Biden marks Tulsa race massacre in emotional, graphic speech

TULSA, Okla. (AP) — An emotional President Joe Biden has marked the 100th anniversary of the massacre that wiped out a thriving Black community in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

Biden spoke in Tulsa on Tuesday of the hundreds of Black people killed by a white mob a century ago.

He said he had “come to fill the silence” about one of the nation’s darkest — and long suppressed — moments of racial violence.

He spoke amid the current national reckoning on racial justice.

Biden also announced measures he said could help narrow the wealth gap between Blacks and whites.