This Tulsa Newspaper Ad Is Also a Protest Sign

Courageous Conversation took out a full-page ad in the city's 100-year-old Black publication

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As Tulsa, Okla., prepares for President Trump’s Saturday night campaign rally, Courageous Conversation Global Foundation bought a full-page ad in The Oklahoma Eagle, one of the nation’s oldest Black-owned newspapers.

The ad, which reads “Being black is not a crime” in stark white letters on a black background, is intended to “inform and equip people in Tulsa with a poster that can be used to make their voices heard,” said Glenn Singleton, president of CCGF.

Trump’s rally was originally planned for today, Juneteenth—a holiday commemorating the day 155 years ago that the last slaves in Texas were informed of their freedom, two years after the Emancipation Proclamation was signed.

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