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Tulsa’s First Black Mayor Plans To Address An Ugly History

Oklahoma state Rep. Monroe Nichols is seen during a committee hearing in 2019 in Oklahoma City. Sue Ogrocki via Associated Press Earlier this month, former Oklahoma state Rep. Monroe Nichols was elected the first Black mayor of Tulsa. “I’m not naive to think that this man is not going to be able to do a whole lot without some push …

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5 months, 3 weeks ago

Last known survivors of Tulsa Race Massacre challenge Oklahoma high court decision

Associated Press

OKLAHOMA CITY — Attorneys for the last two remaining survivors of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre asked the Oklahoma Supreme Court on Tuesday to reconsider the case they dismissed last month and called on the Biden administration to help the two women seek justice. Viola Fletcher, 110, and Lessie Benningfield Randle, 109, are the last known survivors of one of …

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6 months, 1 week ago

What we know about the lawsuit filed by the last survivors of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre

Associated Press

Attorneys for the two remaining survivors of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre said Thursday they will petition the Oklahoma Supreme Court for a rehearing in the case seeking reparations for one of the worst single acts of violence against Black people in U.S. history. Although the court wrote that the plaintiff’s grievances about the destruction of the Greenwood district, also …

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6 months, 1 week ago

Oklahoma Supreme Court dismisses lawsuit of last Tulsa Race Massacre survivors seeking reparations

Associated Press

OKLAHOMA CITY — The Oklahoma Supreme Court on Wednesday dismissed a lawsuit by survivors of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, dampening the hope of advocates for racial justice that the city would make financial amends for one of the worst single acts of violence against Black people in U.S. history that left as many as 300 people dead and a …

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6 months, 1 week ago

Oklahoma Supreme Court dismisses suit from last Tulsa Race Massacre survivors seeking reparations

LA Times

Tulsa Race Massacre survivor Viola Ford Fletcher and another survivor were suing the city with the hope of seeing what their attorney called “justice in their lifetime.” The Oklahoma Supreme Court on Wednesday dismissed a lawsuit of the last two survivors of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, dampening the hope of advocates for racial justice that the government would make …

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7 months, 1 week ago

ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS: What was the first sci-fi novel to tackle the concept of artificial intelligence?

Daily Mail

QUESTION What was the first sci-fi novel to tackle the concept of artificial intelligence? AI first appeared in Samuel Butler's novel Erewhon ; however, E.M. Forster's short story The Machine Stops fully explored the idea. E.M. Forster's short story The Machine Stops fully explored the idea of artificial intelligence In The Machine Stops, an environmental catastrophe has left Earth's surface …

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11 months, 1 week ago

‘What on Earth does a world like this look like?’ The mission to design Barbie Land.

LA Times

Production designer Sarah Greenwood and set decorator Katie Spencer were working from a snow-covered, erupting volcano in Sicily during the production of Joe Wright’s “Cyrano” when the possibility of “Barbie” popped up. It was just so unexpected.” A pink-hued film about Barbie isn’t necessarily something the pair, six-time Oscar nominees for such films as “Atonement” and “Darkest Hour,” had ever …

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1 year, 2 months ago

Hughes Van Ellis: One of the last survivors of Tulsa race massacre dies at 102

Hindustan Times

Oct 10 - One of the last three known Black Tulsans who lived through a 1921 race massacre in the Oklahoma town has died at 102, his family said. Hughes Van Ellis died at 102 Hughes Van Ellis, who sued the city of Tulsa seeking reparations for one of the deadliest acts of racial violence in U.S. history, died on …

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1 year, 5 months ago

Viola Ford Fletcher, oldest living Tulsa Race Massacre victim, publishes memoir

Associated Press

NEW YORK — Being a centenarian hasn’t slowed down Viola Ford Fletcher’s pursuit of justice. In the last couple of years, Fletcher has traveled internationally, testified before Congress and supported a lawsuit for reparations — all part of a campaign for accountability over the massacre that destroyed Tulsa, Oklahoma’s original “Black Wall Street” in 1921, when she was a child. …

