A screen recording of the interactive article experience in which scrolling guides the reader through the animated 3D explainer.

What the Tulsa Massacre Destroyed

Organization: The New York Times

Date: May 24, 2021

To commemorate the centennial of the Tulsa race massacre, I co-led the reporting for this important story with Anjali Sighvi. Together with fellow graphics editors, we analyzed century-old archival maps, city directories, census data, newspaper clippings and survivor accounts, to reconstruct the Greenwood neighborhood destroyed in the massacre.

In parallel to the reporting, I collaborated on storyboarding the visual narrative and animated the 3D scenes featuring the close-up of the Greenwood Avenue and Archer Street intersection.

Data collected and created for this story was shared with the public on github.

To learn more about the process of creating this visual story, visit our making-of article for the New York Time’s Open blog, “How We Reconstructed the Neighborhood Destroyed by the Tulsa Race Massacre”.