California Gov. Gavin Newsom has signed the state budget. Included in the budget is $75 million in reparations for survivors of forced sterilizations of prison inmates allowed under the state’s eugenics laws. Kelli Dillon has fought against the California Department of Corrections since 2006, but the forced sterilizations in correctional facilities across the nation began…
Author: Ashley Jones, Arts & Culture Reporter
Ashley Jones is a freelance writer and a photographer. She freelances for the Oklahoma Eagle, Root Tulsa and NuOrigins.com. She has published in the New York Times with the Student Journalism Institute and graduated from the University of Missouri in Columbia with a BA in Journalism, emphasis Magazine Arts & Culture, and a minor in Black Studies.
Ausi and Winny Flows, HippieTree Shoots at the Big Apple
For Ausi album drop, “Emocean” In collaboration with Tulsa Lines and Indy Pot News http://www.tulsalines.com/tulsa-lines/ausi-and-winny-flows-hippietree-shoots-at-the-big-apple-for-ausi-album-drop-emocean Ausi and Winny Flows are adding to Tulsa’s list of dynamic duos with their new group, HippieTree. HippieTree may be a duo, but their third musketeer is behind the scenes on the production side, London Canon (Winny Flows brother). They’re…
Kappa Konclave Virtual Black Health Summit
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Descendants “exhausted” after finding 35 bodies, bullet wound from Tulsa mass grave
The digging is done, but the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre Mass Graves Investigation carries on.
Black Wall Street Square and Gentrification Concerns
The North Side is bordered with Red Lines, soon will be covered black
Tulsa Pride Festival
Pride showed up and showed out this year with Queens and Kings shining
My Musical Muckracker 