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By Shaunicy Muhammad, The Oklahoma Eagle
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This year’s Black Wall Street Legacy Festival brought thousands of people to the Greenwood District for panel discussions, historical tours and musical performances by artists like Fantasia.

With the crowds gone and the vendors packing up on Sunday morning, reflection and remembrance for those lost in the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre — and the people who helped rebuild — took center stage. 

Tony Williams, known affectionately as Mr. Greenwood, led a vigil near the Black Wall Street mural across from Vernon A.M.E. Church. He was joined by a small group, including Mayor Monroe Nichols, with many wearing green to represent the historic area. 

About 30 minutes later, Tiffany Crutcher, Chief Egunwale Amusan and members of the Tulsa African Ancestral Society hosted a soil collection ceremony at Standpipe Hill near John Hope Franklin Boulevard. The site overlooks what was the former Greenwood community.  

As drumming and singing filled the Sunday morning silence, they began the ceremony.

“In this moment we remember the lives lost in Greenwood, both that terrible time in 1921 and also in the long shadow it cast over a community for decades,” Crutcher, founder and executive director of the Terence Crutcher Foundation, said. “We stand now — over 100 years later — as testimony to both the tragedy and resiliency of this community which has risen more than once from the ashes.”

The containers were labeled with the names of massacre victim C.L. Daniel and Mother Viola Fletcher, one of the last living survivors who passed away in November at 111.

The ceremony signified a pledge to honor their memory with “our commitments to truth, to restoration, to reparations and, finally, reconciliation,” Crutcher said.

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Here’s what’s happening in Oklahoma today:

• Art of the Deal: Mike Mazzei Paid Roger Stone $67,500 Before Landing Trump Endorsement… (The Lost Ogle)*

• Out-of-state group tests Oklahoma law with cruise for political donation sweepstakes (Oklahoma Watch)

• Oklahoma open primary advocates appeal rejection of their initiative petition (KOSU)

• BILL SIGNED: Gov. Stitt signs 'Leo's Law' (2 News Oklahoma)

• Piedmont planning commission tables data center decisions, calls for deeper study (KFOR)

• OHP addresses concerns as self-driving semi trucks hit Oklahoma roads (News 9)

• Street racing crash in NW OKC kills child, grandmother; driver arrested on murder complaint (News 9)

• After Route 66 parade headaches, YouTuber warns of car event cancellations in Tulsa (Tulsa Flyer)

• Capital Cruise to refund all drivers after some stopped from participating (Tulsa World)*

• 'He was a legend': Ponca City family demands answers after deadly shooting of wrestling coach (KOCO)

• Del City Pizza Hut worker attacked after getting order wrong (KFOR)

• Head-on crash involving semi leaves 2 people dead on Highway 33 near Kingfisher (KOCO)

• Tulsa Public Schools hired a third-party firm to help with the budget deficit. It told them to close schools. (Tulsa Flyer)

• Why Russell Westbrook is investing in OKC's new multipurpose stadium, district (The Oklahoman)*

• Oklahoma continues to lack substantial guardrails for using generative AI (Oklahoma Voice)

• Interior Department withdraws decision affirming United Keetoowah Band shares Cherokee reservation (KOSU)

• Cherokee Nation seeks centuries of Principal Chief records, asks citizens for input (OPMX)

• Muscogee Nation voters pass special justice amendment, term limits; ‘Mvskoke’ amendment falls short (NonDoc)

• Preston Stout captures NCAA individual title, leads OSU into match play (The O’Colly)

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Monday’s Games:
Texas 5, Tennessee 2
Texas 4, Tennessee 0
Texas Tech 5, Alabama 4
Texas Tech 2, Alabama 0

It’s a rematch! The Longhorns and Red Raiders will face off again in the Women’s College World Series Championship Series starting Wednesday at 7 p.m. on ESPN at Devon Field in Oklahoma City.

Sooners:
Oklahoma 8, Georgia Tech 7 Final/10

🚨 Sooner Magic! The Sooners win the Atlanta regional with a walk-off home run by Dayton Tockey in the bottom of the 10th. OU eliminated the No. 2 team in the country, coming all the way back from a 7-3 deficit. Up next: Oklahoma will travel to Lawrence, Kansas, this weekend for a Super Regional against the Jayhawks. The winner of that series heads to Omaha for the Men’s College World Series.

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