By Nellie Andreeva Co-Editor-in-Chief, TV Today marks the 99th anniversary of the Tulsa race massacre, one of worst acts of racial violence in American history.
In the 1921 attack, mobs of white residents attacked and ultimately destroyed the Greenwood District in Tulsa, Oklahoma, at that time the wealthiest black community in the United States, known as “Black Wall Street”.
The story of that community and its violent end is the subject of a documentary produced by LeBron James & Maverick Carter’s SpringHill Entertainment.
It is directed and executive produced by Salima Koroma (Black Rap). This year, the anniversary comes amid nationwide protests for racial justice over the death of George Floyd, an unarmed black man who died while being
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