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2 years, 1 month ago

Footballer Mason Greenwood faces trial next year on attempted rape charge

The Independent

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy A trial date has been …

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2 years, 2 months ago

Abortion ruling means more and riskier births in Mississippi

Associated Press

— In Mississippi, where health officials expect 5,000 more births each year as a result of the Supreme Court ruling upending abortion rights, children are more likely to die before their first birthday than in any other state. Tate Reeves said he would do everything in his power to make Mississippi the “safest state in the nation for an unborn …

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2 years, 7 months ago

In Tulsa, the new Bob Dylan museum reconsiders the legacies of an icon and a city

LA Times

In his liner notes to “The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan,” the singer saw what was heading toward him back in 1963 and put up his guard, writing, “I do not care to be made an oddball bouncin’ past reporters’ pens.” It’s just as well, then, that he skipped the soft opening of the Bob Dylan Center, in Tulsa, Okla. For somebody …

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3 years, 3 months ago

Emmett Till marker in Mississippi toppled but not vandalized

Associated Press

— An Emmett Till historical marker in the Mississippi Delta will be repaired or replaced after it was knocked off the pole that supports it, says the president of an advertising agency that made the sign. Although a previous version of this metal sign was vandalized and another Till historical marker in the area was shot multiple times, Allan Hammons …

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3 years, 6 months ago

Biden decries ‘horrific’ Tulsa massacre in emotional speech

Associated Press

TULSA, Okla. — An emotional President Joe Biden marked the 100th anniversary of the massacre that destroyed a thriving Black community in Tulsa, declaring Tuesday that he had “come to fill the silence” about one of the nation’s darkest — and long suppressed — moments of racial violence. “Only with truth can come healing.” Biden’s commemoration of the deaths of …

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3 years, 6 months ago

‘The foundation of the wealth': Why Black Wall Street boomed

Associated Press

TULSA, Okla. — In a century-old family story about a teenage aunt who liked to drive her luxury car down the trolley tracks of Tulsa, Kristi Williams still savors a tiny, lingering taste of how different life could have been for all Black Americans after slavery. But Williams, and other descendants of the freed Black people enslaved by Native American …

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3 years, 6 months ago

Biden unveils measures to ‘narrow racial wealth gap’

Al Jazeera

The steps aim to stop housing discrimination and support minority-owned businesses on the anniversary of the Tulsa massacre. The administration of United States President Joe Biden announced a series of steps that aim to “help narrow the racial wealth gap and reinvest in communities that have been left behind by failed policies”. The White House announced the measures, which aim …

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3 years, 6 months ago

Tulsa Race Massacre: Biden urges Americans to reflect on the 'roots of racial terror in our nation'

Daily Mail

President Joe Biden told Americans to reflect on the 'roots of racial terror' in a White House proclamation on the 100th anniversary of the Tulsa Race Massacre. Federal lawmakers and civil rights leaders traveled to Tulsa on Monday where hundreds of people gathered to dedicate a prayer wall outside Vernon African Methodist Episcopal Church. Jesse Jackson meets people after the …

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3 years, 6 months ago

100 years after Tulsa race massacre, wounds of Black survivors and descendants are still open

Firstpost

The six miles between the old and new incarnations of Black Wall Street belie the dire connection that links them: Racial and socioeconomic inequality on Tulsa’s north side has its roots in the 100-year-old atrocity of the Tulsa Race Massacre. So, I say it’s time for us to put Black Wall Street out there.” The six miles between the old …

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3 years, 6 months ago

Hundred years of Tulsa Massacre: How cultural offerings like Watchmen and Lovecraft Country have depicted the historical event

Firstpost

As cultural moments go, the current reassessment of the Tulsa Massacre’s true impact feels long overdue. Perhaps the most ambitious gambit was connecting some of the most disturbing moments in American history to the ‘covert’ history of superheroes/vigilantes — which is why the stunning opening sequence depicts the infamous Tulsa Massacre. Because Everett’s body had to hang there for black …

