Tulsa mayor unveils plan for $100M trust to address effects of 1921 race massacre

Tulsa Mayor Monroe Nichols (D) outlined plans for a trust on Sunday to address the ongoing effects stemming from the 1921 massacre that killed as many as 300 Black people, in one of the worst racial attacks in the country’s history.

The $105 million city-backed plan, put forward by the city’s first Black mayor, would not provide direct payments to descendants of the massacre, nor to the two living survivors, themselves.

But it would set up a private charitable trust aimed at...