Viola Fletcher recently turned 107 years old and is making her first visit to the nation’s capital today. These are details she shared during testimony before a House Committee Hearing focused on the Tulsa-Greenwood Race massacre — which occurred 100 years ago on May 31, 1921.

“I hear the screams,” she testified. “I have lived through the massacre every day. Our country may forget this history, but I cannot.”

Ms. Fletcher was just seven years old when she was forced to evacuate her home in 1921, details of which she shared before the House Judiciary Committee chaired by Rep. Steve Cohen.

The reason she and her family had to hastily exit her home, and the city of Tulsa, is a stain on US History, as it was a racial massacre led by white supremacists that killed roughly 300 Black American citizens.

The Greenwood area of Tulsa was a thriving community for Black Americans, and was even known as “Black Wall Street.” The 35-square-block Greenwood District that was eventually burned to the ground by the military-grade attack (which included warplanes was the target of the violent attack because black prosperity was seen as a threat to white supremacy.

Read more from Colby Hall here.

It's an amazing act of courage and strength to testify before congress after so long, about something so difficult. 

Eric Clapton penned a letter detailing his “disastrous” reactions to the coronavirus vaccine — which turned into a rant blaming what he called the “propaganda” that promoted the vaccine’s safety.

Clapton detailed his experience in a letter to Robin Monotti Graziadei, an Italian architect and film producer with a history of going after the Covid-19 vaccine — calling his reactions “disastrous.”

“In February this year, before I learned about the nature of the vaccines, (and being 76 with ephezyma [sic]) I was in the avant garde,” he wrote in the letter, which was shared on Telegram and verified by Rolling Stone.

He detailed his multiple bad reactions, including numbness in his hands, and saying he worried he'd never play again. Then he expanded into anti-vaccine anger.

“The propaganda said the vaccine was safe for everyone," Clapton said.

He denounced government “rhetoric” and “the devotion of the general public” to it. He characterized his rant as being part of his "passive rebellion" against "tyranny and arrogant authority."

Clapton also collaborated with Van Morrison last year on a track trashing lockdowns and accusing the U.K. government of attacking personal freedoms.

Clapton faced huge backlash then and now for embracing and encouraging anti-vax sentiment, and for using an individual side effect to stoke fear and paranoia.