Photo: Alvin C. Krupnick Co./Library of Congress (AP)
The first time most (white) Americans likely heard about the Tulsa Race Massacre was when HBO’s
Watchmen opened its first episode aired on October 20, 2019 with the devastating reenactment of the death and destruction that took place on May 31-June 1 in Greenwood, the Black neighborhood known as “Black Wall Street.”
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Or if they missed that, HBO came through again when its genre-bending, horror/sci-fi series
Lovecraft Country featured an entire episode in which the main characters traveled back in time to reconnect with their ancestors just as fire and white rage began to consume the Black community. (And shoutout to popular culture for doing a better job of teaching