DOJ announces first-ever federal review of 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre

The review is being conducted by the Civil Rights Division’s Cold Case Unit. Over 100 years after a white mob attacked a then-thriving Black community in Tulsa, Oklahoma, the Department of Justice announced the first-ever federal probe into the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre. The attack on the Greenwood neighborhood, often referred to as "Black Wall Street," left up to 300 people killed and homes and businesses in ruin. Kristen Clarke, the assistant attorney general for civil rights who announced the review in a statement Monday, referred to the massacre as...