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Tulsa plans $105m in reparations for America's 'hidden' massacre

The city of Tulsa, Oaklahoma is preparing to award its black community with $105 million reparation package to address the harms caused in the race massacre in 1921, one of the largest and most violent racial attacks in US history. 
 
The plan by Monroe Nichols, Tulsa's first black mayor, focuses on community redevelopment and does not involve direct payments to descendants or the two remaining survivors of the attack. 
 
Nichols made the announced on Sunday during the city's first ever Tulsa Race Massacre Observance Day. 
 
The funds, raised by a private trust, includes $24 million for a housing fund, $60 million for a cultural preservation fund focused on "reducing blight".


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