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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13924127\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13924127\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/HipHopPreschool.16.9-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/HipHopPreschool.16.9-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/HipHopPreschool.16.9-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/HipHopPreschool.16.9-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/HipHopPreschool.16.9-768x432.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/HipHopPreschool.16.9-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/HipHopPreschool.16.9.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Clockwise from upper left: Women of the Black Panther Party (BAMPFA/Pirkle Jones Foundation); the Black Resurgents (artist photo); Ntozake Shange (John Kisch Archive/Getty Images); Sun Ra in ‘Space is the Place’ (Harte Recordings); Sly Stone (CBS Records).\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>\u003ci>Editor’s note:\u003c/i>\u003c/b>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> This story is part of\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003ca href=\"http://kqed.org/bayareahiphop\"> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">That’s My Word\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, KQED’s year-long exploration of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/bayareahiphop\">Bay Area hip-hop\u003c/a> history, with new content dropping all throughout 2023.\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>“People in the house, this is just for you/ A little rap to make you boogaloo”\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n—The Sugarhill Gang, 1979\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Grandmaster Caz, the Bronx pioneer who ghostwrote the Sugarhill Gang’s groundbreaking 1979 single “\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rKTUAESacQM\">Rapper’s Delight\u003c/a>,” once said, “Hip-hop didn’t invent anything. Hop-hop reinvented everything.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That statement rings truer than ever as we approach the 50th anniversary of Kool Herc’s first party in the Bronx, where the globally influential music and culture were born. And it especially rings true here in the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hip-hop wasn’t fully formed in 1973. In fact, it didn’t have an official name until 1982, the year the \u003ci>Village Voice\u003c/i> published a \u003ca href=\"https://digital.library.cornell.edu/catalog/ss:16057641\">profile of Zulu Nation founder Afrika Bambaataa\u003c/a>. Before Bambaataa joined the Black Spades street gang as a teenager, he hung out at the local Black Panther Information Center, and “his political leanings were encouraged by the appearance of songs like ‘Say It Loud, I’m Black and I’m Proud’ by James Brown and ‘Stand!’ by Sly and the Family Stone,” Steven Hager wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In other words, two of the three cultural influences cited in one of the earliest known print references to hip-hop are from the Bay Area. Oh word? Say that then.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>No one would dispute that hip-hop emerged from the Bronx, or that James Brown was one of its godfathers. But the impact the Bay Area had on hip-hop’s early sound, aesthetic and ideology is less widely recognized. A thorough exploration of the Bay’s cultural and political movements of the 1960s and ’70s strongly suggests the Bay was hip-hop before there was hip-hop.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13924550\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13924550\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/HueyNewton.SlyStone.ShomariSmith-800x426.jpg\" alt=\"illustrations of huey newton and sly stone\" width=\"800\" height=\"426\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/HueyNewton.SlyStone.ShomariSmith-800x426.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/HueyNewton.SlyStone.ShomariSmith-1020x543.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/HueyNewton.SlyStone.ShomariSmith-160x85.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/HueyNewton.SlyStone.ShomariSmith-768x409.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/HueyNewton.SlyStone.ShomariSmith-1536x818.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/HueyNewton.SlyStone.ShomariSmith.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">In the Bay Area, both Huey Newton and Sly Stone (L–R) helped sow the seeds of what would later be referred to as hip-hop. \u003ccite>(Illustrations by Shomari Smith)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Consider this: Before he became a funk superstar, Sly Stone was a fast-talking radio personality whose \u003ca href=\"https://soundcloud.com/djstef415/sly-stone-on-ksol-1967\">on-air patter\u003c/a>, laden with hep phrases, took the form of rapping before rap music. When it came to dance, the Bay Area had boogaloo, robotting and strutting, whose innovative moves preceded b-boying by almost 10 years. (There’s even evidence of breakdancing crews at local talent shows prior to nationwide releases of \u003cem>Breakin’\u003c/em> and \u003cem>Beat Street\u003c/em>.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wall_of_Respect\">community mural movement\u003c/a>, which parallels the \u003ca href=\"https://blogs.cuit.columbia.edu/ijt2106/moment-of-departure/the-emergence-of-modern-graffiti/\">modern graffiti movement\u003c/a>, took root in the Bay before wildstyle frescoes appeared on New York subway trains. The Bay Area’s \u003ca href=\"https://legionsofboom.com/\">Filipino American mobile DJ scene\u003c/a> dates back to garage parties in the 1970s in South San Francisco and Daly City.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Consider also that the iconography of hip-hop was shaped by Bay Area activists, as well as street-level archetypes of badmen and tricksters whose legend became \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CsXK4_D6ByA\">urban folklore\u003c/a>. A key reason the Bay Area became an early adopter of hip-hop was because its culture not only anticipated its arrival, but contributed to its essence during its developmental stages.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13924289\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 615px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13924289\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/BPP2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"615\" height=\"829\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/BPP2.png 615w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/BPP2-160x216.png 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 615px) 100vw, 615px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A 1971 flyer for a Black Panther Party rally calling for Bobby Seale, Ericka Huggins, Angela Davis and Ruchell Magee to be freed from prison. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Black Panther Party Alumni Legacy Network)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>The Black Panthers lay hip-hop’s ideological foundation\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Hip-hop began as an underground artform created by inner city youth with few resources, who were dynamic in how they expressed their style and identity. Much of its ideology and political viewpoints were shaped by the Black Panthers, who were founded in Oakland in 1966 and grew to 38 national chapters within two years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Black Panthers had a distinct influence on people like dancer Will “Mr. Penguin” Randolph, an early practitioner of boogaloo and co-founder of the dance crew the \u003ca href=\"https://www.blackresurgents.com/\">Black Resurgents.\u003c/a> Randolph, who grew up in East Oakland, remembers how the Panthers used culture to engage young people and push their revolutionary message.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They had all these rallies with Elaine Brown and different people, and the Black Resurgents were the unofficial official dance group,” Randolph says. “And they would use us to draw the adults in to talk about the city’s plight politically. It was just phenomenal.” [aside postid='arts_13923938']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13851531/a-brief-history-of-the-lumpen-the-black-panthers-revolutionary-funk-band\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Lumpen\u003c/a>, a Black Panther-affiliated touring funk band, spread the party’s message around the country. It’s no coincidence that groups like the Chi-Lites, the O’Jays and the Isley Brothers began to reference Panther talking points on songs like “\u003ca href=\"https://youtu.be/qEwMaeN2x-c\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Give More Power to the People\u003c/a>,” “\u003ca href=\"https://youtu.be/uebYua_vdPc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Give the People What They Want\u003c/a>” and “\u003ca href=\"https://youtu.be/8QZvoOqUkqw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Fight the Power\u003c/a>.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You have to consider that the Black Panther ideology was steeped in, as are most cultural ideas, in the music of the day,” Randolph says. “The grittiness of the blue collar town of Oakland, and the rise of the ideology of the Black Panther Party, and the rise of the funk music of the town all came together.