In the early 20th century, African Americans built something extraordinary in the Greenwood section of Tulsa, Oklahoma: a thriving community of Black-owned businesses that prospered to such a degre…
century, African Americans built something extraordinary in the Greenwood section of Tulsa, Oklahoma: a thriving community of Black-owned businesses that prospered to such a degree it came to be known as Black Wall Street.
, directed by Salima Koroma. The documentary from CNN Films and The SpringHill Company screened as part of Deadline’s“I first learned about Greenwood when I was like 22… when I was in college, specifically in a class about African-American communities,” Koroma explained during a discussion ofafter the screening.
Depictions of the Tulsa Massacre in two separate HBO fictional series helped bring more notice to the atrocity., other things in the zeitgeist had happened to draw some attention to this story,” Henderson said, “but none as deep as our film goes.”shows how the Greenwood neighborhood has struggled since the frenzy of violence razed homes and block after block of businesses. It has been consistently deprived of resources and the city ran a freeway through it.
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