Bassett Vance, MTV team on Tulsa drama
Angela Bassett and Courtney B Vance’s US prodco Bassett Vance Productions, MTV Entertainment Studios and writer Nathan Alan Davis have teamed up to produce a limited series about the Tulsa Race Massacre.
Courtney B Vance
The series will be the first dramatic retelling of the story of the Greenwood district in Tulsa, Oklahoma, which in 1921 was the wealthiest black community in the US, known as the Black Wall Street, until white mobs attacked black residents and businesses.
It is also the first project from Bassett Vance Productions as part of the deal made with MTV Entertainment Studios in 2020.
MTV Entertainment Studios and Bassett Vance Productions today announced that Award-winning playwright Nathan Alan Davis will write a scripted original limited-series inspired by the Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921, considered the single worst incident of racial violence in American history.
A century after the devastating event that left hundreds of Black people dead and entire homes and businesses destroyed, the series will be the first dramatic adaptation devoted to telling the story of Greenwood district in Tulsa which at that time was the wealthiest Black community in the United States and known as Black Wall Street.”
“As storytellers - together with Courtney, Angela and Nathan - we have the privilege of shining a light on a devastating event in our history that is important, necessary and still resonates 100 years later,” said Nina L. Diaz, President of Content and Chief Creative Officer at MTV Entertainment Group. “This partnership underscores our shared commitment to
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