Tag: Black Wall Street
Mother Viola Fletcher Among 200 Black Wall Street Survivors Headed to Ghana
By Stacy Brown, NNPA Newswire Senior National Correspondent
@StacyBrownMedia
On the evening of May 31st, 1921, a vicious white mob from neighboring Tulsa, Oklahoma, descended on...
President Biden Signs Juneteenth Holiday into Law
By Stacy M. Brown
Beginning on Friday, June 18, federal employees enjoyed the country’s 12th – and perhaps most significant – paid holiday.
President Joe Biden...
Together, We Should Seek Justice for the Tulsa Massacre 100 Years Later
Quinci LeGardye | California Black Media
May 31-June 1, 2021, marks the 100th anniversary of the Tulsa Race Massacre, one of the deadliest acts of...
“The Foundation of the Wealth:” Why Black Wall Street Boomed
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By ELLEN KNICKMEYER
Associated Press
In a century-old family story about a teenage aunt who liked to drive her luxury car down the trolley tracks...
President Biden, John Legend, Stacey Abrams Among those Commemorating Tulsa Race Massacre
By Stacy M. Brown, NNPA Newswire Senior National Correspondent
President Joe Biden plans to travel to Oklahoma to help commemorate the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre.
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