In a Tuesday speech commemorating the 100th anniversary of the Tulsa Race Massacre, which killed hundreds of Black residents, President Biden unveiled a plan to boost economic prosperity for African Americans. Biden is the first president to travel to Tulsa to commemorate the anniversary of the 1921 destruction of the Greenwood neighborhood, once a center of exceptional Black wealth, by a mob of white Oklahomans. In an impassioned retelling,.
Paul Rucker s multimedia work tackles mass incarceration, lynching, police brutality and the ways America has been shaped by slavery. His latest marks the 100th anniversary of the Tulsa Race Massacre.