Emmys 2020: Watchmen writer Cord Jefferson
Of the many ways in which HBO''s Watchmen remixed the comic book source material by Alan Moore, perhaps no divergence was more powerful than the reveal that Hooded Justice, the first masked hero, was a Black man. That man, Will Reeves, had already been through hell before he joined the New York City police force—he was one of the few survivors of the Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921, which saw ...