"Friday Night Lights" and "Chronicle" actor Michael B. Jordan is also in talks to star in the story of the young man shot and killed by police in 2009. Colorlines is the leading source for accessible ...

(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 ...

Lee Grant received an Oscar nomination for her 1951 film debut in Detective Story and was later blacklisted in Hollywood for 12 years She won the best supporting actress Oscar for her performance ...