Passion project: Actor David Oyelowo fights to tell the Bass Reeves story
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David Oyelowo spent 8 years trying to get a film made about Bass Reeves, one of the first Black U.S. deputy marshals west of the Mississippi. And now? There’s "Lawmen: Bass Reeves." "That’s the power of Taylor Sheridan,” says writer/showrunner…