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Adding Insult to Misery: A Timeline of Black Massacres and the Reparations that Never Came

This week's 100-year recognition of the Tulsa Race Massacre offers a glimpse into America's sordid history of widespread massacres against Black citizens.

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Donney Rose
Jun 02, 2021
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Sites of Black massacres throughout U.S. history; Image via Twitter

This week the nation paused to commemorate the 100-year anniversary of the Tulsa Race Massacre that ravaged the independent Greenwood district of Tulsa, Oklahoma on May 31-June 1, 1921. The few remaining survivors, as well as celebrities, activists, historians and even the president, pai…

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