racist, fatphobic, transphobic, and ableist messages “between 2011 and 2014 when she was a teenager.”All of this is to say: if you used to watchThe Bachelor and the story became front-page news. “It was such a moment of vindication and validation that our hurt is real and matters,” she said. that representation (or lack thereof) on-screen affects the way people perceive the world around them, as well as their self-esteem. was home to Black lawyers, doctors, dentists, and various Black-owned establishments such as banks, restaurants, and hotels. That came to an end in 1921, when a white mob spent 24 hours looting and burning homes and businesses in what’s now referred to as the Tulsa Race Massacre. It left 35 city blocks in ruins, 10,000 people homeless, and as many as 300 people dead. A few years later, there was another massacre of a thriving Black community inRosewood