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Descendants Of Tulsa Massacre Victims Skeptical Of DOJ Review

In this 1921 image provided by the Library of Congress, smoke billows over Tulsa, Oklahoma. Alvin C. Krupnick Co./Library of Congress via Associated Press The Department of Justice announced on Monday a federal review into the two-day racist massacre in Tulsa, Oklahoma, more than 100 years ago, when white supremacists killed Black civilians while destroying homes and thriving businesses in …

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4 months, 3 weeks ago

Tulsa commission will study reparations for 1921 race massacre victims and descendants

Associated Press

OKLAHOMA CITY — Tulsa officials announced the creation of a new commission to recommend how reparations can be made for a 1921 massacre that destroyed a thriving Black community in the city. The panel will review a 2023 report for the city and a 2001 report by a state commission on Tulsa Race Massacre in which a white mob killed …

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5 months, 1 week ago

A World War I veteran is first Tulsa Race Massacre victim identified from mass graves

Associated Press

OKLAHOMA CITY — A World War I veteran is the first person identified from graves filled with more than a hundred victims of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre that devastated the city’s Black community, the mayor said Friday. Alison Wilde, a forensic scientist with Salt Lake City-based Intermountain Forensics, said the letter provided by the National Archives convinced investigators that …

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5 months, 1 week ago

First victim of 1921 Tulsa massacre of Black community is identified since graves found, mayor says

LA Times

Crews work at Oaklawn Cemetery during an excavation while searching for bodies from the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre on Oct. 27, 2022, in Tulsa, Okla. Tulsa Mayor G.T. Bynum and officials with Intermountain Forensics said Friday that remains exhumed from the cemetery in the search for victims of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre have been identified. A World War I …

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7 months ago

Feminist campaigner says she stopped supporting trans rights after being beaten and raped by transgender woman

Daily Mail

A speaker at a women's rights event stunned her listeners into silence after revealing that her conversion to the cause came after being raped and beaten at the hands of a transgender woman. Kevin Stitt banned transgender girls and women from competing on female sports teams in his state back in 2022, and more than a dozen states have followed …

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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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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, 6 months ago

Tulsa shooting: Everything we know about the hospital gunman

The Independent

The latest headlines from our reporters across the US sent straight to your inbox each weekday Your briefing on the latest headlines from across the US Your briefing on the latest headlines from across the US SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Officials described a “catastrophic scene” at the medical …

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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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2 years, 8 months ago

Julius Pegues, first Black player at Pitt, dies at 86

Associated Press

PITTSBURGH — Julius Pegues, the first Black basketball player at the University of Pittsburgh, has died following a battle with cancer. He was unable to play due to a previously made five-year commitment to the U.S. Air Force through the Reserve Officer Training Corps program. “Julius was a trailblazer at the University of Pittsburgh and went on to become an …

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3 years, 4 months ago

‘Reservation Dogs’ smashes stereotypes of Indigenous people

Associated Press

TULSA, Okla. — Two Indigenous filmmakers are smashing the caricatures and stereotypes of Native Americans, who since the earliest days of film and TV have often played supporting roles or been portrayed as bloodthirsty killers standing in the way of white, westward expansion. “To be able to tell a real story about real people through comedy, it’s about time,” Harjo, …

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3 years, 4 months ago

EXPLAINER: How Oklahoma evictions might spike after July

Associated Press

OKLAHOMA CITY — A federal freeze on most evictions that was enacted last year is scheduled to expire Saturday, after the Biden administration extended the original date by a month. Even with the delay, roughly 3.6 million people in the U.S. as of July 5 said they would face eviction within the next two months, according to the U.S. Census …

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3 years, 5 months ago

EXPLAINER: How Oklahoma evictions might spike after July

Associated Press

OKLAHOMA CITY — A federal freeze on most evictions that was enacted last year is scheduled to expire July 31, after the Biden administration extended the date by a month. As of June 7, roughly 3.2 million people in the U.S. said they would face eviction within the next two months, according to the U.S. Census Bureau’s Household Pulse Survey. …

