As protests continue all over the United States against racial violence against black people, LeBron James and his business partner Maverick Carter announced a new project about one of the biggest incidents of racial violence in the history of the nation, one that you very likely didn’t hear about in history class.
Writer Salima Koroma is developing a documentary for LeBron’s SpringHill Entertainment about the Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921 in the Tulsa neighborhood of Greenwood, colloquially known as the “Black Wall Street,” for the neighborhood’s affluence and financial success. However, those markers of success and the town’s growth became threats to their white neighbors, at a time of segregation, and it led to one of the worst racial massacres in American history and the decimation of the community.
In April, @limacake pitched us her vision to direct a documentary about Black Wall Street and The Tulsa Riot of 1921 – one of the worst incidents of racial violence in American history.
We knew we had to empower her to tell that story ✊🏿 #BlackLivesMatter #Dreamland @KingJames https://t.co/Ns0d3mDFoj
— springhillent (@SpringHillEnt) June 1, 2020
Thank you @limacake for partnering with us and this is American history and it’s time for things to change https://t.co/i5FEboaW4L
— Maverick Carter (@mavcarter) June 1, 2020
ABSOLUTELY EMPOWER @limacake!! Thank you 🙏🏾❤️✊🏾👑 https://t.co/sUmVqLDanE
— LeBron James (@KingJames) June 1, 2020
Many of the productions from LeBron and Maverick Carter’s SpringHill have been about black history in the United States, including “Shut Up and Dribble,” “Self Made: Inspired by the life of Madam C.J. Walker.” and “What’s My Name: Muhammad Ali.”
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