President Biden marks Tulsa race massacre in emotional speech

President Joe Biden (Evan Vucci/AP)

An emotional President Joe Biden marked the 100th anniversary of the massacre that destroyed a thriving black community in Tulsa, declaring he had “come to fill the silence” about one of the nation’s darkest moments of racial violence.

“Some injustices are so heinous, so horrific, so grievous, they cannot be buried, no matter how hard people try,” Mr Biden said. “Only with truth can come healing.”