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In August 1908, a white mob attacked Springfield, Illinois’s Black community, destroying homes and businesses and lynching two Black men. National outrage over the violence helped spur the movement that created the NAACP the following year.
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This is a personal recollection on the Move fire on May 13, 1985
Bullet Club (バレットクラブ, Barettokurabu), stylized as BULLET CLUB and sometimes shortened to BC, was a professional wrestling stable primarily appearing in the Japanese promotion New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW). In the United States, the group appeared on events run by the company's U.S. subsidiary, New Japan Pro-Wrestling of America, as well as U.S. partner promotions Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA, formerly Impact Wrestling), All Elite Wrestling (AEW) and Ring of Honor (ROH). The group also previously appeared on events promoted by Tamashii, NJPW's Australasian affiliate, as well as on events of other Australasian independent promotions, on Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLL) events in Mexico, and on Revolution Pro Wrestling (RevPro/RPW) and TNT Extreme Wrestling (TNT) events in the United Kingdom, as well as many other independent promotions around the world. The group was formed in May 2013 when Irish wrestler Prince Devitt betrayed his Japanese partner Ryusuke Taguchi and came together with American wrestler Karl Anderson and Tongan wrestlers Bad Luck Fale and Tama Tonga to form a villainous stable of foreigners, which they subsequently named Bullet Club. Before the end of the year, the stable was also joined by three other Americans, The Young Bucks (Matt and Nick Jackson) and Doc Gallows. Wrestlers from the Mexican Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLL) promotion have also worked tours of NJPW as members of Bullet Club, which led to the formation of an offshoot group named Bullet Club Latinoamerica in CMLL in October 2013. The stable marked a major turning point for the career of Devitt, a longtime fan favorite, who began his ascent out of the junior heavyweight division and into the IWGP Heavyweight Championship picture. In April 2014, Devitt left NJPW and was replaced in Bullet Club by American wrestler AJ Styles. The following month, Styles captured the IWGP Heavyweight Championship. The stable continued adding members, most notably Canadian wrestler Kenny Omega, who became the group's third leader in early 2016 when Styles, Anderson and Gallows all left NJPW. After a "civil war" between The Elite and OG factions within the stable, Omega, Cody, Marty Scurll, Adam Page and The Young Bucks quietly left the faction in October 2018 to continue on their own as The Elite and to later form All Elite Wrestling (AEW) with New Zealand wrestler Jay White taking over as the fourth leader of the group. Due to COVID-19 pandemic travel restrictions in 2020, Evil becoming a temporary top representative member of the group in the Japan-based contingent of the group. In March 2023, David Finlay became the fifth leader of the group following Jay White's exit from NJPW. On January 5, 2026, David Finlay and Yota Tsuji announced the dissolution of the stable, officially merging both War Dogs and Unaffiliated into the new Unbound Co. stable. During the 13 years of Bullet Club, the stable held every NJPW title, with a total of 75 title reigns, including 6 reigns with the IWGP Heavyweight Championship. Bullet Club members also won several NJPW tournaments, like Best of the Super Juniors, World Tag League, Super Jr. Tag Tournament, New Japan Cup and NJPW most prestigious tournament, the G1 Climax. Outside NJPW, Bullet Club also won championships in promotions like Impact Wrestling, All Elite Wrestling, Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre or Ring of Honor. Several members also won awards from several publications like Wrestling Observer Newsletter or Tokyo Sports.
The following is a list of members of Bullet Club, a professional wrestling stable that performed primarily in New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW), All Elite Wrestling (AEW), Ring of Honor (ROH), and Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLL) from 2013 to 2026.
