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BLACK MEN ARE EXCELLENT

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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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McCurtain Publisher Rejects Views of The County As Racially Biased

Bruce Willingham, publisher of the McCurtain Gazette-News, batted back perceptions of McCurtain County as a part of Oklahoma that is hostile to Blacks and other minorities.

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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 Students of the COVID-19 Era

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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Historic Discovery Made In 1921 Graves Investigation Analysis Provides Glimpse Into Family Trees Of DNA Profiles

Tulsa Mayor G.T. Bynum and forensic scientists and genealogists from Intermountain Forensics, the laboratory assisting the City with DNA analysis for the 1921 Graves Investigation, announced a historic update as it relates to the DNA and genealogical investigation from the 2021 and 2022 excavations and exhumations at Oaklawn Cemetery.

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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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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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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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McCurtain Publisher Rejects Views of The County As Racially Biased

Bruce Willingham, publisher of the McCurtain Gazette-News, batted back perceptions of McCurtain County as a part of Oklahoma that is hostile to Blacks and other minorities.

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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 Students of the COVID-19 Era

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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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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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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A BRIEF Q&A WITH TULSANS WHO SHARE THEIR PASSIONS AND INVEST IN OUR COMMUNITIES.

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Black Queer Tulsa’s Diamond Ball

Black excellence was on ful display at Black Queer Tulsa’s Diamond Ball this year.

Help Support Paris Simone Epps As She Heads To The Tiny Miss Princess Of America National Pagent

The Oklahoma Eagle Newswire   Paris Simone Sherra Epps and is a fun loving outgoing…

How One Family Told The Story Of The Tulsa Massacre

BY VICTOR LUCKERSON     They called it the Eden of the West. When boosters…

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PEOPLE, NEWS AND THE PERSONAL NARRATIVES OF TULSANS WHO ARE COMMITTED TO THE BUILDING A GREATER TULSA, EVERY DAY.

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BLACK QUEER TULSA'S DIAMOND BALL

Black excellence was on ful display at Black Queer Tulsa’s Diamond Ball this year.

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A BRIEF Q&A WITH TULSANS WHO SHARE THEIR PASSIONS AND INVEST IN OUR COMMUNITIES.

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918: ABA N. HAMMOND, OUTGOING CHAIR, TULSA'S YOUNG PROFESSIONALS

Aba N. Hammond, the outgoing chair of Tulsa's Young Professionals (TYPROS). Hammond, 30, a business strategist and consultant by profession, is the first Black to serve in TYPROS's chair role.

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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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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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The Oklahoma Eagle

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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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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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EDUCATION

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.

ARTS & CULTURE

THE HISTORIC GREENWOOD DISTRICT AND GREATER TULSA HAVE A VIBRANT AND RICH ARTS COMMUNITY, WORTHY OF DISCOVERY AND CELEBRATION.

EDUCATION

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.

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Oklahoma Needs Critical Race Theory 

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.

Jarrod Kopp, Obum UkabamLittle Shop of Horrors, Tulsa Performing Arts Center, TPAC, Graceson Todd, Majeste Pearson, James Burkhalter III, Joseph Wright, Nash McQuarters, Justin Daniels, Jamia Newsome, Alexandria Moore, Elara Ford, Joseph Wright, Terrell Crawford, Josh Yap,

HADESTOWN: A CLASSIC PRODUCTION WITH CONTEMPORARY THEMES

“It is about hope and love, and will love win? Will love carry you through?”

TALK OF GREENWOOD

LEADERS FETED AT WOMEN OF COLOR EXPO

TALK OF GREENWOOD

LINCOLN ALUMNI 23RD REUNION CELEBRATION

TALK OF GREENWOOD

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JEREMY JOHNSON: KITCHENTABLE & CATERING CO.

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