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“I still smell smoke”: Tulsa Race Massacre survivors speak

“I still smell smoke”: Tulsa Race Massacre survivors speak

Apple News Today
May 20, 2021 7 min
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<p>A bill to establish a commission to independently investigate the Capitol insurrection is dividing the GOP, as <a href="https://apple.news/Ao1Dgs7jxQo6zFiWpLDPCrw?campaign_id=applenewstoday_shownotes"><em>Politico</em></a> and the <a href="https://apple.news/Ak4OYRPNcQQu6Sl36K6hrZw?campaign_id=applenewstoday_shownotes"><em>Hill</em></a> explain.</p> <p>Survivors of the Tulsa Race Massacre in 1921 are speaking out. <a href="https://apple.news/Aj1UmUD0LTv2Wng4udopYhg?campaign_id=applenewstoday_shownotes">NPR</a> reports on their Congressional testimony calling for reparations and remembrance.</p> <p>The European Union is taking steps toward allowing vaccinated U.S. tourists to visit. The <a href="https://apple.news/A1j9dIptIQJWov1ZGkun1Tg?campaign_id=applenewstoday_shownotes"><em>Atlantic</em></a> looks at why the tourism industry is eager to have Americans back, even if they&rsquo;re stereotyped as loud and irritable.</p> <p>Seeing people without masks on is messing with our brains. The <a href="https://apple.news/A3iCHrUj3QyWuaisUXYQ2IA?campaign_id=applenewstoday_shownotes"><em>Wall Street Journal</em></a> talks to a cognitive scientist about why it can be confusing and surprising when we see what people look like without masks.</p>

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