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Commemorate the 100th Anniversary of the Tulsa Race Massacre

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Learn about the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre and explore its enduring legacy with film excerpts and a panel discussion.

Through the historical lens of white violence and Black resistance, explore issues of atonement, reconciliation, and reparation with an excerpt from Tulsa: The Fire and the Forgotten , a landmark PBS documentary examining the emotional truth behind the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre.

Discover how the community of Tulsa and the nation are coming to terms with the past, present, and future in a panel discussion featuring DeNeen Brown, award-winning writer for The Washington Post and associate professor at the Philip Merrill College of Journalism; Paul Gardullo, historian and curator of the exhibition on the Tulsa Race Massacre now on view at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture; State Representative Regina GoodwinGreg Robinson II, Director of Met Cares Foundation; and co-producer of the film, Eric Stover, Faculty Director of the Human Rights Center at University of California, Berkeley; moderated by Michel Martin, host of "Weekend All Things Considered" and contributor, Amanpour and Company.

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