Nate Burleson and wife Atoya explore her ancestral ties to Tulsa massacre

[@emilgiese]

Can’t erase Black History like this! Well done CBS & Nate Burleson!

[@characterchange6793]

Thank you for covering this. This/OUR history will NOT be erased, no matter how much it's ignored or attempted to be twisted.

[@shaylarobinson700]

Amen 🙏🏽 🙏🏽 🙏🏽 🙏🏽

[@dbentleyto95]

Bless all of the families who kept the stories alive so they could be brought to light. It is amazing it took so long for the rest of us to see. ❤

[@celesteturner6912]

This was a great story. My family found out a few years ago that our great uncle was the last person to be lynched in Georgia. A reporter contacted my aunt to see if she knew about him and luckily my father was still alive to confirm the story. Good luck Nate on getting more information.

[@justmontina]

That’s terrible! Shame on the murderers!

[@JOESUBA122]

🤲🏿🤲🏿🤲🏿

[@estherepps6914]

wow

[@BrianRagsdaleStudio1]

I loved this quotation on the wall "Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced." - James Baldwin. I felt the spirit of our ancestors in this whole segment. Deeply sad, moving, and touching, as we reflect on our courage, wisdom, creativity and determination in the face of unspeakable terror, tragedy, and dismay.

[@lady2550]

Many things change without force though.

[@BrianRagsdaleStudio1]

Can you please say more, I did not reference force in my initial comment? @@lady2550

[@christenasmalls6118]

Amen. We as a race of people move from generation to generation never being conquered.

[@ari333]

My heart sank when I saw the photo of the foundation of the hotel. This piece was deeply moving.

[@dakotac180]

This country should be ashamed of itself, people deserve their wealth back... Nate is a great journalist, telling this story is true for a lot of black lives erased.

[@marlenesheffield8777]

Our history and contributions will not be denied or erased!✊🏾💯

[@user-hj8um4lk5l]

That's because it's His/Story which has been embellished, lied, tormented.....our Melanated Truths need to be told and found out so as a family, and as a people know who we are to be able to tell our children who they are. Yiu know where You come from to know where You are going😊

[@marietoussaint2802]

Love it Nate...what a blessing to see you and your wife"s family 💜🙏🏾 come together in such a way!!!

[@justmontina]

I’m so happy I saw this episode this morning! My grandmother is visiting from Ohio and her father was born in Tulsa and we’re descendants of Greenwood. Her father’s name was Milton Berry and they moved to Cincinnati Ohio.

[@deborahbellamy8896]

Thank you to Nate and his family. This brought me to tears. But, we shall rise again, and again, and again, and again, and..........

[@ranaebarker1443]

This year I will turn 52 and I learned of Black Wall Street at a very young age, by watching PBS. I never will understand why Oklahoma never reimbursed these families for their loss.

[@Bluejacket4life2]

You actually do know why

[@lynnw2041]

I myself learned about this years ago on PBS as well. I am 58. Have learned about so many other stories since then as well. FL(outside of Rosewood), SC, MS, GA and many more I'm sure that are buried in history.

[@danijones819]

my beautiful black people we are like a Phoenix I love anything that teaches about my history thank you for this

[@verawallace9055]

Why was this allowed to happen to these hard working people, thanks to the team for putting this together

[@Bluejacket4life2]

Because of⚪️

[@dbentleyto95]

Money and not wanting people of color to have wealth and power. Still happening, of course, but the strength of these strong people will not be extinguished.

[@jc22358]

This gave me chills. Difficult to process and put into words.

[@atlarichie]

Thank you for these stories. They are so important for us🙏🏾

[@lady2550]

How and why?

[@brittsavage7982]

Powerful story!

[@cherylevansrn8419]

What an amazing story and to connect in today is just incredible! Generational wealth taken!

[@Rolando_U]

Reparations now!

[@nkind6962]

Thanks for this very well done and informative segment.

[@vienicestyles]

DESCENDANTS OF BLACK WALL STREET DESERVE REPARATIONS.

[@marriejames01]

Yes, I agree. This is what the so called Black leaders should be fighting for but most are focused on the illegal migrants.

[@educate2cre8]

Great piece. Thank you.

[@happyhill9753]

SO sad to lose one’s Legacy. So many losses.😢

[@1970BBB]

I feel the same way when plantation owners statues are torn down , very offended

[@terrygross5740]

A lot of this was jealousy and envy, not wanting them to have more than what you had.

[@louellarobertson8074]

JEALOUSY, STRIFE AND ENVY STILL LIVE TO THIS DAY...

[@michaelsaunders6361]

Such a blessing to be able to bring this story to life. No better person to cover this than Nate and his family. It hurts how much damage was done to us and how we perservered.

