Graham Nash - Dirty Little Secret

When former President Trump scheduled a campaign rally in Tulsa, OK, on June 19th of last year, his campaign faced immediate criticism because Tulsa’s Greenwood district was the site of a major race massacre in 1921, while the rally fell on “Juneteenth“—a holiday celebrating the emancipation of enslaved African Americans. Songwriter and recording artist Graham Nash, immediately dusted off a song he had written two decades earlier about the Tulsa massacre, “Dirty Little Secret”, and sought an opportunity to make it part of this year’s centennial celebration of the Greenwood tragedy. Nash turned to celebrated animator, Jeff Scher, with whom he had collaborated on a previous video project, and charged Scher with creating an animated film that would serve as both a reminder of the horrible events of a century ago and our country’s contemporary struggles with acts of racism.