National Geographic Documentary Films Partners With Acclaimed Director Dawn Porter in Search of Justice and Peace 100 Years After Tulsa Massacre in New Feature Documentary RED SUMMER
The Rev. Robert Turner of Vernon A.M.E. Church prays at Oaklawn Cemetery after learning that scientists found a mass grave during an excavation in the search for victims from the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre. Bethany Mollenkof / Associated Press
National Geographic Documentary Films Partners With Acclaimed Director Dawn Porter in Search of Justice and Peace 100 Years After Tulsa Massacre in New Feature Documentary RED SUMMER

Reset with Sasha-Ann Simons

Reclaiming the narrative of the Tulsa Race Massacre through ‘restorative justice archeology’

One Tulsa native is using archeology to unearth the stories of the massacre survivors to capture the truth of the violent attack in 1921.

The Rev. Robert Turner of Vernon A.M.E. Church prays at Oaklawn Cemetery after learning that scientists found a mass grave during an excavation in the search for victims from the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre. Bethany Mollenkof / Associated Press
By Micah Yason

The Tulsa Race Massacre is known as one of the worst incidents of racial violence in U.S. history. Black businesses were burned to the ground and hundreds of people were killed. But survivors also rebuilt the historic district of Greenwood.

Reset learns about the stories of trauma and triumph with a Tulsa-born archeologist.

GUESTS: Dr. Alicia Odewale, assistant professor of anthropology at the University of Tulsa

Erica Griffin, public and community engagement manager for the Chicago History Museum

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National Geographic Documentary Films Partners With Acclaimed Director Dawn Porter in Search of Justice and Peace 100 Years After Tulsa Massacre in New Feature Documentary RED SUMMER
The Rev. Robert Turner of Vernon A.M.E. Church prays at Oaklawn Cemetery after learning that scientists found a mass grave during an excavation in the search for victims from the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre. Bethany Mollenkof / Associated Press
National Geographic Documentary Films Partners With Acclaimed Director Dawn Porter in Search of Justice and Peace 100 Years After Tulsa Massacre in New Feature Documentary RED SUMMER

Reset with Sasha-Ann Simons

Reclaiming the narrative of the Tulsa Race Massacre through ‘restorative justice archeology’

One Tulsa native is using archeology to unearth the stories of the massacre survivors to capture the truth of the violent attack in 1921.

The Rev. Robert Turner of Vernon A.M.E. Church prays at Oaklawn Cemetery after learning that scientists found a mass grave during an excavation in the search for victims from the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre. Bethany Mollenkof / Associated Press
By Micah Yason

The Tulsa Race Massacre is known as one of the worst incidents of racial violence in U.S. history. Black businesses were burned to the ground and hundreds of people were killed. But survivors also rebuilt the historic district of Greenwood.

Reset learns about the stories of trauma and triumph with a Tulsa-born archeologist.

GUESTS: Dr. Alicia Odewale, assistant professor of anthropology at the University of Tulsa

Erica Griffin, public and community engagement manager for the Chicago History Museum

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Reset with Sasha-Ann Simons