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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. that's who greenwood is. you might destroy the outside of me. you might shoot me. you might burn me. you won't destroy my soul. we still sing. >> we have these cycles of greenwood being built, destroyed, rebuilt. if you look at it all together

One of them is just, we were talking about veterans and the connective tissues that that can build. and that's 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. it's a very harsh, difficult history that is still prescient today when you think, we still have survivors from this. the other reason this is an important story is because i think americans, especially white americans, but america...

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 Magazine editor Don Ross published one of the first accounts of the race riots in nearly 50 years. He went ...

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 went on to become a Broadway director and a lyricist who won a Tony Award for the score of the eternal...