"The Tulsa Massacre 100 Yrs Later: We Remember as to Never Forget"
b'The Tulsa Massacre\\xa0\\n\\nSo that we never forget.\\n\\nMemorial Day marks the 100th anniversary of the 1921 Tulsa race massacre, one of the deadliest episodes of racial violence and domestic terrorism in U.S. history.\\xa0When the thriving African American neighborhood of Greenwood in Tulsa, Oklahoma \\u2014 known as "Black Wall Street" \\u2014 was burned and bombed to the ground by a white mob. An estimated 300 Black Americans, descendants of slavery\\xa0were killed and over 1,000 injured. Whites in Tulsa actively suppressed the truth, and Blacks were intimidated by more violence into silence. But efforts to restore the horrific event to its rightful place in U.S. history are beginning this 100 years later. Black children of my generation were taught to know and never forget. Tulsa was not the only sight of violent pogroms attacking Blacks in that era.\\xa0 Tonight, we teach the story of Tulsa.\\n\\nJune 5, 2021, we begin our series "Reparations: The Debt That Is Owed" with guest, Dr. William J. "Sandy" Darity.'