America in Black will debut Sunday, Feb. 19 on BET and VH1. The show features CBS News journalists reporting longform investigations, one-on-one newsmaker interviews, and much more.
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CBS News’ Gayle King Anchors “TULSA 1921: An American Tragedy”
A ONE-HOUR SPECIAL MARKING THE 100TH ANNIVERSARY OF A TWO-DAY SLAUGHTER THAT LEFT AS MANY AS 300 PEOPLE DEAD AND DESTROYED A BLACK BUSINESS DISTRICT, AIRING MONDAY, MAY 31 AT 9PM ON YOUR CBS32
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Gayle King, co-host of CBS THIS MORNING, will anchor TULSA 1921: AN AMERICAN TRAGEDY, a one-hour CBS News primetime special marking the 100th anniversary of the Tulsa Massacre, to be broadcast Monday, May 31 9PM on CBS32.
Featuring first-person storytelling by 17 survivors, descendants, historians and thought leaders, TULSA 1921: AN AMERICAN TRAGEDY will look at the worst massacre on American soil ever, which unfolded on May 31 and June 1, 1921, in Tulsa, Oklahoma. On those two days, white Tulsans attacked, killed, destroyed and pillaged their Black neighbors, leaving about 300 people dead and razing a business district in the Greenwood section of Tulsa known as Black Wall Street.
Aniah Blanchard was a 19-year-old college student and the step-daughter of UFC fighter Walt Harris when she disappeared and was murdered in Alabama in the fall of 2019. Now, her grief-stricken parents are fighting to get a new law passed because her alleged killer was out on the streets even though he was arrested for kidnapping and beating two men earlier that year.
CBS News special correspondent James Brown and 48 HOURS investigate the shocking disappearance and murder of Aniah Blanchard, and her family’s quest for justice in “Fighting for Aniah” to be broadcast March 6 (10:00 PM ET/PT) on the CBS Television Network.