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Contributing writer, Anti-Racism Daily. Sydni Scott is the founder of The Amendment Project, a student-led initiative for reparative justice that ran a successful 2021 campaign for reparations in Oklahoma for the Tulsa Race Massacre. She is a 2022 Rhodes Scholar.
Issues written by Sydni Scott for Anti-Racism Daily, newest first.
1 issue · 2021
In 1921, a white mob rampaged through Tulsa, Oklahoma’s Black Wall Street, burning, killing, and looting until they destroyed one of the few contemporary centers of Black wealth in the United States. This May, after a century, the Tulsa City Council finally acknowledged the horrifying massacre and announced it would investigate paying reparations to Tulsa’s Black citizens. We have five days to pressure Tulsa City Council to adopt a reparations resolution that would go beyond mere acknowledgement and begin to make right past harm, discrimination, and violence that continue to affect Black communities.