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Delmarva Today 5-21-21 (Part 1) 1921 Tulsa Race Riot & Unprepared for the Pandemic

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It's been around a hundred years since the 1921 Tulsa Race Riot that destroy a thriving African American community known as "Black Wall Street." Host Don Rush explores what happened and the search for justice with Scott Ellsworth, author of a new book entitled, "The Ground Breaking: An Amreican City and Its Search for Justice". A congressional subcommittee heard testimony from the last survivors of the race riot.

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Then, as a nation we seemed to be totally unprepared for the coronavirus pandemic despite the sophisticated governmental and medical infrastructure. We talk with historian Niall Furgeson has written a new book on why we are so often unprepared for such events in his new book, "Doom: The Politics of Catastrophe".

Don Rush is the News Director and Senior Producer of News and Public Affairs at Delmarva Public Media. An award-winning journalist, Don reports major local issues of the day, from sea level rise, to urban development, to the changing demographics of Delmarva.
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