The Last Black Man in San Francisco
Directed by Joe Talbot
Written by Joe Talbot, Jimmie Fails, and Rob Richert
Starring Jimmie Fails, Jonathan Majors, and Tichina Arnold
Running time 2 hours
MPAA rating R
By Jaime Davis, The Fixer
In the fall of 2016, I was sent to San Francisco on a work trip. At the time, I was working for an Ivy League university as a kind of jack of all trades for a high-profile academic program: I was equal parts student advisor, alumni relations point person, and admissions officer. But basically I was a concierge – whatever a student or alum needed, I tried to make it happen. This trip was designed as an alumni development vehicle for the program – we were shuttling our newly appointed faculty director around to meet high-profile alums in person culminating with an event for all local alumni complete with open bar and fancy finger foods and all that nonsense. Since the program I worked for allowed students to earn two full undergraduate degrees at once in business and engineering, you can imagine we were after some of those sweet tech bro dollars floating around the Bay Area.
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