Trigger Incident News Today

In the 1920s, there was a Strong Black Community here in tulsa called greenwood. These people were the core of black entrepreneurship. People call it The Black Wall Street. Greenwood was like putting harlem, Bourbon Street, and Chocolate City all in one place. But White Tulsans talked about greenwood as Little Africa or [bleep] land. Tulsa was a powder keg, needing only something to set the community alight. Between 100 and 300 people, most of them black, were killed. Today we call it a massacre...

black entrepreneurship. people call it the black wall street. >> like putting harlem, bourbon street, and chocolate city all in one place. >> but white paulsons talked about it as little africa or land. >> tulsa was a powder keg, needing only something to set the community alight. between 100 and 300 people, most of them black, were killed. today we call it a massacre. they were hastily trying to get rid of the bodies. by dumping them in mass graves around the city. >> we of tulsa of a...

The truth is, we still don’t know exactly what causes anorexia. But we have learned more in recent decades. Whereas anorexia was earlier viewed through the lens of individual and familial behaviors and cultural influences, it is increasingly understood, as with other psychiatric disorders like schizophrenia and depression, to involve a neurological element.

People describe it as a massacre. ive been calling it a war. >> theres systemic causes for what happened here in 1921. but we fixate on this trigger incident that involved a black boy and a white girl on an elevator. the teenage boy is a boy named dick rowan. hes at work on memorial day, shining shoes in downtown tulsa. dick rowland was 19 years old in the spring of 1921. he worked in a white-owned and white-patronized shine parlor on main street in downtown tulsa. >> his nickname is diamond dic...

Memorial day. people describe it as a massacre. ive been calling it a war. >> theres systemic causes for what happened here in 1921. but we fixate on this trigger incident that involved a black boy and a white girl on an elevator. the boy was born in dick wellen. hes at work on memorial day shining shoes in downtown tulsa. dick rowland was 19-year-old in the spring of 1921. he worked in a white-owned and white-patronized shine parlor on main street in downtown tulsa. >> his nickname is diamond d...

On memorial day. some people call it a massacre. ive been calling it a war. >> there is systemic causes for what happened here in 1921. but you fixate on this trigger incident that involved a black boy and a white girl on an elevator. his name was dick wellen. hes at work on memorial day shining shoes in downtown tulsa. dick rowland was 19-year-old in the spring of 1921. he worked in a white-owned and white patronized shine parler on main street in downtown tulsa. >> his nickname is diamond dick...

Monday, may 3rd, 1921. happens to be memorial day. >> may 30th could have happened at any point in time, because tulsa was already a powder keg. we do know that there are definitely kkk members who are part of the police force. marching on the state on memorial day day. some people call it a massacre. ive been calling it a war. >> there is systemic causes for what happened here in 1921. but you fixate on this trigger incident that involved a black boy and a white girl on an elevator. the boy was...