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Casper Star-Tribune CASPER â Tulsa, Oklahomaâs Greenwood District was home to more Black millionaires per capita than anywhere else in the U.S. in the early 1900s. It was a neighborhood of concentrated, generational wealth for Black communities. And in 1921, it was bombed and burned to the ground by a mob of white Tulsans in an event known today as the Tulsa race massacre. The University of Wyomingâs Black Studies Center held a panel Feb. 15 to discuss the legacy of that moment and reflect on the film âBefore They Die,â which interviewed survivors of the Greenwood Districtâs destruction. ....
Students want a call-to-action after zoom hack Students want a call-to-action after zoom hack President Seidel has a meaningless response to the zoom hack according to students. UW Photo The zoom hack that occurred during the virtual Black History Month event on February 15 has prompted efforts to raise awareness on safety for people of color at the University of Wyoming. Students have spoken on President Seidel’s email that was sent out on February 17 to address the issue. “The words that were spoken felt extremely empty,” Jaida Cooper, a student at the university, said. “They felt like they were said before and used again for this instance. The thing that should have been mentioned is a call to action. Students need to know that things are going to be put structurally into place so racist incidents don’t happen again to students of color.” ....
February 1, 2021 Several virtual events are planned this month as part of the University of Wyoming’s Black History Month celebration. “The Death of Black Wall Street and the Myth of the American Dream” is the theme of Black History Month, sponsored by UW’s African American and Diaspora Studies (AADS) and the Black Studies Center. Events are free and open to the public. “This year’s theme reckons with the 100th anniversary of one of America’s most catastrophic events,” says Fredrick Douglass Dixon, the Black Studies Center’s director and an assistant professor in the UW School of Culture, Gender and Social Justice. “Each event examines the layered nuances of the economic, political and social impacts of Black Wall Street’s death.” ....