Russell Westbrook to produce a docuseries on the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre

The Hollywood Reporter

The NBA superstar will help mark the 100th anniversary of the Tulsa Race Massacre, a "nearly buried history" that HBO's Watchmen revived last year. Westbrook will produce Terror in Tulsa: The Rise and Fall of Black Wall Street, chronicling the two-day massacre in 1921 where over 300 African-Americans were killed and thousands more were displaced as the once-prosperous Greenwood District, known by locals as Black Wall Street, was set ablaze. The news comes one week after Surviving R. Kelly director dream hampton was announced as the director of a similar docuseries titled Black Wall Street. Documentarian Stanley Nelson, who's directed films on Emmett Till, the Black Panthers, Jesse Owens and the Freedom Riders, will direct and produce Terror in Tulsa. The docuseries will Westbrook learned of the tragedy during his 11 seasons with the Oklahoma City Thunder. "It’s upsetting that the atrocities that transpired then are still so relevant today. It’s important we uncover the buried stories of African Americans in this country," he said in a statement. "We must amplify them now more than ever if we want to create change moving forward."