About
The Oklahoma Eagle, L.L.C., is a minority-owned media and entertainment company that primarily targets black consumers in six (6) northeastern Oklahoma counties as well as statewide. With distribution outlets in Osage, Rogers, Creek, Muskogee, Okmulgee and Tulsa Counties.
The Oklahoma Eagle is northeastern Oklahoma’s most comprehensive minority publication.
Founded in 1921 by Theodore Baughman, a black businessman, The
Oklahoma Eagle, formerly The Tulsa Star, was published as a local paper. In 1936 Edward L. Goodwin, Sr. purchased the paper from Baughman. Since then, The Oklahoma Eagle has flourished into a nationally recognized and consistent winner of various journalistic awards and reviews.
The Oklahoma Eagle offers readers a variety of platforms, ranging from
editorials, classifieds, religion, politics and comics, to healthcare, financial information and more. The Oklahoma Eagle now reaches more than 60,000 readers monthly and a multitude of national subscribers from coast to coast.
In addition to serving as a media source that provides insight within the
African American community, The Oklahoma Eagle has also become the
dominant medium advertisers, both locally and nationally, use to reach the black consumer effectively.
Today, as one of the oldest and most respected African American newspapers in the nation, The Oklahoma Eagle continues the legacy of the family’s founding publisher, E.L. Goodwin, Sr.