This upcoming documentary finally tells the story of one of the single worst acts of racial violence in American history -- the violent demise of Black Wall Street
, I had to answer the question, ‘What is the pervasive sort of anxiety in America right now?’” Lindelof. “And it was impossible, as all these things were happening -- not just Charlottesville but everything was happening through the lens of race and it felt like there was a great reckoning happening in our country, overdue and necessary.
So when it came to writing the series, starring Regina King as one of its titular masked heroes, Lindelof stayed true to the graphic novel’sAmerica’s ongoing 200-year-plus history. While Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons tackled the Cold War with Russia, the Richard Nixon presidency and Vietnam War, Lindelof took on the racial divide and recent controversies surrounding law enforcement by rooting King’s character, Angela Abar, in the real-life history of Tulsa.
The end result is a wildly imaginative series that doesn’t hide the brutality of what happened in real life at the time.
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