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The Oklahoma judge's decision dashes an effort to obtain some measure of legal justice by survivors of the deadly 1921 racist rampage on Black Wall Street.
Far-right Republican Ryan Walters has a history of extreme comments about education in Oklahoma.
The excavations at Tulsa’s Oaklawn Cemetery ended with the discovery of 32 additional caskets and eight sets of remains exhumed, the city said.
Elvis Costello, Patti Smith and Mavis Staples will be among the dignitaries expected for the opening of the Bob Dylan Center.
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“I still see Black men seeing being shot, Black bodies lying in the street.” Survivors of the 1921 Tulsa race massacre testified during a congressional hearing, days before the centennial of the violence.
"My fellow Americans, this was not a riot; this was a massacre," Biden said on the centennial of the attack on “Black Wall Street."
Vernon African Methodist Episcopal Church was largely destroyed in 1921 after a white mob burned, killed, looted and leveleld a 35-square-block area.
"I still see Black men being shot, Black bodies lying in the street," said 107-year-old Viola Fletcher, who testified along with two other survivors of the 1921 attack.
Kevin Stitt was taken off the panel a week after he signed a bill outlawing the teaching of some race and racism concepts in public schools.
President Donald Trump’s son Eric took a jab at Democratic nominee Joe Biden for his “awkward” campaign event, which took place outdoors with socially distanced participants to help slow the spread of COVID-19.