POLITICO Playbook: The sympathizer-in-chief heads to Tulsa
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People rest their hands in prayer during a Prayer Wall memorial gathering at the AME Church during commemorations of the 100th anniversary of the Tulsa Race Massacre on Monday, May 31, in Tulsa, Okla. | Brandon Bell/Getty Images
DRIVING THE DAY
One hundred years ago today, white assailants stormed a prosperous Black neighborhood in Tulsa, Okla., leaving the area known as a hub of African American entrepreneurship in total ruin and massacring hundreds of Black people. Survivors who saw their family members murdered or businesses torn to bits never saw a penny in compensation and insurance companies declined most of their claims. And for a long time, the horrors of that day were buried.