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Monday is the 100th anniversary of one of the worst acts of racial violence in American history. A spate of books and documentaries are marking the moment; we round up three to watch this weekend.

Tulsa: The Fire and the ForgottenUncovers the Emotional Truth Behind One of the Worst Incidents of Racial Violence in American History, Premieres Monday, May 31 on PBSProduced and directed by Jon

Tulsa: The Fire and the Forgotten works best as a learning tool, filling in some of the blanks of American history, details that were purposely redacted by the same types of people who wish to continue that redaction.

If all you know about the Tulsa Race Massacre is the re-creations of the attack featured in HBO series like Watchmen and Lovecraft Country, prepare

When filmmaker Jonathan Silvers got the idea a few years ago to make a documentary about the 1921 annihilation of Black Wall Street in Tulsa, Oklahoma — the most deadly

In 1921, a white mob destroyed a black neighborhood in one of the country’s worst episodes of racial violence. A new film traces the echoes of violence, long whitewashed from textbooks, into the present

When filmmaker Jonathan Silvers got the idea a few years ago to make a documentary about the 1921 annihilation of Black Wall Street in Tulsa, Oklahoma — the most deadly and destructive racist attack in U.S. history — he imagined he would have no...

Hollywood execs once dismissed the idea of mass interest in the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, but the success of HBO's Emmy-winning series breathed life into a raft of documentaries.

When filmmaker Jonathan Silvers got the idea a few years ago to make a documentary about the 1921 annihilation of Black Wall Street in Tulsa, Oklahoma — the most deadly

Panelists include: 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 Goodwin; Greg Robinson II, Director of Met Cares Foundation Co-producer of the film, Eric Stover, Faculty Director of the Human Rights Center at University of California, Berkeley About the F...