout a period when his daughter alleges rape.
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Ross D. Johnson, The Oklahoma Eagle
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Clue - A New Comedy
A mansion. A murder. A mystery.
Murder and blackmail are on the menu when six mysterious guests assemble at Boddy Manor for a night they’ll never forget! Was it Mrs. Peacock in the study with the knife? Or was it Colonel Mustard in the library with the wrench? Based on the fan-favorite 1985 Paramount Pictures movie and inspired by the classic Hasbro board game, CLUE is the ultimate whodunit that will leave you dying of laughter and keep you guessing until the final twist.
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Trump’s immigration stances: A study in hypocrisy
One of the best ways to know what it is about immigrants today that Donald J. Trump says would be bad for America is to compare those things to what has been good for his own immigrant family. So much that benefitted his own, he now wants to deny to others.
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Milton Coleman, The Oklahoma Eagle
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Trump’s Campaign Against Immigrants Echoes Earlier White Supremacist Tirades
Donald J. Trump’s latest rants against immigrants are bringing his campaign closer and closer to the strategically crafted and undeniably racist propaganda that powered the White supremacist insurrection in Wilmington, N.C. in 1898, when what is now considered ‘the quiet part’ was as loud as could be.
CONTRIBUTOR
Milton Coleman, The Oklahoma Eagle
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918 Conversation With Tulsa’s Economic Development Director Erran Persley
Tulsa’s Economic Development Director Erran Persley, who began his new role in March 2024, spoke with The Oklahoma Eagle Managing Editor Gary Lee and Eagle contributor Kimberly Marsh about his plans for equitable economic growth across the city.
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Kimberly Marsh & Gary Lee, The Oklahoma Eagle
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North Tulsa Neighborhood Revitalization Plan Faces Challenges
According to U.S. census tract estimates cited in the Kirkpatrick Heights-Greenwood Master Plan, north Tulsa is losing Black residents by the thousands.
The vital objectives of the Master Plan are to stem that outflow, and stabilize and revitalize north Tulsa neighborhoods. The Tulsa Development Authority (TDA), through its PartnerTulsa staff, is finalizing a legal process to begin implementing the plan. And yet, enforcing the master plan faces substantive obstacles.
CONTRIBUTOR
John Neal, The Oklahoma Eagle
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TPS Achieves State-Mandated Student Testing Benchmark
Tulsa Public Schools improved student test scores by five percentage points as mandated by the Oklahoma State Board of Education (OSBE). In a statement released to The Oklahoma Eagle late last week, TPS officials declared student test scores in English Language Arts (ELA) (reading/writing) have increased from 37% to 42% at the “basic and above” performance level.
CONTRIBUTOR
John Neal, The Oklahoma Eagle
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North Tulsa Neighborhood Revitalization Plan Is Underway
The City of Tulsa in late July awarded $2 million to spur the development of new housing, retail, and office space in north Tulsa. The Tulsa Development Authority (TDA) will use the money to finalize the legal process necessary to begin the development of seventy acres of largely vacant land in north Tulsa. The area designated for revitalization lies within The Kirkpatrick Heights-Greenwood Master Plan study area which is bordered by Pine Street to the north, US Highway 75 to the east, the rail line to the south (Archer Street), and LL Tisdale Parkway to the west.
CONTRIBUTOR
John Neal, The Oklahoma Eagle
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The Myth of the Christian State
The Gospels, with which most orthodoxies were aligned in Oklahoma, were objectively not applicable to Black Tulsans. Segregation, lynchings and mass murder were the justified responses to perceived encroachment and entitlement. No Black Tulsan man, woman or child was deserving of dignity, as represented in the state’s constitution, yet faith, Christianity, was regarded as the foundation upon which all were governed. BTW graduates of 1921 were subject to both the legal cruelty of the state and a demand to accept that faith, a faith unlike their own, was the state’s moral foundation upon which life was governed, without objection.
