Project-21 Press Release
Project-21 has issued the following press release. We wanted to get it out on our blog so that everyone could read a bit about our activities in Tulsa this week.
For Immediate Release May 20, 2021
Free fine art portraits celebrate opening Greenwood Rising Center June 2, 2021
From 11:00 am to 2:00 pm adjacent to the Greenwood Cultural Center during its official opening on June 2, 2021 free fine art photo- graphic portraits will be taken and made available to anyone who wants to share per- sonal or family stories about the events of May 31-June 1, 1921, and its aftermath.
The research group Project-21 is sponsoring this pop-up photographic studio. Project-21 is a diverse group of experts who have looked at the events in Tulsa from a variety of van- tage points based on their experience and training in international archeology, law en- forcement investigation, firefighting and emergency management, GIS mapping,
strategic economics, law, international hu- manitarian operations, intelligence analysis, policing and military operations. All have participated in disaster response to events that include 9/11, the WTO riots in Seattle and earthquake response in Haiti. Project-21 seeks to capture the faces alive today who can authentically speak for the Greenwood Community as it existed before and after 1921, and the voices of those who may wish to tell the story from their unique perspective, perhaps stories never fully contextualized or humanized.
Professional Photographer Frank Stopa has a unique portrait style. The fss photography
website shows Frank!s ability to connect with his complex subjects!"dignity and stories.https://www.fssphotography.com
Who is Project-21? Sadly, mass atrocities are a global and domestic phenomena. Too
many have occurred without historical truths emerging. Human societies cannot learn from what history never reveals. Project-21 seeks to increase the knowledge data base of the 1921 Tulsa event. Project-21 is a comprehen- sive research and investigation project that will use modern technology and archeologi- cal, geographic, intelligence and investigative techniques not previously available.
Project-21!s intent is to augment the exten- sive data available, to produce a more precise and nuanced chronology, and to reveal
known and new causes and outcomes. Com- puter-assisted data analysis may identify more accurate information on the location of mass graves and narrow the search area, as well as reveal heretofore unknown truths. The methods prototyped for Tulsa will be used for inquiry of similar events, globally.
Three intentions of the project are to mark an important time and place in history, search for, discover and document factual events and offer the documented, professionally re- searched recounting of the events of 1921 to the city and cultures of Tulsa to use in mov- ing into the future.
Contact Information: For more information about our event and Project-21 in general, visit the website, https://www.project-21.org, email info@project-21.org or call 424-360-9063.
