Through American Eyes: 250 Years of Black and Indigenous Stories
About this Event
Magic City Books is excited to present Through American Eyes: 250 Years of Black and Indigenous Stories, in partnership with Burning Cedar Sovereign Wellness and Museum of Tulsa History.
This special event features a community conversation with Rebecca Nagle, Carlos Moreno, Randy Krehbiel, Russell Cobb, and Kristal Brent Zook. Burning Cedar will provide food for the event, and we will distribute free books that evening to the first 100 guests.
This unique event will take place at Museum of Tulsa History, 2445 S Peoria Ave. in Tulsa on Thursday, September 17 at 7:00pm.
Registration is free but required.
About the Panelists
Rebecca Nagle is an award-winning journalist and a citizen of Cherokee Nation. She is the writer and host of the podcasts This Land and First America, and the author of national bestseller By the Fire We Carry. Indigenous communities deserve the same standard of journalism as the rest of the country, but rarely receive it from non-Native media outlets. Nagle’s journalism seeks to correct this.
Carlos Moreno is a community engagement strategist and civic hacker, helping purpose-driven organizations with data collection, qualitative research, and creating feedback loops for working collaboaratively. Carlos also works as a local historian & journalist in Tulsa, and is the author of two books: The Victory of Greenwood and A Kids Book about the Tulsa Race Massacre.
Randy Krehbiel is an Oklahoma native and a graduate of Oklahoma State University. He arrived at the Tulsa World in 1979 as a sports writer, and has remained there ever since. He is the author of Tulsa 1921: Reporting a Massacre and Tulsa 2021: A Massacre’s Centennial, among other books. Randy lives in Tulsa, where he continues to report on a range of issues, including state and national politics and government.
Russell Cobb, a fourth-generation white Oklahoman, is a professor in the Faculty of Arts at the University of Alberta and the award-winning author of The Great Oklahoma Swindle and Ghosts of Crook County. His journalism has appeared in the New York Times, The Guardian, Slate, The Nation, and on NPR. His reporting appearing on This American Life was turned into the film Come Sunday, distributed by Netflix.
Kristal Brent Zook is an award-winning journalist and the author of six books including The Girl in the Yellow Poncho, a coming-of-age story about being biracial in America, searching for her missing white father, and finding her own authentic identity. Her most recent book, Tulsa Speaks, was published in June 2026. Dr. Zook is also a tenured professor of journalism at Hofstra University in New York, where she has taught for nearly 20 years.
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