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A long-time Tulsa resident, she retired from the City of Tulsa in 2004 after more than twenty-five years. Before becoming a state legislator she was coordinator for the Tulsa Mayor's Office for Neighborhoods, an entity she created and worked for since 1991. [1] McDaniel has served on the YMCA Tulsa Advisory Board, Metropolitan Tulsa Citizens ...
Howard G. Barnett Jr. (born 1950 Kansas City) is an American businessman and politician from Oklahoma who is currently serving as the President of Oklahoma State University-Tulsa. [1] [2] Barnett previously served as the Oklahoma Secretary of Commerce under Governor of Oklahoma Frank Keating from 1998 to 1999. Keating appointed Barnett to serve ...
Greenwood is a historic freedom colony in Tulsa, Oklahoma. As one of the most prominent concentrations of African-American businesses in the United States during the early 20th century, it was popularly known as America's "Black Wall Street". It was burned to the ground in the Tulsa race massacre of 1921, in which a local white mob gathered and ...
Of the 349 crisis contacts from youth and adults between Feb. 16 and Feb. 20, Rainbow Youth Project found 69% of them mentioned the Owasso incident as one of the reasons for their distress, 85% of ...
A candlelight vigil for Nex Benedict, an Oklahoma teenager who died the day after a fight in a high school bathroom. (Mike Simons / Tulsa World )
Billy Joe Daugherty (April 23, 1952 – November 22, 2009) was founder and pastor of Victory Christian Center (now Victory Church) in Tulsa, Oklahoma. He was also the founder of Victory Christian School, Victory Bible Institute and Victory World Missions Training Center (now Victory College). Nine hundred and eighty Victory Bible Institutes ...
All Souls Unitarian Church is a Unitarian Universalist (UU) church in Tulsa, Oklahoma.It is one of the largest UU congregations in the world. All Souls Unitarian Church was founded in 1921 by two leading Tulsans from families with Unitarian roots: Richard Lloyd Jones, the publisher of the Tulsa Tribune daily newspaper, whose father, Rev. Jenkin Lloyd Jones, had served as secretary of the ...
The Tulsa Youth Symphony Orchestra (TYS) is an Oklahoma nonprofit arts organization founded in 1963 to provide advanced orchestral training and performance experience for young musicians in Northeastern Oklahoma. As of 2016, more than 200 students, ages 8 to 18, participate in the program’s two orchestras.