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 won t speak doesn t 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 that s been, i don t 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 g
good morning. i m poppy harlow. i m jim sciutto. hours from now, president biden will leave the white house for oklahoma to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the tulsa race massacre. it is just a horrific and sadly, a long ignored chapter in this nation s history. on may 31st, 1921, a white mob descended on what was a thriving black neighborhood, greenwood, in tulsa. angry crowds went block to block. they looted. they killed. eyewitnesses reported planes, a relatively new invention at the time, took part in the attacks. attacks from the air. the destruction and devastation lasted until the next day. and the scenes afterwards just horrendous. not just homes and businesses, but schools and churches also destroyed. the very heart of that community burned to the ground. thousands were left homeless as many as 300 black americans were killed. reflecting on that horror today, the president will meet with three survivors of the massacre, the oldest 107 years old. he is also e
voting for, primarily, people of color. and naomi osaka s decision to withdraw from the french open, building from her mental health from 2018. thank you all for joining us today. the book the victory of greenwood examines a number of items and how they came back after a horrific charge on the black community. how is this sparking more calls for reparations in oklahoma. today this has been years in the making, this centennial. it has been weeks on the ground engaging with folks about what this means, engaging with the past, unearthing hidden truths that had been buried for so long. i had a chance to talk to a number of black people who dealt with the inherited pain and crime of this. also i talked to a few white people, what it meant for them to carry a piece of this legacy, including a reverend, a co-founded newspaper that sparked some of this. let s listen. you have people in the establishment, a lot of white people, quite frankly, who think and a lot of the rest
under confirmation in just over an hour. u.s. senate here on c-span2 . . . mr. schumer: mr. president? the president pro tempore: the majority leader. mr. schumer: now, the senate is laser-focused on confirming president biden s impressive cabinet while paving the way for another round of urgent covid relief. the two tasks will remain the top senate priorities over the next several weeks. by the end of this week, the senate will have confirmed three cabinet-level officials the u.n. ambassador, the secretaries of agriculture and energy, and will have set up confirmation votes early next week for the secretaries of education and commerce and the chair of the council of economic advisors. this week senate committees will held confirmation hearings on scores of other nominations including the president s candidates for attorney general, h.h.s. secretary, interior secretary, c.i.a. director, surgeon general and u.s. trade rep. at the same time democrats are preparing to proce
in the 1920s, there was a strong black community here in tulsa called greenwood. these people were the core of 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 [bleep] land. 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 of an undetermined number who were murdered. it should not have taken 99 years. anybody who thinks that this crime scene is not going to speak doesn t 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 that s been, whew, i don t know how many years. my mother is from oklahoma. ther