*Dream Hampton, the executive producer behind Lifetime’s docuseries “Surviving R. Kelly,” has announced that her new project will focus on Black Wall Street and the Tulsa race massacre of 1921.
Hampton, who received an Emmy nomination for “Surviving R. Kelly,” will direct and executive produce Cineflix’s docuseries that will follow Tulsa mayor G.T. Bynum’s mission to find the mass graves of the over 300 Black Americans who were killed by racist white mobs nearly a century ago, per Complex.Â
“After 99 years of silence, Black Wall Street needs to be told, and there’s no one better than Dream Hampton to bring it to life,” said J.C. Mills, president of Cineflix Productions. “Driven by social justice, her sensitive yet hard-hitting approach will honor the fallen and help heal a wound by shining a light on a story that’s been brushed under the rug for far too long. If the recent tragic stories of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and Ahmaud Arbery have shown us anything, it’s that there’s still much work to be done.”
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I was born in the 70s, so excuse me if I just stick with Black Power.
— dream hampton (@dreamhampton) June 1, 2020
Hampton added, “Black people from Tulsa have refused to let the Greenwood District Massacre be erased from history. As the centennial approaches, they are still searching for a mass grave they believe contains the bodies of the victims of the Black Wall Street Massacre, and they are still demanding reparations,” she continued. “I’m inspired to learn this history from them, and to tell their ongoing story.”
We previously reported, a team of forensic archaeologists at the University of Oklahoma believe they have found a possible mass grave site from the 1921 Tulsa massacre at a city cemetery.Â
Geophysical scanning identified two spots at the Oaklawn Cemetery that might have bodies of those killed in the nation’s least talked about race riots.
Tulsa officials investigating the sites previously said that the next phase could include excavation and an investigation into causes of death, Washington Post reported.
“The only way to move forward in our work to bring about reconciliation in Tulsa is by seeking the truth honestly,” Mayor Bynum said in a statement. “We knew opening this investigation 98 years later, there would be both unknowns and truths to uncover. But we are committed to exploring what happened in 1921 through this collective and transparent process filling gaps in our city’s history, and providing healing and justice to our community.”
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