For Tulsa victims, this ‘apology’ stings
On the Friday morning before Donald Trump’s inauguration, employees at the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division were ...
More Than a Century After the Tulsa Race Massacre, One Question Endures: What Is Justice?
Survivors of the 1921 massacre and their descendants contemplate the meaning of reparations in today’s Tulsa, Okla.
Two remaining survivors respond to DOJ Tulsa Race Massacre report
The two last survivors of the Tulsa Race Massacre, Lessie Benningfield Randle and Viola Fletcher, released a joint statement ...
Notable finds from DOJ's cold case review of Tulsa Race Massacre
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." ...
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Tulsa race massacre survivors praise DOJ investigation revealing 'truth' but disappointed no charges recommended
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 ...
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Tulsa Massacre Was a ‘Coordinated, Military-Style Attack,’ Federal Report Says
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 ...
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DOJ report on Tulsa Race Massacre: 'No avenue of prosecution now exists'
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 ...
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DOJ Report: Tulsa Race Massacre barbaric, evidence of officer involvement in murders
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 ...
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The record shows 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre was a coordinated attack
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 ...
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DOJ Releases Tulsa Race Massacre Report, But With No Reparations & No One To Prosecute, What’s The Point?
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 ...
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Federal probe of 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre says 'no avenue' for criminal case in connection to attack
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 ...
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Justice Dept. corrects legal record on ‘systematic’ Tulsa Race Massacre
Authorities said a recent four-month reexamination of evidence in the case, known as the Tulsa Race Massacre, found that what an investigator described a month after the attack as spontaneous ...