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Two survivors of the 1921 massacre of Black people in the US city of Tulsa have been granted Ghanaian citizenship.
Viola Fletcher, 108 and her brother Hughes Van Ellis, 102, are two of three living survivors.
The citizenship ceremony took place at Ghana's embassy in Washing DC...They visited Ghana in August 2021 as part of a week-long tour of Africa to mark the centenary of the killings, known as the Tulsa race massacre.
The pair will become dual citizens....
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All Hail the Ghanaian gov't!
Symbolic but heavy with meaning!
Cool!
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