The Black Wall Street Times

The Black Wall Street Times is an African-American newspaper founded in Tulsa, Oklahoma in 2017."[2] According to NPR, the paper focuses on racial equity issues in Tulsa and seeks to hold public officials accountable.[3] In 2021, the paper called for Governor Kevin Stitt to resign from the Tulsa Race Massacre Commission for signing HB 1775, a bill which allegedly barred critical race theory.[4] In 2023, the Oklahoma State Department of Education banned the paper from interviews with Ryan Walters.The ban was due to Nehemiah Frank calling Walter "trash," a "klansman," and a "Nazi" on the social media platform X.
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