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Tulsa Mayor Monroe Nichols is proposing a $100 million private trust as part of a reparations plan for descendants of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre.

Nichols, the city’s first Black mayor, told the Associated Press that the proposal wouldn't require city council approval, but the council would need to authorize the transfer of any city property to the trust.

How will the trust work?

Local perspective:

Tulsa Mayor Monroe Nichols said the private trust would offer descendants of the Tulsa Race Massacre scholarships and housing help. This plan would not give direct cash payments to descendants or the last two centenarian survivors of the attack that killed as many as 300 Black people.

Nichols told reporters he does not use the term reparations, which he calls politically charged

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