Headline Roundup • June 1st, 2021
Biden to Visit Site of 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre
Summary from the AllSides News Team
On Tuesday, President Joe Biden will visit the site of the Tulsa race massacre Tuesday on its 100th anniversary. From May 31-June 1 of 1921, between 100 and 300 people were killed, most of them black, amid harassment of their community by a white mob in Tulsa, Oklahoma. White residents and leaders looted and burned to the ground the city's Greenwood district and used planes to drop projectiles on it. An estimated 10,000 black people were left homeless as a result.
The Biden administration also announced it will combat racial inequality by “rooting out” discrimination in home appraisals and increasing the share of federal contracts going to minority-owned businesses by 50% by 2026.
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Associated Press Fact Check
President Joe Biden will take part in a remembrance of one of the nation’s darkest — and largely forgotten — moments of racial violence when he helps commemorate the 100th anniversary of the destruction of a thriving Black community in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
Biden’s visit Tuesday, in which he will grieve for the hundreds of Black people killed by a white mob a century ago, comes amid a national reckoning on racial justice. And it will stand in stark contrast to the most recent visit to Tulsa by a president, which took place last year.
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Washington Times
The Biden administration said Tuesday it will “root out” discrimination in home appraisals and increase the share of federal contracts going to minority-owned businesses by 50% by 2026, or an additional $100 billion.
The announcement coincided with the 100th anniversary of the attack by a White mob on “Black Wall Street” in Tulsa, Oklahoma, that killed about 300 Black residents forced thousands of others out of their homes.
President Biden will travel to Tulsa on Monday and deliver remarks at the Greenwood Cultural Center.
A White House fact sheet on efforts to...
USA TODAY
One hundred years after a white mob burned "Black Wall Street" to the ground, killing and injuring an estimated hundreds of African Americans and forcing thousands from their homes, President Joe Biden will visit Tulsa, Oklahoma, on Tuesday to commemorate one of the bloodiest race massacres in U.S. history.
Biden will deliver remarks on the 100-year anniversary and speak to survivors of the attack, who are now between the ages of 101 and 107. Only three remain.
On Monday, the White House issued a proclamation in which Biden called on Americans "to...
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