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We Write the Untold Stories of Black America Sign up for our free newsletter to read them each week. “If we want to be on the right side of history, then America — the city of Tulsa — needs to make it right,” Tiffany Crutcher, a native of the Oklahoma city that was the site of a deadly race massacre more than a century ago, recently told Capital B. But things won’t be made right anytime soon. The remaining survivors of the 1921 assault suffered another slap in the face on Wednesday. @media ( min-width: 1px ){.newspack_global_ad.scaip-1{min-height: 1px;}}@media ( min-width: 300px ){.newspack_global_ad.scaip-1{min-height: 100px;}}@media ( min-width: 320px ){.newspack_global_ad.scaip-1{min-height: 100px;}}@media ( min-width: 728px ){.newspack_global_ad.scaip-1{min-height: 90px;}}@media ( min-width: 970px ){.newspack_global_ad.scaip-1{min-height: 100px;}} The Oklahoma Supreme Court dismissed a lawsuit from the survivors of the attack on the Greenwood district known as “Black Wall Street” that killed as many as 300 people and plunged the once-thriving area into a state of disrepair. Upholding a district court ruling from last July, the justices decided 8–1 that the plaintiffs aren’t eligible for reparations under the public nuisance statute. Wednesday’s news devastated and infuriated the survivors and their legal team, who’ve been locked in this battle for years....