Here's a statement from the Blueford family about their son's death:

Alan DeWayne Blueford was an 18-year-old senior at Skyline High School, preparing to graduate in June. He was the youngest son of Adam Blueford Sr. and Jeralynn Brown Blueford.

People began lining up around 3 p.m. at the Paramount Theater on Saturday for the 6 p.m. final appearance of Tavis Smiley and Dr. Cornel West’s book tour for "The Rich and The Rest of Us." About a week before, Smiley described their new book project over the phone as practical and empirically grounded.  

'New Faces of Poverty'

Will Hollywood folks be filming a big-budget picture on the murder of Oscar Grant in Oakland this summer?  If today's items from the Hollywood Reporter and other national press are any indication, it sure looks like it.

“In both cases, you have two young black men who ‘looked suspicious.’ They were both wearing hoodies!’”

This is what Cephus Johnson, Oscar Grant's uncle, said as we recently sat in the newly-opened Everett’s Barbecue joint at MacArthur and Pine, in Oakland. He was having lunch with his wife after just returning from Sanford, Fla., where they met the parents of slain Trayvon Martin.