Director Merawi Gerima on ‘Residue’ as a Weapon in Battle for Black People’s Rights
Nick Vivarelli International CorrespondentMerawi Gerima grew up in northeast Washington D.C., an area that plays prominently in his first feature “Residue,” about a film student named Jay who returns home after a stint at USC film school to find his neighborhood gentrified and his family and friends contending with racist hostility from new white neighbors. Just like Jay, Gerima went to USC.