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3 years, 6 months ago

Tulsa pastors honor ‘holy ground’ 100 years after massacre

Associated Press

TULSA, Okla. — When white attackers destroyed the prosperous Black neighborhood of Greenwood 100 years ago this week, they bypassed the original sanctuary of the First Baptist Church of North Tulsa. The commission that organized the centennial designated Sunday as Unity Faith Day and provided a suggested worship guide that each congregation could adapt, including scriptures, prayers and the singing …

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3 years, 6 months ago

Tulsa Race Massacre centennial events proceed amid hiccups

Associated Press

TULSA, Okla. — Joi McCondichie is a native of this city, but her life and career in public education kept her away from home for decades. But the alert was issued given the nature of the commemoration and the “volatile threat environment.” McCondichie said her late grandmother, Eldoris McCondichie, was among the survivors in 1921 who streaming out of Greenwood, …

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3 years, 6 months ago

Oprah shares reading list of 27 books on ‘centennial of the Tulsa Race Massacre’

Hindustan Times

It was on May 31 and June 1, 1921 that more than 35 square blocks of Black Wall Street or the Greenwood District in Tulsa, Oklahoma, United States — at that time the wealthiest Black community in US, was destroyed on the ground and from private aircraft by mobs of White residents, many of whom were deputized and given weapons …

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3 years, 6 months ago

Tulsa massacre documentaries offer deep dive into tragedy

Associated Press

LOS ANGELES — Several documentary filmmakers — some backed by NBA superstars — are shedding light on the historically ignored Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921, one of the most horrific tragedies in American history. “This has to do with African Americans systematically being run off their land with assets and property being destroyed,” said Stanley Nelson, who co-directed “Tulsa Burning: …

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3 years, 6 months ago

Black fear of Tulsa police lingers 100 years after massacre

Associated Press

TULSA, Okla. — There’s been undeniable progress in the relationship between the Tulsa police and the city’s Black community in the past 100 years. “Here in Tulsa, explicitly and specifically, there’s not a really good relationship between law enforcement and the Black community, Black and brown communities,” she said. “This is someone who doesn’t believe — someone who looks like …

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Tulsa’s First Black Mayor Plans To Address An Ugly History

Last known survivors of Tulsa Race Massacre challenge Oklahoma high court decision

What we know about the lawsuit filed by the last survivors of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre

Oklahoma Supreme Court dismisses lawsuit of last Tulsa Race Massacre survivors seeking reparations

Oklahoma Supreme Court dismisses suit from last Tulsa Race Massacre survivors seeking reparations

ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS: What was the first sci-fi novel to tackle the concept of artificial intelligence?

‘What on Earth does a world like this look like?’ The mission to design Barbie Land.

Hughes Van Ellis: One of the last survivors of Tulsa race massacre dies at 102

Viola Ford Fletcher, oldest living Tulsa Race Massacre victim, publishes memoir

Footballer Mason Greenwood faces trial next year on attempted rape charge

Abortion ruling means more and riskier births in Mississippi

In Tulsa, the new Bob Dylan museum reconsiders the legacies of an icon and a city

Emmett Till marker in Mississippi toppled but not vandalized

Biden decries ‘horrific’ Tulsa massacre in emotional speech

‘The foundation of the wealth': Why Black Wall Street boomed

Biden unveils measures to ‘narrow racial wealth gap’

Tulsa Race Massacre: Biden urges Americans to reflect on the 'roots of racial terror in our nation'

100 years after Tulsa race massacre, wounds of Black survivors and descendants are still open

Hundred years of Tulsa Massacre: How cultural offerings like Watchmen and Lovecraft Country have depicted the historical event

Tulsa pastors honor ‘holy ground’ 100 years after massacre

Tulsa Race Massacre centennial events proceed amid hiccups

Oprah shares reading list of 27 books on ‘centennial of the Tulsa Race Massacre’

Tulsa massacre documentaries offer deep dive into tragedy

Black fear of Tulsa police lingers 100 years after massacre