"The" "Oklahoma Eagle" started in 1922 after the 1921 Tulsa race massacre when an African American businessman Theodore Baughman salvaged a printing press from the burned-out building of the "Tulsa Star". The "Tulsa Star" was Tulsa's first Black-owned newspaper, and was known as the "voice of Black Tulsa" with its coverage of the everyday lives of black Tulsans as they celebrated weddings, mourned at funerals, and marked graduations and anniversaries.