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the hip-hop era, children of Black Panthers like Tupac Shakur and Digital Underground’s Money B — known as “Panther cubs” — would be the ones to carry the Panthers’ vision for Black liberation forward. There’s no “\u003ca href=\"https://youtu.be/zfuF2jOeUx8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Rebel of the Underground\u003c/a>,” an early agitprop Tupac song, without the Black Panthers. No “Break the Grip of Shame,” the classic 1990 single by San Francisco rapper Paris, either.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://youtu.be/HJ96GPtnH70\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hip-hop activism’s cornerstone issues, police reform and the prison-industrial complex, contain obvious through-lines back to the Black Panthers. In 1966, the Panthers’ manifesto, the Ten-Point Program, stated, “We Want An Immediate End to Police Brutality and the Murder of Black People,” followed by a call for “all Black People (to) be released from the many jails and prisons.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>N.W.A’s “Fuck Tha Police” seemed outrageous in 1989, but became prescient three years later, when LAPD officers were caught on video beating Rodney King. Political rappers like Public Enemy and KRS-One often harbored strong anti-police views, which were shared by such less-likely sources as New York’s L.L. Cool J and Houston’s UGK, on down to Vallejo’s The Mac.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before the NYPD killing of Amadou Diallo inspired the Hip Hop for Respect project in 2000, the 1995 death of Aaron Williams in SFPD custody led to hip-hop activist organization Third Eye Movement protesting the SF Police Commission, and later resisting California’s Juvenile Crime initiative, Prop. 21. In 2009, Mistah F.A.B., Boots Riley and other local hip-hop artists took part in \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13847704/after-oscar-grant-oakland-artists-inspired-a-new-generation-of-activists\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">protests against Oscar Grant’s killing\u003c/a> by BART police.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More recently, the 2016 \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/11537324/equiptos-hunger-strike-the-importance-of-art-in-social-change\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Frisco Five\u003c/a> hunger strike, spearheaded by rapper Equipto, resulted in SFPD reform. In 2020, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13881529/photos-black-lives-matter-murals-call-for-justice-on-oaklands-walls\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">graffiti artists and muralists took to the Oakland streets\u003c/a> in response to George Floyd’s murder.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the past decade, activists have rallied around the Black Lives Matter movement, and it’s no coincidence that the phrase was first coined by Black Lives Matter cofounder Alicia Garza, in Oakland, the home of the Panthers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12159957\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 398px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-12159957\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2016/10/H95.18.802-398x600.jpg\" alt=\"Lonnie Wilson, untitled (Black Panthers at Alameda County Courthouse), July 14, 1968. Gelatin silver photograph, 14 x 9.5 in. The Oakland Tribune Collection, the Oakland Museum of California, Gift of ANG Newspapers\" width=\"398\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/10/H95.18.802-398x600.jpg 398w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/10/H95.18.802-400x602.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/10/H95.18.802-768x1156.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/10/H95.18.802-784x1180.jpg 784w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/10/H95.18.802-1180x1777.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/10/H95.18.802-960x1446.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/10/H95.18.802.jpg 1793w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 398px) 100vw, 398px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lonnie Wilson, untitled (Black Panthers at Alameda County Courthouse), July 14, 1968. Gelatin silver photograph, 14 x 9.5 in. The Oakland Tribune Collection, the Oakland Museum of California, Gift of ANG Newspapers. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of the Oakland Museum of California)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Before conscious rap, funk brought the message\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In the Bay Area, funk music was inextricably linked to the revolutionary movements of the 1960s. Beyond the Black Panthers were the Brown Berets, the Third World Liberation Front and the anti-Vietnam War movement, all animating young people to fight against an oppressive social order. One artist that emerged from this climate and eventually became one of hip-hop’s major influences was Sly Stone. A Vallejo-raised champion of multiculturalism and progressive social values, Sly transformed Black music during the ’60s and ’70s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe style=\"border-radius:12px\" src=\"https://open.spotify.com/embed/playlist/6QO0SJgNdiPaDRpwHMPySi?utm_source=generator\" width=\"100%\" height=\"352\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen allow=\"autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; fullscreen; picture-in-picture\" loading=\"lazy\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sly’s records often contained social commentary that mixed the personal with the political. “Stand!” is an anthem of self-determination positing that freedom is attainable “at least in your mind if you want to be”; Sly released similarly-themed songs like “\u003ca href=\"https://youtu.be/l8sz_7TPWE0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">You Can Make It If You Try\u003c/a>,” “\u003ca href=\"https://youtu.be/HMQQcniF2Bg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Underdog\u003c/a>” and “\u003ca href=\"https://youtu.be/Ruq2HJGs31g\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Skin I’m In\u003c/a>.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to his contributions to hip-hop’s lexicon — Sly and the Family Stone’s album \u003ci>Fresh\u003c/i> predates hip-hop’s popularizing of the term by at least a decade — there’s the music itself, which has become part of hip-hop’s genetic code. According to online sample databases, Sly and The Family Stone’s music has been sampled an astounding 967 times — up there with James Brown and the Meters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Greg Errico’s drums on “\u003ca href=\"https://youtu.be/42YGprrAOj0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sing A Simple Song\u003c/a>” alone have resurfaced in gangsta, alternative and even international rap songs, including Digital Underground’s “\u003ca href=\"https://youtu.be/PBsjggc5jHM\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Humpty Dance\u003c/a>,” Tupac’s “\u003ca href=\"https://youtu.be/skg0w8DpEe4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Temptations\u003c/a>,” Public Enemy’s “\u003ca href=\"https://youtu.be/mmo3HFa2vjg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Fight the Power\u003c/a>,” KRS-One’s “\u003ca href=\"https://youtu.be/9ZrAYxWPN6c\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sound of Da Police\u003c/a>,” A Tribe Called Quest’s “\u003ca href=\"https://youtu.be/cxN4nKk2cfk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jazz\u003c/a>” and countless others.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Family Stone bassist and Oakland native Larry Graham’s slap-bass technique, prominently displayed on 1968’s “\u003ca href=\"https://youtu.be/N5BP2KlPD4U\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Again)\u003c/a>,” became a defining characteristic of funk, later used by musicians like Bootsy Collins as well as Chic’s Bernard Edwards, whose “Good Times” bassline would later drive “Rapper’s Delight.” [pullquote size='large']No one would dispute that hip-hop emerged from the Bronx, or that James Brown was one of its godfathers. But the impact the Bay Area had on hip-hop’s early sound, aesthetic and ideology is less widely recognized.[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sly also created a template for the artist-producer and independent label entrepreneur. He produced other artists for his short-lived Stone Flower label, often playing every musical instrument. His production of Little Sister’s “Somebody’s Watching You” became the first Top 40 hit to use electronic drums — a staple of nearly all hip-hop production.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I feel like particularly with Sly, [he’s] part of the whole kind of mashup of the streets and the church,” says Lateef Daumont, a Panther cub best known as hip-hop artist Lateef the Truthspeaker of the Quannum collective. “They just had all of the things that would be blueprints for hip-hop later on — even business-wise, in a lot of ways.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Sly was the integrationist,” says author and educator Cecil Brown, a Berkeley resident during the ’70s who taught at Merritt College’s former campus on Grove Street (now Martin Luther King Jr. Way) in Oakland. “Also, Sly had an element of militancy in him, too, that was \u003cem>not\u003c/em> flower power, you know? It was like, ‘We got something that is going to make us feel better, and that belongs to us.