Tulsa race massacre

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Hughes Van Ellis, one of last Tulsa race massacre survivors, dies aged 102
‘He died waiting on justice,’ grandnephew says of Ellis, who was an outspoken activist for reparations over the 1921 massacre

Erum Salam

10, Oct, 2023 @5:00 PM

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A highway destroyed Tulsa’s thriving Black Wall Street – now there’s hope it could come back
Decades after a chilling racist massacre, Tulsa’s Greenwood district was bulldozed for I-244 – a new plan aims to reverse its punishing effects

Geoff Dembicki

18, Jul, 2023 @11:00 AM

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Judge rejects reparations for Tulsa race massacre in ‘sad miscarriage of justice’
Civil rights lawyer laments dismissal of suit which attempted to force city to make recompense for the destruction of Black area

Maya Yang and agencies

09, Jul, 2023 @6:38 PM

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Outrage as Republican says 1921 Tulsa massacre not motivated by race
Oklahoma superintendent Ryan Walters condemned for comments on 1921 massacre in which hundreds were killed by white mobs

Adam Gabbatt

08, Jul, 2023 @10:00 AM

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‘Let the world know’: elderly survivors of the Tulsa race massacre push for justice
Viola Ford Fletcher and her family fled a murderous white mob 102 years ago – today she’s still demanding accountability

David Smith in Washington

25, Jun, 2023 @10:00 AM

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Hundreds were killed in the Tulsa race massacre. Are we already forgetting them?
On the 102nd anniversary of the killings, efforts for justice in Greenwood are buried under hollow symbolism

Victor Luckerson

31, May, 2023 @1:00 PM

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‘We have to be part of the solution’: building the Black Wall Streets of tomorrow
How activists and visionaries across the nation are designing the new hubs of Black commerce

Patrice Worthy

24, Mar, 2023 @10:02 AM

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‘I work with the dead. But this can help the living’: the anthropologist investigating the Tulsa race massacre
The 1921 attack was one of the worst episodes of racist violence in US history, with as many as 300 Black people killed. Now Phoebe Stubblefield, a descendent of survivors, is helping to recover the bodies

Steve Rose

08, Jul, 2021 @5:00 AM

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Fox News claims NPR wants to ‘cancel’ Tom Hanks over Tulsa op-ed
Network focused on column by Eric Deggans written in response to actor’s New York Times essay on Tulsa race massacre

Martin Pengelly

15, Jun, 2021 @11:54 AM

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Tom Hanks urges US educators to teach students about Tulsa race massacre
Actor writes in New York Times that he ‘never read a page of any school history book’ about 1921 massacre

Martin Pengelly in New York

05, Jun, 2021 @2:09 PM

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America is finally acknowledging the Tulsa race massacre. The next step is reparations | Akin Olla
The US owes African Americans reparations for Tulsa – but also for slavery, and countless other lynchings and race massacres, and Jim Crow

Akin Olla

03, Jun, 2021 @10:23 AM

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Biden declares white supremacists ‘most lethal threat’ to US as he marks Tulsa race massacre - as it happened
President to commemorate hundreds who died in attack by white mob – follow all the day’s politics news

Maanvi Singh (now) and Joan E Greve (earlier)

02, Jun, 2021 @12:01 AM

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