Local Information: Tulsa

Stay in the AFS Block at the Hyatt Regency Tulsa

If you intend to stay at the Hyatt, please reserve a room in the AFS block by using the reservation link that we provide, rather than a third-party hotel reservation system.

This helps both you and AFS. If you have any trouble with your reservation, we will have more leverage to help you if you reserve within our block. Also, placing your reservation this way satisfies our contract with the hotel, helping us to avoid potentially costly fees if our block is not filled.

AFS guest rates

• Standard: $149
• Student: $99

The link to reserve a room in the AFS block at the Hyatt Regency Tulsa will be posted here in June, when the preliminary program is released.

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Attractions

• Jeff Martin, “Tulsa Is in the Midst of a Massive Cultural Renaissance,” Architectural Digest (May 10, 2022): https://www.architecturaldigest.com/gallery/tulsa-massive-cultural-renaissance
  • “With the opening of the Olson Kundig–designed Bob Dylan Center, the city has cemented itself as a must-see destination for lovers of art and culture”
• Mary Noble, “Black-owned business guide,” TulsaPeople (June 2, 2020): https://www.tulsapeople.com/the-voice/writers/mary-noble/updated-black-business-guide/article_1a1186b3-e246-5b1b-bb46-6bdc3fcd7c1a.html

• “25 Best Things to Do in Tulsa (OK),” The Crazy Tourist: https://www.thecrazytourist.com/25-best-things-tulsa/
• Jonathan Bernstein, “Why Tulsa May Be the Next Austin,” The Rolling Stone (January 27, 2020): https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/tulsa-oklahoma-music-scene-938316/
• 2018 USA Today Best New Attraction award for Tulsa’s park, “The Gathering Place”: https://www.10best.com/awards/travel/best-new-attraction-2018/
• Karen Heller, “A billionaire’s quirky quest to create a mecca for Bob Dylan fans. In Tulsa, Oklahoma,” The Washington Post (October 12, 2017): https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/a-billionaires-quirky-quest-to-create-a-mecca-for-bob-dylan-fans-in-tulsa-oklahoma/2017/10/11/6e7f4754-93f9-11e7-89fa-bb822a46da5b_story.html
• “The Center of the Universe: An Acoustic Anomaly with a Mysterious Cause,” Atlas Obscura, https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/the-center-of-the-universe-tulsa-oklahoma

Food

• “We Found Tulsa’s Best Pizza Slices,” Tulsa World (December 13, 2019): https://www.tulsaworld.com/gallery/we-found-tulsa-s-best-pizza-slices/collection_1efd06e1-edab-55b7-8ff9-22d43effbbb4.html#1
• Ashley Ellis, “Tulsa Makes PETA’s Top Ten List of Vegan-Friendly Cities,” KTUL News (November 15, 2019): https://ktul.com/news/local/tulsa-makes-top-10-list-of-vegan-friendly-cities
• Liza Weisstuch, “Tulsa is in the Throes of a Dining Renaissance,” The Boston Globe (September 2, 2019): https://www.bostonglobe.com/lifestyle/food-dining/2019/09/02/tulsa-throes-dining-renaissance/8ICHWNybDsa3LkKmLK1YIN/story.html

Supreme Court Ruling on Native American Land

• Orion Donovan-Smith, “Inland Northwest tribal leaders, lawyers praise a key Supreme Court decision on tribal sovereignty,”  The Spokesman Review (July 9, 2020): https://www.spokesman.com/stories/2020/jul/09/inland-northwest-tribal-leaders-lawyers-praise-key/
• A.P., “Large Section Of Oklahoma Remains Tribal Land, SCOTUS Rules,” OPB (July 9, 2020): https://www.opb.org/news/article/oklahoma-tribal-land-supreme-court-ruling-jurisdiction/
• Nora McGreevy, “What a New Supreme Court Decision Means for Native American Sovereignty,” Smithsonian Magazine (July 10, 2020): https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/scotus-rules-much-eastern-oklahoma-native-reservation-180975289/
• Brooklyn Wayland and Nina Golgowski, “Supreme Court Rules Eastern Oklahoma Land is An Indian Reservation,” HuffPost (July 9, 2020): https://www.huffpost.com/entry/supreme-court-tribal-jurisdiction-mcgirt-v-oklahoma_n_5ef3a870c5b643f5b22e92c2
• “Supreme court declares large part of east Oklahoma to be Native American land,” The Guardian (July 10, 2020): https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jul/10/supreme-court-declares-half-of-oklahoma-tulsa-to-be-native-american-land
• Laurel Wamsley, “Supreme Court Rules that About Half of Oklahoma is Native American Land,” NPR (July 9, 2020): https://www.npr.org/2020/07/09/889562040/supreme-court-rules-that-about-half-of-oklahoma-is-indian-land

