Joe Biden is calling on all Americans to reflect on the 100th anniversary of the horrific Tulsa Race Massacre.
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Chris Willman Music WriterThe Bob Dylan Center in Tulsa, Oklahoma will open on May 10, 2022, representatives announced Wednesday, as they brought into clearer focus just what fans and students can expect when the facility opens in one year.Although a release avoids using the word “museum,” it’s clear the BDC is designed to stand as the ultimate repository of Dylan artifacts, with the promise of more than 100,000 “exclusive culture treasures” on view.
Included in the collection will be
.Joe Biden is calling on all Americans to reflect on the 100th anniversary of the horrific Tulsa Race Massacre.
Editor’s note: A hundred years ago today, after an attempt to lynch a Black teenager accused of raping a white woman was stymied, a rabid white mob numbering in the thousands descended on the affluent and predominantly African-American Greenwood neighborhood in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Over two days, more than 300 women, children and men were murdered by the mob.
Bob Dylan‘s ‘Self Portrait’ album to an Ohio library 48 years after its due date.Howard Simon took out his copy of the 1970 album from the University Heights library in the spring of 1973, when he was 14 years old.As the library revealed on Instagram, Simon returned his copy this week along with a letter explaining what took him so long.He wrote: “As a recent retiree, I am taking the opportunity to turn my attention to some of the many vignettes of life that by dint of career and family have
Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921, one of the most horrific tragedies in American history.LeBron James and Russell Westbrook are among those releasing documentaries based on the racially motivated massacre.
UPDATE: The canceled commemoration of the 1921 Tulsa, Oklahoma Black Wall Street Massacre boiled down to money demands by the living survivors, according to NBC News.
One hundred years ago this week, a white mob attacked the Greenwood neighborhood of segregated Tulsa, OK, a thriving business district known as “Black Wall Street” where many of the city’s roughly 10,000 Black residents lived. The two-day spree of murder, assault, arson and looting became one of the worst incidents of racial violence in American history.
Bob Costas, who hosted 12 Olympic Games telecasts for NBC, believes the Tokyo Olympics should not go forward due to risks from Covid-19.
The commission behind the centennial memorial of the 1921 Tulsa Black Wall Street massacre said today that its Remember & Rise event set for Monday has been canceled.
TULSA, Okla. -- Next week's headline event marking the 100th anniversary of the Tulsa Race Massacre was canceled suddenly Thursday, with organizers citing “unexpected circumstances with entertainers and speakers.”In a statement, the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre Centennial Commission did not specify the circumstances that led to the cancellation of the event scheduled for Monday at ONEOK Field in Tulsa.
Courtney B. Vance and Angela Bassett to produce a limited scripted series about the 1921 tragedy. The untitled drama will be written by playwright Nathan Alan Davis and depict events surrounding the two days when white residents of Tulsa, Oklahoma, attacked and destroyed the prosperous Greenwood District, which was known as Black Wall Street at the time, and left hundreds of Black Americans dead and thousands homeless or displaced.
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Gallery: Little Mix make BRITS-tory! 10 female musicians who changed the music industry (BANG Showbiz)Elsewhere, in New York - where Dylan moved to in 1961 to pursue his dream of becoming a music star - the WFUV radio station at the Bronx’s Fordham University is playing 80 Dylan songs throughout the day. And in Dublin, Ireland - where Dylan has frequented over the years - Other Voices is hosting a live-stream from the US Embassy titled 'Dignity’ after his 1994 song.
“The Ground Breaking: An American City and Its Search for Justice,” by Scott Ellsworth (Dutton)No one really knows what 19-year-old Dick Rowland did or said to Sarah Page in Tulsa, Oklahoma, when he rode the elevator she operated to the fourth floor of the Drexel Building, the nearest place to Rowland’s shoeshine stand where a Black person could use the washroom. But the 17-year-old Page screamed, Rowland ran and police were called.
Patti Smith has spoken of her forthcoming “special” concerts marking Bob Dylan‘s 80th birthday, while recalling the first time she met the legendary artist.As announced back in March, Smith will take to the stage at Kaatsbaan Cultural Park’s outdoor Spring Festival in Tivoli, New York for a pair of live performances on May 22/23 – two days before Dylan’s milestone birthday (on May 24).Appearing alongside her longtime bandmate Tony Shanahan, she will perform “original songs and poetry as well as
NEW YORK -- A leg injury may keep Robert De Niro from celebrating the 20th Anniversary of the Tribeca Film Festival. The accident happened last week in Oklahoma while on location for the upcoming Martin Scorsese film, “Killers of the Flower Moon.”The two-time Oscar-winner immediately flew back to New York to get it checked out.“My leg is fine … I ripped a ligament I guess in my quad, so I have to have it reattached to my knee.
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TULSA, Okla.
Bob Dylan museum is set to open in Oklahoma next year – get all the details below.The Bob Dylan Center in Tulsa will open its doors on May 10, 2022, almost exactly a year following its announcement today (May 12).An Instagram post announcing the new museum and sharing a photo of its exterior promised that fans would get the chance to “access and interact with more than 100,000 exclusive cultural treasures” from the legendary singer’s archive.The message added: “These include handwritten lyric