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No Ceilings
Long before the Tuskegee Airmen, Bessie Coleman inspired a generation of pilots to take to the skies
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Writing Without Fear
The early black abolitionist David Walker thought he might be killed for his words against slavery, but he wrote them anyway
Jul 28
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The Man Who Built Black History Month
Carter G. Woodson chronicled the highs and lows of black life, and he gave others the tools to do the same
Feb 25
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Resistance Isn’t Futile
What I learned researching a man who was arrested for owning a book
Jan 21
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Freedom by Violent Means: Part II
The killing of a white slavecatcher by a group of armed black people prompted a vicious response from the federal government
Oct 10, 2025
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Black History Across America - Oklahoma
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Learn the Story of Black Wall Street
This article chronicles the history of Tulsa's Greenwood district, from its origins as Native American land to its rebuilding after the 1921 Tulsa Race…
Mar 24, 2024
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Juneteenth: A Greenwood Story
How the neighborhood celebrated the holiday in the age of Jim Crow
Jun 19, 2023
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The Game Is the Game
A popular gambling pastime known as the policy wheel dominated the economy of Depression-era Greenwood. Because it was criminalized, it also spawned…
Mar 11, 2022
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Women's Work
When the Great Depression gripped Tulsa in the early 1930’s, it squeezed black women the hardest
Feb 1, 2022
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Black History Across America - Pennsylvania
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Freedom by Violent Means: Part II
The killing of a white slavecatcher by a group of armed black people prompted a vicious response from the federal government
Oct 10, 2025
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Freedom by Violent Means: Part I
The Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 sparked a wave of violent resistance, leading to a killing in Christiana, Pennsylvania
Sep 25, 2025
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Truthtelling in a Time of Lies
William Still, a conductor on the Underground Railroad, gave fugitive slaves the space to tell their own authentic stories
Sep 3, 2025
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The Burning of Pennsylvania Hall
Abolitionists built a monument to liberty and free speech steps from Indepdence Hall in Philadelphia. Then a mob burned it the ground.
Aug 19, 2025
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