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Tito Jackson's last words before dying from heart attack revealed

Tito Jackson told his best friend he 'couldn't breathe' and 'wasn't feeling good' moments before he was rushed to a New Mexico hospital where he later died of a heart attack. Terry Harvey Maltbia, Jackson's business associate and best friend, told DailyMail.com exclusively that he and the singer were in Gallup, New Mexico, and had stopped for some food before …

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3 months, 1 week ago

Tito Jackson's friends reveal the star's last words before dying from heart attack

Daily Mail

Tito Jackson told his best friend he 'couldn't breathe' and 'wasn't feeling good' moments before he was rushed to a New Mexico hospital where he later died of a heart attack. Tito Jackson with friends Ronald Balfour and Terry Harvey Maltbia picked up the singer's vintage cars from California and were on the way back to Oklahoma when Jackson had …

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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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7 months, 1 week ago

BMX racing world championships hit South Carolina with Olympic berths on the line

Associated Press

The almost nomadic nature of high-level BMX racing means that American riders such as Alise Willoughby, the two-time world champion and a former Olympic silver medalist, rarely get to compete in front of friends and family. They competed in a World Cup in Tulsa, Oklahoma, a few weeks ago, and this weekend they are in Rock Hill, South Carolina, for …

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9 months ago

Oklahoma banned trans students from bathrooms. Now Nex Benedict is dead after a fight

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 Please enter a valid email address Please enter a valid email address SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. In April 2022, Owasso High School …

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1 year, 2 months ago

Hughes Van Ellis, youngest known survivor of Tulsa Race Massacre, dies at 102

Associated Press

Hughes Van Ellis, who was the youngest known survivor of the Tulsa Race Massacre and who spent his latter years pursuing justice for his family and other descendants of the attack on “Black Wall Street,” has died. After the war, Van Ellis worked as a sharecropper and went on to raise seven children, all in the shadow of the Tulsa …

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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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1 year, 7 months ago

Autopsy: Parents, kids in burning Oklahoma home were shot

Associated Press

TULSA, Okla. — Preliminary autopsy reports show eight members of an Oklahoma family found dead inside their burning home were each shot. The bodies of Brian Nelson, 34, his wife Brittney Nelson, 32, and their six children were found in October inside the flaming home in Broken Arrow, a Tulsa suburb. Authorities say all six children — Brian II, 13; …

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2 years, 1 month ago

Deaths of 8 in Oklahoma home investigated as murder-suicide

Associated Press

The deaths of eight family members — including six children found in a burning Oklahoma home — are being investigated as a murder-suicide, authorities said Friday. Police said both adults who live in the home were considered “primary suspects” because they were found dead in the front of the home while the children were all found in a bedroom, where …

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2 years, 2 months ago

Tulsa district attorney stabbed multiple times by daughter, police say

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. Read our privacy policy The district attorney of …

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2 years, 6 months ago

Two doctors, a receptionist and patient named as victims in Tulsa mass shooting

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. Tulsa Police Department Chief Wendell Franklin told reporters …

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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

100 years after Tulsa Race Massacre, the damage remains

Associated Press

TULSA, Okla. — On a recent Sunday, Ernestine Alpha Gibbs returned to Vernon African Methodist Episcopal Church. And not that Black Tulsa ever really recovered from the devastation that took place 100 years ago, when nearly every structure in Greenwood, the fabled Black Wall Street, was flattened -- aside from Vernon AME. “Greenwood proved that if you had assets, you …

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Tito Jackson's last words before dying from heart attack revealed

Tito Jackson's friends reveal the star's last words before dying from heart attack

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

BMX racing world championships hit South Carolina with Olympic berths on the line

Oklahoma banned trans students from bathrooms. Now Nex Benedict is dead after a fight

Hughes Van Ellis, youngest known survivor of Tulsa Race Massacre, dies at 102

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

Autopsy: Parents, kids in burning Oklahoma home were shot

Deaths of 8 in Oklahoma home investigated as murder-suicide

Tulsa district attorney stabbed multiple times by daughter, police say

Two doctors, a receptionist and patient named as victims in Tulsa mass shooting

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

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

100 years after Tulsa Race Massacre, the damage remains