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The Bay Are Rapid Transit was met with delays and an ultimate shut down Friday (Nov. 28) morning as a group of protestors descended upon a station in  West Oakland.  The protests stem from a Missouri  grand jury’s decision not to indict police officer Darren Wilson for gunning down Ferguson teen, Mike Brown, and ongoing cases […]

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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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The major motion picture Fruitvale has become the sleeper hit of the Sundance Film Festival. The film, which is based on the life and death of Oscar Grant, nabbed the Grand Jury Prize and the Audience Award, the first for U.S. project to do since Precious,  in 2009.

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The film Fruitvale, chronicling the life and death of Oscar Grant–a Bay Area man shot by police–has received a healthy amount of praise at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival. Helmed by 26-year-old Ryan Coogler, Fruitvale marks the USC grad’s directional debut. He also serves as writer of the film.

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A 15- year-old San Francisco boy has met the same fate as Oscar Grant, Rekia Boyd and countless other black citizens gunned down by police. Derrick Gaines was shot and killed Tuesday (June 5) by an officer after he and his friend were confronted at a local gas station for “acting suspicious.”

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New Video: Killer Mike “Burn” [Video] Soon after the announcementthat Officer Johannes Mehserle would be released after serving 11 months of a two-year sentence for killing Oscar Grant, Killer Mike released a new video on the atrocities of our justice system. On the track “Burn”, Mike speaks on the situation directly saying, “They say the […]