The Elite is a professional wrestling stable that predominantly appears in the American professional wrestling promotion All Elite Wrestling (AEW), for which the promotion is partially named after. The stable consists of leader Kenny Omega, Jack Perry, and The Young Bucks (Matt Jackson and Nick Jackson). The Elite was originally formed in January 2016 by Omega, Nick and Matt as a trio acting as a sub-group within Bullet Club, a larger stable of which Omega was the leader. Together, the trio captured the NEVER Openweight 6-Man Tag Team Championship twice later that year, but continued their alliance beyond that point, with The Young Bucks notably acting as valets for Omega in his singles career. Other titles won by members as part of the stable include the IWGP Heavyweight Championship, IWGP Intercontinental Championship, IWGP United States Heavyweight Championship, and AAA Mega Championship for Omega, while The Young Bucks won the IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championship seven times, the IWGP Heavyweight Tag Team Championship once, the ROH World Tag Team Championship three times, and the AAA World Tag Team Championship one time. In October 2018, after a lengthy internal feud within Bullet Club, Omega and The Young Bucks' 'Elite' faction left the group. Cody Rhodes, Adam Page, and Marty Scurll, all of whom had sided with Omega during the feud, also left to formally join The Elite on October 30, 2018, alongside Omega's tag partner in Golden☆Lovers, Kota Ibushi, making it a full-scale stable. During the following three months, the members of The Elite would leave most of their other promotions to work almost exclusively with AEW, minus Scurll and Ibushi, who chose to remain in Ring of Honor and New Japan Pro-Wrestling, respectively, leaving the stable. The five, who were instrumental in the creation of the company and hold positions as executive vice presidents (except for Page), would play a pivotal role in AEW, both on-screen and off-screen. Cody Rhodes would eventually leave the group to focus on his own Nightmare Family stable; Page would also leave following a falling out with Omega and the Bucks. In December 2020, Don Callis, an executive vice president of Impact Wrestling, came to AEW as a guest of Omega and aided him in winning the AEW World Championship. Omega then began making appearances in Impact Wrestling alongside Callis, eventually winning the Impact World Championship, and reestablished ties with past Bullet Club teammates and Impact wrestlers Doc Gallows and Karl Anderson. Omega would claim to have "reformed the old Bullet Club", and once the group merged with the trio of remaining Elite members, Callis would take credit for "reforming" The Elite, which he called a "new Elite" and later dub "The Super Elite". Following the dissolution of AEW and Impact's partnership, Callis remained with The Elite while Luke Gallows and Karl Anderson quietly left, and were replaced in the group by Adam Cole, Bobby Fish, and Kyle O'Reilly, who all left in August 2022. Throughout this time, The Elite would collectively win the AEW World Tag Team Championship three times, once by Omega with Page and a record-setting two-times by The Young Bucks. The Elite would also become the inaugural AEW World Trios Champions in September 2022. Due to a common feud with the Blackpool Combat Club, Page rejoined the stable in May 2023. In July 2023, Kota Ibushi would re-join the group at Blood and Guts. In March 2024, Omega was fired and Page was suspended by the Bucks from the group, with Kazuchika Okada also joining the group at the same time. In April 2024, Jack Perry joined the group. Okada left the group in July 2025 to join the Don Callis Family, whilst Perry would leave the group later that September. The Young Bucks would later reunite with Omega in November 2025.
The Gunns are a professional wrestling tag team consisting of real-life brothers Austin and Colten Gunn, who are the sons of professional wrestler Billy Gunn. They are signed to All Elite Wrestling (AEW) and Ring of Honor (ROH), where they are members of the Bang Bang Gang. They are former one-time AEW World Tag Team Champions and one-time ROH World Six-Man Tag Team Champions and AEW World Trios Champions (collectively held as the Unified World Trios Championship). Austin and Billy first began teaming on the independent circuit in 2017, before Austin debuted for AEW as his father's tag team partner in 2020. The two began teaming as The Gunn Club. They became a trio later that year when Colten debuted in AEW and joined the group; they teamed for the next two years, until Austin and Colten turned on Billy in favor of siding with Stokely Hathaway in 2022. They soon ceased using the Gunn Club name and began referring themselves as simply "The Gunns". They achieved major success in 2023, winning the AEW World Tag Team Championship. In April 2024, together with Bullet Club Gold member Jay White, they unified the ROH World Six-Man Tag Team Championship and the AEW World Trios Championship as the Unified World Trios Championship.
Before the 1921 destruction of Tulsa’s Greenwood District, Black residents had created a remarkable center of business and community life. The district included stores, professional offices, entertainment venues and homes owned by Black citizens. Understanding Greenwood means learning what was built—not only what was burned.
MORE →Shirley Chisholm, elected in 1968.