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13898274\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13898274\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/0SUMMER_OF_SOUL_-_Sly_Stone._Courtesy_of_Mass_Distraction_Media_1-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/0SUMMER_OF_SOUL_-_Sly_Stone._Courtesy_of_Mass_Distraction_Media_1-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/0SUMMER_OF_SOUL_-_Sly_Stone._Courtesy_of_Mass_Distraction_Media_1-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/0SUMMER_OF_SOUL_-_Sly_Stone._Courtesy_of_Mass_Distraction_Media_1-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/0SUMMER_OF_SOUL_-_Sly_Stone._Courtesy_of_Mass_Distraction_Media_1-768x432.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/0SUMMER_OF_SOUL_-_Sly_Stone._Courtesy_of_Mass_Distraction_Media_1-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/0SUMMER_OF_SOUL_-_Sly_Stone._Courtesy_of_Mass_Distraction_Media_1-2048x1152.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/0SUMMER_OF_SOUL_-_Sly_Stone._Courtesy_of_Mass_Distraction_Media_1-1920x1080.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sly Stone in a still from Questlove’s new film ‘Summer of Soul.’ \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Mass Distraction Media)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Remarkably, Stone was able to cross over to the pop charts while maintaining an unapologetically Black identity. In a \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zDOyaGvOyPk\">1974 clip from \u003ci>The Mike Douglas Show\u003c/i>\u003c/a>, Sly is asked if his young, white middle-class fans know what he’s singing about. “Yeah, they know,” he says. Hip-hop exemplifies the same paradigm: It appeals to white youth precisely because it offers entry into a different cultural space, with its own reference points and vernacular.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Just as The Coup’s Boots Riley performed his song “\u003ca href=\"https://youtu.be/_2bkG0wwdXc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Underdogs\u003c/a>” during the Occupy Oakland demonstrations of 2011, Sly occasionally performed at Black Panther rallies while living in Oakland. His ear-to-the-street perspective, containing equal parts optimism and cynicism, is evidenced by the No. 1 album \u003ci>There’s A Riot Goin’ On\u003c/i>, released in 1971. As cultural critic Okla Jones wrote on the occasion of the album’s 50th anniversary, “America was a nation in transition, feeling the effects of the previous decade. The shadow of Dr. King’s assassination loomed over the Black community, and the Vietnam War divided an entire country. What Sly and the Family Stone’s fifth album did was give a voice to a new generation yearning to be heard.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This dynamic — young people speaking their minds and determining their own identities through cultural expression — not only defined the early ’70s but connected the funk era to the rap era. Once you depart from the New York-centric breakbeat aesthetic, funk becomes \u003cem>the\u003c/em> defining element of hip-hop’s sound, particularly in the Southern United States and parts of the Midwest, and especially in the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13851562\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13851562\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2019/02/lumpen_stage-800x523.jpg\" alt=\"The Lumpen performed between 1970 and 1972; afterwards, Black Panther Party leadership assigned its members to other roles within the organization.\" width=\"800\" height=\"523\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/02/lumpen_stage.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/02/lumpen_stage-160x105.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/02/lumpen_stage-768x502.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Black Panther funk band The Lumpen performed between 1970 and 1972; afterwards, party leadership assigned its members to other roles within the organization. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of itsabouttime.com)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Before breaking, the Bay had boogaloo\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The dance style known as Oakland boogaloo began in the 1960s with R&B and soul as its soundtrack, but the emergence of funk raised the bar for creative expression. “The thumping of the bass and the snapping of the snare drum and the thumping of the bass drum, you started to see people doing this free-form movement, with a hit and with body contortions,” says Will Randolph, whose group the Black Resurgents once performed during a 1977 Parliament concert at the Oakland Coliseum Arena, where they emerged from the iconic mothership in front of more than 10,000 fans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When you talk about hip-hop dance, primarily people think of breaking and popping,” Randolph says. “When you talk about street dance on a nationwide level prior to hip-hop dance coming out of primarily New York, you have this whole West Coast sea of dance and street dance. The Bay Area in particular is really the debut for hip-hop.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://youtu.be/IUdS6kxw2aI\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From the mid-1960s to the early ’70s, years before hip-hop had a name, Oakland groups like the Black Resurgents, One Plus One, the Black Messengers and Pirate and the Easy Walkers perfected moves that would become part of the hip-hop dance vernacular.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What I’m saying is that boogaloo, robotting, and strutting dance styles predate hip-hop as a culture, as a name, and even hip-hop dance as an artform,” says Randolph. (In 1990’s “\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QDApdzFa3OI\">U Make Me Want Some\u003c/a>,” Mac Dre’s mentor and namesake The Mac even raps: “You can do the boogaloo / Like they used to do in 1972.”)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As boogaloo branched off into Richmond robotting and San Francisco strutting in the mid-1970s to become the predominant form of urban youth culture in the Bay Area, dancers adopted the sartorial flamboyance associated with pimps, incorporating top hats, canes and pointy-toed shoes into their aesthetic. White gloves created a mesmerizing effect under blacklight during performances in dark halls.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fueled by talent show competitions, which brought local fame and popularity, the artform continued to develop into the early ’80s. Synchronized group routines, costumes, and stage props all became part of the mix. Most routines developed for competitions were performed just once. Some groups practiced in secret so no one could steal their moves. (The Black Resurgents were an exception; they were known to practice in front of an open window, often drawing crowds from their neighborhood.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Coded signals between dancers would indicate they were participants in the same culture and ready to battle at a moment’s notice, such as popping one’s collar — which later became a signature hallmark of Bay Area hip-hop expression. Being known as a boogaloo, strutter or robotter also conferred social status, and could give practitioners a ghetto pass through hostile territory or nullify threats of violence altogether.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As boogaloo spread in the latter half of the ’70s to San Jose, Sacramento, Fresno and Los Angeles, a move originally known as “The Oakland Hit” became the “pop,” and blended with the locking style indigenous to Southern California. Pop-locking was born.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13924302\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13924302\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/n5cCK1s8-800x609.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"609\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/n5cCK1s8-800x609.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/n5cCK1s8-160x122.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/n5cCK1s8-768x584.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/n5cCK1s8.jpg 924w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Black Resurgents on ‘The Jay Payton Show,’ July 18, 1976. \u003ccite>(Courtesy AAMLO)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But the Bay Area’s contributions didn’t make the history books. In 1979, the Electric Boogaloos \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rkejPbx9zSI\">appeared on \u003ci>Soul Train\u003c/i>\u003c/a> and were erroneously announced as the originators of boogaloo by host Don Cornelius. Boogaloo also spread to New York through Bay Area dancers like Jerry Rentie, who served active military duty there, but wasn’t recognized as a distinct style by New York rappers like Run-DMC, who said “let the poppers pop and the breakers break” on 1984’s “Rock Box.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Northern California origins of popping became further obscured when breakdancing arrived on the West Coast in the early ’80s, and boogaloo, strutting, robotting, popping and breaking were all subsumed into the amalgamation of hip-hop dance. In “\u003ca href=\"https://youtu.be/HshF2AOx4VM\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">West Coast Pop Lock\u003c/a>,” a 1982 hit for Ronnie Hudson that most know as the hook of Tupac’s “California Love,” Hudson shouts out Los Angeles, Watts and Compton — with no mention of Oakland at all.