An important story told with baffling inconsistency. Greenwood Rising gestures at history but never quite grasps it—turning the rise of Black Wall Street into a collage of anachronisms, stock footage, and missed opportunities. The real Greenwood deserved more care, more clarity, and far more weight.
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Greenwood Rising: The Rise of Black Wall Street (2024)

Greenwood Rising: The Rise of Black Wall Street is a thought-provoking piece, though perhaps not in the way the filmmakers intended. When I first saw O.W. Gurley’s (Darius McCrary) wife, Emma (Fati…

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