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Was a really beautiful soul. >> that night of the massacre, olivia hooker, a 6-year-old girl, saw her own home ripped apart. white folks came into her house, destroyed her piano with a hatchet, and when they left, she went over there and she struck the key board. and there was still sound coming out of that piano. thats who greenwood is. you might destroy the outside of me. you might shoot me. you might burn me. you wont destroy my soul. we still sing. >> we have these cycles of greenwood being ...

One of them is just, we were talking about veterans and the connective tissues that that can build. and thats absolutely correct. of course, then, you look at what happened in tulsa, and you have images today of hundreds of world war i black veterans from world war i being rounded up and put into the equivalent of local concentration camps and many of them lynched. its a very harsh, difficult history that is still prescient today when you think, we still have survivors from this. the other reaso...

University of Colorado law professor Suzette Malveaux represented survivors of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre and she continues that fight.

Olivia Hooker in 2021 and 2018 On May 31, 1921, Olivia Hooker was six-years-old when white mobs launched an attack on the Greenwood section of Tulsa, Oklahoma. In less than 24 hours, the mobs destroyed more than 1,000 homes and businesses. It’s estimated as many as 300 people were killed. The Tulsa Race Massacre is considered one of the worst incidents of racial violence in American history. For decades, the events of 1921 were rarely discussed or taught in school. But in 1971, Impact Magazin...

Grammy-nominated rapper DMX was on life support at a New York hospital Saturday evening after he was admitted the previous night in grave condition after suffering a heart attack. DMX, whose real name is Earl Simmons, was rushed to a White Plains hospital from his nearby home around 11 p.m. Friday, his longtime attorney Murray Richman told NBC New York…. director Jul 8, 2019 Martin Charnin, who made his Broadway debut playing a Jet in the original “West Side Story” and we...

On this day in Black History… In 1865, Henry Highland Garnet (December 23, 1815 – February 13, 1882) an African American abolitionist and orator becomes  the first black minister to preach to the United States House of Representatives. In 1900,     For a Lincoln birthday celebration, James Weldon Johnson writes the lyrics for “Lift Every Voice and Sing”. With music by his brother, J. Rosamond, the song is first sung by 500 children in Jacksonville, Fla. It will become known as the ...