Page 3 - Ricco Wright News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

NYC art gallery paying tribute to Tulsa Race Massacre victims vandalized for 3rd time Replay Video UP NEXT The NYPD's Hate Crimes Task Force is investigating after a third incident of racist vandalism at the Black Wall Street Gallery in SoHo in one week. Police say someone used white paint to put the letters "EDHRLL" on a window display at the gallery on Mercer Street Tuesday morning "It's so cryptic," gallery owner Dr. Ricco Wright said. "Nobody knows. Could be someone's initials...apart from that, I don't know, and the gall of a person to say there's real art on the door when there is real...

Gallery Commemorating Tulsa Massacre Seeks Police Inquiry of Vandalism The Black Wall Street Gallery in New York was vandalized three times this week, its owner said. He called on the police to treat it as a hate crime. “It was both deliberate and intentional for someone to white wash Black Wall Street on the exact date 100 years ago when the massacre happened,” said the owner of the Black Wall Street Gallery in SoHo.Credit...via Black Wall Street Gallery June 3, 2021, 3:20 p.m. ET The owner and curator of the Black Wall Street Gallery in SoHo, which has an exhibition commemorating the 10...

The gallery, named after the affluent Black neighborhood in Tulsa that was burned to the ground, was defaced with white paint on the anniversary of the 1921 race riot.

Vandalism at Black Wall Street Gallery. Photo courtesy of Black Wall Street Gallery. Monday was the 100th anniversary of the Tulsa Race Massacre, in which white mobs burned the city’s prosperous Greenwood neighborhood, known as Black Wall Street, to the ground, killing as many as 300 African Americans. When Ricco Wright, owner of New York’s Black Wall Street Gallery, arrived for work that day, he was disturbed to discover that vandals had covered a sign for his business with white paint. The incident took place between 11 p.m. Sunday and 7 a.m. Monday, according to CBS. “We’ve called...

The Oklahoma city's "Black Wall Street" was one of the richest African-American neighborhoods in the country. Then whites burned it to the ground.