"We don't just look at Oscar's life, but we look at all the others who have lost their lives too, senselessly, at the hands of police," Grant's mother said. OAKLAND, Calif. (KGO) -- January 1 marks 12 ...

In the early hours of New Year’s day 2009, Oscar Grant—a 22-year-old African-American man—was shot by a Bay Area transit officer while handcuffed and face-down on the ground at Oakland’s Fruitvale ...

OAKLAND, Calif. (KGO) -- Ten years ago on New Year's Day, 22-year-old Oscar Grant was shot in the back by BART police officer Johannes Mehserle on the Fruitvale station platform. Grant's death ...

The officer involved in a New Year's Day shooting that left a passenger dead in a crowded Oakland, California, subway station resigned Wednesday, a Bay Area Rapid Transit spokesman said. BART ...

(The Root) — Ryan Coogler’s first full-length film, Fruitvale Station, officially hit theaters today, but it has been the talk of the cinema world for weeks. The Sundance winner is based on the life ...

One protester said of her undocumented family members, “They can’t go out, they can’t march, and I want to do it for them.” ...

You see one of the cellphone recordings of the murder of Oscar Grant III at the very beginning of Ryan Coogler’s raw and exceptional “Fruitvale Station.” The very last second of the footage has been ...

Writer/director Ryan Coogler has made one of the year’s best films with his bold feature-directing debut, Fruitvale Station. It tells the true story of Oscar Grant, the man shot to death by a cop on ...

But the moment it clicks that Fruitvale Station is doing something special — avoiding many of Hollywood's pitfalls in depicting "troubled" Black youth, and traumatic violence against Black people — ...