| |  |  | The Reuters Daily Briefing | Tuesday, June 1, 2021 by Linda Noakes | Hello Here's what you need to know. America marks the Tulsa massacre, Israel's Netanyahu is on the ropes, and climate activists have some unlikely cheerleaders | | | | | Today's biggest stories  Survivors and siblings Viola Fletcher and Hughes Van Ellis attend the soil dedication at Stone Hill on the 100 year anniversary of the 1921 Tulsa Massacre, May 31, 2021. REUTERS/Lawrence Bryant U.S. Joe Biden will today become the first sitting U.S. president to visit the site of the massacre of hundreds of Black Americans by a white mob in Tulsa, Oklahoma, as he marks one of the worst chapters in the country's history of racial violence.
We spoke to survivor Lessie Benningfield Randle, 106, who said she can still remember a house engulfed in flames and bodies stacked in truckbeds.
Here's our factbox on the killings, which were not taught in history classes or reported by local newspapers for decades.
Biden will announce steps to narrow the large and persistent racial wealth gap that divides Black, Latino and white Americans, although he will stop short of a cancellation of student loan debt demanded by civil rights groups.
Using his Memorial Day speech to defend America’s “imperfect” democracy, the president called for more work to deliver the promise of what he said remained “the greatest experiment” in world history.
|  A protester wearing a mask of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and a t-shirt reading 'Ceremony is over' gestures during a rally in Tel Aviv, Israel, May 31, 2021. REUTERS/Amir Cohen WORLD Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's party challenged the legality of a bid by a rival rightist to head a new Israeli government, but the last-gasp attempt at extending his leadership was rejected by President Reuven Rivlin. Here's what you need to know about Naftali Bennett, the millionaire who may end the Netanyahu era.
Peru has almost tripled its official COVID-19 death toll to 180,764, following a government review, making it the country with the worst death rate per capita. Experts had long warned that the true death toll was being undercounted in official statistics.
Pope Francis has issued the most sweeping revision to Catholic Church law in four decades, toughening regulations for clerics who abuse minors and vulnerable adults, commit fraud or ordain women.
Nearly 10 years after Anders Behring Breivik tried to kill her on the Norwegian island of Utoeya, Astrid Hoem is back there to explain to a group of teenagers how she ran for her life. Survivors of the mass shooting, many of whom were teenagers at the time, are determined to confront the far-right ideology which was a catalyst.
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