10 things you need to know today: June 1, 2021

Tulsa marks 100th anniversary of race massacre, Biden warns on Memorial Day that democracy is in "peril," and more

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1. Tulsa marks 100th anniversary of race massacre

Crowds gathered in Tulsa on Monday to mark the 100th anniversary of the city's 1921 race massacre, in which white mobs killed as many as 300 Black people and destroyed 35 square blocks of a prosperous community known as Black Wall Street. Black World War I veterans fought to defend the neighborhood against white attackers, many of whom were deputized and armed by the city. Tulsa denied the massacre for decades. Community activist Greg Robinson, a 31-year-old descendant of massacre survivors, was among the people who came out to honor the community's resilience. "Today is a day full of somber energy," he said. "But also a day in which you feel and understand the true strength of the ancestors." President Biden declared a "Day of Remembrance" ahead of his planned Tuesday visit to the city as excavation resumes on a mass grave possibly connected to the massacre.

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Harold Maass is a contributing editor at The Week. He has been writing for The Week since the 2001 debut of the U.S. print edition and served as editor of TheWeek.com when it launched in 2008. Harold started his career as a newspaper reporter in South Florida and Haiti. He has previously worked for a variety of news outlets, including The Miami Herald, ABC News and Fox News, and for several years wrote a daily roundup of financial news for The Week and Yahoo Finance.