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.
By: Andy Gensler
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Unifying: 22-year-old National Youth Poet Laureate, Amanda Gorman, who was booked by Adrienne Elrod and her team for President Joe Biden s swearing in ceremony, delivers her stirring poem “The Hill We Climb on the West Front of the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 20, 2021 in Washington, D.C.
Adrienne Elrod, in some ways, is an American hero. As Director of
Talent and External Affairs for the Biden Inauguration, the artists she
and her team curated for President Joe Biden’s Inauguration, including
the “Celebrating America” prime time special and especially the swearing in ceremony at the