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An emotional US President Joe Biden marked the 100th anniversary of a massacre that destroyed a thriving black community in Tulsa, Oklahoma, saying on Tuesday that he had “come to fill the silence” about one of the nation’s darkest — and long suppressed — moments of racial violence. “Some injustices are so heinous, so horrific, so grievous; they cannot be buried, no matter how hard people try,” Biden said. “Only with truth can come healing.” Biden’s commemoration of the deaths of hundreds of black people killed by a white mob a century ago came amid the current national rec...

A brief excerpt of United States President Joe Biden's comments about investing in Black entrepreneurs spread virally, trundled along by the usual disinformation purveyors.

By Susan Jones | June 2, 2021 | 5:48am EDT President Joe Biden tours the Greenwood Cultural Center in Tulsa, Oklahoma on June 1, 2021. (Photo by MANDEL NGAN/AFP via Getty Images) (CNSNews.com) - 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." Biden was speaking in Tulsa, Oklahoma, commemorating a violent attack by a white mob on the black community of Greenwood 100 years ago. He drew a "line" from what happened in Tulsa way back then to ha...

A 100 años de los disturbios raciales de Tulsa, el presidente Biden visitó la ciudad donde ocurrió el peor incidente de violencia racial en Estados Unidos.

The White House President Joe Biden issued a proclamation Monday honoring the victims of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre 100 years later and vowing to work toward undoing systemic racism in the U.S. "One hundred years ago, a violent white supremacist mob raided, firebombed, and destroyed approximately 35 square blocks of the thriving Black neighborhood of Greenwood in Tulsa, Oklahoma," Biden wrote. "Families and children were murdered in cold blood. Homes, businesses, and churches were burned. In all, as many as 300 Black Americans were killed, and nearly 10,000 were left destitute and homeles...