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The Tulsa Massacre and the Cultural Appropriation of ‘Hot Chicken’
Everything you need to know about this week in race and racism
As spring keeps springing, Covid-19 vaccines become more available and pandemic restrictions ease, you probably have other things to do instead of comb the internets for the latest stories on race and racism. But you still want to stay woke. Well, lucky you — we’ve rounded up some of the important stories you won’t want to miss. Read about the fight to preserve Black Wall Street’s place in history, hot chicken as a case study in appropriation, and more.
Cementing Greenwood’s legacy
This year marks the centennial of the racist destruction and massacre in Tulsa, Oklahoma’s Greenwood district. But the remainders of the prosperous neighborhood once known as Black Wall Street still don’t have official federal recognition as a site worthy of historic preservation. Adding Greenwood to the National Register of Historic Places would qualify it for tax credits and funding that would preserve what remains and memorialize what was lost. This article in The Atlantic outlines how the Oklahoma neighborhood is a symbol of tragedy but also resistance — and how city government and “urban renewal” policies repeatedly…
