National Geographic has picked up a six-part documentary from Jay Z and The Weinstein Company titled “Race With Jay Z.”
The Kalief Browder story is one of the saddest cases of injustice within the police system and an unfortunate end to a young life gone far too soon. Many have watched this terrible story unfold by watching the Spike documentary about his life and its sad end, however that still hasn’t stopped others from being […]
This is a major win for Hov's hometown.
The documentary dives into the fundamentally broken parts of the criminal justice system and personifies it with Browder's story.
From documentaries to coming-of-age stories, here are the most anticipated movies coming out of the Sundance Film Festival.
On any given day, there are many sad stories about young black men receiving prison sentences that they didn’t deserve and the horrifying conditions of the prisons where they are relegated to serve out their sentences. The saddest instance of this issue in recent memory, centers on the case of Bronx, New York teenager Kalief […]
Hov is producing a docuseries about the story of Kalief Browder, the Bronx high school student who killed himself in 2015 after being held for three years on Rikers Island.
Forty-one-year-old Aitabdel Salem, a native of Algeria, spent five months on New York's Rikers Island because, uhm, officials failed to tell him that bail was set at $2.
Kalief Browder’s story will make you outraged and so depressed at the same time. At age 16, when Browder was just a high school sophmore he was accused of stealing a backpack and then incarcerated at Rikers Island for three years without trial. Browder denied the charge and refused to take a plea deal during his […]
