Beyond Apology Commission holds first meeting toward reparations

The Beyond Apology Commission has officially launched and is focusing on reparations and economic restoration for survivors and descendants of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre. It’s a historic effort aimed at healing our community and setting a path for shared prosperity in Tulsa. The Beyond Apology Commission held its first meeting with nine newly appointed members. The group consists of descendants of the Tulsa Race Massacre and north Tulsa community leaders. In a news release, the city said the commission hopes to restore economic mobility, prosperity, and inter-generational wealth for the survivors, descendants, and residents of north Tulsa. “We are just following a model on what can we do from a local standpoint right? We know this is not a fix to reparations and it’s nowhere near a solution to it, but this is something that can be done on a local level and housing was one of those things that the Mayor said that he could do and so now we are just getting this task force together to see how can we implement that,” said Kristi Williams, a descendant of a 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre survivor. Williams said her great-aunt was in the Dreamland Theater when the massacre...