Joseph Torres on Tulsa Massacre

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Last year, we saw some open media acknowledgement of an event previously shrouded in silence and ignorance: the Tulsa, Oklahoma massacre of 1921. We talked about the Tulsa massacre around its anniversary last June, with Joseph Torres, senior director of strategy and engagement at the group Free Press, and co-author with Juan González of the crucial book News for All the People: The Epic Story of Race and the American Media. We hear from Joseph Torres about Tulsa this week on the show. Transcript: Tulsa: ‘A Cover-Up Happens Because the Powers That Be Are Implicated’Plus Janine Jackson takes a very quick look at media coverage of Ukraine. Transcript: Tulsa: ‘A Cover-Up Happens Because the Powers That Be Are Implicated’