[et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ admin_label=”About Next Gen: DO NOT EDIT” _builder_version=”4.7.7″ background_color=”#353754″ custom_padding=”2%|0px|2%|0px||” locked=”off” collapsed=”off” custom_margin=”||1px|||”][et_pb_row column_structure=”3_5,2_5″ custom_padding_last_edited=”on|desktop” admin_label=”Time of Covid Row: DO NOT EDIT” _builder_version=”4.7.7″ custom_margin=”|||” custom_padding=”15px|0px|22px|0px||” custom_padding_tablet=”|0px||” custom_padding_phone=”|0px||” custom_width_px=”1280px”][et_pb_column type=”3_5″ _builder_version=”3.25″ custom_padding=”|||” custom_padding__hover=”|||”][et_pb_text admin_label=”NextGenRadio” _builder_version=”4.7.7″ text_font=”Nunito|600|||||||” text_text_color=”#ffffff” text_font_size=”21px” text_line_height=”1.2em” header_font=”Oswald|||||on|||” header_text_align=”center” header_text_color=”#ffffff” header_font_size=”60px” header_letter_spacing=”5px” header_line_height=”1.5em” header_2_font=”||||||||” header_2_text_align=”center” header_2_text_color=”#ffffff” header_2_font_size=”27px” header_2_line_height=”1.5em” text_orientation=”center” background_layout=”dark” max_width=”600px” module_alignment=”center”]<\/p>\n
Finding, coaching and training public media’s next generation.<\/span><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text admin_label=”In the time of COVID: DO NOT EDIT” _builder_version=”4.7.7″ text_font=”||||||||” header_font=”|||on|||||” header_text_align=”center” header_2_font=”Oswald|||on|||||” header_2_text_align=”left” header_2_text_color=”#6c82a3″ header_2_font_size=”35px” header_2_line_height=”1.2em” header_3_font=”|700||||on|||” header_3_text_color=”#6c82a3″ background_layout=”dark” max_width=”600px” module_alignment=”center” custom_margin=”20px||||false|false”]<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text disabled_on=”off|off|off” admin_label=”Texts: DO NOT EDIT” _builder_version=”4.7.7″ text_font=”Nunito||||||||” text_text_color=”#ffffff” text_font_size=”18px” header_font=”Oswald||||” header_font_size=”16px” header_letter_spacing=”2px” header_line_height=”1.7em” max_width=”600px” max_width_tablet=”” max_width_phone=”” max_width_last_edited=”on|phone” module_alignment=”center” custom_margin=”-30px|||” locked=”off”]<\/p>\n A collection of audio and digital stories highlighting the experiences of people in the 100-year aftermath of what is believed to be the single worst incident of racial violence in American history.<\/p>\n This project was produced in April 2021 in partnership with Oklahoma State University School of Media and Strategic Communications and KOSU. Our reporters are students in Oklahoma.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=”2_5″ _builder_version=”3.25″ custom_padding=”|||” custom_padding__hover=”|||”][et_pb_video src=”https:\/\/youtu.be\/9s8UtzUIUKk” admin_label=”YouTube Video” _builder_version=”4.7.7″ _module_preset=”default”][\/et_pb_video][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.7.7″ _module_preset=”default” text_text_color=”#ffffff” text_font_size=”16px”]<\/p>\n Dwight Eaton\u2019s grandfather built his barbershop from the ashes of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre. Decades later, Dwight hopes to continue the legacy of Greenwood\u2019s pioneers with his coffee shop.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section][et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ admin_label=”HERO IMAGE OPTION 1: Background image: DELETE IF NOT NEEDED” _builder_version=”4.7.7″ background_enable_color=”off” background_image=”https:\/\/okla.nextgenradio.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2021\/04\/Beth_Lauren_Final.jpg” background_blend=”multiply” custom_margin=”-2px|||||” custom_padding=”12%||39.4%|||” min_height=”1291.4px”][et_pb_row _builder_version=”3.25″][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”3.25″ custom_padding=”|||” custom_padding__hover=”|||”][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section][et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ _builder_version=”4.7.7″ _module_preset=”default” custom_padding=”6px||3px|||”][et_pb_row column_structure=”2_3,1_3″ _builder_version=”4.7.7″ _module_preset=”default” custom_padding=”3px||6px|||”][et_pb_column type=”2_3″ _builder_version=”4.7.7″ _module_preset=”default”][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=”1_3″ _builder_version=”4.7.7″ _module_preset=”default”][et_pb_text admin_label=”Illustrator credit” _builder_version=”4.7.7″ _module_preset=”default”]<\/p>\n Illustration by Lauren Iba\u00f1ez<\/em><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section][et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ _builder_version=”4.5.1″ _module_preset=”default” custom_padding=”7px||35px|||”][et_pb_row _builder_version=”4.5.1″ _module_preset=”default”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.5.1″ _module_preset=”default”][et_pb_post_title date=”off” comments=”off” featured_image=”off” _builder_version=”4.7.7″ _module_preset=”default” title_level=”h3″ title_font=”Oswald||||||||” title_font_size=”42px” title_letter_spacing=”2px” title_line_height=”1.2em” meta_text_color=”#04a3e3″ meta_font_size=”18px”][\/et_pb_post_title][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row column_structure=”3_5,2_5″ _builder_version=”4.5.1″ _module_preset=”default”][et_pb_column type=”3_5″ _builder_version=”4.5.1″ _module_preset=”default”][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.7.7″ _module_preset=”default” text_font_size=”18px” text_line_height=”1.8em”]<\/p>\n Dwight Eaton thought he\u2019d left Tulsa for good.