Rise Again: Tulsa and the Red Summer Release Date, Updates and More!

Hello, Readers! Dawn Porter directed and produced the upcoming American documentary television film Rise Again: Tulsa and the Red Summer for National Geographic. It follows DeNeen Brown, a Washington Post award-winning journalist, and Oklahoma native, as she examines the Tulsa race massacre in search of mass graves and new information.

Rise Again: Tulsa and the Red Summer commemorates the one-hundredth anniversary of the Tulsa Massacre in 1921, which resulted in the deaths of hundreds of Black people and the displacement of thousands.

Rise Again: Tulsa and the Red Summer Release Date

On Friday, June 18, 2021, at 9 p.m. ET/PT, the film will premiere on National Geographic.

Rise Again: Tulsa and the Red Summer Official Trailer

What is this about?

DeNeen Brown is the film’s protagonist, reporting on the quest for a mass burial in her home state. Brown delves into the events that led to one of America’s deadliest bouts of racial violence, revealing insights into racial conflicts that erupted in the early twentieth century.

Join reporter @DeNeenLBrown as she chronicles the discovery of a mass grave in Tulsa and investigates the reign of racial terror that swept across the United States in the early 20th century. #RiseAgain: Tulsa and the #RedSummer premieres Friday, June 18th 9/8c on @natgeotv pic.twitter.com/BifVl9ydXP

— Nat Geo Docs (@natgeodocs) June 16, 2021

Scores of Black homes and businesses were burned, and hundreds of Black people were lynched and slaughtered with impunity between 1917 and 1923 when Jim Crow laws were at their peak and the Klu Klux Klan was resurgent across the country.

Brown’s reporting underscores the renewed clamor for victims and survivors to be compensated. Brown examines the current emerging anti-racism movement in the context of the Tulsa Massacre and the Red Summer, following a 2018 investigative report.

The video exposes the decades-long campaign by descendants and community members to discover the victims’ bodies and unearth realities that have been concealed for nearly a century, including access to family members of those killed, city officials, archaeologists, and historians.

"Rise Again: Tulsa and the Red Summer" follows journalist DeNeen Brown as she digs into the events that lead to one of the worst episodes of racial violence in America's history pic.twitter.com/9z3vTLBXFB

— National Geographic (@NatGeo) June 11, 2021

Cast: Who’s in it?

Dawn Porter’s Trilogy Films and Trailblazer Studios, in collaboration with National Geographic Studios, are producing the film. DeNeen Brown is a contributing reporter, while Lauren Capps is the story producer. Porter is the producer and director.