For Our Children
Wanda Johnson and Angela Williams, mothers of young Black men victimized by police brutality, come together and build a network of community-led support, mutual aid, and healing. Oscar Grant’s 2009 fateful encounter with law enforcement on a BART platform seeded public awareness and cultural consciousness of systemic racism and its discontents. Paying forward lessons learned and advocating against anti-Black violence in memory of her son, Oscar, Wanda Johnson holds space for Angela Williams, whose teen son, Ulysses, survives a police encounter in Troy, Alabama, living to tell his story.
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For Our Children
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Status
Released
Release Date
Apr 29, 2022
Runtime
1h 42m
Genres
Documentary
Original Title
For Our Children
Production Companies
Dandara Productions, Tribeca Film Institute, Sundance Institute, SSIFilm Invest, Glassbreaker Films, Firelight Media, Fork Films, Chicken & Egg Pictures, Catapult Film Fund, Creative Capital, California Humanites
Director
Débora Souza Silva
Description
Wanda Johnson and Angela Williams, mothers of young Black men victimized by police brutality, come together and build a network of community-led support, mutual aid, and healing. Oscar Grant’s 2009 fateful encounter with law enforcement on a BART platform seeded public awareness and cultural consciousness of systemic racism and its discontents. Paying forward lessons learned and advocating against anti-Black violence in memory of her son, Oscar, Wanda Johnson holds space for Angela Williams, whose teen son, Ulysses, survives a police encounter in Troy, Alabama, living to tell his story.
