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The events during the Tulsa Race Massacre will be revisited through a limited series featuring Angela Bassett.

MTV has partnered with Angela Bassett and Courtney B. Vance's to produce a limited series about the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre.

Tulsa Massacre Limited Series Coming From Angela Bassett, Courtney B. Vance, and MTV Entertainment Studios

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 reside...

Courtney B. Vance will also star in the series.

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 Greenwo...

Angela Bassett, Courtney B. Vance Set Tulsa Race Massacre Series at MTV Entertainment Studios, Nathan Alan Davis to Write (EXCLUSIVE) Variety 5/24/2021 Variety has learned exclusively. News of the series comes just before the 100 year anniversary of the massacre, which left hundreds of Black people dead and entire homes and businesses destroyed. The series tells the story of Greenwood district in Tulsa, which at that time was the wealthiest Black community in the United States and known as �...