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Well, it looks like eating in public has been added to the long list of things that Black people can’t do in America.

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The horrific stabbing death of 18-year-old Nia Wilson at a BART subway train station in California over the weekend has rocked the nation while setting the stage for a massive manhunt for the suspect. John Cowell, a white man who was seen on surveillance video at the scene of the crime, has been arrested.

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The utter mention of the name Oscar Grant still exposes an unhealed wound in the minds of many who witnessed his fatal and tragic demise in person and online. Now it seems like history has repeated itself–with a more sinister twist. A Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) police officer has accidentally shot and killed his […]

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It’s been three years since police gunned down Oscar Grant at a Bay Area Rapid Transit station, but his story has not been forgotten.  A major motion picture chronicling the life and death of the Oakland, Calif. resident is in the works. Forrest Whitaker will produce the film alongside his Significant Productions partner, Nina Yang. […]

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Oscar Grant’s uncle has rejected the apology of Johannes Mehserle, the man convicted of killing his unarmed nephew in cold blood. “He can write the letter after he spends 14 years in prison.” As previously reported, former Bay Area Rapid Transit officer Johannes Mehserle was convicted Thursday July 8 of involuntary manslaughter in the death […]

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Johannes Mehserle, the Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) cop convicted on Thursday of involuntary manslaughter for killing Oscar Grant, an unarmed transit rider on New Years Day 2009, has released a statement apologizing for the crime. His statement reads: I don’t know what the jury in this case is going to decide, but I hope […]

Federal prosecutors have decided to step in to investigate the shooting death of Oscar Grant by a white police officer on an Oakland transit train platform. Federal officials say that the case will be reviewed by the Civil Rights Division of the U.S. Department of Justice to determine whether the case warrants federal prosecution for […]

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Attorneys defending the officer on trial for fatally shooting an unarmed Black man in California claim that their client had “little stun gun training” before he “accidentally” shot and killed the victim. Johannes Mehserle is still on trial for the New Year’s Day 2009 death of 22-year-old Oscar Grant at an Oakland train platform. Mehserle, […]