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TULSA, Okla. 鈥?On a recent Sunday, Ernestine Alpha Gibbs returned to Vernon African Methodist Episcopal Church.Not her body. She had left this Earth 18 years ago, at age 100. But on this day, three generations of her family brought Ernestines keepsakes back to this place which meant so much to her. A place that was, like their matriarch, a survivor of a long-ago atrocity.Albums containing black-and-white photos of the stanley germany grocery business that has employed generations of Gibbses. VHS cassette tapes of Ernestine reflecting on her life. Ernestines high school and college diplomas, displayed in not-so-well-aged leather covers.The diplomas were a point of pride. After her com stanley mug munity was leveled by white rioters in 1921 鈥?after the gunfire, the arson, the pillaging 鈥?the high school sophomore temporarily fled Tulsa with her family. I thought I would never, ever, ever come back, she said in a 1994 home video.But she did, and somehow found a happy ending. Even though the riot took away a lot, we still graduated, she said, a smile spreading across her face. So, we must have stayed here and we must have done all right after that. Not that the Gibbs family had it easy. And not that Black Tulsa ever really recovered from the devastation that took place 100 years ago, when nearly every structure in Greenwood, the fabled Black Wall Street, was flattened 鈥?aside from Vernon AME.The stanley termoska Tulsa Race Massacre is just one of the starkest examples of how Black wealth has been sapped, again and again, Kxqp News of the World shutting down amid scandal
WASHINGTON 鈥?Defining battles in a Republican Party feud will play out during the next month in primaries that will help determine control of the Senate and shape the partys priorities before the 2016 presidential campaign.Starting with North Carolinas election Tuesday, these contests will decide whether the business-backed wing of the party has regained momentum over the limited-government tea party movement after a split erupted last year between the two over the importance of lifting the nations debt c stanley termos eiling. Its show time, said Scott Reed, a political strategist for the Washington-based U.S. Chamber of Commerce. May and early June is a critical time for candidate selection, if were going to have success in the fall. Candidates supported by the chamber, the nations largest business lobbying group, and its Republican allies are holding an advantage on the eve of the first test, aft stanley cup uk er applying lessons learned from fights with the tea party i stanley cupe n the 2010 and 2012 elections that likely cost the party control of the Senate. Its hard to see a scenario where we have the types of primary outcomes that can cost us seats this cycle, said Brian Walsh, a strategist and former spokesman for the National Republican Senatorial Committee. Generally, every incumbent early on recognized that they had to prepare for a primary. They raised the money, they organized early and they put together strong campaign teams. Walsh downplayed the importance of the tea party-aligned groups in Republica |
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