"Celebrated author Carole Boston Weatherford and illustrator Floyd Cooper provide a powerful look at the 1921 Tulsa race massacre, one of the worst incidents of racial violence in our nation's history"--

One hundred years after the destruction of the Black-owned Greenwood district of Tulsa, Oklahoma, one of the worst incidents of racial violence in U.S. history, residents and descendants examine the history of the 1921 tragedy and its aftermath. Through the historical lens of white violence and Black resistance, the film explores vital issues of atonement, reconciliation and reparation.

The Burning re-creates Greenwood, Tulsa, at the height of its prosperity; explores the currents of hatred, racism, and mistrust between its Black residents and Tulsa's White population; narrates events leading up to and including Greenwood's devastation; and documents the subsequent silence that surrounded this tragedy. Delving into history that's long been suppressed, this is the true story of Black Wall Street and the Tulsa Race Massacre, with updates...

"The definitive, newsbreaking account of the ongoing investigation into the Tulsa race massacre In the late spring of 1921, Tulsa, Oklahoma, erupted into the worst single incident of racial violence in American history. Over the course of sixteen hours, mobs of white men and women looted and burned to the ground a prosperous African American community, known today as Black Wall Street. More than one thousand homes and businesses were destroyed, and...