Focus: Black Oklahoma Fundraiser - Tulsa Oklahoma
Focus: Black Oklahoma Fundraiser - Tulsa Oklahoma
Focus: Black Oklahoma Fundraiser - Tulsa Oklahoma
Focus: Black Oklahoma Fundraiser - Tulsa Oklahoma
Tri-City Collective, established in 2016, is an organization led by experienced educators, activists, and change-makers who are dedicated to promoting diversity, inclusion, and providing educational and artistic opportunities beyond traditional classroom settings for both young people and adults.
Central to our mission is the exploration of our state and nation's history, which forms the foundation of our educational initiatives. These initiatives take various forms, such as radio programs, workshops, art exhibitions, live curated discussions, curriculum development, and published written works.
The composition of our Collective is intentionally diverse, mirroring the inclusive world we strive to create.
Mission: We build community through creativity, educational programs, and shared history.
Vision: Thriving communities grounded in cross-cultural empathy and understanding.
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Greenwood Mapping Project
We speak of Greenwood’s destruction in specifics. We speak of its successes in the abstract because they’ve never been compiled and curated. There is no one comprehensive place that one can view Greenwood’s breadth/scope, and certainly no place where one can get a sense of Greenwood’s growth, destruction, and rebuilding, over a span of time. The lack of a comprehensive visual tool leaves many people—especially in Greenwood—with a missing sense of what this community consisted of.
Throughout the two-year research process of writing The Victory of Greenwood, we uncovered several data sources which included land deeds, addresses of families and businesses, census data, business directory data, municipal land records, and other sources of information that have never been corroborated and displayed together in one place. We’re compiling all these data sources together to create an online map of Greenwood that would be interactive—showing Greenwood’s growth from 1905 to 1921, and its rebuilding after the Tulsa Race Massacre.
The map would allow the website user to scroll through each year and view, street by street, block by block, building by building, what existed in that place and when. It would be the first time in Tulsa’s history that this information would be cross-referenced and displayed on one visual, digital exhibit.
Dr. View,
Fire in Little Africa
Executive Producer
Many organizations theorize about their love for community, but only a select few can actualize and execute their missions.
Tri-City recognizes the importance of centering communal education, lived experience and creative justice. Tri-City is collective knowledge production. Tri-City is ancestral work.
Alison Rossi,
Gilcrease Museum
Director of Learning &
Community Engagement
Through Tri-City Collective, we have paved new pathways for connecting with communities. They are trusted collaborators we can count on to produce creative, relevant, thoughtful, stimulating, and professional content and projects.
Nehemiah Frank,
Black Wall Street Times
Founder &
Editor-In-Chief
Focus Black Oklahoma relaunches at a critical time in our state’s history -- the Centennial of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre. As we commemorate where we have been and where we are going, FBO is positioned and equipped with talented journalists who will help elevate Black authenticity to the airways. We are grateful for their leadership.