Businesses new to Dan Burton the ground. 10,000 people were limited limited diluted looted advert to the ground. 10,000 people were made homeless. We still do not know how many people died. Two movie theaters were destroyed. Two africanamerican newspapers. A dozen churches were burned. 30 restaurants. Third are grocery stores and meat markets. A hospital. A library branch. A post office. A substation was burned as well too. Stress shops. Cigar stores. Hardware stores. Automobiles. On and on and on. The amount of wealth lost, let me give you one other number to think about. Some of you may have seen this. This week, the June Issue of national geographic is arriving in people smell boxes. The massacre in peoples mailboxes. The massacre is the cover story. The staff have done work trying to figure out the amount of generational wealth lost during the massacre. How much money would be in Greenwood Today had the massacre not happened . I am not an Economist Nor Business historian. That seem
Was. And the numbers only sort of do it justice. You had more than 1,000 africanamerican homes and businesses were looted and burned to the ground. 10,000 people were made homeless. To this day, we do not know how many people died in the massacre. But its not just a question of numbers as well too. You know, its not just this many businesses died, you know, what was destroyed were two movie theaters, the dixie and the dreamland. They sat 1,000 people and 750. Two africanamerican newspapers. A dozen churches were burned to the ground. 30 restaurants. 30 grocery stores and meat markets. A hospital. A public school. A library branch. A Post Office Substation was burned as well too. Dress shops, cigar stores, hardware stores, automobiles, on and on and on. And the amount of wealth that was lost, let me give you one other number to think about when we deal with this wealth. So some of you may have seen this, but this week the June Issue of national geographic is arriving in peoples mailboxe
Hello and welcome. The bbc has been investigating the plight of thousands of children believed to have been separated from their parents as a result of Chinas Treatment of its uyghur population. Beijing has denied that uyghur families are being deliberately split up, but reports have consistently emerged of uyghurs being forced into Internment Camps, women being sterilised and the use of forced labour. Reporting from taiwan, heres our China Correspondent jon sudworth. These mothers are marching for their missing children back home in xinjiang. Walking almost 300 miles across turkey where they now live to highlight the years of silence from china. I want them to let me see them, kalbina tells me. In this information age, why cant i contact my children . Two years ago, in a Meeting Hall in istanbul, in dozens of similar accounts, uighurs from xinjiang told us how theyd lost all contact with the children. Do you know where your children are now . So where are these children . Shown that t
This is Bbc News with the latest headlines for viewers in the uk and Around The World. The violence between israel and the palestinians escalates. This is the moment an israeli airstrike destroyed an Apartment Block in Gaza City. Residents had been warned to get out. As rockets reach a suburb of Tel Aviv, Benjamin Netanhayu says the palestinians will pay a heavy price. Some 30 people, israelis and palestinians, have been killed. A teenage gunman in russia opens fire at a school, killing at least seven children and two adults. Drivers in the us Line Up at the pump, fearing the Cyber Attack on a vital Fuel Pipeline could leave them with empty tanks. When i was writing today i thought that it was a catastrophe coming and i was like, whats going on . I saw all these cars parked everywhere and i was just like omg, all these cars parked everywhere and i wasjust like omg, i have to all these cars parked everywhere and i was just like omg, i have to fill my tank up. And a state in australia be
of the country, as they prepare for a major russian onslaught. a manhunt is under way in new york, after 17 people were injured in a shooting at a subway station. after two weeks covid lockdown in shanghai, officials admit they re struggling to feed the city s 25 million people. and lawyers forjohnny depp brand amber heard a liar who s obsessed with her image, in opening arguments of the defamation trial between the former spouses. live from our studio in singapore. this is bbc news. it s newsday. hello, and welcome to the programme. the two most senior members of the uk government, the prime minister and the chancellor of the exchequer, are facing calls to resign after being fined for breaking lockdown rules for attending a party in downing street in 2020. it makes borisjohnson the first ever sitting prime minister to have broken the law. he s apologised, as has rishi sunak, the chancellor. here s our deputy political editor, vicki young. we all have images we rememberfro