Tag Archives: Michael B. Jordan

12 Years A Slave: Can Art Change The World? (Movie Review)

Posted on January 21, 2014 by Jacob Sahms

It was a big year for films based on true stories about racial relations in the United States. In 2013, merely weeks into January, Michael B. Jordan played Oscar Grant III in Fruitvale Station, the victim of a police-related shooting … Continue reading →

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Fruitvale Station: The Ghosts Of The Past (Movie Review)

Posted on January 18, 2014 by Jacob Sahms

On January 1, 2009, a twenty-two-year-old man named Oscar Grant III died after been shot by BART officers in Oakland, California’s Fruitvale Station, part of the public transportation system. An ex-con, an ex-gang member, and an ex-drug user, Grant appears … Continue reading →

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