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The White House
President Joe Biden will travel to Tulsa next Tuesday, June 1, to commemorate the centennial anniversary of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, the White House announced.
Details on the visit were not immediately available, the White House said. We are grateful that President Biden will join in the centennial commemoration of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, Tulsa Mayor G.T. Bynum said in a statement. His visit honors our neighbors who were killed in this city’s worst moment and the work being done to build a better Tulsa for future generations.”
The trip will be the second visit to Tulsa by a sitting president in less than a year, following then-President Donald Trump s campaign rally at the BOK Center last June.
Reverend Dr. Robert Turner and Warigia Bowman at Tulsa University s School of Law Race Massacre Symposium
At a law symposium held today to commemorate Tulsa s 1921 Race Massacre, speakers called for examination and reparations.
Reverend Dr. Robert Turner criticized the idea that governments in the United States can t be criminally charged. Turner was reacting to the recently given opinion of former Tulsa judge Robert William Kellough.
Kellough was asked by a committee investigating possible massacre gravesites to give a legal opinion on whether or not entities like the city of Tulsa could be held criminally responsible for supporting the murders in Greenwood.
On this edition of ST, we're pleased to speak with Marlin Lavanhar, a Unitarian Universalist minister who's been based at All Souls Church here in Tulsa