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Viola Fletcher, Oldest Survivor of the Tulsa Race Massacre, Dies at 111

At 7, she bore witness to one of American history’s most violent spasms of racial violence. She was 106 when the nation reckoned with the crime.

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Viola Fletcher in 2023. The Greenwood neighborhood of Tulsa, Okla., that became known as “Black Wall Street” took years to build — and one night of violence to destroy.
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Army Chief Says France Must ‘Accept Losing Our Children,’ Igniting Uproar

The furor erupted as President Emmanuel Macron is expected to present a plan for paid, voluntary military service to bolster the armed forces against the threat from Russia.

© Pool photo by Ludovic Marin

France’s army chief, Gen. Fabien Mandon, told a gathering of mayors that they must become the messengers of a new French resolve in an unstable European continent.
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