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Ross D. Johnson, The Oklahoma Eagle
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Williams Named National Geographic Wayfinder
Kristi Williams, a stalwart advocate for Black culture and heritage in Tulsa, has been named a National Geographic Wayfinder. This coveted role positions Williams to amplify her brand of storytelling on national and international platforms.
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Gary Lee, The Oklahoma Eagle
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TPS Offers Second Chance for High School Diploma
Tulsa Public Schools is offering a free summer program for recent high school dropouts and struggling students to get a diploma. The credit recovery program enables students to complete or make up coursework working online at their own pace, with help from certified teachers based in north Tulsa. The Bridge to Graduation program is open to former high school seniors from two years ago (2021-22) to current high school students who are behind on course credits.
CONTRIBUTOR
John Neal
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Eagle Receives Top Awards In Annual Oklahoma Press Association Contest
‘Clear Winner. Bold Cover Layouts, Almost Magazine Like. Reminds Us Of The Sunday New York Times,’ Judges Noted.
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Staff, The Oklahoma Eagle
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Eagle Publisher Honored As One Of Oklahoma’s Journalism Giants
James O. Goodwin Is The First African American To Receive OPA’s Highest Honor
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Staff, The Oklahoma Eagle
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Lawsuit Against TPS Moves Forward
Two Tulsa Public School Board members are moving forward with a lawsuit alleging that other TPS school board members violated Oklahoma’s Open Meeting Act. The suit could eventually have a major impact on how the TPS board conducts meetings.
CONTRIBUTOR
John Neal
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We Shall Know Them By Their Deeds
God’s place, one may objectively determine, of most early 20th century Oklahoma legislators, was to guide and protect the hand that inflicted harm, as the back upon which it fell was not worthy of His grace.
Of the 21st century, one may objectively determine that Oklahoma courts and legislators are convicted to guard against demands of accountability for sins that define the state’s history and moral character.
CONTRIBUTOR
Ross D. Johnson
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New Community Mural Spotlights North Tulsans
At the Elgin Avenue underpass, a new scene welcomes passersby as they are greeted by the faces of Greenwood’s past, present, and future. Twenty portraits decorate the walls of the Elgin street underpass located between Mt. Zion Baptist Church and ONEOK field, home for the Tulsa Drillers and FC Tulsa. The murals are a community project titled, “Doorways to Hope,” referencing the neighboring Pathway to Hope.
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Sam Levrault
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Judge Rules Educators May Teach Racial History
A federal court judge has blocked enforcement of key provisions of an Oklahoma law that aimed to restrict educators from teaching America’s sordid racial history.
CONTRIBUTOR
John Neal
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My Brother’s Keeper-Tulsa Seeks To Transform Black Boys Into Men
My Brother’s Keeper-Tulsa, an organization focused on improving outcomes for boys and young men of color, has launched a new initiative to expand reading opportunities. The Books in Barbershops program comes a year after MBK-Tulsa was designated a “model community” by the Obama Foundation.
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Deon Osborne
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BRANJAE, A Tulsa Singer Rises To Higher Ground
Those who know her best recognize her stories in the songs she writes. She is a storyteller as well as a gifted lyricist and performer. She is known locally for her rhythmic performances as a co-fronter with Count Tutu, high vibrational solo albums and music videos, on-stage dance energy, and multiple style changes during a performance. She brings the venue to life with every move and every word.
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Kimberly Marsh
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Fulton Street Books & Coffee Has Moved To Greenwood, And We’re Here For It
Should anyone perceive Fulton Street Books & Coffee's recent grand opening, at 21 N. Greenwood Ave. (next to Greenwood Rising), as merely a change of location to the historic district, that would completely miss the point of the event... A blame for the head, not the heart.
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Students of the COVID-19 Era
An ongoing series that explores the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on education, partially on Black, Indigenous and people of color communities in Oklahoma.
By Gary Lee, The Oklahoma Eagle.
