Credit Oklahoma Historical Society
The Tulsa City Council unanimously passed a resolution Wednesday night acknowledging and apologizing for the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre.
It also says they and the mayor will establish a community-led process by the end of the year to look at various proposals for reconciliation, including those from a state commission 20 years ago that call for reparations. Still, the council made it clear reparations are not part of the resolution.
More than two dozen people at the council meeting to comment on the resolution were overwhelmingly in support of reparations and had the support of the Rev. Jesse Jackson; former Asheville, North Carolina Councilman Keith Young, the architect of that city s reparations plan; and Evanston, Illinois, Alderman Robin Rue Simmons, who led the charge in her city approving a first-in-the-nation reparations plan.
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On May 30, hundreds of protesters gathered in the Brookside intersection of South Peoria Avenue and East 36th Street chanting, âNo justice; No peace,â and âWe canât breathe.â
They were marching in response to the Minneapolis Police killing of
George Floyd in a nationwide response to police brutality, including recent officer-involved killings of Black Tulsans. It was a part of the largest global protest movement in history.
That day marked the first of three weeks of protests featuring thousands of Black citizens and their allies marching throughout Tulsa leading up to President
Mar 26, 2021
Photojournalists get to see incredible things. The Tulsa World s photo department of six has a combined 150 years of experience, so weâve all covered events both big and small. But this year was different.Â
As I answered phone calls and texts while working with photographers in the field, I kept hearing: âIâve never seen this before.â
Mike Simons and Ian Maule were on an Interstate 244 overpass with Black Lives Matter protesters when a pickup driver drove through the crowd. They were there when Tulsa Police and protesters clashed in Tulsa s Brookside neighborhood and when tear gas was launched near Woodland Hills Mall.Â