Ryan Coogler first turned heads with his 2013 debut Fruitvale Station, a shattering account of a fatal shooting that presaged ...

his mother Wanda Jackson finally received his cellphones kept away since the night he was fatally shot by BART police at Oakland's Fruitvale station.

But it would be his final encounter of the day, with police officers at the Fruitvale BART station that would shake the Bay Area to its very core, and cause the entire nation to be witnesses to ...

Sign up for our daily newsletter to get the best of The New Yorker in your in-box. Ryan Coogler began his career in film as a realist with “Fruitvale Station ...