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2026 Black Nurses Week ConferenceTheme: Restoring What’s Owed: Legacy, Reparations, and The Future of Black Nursing
📍 Tulsa, Oklahoma
🗓 July 30 – August 1, 2026
What You’ll Experience
Even before the speakers are announced, the experience is clear: legacy, liberation, joy, and the future of Black nursing curated with intention.
✨ Legacy & Liberation Sessions
Real conversations on reparations, equity, and future-building.
✨ Restoration Spaces
Quiet rooms, intentional breaks, and Black-centered healing.
✨ Money, Power & Leadership
Wealth, ownership, collective communism, and influence.
✨ History in Motion
Black Wall Street’s story and what it means for us now as Black nurses.
✨ High-Impact Networking
A room full of Black nurses from across the country, and the New Era of Black Nursing.
✨ A Different Kind of Energy
Music, storytelling, strategy, culture, and Black nurse joy.
Why Tulsa & Black Wall Street Matter:
Tulsa, Oklahoma was once home to one of the wealthiest, most self-sustaining Black communities in America, the Greenwood District, known as Black Wall Street. Not because access was given, but because Black people built it.
Nurses, midwives, teachers, doctors, business owners, and families created their own hospitals, clinics, schools, banks, farms, and care networks without permission, without funding, and without inclusion.
It wasn't just about economics. It was about power, care, ownership, community, and collective healing. It was proof that when Black health, wealth, and leadership exist in the same place, we build more than businesses. We build futures.
That progress was violently attacked, but the story doesn’t end there. They burned the town, but they can't burn the blueprint. The blueprint was never just in the buildings, it was in the people.
Returning to Tulsa for Black Nurses Week® 2026 is intentional. We’re gathering on sacred ground:
✨To witness what Black health, wealth, and leadership once looked like when funded and cared for own.
✨To honor not just what was lost, but what was possible.
✨To restore what’s owed in how we lead, earn, and practice today.
✨To connect Black nursing to a larger story of legacy, purpose, and liberation.
You’re not just attending a conference. You’re standing in a place that proves what’s possible when Black people own our work, our businesses, and our future, and what happens when we refuse to let that story end in destruction.
Who Needs to Be in the Room:
✨Black nurse leaders, educators, policymakers, and visionaries who are shaping not just care, but the future of the profession.
✨Black nurses who are tired of being the only one in the room and are ready to be in a room built for us.
✨Nurses who feel the emotional weight of Black fatigue, racism, and moral distress.
✨Nurses who feel a calling toward something bigger even if they don’t have the title for it yet.
✨Nurses ready to shift from exhaustion to activation and from just showing up to showing purpose.
✨Student nurses and new grads who don't just want mentorship, they want looking professional inheritance, direction, and community.
Continuing Education Units will be awarded for attendance.
🔗 Registration is open.
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Event Venue
Tulsa, Oklahoma, United States
Tickets
Concerts, fests, parties, meetups - all the happenings, one place.
