Location
BFVAC - Loew Auditorium
Sponsored by
Hopkins Center for the Arts
Audience
Public
Part of the MLK Celebration
On January 1, 2009, an unarmed black man named Oscar Grant was fatally shot by an Oakland transit cop while lying facedown on a subway platform. Does it matter that Grant was kind to animals, loved his daughter, helped strangers and resolved to turn his life around? Set largely on the last day of Grant’s life, director Ryan Coogler’s Sundance Audience Award-winner answers that question with a heartfelt and emphatic yes. “A firestorm of a movie (Entertainment Weekly).
Location
BFVAC - Loew Auditorium
Sponsored by
Hopkins Center for the Arts
Audience
Public