“Tulsa”, another track by Singer/Songwriter Mark Newman co-composed with Walter Roberti in recognition of the Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921, which marked it’s infamous 100th anniversary this Memorial Day) is accessible now on Soundcloud.
The Tulsa race massacre (referred to on the other hand as the Tulsa race riot, the Greenwood Massacre, the Black Wall Street Massacre, the Tulsa pogrom, or the Tulsa Massacre) occurred between May 31 and June 1, 1921, when crowds of White occupants, a large number of them assigned and given weapons by city authorities, assaulted Black inhabitants and organizations of the Greenwood District in Tulsa, Oklahoma. It has been designated “the single most noticeably terrible occurrence of racial viciousness in American history”. The assault, done on the ground and from private airplane, obliterated in excess of 35 square squares of the area—around then the most affluent Black people group in the United States, known as “Dark Wall Street”.
In excess of 800 individuals were conceded to emergency clinics, and upwards of 6,000 Black occupants were interned in huge offices, large numbers of them for a few days. The Oklahoma Bureau of Vital Statistics formally recorded 36 dead – Wikipedia
With “Tulsa”, Mark brings the zeal to embrace the rich culture of the nation and commemorates the past contributions and sacrifices made by certain communities in the United States. At least 800 people were injured due to the Greenwood Massacre and 36 people died.
To start with, I’d prefer to explain that this tune is one of my number one blues-rock tunes this year, musically, I trust it was elegantly composed, masterminded, and performed. More often than not, I am a music individual, I love songs and harmonies more than verses, yet when I like verses, this implies it extremely amazing, which this is the situation here.
The song is successful in showing respect to those souls that the country has lost in this shameful episode, and we highly encourage you to give this a go.
Reviewed by Johanna Robinson for Epistle News.