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Councilors, City Leaders to Host Fourth Community Conversation in Midtown on Thursday, North Tulsa on Monday
March 6 marked the Oklahoma Legislature’s deadline to advance policy bills from their assigned committees. The Oklahoma Eagle is highlighting five bills for our readers that have advanced out of committee and could affect underserved communities in Tulsa. One of the proposed bills could impact health care while another bill would give more time to those who face potential convictions.
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The Oklahoma Eagle
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Key Legislation Impacting Tulsans Has Advanced At The State Capitol
March 6 marked the Oklahoma Legislature’s deadline to advance policy bills from their assigned committees. The Oklahoma Eagle is highlighting five bills for our readers that have advanced out of committee and could affect underserved communities in Tulsa. One of the proposed bills could impact health care while another bill would give more time to those who face potential convictions.
CONTRIBUTOR
Joe Tomlinson, The Oklahoma Eagle
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Scholarship Supports Greenwood Legacy, New Generations of Tulsa
Two great-grandchildren of 110-year-old Mother Lessie Benningfield Randle are committed to continuing their ancestral legacy as the recipients of college scholarships that will prepare them for careers and equip them with the knowledge and skills to preserve their elder’s work to keep the legacy of the Greenwood District alive.
CONTRIBUTOR
Kimberly Marsh, The Oklahoma Eagle
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Jocelyn Lee Payne: A Life Devoted To Scholarship, Education, Mentorship, Advocacy, Family, And Friendships
Dr. Jocelyn Lee Payne was an inspiring and impactful scholar and leader in higher education in Oklahoma, a fierce advocate for social and racial justice and a caring mentor to several generations of Oklahomans, particularly women. Jocelyn embodied the principles of Black Excellence long before the term became popular and inspired anyone who came into her orbit to reach for the stars in whatever field they chose.
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Gary Lee, The Oklahoma Eagle
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Kyra Carby Wins District 3 TPS Seat
Kyra Carby, a Black/Mvskoke Creek former educator, has won the District 3 seat for the Tulsa School Board. With all 18 precincts reporting, Carby won with 66.6 percent of the votes. Her opponent, Dorie Simmons, took 33.3 percent. A total of 842 votes were cast in the election. District 3 encompasses a large part of north Tulsa and includes McLain High School. The seat was recently vacated by Dr. Jennettie Marshall. She decided not to run again.
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Kimberly Marsh, The Oklahoma Eagle
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Community Wins at Dreamland Kickball
Tulsans from across the city came together at ONEOK field March 23rd, all in the name of community and kickball. They gathered to participate in a kickball game that also served as community fundraising event in celebration of ten years of the Dreamland Festival, a community event featuring music and other arts, scheduled for September.
CONTRIBUTOR
Sam Levrault, The Oklahoma Eagle
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We Live In Troubled Times. Here’s How 10 Tulsans Are Coping
In this unstable period, Tulsans are focused on their local communities, but they are also navigating a period of national and global uncertainty. The ongoing flurry of policy changes at the federal level is causing economic challenges.
CONTRIBUTOR
Kimberly Marsh, The Oklahoma Eagle
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Tulsa School Board District 3 Candidates
Kyra Carby and Dorie Simmons, Tulsa Public School board candidates vying for a seat to represent North Tulsa’s District 3, have rounded off their stances on issues for the general election set for April 1. Their platforms reflect agreement on several fronts, but differ vastly in their approach to the role.
CONTRIBUTOR
Kimberly Marsh, The Oklahoma Eagle
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State Audit Reveals Massive Mismanagement of Funds at TPS
On Feb. 26 Oklahoma State Auditor and Inspector Cindy Byrd released a long-awaited state audit of Tulsa Public Schools, and it documented a wide range of financial irregularities, including bonus payments made to TPS employees by the TPS Foundation that bypassed school board authorization.
CONTRIBUTOR
John Neal, The Oklahoma Eagle
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Bills Proposed In OKC Could Affect Child Caregiver Wages And More
Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt is urging state lawmakers to cut the state’s 4.75% personal income tax and 4% corporate income tax by half a percentage in the current 60th legislative session.
