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Documentary connects the dots between Tulsa Riot, publisher in Buffalo’s Black press

The documentary “And a Shot Rang Out “tells the story of A.J. Smitherman, publisher of the Tulsa Star in Tulsa, Okla. The newspaper’s offices, along with Smitherman’s home, were destroyed during the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre … and who went on to start the Buffalo Star newspaper.

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Review: Will Emerald Fennell’s latest have you clutching your pearls or grabbing your tissues?

Director Emerald Fennell has made a name for herself through gorgeous cinematography with eye-rolling smug dialogue that makes you wish she directed silent films. So is she the right director to helm yet another adaptation of Emily Brontë’s “Wuthering Heights”? Reviewer Matthew Turner offers his thoughts.