BART Police Kill an Unarmed Man, Oscar Grant, on New Year’s Day
by Guest Contributor M. Dot, originally published at Model Minority Oakland haunts me. Last week, I started trying to convert my essays on the crack epidemic into a memoir and the above sentence came...
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Words + Images: The Oscar Grant Aftermath
Compiled by Site Lead Arturo R. García A white former transit officer was convicted of involuntary manslaughter Thursday in the videotaped shooting death of an unarmed black man on an Oakland train...
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How Oakland’s Hip-Hop Artists Made Oscar Grant One of Their Own
By Guest Contributor Eric Arnold, cross-posted from Colorlines I am hip-hop!—KRS-One I am Oscar Grant!—anonymous graffiti As the Oscar Grant saga has played out over the past 22 months, the Bay Area...
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Quoted: The New York Times on the BART shooting of Charles Hill
But in the wake of Mr. Hill’s death, the BART police department is once again facing disapproval, similar to what it endured after Johannes Mehserle shot Oscar Grant III in the back at the Fruitvale...
View ArticleRise and Decolonize – PDX Rings in 2012
Starting off 2012 with action, Decolonize PDX released a statement on New Year’s Day by framing January 1st as a day of rememberance for those lost to state violence. And who is this collective?...
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The Devaluation Of Black Life
By Guest Contributor Shanelle Matthews, cross-posted from Reproductive Justice The deaths of Emmett Till, Sean Bell, Oscar Grant and Trayvon Martin counter the narrative that all human life is...
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Entertainment Roundup 1.18-24.13
by Arturo Garcia and Joseph Lamour (Note: NSFW language in the clip above) R.I.P. Robert F. Chew: Just wanted to take a moment to acknowledge the passing of Mr. Chew, best known for playing Proposition...
View ArticleSundance Film Festival: Fruitvale Scores Big After Gaining Distribution
By Arturo R. García TRIGGER WARNING: Video contains footage from the shooting of Oscar Grant between :38-:58, between 3:25 and 4:02 and between 13:11 and 13:28. Last week we mentioned that Ryan...
View ArticleWatch: Fruitvale Station Has A Trailer And An Opening Date
By Arturo R. García When last we left Ryan Coogler’s Fruitvale, it had earned both the top prizes and a distribution deal at the Sundance Film Festival. Now known as Fruitvale Station, the film is...
View ArticleOpen Thread: Fruitvale Station
This is the true story of Oscar, a 22-year-old Bay Area resident who wakes up on the morning of December 31, 2008 and feels something in the air. Not sure what it is, he takes it as a sign to get...
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Elegy: The Racialicious Review for Fruitvale Station
By Arturo R. García Oscar Grant (Michael B. Jordan) and his daughter Tatiana (Ariana Neal) share a moment in “Fruitvale Station.” Image via nyfcc.com. Fruitvale Station reminds us that the story of...
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