This translation has been automatically generated and has not been verified for accuracy.Dreamland: The Burning of Black Wall Street is a new documentary that explores the history of Black Wall Street and the violent events of late May and June 1921 in Tulsa, Oklahoma, that resulted in the slaughter of hundreds of the city's African American residents.premiered on HBO, and things in the United States have been different since.
Promoted somewhat confusingly as a “remix” by writer/producer Damon Lindelof, of a comic book series created by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons, the series offered an alternative, fantastical history of the United States in the 20th century. It started with what looked like real footage of a real event – the Tulsa race massacre of 1921. For many viewers, the question was this: “Did that really happen?” In the days and weeks that followed they found the answer was a resounding, “Yes.
Those few minutes of footage and the way the massacre was woven into the storyline amounted to an unnerving revelation. By the time of the Emmy Awards in September, 2020, the world had been roiled by protests following the killing of George Floyd, andhad 26 Emmy nominations, winning 11. Deservedly. This strange, fraught series lit a fuse and exposed an incident in American history that had been buried and ignored.
takes a more considered, solemn approach. Mainly it looks at the anniversary through the perspectives of activists and local politicians in Tulsa today, and the long, long battle even to acknowledge that the massacre happened. Reported by The Washington Post’s DeNeen L. Brown, the program sets out to give context and the context is contemporary relevance. “Stories have power and if they’re told, they can change the future and they can provide some healing,” Brown says.
Survivors and descendants of the Tulsa race massacre reflect on the horrific attack 100 years later in Tulsa 1921: An American Tragedy. is hosted by Gayle King and more plainspoken and angry than you might expect from a network special. It is emphatic about what happened and features eyewitness accounts from survivors and descendants, who share their sometimes searingly emotional accounts of the loss of family members and disintegration of prosperousness.
It is theater... so fitting