CONTRIBUTOR
Joe Tomlinson, The Oklahoma Eagle
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Beyond Apology Commission: A Shift from Debate To Action
Tulsa’s Black leaders have elevated their efforts to repair the harm caused by the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, calling upon City officials to use existing city funds designated for housing initiatives to respond to the damage done and help Tulsans restore generational wealth.
CONTRIBUTOR
Kimberly Marsh, The Oklahoma Eagle
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Greenwood Business Center Free 3rd Annual Women’s Summit Set for March 4 Virtual Venue
The 3rd Annual Women’s Summit, hosted by the Greenwood Business Center, will explore the impact that Artificial Intelligence, known as AI, can play in empowering women business owners.
CONTRIBUTOR
Kimberly Marsh, The Oklahoma Eagle
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Whodunit? Based On The Board Game, ‘Clue: A New Comedy,’ Comes to Tulsa
The classic detective board game that was turned into a 1985 movie is now coming to life on a Tulsa stage. Celebrity Attractions presents “Clue: A New Comedy” at the Tulsa Performing Arts Center from Feb. 11-16, 2025.
CONTRIBUTOR
Kimberly Marsh, The Oklahoma Eagle
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Speaker Highlights The Role Of Religious Institutions
Parishioners packed into the Grace Lutheran Church sanctuary on Feb. 2 to hear Dr. Jonathan Lee Walton, president of the Princeton Theological Seminary, deliver an interfaith lecture on how religious institutions can teach “the common good” in a society focused on individual spirituality.
CONTRIBUTOR
Joe Tomlinson, The Oklahoma Eagle
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Mayor Nichols Presses On To Fulfill Campaign Commitments
During a cold weather spell just a few weeks after his Nov. 5, 2024, election, Tulsa Mayor Monroe Nichols personally visited city warming stations and shelters to check on the well-being of people seeking services there. He spent some time with three people, and the experience deepened his sense of humanity. It also reaffirmed his commitment to addressing the needs of Tulsa’s homeless population and providing affordable housing for the city’s residents.
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Kimberly Marsh, The Oklahoma Eagle
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Tulsa Artist Inspires Urban Greenspaces Through Mosaic
Tulsa artist Zadith Rodriguez is reimagining a greener Tulsa through her artwork, hoping to inspire future generations while connecting to her South American roots. Rodriguez is a native of Peru.
CONTRIBUTOR
Kimberly Marsh, The Oklahoma Eagle
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The Oklahoma Eagle Is Spreading Its Wings
The Oklahoma Eagle is expanding. The weekly print and digital newspaper will leverage 102 years of news production in Tulsa, Okla. to join with a coalition of Tulsa media, community and philanthropy leaders that have formed the Tulsa Local News Initiative, set to launch in 2025.
CONTRIBUTOR
Kimberly Marsh, The Oklahoma Eagle
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“It Was What People Do.”
Pastor Bailey, twice convicted by Tulsa County District Courts of Child Abuse by Injury, and the prior subject of a Lewd Molestation filing, led St. Andrew Christian Church "according to the blueprint of Holy Scripture” throughout a period when his daughter alleges rape.
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Ross D. Johnson, The Oklahoma Eagle
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Trump’s immigration stances: A study in hypocrisy
One of the best ways to know what it is about immigrants today that Donald J. Trump says would be bad for America is to compare those things to what has been good for his own immigrant family. So much that benefitted his own, he now wants to deny to others.
CONTRIBUTOR
Milton Coleman, The Oklahoma Eagle
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Trump’s Campaign Against Immigrants Echoes Earlier White Supremacist Tirades
Donald J. Trump’s latest rants against immigrants are bringing his campaign closer and closer to the strategically crafted and undeniably racist propaganda that powered the White supremacist insurrection in Wilmington, N.C. in 1898, when what is now considered ‘the quiet part’ was as loud as could be.
