Tulsa Begins Excavation Process Into Possible Mass Gravesite of Victims of the 1921 Race Riots
It's been just under a century since Tulsa, Okla., saw one of the most brutal and evil acts of American racism imaginable post-slavery. On May 31, 1921 hundreds of Black people were murdered and over a thousand homes, businesses, churches and schools were destroyed all because a Black teenager working as a shoe shiner...