Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921, one of the most horrific tragedies in American history.LeBron James and Russell Westbrook are among those releasing documentaries based on the racially motivated massacre.
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Terry Flores The filmmakers behind Sony Pictures Animation’s “The Mitchells vs. the Machines will participate in a free, virtual PreVIEW talk on Friday, May 14, beginning at 10 a.m.
Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921, one of the most horrific tragedies in American history.LeBron James and Russell Westbrook are among those releasing documentaries based on the racially motivated massacre.
Working from home required some creative solutions–something Julianne Moore knows all about.
UPDATE: The canceled commemoration of the 1921 Tulsa, Oklahoma Black Wall Street Massacre boiled down to money demands by the living survivors, according to NBC News.
One hundred years ago this week, a white mob attacked the Greenwood neighborhood of segregated Tulsa, OK, a thriving business district known as “Black Wall Street” where many of the city’s roughly 10,000 Black residents lived. The two-day spree of murder, assault, arson and looting became one of the worst incidents of racial violence in American history.
The commission behind the centennial memorial of the 1921 Tulsa Black Wall Street massacre said today that its Remember & Rise event set for Monday has been canceled.
raced to the house on Peel Road, Thortonhall, around 1am on Wednesday May 19 after three vehicles at the property were set alight. A garage was also extensively damaged after catching fire with the family, including Lawwell's daughter and baby granddaughter, were forced to flee. Officers are now urgently trying to trace a light coloured, or silver, hatchback, possibly a Mercedes A Class or similar model, and a white Fiat 500.
Courtney B. Vance and Angela Bassett to produce a limited scripted series about the 1921 tragedy. The untitled drama will be written by playwright Nathan Alan Davis and depict events surrounding the two days when white residents of Tulsa, Oklahoma, attacked and destroyed the prosperous Greenwood District, which was known as Black Wall Street at the time, and left hundreds of Black Americans dead and thousands homeless or displaced.
Chris Willman Music WriterWas 1971 the best single year for recorded popular music, ever? Or merely the year in which it reached peak cultural significance? Maybe, just maybe, the answer could be: both.
We are all adjusting to life with a little bit more freedom as lockdown restrictions ease across the country. Irish star Aoibhín Garrihy, for one, has been tackling unknown territory for the first time in a while and that’s going shopping with her children.
For many actors working today, the dream of landing one major superhero role seems incredibly difficult. But then you have Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson, who not only has his upcoming starring role in “Black Adam” for Warner Bros.
“The Ground Breaking: An American City and Its Search for Justice,” by Scott Ellsworth (Dutton)No one really knows what 19-year-old Dick Rowland did or said to Sarah Page in Tulsa, Oklahoma, when he rode the elevator she operated to the fourth floor of the Drexel Building, the nearest place to Rowland’s shoeshine stand where a Black person could use the washroom. But the 17-year-old Page screamed, Rowland ran and police were called.
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NBC has ordered yet another Dick Wolf series, this time in the reality TV genre. The network has greenlit LA Fire and Rescue, a docuseries from the producers of Wolf’s Chicago Fire, that takes a deep dive into the stories of the firefighters in the Los Angeles County Fire Department, who put their lives on the line daily.
Parasite director’s first full-length animated film.ScreenDaily reports that the film will feature CGI animation by production company 4th Creative Party, who has worked with Bong on visual effects for his films The Host, Snowpiercer, and Okja.
Patrick Frater Asia Bureau ChiefBong Joon-ho, director of last year’s Oscar-winning “Parasite,” has announced that he is working on a Korean animated film about humans and deep water sea creatures.He had been working on the screenplay with Korean company 4th Creative Party since 2018. The script was completed in January.Bong is also at work on the script for an English-language film which is understood to be set between the U.K.
Chris Willman Music WriterThe Bob Dylan Center in Tulsa, Oklahoma will open on May 10, 2022, representatives announced Wednesday, as they brought into clearer focus just what fans and students can expect when the facility opens in one year.Although a release avoids using the word “museum,” it’s clear the BDC is designed to stand as the ultimate repository of Dylan artifacts, with the promise of more than 100,000 “exclusive culture treasures” on view.
OWN: Oprah Winfrey Network will explore the rise and fall of Black Wall Street in Tulsa, Oklahoma with a two-part special event OWN Spotlight: The Legacy of Black Wall Street.
NEW YORK -- Not unexpectedly given the subject matter, HBO's two-part documentary “The Crime of the Century” opens with a body bag.It contained a man from San Diego — his remains carried away in the predawn hours after overdosing on fentanyl — one of nearly a half million Americans to die from opioid abuse since 2001.Filmmaker Alex Gibney quickly widens the lens, however, for an explanation of how the drugs that caused the crisis came to be, how companies aggressively promoted and distributed
It’s a moment Fair City viewers have been waiting for since finding out the news a couple of weeks ago that Fr Liam is actually the biological father to Hayley.