It's been 100 years since the Tulsa Race Massacre: From May 31 to June 1, 1921, a giant mob of white supremacists—some deputized by city officials—looted and burned down the Black neighborhood of Greenwood in Tulsa, OK. Known as Black Wall Street because of its prosperity, somewhere from 100 to 300 people were killed during the siege. Historians estimate that over 1,200 homes and businesses were completely destroyed, reports NPR. News about the massacre was.
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This undated aerial photo provided by US Fish and Wildlife Service shows a herd of caribou on the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in northeast Alaska
The Biden administration has reversed a Donald Trump-era drilling programme by suspending oil and gas leases in Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.
The order by interior secretary Deb Haaland follows a temporary moratorium on oil and gas lease activities imposed by President Joe Biden on his first day in office.
Mr Biden’s January 20 executive order suggested a new environmental review was needed to address possible legal flaws in a drilling programme approved by the Trump administration under a 2017 law enacted by Congress.