ABC Audio is launching a new podcast as an extension of their Soul of Nation programming. Hosted by Steve Osunsami, Soul of a Nation: Tulsa’s Buried Truth will search for answers as it explores the painful history of the 1921 Tulsa massacre.
What’s Happening:
- ABC Audio has announced they are launching a new podcast Soul of a Nation: Tulsa’s Buried Truth, on Tuesday, April 6th.
- The program is written and hosted by ABC News Senior National Correspondent Steve Osunsami and features archival audio accounts from witnesses and interviews with historians.
- Tulsa’s Buried Truth brings listeners through the painful history and into the modern-day quest for closure and healing.
- The first podcast episode posts the same day as the finale of Soul of a Nation, which includes reporting by Osunsami on the massacre. Soul of a Nation airs Tuesday, April 6 (10:00 – 11:00 pm ET) on ABC. Episodes can also be viewed the next day on demand and on Hulu.
- Soul of a Nation: Tulsa’s Buried Truth also features The View Co-host Sunny Hostin and is available for free on major listening platforms, including:
- Apple Podcasts
- Spotify
- Amazon Music
- Google Podcasts
- iHeartRadio
- TuneIn
- ABC News app
- New podcast episodes in the series will debut on Tuesdays.
About Tulsa’s Buried Truth:
- One of the most brutal and rarely discussed racially motivated attacks in American history occurred in 1921 when a violent white mob descended on a prosperous Black community in Tulsa, Oklahoma, known as Black Wall Street. In less than 24 hours they destroyed and terrorized the neighborhood, killing as many as 300 Black Americans. The collective memory of the massacre was buried by a culture of silence and many victims’ bodies were never found. But now one century later, the possibility of mass graves buried beneath Tulsa has led to a renewed search for answers.
Creative Team:
- The podcast is produced by the award-winning ABC News Investigative Unit and ABC Audio.
- Cindy Galli is chief of investigative projects, and Liz Alesse and Eric Johnson are executive producers for ABC Audio.