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Nellie Andreeva Co-Editor-in-Chief, TVBlackfin, an eOne company, has partnered with Peabody and Emmy-winning director Stanley Nelson and NBA star Russell Westbrook for docuseries Terror In Tulsa: The Rise And Fall of Black Wall Street.The news comes days after the 99th anniversary of the Tulsa race massacre, one of worst acts of racial violence in American history, in which mobs of white residents attacked and ultimately destroyed the Greenwood District in Tulsa, Oklahoma, at that time the

Will Thorne Staff WriterAfter leading a Black Lives Matter protest against racial injustice over the weekend, NBA star Russell Westbrook is producing a project on “the single worst incident of racial violence in American history.”Westbrook is teaming with celebrated documentary filmmaker Stanley Nelson for a series on the Tulsa race massacre of 1921, titled “Terror In Tulsa: The Rise And Fall of Black Wall Street.” The series is described as both an exploration of America’s past, and also a

Dino-Ray Ramos Associate Editor/ReporterShowtime Documentary Films has set  Attica from Emmy winner Stanley Nelson (Freedom Riders, The Murder of Emmett Till). The timely feature-length docu chronicles the five-day prison rebellion that transpired in the fall of 1971 in upstate New York and still stands as the largest and deadliest the country has ever witnessed.

Ask Stanley Nelson about the key to his longevity as a documentary filmmaker and he doesn’t hesitate with his response: “Luck.”

Stanley Nelson, whose films Freedom Summer, Freedom Riders and The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution chronicle the African American experience, will receive the 2020 outstanding achievement award at the Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival.Nelson will be in Toronto to take part in a keynote conversation and a partial retrospective of his films during Hot Docs' April 30 to May 10 run."His (Nelson's) contribution to documentary is unprecedented, with his powerful films