John Legend to headline Tulsa Race Massacre remembrance

President Joe Biden marked the 100th anniversary of the Tulsa massacre on Tuesday by warning of a “thruline” of systemic racism “that exists today” including the threat of white supremacists and an assault on voting rights.

Joe Biden is calling on all Americans to reflect on the 100th anniversary of the horrific Tulsa Race Massacre.

President Joe Biden declared a Day of Remembrance on Monday to mark the 100th anniversary of the Tulsa Race massacre, an event that left as many Black Americans killed and nearly 10,000 homeless.

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.

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.

th commemorative year,” the Commission said.However, it is possible that there are other factors are at play besides “unexpected circumstances” with the event’s celebrity participants.

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.

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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.

. Meanwhile, the murder of George Floyd on May 25, 2020 led to the re-emergence of the Black Lives Matter movement and ignited a conversation about the connection between these two incidents. “One of the things we have to understand is that this history was purposefully erased.

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Joe Otterson TV ReporterAngela Bassett and Courtney B. Vance’s Bassett Vance Productions is teaming with MTV Entertainment Studios and writer Nathan Alan Davis on a limited series about the Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921, Variety has learned exclusively.News of the series comes just before the 100 year anniversary of the massacre, which left hundreds of Black people dead and entire homes and businesses destroyed.

“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.

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