Trib Total Media TV writer Rob Owen offers a viewing tip for the coming week.
Although The Washington Post began to dig into the history of the 1921 Tulsa race massacre earlier, it was HBO’s 2019 fictional limited series “Watchmen” that really turned the spotlight on this shameful forgotten piece of American history.
On the 100th anniversary of white mobs setting fires to the Greenwood neighborhood, leaving 10,000 Black people homeless and killing anywhere from 39 to 300, multiple TV specials will chronicle one of the worst individual incidents of racial violence in U.S. history.
History Channel’s “Tulsa Burning: The 1921 Race Massacre” (8 p.m. Sunday) and National Geographic Channel’s “Rise Again: Tulsa and the Red Summer” (9 p.m. June 18) are joined by PBS’s “Tulsa: The Fire and the Forgotten” (9 p.m. Monday, WQED-TV).