Located in northwestern Tulsa, Okla., the neighborhood was alive with Black political and economic power during the early ...

Mothers and advocates with the Black Women’s Roundtable gathered at the Capitol Thursday and called on the Legislature to ...

If approved, the plan would provide cash payments, a new hospital and the potential returning of land to descendants of the ...

It is a cancer that is preventable and highly treatable if people have access to the right kind of medical professionals and ...

More than a century ago, Greenwood, a Black neighborhood in Tulsa, Okla., was destroyed in a violent spree by a white mob ... of massacre survivors. Ms. Penny is the granddaughter of Ms. Randle ...

The son of slaves, Ottaway Gurley would become a multi-millionaire and one of the richest African-Americans in the country.

Launched in 2011, the Mississippi Freedom ... just a few miles outside of Greenwood. Young Emmett Till entered the store to ...

Cervical cancer deaths are one of the most common for American women with 4,320 women dying of the disease; however, death rates for black women are 65 percent higher than that of white women. In 2024 ...

The street began to be called Greenwood Avenue after the city in Mississippi. He started a rooming ... reports of lynchings across the state by 1921. When a black man was accused of raping a white ...

She was at Kingston Crown Court on Monday with her parents and brother, dressed all in black, taking notes in ... to the officer because he was white, Ms Forbes said, but was instead referring ...

Woods of Greenwood, Mississippi, on behalf of the Leflore County Sheriff’s Office. Woods was last seen on Saturday, January 25 at around 8 a.m. in the 100 Block of Ridgeland Road in Leflore County.