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Tulsa

History

What the Tulsa Race Massacre Destroyed

Imagine a community of great possibilities and prosperity built by Black people for Black people. Places to work. Places to live. Places to learn and shop and play. Places to worship. Now imagine it being ravaged by flames.

Yuliya Parshina-Kottas, Anjali Singhvi, Audra D.S. Burch, Troy Griggs, Mika Gröndahl, Lingdong Huang, Tim Wallace, Jeremy White, Josh Williams The New York Times May 2021 25min Permalink

History

Black Wall Street: The African American Haven That Burned and Then Rose From the Ashes

On the racially motivated destruction of Tulsa’s Greenwood district.

Victor Luckerson The Ringer Jun 2018 25min Permalink

Crime

A Trial By Fire

In eight minutes, Miashah Moses took out the trash and a blaze consumed the apartment where her nieces were watching television. What happened, and who’s to blame?

Carol Mersch The Big Roundtable May 2016 50min Permalink