Nearly a year after Tops massacre, Buffalo grapples with ‘painstakingly long’ work of transformation
On May 14, 2022, Ruth Whitfield had just visited her ailing husband of 68 years in a nursing home when she stopped at Tops Markets on Jefferson Avenue to pick up seeds for her garden.
She would never make it home. Neither would nine other Black people who were at the store, shopping or working.
Maki Becker April 21, 2023
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