Tulsa, Oklahoma. US President Joe Biden apologizes to the black community for the events of a century earlier. On May 31, 1921, a 19-year-old black man, Dick Rowland, was accused of assaulting a white woman in an elevator. He was arrested, and a thousand white citizens surrounded the police station to lynch him. Several armed African-Americans rushed to the scene. A counteroffensive ensued against the Greenwood neighborhood, home to a black population, among the most emancipated and productive in the country. The neighborhood was razed, and ten thousand residents were forced to start over. Responsibilities were passed around for decades. Only a century later, exactly 100 years, on May 31, 2021, US President Joe Biden apologized and completely reversed the meaning of that incident.
