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Viola Fletcher fought for justice for the Tulsa Race Massacre up until her death on Nov. 24. Here's why she is an icon.

Viola “Mother” Ford Fletcher, one of the last living survivors of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, has died in Tulsa at the age of 111.

Education Secretary Linda McMahon failed to show any knowledge of either the Tulsa Race Massacre or Ruby Bridges.

Civil Rights & Social Justice

The DOJ is launching a civil rights review of the Tulsa Race Massacre in which racists targeted and burned down Black-owned homes and businesses in 1921.

A commission will seek how to repair harm to residents living in the city’s thriving Black district during the 1921 violence.

Imagine looking the only survivors of one of the worst and most notorious race massacres in America’s history right in the eye and telling them they aren’t owed anything for what they suffered. Imagine saying that to Black people who are seeking reparations, not as the descendants of the people who suffered, but as the sufferers themselves.

On the 103rd anniversary of the 1921 Tulsa Massacre, Ashli Sims of Build In Tulsa explains the city's current plan to rebuild Black affluence.

Civil Rights & Social Justice

The unthinkable levels of racist devastation was inflicted on Black Wall Street in the Greenwood Business District of Tulsa more than 100 years ago beginning on May 31, 1921.

An Oklahoma judge denied reparations to Tulsa Race Massacre survivors one day after a state school boss said the violence wasn't race-based.

Attorney General Merrick Garland clarifies the U.S. approach to violent white nationalists and far-right extremists, promising to protect civil liberties and civil rights in the process.

Six Greenwood descendants, representing three families, shared their moving reflections with iOne Digital about the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre ahead of the commemoration of its centennial.