Tulsa Massacre Survivors Get Their Say and ‘60 Minutes’ Edited a Black Scientist Out of Her Own Interview

Catch up on the race and racism stories you may have missed

Stephanie Siek
Momentum
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4 min readMay 21, 2021

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Viola Fletcher, the oldest living survivor of the Tulsa Race Massacre, testifies before the Civil Rights and Civil Liberties Subcommittee hearing on “Continuing Injustice: The Centennial of the Tulsa-Greenwood Race Massacre” on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C. on May 19, 2021. Photo: Jim Watson/AFP via Getty Images

We start this week’s racial news roundup with lessons of the past, as we edge closer to the May 31 centennial of the Tulsa Race Massacre. Some of the massacre’s oldest survivors have just…

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Stephanie Siek
Momentum

Stephanie Siek is a writer and editor who loves cats, cookie dough and aborted alliteration.