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3 years, 5 months ago

For city's darkest day, justice is still to be dispensed

China Daily

Clockwise from top: The burning of the Greenwood District during the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre; a picture postcard depicting a deceased victim with a white man in a suit looking at the body; armed men watching smoke rise from a burning building; a member of the white mob; ruins of the Tulsa massacre; a black Tulsan with his hands up …

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3 years, 5 months ago

For city's darkest day, justice is still to be dispensed

China Daily

Clockwise from top: The burning of the Greenwood District during the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre; a picture postcard depicting a deceased victim with a white man in a suit looking at the body; armed men watching smoke rise from a burning building; a member of the white mob; ruins of the Tulsa massacre; a black Tulsan with his hands up …

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3 years, 6 months ago

Biden Taps Kamala Harris To Lead Push On Voting Rights

Huff Post

LOADING ERROR LOADING President Joe Biden on Tuesday placed Vice President Kamala Harris in charge of his administration’s efforts to pass voting rights legislation and promised to battle an “unprecedented assault on our democracy” from Republican-controlled state legislatures. “I’m going to fight like heck with every tool at my disposal.” Biden’s comments ― and his decision to hand Harris the …

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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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3 years, 6 months ago

Century after massacre, Black Tulsans struggle for a voice

Associated Press

TULSA, Okla. — In the early days of Oklahoma’s statehood, an angry white mob fanned by rumors of a Black uprising burned a thriving African American community in the oil boomtown of Tulsa. “ actually recruited Black people to come to Oklahoma on the theory that Oklahoma was the new promised land for these folks,” said Oklahoma historian Hannibal Johnson, …

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4 years, 1 month ago

Do you work remotely? This program could pay you $10,000 to do so from Tulsa

CNN

CNN — Are you working remotely but bored and ready to start a new chapter in life, or simply tired of paying a lot in rent for a small apartment? The program wants to attract “talented and energetic people” to Tulsa who care about making a difference in their local community, spokeswoman Katie Bullock told CNN. “We started with the …

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4 years, 3 months ago

Oklahoma police chiefs express concerns about recruiting

Associated Press

OKLAHOMA CITY — Growing anti-police sentiment around the country could have a profoundly negative impact on the ability to recruit quality officers, police chiefs from two Oklahoma cities told state lawmakers on Thursday. Tulsa Police Chief Wendell Franklin and Eufaula Police Chief Mark Goodwin testified before the Senate Public Safety Committee during one of several interim legislative hearings on law …

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4 years, 3 months ago

Attorneys file lawsuit seeking redress for Tulsa massacre

Associated Press

Attorneys for victims and their descendants affected by the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre filed a lawsuit in state court on Tuesday against the City of Tulsa and other defendants seeking reparations for the destruction of the city’s once thriving Black district. In the years following the massacre, city and county officials actively thwarted the community’s effort to rebuild and neglected …

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Descendants Of Tulsa Massacre Victims Skeptical Of DOJ Review

Tulsa commission will study reparations for 1921 race massacre victims and descendants

A World War I veteran is first Tulsa Race Massacre victim identified from mass graves

First victim of 1921 Tulsa massacre of Black community is identified since graves found, mayor says

Feminist campaigner says she stopped supporting trans rights after being beaten and raped by transgender woman

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

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

Tulsa shooting: Everything we know about the hospital gunman

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

Julius Pegues, first Black player at Pitt, dies at 86

‘Reservation Dogs’ smashes stereotypes of Indigenous people

EXPLAINER: How Oklahoma evictions might spike after July

EXPLAINER: How Oklahoma evictions might spike after July

For city's darkest day, justice is still to be dispensed

For city's darkest day, justice is still to be dispensed

Biden Taps Kamala Harris To Lead Push On Voting Rights

Black fear of Tulsa police lingers 100 years after massacre

Century after massacre, Black Tulsans struggle for a voice

Do you work remotely? This program could pay you $10,000 to do so from Tulsa

Oklahoma police chiefs express concerns about recruiting

Attorneys file lawsuit seeking redress for Tulsa massacre