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Skip to contentDavid Perry on the Tulsa Race Massacre commemoration, plus Katha Pollitt on Jordan Peterson's advice for men.June 3, 2021

The Black Wall Street Memorial in the Greenwood district during commemorations of the 100th anniversary of the Tulsa Race Massacre on May 31, 2021 in Tulsa, Oklahoma. (Brandon Bell / Getty Images)

Joe Biden went to Tulsa, Oklahoma on Tuesday to commemorate the fact that, one hundred years ago this week, in 1921, a white mob attacked an all-Black neighborhood there. It was one of the worst episodes of racial violence in US history, which historians think left 300 dead and 10,000 homeless. David M. Perry comments on the political issues around the historical factshes a journalist and historian whose work has appeared inThe New York Times,The Atlantic,The Guardian,The Washington Post, andThe Nation.

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