CONTRIBUTOR
Milton Coleman, The Oklahoma Eagle
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918 Conversation With Tulsa’s Economic Development Director Erran Persley
Tulsa’s Economic Development Director Erran Persley, who began his new role in March 2024, spoke with The Oklahoma Eagle Managing Editor Gary Lee and Eagle contributor Kimberly Marsh about his plans for equitable economic growth across the city.
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Kimberly Marsh & Gary Lee, The Oklahoma Eagle
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North Tulsa Neighborhood Revitalization Plan Faces Challenges
According to U.S. census tract estimates cited in the Kirkpatrick Heights-Greenwood Master Plan, north Tulsa is losing Black residents by the thousands.
The vital objectives of the Master Plan are to stem that outflow, and stabilize and revitalize north Tulsa neighborhoods. The Tulsa Development Authority (TDA), through its PartnerTulsa staff, is finalizing a legal process to begin implementing the plan. And yet, enforcing the master plan faces substantive obstacles.
CONTRIBUTOR
John Neal, The Oklahoma Eagle
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TPS Achieves State-Mandated Student Testing Benchmark
Tulsa Public Schools improved student test scores by five percentage points as mandated by the Oklahoma State Board of Education (OSBE). In a statement released to The Oklahoma Eagle late last week, TPS officials declared student test scores in English Language Arts (ELA) (reading/writing) have increased from 37% to 42% at the “basic and above” performance level.
CONTRIBUTOR
John Neal, The Oklahoma Eagle
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North Tulsa Neighborhood Revitalization Plan Is Underway
The City of Tulsa in late July awarded $2 million to spur the development of new housing, retail, and office space in north Tulsa. The Tulsa Development Authority (TDA) will use the money to finalize the legal process necessary to begin the development of seventy acres of largely vacant land in north Tulsa. The area designated for revitalization lies within The Kirkpatrick Heights-Greenwood Master Plan study area which is bordered by Pine Street to the north, US Highway 75 to the east, the rail line to the south (Archer Street), and LL Tisdale Parkway to the west.
CONTRIBUTOR
John Neal, The Oklahoma Eagle
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The Myth of the Christian State
The Gospels, with which most orthodoxies were aligned in Oklahoma, were objectively not applicable to Black Tulsans. Segregation, lynchings and mass murder were the justified responses to perceived encroachment and entitlement. No Black Tulsan man, woman or child was deserving of dignity, as represented in the state’s constitution, yet faith, Christianity, was regarded as the foundation upon which all were governed. BTW graduates of 1921 were subject to both the legal cruelty of the state and a demand to accept that faith, a faith unlike their own, was the state’s moral foundation upon which life was governed, without objection.
CONTRIBUTOR
Ross D. Johnson, The Oklahoma Eagle
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Williams Named National Geographic Wayfinder
Kristi Williams, a stalwart advocate for Black culture and heritage in Tulsa, has been named a National Geographic Wayfinder. This coveted role positions Williams to amplify her brand of storytelling on national and international platforms.
CONTRIBUTOR
Gary Lee, The Oklahoma Eagle
MORE GARY LEE STORIES
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TPS Offers Second Chance for High School Diploma
Tulsa Public Schools is offering a free summer program for recent high school dropouts and struggling students to get a diploma. The credit recovery program enables students to complete or make up coursework working online at their own pace, with help from certified teachers based in north Tulsa. The Bridge to Graduation program is open to former high school seniors from two years ago (2021-22) to current high school students who are behind on course credits.
CONTRIBUTOR
John Neal, The Oklahoma Eagle
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Eagle Receives Top Awards In Annual Oklahoma Press Association Contest
‘Clear Winner. Bold Cover Layouts, Almost Magazine Like. Reminds Us Of The Sunday New York Times,’ Judges Noted.