<\/span><\/p>\n His family\u2019s entrepreneurial spirit brought him back.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Dwight, 57, is a third-generation business owner in the historic Greenwood District of Tulsa, Okla. Greenwood was once home to a thriving Black business district known today as Black Wall Street. In 1921, white mobs attacked its residents, homes and businesses during the Tulsa Race Massacre.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Dwight\u2019s grandfather, Joseph Eaton, worked in a factory and cut hair in Greenwood in the years leading up to the massacre.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n \u201c[My grandfather] spoke about it, if I can recollect, probably two, no more than three times,\u201d Dwight said. \u201cHe said it was very traumatic, you know. He lost quite a few friends to the massacre during that time. And it was a very scary, trying moment.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=”2_5″ _builder_version=”4.5.1″ _module_preset=”default”][et_pb_audio audio=”https:\/\/okla.nextgenradio.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2021\/04\/1-BETH_MASTER-2.mp3″ title=”LISTEN TO THE STORY” artist_name=”Beth Wallis” album_name=”Next Generation Radio | Oklahoma Newsroom | April 2021″ image_url=”https:\/\/okla.nextgenradio.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2021\/04\/Coffee_10.jpg” _builder_version=”4.7.7″ _module_preset=”default” background_color=”#353754″][\/et_pb_audio][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row _builder_version=”4.7.7″ _module_preset=”default” custom_padding=”4px|||||”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.7.7″ _module_preset=”default”][et_pb_text admin_label=”Story Text” _builder_version=”4.7.7″ _module_preset=”default” text_font_size=”18px” text_line_height=”1.8em”]<\/p>\n Dwight said he felt the community\u2019s sense of shame was rooted in the feeling that Greenwood residents could\u2019ve done more to save themselves, though the reality of<\/span> the highly orchestrated attack<\/span><\/a> left little room for a matched response.<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cThey felt that talking about it could stir up more of a negative thing in the community, that it could happen again.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n Despite living through one of the country\u2019s deadliest episodes of racial violence, Joseph Eaton\u2019s dreams of being a business owner never faltered \u2014 once Greenwood was rebuilt in the 1930s, he opened his own barbershop. His son – Dwight\u2019s father – later inherited the business, which served as an organizing hub for the Greenwood community.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_image src=”https:\/\/okla.nextgenradio.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2021\/04\/Coffee_03.jpg” alt=”Daniel Marks standing next to gym equipment.” title_text=”Coffee_03″ align_tablet=”center” align_phone=”” align_last_edited=”on|desktop” admin_label=”Image” _builder_version=”4.7.7″][\/et_pb_image][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.7.7″ _module_preset=”default”]<\/p>\n Dwight Eaton is co-owner of Black Wall Street Liquid Lounge, a coffee shop on Greenwood Avenue. Eaton opened the business with his partner, Guy Troupe, in January 2020. (Photo by Beth Wallis)<\/span><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row _builder_version=”4.7.7″ _module_preset=”default” custom_padding=”||0px|||”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.7.7″ _module_preset=”default”][et_pb_text admin_label=”Story Text” _builder_version=”4.7.7″ _module_preset=”default” text_font_size=”18px” text_line_height=”1.8em”]<\/p>\n Living in the shadow of the massacre left its toll on Tulsa\u2019s Black citizens. Tulsa remained a deeply divided city. Growing up in North Tulsa during the 1960s and \u201970s, Dwight remembers several incidents of racial violence and prejudice that have stuck with him throughout the years. One particular incident happened when he was just 8 years old.<\/span><\/p>\n In the summer of 1971, Dwight, his cousin and his brother went down to the local skating rink and bowling alley, which had closed about a year before. The children had heard a rumor the rink was giving away its rollerskates, so they walked around the building and tried the doors, but they were locked.<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cLo and behold, the police just pulled up,\u201d Dwight said. \u201cYou know kids \u2014 we were scared. So we ran. And of course, me being 8 years old, [I] couldn\u2019t run too fast.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n Police caught up to the boys, arrested them and took them to jail. The children were fingerprinted, their mugshots were taken and their parents were called to come pick them up. Dwight thought the police were using a \u201cscare technique.\u201d But it wasn\u2019t a technique \u2014 the police had arrested 8-year-old Dwight for grand larceny. He said the arrest still remains on his record.<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cNothing was stolen whatsoever,\u201d Dwight said. \u201cWe just looked around, pulled a little [on the doors]. Might [have] been trespassing, but there definitely wasn\u2019t grand larceny.