Tulsa Race Massacre

• Deneen L. Brown, “Tensions Erupt in Tulsa as City Commemorates 1921 Race Massacre,” Washington Post (May 30, 2021): https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2021/05/29/tulsa-race-massacre-centennial-reparations-tensions/
• Victor Luckerson, “The Women Who Preserved the Story of the Tulsa Race Massacre,” The New Yorker (May 28, 2021): https://www.newyorker.com/news/us-journal/the-women-who-preserved-the-story-of-the-tulsa-race-massacre
• Gregory B. Fairchild, “100 years after the Tulsa Race Massacre, lessons from my grandfather,” The Conversation (May 25, 2021): https://theconversation.com/100-years-after-the-tulsa-race-massacre-lessons-from-my-grandfather-161391
• Debbie Elliott and Marisa Peñaloza, “A Century After The Race Massacre, Tulsa Confronts Its Bloody Past” NPR (May 24, 2021): https://www.npr.org/2021/05/24/998683497/a-century-after-the-race-massacre-tulsa-confronts-its-bloody-past
• Megan Gannon, “Unearthing the True Toll of the Tulsa Race Massacre,” Atlas Obscura (June 1, 2020): https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/the-true-toll-of-the-tulsa-race-massacre
• “Tulsa World editorial: Zarrow fund to commemorate race massacre victims is ‘what racial justice looks like,'” Tulsa World (June 24, 2020): https://www.tulsaworld.com/opinion/editorials/tulsa-world-editorial-zarrow-fund-to-commemorate-race-massacre-victims-is-what-racial-justice-looks/article_5f8f4241-5eea-5a09-9152-dfcc16c05470.html
• Maggie Astor, “What to Know About the Tulsa Greenwood Massacre,” The New York Times (June 20, 2020): https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/20/us/tulsa-greenwood-massacre.html
• Abby Phillip and Kate Sullivan, “Descendants of Tulsa’s 1921 race massacre seek justice as the nation confronts a racist past,” CNN (June 18, 2020): https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2020/06/18/politics/tulsa-massacre-1921/index.html
• Scott Pelley, “Greenwood, 1921: One of the Worst Race Massacres in American History,” CBS News (June 14, 2020): https://www.cbsnews.com/news/greenwood-massacre-tulsa-oklahoma-1921-race-riot-60-minutes-2020-06-14/
• Michael Wikerson, “The Tulsa Lynchings of 1921: A Hidden Story,” Barrister Studios (May 31, 2000): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cb6_BDDvQ2Y  
• DeNeen L. Brown, ” A White Republican Mayor Seeks the Truth about Tulsa’s Race Massacre a Century Ago,”  The Washington Post  (March 13, 2020): https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2020/03/13/tulsa-mayor-bynum-mass-graves/
• Debra Adams Simmons, “Should a Horrible Past be Exhumed?” National Geographic Newsletter (February 10, 2020): https://www.nationalgeographic.com/newsletters/history/2020/02/should-horrible-past-exhumed-february-10/
• Russell Cobb, “Shifting Collective Memory in Tulsa,” The New York Times (February 11, 2020): https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/11/opinion/tulsa-race-massacre.html
• Jennifer Vineyard, “‘Watchmen’ Opened With the Tulsa Race Riot, Here’s What to Read About It,” The New York Times (Oct. 21, 2019): https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/21/arts/television/watchmen-tulsa-race-riot.html
• Allison Keyes, “A Long-Lost Manuscript Contains a Searing Eyewitness Account of the Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921,” Smithsonian Magazine (May 27, 2016): https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/long-lost-manuscript-contains-searing-eyewitness-account-tulsa-race-massacre-1921-180959251/

Other Community News and Issues

• Janell Ross, “How Tulsa, Oklahoma, mirrored a fractured nation during Trump’s rally,” NBC News (June 23, 2020): https://www.nbcnews.com/news/nbcblk/how-tulsa-oklahoma-mirrored-fractured-nation-during-trump-s-rally-n1231943
• Victor Luckerson, “How a City Fought Runaway Capitalism and Won,” The New York Times (November 15, 2019): https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/15/opinion/sunday/tulsa-dollar-stores.html
• Patricia Leigh Brown, “Transforming Tulsa, Starting with a Park,” The New York Times (August 10, 2018): https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/10/arts/design/tulsa-park-gathering-place.html