John Legend is lobbying streaming service officials at Hulu to reconsider optioning his planned Black Wall Street drama series because the topic couldn’t be more timely.
The All of Me hitmaker, who has also found success as a film and TV producer, had been developing the project with Ride Along actress Tika Sumpter back in 2016, with the series focusing on the Tulsa, Oklahoma community of Greenwood, one of America’s most famous affluent black neighbourhoods in the early 20th century.
The area, nicknamed Black Wall Street, was destroyed by race riots in 1921, when more than 300 African-American locals were killed by racist white citizens.
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