Event Description
Writing About Greenwood with Quraysh Ali Lansana
7-9 pm for 4 weeks beginning April 27
Registration Fee: $25
Support for this workshop is provided by the Zarrow Foundation
Registration closes Friday, April 23rd at 5:00 pm
Scholarships are available for those with financial need. Fill out the application online.
Workshop Description:
This course examines the history of Tulsa’s Greenwood District from it’s pre-statehood beginnings to its many renaissances, including the present day. Coined “Black Wall Street” by educator and historian Booker T. Washington, Greenwood was the most economically vibrant Black community in the United States for years, in spite of Oklahoma’s brutal segregation laws. Though that entrenched racial divide continues to exist, Black Wall Street is thriving once again.
Organization Receives $45,000 Grant to Build Monument
Organization Receives $45,000 Grant to Build Monument
The Hand That Feeds Sculpture. Photo courtesy of Mujeres de Colores.
The Fort Collins Downtown Development Authority has given a $45,000 grant to non-profit organization Mujeres de Colores to build
The Hand That Feeds sculpture and monument at Sugar Beet Park in north Fort Collins.
The sculpture is a community project by Mujeres de Colores that aims to recognize and commemorate the many Hispanic and Mexican families that came to the region to work the sugar beet fields, later settling in and becoming a part of Fort Collins.
The sculpture will be created by artist Frank Garza, a Loveland resident. The Short-Hoe in the sculpture represents the hard work required by field workers, while the Hand represents the Mexican and Hispanic families who carried out that work.
Applications Now Open For Inaugural Year Of Commemoration Fund
The Zarrow Family Foundation is now seeking applicants for the inaugural Commemoration Fund Grant. The applications for this brand new grant, based right here in Tulsa, are open for people to apply until February 12.
The Commemoration Fund was established in 2020 and is run solely by black, indigenous, Latino, and people of color from in and around the Tulsa area. Zarrow Foundation members say they believe this may be the most diverse board in their field for Oklahoma.
They are looking to help people of color in the Tulsa community who are trying to make a difference and might have an idea on how to help right a social wrong in some way. Commemoration Fund Manager Clarence Boyd with the fund says they are searching for nonprofits doing innovative work in correcting social issues in Tulsa.