Tulsa
Tulsa is the site of historic racial harms and exactly where the nation must look to understand the complexity of revisiting and repairing this harm.
As one of the organizations convened by Blue Meridian Partners’ Opportunity Accelerator initiative, BI helped facilitate the City of Tulsa’s work with the historic Greenwood-Black Wall Street communities to address the injustice and resulting inequities arising from the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre as well as urban renewal policies that stunted Greenwood’s economic growth. The transfer of 56 acres in the Kirkpatrick Heights-Greenwood districts to a community-led development is an investment in the well-being of Black North Tulsans, in particular, and a blueprint for equitable business development.