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Petula Dvorak

Washington, D.C.

Columnist for The Washington Post, off-balance mother of two, forever searching for comfortable heels and really good tomato soup.

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  • 2 days ago | spokesman.com | Petula Dvorak |DeNeen Brown

    The city of Tulsa, home to one of the most horrifying racial-terror massacres in U.S. history and the people who tried to cover it up, has announced a $105 million reparations package that will put dollars and actions toward redress.

  • 3 days ago | washingtonpost.com | Petula Dvorak |DeNeen Brown

    Tulsa announces reparations for the 1921 ‘Black Wall Street’ massacre (washingtonpost.com) Tulsa announces reparations for the 1921 ‘Black Wall Street’ massacre By Petula Dvorak; DeNeen L. Brown 2025060315472200 The city of Tulsa, home to one of the most horrifying racial-terror massacres in U.S. history and the people who tried to cover it up, has announced a $105 million reparations package that will put dollars and actions toward redress.

  • 3 days ago | flipboard.com | Petula Dvorak |DeNeen Brown

    21 hours agoThe city of Tulsa, Oklahoma is preparing to award its black community a $105m (£73.8m) reparations package to address the harms caused by the Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921, one of the largest and most violent racial attacks in US history. The plan, by Monroe Nichols, Tulsa's first black mayor, focuses …

  • 4 days ago | stuff.co.nz | Petula Dvorak

  • 5 days ago | washingtonpost.com | Petula Dvorak

    These 7 iconic places in D.C. are key to gay history and LGBTQ rights (washingtonpost.com) These 7 iconic places in D.C. are key to gay history and LGBTQ rights By Petula Dvorak 2025060110003000 Custom Topper Start While Stonewall and San Francisco are iconic in the LGBTQ rights movement, it is official Washington that birthed some of the pivotal moments in that national fight for civil rights.

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Petula Dvorak
Petula Dvorak @petulad
10 May 25

May 10, 1925 - A teacher was charged with violating the Butler Act by teaching evolution in Tennessee #100yearsagotoday. The ACLU represented J. T. Scopes in a huge trial, but lost. The act banning teachers from challenging the Book of Genesis stood until 1967. #retropolis https://t.co/vdB59TL6NA

Petula Dvorak
Petula Dvorak @petulad
9 May 25

May 9, 1925 - Grammar police were no joke #100yearsagotoday. #retropolis https://t.co/g7JtsREMoa

Petula Dvorak
Petula Dvorak @petulad
8 May 25

May 8, 1925 - Representation in the workplace matters, the Department of Agriculture learned #100yearsagotoday , when farmers told the pointy-headed bureaucrats they had the cover photo of their yearbook going the wrong way, something any field hand would’ve caught. Oops. https://t.co/Ad8qFyEA4k