Nehemiah D. Frank is the founder, editor-in-chief, and publisher of The Black Wall Street Times, a Black-owned news publication based in Tulsa, Oklahoma, covering local, state, and national news. He is a founding union member of the National Parents Union, based in Boston, and serves on the advisory board of the LGBTQ Institute at the National Center for Civil and Human Rights in Atlanta.
A descendant of survivors of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, Frank played a pivotal role during its 2021 centennial. As both a descendant and the founder of Oklahoma’s largest Black-led news outlet, he helped elevate national awareness of the tragedy, pushing the public narrative to recognize it not as a "riot" but as a "massacre."
Frank’s commentary and reporting have appeared in national outlets including TIME Magazine, Fortune, NBC, ABC, and MSNBC. He has delivered a TED Talk, spoken at SXSW (2022), and in 2023, addressed the United Nations General Assembly, drawing a powerful parallel between the banning of books by Black authors and the censorship that preceded the Holocaust in Nazi Germany.
That same year, Frank joined a panel at the Center for Journalism and Democracy at Howard University, chaired by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones. He is also the author of Greenwood 100, a written history inspired by The 1619 Project, chronicling 400 years of the Black presence in America and the Oklahoma territory.
Frank is a graduate of Oklahoma State University and Harold Washington College.