Rise Again: Tulsa and the Red Summer

Follow award-winning journalist DeNeen Brown as she digs into the events that led to one of the worst episodes of racial violence in America’s history.

Acclaimed director Dawn Porter’s documentary film, Rise Again: Tulsa and the Red Summer, comes 100 years after the two-day Tulsa Massacre in 1921 that led to the murder of hundreds of Black people and left thousands homeless and displaced.

Digging into the events that led to one of the worst episodes of racial violence in America’s history, DeNeen Brown reveals insights into the racial conflict that erupted in the early 20th century. Between 1917 and 1923, when Jim Crow laws were at their height and the Klu Klux Klan was resurging across the nation, scores of Black homes and businesses were razed, and hundreds of Black people were lynched and massacred with impunity.

Brown’s reporting highlights the revived call for justice for victims and survivors. She also explores the current anti-racism movement in the context of the Tulsa Massacre and the Red Summer, revealing the decades-long effort by descendants and community members to find victims’ bodies and unearth truths that have been suppressed for nearly a century. Rise Again also untangles the role the media played in covering events at the time, revealing the full extent of the nation’s buried past.

Rise Again: Tulsa and the Red Summer, which debuts on NatGeo on June 18, 2021, will shock viewers with some poignant facts they never knew. A free screening and panel discussion with Dawn Porter and DeNeen Brown takes places on Sunday, June 13, 2021 at 7 p.m. Register for the free online event at rsvp.nationalgeographicevents.com.