| President Biden marks the 100th anniversary of the Tulsa massacre; after 12 years, Israel may soon have a new prime minister. Tonight's Sentences was written by Gregory Svirnovskiy. | | | | | | | Biden travels to Tulsa to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the Tulsa massacre | | | | | Mandel Ngan/AFP via Getty Images | | - President Joe Biden was in Tulsa on Tuesday to commemorate the 100-year anniversary of the Tulsa massacre, becoming the first president to travel to the city in acknowledgment of the cultural and socioeconomic devastation wrought on Black residents there in 1921. [US News and World Report / Susan Milligan]
- "We do ourselves no favors by pretending none of this ever happened," Biden said in a speech at Tulsa's Greenwood Cultural Center. "We should know the good, the bad, everything. That's what great nations do: They come to terms with their dark sides." [NYT / Katie Rogers and Michael D. Shear]
- Over two days in the summer of 1921, a mob burned virtually all of Greenwood, a thriving neighborhood of Black families and entrepreneurs known as Black Wall Street. As many as 300 Black people were killed, and thousands were forced out of their homes and into internment camps with no ability to account for their lost property. [AP / Jonathan Lemire and Darlene Superville]
- And then the massacre was largely hidden from history. Postcards and eyewitness accounts helped piece together much of what historians and activists know today. Now the story is being told in TV series, documentaries, and other media, and Tulsa is finally looking deeply at its racist past. [Vox / Fabiola Cineas]
- In his Tulsa speech, Biden said he'd target discrimination in the housing market and use federal purchasing power to increase investment into Black-owned businesses and community revitalization. He also tapped Vice President Kamala Harris to lead the administration's fight against GOP-led voting restrictions. [CNN / Kate Sullivan and Maegan Vazquez]
| | | Israel is poised to replace Netanyahu with a multi-party coalition | | - After a whopping four elections in five years failed to produce a working majority in the Israeli Knesset, two political opposites, ultranationalist Neftali Bennett and centrist Yair Lapid have struck a deal to form a coalition that will likely oust Benjamin Netanyahu from the prime minister's post, which he has held for 12 years. [New York Times / Patrick Kingsley]
- Netanyahu's Likud party won the most votes in Israel's last election held in March, but not a working majority. After Netanyahu failed to build a coalition that could take command of the Knesset, Israeli President Reuven Rivlin gave Lapid, head of Israel's Yesh Atid party, a chance to try. [Haaretz / Jonathan Lis and Jack Khoury]
- The Knesset will then hold a confidence vote in the next week, likely relegating Netanyahu to the opponents' bench. [Haaretz / Michael Hauser Tov]
- The coalition government would be a hodgepodge of politics and social ideologies — centrists, nationalists, and pro-Arab activists. Bennett's party won only seven seats in March, but the Yamina leader will likely take up the mantle as Israeli PM first. [CNN / Hadas Gold and Angela Dewan]
- It speaks to how much Israeli politicians want to get rid of Netanyahu. He ran afoul of Bennett and the rest of Yamina for the past decade and in 2019 was indicted on charges of bribery, fraud, and breach of trust. [Washington Post / Steve Hendrix and Shira Rubin]
| | | | | | | The annual Fortune 500 list is out; 41 companies on the list are run by women, an all-time high. | | | [Fortune / Emma Hinchliffe] - Belarusian activist Steffan Latypov stabbed himself in the throat at a hearing after alleging that the government was coercing him into a guilty plea for organizing protests by threatening his family. [CNN / Hanna Yahorava, Zahra Ullah and Ivana Kottasová]
- The rivers in Manaus, the largest city in Brazil's Amazon region, are rising to levels not seen in the past 100 years. Environmental experts say there is strong evidence that human activity and climate change are contributing to the intensity and frequency of such severe weather events. [AP / Fernando Crispim and Diane Jeantet]
- Japan is pushing hard to increase vaccination ahead of the Summer Olympics, but this recent push might come too late to build any tangible widespread immunity. So far, just 2.7 percent of the population has been fully vaccinated. [AP / Mari Yamaguchi]
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