Kevin Scanlon
Dawn Porter is revisiting the past in an effort to change the future with her new Nat Geo doc Rise Again: Tulsa and the Red Summer.
The two-hour feature, led by award-winning journalist and Oklahoma native DeNeen Brown, centers on the post-slavery massacres of African Americans. It also comes at the 100-year anniversary of the June 1, 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, in which hundreds of Black Tulsans died and hundreds more lost their homes and property at the hands of their white neighbors.
“I think you have to be looking for history sometimes to find it,” Porter tells ABC Audio, explaining why such stories often aren’t
