“When I discovered everything that I discovered, it was like opening a treasure chest,” Carlos Moreno said. “There would be a little piece in one book and another little piece in another book and when you put all these pieces together, you get this picture of a very rich life that this person lived.”
When Moreno, a graphic designer and community activist, moved to Tulsa from San Jose, Calif., in 1998, he never imagined he’d be sharing stories from the Greenwood elders more than 20 years later.
With his first book The Victory Of Greenwood premiering in the year of the Tulsa Race Massacre centennial, Moreno’s hope is that those who read it grasp that the victims were real people.
Listen to the full interview here.
NextGen Radio worked on a collection of audio and digital stories highlighting the experiences of people in the 100-year aftermath of what is believed to be the single worst incident of racial violence in American history. This project was produced in April 2021 in partnership with Oklahoma State University School of Media and Strategic Communications and KOSU. Our reporters are students in Oklahoma.
The Next Generation Radio Project is a 5-day digital journalism and audio training project. Their distance learning program is designed to give competitively selected participants the opportunity to learn how to report, remotely, and produce their own non-narrated audio piece and multimedia story. Those chosen for the project are paired with a professional journalist who serves as their mentor for the week.