Biden said that June would be a 'month of action'
Photo: Brandon Bell/Getty Images On Tuesday, President Joe Biden traveled to Oklahoma to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the Tulsa massacre of 1921, where a white mob attacked African-American residents and firebombed the Black-owned Greenwood District, resulting in as many as 300 deaths and 35 blocks destroyed.
While the president toured the Greenwood Cultural Center and met with survivors of the massacre — including the 106-year-old Lessie Benningfield Randle — Biden also looked forward on Tuesday, vowing to pursue several initiatives to cut the racial wealth gap and ensure voting rights for all Americans. It did not go perfectly for the gaffe-prone president:
With the effort to secure voting rights stalled out on Capitol Hill, Biden also announced a renewed legislative push to enfranchise Americans — just as Republican state lawmakers chip away at ballot access throughout the country. After identifying state laws passed in the wake of Trump’s loss an “unprecedented assault on our democracy,” he said that Vice-President Kamala Harris will lead the movement to secure votes to pass the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act.
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