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Live Updates: Biden Visits Site of Tulsa Massacre a Century Later. âWhile darkness can hide much, it erases nothing.â
President Biden met with survivors of the 1921 attack in Oklahoma, one of the worst outbreaks of racist violence in American history. The Biden administration said it would suspend oil drilling leases in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge that were issued in the waning days of the Trump presidency.
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Biden Memorializes Victims of the Tulsa Race Massacre
President Biden marked the anniversary of the Tulsa race massacre a century after a white mob destroyed the Black community of Greenwood, torching hundreds of buildings and shooting people in the streets.