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October 28, 2022 at 9:04 pm

Twelve more coffins found in search for Tulsa Race Massacre graves

The unearthing of the coffins, in the city-owned Oaklawn Cemetery, follows several rounds of similar discoveries since Tulsa began its excavation for mass graves in...

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June 26, 2021 at 7:30 am

Scientists excavating Tulsa Race Massacre site unearth skeleton with bullet wounds

Forensic scientists and archaeologists investigating a mass grave near the site of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre have unearthed skeletal remains, including that of a...

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May 31, 2021 at 12:52 pm

In Tulsa, solemn remembrances of a century-old race massacre by survivors and descendants

TULSA, Okla. - On the 100th anniversary of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, survivors and descendants gathered Monday at Standpipe Hill, where Black World War...

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The aftermath of the Tulsa Race Massacre in the city’s Greenwood neighborhood. MUST CREDIT: Library of Congress.

May 30, 2021 at 10:42 am

After his arrest sparked the Tulsa Race Massacre, Dick Rowland disappeared

He liked to call himself "Diamond Dick." Dick Rowland, a tall teenager with velvet skin, wore a diamond ring as he shined shoes in downtown...

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Slave shackles on display at the Freedom House Museum in Alexandria, Va. The slave trade site was used to house enslaved people before being transported to the South. MUST CREDIT: Washington Post photo by Matt McClain.

February 10, 2021 at 8:50 pm

‘Uncomfortable truth’: The new push for a slavery reparations commission in Congress

The House will hold a hearing next week on H.R. 40, which would create a commission to study the legacy of slavery and the possibility...

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December 27, 2020 at 8:08 am

Was Queen Charlotte Black? Here’s what we know

In "Bridgerton," the new Shonda Rhimes period drama on Netflix, the lords and ladies of early 19th century Britain are depicted as Black as well...

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July 13, 2020 at 4:04 am

A century after a race massacre, Tulsa finally digs for suspected mass graves VIEW

TULSA, Okla. - Nearly a century after a brutal race massacre left as many as 300 black people dead, this city began to dig Monday...

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Hal Singer (right) with his daughter Stephanie and his wife Arlette Singer. MUST CREDIT: photo courtesy of Arlette Singer/

June 19, 2020 at 5:00 pm

He’s 100, a renowned jazz musician and a survivor of Tulsa’s 1921 race massacre

This is what Hal Singer and his family lost a century ago

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This June 17, 2020, photo, shows a statue depicting a man holding the state law that made Juneteenth a state holiday in Galveston, Texas. The inscription on the statue reads “On June 19, 1865, at the close of the Civil War, U.S. Army General Gordon Granger issued an order in Galveston stating that the 1863 Emancipation Proclamation was in effect. That event, later known as “Juneteenth,” marked the end of slavery in Texas. Celebrated as a day of freedom since then, Juneteenth grew into an international commemoration and in 1979 became an official Texas holiday through the efforts of State Representative Albert (AL) Edwards of Houston.” (AP Photo/David J. Phillip) NYAG508 NYAG508

June 18, 2020 at 4:00 pm

Juneteenth celebrates ‘a moment of indescribable joy’: Slavery’s end in U.S.

Juneteenth is one of the oldest celebrations commemorating the end of slavery in the U.S. Here's the history behind it, and why it resonates today.

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President Donald Trump speaks during a news conference in the Rose Garden of the White House, Friday, June 5, 2020, in Washington. White House chief economic adviser Larry Kudlow, left, and Labor Secretary Eugene Scalia, top right listen. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci) DCEV408 DCEV408

June 11, 2020 at 9:38 am

‘Almost blasphemous’: Trump plans rally in Tulsa, site of a race massacre, on Juneteenth

The announcement that President Donald Trump would hold a political rally on Juneteenth in a city where as many as 300 Black people were killed...

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