Sean Yoes By Sean Yoes AFRO Senior Reporter syoes@afro.com One hundred years ago this week thousands of White terrorists descended upon the wildly prosperous Black community of Tulsa Oklahoma known as “Black Wall Street” and murdered hundreds of Black men, women and children. They displaced about 10 thousand Black residents when they burned (and bombed) […]
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Darren E. Bryant is the youngest Black mayor in Illinois state history
Mayor Darren E. Bryant (Photo by Eddy “Precise” Lamarre for rolling out) By Eddy “Precise” Lamarre Rolling Out What does Robbins become under your leadership? It becomes a town with a vision, a town with a future and a clearer direction. What would you say are some of the biggest challenges and how will you […]
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Another view about Black Wall Street and Tulsa
Theresa Jordan gives oral history about Tulsa, the race riot, and much more. This video goes beyond the race riot and shares the history and culture of Tulsa up to the present. www.ccgmag.com Help us Continue to tell OUR Story and join the AFRO family as a member – subscribers are now members! Join here!
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NCNW Reacts to the 100 year commemoration of the massacre in Tulsa, Oklahoma
A thriving community of professional African Americans in the Greenwood District. The aftermath of a neighborhood being bombed and set ablaze. This travesty of justice must never happen again. The massacre that occurred in the Greenwood District of Tulsa, Oklahoma, known as Black Wall Street, is one of many instances where the loss of life, […]
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Free beer, other new incentives for Biden’s ‘vaccine sprint’
In this May 6, 2021 photo, Semajh Daniels, left, and Zora McCarthy, both of Hyattsville, Md., enjoy a complimentary beer after receiving the J & J COVID-19 vaccine, at The REACH at the Kennedy Center in Washington. Free beer is the latest White House-backed incentive for Americans to get vaccinated for COVID-19. President Joe Biden […]
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Comcast Community Impact helps bring D.C. Virtual Field Trip to students across America
(Screengrab from YouTube video) By Dalila Wilson-Scott Link: https://corporate.comcast.com/stories/comcast-community-impact-dc-virtual-field-trip-students You may remember it – loading onto a bus and heading to the nation’s capital to get a firsthand glimpse of historic monuments, museums, and yes, the pillars of American government: The White House, The U.S. Capitol Building, and The U.S. Supreme Court. Among many of the […]
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Historic bill raises minimum wage to $17 and eliminates tipped wage for contracted workers at BWI Airport and Baltimore Penn Station
“The Secure Maryland Wage Act aims to attract and retain experienced, and better-trained workers at heightened-security transportation facilities,” officials wrote in a press release. (Photo: iStockphoto / NNPA NNPA NEWSWIRE – Following a three-year campaign, Doran Brown, a contracted wheelchair agent at BWI Marshall Airport in Baltimore, and over 2,000 union and non-union contracted workers […]
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How Minnesota journalists covered a year of crisis
Attorney Ben Crump (left) Rev. Al Sharpton, and Brandon Williams, nephew of George Floyd, took a knee for 8:46 at the Hennepin County Government Center at the start of the Derek Chauvin murder case on March 29, 2021 in Minneapolis, Minn. (JERRY HOLT/STAR TRIBUNE) By Nu Yang, E&P Editor-in-Chief On April 20, the entire world […]
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Win for TrumpWorld: Fulton County absentee ballots will be unsealed, audited
A worker at the Fulton County Board of Registration and Elections works to process absentee ballots at the State Farm Arena Nov. 2, 2020, in Atlanta. (AP Photo/John Bazemore) By Itoro N. Umontuen The Atlanta Voice via NNPA (NNPA Newswire) – On May 21, Georgia Superior Court Judge Brian Amero ordered Fulton County to unseal […]
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Survivors of Black Wall Street celebrate legacy a century later
Oklahoma leaders and survivors and descendants of victims of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre are working to commemorate the legacy of Black Wall Street, acknowledge the bloody and racist attack and remember the fallen. (AFRO Archives) By Micha Green AFRO D.C. and Digital Editor mgreen@afro.com After World War I, Tulsa’s Greenwood district became a hub […]
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Hundreds gather at historic Tulsa church’s prayer wall
People pray at the dedication of a prayer wall outside of the historic Vernon African Methodist Episcopal Church in the Greenwood neighborhood during the centennial of the Tulsa Race Massacre, Monday, May 31, 2021, in Tulsa, Okla. The church was largely destroyed when a white mob descended on the prosperous Black neighborhood in 1921, burning, […]
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At century mark, Tulsa Race Massacre’s wounds still unhealed
This photo provided by the Department of Special Collections, McFarlin Library, The University of Tulsa shows fires burning during the Tulsa Race Massacre in Tulsa, Okla., on June 1, 1921. (Department of Special Collections, McFarlin Library, The University of Tulsa via AP) According to a U.S. Census Bureau estimate, the median household income for Black […]
