OKLAHOMA, TULSA — Our clients, Viola “Mother” Fletcher and Lessie Benningfield “Mother” Randle, will file a petition for rehearing with the Oklahoma Supreme Court asking the Court to reconsider its…
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Lessie Benningfield Randle and Viola Fletcher are asking the state supreme court to allow their historic lawsuit to proceed. By Ed Pilkington, The Guardian — The two remaining survivors of…
On April 2, State’s High Court to consider whether the survivors, both 109, can continue their fight for justice. OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla. (Business Wire) — The Oklahoma Supreme Court will…
“We recommend that the City of Tulsa establish a government sanctioned task-force or commission to establish and implement the terms of a reparations program,” the report concluded. By Deon Osborne,…
Viola Ford Fletcher and her family fled a murderous white mob 102 years ago – today she’s still demanding accountability. By David Smith, The Guardian — Viola Ford Fletcher smiles…
By Scott Neuman, NPR — Shortly after going to work for the Tulsa Historical Society in 2001, Michelle Place recalls historian Richard Warner hefting a large cardboard box atop her…
By Kim Whiting, TheReporters.org — In Tulsa, Oklahoma, not even Martin Luther King gets south of the tracks. The north side of town encompasses the predominantly Black, low-income neighborhoods and MLK…
As a descendant of the Tulsa Race Massacre, I made the case for reparations. By Tiffany Crutcher, The Progressive — On June 1, to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the…
By The Associated Press — Eleven U.S. mayors, from Los Angeles to tiny Tullahassee, Oklahoma, have pledged to pay reparations for slavery to a small group of Black residents in…
Black Freedmen in Tulsa hope the national attention on the Greenwood massacre means that more Americans are willing to reckon with the scale of the country’s sins. By Joseph Lee,…
Over the course of a day-and-a half in late May and early June 1921, a white mob, angered by the alleged assault of a white woman by a black man,…
It’s been 100 years since the Tulsa race massacre, one of the worst acts of racial violence in US history. Commemorations honoring the victims have not only brought more attention…
