On the Friday morning before Donald Trump’s inauguration, employees at the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division were ...
Survivors of the 1921 massacre and their descendants contemplate the meaning of reparations in today’s Tulsa, Okla.
TULSA — Nestled among rows of colorful ... From the sidewalk markers indicating the businesses that stood prior to the massacre, to the museum dedicated to the history of Black Wall Street ...
The two last survivors of the Tulsa Race Massacre, Lessie Benningfield Randle and Viola Fletcher, released a joint statement ...
Of interest were statements from federal agents' reports filed soon after the massacre, including about rumors of an attack that had prompted officials to prepare "for the defense of Tulsa." ...
Over 300 Black residents were killed on May 31 and June 1 in 1921. The two last living survivors of the Tulsa race massacre praised the Department of Justice's efforts to expose the alleged truth ...
By Audra D. S. Burch Audra D.S. Burch writes about race and identity and spent time in Tulsa to report on the centennial of the 1921 race massacre. Jan. 11, 2025 The Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921 ...
Criminal prosecutions from Tulsa's 1921 Race Massacre are no longer possible despite its singular violence and destruction, the U.S. Department of Justice said Friday. DOJ investigators spent the ...
It may be true, although sometimes difficult to believe, that the universe is on the side of justice. After all, in the United States, justice was never on the side of the Black victims of the ...
TULSA, Okla. (KFOR) – The United States Department of Justice has released an anticipated and first-ever formal federal review on the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre. The review, announced at the end ...
Last September, the U.S. Department of Justice announced it would conduct its first federal review of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre. On Friday, the DOJ released the findings from its review ...
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — The first-ever U.S. Justice Department review of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre concluded Friday that while federal prosecution may have been possible a century ago there is no ...