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Salimah Karoma, welcome to the Daily Social Distancing Show.

Thank you so much, Trevor, for having me on.

It's an actual pleasure having you on because you are one of the most exciting documentary

filmmakers working today and your new project is bound to get people talking.

Dreamland, the burning of Black Wall Street.

I mean, this is a story that shockingly, very few people in America and around the world

actually know about and when you look at it, it seems like one of the most consequential

stories in and around Black people building Black wealth and then having everything taken

away from them merely because of the color of their skin.

The question I would have first is, why the title Dreamland when it's about a massacre

that was so painful in America?

Ooh!

What a great question, right?

And we tell stories about Black people in America.

A lot of times the stories are, they are dire, they are sad, they are trauma and poverty

and all the bad things that have happened to us in this country.

And that is true.

You know, this story about Tulsa, this massacre is a story about something bad that happened

to Black people here in America, but it's also a story about this place that was a dream

that felt like a dreamland, right?

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