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In both the public education system and the media, so much of what we learn about history is intentionally watered down to obscure the past in order to prevent us from fully understanding the roots of today’s injustices. This is what makes “Watchmen” such a stark contrast. It flips the script of the Tulsa Race Massacre and its devastating impacts by asking “what if” the United States took a different path. Watch Porshéa talk about how popular media can combat historical erasure and reshape public conversations to confront the ongoing racial violence and attempts to erase American history from our schools!

This is reflected in “Watchmen’s” Looking Glass, a superhero working to stop white supremacist violence. Despite Looking Glass’ Christian upbringing and early trauma, he chooses the work of justice over aligning with white Christian nationalism. But why? Watch Brian unpack what Looking Glass’ backstory teaches us about the key ingredient to developing your superpower to spot the lies of white supremacy and be ally in the struggle for racial justice! 

A century after the Tulsa Race Massacre, the last living survivors continue to seek compensation for both the horror they endured and the lasting impacts left in the wake of the riots. The white supremacist mob that descended upon Black Wall Street not only killed 300 Black residents but also destroyed 35 acres of commercial and residential property within the Greenwood district. Greenwood was a thriving Black neighborhood, and its destruction was an intentional act of economic violence to set back Black residents’ opportunities to build wealth, prosperity, and political power in the country that once enslaved their ancestors. In the Watchmen universe, tangible action is taken to compensate the descendants of the Massacre by offering them financial reparations through an easy, high-tech process. Watch Istou break down what racial repair looks like in the fictional Watchmen universe and a real-life example of a city doing the work of reparations—can you guess which one?