Family’s hope restored in time for Christmas following suspected arson fire 🙏 🎄
Verified News Network (VNN) is a family business, founded by Kelly Tidwell (Creek/Cherokee) and Brittany Harlow in 2018.
Not only does our family friendliness help us create a team of diverse talent, it also helps improve work-life balance, increases productivity and adds to overall well-being.
As a Native-owned business, we place tremendous value on community and family. Last night we held a Family Support Christmas Party to show some of our partner families how much they mean to us.
These families work side-by-side with Tidwell and Harlow, whether that is working together on contracts, helping to keep an eye on their children, and often both!
It is estimated adults spend one-third of their waking hours at work during their lifetime. Thank you for allowing us to include our littlest ones as much as possible and setting a great example for them in the process!
Happy Award Season! 🏆️
Over the last year, the collaborative series "Stealing Tvlse" from Verified News Network (VNN) and Lucinda Hickory Research Institute (LHRI) has shed a lot of light on the relatively unknown history of Tulsa's Allotment Era crime and injustice: https://verifiednews.network/stealing-tvlse/
We are honored to receive this year’s RevContent Local Reporting Award for this work. This $5,000 award will be put toward advancing the Stealing Tvlse series and our efforts to strengthen Native voices in the news ecosystem.
We are also honored to be selected as a finalist for "Collaboration of the Year" at the 2023 LION Local Journalism Awards in October! Read more here: https://www.lionpublishers.com/meet-the-74-finalists-of-the-2023-lion-local-journalism-awards/
Thank you for being a part of illuminating this untold history!
This month was filled with so many community triumphs. Learn all about them in our latest quick News Byte! #Oklahoma #news #nationwide #justice #fate
"Stealing Tvlse", an investigative series by VNN and LHRI, begins with The Tragic Story of Lucinda Hickory. Dead at just 13 years old, she had one of the most lucrative allotments of Allotment Era Tulsa. For that, her surviving family was also terrorized until their untimely deaths. Our next story in the series is coming soon. Subscribe now for updates.
The Women Entrepreneurs (WE) Build program focuses not only on Black and Latinx women-owned businesses but also (and maybe perhaps more importantly) on the women themselves.
The program includes a $25,000 non-dilutive grant, three months of business training, networking and mentorship opportunities, free legal and accounting services, coworking desks and conference room access, laptop devices and connectivity, financial education, bi-weekly counseling, and cost of living stipends to help provide housing, childcare, and health care.
#women #businessowner #entrepreneurship #Tulsa #BuildInTulsa
If April showers bring May flowers, March was the calm before the storm. Here’s VNN’s Rachael Schuit with your March News Byte.
Collaborating like never before 🫶 Watch what else is new in our February News Byte! #independent #news #update #February
Tuckabache was a warrior who fought against assimilation during tribal conflicts and for the Union during the Civil War under Opothleyahola during the Trail of Blood on Ice. But, despite his prestige, even Tuckabache was not immune to Allotment Era atrocities.
(OKLAHOMA) Upon entering Agency Cemetery from US 69, one of the first tombstones you find is Pvt. Golden Tucker, a World War I veteran who died in 1964.
His grave is one of an estimated 1,000 that Mother Nature has hidden from the public’s view following years of neglect at the Creek Freedmen cemetery in Muskogee County.
A Creek man’s fight for freedom plagued by “accidents” and suspicious deaths
Talk about spooky SZN #October #cemeteries #Oklahoma #honorthedead
Got time for a byte? Introducing the VNN News Byte! September 🍁
This Month In America | August 2022
Records reveal at least four people wasted no time trying to purchase Lucinda’s land following her untimely death, including her guardian.
One deed was dated the same day she died.
