We thought a century could somehow shield us from the gut-wrenching impact of the massacre at the center of filmmaker Dawn Porter’s powerful documentary “Rise Again: Tulsa and the Red Summer.” We were dead wrong.
Perhaps that’s because the film, which launches on the National Geographic Channel at 10 p.m. today, manages to zero in on the encompassing pertinence of its race-related tales and the culture of impunity that continues to resonate with the urgent issues of our time—from the worsening anti-Asian hate in the United States, to the lack of accountability in the shocking human-rights crimes being committed in our own country.
“Rise Again” comes 100 years from t…
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