On the Friday morning before Donald Trump’s inauguration, employees at the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division were ...

On May 31, 1921, a white mob violently attacked the black Tulsa, Oklahoma, neighborhood of Greenwood, which included a ...

More than a century ago, Greenwood, a Black neighborhood in Tulsa, Oklahoma, was destroyed in a violent spree by a white mob.

The two last living survivors of the Tulsa race massacre praised the Department ... to see one of the biggest cover-ups in American history come crashing down," Lessie Benningfield Randle and ...

Police arrested the man who was alleged to have assaulted the woman, according to the Justice Department report, which said ...

The Justice Department’s conclusion follows an investigation of the 1921 atrocity in Oklahoma in which up to 300 Black residents were killed. By Audra D. S. Burch Audra D.S. Burch writes about ...

The report was based on the Justice Department’s review and evaluation of the Tulsa Race Massacre under the Emmett Till Unsolved Civil Rights Crimes Act. Assistant Attorney General Kristen Clarke of ...

The last two living survivors of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre have vowed to continue their fight for reparations following the release of a new DOJ report.

Still, the true story of the Tulsa massacre was hidden until very recently. For 80 years, Oklahoma schools did not mention the destruction of Greenwood in teaching local history. It wasn't until ...

MORE: Last remaining Tulsa Race Massacre survivors argue for appeal ... confront and right the wrongs of one of the darkest days of history,” Randle and Fletcher said in a joint statement.

OKLAHOMA CITY — The first-ever U.S. Justice Department review of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre concluded that ... of the worst racial attacks in U.S. history. The Department of Justice said ...

The establishment of the (national monument) serves as a critical step toward recognition and commemoration, providing a ...