![]() ![]() ![]() The Tulsa Race Massacre, like so many atrocities against African Americans, had been hidden and voices silenced for so long that it almost disappeared from national consciousness. ![]() Black Lives Matter protesters connected links between past and present trauma, and, for the first time, the Tulsa Race Massacre was widely discussed in the media and protest communities. The murderous tale couldn’t be buried, unwatched, or untold. Video of Floyd’s killing, widely shared around the world, served as a catalyst for others to “bear witness” to racial horror. George Floyd’s murder on May 25, 2020, was a watershed moment for recognizing systemic racism and how, since the dawn of slavery, brutality continues to oppress Black lives. Recent social justice protests have sparked a new awakening to right historical and contemporary wrongs. Will it take another hundred years before our nation has full and complete clarity about what happened? This year-2021-marks the hundredth anniversary of the 1921 race massacre in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Alexander Tamahn, What Lies Beneath / Courtesy of the artist ![]()
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