[@vachonew5904]

I remember at my old job we had a journalist& historian come to our job for BH month and told how he visited and researched every thing on this topic. He stated that Tulsa wiped everything from their records, news paper etc. he had to go to the neighboring towns who had written articles on it. Tulsa was trying to tell ppl who lived there was lying. There were two young siblings who survived and the told their story. There were explosions/bombing of the town. It was awe opening because they tried to erase it back then and deny our truth

[@13579hee]

Putting up a memorial isn't enough. Where is the money?!?!?!

[@brendaturner5015]

Thank you, Mrs. Burleson for sharing your beautiful story with us.

[@kristin8270]

This was a great segment!

[@highestandbestlife]

Nate thank you to you and your family for sharing your experience. I grew up in Oklahoma, and when I went to highschool and it was mandatory that I took Oklahoma history I never knew about this ungodly act that was bestowed upon the black community in Tulsa all those years ago. When I learned about it as a 57 year old adult living in another state, it absolutely broke my heart. I look forward to making myself more informed thanks to your special report. Thank you and your family for the education. My god bless everyone person who was affected by this event and hopefully in some way we can heal and learn from this information and hopefully as it’s told, more and more. I hope it’s now included in every Okla highschool history class for starters. So generations will learn how to treat people and exactly where they came from…❤🙏🏻 😢

[@peaceangel4192]

It's beyond tragic that "they" are waiting for the last survivors to die without compensation. All good blessings to Justice for Greenwood as they continue the struggle for the justice that has been denied.

[@mgardner70]

I found out as a 7 or 8 year old at a family reunion in Tulsa. It’s impossible to wrap your head something so evil as a child.

[@k.bllard6329]

Thank you for sharing your history/story. I was touched with the aunt's question for her great-great grandfather.

[@DMEseter]

I was watching the show “Watchmen” and the intro was the Tulsa massacre and It was the first time I was made of this event in history. Great piece

[@jamesholloway3689]

Beautiful piece, well done. Congratulations.

[@DDD12398]

Thank you for sharing your family’s pain, pride and history.

[@sunii4264]

Black Native Freedmen land- (tens of thosands of acres) pre-Oklahoma statehood, laid the foundation for the creation of Tulsa's Black Wall Street. The Black community of Tulsa lost blocks BUT the Black Native Freedmen lost thousands of acres all across Oklahoma during that time. The BN Freedmen and Exodusters were the forces that created & sustained Black Wall Street in Tulsa. Hard Facts

[@8MauLau23]

I’ve been to that place. Incredibly depressing what human beings can do to other human beings because of bigotry is appalling.

[@katrisalarry38]

Thanks for reporting on this just brings me to tears

[@cmcwilliams120]

Didn’t the Oklahoma Department of Education pull any historical facts of this tragedy from the school curriculum or was it they wanted try and say “both sides” were wrong for this terrorist attack?

[@lzrd8460]

All American people deserve to know their past. Especially the bad moments in history. Thank you so much for this show. 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸💪💪💪💪💪

[@jcorey68]

Just heartbreaking 💔

[@gilmoremccoy6930]

This segment brought tears to my eyes 👀👁️! There wasand still is so many injustices and oppression committed towards black US 🇺🇲 citizens by racist and government officials. It's time to stop the hate!

[@gina9684]

This is awesome. It touched my heart.

[@bluskyy6333]

And Still We Rise!!!❤‍🩹

[@janicescott-pair97]

Well done, thank you.😊

[@grandmother102645]

I’m so inspired by this story after experiencing it through the personal biography of Nate and his wife. In some ways I shared and understand their pain and lost legacy in lost wealth to their families. A frustration that lives with every Black American today.

[@vienicestyles]

That’s why Black Generational Wealth is at $0 today.

[@angeliafloyd3860]

Brought tears...story need to be told!❤

[@evelenebarnett9362]

Great story to cover! I was born & raised in Okmulgee Oklahoma 30 miles from Tulsa! It was never taught nor mention in school! Can’t erase our history by silence! I went last year and took pictures of art & GAP street🤗

[@MarilynB-MariLuv]

I'm SO SICK & TIRED of the MEDIA NOT showing & visiting NORTH TULSA. Avoid talking to black citizens in TULSA. City & state putting money to divide the city over 100 years. I dont live there any longer & I'm not a youngsta. However Tulsa is my hometown. Go see, visit NORTH TULSA talk with real black people of Tulsa.

[@RashaadRahh]

It’s very sad that our recent ancestors had to experience that and that European American’s recent ancestors had committed such domestic terroristic actions. At least today’s time we have all matured and have options to politically talk these past atrocities out to make the heirs whole after the losses via monetary restitutions such like defendants pay to plaintiffs after being sued for damages.

