Like many who watched Black Panther this year, you may have been equally amazed and impressed by its portrayals of black excellence. The film featured Wakanda – a country with vast and well-managed resources, an educated and sophisticated black population and superior technology. For many members of the black diaspora it was not just entertaining.
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Hank Gilliam is a white Tulsa news writer in his 40’s working for a local paper during the 1970’s. Tulsa, Oklahoma – and the country at large – is in the midst of major social change and Hank undergoes a mid-life crisis as he struggles to determine his new place in the world. His all-white suburban neighborhood is thrown for a loop when a black family moves next door to him. After the paper he works for is taken over by new management, his job is threatened unless he can come up with a provocative story. Almost on a dare, he decides to write about the Tulsa Race Riots, a tragic event which
Learn moreKT Alozie is an award-winning writer with a passion for all things history. He first learned about the Greenwood District of Tulsa by chance while reading a book on American History. Surprised that he had not heard about this before or learned about it in school (he has a Bachelors and two Masters degrees) he developed a keen interest in it and read everything he could about the famous Black Wall Street. A scriptwriter since the age of 17, he...
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