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This Greenwood Jazz Club Hosted Louis Armstrong and Ella Fitzgerald. Then It Disappeared.

Remembering the Down Beat Ballroom, Tulsa’s long-forgotten jazz club

August 20, 2025

Sacred Harp Singing Might Cure What Ails You

What a mysterious photograph says about one of America’s oldest musical traditions

May 16, 2025

Nasty Newspapers, The Klan and Tulsa’s Gilded Age

Fake news as a pretext for violence? Rule by the wealthy elite? Sky-high inflation? We’ve heard this story before.

March 19, 2025

No One Played Like Jesse Ed Davis

An excerpt from "Washita Love Child: The Rise of Indigenous Rock Star Jesse Ed Davis"

February 6, 2025

The True Story of Tulsa’s Forgotten Antihero, Sadie James

And a walk downtown in search of her saloon, the Bucket of Blood

January 23, 2025

The Gospel of John Lennon

In search of John Lennon's lost letter to Oral Roberts

December 12, 2024

The Myth of Saint Woody

A Woody Guthrie biographer set out to understand the man who wrote "This Land Is Your Land." What he found left him conflicted.

December 10, 2024

Troubled Waters Part 3: Balancing Act

What's a state to do when population growth, drought and climate change swallow up its water?

December 10, 2024

The Strange Love of Dr. Billy James Hargis

How an Oklahoma preacher and a Texas general forged a new brand of politics that centered Oklahoma as a hotbed for the religious right.

November 25, 2024

The Nightmare Of Dreamland

A founding father of Tulsa, Tate Brady, was involved with the Ku Klux Klan, segregation and the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre.

November 21, 2024