[@markcosenza3274]

The CDC has listed gun violence as one of the leading causes of death among black Americans. Mayor Bowser of DC has declared a crime emergency because of rising black youth crimes.

[@belleami7675]

I love Nate even more now....for having a BROWN Black girl! Know that's not the topic; but not sorry.

[@Washitaw]

My family was also affected by the Tulsa Race Riot of 1921. I was last in Tulsa back in 2012 & seen the plaques & that museum.

[@j.r.3504]

This is amazing! Great job Nate

[@JuliusCOwens]

Amen ! ❤

[@cynthiajones5116]

Thank you.

[@marcygriffin7822]

Thanks for sharing your family history ❤❤❤

[@62new]

Every time I see the movie "Greenwood" which was based on the Tulsa riots, I get very angry and upset...😮😢

[@Michael_B82]

I’m proud of Nate having a black wife, Most nfl players end up with white women

[@achimjeffersB1]

Everyone loves an underdog story except for Black Americans' plight and still, we overcome!!

[@dbentleyto95]

I am so happy to see that families hurt by this past can celebrate their family's heritage. Such a shameful massacre in our not so long ago history.

[@wandalopez814]

❤ Beautiful just Beautiful ❤

[@armandgordon]

Congratulations Nate Burleson

[@tinalou2u]

Such a blessing 🙌🏾 ✨️ 👑

[@jackiejohnson887]

The truth will always rise to the light. I thank God, for revealing all truth. No matter how painful, the truth will make you free 🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽

[@dawntyson8970]

Awesome, great job Hannibal!

[@mjerome1457]

What great reporting

[@allegrap1054]

Reparations were never paid

[@KvG-q1f]

I truly believe had this been the black community today violence wouldn't even be a topic . . . . But of course the cowards that stole the land are scared to take accountability. So here we are 😏

[@bayshaunseay5314]

Reparations are due.

[@anglee6624]

Wow!

[@onevillagesalon]

This awesome!

[@j.settles2988]

Wow! Atoya looks exactly like her great-grandfather!

[@fabbehn0190]

It's amazing how they dont want to give black people money for slaver because it was "so long ago" but yet they never say that when Native Americans get money till this day!

[@jillianwhite69]

She looks like her aunts twin, strong family features

[@FireoftheRedSun55]

Where are the lawsuits for reparations?

[@sonyabolden9652]

Have you not Googled the stories?

[@FireoftheRedSun55]

@@sonyabolden9652 I was being rhetorical since few people mentioned reparations in the comments.

[@BlackTalonBeats]

Judge Caroline Wall dismissed the case for Reparations of the Tulsa massacre. WS are attempting to run out the clock to avoid paying the survivors and descendants of the atrocity. Just like they did with the witch that had Emmett Till killed - Carolyn Bryant Donham. As Black Americans we must keep fighting for justice. ♥️🖤🔱🖤♥️

[@matthewgrice6902]

Dear Nate, I am a Lions fan and have watched your career after you left Detroit. You and your wife are awesome. You both have stories that should inspire many children in the black community. Your ability to bring this story to life and educate people to these injustices. I would like to see you come back to Detroit and do a similar story on what happened to the Black Community here when the political forces if the time used urban renewal and public domain to put freeways and other public funded projects to split and destroy the Black Community for years. There is another story I heard of years ago, and I cannot remember the exact state or town. I think it was in the midwest. But this town was founded by the Black Community. They reinvested in themselves and as one company became succesful it helped fund the next black entraupenaur. Everything in the town was black owned. The bank, the grocers, the doctors, the lawyers, the farmers, etc.. The surrounding communities did not like the fact that they could not influence or undermine this community. So political influencers infiltrated the early NAACP and were able to undermine them through the NAACP's influence in the black community. The town lost it's cohesivness and started bickering and backstabbing until the town fell apart. It was a story I heard about, but do not know how truthful the particulars were. I would be interested if you would be able to find out if this story was true, and was it as devastating to the families involved like Tulsa was to your wife's family.

[@celesteturner6912]

Hi. If you are in Detroit still go visit the 8 Mile Wall that was built to segregate the area for housing. It is located near 8 Mile & Wyoming on Detroit's westside.

[@vickieflowers-williams9691]

❤Thank you for sharing your story☕️🇺🇸🗣️🙏🏾

[@Mike_Samps]

Great job Nate! Wolfpack Alumni!

[@bobby-hg9hs]

♥️♥️♥️

[@gsup3874]

Reparations are due! Let my people go Pharoah!

