By: Maximillian Boudreaux Survivors of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre will be recognized with an honorarium of $100,000 each from the Justice for Greenwood Foundation, which coincides with the 100-year commemoration. According to the press release, the beneficiaries for these donations are Mother Viola Fletcher, Mother Lessie Benningfield Randle and Hughes Van Ellis. This celebration finally came to fruition after years of pleading for justice, reparations and an appropriate acknowledgment in response to the Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921. In 1921, whites killed hundreds of Blacks and brought down Greenwood’s thriving Black Wall Street. “I still see Black men being […]

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