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Jun
03
2021
By The African Mirror
Biden warns of echoes of Tulsa massacre in the United States today

Biden warns of echoes of Tulsa massacre in the United States today

WORLD
JEFF MASON JOE Biden has become the first sitting U.S. president to visit the site in Tulsa, Oklahoma, where hundreds of Black Americans were massacred by a white mob in 1921, and he said the legacy of racist violence and white supremacy still resonates. Biden came to Tulsa to put a spotlight on an event that epitomizes the country's history of brutal racial violence, despite the massacre being largely under the radar in U.S. classrooms and history books for years. "We should know the good, the bad, everything," Biden said in a speech to the few survivors of the attack…
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May
29
2021
By The African Mirror
As Tulsa commemorates massacre, African Americans hope for justice amid shifting tide

As Tulsa commemorates massacre, African Americans hope for justice amid shifting tide

WORLD
MAKINI BRICE ONCE a week, every week, Rev. Robert Turner leaves his Vernon AME Church to march the mile to City Hall. Turner has been marching for years to demand reparations. His church is one of more than 1,200 buildings that were torched by white mobs in the 1921 massacre in the Greenwood district, where an estimated 300 people died, thousands were made homeless and an entire African-American community - Tulsa's prosperous "Black Wall Street" - was destroyed. A marker on a front corner of the church's brick structure notes that its basement "is the only edifice remaining from the…
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