A Black-owned Oklahoma newspaper would not let the state forget the day white mobs murdered hundreds of African Americans in Tulsa.
Every Thursday for decades, the Oklahoma Eagle has forced the city to confront its violent past.
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For 18 hours on May 31, 1921, white mobs raced through Greenwood — known as “Black Wall Street” for its thriving African American-owned businesses — tossing Molotov cocktails, torching churches and hospitals, leaving nearly 300 Black people dead.
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Thousands were forced to flee. They took the Osage Prairie Trail to escape the white mob.
Some events planned in Tulsa this weekend will memorialize those who ran from one of the deadliest acts of racial violence in American history.
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Hollywood executives once dismissed the idea of mass interest in the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, but the success of HBO's Emmy-winning series “Watchmen” breathed life into a raft of documentaries.
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This weekend, the centennial of the massacre, will be marked by at least 4 in-depth documentaries.
Using different approaches and perspectives that occasionally overlap, the documentaries dive not only into the past, but also the efforts to cover it up.
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One of the documentaries, “Tulsa Burning: The 1921 Race Massacre,” has NBA veteran Russell Westbrook as executive producer.
He first heard about the massacre as an adult after he was drafted by the Oklahoma City Thunder in 2008.
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The impact of the 1921 Race Massacre lingers.
Tulsa police deputized white mobs & provided them with arms 100 years ago.
There’s been some progress in the relationship between police and the Black community. But, there is still more work to be done.
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