Black entrepreneurship. People call it the black Wall Street. Greenwood was like putting harlem, Bourbon Street, and Chocolate City all in one place. But White Tulsans talked about greenwood as Little Africa or niggerland. Tulsa was a powder keg. Needing only something to set the community alight. Between 100 and 300 people, most of them black, were killed. Today we call it a massacre. They were hastily trying to get rid of the bodies. By dumping them in Mass Graves around the city. We have tulsans have an undetermined number who were murdered. It should not have taken 99 years. Anybody who thinks this crime Scene Wont Speak doesnt have the ears to hear. The ancestors are awake and the earth is shaking. I came to tulsa when i was in the sixth grade. So thats been, i dont know how many years. My mother is from oklahoma. There was a strong Black Community in tulsa called greenwood. These people were the core of black entrepreneurship. And they would help you get your business started. 19
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Biden administration enter the week 6 without a full cabinet. It has been slow going. Just nine of the president s nominees have been confirmed, and as of this morning the fate of at least one of them is pang hanging by a thread. I want to bring in Garrett Haake on capitol hill and eli stokols, White House Reporter for the New York Times. Garrett, lets talk about the nominees. Reporter that nomination is hanging on by a thread. The president should get his tenth cabinet official today, Jennifer Granhome expected to be confirmed this afternoon as part of the department of energy, and two other nominees moving through. Committees this week seem to be on a decent path. Deb holland secured the support of joe manchin, iffy leading into this week, and Xavier Becerra completed his run through two separate committees that are going to have to approve his nomination, hes continuing to make calls but it looks like democrats are lined up behind him. As for tanden, she needs at least one republica
The job that the taxpayer pays you for. This is a bloody disgrace. In this episode of this cultural life, the radio 4 podcast, he reveals his formative influences and experiences, and how at the age of 86, hes still as fired up as ever. Theres an anger. Is there . I think thats what drives you. Well, you cant see it happen. You cant see it happen and be indifferent, you know, you cant. If theres something that puts fuel in the tank, its seeing hope destroyed, you know . Camera crews ready. I think in my acting days, i did a tiny bit of bbc radio. Oh, you did . It might have been in this very studio some 60 odd years ago. Really, here . Fantastic. Well, weve got to dig those performances from the vault. I cant think what it was. It was something. Ken loach, welcome to this cultural life. Its a great pleasure to come. And good to see you. You, too. You were born in 1936. You grew up in the midlands. Tell me about your family. What did your parents do . My father was an electrical enginee
Camera crews ready. I think in my acting days, i did a tiny bit of bbc radio. Oh, you did . It might have been in this very studio some 60 odd years ago. Really, here . Fantastic. Well, weve got to dig those performances from the vault. I cant think what it was. It was something. Ken loach, welcome to this cultural life. Its a great pleasure to come. And good to see you. You, too. You were born in 1936. You grew up in the midlands. Tell me about your family. What did your parents do . My father was an electrical engineer. Took his apprenticeship in the mines. The whole family, my fathers family were miners from the warwickshire coalfields, and he worked at Alfred Herberts machine tool factory all his life. Ao odd years. Skilled worker, then . Yes, a skilled worker. Electrician. And he had a work ethic that was formidable. He worked seven days a week. And my mother had been a hairdresser, but like women of that time, it was a matter of pride for my father that she should not have to wor