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Staff, The Oklahoma Eagle
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Eagle Publisher Honored As One Of Oklahoma’s Journalism Giants
James O. Goodwin Is The First African American To Receive OPA’s Highest Honor
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Staff, The Oklahoma Eagle
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Lawsuit Against TPS Moves Forward
Two Tulsa Public School Board members are moving forward with a lawsuit alleging that other TPS school board members violated Oklahoma’s Open Meeting Act. The suit could eventually have a major impact on how the TPS board conducts meetings.
CONTRIBUTOR
John Neal
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We Shall Know Them By Their Deeds
God’s place, one may objectively determine, of most early 20th century Oklahoma legislators, was to guide and protect the hand that inflicted harm, as the back upon which it fell was not worthy of His grace.
Of the 21st century, one may objectively determine that Oklahoma courts and legislators are convicted to guard against demands of accountability for sins that define the state’s history and moral character.
CONTRIBUTOR
Ross D. Johnson
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New Community Mural Spotlights North Tulsans
The long pursuit of justice by the two last-known survivors of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre took a decisive blow on June 12, when the Oklahoma Supreme Court affirmed a lower court’s dismissal of their lawsuit seeking reparations.
CONTRIBUTOR
Sam Levrault
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Oklahoma Court Dismisses Race Massacre Lawsuit
The long pursuit of justice by the two last-known survivors of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre took a decisive blow on June 12, when the Oklahoma Supreme Court affirmed a lower court’s dismissal of their lawsuit seeking reparations.
CONTRIBUTOR
Gary Lee
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Judge Rules Educators May Teach Racial History
A federal court judge has blocked enforcement of key provisions of an Oklahoma law that aimed to restrict educators from teaching America’s sordid racial history.
CONTRIBUTOR
John Neal
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Oklahoma Gives Huge Subsidies To Private School Students
My Brother’s Keeper-Tulsa, an organization focused on improving outcomes for boys and young men of color, has launched a new initiative to expand reading opportunities. The Books in Barbershops program comes a year after MBK-Tulsa was designated a “model community” by the Obama Foundation.
CONTRIBUTOR
John Neal
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My Brother’s Keeper-Tulsa Seeks To Transform Black Boys Into Men
My Brother’s Keeper-Tulsa, an organization focused on improving outcomes for boys and young men of color, has launched a new initiative to expand reading opportunities. The Books in Barbershops program comes a year after MBK-Tulsa was designated a “model community” by the Obama Foundation.
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Deon Osborne
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Branjae, A Tulsa Singer Rises To Higher Ground
Those who know her best recognize her stories in the songs she writes. She is a storyteller as well as a gifted lyricist and performer. She is known locally for her rhythmic performances as a co-fronter with Count Tutu, high vibrational solo albums and music videos, on-stage dance energy, and multiple style changes during a performance. She brings the venue to life with every move and every word.
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Kimberly Marsh
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Cindy McGhee: How One Woman Built A Business From Scratch
One Of Fastest Growing Companies In The Country: Building The Next Generation Of Entrepreneurs (and Homeowners)
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Dr. Jerry Goodwin
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Report Shows Minimal Progress For Black Tulsans
The City of Tulsa has released its annual Equality Indicators report for 2023 revealing that the needle marking progress in opportunities and well-being for disadvantaged communities has hardly moved during the last six years of reporting. The Indicators reports measure equality disparities among populations across various themes and topics, assessed using more than fifty-four metrics. The Oklahoma Eagle, as it has each year, closely examines how racial and community disparities affect North Tulsans.
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John Neal
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Women’s History Month Profile – Ashley Townsend teaches how to save money and create generational wealth
The Oklahoma Eagle conducted an interview with Ashley Townsend of Chase Bank. She is vice president community manager at the bank. Joining in the interview was Kim Marsh, a news and editorial contributor at the newspaper. (The interview was edited for clarity and conciseness.)