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Pimp culture becomes pop culture\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Another key influence on hip-hop was Richard Pryor, who moved to Berkeley in 1969 and soaked up the city’s counterculture vibe. Pryor performed locally at venues like Laney College, and, similar to Tupac, key parts of his development came from the Bay Area before he moved to L.A. and became a superstar.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pryor has been sampled in rap more than 400 times, which speaks to his street-level Black cultural perspective that placed more emphasis on barbershops, juke joints and strip clubs than churches and schools. And it was Pryor’s involvement in a 1973 movie, filmed in Oakland, that would cement his relationship to Bay Area hip-hop.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13924297\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13924297\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/GettyImages-1137109661-800x1217.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"1217\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/GettyImages-1137109661-800x1217.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/GettyImages-1137109661-1020x1551.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/GettyImages-1137109661-160x243.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/GettyImages-1137109661-768x1168.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/GettyImages-1137109661-1010x1536.jpg 1010w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/GettyImages-1137109661-1347x2048.jpg 1347w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/GettyImages-1137109661-1920x2920.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/GettyImages-1137109661-scaled.jpg 1683w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Mack, US poster, top from left: Max Julien, Richard Pryor, from a 1977 re-release of the film. \u003ccite>(Photo by LMPC via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>The Mack\u003c/i> is ostensibly a cautionary tale about the rise and fall of a pimp named Goldie (Max Julien), yet it glorified the illegal sex trade and the flamboyant pimp lifestyle. The movie’s lead was based directly on the notorious Oakland pimp and drug dealer Frank Ward, and infamously featured several real-life pimps and sex workers, in exchange for cameo roles for Ward and his brothers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In \u003cem>The Mack\u003c/em>, Pryor played Slim, Goldie’s partner. Another character, Fat Man, coincidentally had the same initials as infamous Oakland drug kingpin Felix Mitchell. With Goldie’s brother Olinga as a Panther-esque Black nationalist, the film’s subtext hints at the real-life tension between the Black Panthers and Oakland’s gangster underworld. It’s a dynamic that foreshadowed the divisions between conscious and gangsta rap, and predated the way Tupac and many Bay Area rappers mixed elements of both.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Melvin Van Peebles’ directorial debut \u003ci>Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song\u003c/i> was released in 1971, Panther leaders used their widely circulated newspaper to encourage Party members to see the film, which also featured the all-Black East Bay Dragons motorcycle club. “No distributors were supporting it,” says the Lumpen’s Dr. Saturu Ned, who worked in the Party’s newspaper office before he became a musician. “Because of the Black Panther Party, millions of people went to see the movie.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>Sweet Sweetback\u003c/i> birthed the so-called blaxploitation films of this era, championing a gritty view of street life with an undercurrent of anti-authoritarianism. The genre became a key reference point for hip-hop, along with the Panthers’ messages of Black power and resistance. [aside postid='arts_13923766']\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Hip-hop’s inspiration from the criminal underworld\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Without a doubt, one of hip-hop’s overarching themes has been the criminal underworld and the archetype of the pimp/player/hustler as hero and ghetto superstar. This, too, has significant ties to the Bay Area, and especially Oakland, which counts among its rap classics MC Pooh’s \u003ci>Life of a Criminal\u003c/i> and Too Short’s \u003ci>Born to Mack\u003c/i>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the Bay Area, a systemic devastation of Black neighborhoods created a formula for poverty. Blue-collar industrial jobs left after World War II, and the “urban renewal” of the ’60s and ’70s demolished homes and businesses in San Francisco as well as Oakland. For some, the underground economy became an appealing means of upward mobility.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Felix Mitchell operated out of the San Antonio Villa, a.k.a. 6-9 Ville, in East Oakland, which became the headquarters for the “69 Mob,” a criminal organization that established a nationwide heroin distribution network and employed young children as lookouts. The housing project’s notoriety extended well beyond Mitchell’s death in 1986: in 1992, the rapper Seagram released the single “The Ville,” which references “the M.O.B.” — an acronym for My Other Brother, the “official” name of Mitchell’s gang.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the ’70s, the Black Panthers operated a school and community center just a few blocks from 6-9 Ville. This led to conflict over control of the neighborhood. Ned recalls that intakes at the community center for heroin overdoses were common, while the Black Resurgents’ Randolph, who lived nearby on Sunnyside and 82nd Avenue, remembers gun battles sometimes erupting between the two factions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the post-Felix Mitchell crack cocaine era, rapping about pimping, drug dealing, drive-by shootings and sideshows all became part of Oakland’s hip-hop lexicon — see Dru Down and the Luniz’ “Ice Cream Man,” Richie Rich’s “Sideshow” and “Half Thang,” or Dru Down’s “Pimp of the Year,” which stayed on the Billboard charts for 24 weeks and would often evoke boisterous sing-alongs when played in local clubs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://youtu.be/qnVtwzaw6lM\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mitchell himself had reportedly popularized drive-by shootings, becoming one of the inspirations for the Nino Brown character in the 1991 movie \u003ci>New Jack City\u003c/i>, which featured a hip-hop soundtrack.. And Mitchell’s rival, Milton “Mickey Mo” Moore, financed the first rap record to come out of the Bay Area: Motorcycle Mike’s “Super Rat.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So while Philadelphia’s Schooly-D and L.A.’s Ice-T are often credited as the first gangsta rap artists, the genre has been heavily influenced by Bay Area criminal icons like Moore, Ward, Mitchell and San Francisco’s Fillmore Slim. Just like the Panthers predated conscious rap and progressive politics, the Bay basically been gangsta for years.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Afrofuturism is at the heart of hip-hop’s imagination\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Not all hip-hop artists follow a street playbook. Nearly as influential as \u003ci>The Mack\u003c/i> was Sun Ra’s 1974 cult classic \u003ci>Space is the Place\u003c/i>, filmed at locations in Oakland, including the current Merritt College campus. Its origins date back to a 1971 \u003ca href=\"https://www.openculture.com/2014/07/full-lecture-and-reading-list-from-sun-ras-1971-uc-berkeley-course.html\">lecture course\u003c/a> given by Sun Ra at UC Berkeley, titled “The Black Man in the Cosmos.” The film’s convoluted plot depicts Ra as a time-traveling jazz musician who engages in a game of tarot with an “overseer” to decide the fate of the Black race. Ra eventually wins the contest thanks to his use of sound vibrations during a free jazz concert, boards a spaceship joined by young African Americans he’s recruited from Oakland, and travels to a better world.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Afrofuturistic themes in \u003ci>Space is the Place\u003c/i> not only preceded Parliament’s \u003ci>Clones of Dr. Funkenstein\u003c/i> and \u003ci>Mothership Connection\u003c/i> albums, but established a cultural precedent for those themes to be revisited by hip-hop, first in the electro-funk era, and subsequently through abstract, esoteric, spiritually and conceptually minded rappers and producers. In the Bay Area, Hieroglyphics’ Del the Funky Homosapien would imagine dystopian futures worthy of anime treatments; Blackalicious’ work would contain themes of technology as a means of liberation; and Zion I’s lyrics would reach towards spiritual enlightenment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13924298\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13924298\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/GettyImages-486166770-800x516.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"516\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/GettyImages-486166770-800x516.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/GettyImages-486166770-1020x657.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/GettyImages-486166770-160x103.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/GettyImages-486166770-768x495.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/GettyImages-486166770.