[@GratitudeGriot]

WOW!! such a powerful story and amazing way to use your job for personal gain lol the access to top-notch researchers and historians is clutch but I really wish more African Americans would trace their family's history in this country. I learned my grandpa was a WW2 Vet and he traveled to Europe. An uncle ancestor was in WW1 and is buried in France. My grandmother ancestors owned businesses and land at Women did not have the right to vote. so much accessible history out there is worth doing a lil digging!! ❤🖤💚

[@jdmmg4904]

❤

[@greatestshopper1077]

🥺. His Family LEGACY WAS meant to be R E A L and tangible to him and to his descendants. He built it. His LEGACY was no DREAM. 😢

[@celestialnubian]

A quick trip to CPAC will show that the devil has not changed.

[@justtrust426]

And the sad thing about a story like this is the fact that it is not the only story like this. Black towns, and sections of Black areas was destroyed all over this nation. And to add insult to injury the remaining survivors of the Tulsa Massacre did not win their case for reparations. Yet, look how they can pull money out the air to send to other nations, fight wars and to house people that has not paid one penny in taxes. You have to not have a heart to think that is ok. SMH.

[@billiehicks6587]

I’m glad I stopped and looked at this story. I live in Southern California and I think of the Bruce Family that had their Beach Front Resort taken from them by the City of Santa Monica. Now they discovered the Whyte family also had their land taken from them and the City of Santa Monica built a hotel called the Viceroy Hotel that’s making money for the city, on Pacific Coast Highway. When does it stop and when will these families be compensated? The Bruce’s got a placket placed on the land and they are in negotiations to get financial compensations.❤ What about all the inventions that Black people were cheated out of. My niece in Maryland is a Historian Librarian in the Princess George’s School District. She and I took her granddaughter to the Black History Museum and it was almost impossible for us to get in for all the Other People (Caucasians) there. As my niece educated her granddaughter at each exhibit, by the third exhibit, her eight year old granddaughter looked up at my niece and said; “I hate white people.”

[@release6800]

For God so Loved the world that he give his only begotten Son, whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life.

[@user-en1zc5vd6y]

What do you mean Dwight is 50yrs old??? Did he freeze somewhere around 15??? Am African and we call this witchcraft 😂

[@QB-ul5lq]

👍🏾

[@tiboregoldberger6817]

In 2023 an estimated 6.3 million children under five died, 2.9 million of them in the WHO African Region. This is equivalent to five children under 5 years of age dying every minute. Two thirds of these deaths can be attributed to preventable causes. A third of all these deaths are in the neonatal period. 0:18

[@turquoisepurple7sky151]

That is sad, but what does that have to do with this story? Death is in every community and death is guaranteed. Stay focused. One wrong done to your fellow man creates a fire widespread. Maybe those deaths would not have happened if these folks businesses were not destroyed. Or because we were born into sin and mankind is never satisfied, wrong doing will follow. But, one side of thw earth is searching for truth and the other is fighting for their lives, in all they are the same and God sees it all

[@tiboregoldberger6817]

@@turquoisepurple7sky151 According to UN data, 165 million children worldwide are too small for their age, or stunted, due to chronic malnutrition. Three quarters of these children live in sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia. In sub-Saharan Africa, 40% of children are affected; in South Asia, 39%. 3.2 million children under the age of 5 die each year in sub-Saharan Africa - that's about half of the world's deaths in this age group. Worldwide, nearly every second death in children under the age of five is due to malnutrition.

[@iamnikkitucker]

But they keep saying we aren’t owed anything. So sad. But don’t worry we will get the last laugh. It’s called KARMA.

[@bobbiewright1500]

Those descendants needs to get reparations !

[@butterbwoi1344]

Reparations yesterday…..

[@GLORIAJEANEZEKIELMDPHDLONG120]

Lord, Lord! Luke 11:2

[@gayle2020]

There were quite a few black communities that were destroyed;

[@Creator-Universehardbody]

We are NOT "Black" we are Indian

[@lfresh1673]

Muskogee Creek Indians were attacked in Greenwood, not former slaves, not Africans, not crayon colors. Yes, they were extremely wealthy.

[@howardwest5969]

@lfresh1673 the children of former slaves owned the wealth, this happened in 1921

[@jodyharris9731]

Amerikkka needs to pay up!

[@marriejames01]

It is sad that the Hotel and other businesses weren’t passed on. Why aren’t the so called Black leaders working to get the descendants compensated!? Side note: I’ve seen many times when the children sell the property for little to nothing. That usually goes against what the parents or grandparents wanted.

[@etf42]

the greenwood neighborhood of Tulsa was rebuilt and it was not even called black wall street until _after_ it was rebuilt. black then people abandoned their own communities and cities after the civil rights movement.