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109-year-old Tulsa massacre survivor living in Tulsa: ‘I don’t sleep all night living there’ 109-year-old Viola Ford Fletcher, otherwise known as “Mother Fletcher,” speaks to CNN’s Omar Jimenez about what she remembered from the 1921 Tulsa Race massacre and the decades-long fight for justice. Source link
The struggle to protect black Brazilian youths from police violence and deliver justice for the victims of the past remains as vital and relevant as ever, Amnesty International said on the 25th anniversary of the Candelária massacre, in which eight young boys were killed by off-duty police officers in Rio de Janeiro. The murder of […]
Israel “better rid itself of the territories and their Arab populations as soon as possible.” If it does not, Israel will “soon become an Apartheid State.” These are the words that journalist Hirsh Goodman recalled in 2009 from a radio speech from the founding father and first prime minister of Israel, David Ben-Gurion . . […]
MIAMI – A 62-year-old man was sentenced to a year in federal prison after attempting to run down Florida International Professor Emeritus, Historian Marvin Dunn and five other Black men at the site of the Rosewood massacre. David Allen Emanuel appeared solemn and reserved last week as federal Judge Allen Winsor delivered the sentence on […]
Editor’s note: This story contains censored language that could be considered offensive, including words such as “f—ing,” “n—-r,” b—-,” “g–d—,” “s—,” “motherf——,” etc. Historian Marvin Dunn was surveying land he co-owns in a Florida town called Rosewood – once a haven for Black Americans – as part of plans to memorialize the horrific racial violence […]
A Florida man was sentenced today in federal court for his racially-motivated attack on a group of Black men who were surveying land along a public road in Rosewood, Florida. David Emanuel, 63, of Cedar Key, was sentenced to one year and a day in prison followed by two years of supervised release for his […]
An estimated 300 Black residents were killed in 1921. October 18, 2023, 4:58 PM ET • 5 min read More than 100 years after many of Tulsa’s Black residents were killed and their businesses were destroyed by white rioters, the community, including a woman who survived the massacre, is still finding ways to rebuild and […]
A New Jersey-born dual citizen serving in the Israel Defense Forces was killed in the unprecedented cross-border sneak attack on Saturday by Palestinian militant group Hamas, his family learned Tuesday. After an excruciating four-day wait, relatives of Paramus native Itay Glisko were informed that the 20-year-old’s body . . .
Survivors and siblings Viola Fletcher and Hughes Van Ellis listen as U.S. President Joe Biden delivers remarks on the centennial anniversary of the Tulsa race massacre during a visit to the Greenwood Cultural Center in Tulsa, Oklahoma, U.S., June 1, 2021. REUTERS/Carlos Barria/File Photo
Brandon Bell/Getty Images Survivor Hughes Van Ellis is greeted by Rev. Al Sharpton at a rally during commemorations of the 100th anniversary of the Tulsa Race Massacre on June 1, 2021 in Tulsa, Oklahoma. CNN — Hughes Van Ellis, one of the last three known survivors of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, has died, according […]