Chris Polansky / KWGS News Several hundred armed Black men and women from across the country converged on Tulsa Saturday for a march as part of the National Black Power Convention, scheduled to nearly coincide with the 100th anniversary of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre. Demonstrators chanted in favor of reparations, at one point extending a long banner reading 'REPARATIONS NOW!' as they marched. There was also a focus on encouraging Black Americans to take up arms to defend themselves against everyday acts of racist violence as well as largescale atrocities like the massacre. Speakers throughout the day drew attention to the 75 armed Black Tulsans who, in the prelude to the white-led attack, assembled outside a jail where white Tulsans had announced plans to lynch a Black man jailed there.