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Dr. Jerry Goodwin
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Jennettie Marshall: Guiding Tulsa Schools Through Troubled Waters
Elected to the Tulsa School Board in 2016, Marshall is the longest serving member of the board - a panel of seven elected officials charged with overseeing the running of all 77 Tulsa Public Schools. She makes it her business to push for high standards in education and facilities for the schools in her district, which is composed of more than a dozen schools, including several institutions that have been vital for northsiders - McLain, Central High School, Burroughs, and Hawthorne Elementary among others. But Marshall’s dominion on the board is not limited to North Tulsa. She is the self-styled watchman for all TPS schools.
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Gary Lee
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Black History Saturdays
Tulsa’s Black Community Reclaims Its Legacy
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Gary Lee
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Revivalists Envision Future For All-Black Towns
Most Oklahomans are familiar with the state’s historic All-Black towns, the significance of the independence established by their residents, the economic freedom earned and the safe haven provided throughout the country’s and state’s racially charged history.
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Kimberly Marsh
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“A Whistle Blew About 5:00 A.M., And The Invasion Of Greenwood Began”
The survivors, descendants, and communities of Tulsa, Oklahoma that continue to struggle in the wake of the state-sanctioned, institutional and societal racism that culminated in the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, followed by more than 100 years of legislative cowardice intended to protect the interests of those who benefited from the deaths of the innocent, will find no immediate respite in the halls of Tulsa district courts, reveals by Tulsa County Judge Caroline Wall’s final ruling late Friday, Jul.7.
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Ross D. Johnson
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The Oklahoma Eagle Wins Best Page Design Award In Great Plains Journalism Contest
TULSA – The Oklahoma Eagle, the state’s oldest Black-owned media company and the last privately-owned business that owns property and continues to operate in Tulsa’s famed Historic Greenwood District, won Best Page Design in the Great Plains Journalism Awards competition on May 5.
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The Oklahoma Eagle Staff
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Students of the COVID-19 Era: How the Pandemic followed them to Langston University, Oklahoma’s only HBCU
TULSA – The coronavirus pandemic may be waning across much of the globe. However, for many students at Langston University – the only Oklahoma historically Black college and university – the aftereffects still impact their lives at its campuses in Langston, Tulsa and Oklahoma City.
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Gary Lee
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Oklahoma GOP-led Measure Providing Public Funding For Private Education Becomes Law
Oklahoma Students Will Suffer Most. For the thousands of pupils in Tulsa – and across Oklahoma – who struggled with school during the COVID-19 pandemic, those challenges are destined to impact their earnings potential in the workplace. Students of the COVID-19 era will likely take home thousands of dollars less in wages annually than they would have had the pandemic not occurred, according to a new education study.
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John Neal
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A Book That Finally Tells Greenwood’s Epic Story
“Before its burning, Greenwood Avenue had been lined with hotels, restaurants, furriers, and even an early taxi service using a Ford Model T,” Luckerson wrote in The Ringer. “Nearly 200 businesses populated the 35-square-block district in all, as did some homes as stately as the ones owned by upper-class whites in the city.”
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M. David Goodwin
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Two Tulsa Educators Who Overcame The Pandemic’s Challenges
The impact of the COVID-19 virus was brutal for Tulsa Public Schools’ teachers. The same woes that burdened educators across the country – and indeed globally – affected them, too: school administrators who were ambivalent about how to respond to the pandemic; off-and-on decisions about whether schools would be remote or in-person; coping with COVID-19 illnesses themselves or among colleagues; having to learn the tools of remote teaching on the spot.
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Gary Lee
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Alisa Bell, J.A.M.E.S.: A Champion For Young Mothers
Since it was founded in 2007, J.A.M.E.S., Inc. has helped hundreds of young Tulsa mothers, Bell estimates. Around 70 percent are young Black Tulsans, while the others are white, Native American or Latina.
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Ross D. Johnson, The Oklahoma Eagle
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Doubts Rise Over A Resolution To Tulsa Race Massacre Mass Graves
Tulsans from across the city came together at ONEOK field March 23rd, all in the name of community and kickball. They gathered to participate in a kickball game that also served as community fundraising event in celebration of ten years of the Dreamland Festival, a community event featuring music and other arts, scheduled for September.
