Oklahoman
TULSA A controversial new operatic piece penned for the Tulsa Race Massacre centennial will be released in a new format in time later this month to mark the 100th anniversary of the atrocity.
Directed by filmmaker and multimedia artist Yoram Savion, “They Still Want to Kill Us will premiere on YouTube and Facebook. Beginning May 26, it will stream for free on the Opera Philadelphia Channel, ApolloTheater.org and elsewhere until July 31. They Still Want to Kill Us recounts the events of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, one of the worst episodes of racial violence in U.S. history. Between May 31 and June 1, 1921, mobs of white residents attacked, set aflame and devastated the Greenwood District, which was at that time one of the wealthiest Black communities in the United States, earning it the name Black Wall Street.
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Parents fight college studentsâ suspension over lack of off-campus face coverings
Parents: 3 students kicked out of college over off-campus photo without face coverings By WCVB Staff | May 10, 2021 at 3:59 AM EDT - Updated May 10 at 6:50 AM
AMHERST, Mass. (WCVB) - The families of at least two students at a Massachusetts University are preparing a lawsuit after they say the young women were kicked out after a photo of them off-campus without face coverings surfaced.
Three female freshmen, all honors students, at the University of Massachusetts Amherst attended an off-campus party in March. A photo of the three not wearing masks was posted on Instagram.
Politics
“But what is government itself, but the greatest of all reflections on human nature?” –James Madison, Federalist 51
“They had one weapon left and both knew it: treachery.” –Frank Herbert, Dune “They had learned nothing, and forgotten nothing.” –Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord
Biden Administration
HHS tries to put Fauci’s toothpaste back in the tube:
.@SecBecerra: We still want you to be as safe as possible. That s why the indoor policy should still be masking. pic.twitter.com/29hz6PITDg
“Bernie Sanders skeptical of the Biden White House’s dealmaking plan” [Axios]. “Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) indicated to “Axios on HBO” he’s already impatient with the White House’s quest for Republican support for President Biden’s infrastructure package, saying. ‘The American people want results’ and don’t care if these results are achieved with bipartisan votes… [F]rankly, when people got a, you know [ha ], $1,400 check