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sun Ra and his Sun Ra Archestra perform with a steel sculpture on September 23, 1978, at Hill Auditorium in Ann Arbor, Michigan. \u003ccite>(Leni Sinclair/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Sun Ra was part of the Black Arts Movement (BAM) of the 1960s, which began in Harlem but was grounded in the Bay Area. Influential author, writer and BAM co-founder Amiri Bakara moved from New York in 1962 to teach at San Francisco State University; in 1964, he worked with a young graphic designer named Emory Douglas on set design for a play in San Francisco. Three years later, Douglas met Bobby Seale and Huey Newton at the Black Door, a Black-operated theater known for presenting avant-garde productions, and became the Black Panther’s minister of culture.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Douglas’ revolutionary illustrations were featured in the Panther newspaper, and went on to influence politically-minded graffiti artists and muralists worldwide, including in San Francisco’s famed Clarion Alley. The Coup’s logo, depicting a mother carrying a child in a sling while holding a rifle, is a \u003ca href=\"http://american-studies-uea.blogspot.com/2021/05/the-art-of-emory-douglas-and-asali.html\">direct descendant of Douglas’ work\u003c/a>. And during the late ’80s, a flourishing of political graffiti around the anti-apartheid movement crested into bold statements against police brutality and Christopher Columbus by Bay Area aerosol legends Mike Dream, Spie and the TDK collective in the early ’90s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Baraka later became a founding board member of Oakland’s Eastside Arts Alliance, whose annual Malcolm X Jazz Arts Festival in San Antonio Park has featured hip-hop freestyle rhyme and dance cyphers, live painting in honor of Mike Dream, tributes to boogaloo, and performances by The Coup and the Last Poets’ Umar Bin Hassan. Meanwhile, Baraka’s daughter Dominique DiPrima would become the KRON-TV host of the popular Bay Area hip-hop show \u003cem>Home Turf\u003c/em>. [aside postid='arts_13906176']\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Spoken word, feminism\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>From the Black Arts Movement lineage comes a local emphasis on spoken word poetry and alternative theater. This legacy of artistic expression ultimately connects pioneering poet/playwright Ntozake Shange to the hip-hop inspired Oakland poet Chinaka Hodge, and to the field of hip-hop theater explored by Marc Bamuthi Joseph in the Bay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In her 1976 choreopoem \u003cem>for colored girls who’ve considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf\u003c/em>, first performed at a lesbian bar on Solano Avenue in Albany, Shange foreshadowed women in hip-hop’s existential struggle with sexuality, self-affirmation and self-love while dealing with misogyny, toxic relationships and Black female identity. In “No More Love Poems pt 1,” Shange’s Lady in Orange describes “being left screaming in a street full of lunatics whispering slut, \u003cem>beeitch\u003c/em>…” — pronouncing the word with the same drawn-out intonation as Too Short would a decade later.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13924299\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 801px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13924299\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/801px-Ntozake_Shange_Reid_Lecture_Women_Issues_Luncheon_Womens_Center_November_1978_Crisco_edit.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"801\" height=\"1023\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/801px-Ntozake_Shange_Reid_Lecture_Women_Issues_Luncheon_Womens_Center_November_1978_Crisco_edit.jpg 801w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/801px-Ntozake_Shange_Reid_Lecture_Women_Issues_Luncheon_Womens_Center_November_1978_Crisco_edit-160x204.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/801px-Ntozake_Shange_Reid_Lecture_Women_Issues_Luncheon_Womens_Center_November_1978_Crisco_edit-768x981.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 801px) 100vw, 801px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ntozake Shange in 1978. \u003ccite>(Barnard College/Wikimedia Commons)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>These same themes are present to some degree in the music of Bay Area women in funk — a list that includes Little Sister, Sugar Pie DeSanto, the Brides of Funkenstein, and Betty Davis (who recorded her first two albums in San Francisco with Bay Area musicians). The Pointer Sisters, the Oakland group whose career began with the self-affirming hit “\u003ca href=\"https://youtu.be/F2U1OUxXSMM\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Yes We Can Can\u003c/a>,” would later be referenced by Ice Cube, the Treacherous Three and Salt-n-Pepa.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As SF State professor and cultural anthropologist Dawn-Elissa Fischer points out, the tradition extends even further back. “Some of the ideas that Angela Davis and Patricia Collins write about in terms of the impact of blues women — when we talk about the Panthers, we want to remember, while there are obvious ties, there’s this longer tradition of posting, boasting and rapping in the work of blues women in the Bay Area and elsewhere.” The same ideas and themes of the blues era, she says, were magnified and amplified during the funk era, and again in the hip-hop era.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fischer, a contributor to \u003cem>The Smithsonian Anthology of Hip-Hop and Rap\u003c/em> and an advisor on KQED’s \u003ci>That’s My Word\u003c/i>, regularly studies funk music as well as contemporary rap in her work, connecting dots between generational movements. She maintains the funky divas of the 1970s provided not only an artistic blueprint for rappers like the Conscious Daughters to talk about gender, sexuality and reproductive rights, but an aesthetic influence as well. Local emcee Coco Peila, she says, is an example of both, along with Mystic, Suga-T and Ryan Nicole.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In looking critically at the intersection of funk, boogaloo, and the Black Panthers, Fischer says, “There was a lot of labor, gender and sexuality components of all of these movements, and specifically various forms of Black power. And \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11858928/west-oakland-mural-honors-women-of-black-panther-party\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Black women are a critical part of this paradigm\u003c/a>.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The legacy of these movements is not only part of hip-hop history and American history, but Bay Area history specifically. What made these movements so significant and generational in their influence was their intersectional longevity. Funk, boogaloo, and social movements all spoke to each other throughout their existence. That dialogue has become a longer discussion with the advent of hip-hop, which, as it’s evolved, has carried along with it the aesthetics of past movements \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">—\u003c/span> be they Afros and boots, Black Power salutes, or tick-tocking robot moves over bass grooves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-11687704\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2016/06/Turntable.Break_-800x60.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"60\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/06/Turntable.Break_.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/06/Turntable.Break_-400x30.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/06/Turntable.Break_-768x58.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In other words, two of the three cultural influences cited in one of the earliest known print references to hip-hop are from the Bay Area. Oh word? Say that then.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>No one would dispute that hip-hop emerged from the Bronx, or that James Brown was one of its godfathers. But the impact the Bay Area had on hip-hop’s early sound, aesthetic and ideology is less widely recognized. A thorough exploration of the Bay’s cultural and political movements of the 1960s and ’70s strongly suggests the Bay was hip-hop before there was hip-hop.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13924550\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13924550\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/HueyNewton.SlyStone.ShomariSmith-800x426.jpg\" alt=\"illustrations of huey newton and sly stone\" width=\"800\" height=\"426\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/HueyNewton.SlyStone.ShomariSmith-800x426.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/HueyNewton.SlyStone.ShomariSmith-1020x543.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/HueyNewton.SlyStone.ShomariSmith-160x85.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/HueyNewton.SlyStone.ShomariSmith-768x409.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/HueyNewton.SlyStone.ShomariSmith-1536x818.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/HueyNewton.SlyStone.ShomariSmith.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">In the Bay Area, both Huey Newton and Sly Stone (L–R) helped sow the seeds of what would later be referred to as hip-hop. \u003ccite>(Illustrations by Shomari Smith)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Consider this: Before he became a funk superstar, Sly Stone was a fast-talking radio personality whose \u003ca href=\"https://soundcloud.com/djstef415/sly-stone-on-ksol-1967\">on-air patter\u003c/a>, laden with hep phrases, took the form of rapping before rap music. When it came to dance, the Bay Area had boogaloo, robotting and strutting, whose innovative moves preceded b-boying by almost 10 years. (There’s even evidence of breakdancing crews at local talent shows prior to nationwide releases of \u003cem>Breakin’\u003c/em> and \u003cem>Beat Street\u003c/em>.