Article 54SEW 99 Years Later, Wounds of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre Have "Never Been Remedied"

99 Years Later, Wounds of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre Have "Never Been Remedied"

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President Trump's first campaign rally since the start of the pandemic takes place Saturday in Tulsa, Oklahoma, despite a spike of COVID-19 cases there. Trump rescheduled the rally to Saturday after facing backlash for saying it would happen on Juneteenth - a celebration of African Americans' liberation from slavery - amid a nationwide uprising against racism and police brutality. Tulsa is also the site of one of the deadliest massacres in U.S. history, when a white mob in 1921 killed as many as 300 people in a thriving African American business district known as Black Wall Street." For more on this history and the pervasive racism that remains, we speak with civil rights lawyer Damario Solomon-Simmons, who represents the last known survivor of the Greenwood massacre living in Tulsa. He's also the attorney for the family of Terence Crutcher, a Black man who was shot and killed by a white police officer in Tulsa in 2016. Terence Crutcher's sister, Dr. Tiffany Crutcher, also joins us from Tulsa.

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