.@TiffanyDCross: "Why do think you never learned about the [Tulsa Race Massacre]?"
Nehemiah Frank: "We never learned about it is because why would our enemies want to teach the children of greatness, right? Why would they want to teach them how great they can become once again?"
@TiffanyDCross Watch more from @TiffanyDCross' interview on “The Cross Connection: America’s Racial Reckoning” Saturday at 10am ET on @MSNBC.
"While this community has weathered so much, there is a sense of pride and resilience," @trymainelee says ahead of the 100th anniversary of the Tulsa Race Massacre. "Though they weren't able to inherit the wealth that was stolen from them…they did inherit that fighting spirit."
@trymainelee To mark the 100-year anniversary of the Tulsa Race Massacre, @TrymaineLee explores what really happened in 1921 and speaks to Tulsans reckoning with a complicated history.
Watch "Blood on Black Wall Street" Sunday at 10pm ET on @MSNBC or On Demand on @peacockTV.
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BREAKING: Israeli warplanes pound the Gaza Strip, killing at least 8 children in a refugee camp and flattening a high-rise building housing the offices of international media outlets as Hamas unleashes new barrage of rockets targeting central Israel. on.msnbc.com/3wbFgZt
BREAKING: Israel airstrike flattens building housing Associated Press, Al Jazeera offices.
JUST IN: Gov. DeSantis signs Florida's new voting legislation into law that enacts restrictions on voting by mail and at drop boxes. on.msnbc.com/3b6Tseg
DeSantis signed the bill, which was passed by the GOP-controlled legislature last month, live on Fox News' "Fox & Friends" during an interview.
Throughout the week, the governor had been holding more formal bill-signing ceremonies across the state as he signed bills into law.
BREAKING: Former President Trump's Facebook ban upheld by Oversight Board. on.msnbc.com/3uhxlJI
"The Board has upheld Facebook’s decision on January 7, 2021, to restrict then-President Donald Trump’s access to posting content on his Facebook page and Instagram account," Oversight Board says.
Former President Trump's Facebook ban upheld by Oversight Board.
"It's the right decision in this case," says @karaswisher. "He violated the rules. This is not a bigger issue of public figures being censored in any way."
At least 11 deaths have been confirmed and more than 1,400 people sought care at emergency rooms and urgent care clinics for carbon monoxide poisoning during the weeklong Texas outage in February. Children made up 42% of the cases.
Black, Hispanic and Asian Texans suffered a disproportionate share of the carbon monoxide poisonings, @propublica, @TexasTribune and @NBCNews found based on a review of hospital data. They accounted for 72% of the poisonings, far more than their 57% share of Texas' population.
JUST IN: North Carolina judge rejects bid to have body-cam footage of sheriff's deputies shooting Andrew Brown Jr. released to the public — but says his family would be allowed to view it.
Superior Court Judge Jeff Foster said turning over footage to news media could affect a potential trial of law enforcement officers who opened fire while serving a warrant on the 42-year-old Black man in Elizabeth City, North Carolina.
But Foster ordered the sheriff to allow Brown's immediate family and lawyer to privately view body-cam footage from 4 deputies within the next 10 days.