Tom Hanks urges US educators to teach students about Tulsa race massacre
by Martin Pengelly in New York from US news | The Guardian on (#5JPPH)
Actor writes in New York Times that he never read a page of any school history book' about 1921 massacre
In an essay lamenting the long neglect of the Tulsa race massacre, the Oscar-winning actor Tom Hanks said white educators and school administrators" in the US had omitted the volatile subject for the sake of the status quo, placing white feelings over Black experience - literally Black lives in this case".
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