Fernando Anicete Jr. walked out of the movie theater long before the credits rolled. He couldn’t finish watching “The Hate U Give,” a film released in October about a black teenager who witnesses her ...

More than a decade after the BART police killing of Oscar Grant, the transit agency has released a long-sealed report on a shooting that shocked the Bay Area, led to a rare criminal conviction for an ...

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 ...

It's been exactly a year and a half since Oscar Grant was shot in the back while he lay face down on a train platform by former BART cop Johannes Mehserle. Today, Mehserle faces his last pre-trial ...

A lawyer for Johannes Mehserle, the ex-BART cop who shot and killed Oscar Grant, an unarmed black man, while he lay face-down on a train platform, has asked for a retrial. Mehserle’s defense attorney, ...

February 27, 2026 will mark Oscar Grant’s 40th birthday. Grant was killed at the age of 22 on New Year’s Day 2009, when he was shot on a platform at Oakland’s Fruitvale BART station by then-transit ...

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 Grant’s ...

The name Oscar Grant reverberates in the Bay Area. Murals like this one at Oakland's Fruitvale Station remember him. It's been 17 years since Grant was shot and killed by then BART police officer ...

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