Ashleigh Di Tonto, Senior Vice President of Development for Trailblazer Studios, and executive producer added: “It is an honor getting to spend time with these truly remarkable pioneers and their direct descendants.'
OWN: Oprah Winfrey Network and Trailblazer Studios have teamed up for the OWN Spotlight event
The Legacy of Black Wall Street.
The two-part special will premiere on non-fiction streamer Discovery+ June 1 and June 8, in addition to broadcasting on OWN at 9 p.m. ET/PT.
The Legacy of Black Wall Street tracks the rise of Black Wall Street in Oklahoma’s Greenwood District up until the tragic 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre that destroyed the 36-block booming business epicenter.
The special tells the story through the lives of five individuals who were there in the early 1900s: Loula Williams, Augusta Stradford, Dr. Andrew C Jackson, Drusilla Dunjee Houston and A.J. Smitherman.
OWN two-part special to honor pioneers of Black Wall Street
Exclusive: The special is set to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre
Per a recent announcement,
OWN is set to air a two-part special honoring the pioneers of Black Wall Street, shedding light on an area of Black history often neglected in mainstream media.
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Oprah Winfrey Network has announced a new two-part series set to debut in June. Honoring the 100th Anniversary of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre,
The Legacy of Black Wall Street, “tracks the rise of Black Wall Street in Oklahoma’s Greenwood District up until the tragic 1921 Tulsa race massacre that destroyed the 36-block booming business epicenter.” The special is set to follow the Black pioneers who went out West 100 years ago and connect them to Black pioneers of today who are currently residing in Greenwood.
Rolling Stone Poetry and Jazz Meet in a Vision of Tulsa’s Past and Future
Fire in Little Africa’s debut single, “Shining,” features some of Oklahoma’s strongest voices
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When a group of hip-hop artists from Tulsa, Oklahoma, began work on the collaborative project
Fire in Little Africa last year, they had a dual purpose: The album is meant both to etch their hometown’s history into an artistic monument, honoring the 100th anniversary of one of America’s worst acts of racist violence, and to promote a thriving local arts scene that is happening right now in the present day. “The whole point of making this album is because we need representation from people from here, people who live here, eat here, spend here,” Tulsa rapper Steph Simon told
Philbook Museum of Art
TheRese Aduni has been hard at work on her documentary, Rebuilding Black Wall Street. The film uses 16mm film footage shot by TheRese s father and chronicles the men and women who rebuilt Greenwood in the aftermath of 1921. This episode also features artist William Cordova, one of the Greenwood Art Project s two lead artists. Co-hosted by GAP Project Director, Jerica Wortham.
Hosted by Jeff Martin with Philbrook Museum of Art and produced by Rich Fisher with Public Radio Tulsa.
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