“The audacity to walk up out these ashes and shine.” For Jerica Wortham, this line from her song “Shining” is what it feels like for the Black community to reclaim its story. In this update to Part 3 of “Tulsa Rising,” she talks to our reporters about how art can use history to inform and transform communities. Hosted by Jessica Mendoza and Samantha Laine Perfas.
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“The audacity to walk up out these ashes and shine.” For Jerica Wortham, this line from her song “Shining” is what it feels like for the Black community to reclaim its story. In this update to Part 3 of “Tulsa Rising,” she talks to our reporters about how art can use history to inform and transform communities. Hosted by Jessica Mendoza and Samantha Laine Perfas.
Reconciliation means different things to different people. Tulsa, Oklahoma, seems to be moving toward racial reconciliation with its efforts to commemorate the centennial of the 1921 race massacre, but the work is painful and messy, and has no end in sight. Still, a new generation of Tulsans is finding ways to process and to own the story of the massacre and Black Wall Street. What can the country learn from its efforts? Hosted by Jessica Mendoza.
Tulsa Rising
“The audacity to walk up out these ashes and shine.” For Jerica Wortham, this line from her song “Shining” is what it feels like for the Black community to reclaim its story. In this update to Part 3 of “Tulsa Rising,” she talks to our reporters about how art can use history to inform and transform communities. Hosted by Jessica Mendoza and Samantha Laine Perfas.
