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  • Apartheid in Indian Country: Seeing Red Over Black Disenfranchisement

    I was recently interviewed by Rich Fisher of StudioTulsa, you can listen to the interview here: http://publicradiotulsa.org/post/apartheid-indian-country-seeing-red-over-black-disenfranchisement For more information or to order check out my books on this... Read More »

  • DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION IN THE WORKPLACE

    Diversity and Inclusion in the Workplace The Business of Leading Change Hannibal B. Johnson  Introduction Each of us is a complex individual. Yes, we are different from one another, sometimes in significant ways. But what we have in common—our shared humanity—overarches those... Read More »

  • THE TRUTH OF THE MATTER Musings on the Perils of the Information Age

    Hannibal B. Johnson The “Information Age” is now firmly ensconced. We are awash in its brackish, untamed waters, buffeted by waves of data at every turn. As with water, separating out the undesirable contaminants requires a process akin to purification, a kind of processing that culls the... Read More »

  • REPARATIONS AND THE 1921 TULSA RACE RIOT Righting the Wrongs of History

      “The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice.” -Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.   Tulsa, “The Oil Capital of the World,” “The Magic City,” shone brightly at the dawn of the twentieth century. Black gold oozed from Indian Territory soil, land once set... Read More »

  • Curriculum Counts: The Importance of Teaching About the 1921 Tulsa Race Riot

    May 31, 2011, marks the ninetieth anniversary of the cataclysmic 1921 Tulsa Race Riot (the “Riot”), a defining moment in Tulsa and American history. Despite its significance as the worst so-called race riot in American history, even some Tulsans remain oblivious to this tragic event. Still more... Read More »

  • BIG MAMA SPEAKS

    A Tulsa Race Riot Survivor’s Story A PLAY BY HANNIBAL B. JOHNSON Featuring acclaimed actress VANESSA ADAMS-HARRIS  as “Big Mama” Big Mama Speaks is based on Hannibal B. Johnson’s book, Black Wall Street: From Riot to Renaissance in Tulsa’s Historic Greenwood District. A one-act... Read More »

  • The Illusion of a “Post-Race” America

    November 5, 2008, newspaper headlines trumpeted the dawn of a new era: “A Nation Changed” (The Bakersfield Californian); “In Our Lifetime” (The Anniston Star); “America Chooses Change” (Tahoe Daily Tribune); and “Obama Wins in Historic Vote” (Record Searchlight), just to note a few.... Read More »

  • The Limits of the Law

    By Hannibal B. Johnson The words “law” and “justice,” most often coupled sequentially as “law and justice,” fit together like handmaidens. Historically and strategically, African-Americans have been true believers in the marriage of these concepts. From abolition to civil rights,... Read More »

  • Diversity, inclusion: business and moral musts

    Reprinted from Tulsa World with permission of original author By Staff Reports Published: 8/26/2010  2:27 AM Last Modified: 8/26/2010  6:12 AM Last fall, the Tulsa Area Human Resources Association held its first annual "Return on Inclusion" business summit. That TAHRA gathering of business... Read More »

  • Race & Reconciliation: Tulsa, Oklahoma Leads By Example

    “One might argue the historian is the conscience of the nation, if honesty and consistency are factors that nurture the conscience.” Dr. John Hope Franklin (Race and History, Selected Essays, 1938 – 1988) In life, Tulsa’s hometown hero, Dr. John Hope Franklin, challenged us to... Read More »

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