Tulsa race riots began after a Black man was accused of assaulting a white woman. The case was later dismissed in court, but historians estimate that up to 300 people died during the riots.
“Vi! Get up, child. If we don’t leave right now, we could end up dead.” What Viola Fletcher witnessed that night in 1921 has haunted her for a century. Her entire childhood had been set ablaz ...
Lessie Benningfield Randle, 109, and Viola Fletcher, 110, condemned the Oklahoma Supreme Court's decision last month to ...
The discovery in Oklahoma, comes nearly a month after the first identification of remains previously exhumed during the ...
Mother Viola Ford Fletcher, the oldest living survivor of the Tulsa Race Massacre, has officially endorsed Kamala Harris for President of the United States. As Mother Fletcher just celebrated her ...
The city of Tulsa, Oklahoma, is creating a new commission to recommend how various reparations can be made for a 1921 ...
Viola Fletcher, 110, and Lessie Benningfield Randle, 109, are the last known survivors of one of the single worst acts of violence against Black people in U.S. history. As many as 300 Black people ...
I, Queen Mother Viola Ford Fletcher, and my family endorse her with God’s grace. At 110 years of age… I will be ready, willing, and able to cast my vote in November.
Ramblin’ man: Gov. Kevin Stitt has been a busy guy the past few weeks. Besides the Republican National Convention, he spoke ...