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Oklahoma GOP-led Measure Providing Public Funding For Private Education Becomes Law
The new legislation will likely weaken Tulsa Public Schools and other public school systems across the state by diverting millions of dollars from them. It may also disadvantage families in economically disadvantaged communities, many of whom cannot afford private schools, several educators and lawmakers have said.
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John Neal
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Students of the COVID-19 Era: How the Pandemic followed them to Langston University, Oklahoma’s only HBCU
TULSA – The coronavirus pandemic may be waning across much of the globe. However, for many students at Langston University – the only Oklahoma historically Black college and university – the aftereffects still impact their lives at its campuses in Langston, Tulsa and Oklahoma City.
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Gary Lee
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A Book That Finally Tells Greenwood’s Epic Story
“Before its burning, Greenwood Avenue had been lined with hotels, restaurants, furriers, and even an early taxi service using a Ford Model T,” Luckerson wrote in The Ringer. “Nearly 200 businesses populated the 35-square-block district in all, as did some homes as stately as the ones owned by upper-class whites in the city.”
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M. David Goodwin
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In The Era Of COVID-19, Tulsa Public Schools Lost A Generation Of Black And Brown Students
The Oklahoma Eagle is investigating how the coronavirus pandemic impacted the education of the Black and Brown children in Tulsa Public Schools. In the first installment of our three-part series, we detail the impact the pandemic has had on the disadvantaged schools in our community.
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Gary Lee
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Doubts Rise Over A Resolution To Tulsa Race Massacre Mass Graves
Is the city of Tulsa serious in its mission to uncover the mystery of bodies still missing from the 1921 Race Massacre?
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Remote Learning Delivers Mixed Success for Tulsa Area Students in the Era Of COVID-19
The Oklahoma Eagle has conducted a probe into how the COVID-19 pandemic has affected the nearly 33,000 students in Tulsa Public Schools and the surrounding metropolitan area school districts.
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Gary Lee
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FWD: People First
“Nearly 2 million people are incarcerated in U.S. jails & prisons. Too often, they are described as “offender” & “felon”. These labels bias the public against criminal justice reform and make more freedom less possible.“
Word choices matter. Put #peoplefirst.
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THE HISTORIC GREENWOOD DISTRICT AND GREATER TULSA HAVE A VIBRANT AND RICH ARTS COMMUNITY, WORTHY OF DISCOVERY AND CELEBRATION.
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WE PURSUE THE FULL AND CLEAR TRUTHS ABOUT THE STATE OF EDUCATION IN GREATER TULSA AND OKLAHOMA, FROM K-12 TO OUR HIGHER EDUCATION INSTITUTIONS.
Republican governors Ron DeSantis of Florida and Kevin Stitt of Oklahoma and their respective GOP-majority legislatures have moved aggressively to ban the teaching of Critical Race Theory in the education system in their states.
ARTS & CULTURE
THE HISTORIC GREENWOOD DISTRICT AND GREATER TULSA HAVE A VIBRANT AND RICH ARTS COMMUNITY, WORTHY OF DISCOVERY AND CELEBRATION.
HADESTOWN: A CLASSIC PRODUCTION WITH CONTEMPORARY THEMES
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“The narratives and voices of the African American community are worthy of being amplified while aligned with our highest virtue, truth.“
We actively build and nurture a culture that is committed to an unwavering exploration of truth and what it reveals.
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The U.S. Transportation Secretary hopes to deliver on Pres. Joe Biden’s pledge to reconnect Black communities across America.
Of Greenwood: Liberty Mutual Insurance Series
The Oklahoma Eagle’s “Of Greenwood” series is part of our 2nd Century Campaign, which commemorates the hundredth anniversary of this African American newspaper. “Of Greenwood,” is a monthly series examines key legacies that helped to shape our community as the “Black Wall Street of America.” Our series receives support from Liberty Mutual Insurance.
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