Follow Stockton, California's 28-year-old Mayor Michael Tubbs in this documentary that chronicles his day-to-day life as he works to implement the city's basic income program and deals with a disturbing string of murders. At age 26, on the same day Donald Trump was elected president in 2016, Michael Tubbs became the first African American mayor of his beleaguered hometown of Stockton, California, as well as the youngest mayor of a major American city. Stockton On My Mind, from filmmaker Marc Levin (HBO's One Nation Under Stress, Class Divide), follows Tubbs’ personal and political journey, exploring how growing up amid poverty and violence shaped his vision for innovative change. Born to a teenage mother and a father in prison, Tubbs felt society destined him for either prison or death. Defying expectations, he received a scholarship to Stanford University and returned home to Stockton to “Upset the Set-Up,” serving first on the city council and then running for mayor.
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