By: Amy Slanchik
NORMAN, Oklahoma -
The University of Oklahoma is hosting a symposium reflecting on the 100 years since the Tulsa Race Massacre.
The theme of the three-day symposium is Reflecting on the Past, Facing the Future, and it is part of OU’s yearlong educational initiative about the massacre.
Events started Thursday and included both in-person and virtual participants.
One of Thursday’s events focused on art and literature based on the massacre. Artists and a poet shared some of their work and took questions from the audience.
Author Karlos Hill said during the opening ceremony that the symposium will be about more than the horrific details of May 31st and June 1st, 1921.