The has garnered many awards including Best First Feature at the 2014 Independent Spirit Awards, Outstanding Independent Motion Picture at the 2014 NAACP Image Awards and the 2014 Stanley Kramer Award from the Producer's Guild of America. It also screened at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival in the Un Certain Regard category. It premiered at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival where it received the Grand Jury Prize and Audience Award for U.S. The cast includes Octavia Spencer and Melonie Diaz, and was produced by Forest Whitaker (Significant Films).

The film is an account of Oscar's controversial slaying by police officers on a San Francisco train platform. Jordan successfully took on his first major leading film role when he starred as Oscar Grant in Станція Фрутвейл (2013). He then went on to star as quarterback Vince Howard on Friday Night Lights (2006) (NBC), before playing a recovering alcoholic, Alex, on NBC's Parenthood (2010). First, Jordan played the hard-shelled but softhearted Wallace in HBO's dramatic hit series The Wire (2002). (He is not related to, or named after, basketball legend Michael Jordan.) Jordan has starred in three of the most critically acclaimed television dramas of the past decade. His middle name, Bakari, means 'noble promise' in Swahili.

He is the son of Donna (Davis), a high school counselor, and Michael A. Jordan, the middle of three children, was born in Santa Ana, California and raised in Newark, New Jersey.

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