Words by Andre Kettle
Houston Rockets guard is taking his talent to film field. The NBA superstar is set to produce a series about the 1921 massacre, the 18-hour mob attacks on home and businesses in the predominately black Greenwood neighborhood of Tulsa, Oklahoma.
The name of the series will be titled “Terror In Tulsa: The Rise And Fall Of Black Wall Street,” according to Variety. Russell serve as executive producer and will be collaborating with documentary filmmaker Stanley Nelson and the production company Blackfin.
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The former Oklahoma City Thunder player for 11 years before being traded to Houston in July 2019, tweeted “ spending 11 years in Oklahoma opened my eyes to the rich and sordid history of the state…I learned about the heartbreaking events that happened in Tulsa nearly 100 years ago, I knew this was a story I wanted to tell.”
Considered one of the nation’s worst incidents of racial violence, the reported death total was 36, but in 2001 Oklahoma commission said it’s likely that 100-300 people were killed.
