Courtney B. Vance, Angela Bassett Teaming Up With MTV on Scripted Tulsa Race Massacre Series

reads the petition, which currently boasts over 12,000 signatures on Change.org. It calls for the removal of the controversial segment, in which the talk show hosts forces celebrities to answer difficult questions or eat “gross” foods.

James Corden has come under fire for promoting anti-Asian sentiment with a controversial game on The Late Late Show in the US.

More than 12,000 people have signed a petition to ban a “culturally insensitive” segment from James Corden’s Late Late Show.

Christopher Vourlias Russian production and distribution powerhouse Central Partnership and the Latin American film group BF Films have announced their first co-production, Variety can reveal.“Schizophrenic” is a psychological horror film set in the real world of severe mental disorder.

Marvel Studios will be releasing “Shang-Chi & The Legend of The Ten Rings” on September 3, and there have already been early parallels made between the upcoming Asian-American superhero project starring Simu Liu to Ryan Coogler‘s landmark billion-dollar hit “Black Panther.” The studio has been increasingly studio pushing forward with high-budgeted blockbusters made by a group of diverse creatives like director Destin Daniel Cretton.

New York Times, Hanks said he and many others were never told about the massacre in school, with American History classes instead devoted to topics like how Britain’s Stamp Act helped lead to the Boston Tea Party.“For all my study, I never read a page of any school history book about how, in 1921, a mob of white people burned down a place called Black Wall Street, killed as many as 300 of its Black citizens and displaced thousands of Black Americans who lived in Tulsa,” he wrote.“My experience

Netflix’s Never Have I Ever will replace Chrissy Teigen. The Cravings author decided to quit her role on the Mindy Kaling-created series as backlash from her bullying comments to Courtney Stodden continues.

New York Times op-ed urging Americans to study the Tulsa Race Massacre, which they very likely didn’t learn about in school.

Tom Hanks wants all Americans to be educated on the Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921.

Joe Biden is calling on all Americans to reflect on the 100th anniversary of the horrific Tulsa Race Massacre.

President Joe Biden declared a Day of Remembrance on Monday to mark the 100th anniversary of the Tulsa Race massacre, an event that left as many Black Americans killed and nearly 10,000 homeless.

Editor’s note: A hundred years ago today, after an attempt to lynch a Black teenager accused of raping a white woman was stymied, a rabid white mob numbering in the thousands descended on the affluent and predominantly African-American Greenwood neighborhood in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Over two days, more than 300 women, children and men were murdered by the mob.

Known to many as the Queen of Soul, singer Aretha Franklin inspired a generation with the gospel-infused sound of hits like Think and (You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman. Releasing her debut single in 1967 following her signing to Atlantic Records, Franklin proceeded to unveil 73 singles that charted on the Billboard Hot 100 – the US equivalent of the UK Singles Chart.

Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921, one of the most horrific tragedies in American history.LeBron James and Russell Westbrook are among those releasing documentaries based on the racially motivated massacre.

UPDATE: The canceled commemoration of the 1921 Tulsa, Oklahoma Black Wall Street Massacre boiled down to money demands by the living survivors, according to NBC News.

One hundred years ago this week, a white mob attacked the Greenwood neighborhood of segregated Tulsa, OK, a thriving business district known as “Black Wall Street” where many of the city’s roughly 10,000 Black residents lived. The two-day spree of murder, assault, arson and looting became one of the worst incidents of racial violence in American history.

The commission behind the centennial memorial of the 1921 Tulsa Black Wall Street massacre said today that its Remember & Rise event set for Monday has been canceled.

TULSA, Okla. -- Next week's headline event marking the 100th anniversary of the Tulsa Race Massacre was canceled suddenly Thursday, with organizers citing “unexpected circumstances with entertainers and speakers.”In a statement, the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre Centennial Commission did not specify the circumstances that led to the cancellation of the event scheduled for Monday at ONEOK Field in Tulsa.