Cosponsored by African and African American Studies Minor

Rated R
Run Time: 85 min.
Director: Ryan Coogler
With Michael B. Jordan, Melonie Diaz, Octavia Spencer
Format: Blu-Ray

Though he once spent time in San Quentin, 22-year-old black man Oscar Grant is now trying hard to live a clean life and support his girlfriend and daughter. Flashbacks reveal the last day in Oscar's life, in which he accompanied his family and friends to San Francisco to watch fireworks on New Year's Eve, and, on the way back home, became swept up in an altercation with police that ended in tragedy.

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