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wall_of_Respect\">community mural movement\u003c/a>, which parallels the \u003ca href=\"https://blogs.cuit.columbia.edu/ijt2106/moment-of-departure/the-emergence-of-modern-graffiti/\">modern graffiti movement\u003c/a>, took root in the Bay before wildstyle frescoes appeared on New York subway trains. The Bay Area’s \u003ca href=\"https://legionsofboom.com/\">Filipino American mobile DJ scene\u003c/a> dates back to garage parties in the 1970s in South San Francisco and Daly City.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Consider also that the iconography of hip-hop was shaped by Bay Area activists, as well as street-level archetypes of badmen and tricksters whose legend became \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CsXK4_D6ByA\">urban folklore\u003c/a>. A key reason the Bay Area became an early adopter of hip-hop was because its culture not only anticipated its arrival, but contributed to its essence during its developmental stages.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13924289\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 615px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13924289\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/BPP2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"615\" height=\"829\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/BPP2.png 615w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/BPP2-160x216.png 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 615px) 100vw, 615px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A 1971 flyer for a Black Panther Party rally calling for Bobby Seale, Ericka Huggins, Angela Davis and Ruchell Magee to be freed from prison. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Black Panther Party Alumni Legacy Network)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>The Black Panthers lay hip-hop’s ideological foundation\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Hip-hop began as an underground artform created by inner city youth with few resources, who were dynamic in how they expressed their style and identity. Much of its ideology and political viewpoints were shaped by the Black Panthers, who were founded in Oakland in 1966 and grew to 38 national chapters within two years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Black Panthers had a distinct influence on people like dancer Will “Mr. Penguin” Randolph, an early practitioner of boogaloo and co-founder of the dance crew the \u003ca href=\"https://www.blackresurgents.com/\">Black Resurgents.\u003c/a> Randolph, who grew up in East Oakland, remembers how the Panthers used culture to engage young people and push their revolutionary message.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They had all these rallies with Elaine Brown and different people, and the Black Resurgents were the unofficial official dance group,” Randolph says. “And they would use us to draw the adults in to talk about the city’s plight politically. It was just phenomenal.” \u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13851531/a-brief-history-of-the-lumpen-the-black-panthers-revolutionary-funk-band\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Lumpen\u003c/a>, a Black Panther-affiliated touring funk band, spread the party’s message around the country. It’s no coincidence that groups like the Chi-Lites, the O’Jays and the Isley Brothers began to reference Panther talking points on songs like “\u003ca href=\"https://youtu.be/qEwMaeN2x-c\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Give More Power to the People\u003c/a>,” “\u003ca href=\"https://youtu.be/uebYua_vdPc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Give the People What They Want\u003c/a>” and “\u003ca href=\"https://youtu.be/8QZvoOqUkqw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Fight the Power\u003c/a>.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You have to consider that the Black Panther ideology was steeped in, as are most cultural ideas, in the music of the day,” Randolph says. “The grittiness of the blue collar town of Oakland, and the rise of the ideology of the Black Panther Party, and the rise of the funk music of the town all came together.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the hip-hop era, children of Black Panthers like Tupac Shakur and Digital Underground’s Money B — known as “Panther cubs” — would be the ones to carry the Panthers’ vision for Black liberation forward. There’s no “\u003ca href=\"https://youtu.be/zfuF2jOeUx8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Rebel of the Underground\u003c/a>,” an early agitprop Tupac song, without the Black Panthers. No “Break the Grip of Shame,” the classic 1990 single by San Francisco rapper Paris, either.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/HJ96GPtnH70'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/HJ96GPtnH70'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>Hip-hop activism’s cornerstone issues, police reform and the prison-industrial complex, contain obvious through-lines back to the Black Panthers. In 1966, the Panthers’ manifesto, the Ten-Point Program, stated, “We Want An Immediate End to Police Brutality and the Murder of Black People,” followed by a call for “all Black People (to) be released from the many jails and prisons.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>N.W.A’s “Fuck Tha Police” seemed outrageous in 1989, but became prescient three years later, when LAPD officers were caught on video beating Rodney King. Political rappers like Public Enemy and KRS-One often harbored strong anti-police views, which were shared by such less-likely sources as New York’s L.L. Cool J and Houston’s UGK, on down to Vallejo’s The Mac.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before the NYPD killing of Amadou Diallo inspired the Hip Hop for Respect project in 2000, the 1995 death of Aaron Williams in SFPD custody led to hip-hop activist organization Third Eye Movement protesting the SF Police Commission, and later resisting California’s Juvenile Crime initiative, Prop. 21. In 2009, Mistah F.A.B., Boots Riley and other local hip-hop artists took part in \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13847704/after-oscar-grant-oakland-artists-inspired-a-new-generation-of-activists\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">protests against Oscar Grant’s killing\u003c/a> by BART police.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More recently, the 2016 \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/11537324/equiptos-hunger-strike-the-importance-of-art-in-social-change\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Frisco Five\u003c/a> hunger strike, spearheaded by rapper Equipto, resulted in SFPD reform. In 2020, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13881529/photos-black-lives-matter-murals-call-for-justice-on-oaklands-walls\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">graffiti artists and muralists took to the Oakland streets\u003c/a> in response to George Floyd’s murder.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the past decade, activists have rallied around the Black Lives Matter movement, and it’s no coincidence that the phrase was first coined by Black Lives Matter cofounder Alicia Garza, in Oakland, the home of the Panthers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12159957\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 398px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-12159957\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2016/10/H95.18.802-398x600.jpg\" alt=\"Lonnie Wilson, untitled (Black Panthers at Alameda County Courthouse), July 14, 1968. Gelatin silver photograph, 14 x 9.5 in. The Oakland Tribune Collection, the Oakland Museum of California, Gift of ANG Newspapers\" width=\"398\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/10/H95.18.802-398x600.jpg 398w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/10/H95.18.802-400x602.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/10/H95.18.802-768x1156.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/10/H95.18.802-784x1180.jpg 784w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/10/H95.18.802-1180x1777.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/10/H95.18.802-960x1446.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/10/H95.18.802.jpg 1793w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 398px) 100vw, 398px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lonnie Wilson, untitled (Black Panthers at Alameda County Courthouse), July 14, 1968. Gelatin silver photograph, 14 x 9.5 in. The Oakland Tribune Collection, the Oakland Museum of California, Gift of ANG Newspapers. