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By Anna Gallegos President Joe Biden was in Tulsa on Tuesday, June 1, to remember and commemorate the 100th anniversary of the Tulsa Race Massacre. “For much too long, the history of what took place here was told in silence, cloaked in darkness. But just because history is silent it doesn’t mean that it did not take place. While darkness can hide much, it erases nothing," Biden said. “My fellow Americans, this was not a riot, this was a massacre.” Biden is the first president to visit Tulsa to commemorate the 1921 events that left hundreds of Black residents dead and destroyed the G...

The president delivered an emotional speech to honor those killed 100 years ago in the massacre of a Black community in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

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The 3 remaining survivors of the 1921 Tulsa massacre tell their stories (video) Tulsa USA – Greenwood and Archer – Famous Black Wall Street where historical Tulsa Massacre took place (Photo credit: Shutterstock – Vineyard Perspective) As it stands, there are just three known living individuals who survived the 1921 destruction of the Greenwood district in Tulsa. These individuals are presently are plaintiffs in a reparations lawsuit filed in 2020 that suggests that the city of Tulsa and the state of Oklahoma are responsible for what transpired on May 31, 1921. The plaintiffs of ...

President Joe Biden spent much of Tuesday urging the nation to focus on hatred, especially white-on-black hatred, or what he called "the stain on the soul of America."