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Bookmark or Share- 9 Years After Oscar Grant's Death, His Mother Continues to Speak Out - KQEDWanda Johnson, center, is comforted by her supporters outside Los Angeles Superior Court on July 8, 2010, after the involuntary manslaughter verdict against former BART police officer Johannes Mehserle, who was charged in the death of her son, Oscar Grant.
- Oscar Grant FoundationPaying 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. Radical empathy fuels this timely exposé.
- Wanda Johnson | Oscar Grant FoundationHer heart-breaking story made worldwide news in 2009 when her son, Oscar Grant, was killed by a BART police officer. Since then, her work has transformed into a mission to help young Black men overcome negative racial stereotypes, comfort grieving families and to improve the criminal justice system.
- Home - Wanda JohnsonRev. Wanda Johnson is an amplified voice of empathy for individuals seeking justice, grieving, and healing from innocent lost lives by hands of law enforcement.
- Oscar Grant’s mother sees much of her own family’s tragedy in ... - CNNReverend Wanda Johnson, mother of Oscar Grant, who was fatally shot by a police officer in 2009. CNN. “His dad was a very good person,” Erica Whitaker, the grandmother of Daunte Wright’s son ...
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