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of the Oakland Museum of California)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Before conscious rap, funk brought the message\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In the Bay Area, funk music was inextricably linked to the revolutionary movements of the 1960s. Beyond the Black Panthers were the Brown Berets, the Third World Liberation Front and the anti-Vietnam War movement, all animating young people to fight against an oppressive social order. One artist that emerged from this climate and eventually became one of hip-hop’s major influences was Sly Stone. A Vallejo-raised champion of multiculturalism and progressive social values, Sly transformed Black music during the ’60s and ’70s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe style=\"border-radius:12px\" src=\"https://open.spotify.com/embed/playlist/6QO0SJgNdiPaDRpwHMPySi?utm_source=generator\" width=\"100%\" height=\"352\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen allow=\"autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; fullscreen; picture-in-picture\" loading=\"lazy\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sly’s records often contained social commentary that mixed the personal with the political. “Stand!” is an anthem of self-determination positing that freedom is attainable “at least in your mind if you want to be”; Sly released similarly-themed songs like “\u003ca href=\"https://youtu.be/l8sz_7TPWE0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">You Can Make It If You Try\u003c/a>,” “\u003ca href=\"https://youtu.be/HMQQcniF2Bg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Underdog\u003c/a>” and “\u003ca href=\"https://youtu.be/Ruq2HJGs31g\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Skin I’m In\u003c/a>.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to his contributions to hip-hop’s lexicon — Sly and the Family Stone’s album \u003ci>Fresh\u003c/i> predates hip-hop’s popularizing of the term by at least a decade — there’s the music itself, which has become part of hip-hop’s genetic code. According to online sample databases, Sly and The Family Stone’s music has been sampled an astounding 967 times — up there with James Brown and the Meters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Greg Errico’s drums on “\u003ca href=\"https://youtu.be/42YGprrAOj0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sing A Simple Song\u003c/a>” alone have resurfaced in gangsta, alternative and even international rap songs, including Digital Underground’s “\u003ca href=\"https://youtu.be/PBsjggc5jHM\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Humpty Dance\u003c/a>,” Tupac’s “\u003ca href=\"https://youtu.be/skg0w8DpEe4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Temptations\u003c/a>,” Public Enemy’s “\u003ca href=\"https://youtu.be/mmo3HFa2vjg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Fight the Power\u003c/a>,” KRS-One’s “\u003ca href=\"https://youtu.be/9ZrAYxWPN6c\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sound of Da Police\u003c/a>,” A Tribe Called Quest’s “\u003ca href=\"https://youtu.be/cxN4nKk2cfk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jazz\u003c/a>” and countless others.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Family Stone bassist and Oakland native Larry Graham’s slap-bass technique, prominently displayed on 1968’s “\u003ca href=\"https://youtu.be/N5BP2KlPD4U\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Again)\u003c/a>,” became a defining characteristic of funk, later used by musicians like Bootsy Collins as well as Chic’s Bernard Edwards, whose “Good Times” bassline would later drive “Rapper’s Delight.” \u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sly also created a template for the artist-producer and independent label entrepreneur. He produced other artists for his short-lived Stone Flower label, often playing every musical instrument. His production of Little Sister’s “Somebody’s Watching You” became the first Top 40 hit to use electronic drums — a staple of nearly all hip-hop production.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I feel like particularly with Sly, [he’s] part of the whole kind of mashup of the streets and the church,” says Lateef Daumont, a Panther cub best known as hip-hop artist Lateef the Truthspeaker of the Quannum collective. “They just had all of the things that would be blueprints for hip-hop later on — even business-wise, in a lot of ways.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Sly was the integrationist,” says author and educator Cecil Brown, a Berkeley resident during the ’70s who taught at Merritt College’s former campus on Grove Street (now Martin Luther King Jr. Way) in Oakland. “Also, Sly had an element of militancy in him, too, that was \u003cem>not\u003c/em> flower power, you know? It was like, ‘We got something that is going to make us feel better, and that belongs to us.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13898274\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13898274\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/0SUMMER_OF_SOUL_-_Sly_Stone._Courtesy_of_Mass_Distraction_Media_1-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/0SUMMER_OF_SOUL_-_Sly_Stone._Courtesy_of_Mass_Distraction_Media_1-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/0SUMMER_OF_SOUL_-_Sly_Stone._Courtesy_of_Mass_Distraction_Media_1-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/0SUMMER_OF_SOUL_-_Sly_Stone._Courtesy_of_Mass_Distraction_Media_1-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/0SUMMER_OF_SOUL_-_Sly_Stone._Courtesy_of_Mass_Distraction_Media_1-768x432.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/0SUMMER_OF_SOUL_-_Sly_Stone._Courtesy_of_Mass_Distraction_Media_1-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/0SUMMER_OF_SOUL_-_Sly_Stone._Courtesy_of_Mass_Distraction_Media_1-2048x1152.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/0SUMMER_OF_SOUL_-_Sly_Stone._Courtesy_of_Mass_Distraction_Media_1-1920x1080.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sly Stone in a still from Questlove’s new film ‘Summer of Soul.’ \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Mass Distraction Media)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Remarkably, Stone was able to cross over to the pop charts while maintaining an unapologetically Black identity. In a \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zDOyaGvOyPk\">1974 clip from \u003ci>The Mike Douglas Show\u003c/i>\u003c/a>, Sly is asked if his young, white middle-class fans know what he’s singing about. “Yeah, they know,” he says. Hip-hop exemplifies the same paradigm: It appeals to white youth precisely because it offers entry into a different cultural space, with its own reference points and vernacular.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Just as The Coup’s Boots Riley performed his song “\u003ca href=\"https://youtu.be/_2bkG0wwdXc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Underdogs\u003c/a>” during the Occupy Oakland demonstrations of 2011, Sly occasionally performed at Black Panther rallies while living in Oakland. His ear-to-the-street perspective, containing equal parts optimism and cynicism, is evidenced by the No. 1 album \u003ci>There’s A Riot Goin’ On\u003c/i>, released in 1971. As cultural critic Okla Jones wrote on the occasion of the album’s 50th anniversary, “America was a nation in transition, feeling the effects of the previous decade. The shadow of Dr. King’s assassination loomed over the Black community, and the Vietnam War divided an entire country. What Sly and the Family Stone’s fifth album did was give a voice to a new generation yearning to be heard.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This dynamic — young people speaking their minds and determining their own identities through cultural expression — not only defined the early ’70s but connected the funk era to the rap era. Once you depart from the New York-centric breakbeat aesthetic, funk becomes \u003cem>the\u003c/em> defining element of hip-hop’s sound, particularly in the Southern United States and parts of the Midwest, and especially in the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13851562\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13851562\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2019/02/lumpen_stage-800x523.jpg\" alt=\"The Lumpen performed between 1970 and 1972; afterwards, Black Panther Party leadership assigned its members to other roles within the organization.\" width=\"800\" height=\"523\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/02/lumpen_stage.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/02/lumpen_stage-160x105.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/02/lumpen_stage-768x502.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Black Panther funk band The Lumpen performed between 1970 and 1972; afterwards, party leadership assigned its members to other roles within the organization. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of itsabouttime.com)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Before breaking, the Bay had boogaloo\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The dance style known as Oakland boogaloo began in the 1960s with R&B and soul as its soundtrack, but the emergence of funk raised the bar for creative expression. “The thumping of the bass and the snapping of the snare drum and the thumping of the bass drum, you started to see people doing this free-form movement, with a hit and with body contortions,” says Will Randolph, whose group the Black Resurgents once performed during a 1977 Parliament concert at the Oakland Coliseum Arena, where they emerged from the iconic mothership in front of more than 10,000 fans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When you talk about hip-hop dance, primarily people think of breaking and popping,” Randolph says. “When you talk about street dance on a nationwide level prior to hip-hop dance coming out of primarily New York, you have this whole West Coast sea of dance and street dance. The Bay Area in particular is really the debut for hip-hop.”