Black leaders in Oklahoma want to keep the state's historic freedmen towns alive. They were established after the Civil War on Indian land but are now experiencing economic hardship.

More than 12% of Oklahoma's population is Black. Of this population, less than 1% live in rural Oklahoma in towns that were settled by their Black ancestors. These 13 towns are what remain from as ...

WEBBERS FALLS, Okla. - It is a tiny town in America’s hinterland that has almost been wiped off the map. For a week and a half, all 610 residents of Webbers Falls, Oklahoma have been forcibly ...

New evacuations were under way Saturday as well: Authorities ordered evacuations in the towns of Glencoe, population of around 600, and Mannford, population about 3,000 in Creek County about 20 ...

Yet, the Memorial Day weekend festivities also celebrate a place Boley, other Black towns, and the Greenwood section of Tulsa — home to the “Black Wall Street” destroyed in 1921 — occupy ...

The school district was closed in 1967, and through the years the other buildings were torn down or destroyed by fire. ... But it’s the Oklahoma All-Black Towns State Conference, ...

MIDWEST CITY, OKLA. — Oklahomans and Texans returned home to charred buildings, ruined cars and glowing rock Friday in the wake of several drought-fueled and wind-driven fires, at least one of ...

For the adventurous black explorer, however, there's far more to Oklahoma. A tour of the historic black towns dotted across the state brings visitors to one of the few places this side of the ...