Showing posts with label racial justice. Show all posts
Showing posts with label racial justice. Show all posts

Wednesday, November 2, 2022

New Unmarked Graves Likely from Tulsa Race Riot in 1921 Unearthed


As Vanessa Romo reports, news has recently been released that 21 new unmarked graves have been discovered in Tulsa, Oklahoma, at an excavation site in Oaklawn cemetery that is believed to contain the remains of Black citizens of Tulsa's Greenwood district massacred by white Tulsans in a race riot in 1921. Nineteen of the graves just found are adult graves; two appear to be burial sites of children.

Sunday, October 30, 2022

In News: "Till" Film Released; True History and Actual True History; Rising Antisemitism; Twitter Takeover Consequences

Photo of stack of newspapers by Daniel R. Blume, Wikimedia Commons


This weekend, Chinonye Chukwu’s film "Till" has been released nationally after limited-viewing showings on 14 October. Join the Movement Toward Racial Justice summarizes why this film telling the story of the 1955 murder of 14-year-old African-American Emmett Till Jr. remains critically important for Americans to hear today: