Matthew Carey The Oscar-nominated short documentary St. Louis Superman introduces viewers to Bruce Franks Jr., whose voice has become a clarion call against racial injustice.
His message was first manifested as a practitioner of battle rap—an art form noted for its contest of ideas between two performers—before he became a Black Lives Matter activist and later, remarkably, an elected representative in the Missouri House of Representatives.Franks’ BLM activism was spurred by the 2014 death in Ferguson, Missouri of Michael Brown, an unarmed African-American teenager gunned down by a white police officer.
The documentary reveals how throughout his life Franks has navigated a world beset by gun violence and endemic racism that has left people.
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