TULSA, Okla. - President Joe Biden on Tuesday is set to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the Tulsa race massacre, one of the nation’s darkest and largely forgotten moments in which hundreds of Black people were killed by a White mob and a thriving Black community was left destroyed.
Biden, who is set to give remarks at 2:45 p.m. ET during his visit to the Greenwood Cultural Center in Tulsa, Oklahoma, will be the first president to participate in remembrances of the destruction of what was known as "Black Wall Street." He is also expected to announce new measures to narrow the racial wealth gap in the U.S.