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Last modified on Mon 31 May 2021 03.01 EDT Earlier this month, the three known survivors of the 1921 Tulsa massacre testified in Congress about the world they lost when a white mob burned their thriving community to the ground. “The neighborhood I fell asleep in that night was rich – not just in terms of wealth, but in culture, community and heritage,” said Viola Fletcher, who was visiting the US capital for the first time in her 107 years. “Within a few hours, all of that was gone.” After being willfully suppressed from the national memory for close to a century, in ...

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The failure by city and state authorities in Tulsa, Oklahoma, to provide comprehensive reparations has compounded the harms of the May 31, 1921 Tulsa race massacre on its upcoming centennial.

A Thornbury dance school is offering free online classes for children during lockdown. Tiny Toes Ballet usually holds children’s dance classes at Turnberries, as well as in Redland and Bedminster, but is now offering them online to support parents and teachers who are home schooling due to lockdown. Its eight-week Free Lockdown Programme combines drama, dance and cookery and is aimed at children aged seven and under. Daisy Scott, who runs the Bristol Tiny Toes Ballet franchise, says she is delighted to be able to help keep the nation’s children learning through lockdown. “I ha...