Tulsa has a reparations plan 104 years after race massacre

WBUR | By Here & Now Newsroom

Published June 12, 2025 at 12:06 PM EDT

More than 100 years after white residents of Tulsa destroyed a thriving Black neighborhood, the city has a plan for reparations.

Here & Now‘s Scott Tong speaks with Brenda Nails Alford, a descendant of survivors of the 1921 massacre.

This article was originally published on WBUR.org.

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