“Fruitvale Station” is not just the name of the movie, it’s the actual Bay Area Transit Station (BART) where the murder of 22-year-old Oscar Grant took place on New Year’s Day 2009. Grant was heading home to Oakland after a night of partying in San Francisco when a scuffle on the train led transit police […]
OMG! Insider Kevin Frazier talks with the TJMS crew about celebrity reactions to the George Zimmerman verdict including Jennifer Hudson, Steph Curry and more. Plus, he explains the correlation between “Fruitvale Station” and the Oscar Grant death to Trayvon Martin’s death.
So much for the over-hyped notion of a post-racial America: It’s open season on black men. Black America took an emotional gut punch Saturday night after George Zimmerman was found not guilty of racially profiling unarmed 17-year-old Trayvon Martin and then gunning him down on a rainy street on February 26, 2012 in Sanford, Florida. […]
This year at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival, one independent film presented by young African American filmmaker Ryan Coogler stood out among others. The film, Fruitvale Station, was the winner of the Grand Jury Prize for dramatic feature and the Audience Award for U.S. Dramatic film. Coogler presented his work with an unapologetic and raw […]
In 2009, a young man named Oscar Grant III was headed home to Oakland from New Year’s Eve partying in neighboring San Francisco. He never made it. After a fight in a subway car, the BART (Bay Area Rapid Transit) train was stopped and officers responding to the scene detained and handcuffed several young men […]
Jacque Reid goes “Inside Her Story” with Wanda Johnson, the mother of the slain Oscar Grant, about the film “Fruitvale Station” and her son’s death. Plus, Ms. Johnson expresses the fears she had about the film being created, gives her take on Michael B. Jordan and Octavia Spencer‘s Oscar worthy portrayals of she and her son. […]
