Leonard Pitts Jr.: Where Black history is concerned, America specializes in not knowing
by Leonard Pitts Jr., Tribune Content Agency
Jun 02, 2021
2 minutes
It’s not just Tulsa.
From the 2019 premiere of HBO’s “Watchmen,” which introduced many Americans to a racial atrocity they’d never heard of, to all the recent media attention — CNN, the New York Times, NPR — marking this week’s centennial, the Tulsa Race Massacre of May 31 to June 1, 1921 has lately been inescapable.
As well it should be.
It stands
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