(The Root) — Fruitvale Station — a film chronicling the final day of Oscar Grant III, a 22-year-old Oakland, Calif., native who was shot and killed by a transit-police officer on New Year’s Day in ...

Fresh from our better-late-than-never file, ex-BART cop Johannes Mehserle, who was convicted of involuntary manslaughter in the killing of Oscar Grant III, has apologized. “I have and will continue to ...

Today on Hard Knock Radio, guest host Thandisizwe Chimurenga leads a critical conversation marking 17 years since the police killing of Oscar Grant III on the Fruitvale BART platform. Oscar Grants ...

“Fruitvale Station” is partly the re-creation of a real tragedy, the killing of Oscar Grant III, an unarmed 22-year-old gunned down by a police officer in Oakland, Calif., on New Year’s Eve 2009, ...

In the early hours of New Year's Day 2009, on a platform of Oakland's Fruitvale BART Station, a young man named Oscar Grant III was shot in the back by a transit officer. The officer later claimed ...

This powerful audio piece captures the raw emotion and collective outrage following the fatal police shooting of Oscar Grant III by a BART officer on January 1, 2009. Through a mix of protest chants, ...

Fruitvale Station, the Sundance award-winner that opens today with a lot of buzz behind it, is a decidedly personal, non-political film about a very political topic: the shooting death of a ...

As the Chronicle wrote in 2010, Oscar Grant III became a symbol in death, but in life he was a 22-year-old retail worker and young father. He grew up in Hayward, the son of a United Parcel Service ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Black Panther Party Museum kicks off Black History Month with "Happy Heavenly Birthday, Oscar," a moving tribute to the life ...

The Black Panther Party Museum launches "Happy Heavenly Birthday, Oscar" exhibit The Black Panther Party Museum kicks off Black History Month with "Happy Heavenly Birthday, Oscar," a moving tribute to ...