100 years later, Black church leaders seek reparations for Tulsa massacre An African Methodist Episcopal pastor and other Black people of faith say the time has come to repay as well as to remember. The Rev. Robert R.A. Turner, center, draws attention to the 1921 Tulsa massacre every week in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Courtesy photo May 19, 2021 (RNS) — On the first Wednesday in May, as the centennial of the Tulsa massacre approached, the Rev. Robert R.A. Turner stood outside Tulsa City Hall with his megaphone, as he does every week. “Tulsa, you will reap what you sow and that which you have done unto the least of these my children, Jesus said, you have done also unto me,” said Turner, 38, the pastor of Historic Vernon African Methodist Episcopal Church, captured on a video posted on Facebook.