Tag: #blackreparations

  • A discussion of reparations

    By Guest Columnist RICHARD ROSE, president, Atlanta Branch of the NAACP America’s enduring human tragedy is racism that started with Columbus’ miscalculated arrival in the Caribbean. The failure to successfully enslave Indigenous people led to the importation by force of sub-Sahara Africans in 1619 that was justified by Christianity. […] Click here to view original […]

  • The Newspaperman Who Documented Black Tulsa at Its Height

    Play/Pause The Newspaperman Who Documented Black Tulsa at Its Height The New Yorker: Politics and More 34:08 Volume Embed Photograph from Greenwood Cultural Center / Getty In the years leading up to the horrific Tulsa Race Massacre, in 1921, the Greenwood District was a thriving Black metropolis, a city […] Click here to view original […]

  • Megachurch pastor pays $200k in reparations to Tulsa Massacre survivors

    Megachurch pastor pays $200k in reparations to Tulsa Massacre survivors (STIRR, SBG) BIXBY, Okla. (WKRC) – The pastor of a megachurch has issued $200,000 reparation payments each to the three living survivors of the Tulsa Massacre. In 1921, a white mob attacked Black Tulsa residents and destroyed their homes […] Click here to view original […]