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At 100th anniversary of worst race massacre in US history, schools are confronting the truth

feed to stay on top of the news. Mobs of armed white residents attacked a once thriving Black community in Oklahoma for 18 hours straight, destroying businesses, killing about 300 Black people, most of whom were unarmed, and causing thousands to lose their homes in the process, according to History Channel. In the rise of teaching Critical Race Theory (CRT) – the notion that traditional liberal approaches to dealing with racial inequalities need to be reconsidered because laws favor white supremacy – Republican Gov. Kevin Stitt signed legislation to combat efforts that he said would scar or divide the children. “Teaching concepts or courses that would cause people to ‘feel discomfort, guilt, anguish or any other form of psychological distress’ because of their race or gender. It also bans promoting concepts such as that anyone by virtue of his or her race or sex, is inherently racist, sexist or oppressive, whether consciously or unconsciously, Stitt tweeted, NBC News r

To Mark the 100th Anniversary of the Tulsa Race Massacre, Dozens of Artists Are Installing Public Works Around the City

The Greenwood Art Project, organized by Rick Lowe and William Cordova, marks the 100th anniversary of the deadly Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921.

Wynton Marsalis To Headline Performance In Remembrance Of Tulsa Race Massacre Centennial

Wynton Marsalis To Headline Performance In Remembrance Of Tulsa Race Massacre Centennial Legendary jazz musician and composer Wynton Marsalis and his Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra will lead a performance of his epic blues suite, All Rise (Symphony No. 1) at 3 p.m. June 6 at the BOK Center in Tulsa, alongside the Tulsa Symphony and Festival Chorus and produced in alliance with the Tulsa Race Massacre Commission. David Robertson will conduct the performance, and Damien L. Sneed will lead the chorus. When I was writing All Rise, Kurt Masur, conductor of the New York Philharmonic, told me, The line between civilization and barbarism is much thinner than you think. That’s why with everything that you do, you have to decry barbarism and the reduction of people. Marsalis said.

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