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It's Tuesday morning. I'm Olivia Rheingold, and this is your Politico Playbook Daily Briefing.

A hundred years ago today, white rioters stormed Greenwood, a Tulsa, Oklahoma neighborhood dubbed Black Wall Street.

The mob killed as many as 300 black Americans

and leveled a 35 square block area

full of churches, hotels, and grocery stores.

The smoke finally cleared 100 years ago today

on June 1, 1921.

And for the past century, the Tulsa Race Massacre largely went

unremembered. The AP reports that if Oklahoma public schools covered it at all, teachers downplayed

the event as a riot, not a massacre. Now, President Joe Biden is trying to confront that long-ignored history, starting with

yesterday when he issued a proclamation to remember the massacre. That statement said, quote,

I call on the American people to reflect on the deep roots of racial terror in our nation,

and recommit to the work of rooting out systematic racism across our country.

Today, Biden will head to Tulsa around 11 a.m. to give a speech and meet with families who were

impacted that day. But he's also trying to put his money where his mouth is and announced new

policies this morning designed to close the racial

wealth gap. That includes a proposed rule by HUD to counter discriminatory housing practices,

plus an effort to address inequalities in home appraisals. The White House also says it's planning

to increase the share of federal contracts that go to what they're calling, quote, small disadvantaged businesses to 50% over the next five years.

They say that will provide an additional $100 million to those businesses.

Some black leaders are calling for financial reparations, both for the few survivors of the massacre

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