California Today: With ‘Blindspotting,’ Oakland’s Film Scene Takes Center Stage – New York Times

July 27, 2018 by Zennie Abraham

New York Times
Long before he won a Tony Award for “Hamilton,” Daveed Diggs was living in Oakland — his hometown — and watching in alarm as white tech-industry workers moved in, driving up rents and displacing black residents. Around the same time in 2009, a white …
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