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row column_structure=”3_5,2_5″ _builder_version=”4.7.7″ _module_preset=”default”][et_pb_column type=”3_5″ _builder_version=”4.7.7″ _module_preset=”default”][et_pb_text admin_label=”Story Text” _builder_version=”4.7.7″ _module_preset=”default” text_font_size=”18px” text_line_height=”1.8em”]<\/p>\n Dwight said he also faced abuse at school \u2014 he was jumped by white students, kicked by a teacher and called the N-word. Once Dwight graduated from high school in 1981, he said it was time to leave the city behind.<\/span><\/p>\n All these traumatic moments led him to ask: Is there a future here?\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cI mean, I really didn\u2019t know because I hadn\u2019t been anywhere else,\u201d Dwight said. \u201cHowever, those things, they rattle you, gnaw on you, that you want to escape from things such as this. \u2026 Once I graduated, I wanted to see somewhere else.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n Dwight said goodbye to Tulsa and never looked back \u2014 until last year, when his longtime business partner, Guy Troupe, moved there. The former NFL player\u2019s family also has roots in Greenwood.<\/p>\n Dwight returned to the city his ancestors built their dreams in and opened a coffee shop. His grandfather\u2019s legacy, he said, lives on.<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cOwning the Black Wall Street Liquid Lounge, well that\u2019s just kind of a manifestation of family lineage,\u201d he said. \u201cWe just decided that, hey, this is something that we could put back into the place, in the space, in order to renew the vision of the original pioneers of Black Wall Street.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n Though the coffee shop sits on the bottom level of an apartment complex, Dwight said he rarely sees any residents \u2014 who, he said, are by and large white \u2014 in the Liquid Lounge. Every morning, he watches potential patrons walk right past his business.<\/span><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=”2_5″ _builder_version=”4.7.7″ _module_preset=”default”][et_pb_image src=”https:\/\/okla.nextgenradio.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2021\/04\/Coffee_08.jpg” alt=”Weighted plates on a rack at a gym” title_text=”Coffee_08″ align_tablet=”center” align_phone=”” align_last_edited=”on|desktop” admin_label=”Image” _builder_version=”4.7.7″][\/et_pb_image][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.7.7″ _module_preset=”default”]<\/p>\n The coffee shop\u2019s chalkboard menu displays the O.W. Gurley Frappe, named after the pioneer founder of Greenwood. Using unique flavors like charcoal mocha, Black Wall Street Liquid Lounge offers several one-of-a-kind specialty drinks. (Photo by Beth Wallis)<\/span><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_image src=”https:\/\/okla.nextgenradio.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2021\/04\/Coffee_11.jpg” alt=”Weighted plates on a rack at a gym” title_text=”Coffee_11″ align_tablet=”center” align_phone=”” align_last_edited=”on|desktop” admin_label=”Image” _builder_version=”4.7.7″][\/et_pb_image][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.7.7″ _module_preset=”default”]<\/p>\n The Black Wall Street Liquid Lounge also sells baked goods and sandwiches. (Photo by Beth Wallis)<\/span><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row _builder_version=”4.7.7″ _module_preset=”default” custom_padding=”0px|||||”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.7.7″ _module_preset=”default”][et_pb_text admin_label=”Story Text” _builder_version=”4.7.7″ _module_preset=”default” text_font_size=”18px” text_line_height=”1.8em” locked=”off”]<\/p>\n Dwight advocates for the Black community to support itself as well as other cultural businesses, but said the Liquid Lounge \u2014 because it specifically honors Black culture \u2014 isn\u2019t given the same consideration.<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cBlack Wall Street is an ethnic brand,\u201d Dwight said. \u201cOther cultures have no problem with being accepted. …Chinese food, Mexican food, Italian food, you got Irish bars, so on and so forth. If we identify with our culture, it\u2019s a negative.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n Championing the Greenwood community is a way of carrying his grandfather\u2019s torch. Dwight said he\u2019s unapologetic that the culture of the coffee shop honors Blackness and the resurgence of Black Wall Street. Ultimately, he said, being a Black business owner, especially in Tulsa, is about knowing how to push through challenges.<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cI have a sports background, played football. So adversity is a core of that particular sport,\u201d Dwight said. \u201cSo you get knocked down to get back up. You get knocked down, you get back up. So I\u2019ve learned through that transition that I always have to be prepared. I always have to think three or four steps ahead. Because initially, I know I\u2019ll get knocked back two, or maybe three, in order to be one step ahead.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_image src=”https:\/\/okla.nextgenradio.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2021\/04\/Coffee_12.jpg” title_text=”Coffee_12″ _builder_version=”4.7.7″ _module_preset=”default”][\/et_pb_image][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.7.7″ _module_preset=”default”]<\/p>\n Co-manager Tikara Williams finishes preparing a customer\u2019s drink. A barista by day, Williams also runs her own business: Aye Natural Candles. 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