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Michael Bakari Jordan (/bɑːˈkɑːri/ bah-KAR-ee; born February 9, 1987) is an American actor, producer, and director. His accolades include an Academy Award, three Actor Awards, and a Producers Guild Award, in addition to nominations for a British Academy Film Award, a Golden Globe Award and two Emmy Awards. Jordan was named one of the 100 most influential people in the world by Time in 2020 and 2023, People's Sexiest Man Alive in 2020, and The New York Times ranked him 15th on its list of the 25 greatest actors of the 21st century. Jordan initially broke out in television, playing Wallace in the first season of the HBO crime drama series The Wire (2002). He starred in the ABC soap opera All My Children (2003–2006) and the NBC sports drama series Friday Night Lights (2009–2011). He later starred in and produced the HBO television film Fahrenheit 451 (2018), for which he was nominated for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Television Movie. Jordan's film breakthrough came as Oscar Grant in Ryan Coogler's biopic Fruitvale Station (2013), for which his performance received critical praise. He earned further acclaim for his performances in Coogler's subsequent films, including Creed (2015), Black Panther (2018), and Sinners (2025); the latter earned him the Academy Award for Best Actor. Jordan reprised his role of Donnie Creed in Creed II (2018) and Creed III (2023), the latter of which also marked his directorial debut. His other films include Chronicle (2012), That Awkward Moment (2014), Fantastic Four (2015), and Just Mercy (2019). Aside from filmmaking, Jordan is also a co-owner of Premier League club AFC Bournemouth. Description above from the Wikipedia article Michael B. Jordan, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Greenwood, Tulsa, 1921. A thriving Black metropolis rises from the Oklahoma dust—lawyers, doctors, millionaires, and dreamers building a world white America refuses to see. When a chance elevator stumble between 19-year-old shoeshine boy Dick Rowland and white operator Sarah Page ignites a white mob fueled by a rabid newspaper headline, the powder keg explodes. Over 18 hours, 10,000 white rioters—armed, deputized, and airborne—burn 35 blocks to ash, murder hundreds, and erase a generation of wealth. But in the smoke, survivors forge an unbreakable vow: memory will outlast the flames. Spanning 1906 to 1921 and flashing forward to the 2001 Reparations Commission, Black Wall Street is the true story of America’s greatest act of domestic terrorism—and the refusal to let it be the final chapter.