\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/IUdS6kxw2aI'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/IUdS6kxw2aI'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>From the mid-1960s to the early ’70s, years before hip-hop had a name, Oakland groups like the Black Resurgents, One Plus One, the Black Messengers and Pirate and the Easy Walkers perfected moves that would become part of the hip-hop dance vernacular.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What I’m saying is that boogaloo, robotting, and strutting dance styles predate hip-hop as a culture, as a name, and even hip-hop dance as an artform,” says Randolph. (In 1990’s “\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QDApdzFa3OI\">U Make Me Want Some\u003c/a>,” Mac Dre’s mentor and namesake The Mac even raps: “You can do the boogaloo / Like they used to do in 1972.”)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As boogaloo branched off into Richmond robotting and San Francisco strutting in the mid-1970s to become the predominant form of urban youth culture in the Bay Area, dancers adopted the sartorial flamboyance associated with pimps, incorporating top hats, canes and pointy-toed shoes into their aesthetic. White gloves created a mesmerizing effect under blacklight during performances in dark halls.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fueled by talent show competitions, which brought local fame and popularity, the artform continued to develop into the early ’80s. Synchronized group routines, costumes, and stage props all became part of the mix. Most routines developed for competitions were performed just once. Some groups practiced in secret so no one could steal their moves. (The Black Resurgents were an exception; they were known to practice in front of an open window, often drawing crowds from their neighborhood.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Coded signals between dancers would indicate they were participants in the same culture and ready to battle at a moment’s notice, such as popping one’s collar — which later became a signature hallmark of Bay Area hip-hop expression. Being known as a boogaloo, strutter or robotter also conferred social status, and could give practitioners a ghetto pass through hostile territory or nullify threats of violence altogether.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As boogaloo spread in the latter half of the ’70s to San Jose, Sacramento, Fresno and Los Angeles, a move originally known as “The Oakland Hit” became the “pop,” and blended with the locking style indigenous to Southern California. Pop-locking was born.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13924302\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13924302\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/n5cCK1s8-800x609.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"609\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/n5cCK1s8-800x609.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/n5cCK1s8-160x122.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/n5cCK1s8-768x584.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/n5cCK1s8.jpg 924w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Black Resurgents on ‘The Jay Payton Show,’ July 18, 1976. \u003ccite>(Courtesy AAMLO)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But the Bay Area’s contributions didn’t make the history books. In 1979, the Electric Boogaloos \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rkejPbx9zSI\">appeared on \u003ci>Soul Train\u003c/i>\u003c/a> and were erroneously announced as the originators of boogaloo by host Don Cornelius. Boogaloo also spread to New York through Bay Area dancers like Jerry Rentie, who served active military duty there, but wasn’t recognized as a distinct style by New York rappers like Run-DMC, who said “let the poppers pop and the breakers break” on 1984’s “Rock Box.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Northern California origins of popping became further obscured when breakdancing arrived on the West Coast in the early ’80s, and boogaloo, strutting, robotting, popping and breaking were all subsumed into the amalgamation of hip-hop dance. In “\u003ca href=\"https://youtu.be/HshF2AOx4VM\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">West Coast Pop Lock\u003c/a>,” a 1982 hit for Ronnie Hudson that most know as the hook of Tupac’s “California Love,” Hudson shouts out Los Angeles, Watts and Compton — with no mention of Oakland at all.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Pimp culture becomes pop culture\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Another key influence on hip-hop was Richard Pryor, who moved to Berkeley in 1969 and soaked up the city’s counterculture vibe. Pryor performed locally at venues like Laney College, and, similar to Tupac, key parts of his development came from the Bay Area before he moved to L.A. and became a superstar.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pryor has been sampled in rap more than 400 times, which speaks to his street-level Black cultural perspective that placed more emphasis on barbershops, juke joints and strip clubs than churches and schools. And it was Pryor’s involvement in a 1973 movie, filmed in Oakland, that would cement his relationship to Bay Area hip-hop.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13924297\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13924297\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/GettyImages-1137109661-800x1217.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"1217\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/GettyImages-1137109661-800x1217.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/GettyImages-1137109661-1020x1551.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/GettyImages-1137109661-160x243.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/GettyImages-1137109661-768x1168.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/GettyImages-1137109661-1010x1536.jpg 1010w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/GettyImages-1137109661-1347x2048.jpg 1347w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/GettyImages-1137109661-1920x2920.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/GettyImages-1137109661-scaled.jpg 1683w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Mack, US poster, top from left: Max Julien, Richard Pryor, from a 1977 re-release of the film. \u003ccite>(Photo by LMPC via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>The Mack\u003c/i> is ostensibly a cautionary tale about the rise and fall of a pimp named Goldie (Max Julien), yet it glorified the illegal sex trade and the flamboyant pimp lifestyle. The movie’s lead was based directly on the notorious Oakland pimp and drug dealer Frank Ward, and infamously featured several real-life pimps and sex workers, in exchange for cameo roles for Ward and his brothers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In \u003cem>The Mack\u003c/em>, Pryor played Slim, Goldie’s partner. Another character, Fat Man, coincidentally had the same initials as infamous Oakland drug kingpin Felix Mitchell. With Goldie’s brother Olinga as a Panther-esque Black nationalist, the film’s subtext hints at the real-life tension between the Black Panthers and Oakland’s gangster underworld. It’s a dynamic that foreshadowed the divisions between conscious and gangsta rap, and predated the way Tupac and many Bay Area rappers mixed elements of both.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Melvin Van Peebles’ directorial debut \u003ci>Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song\u003c/i> was released in 1971, Panther leaders used their widely circulated newspaper to encourage Party members to see the film, which also featured the all-Black East Bay Dragons motorcycle club. “No distributors were supporting it,” says the Lumpen’s Dr. Saturu Ned, who worked in the Party’s newspaper office before he became a musician. “Because of the Black Panther Party, millions of people went to see the movie.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>Sweet Sweetback\u003c/i> birthed the so-called blaxploitation films of this era, championing a gritty view of street life with an undercurrent of anti-authoritarianism. The genre became a key reference point for hip-hop, along with the Panthers’ messages of Black power and resistance. \u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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For some, the underground economy became an appealing means of upward mobility.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Felix Mitchell operated out of the San Antonio Villa, a.k.a. 6-9 Ville, in East Oakland, which became the headquarters for the “69 Mob,” a criminal organization that established a nationwide heroin distribution network and employed young children as lookouts. The housing project’s notoriety extended well beyond Mitchell’s death in 1986: in 1992, the rapper Seagram released the single “The Ville,” which references “the M.O.B.” — an acronym for My Other Brother, the “official” name of Mitchell’s gang.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the ’70s, the Black Panthers operated a school and community center just a few blocks from 6-9 Ville. This led to conflict over control of the neighborhood. Ned recalls that intakes at the community center for heroin overdoses were common, while the Black Resurgents’ Randolph, who lived nearby on Sunnyside and 82nd Avenue, remembers gun battles sometimes erupting between the two factions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the post-Felix Mitchell crack cocaine era, rapping about pimping, drug dealing, drive-by shootings and sideshows all became part of Oakland’s hip-hop lexicon — see Dru Down and the Luniz’ “Ice Cream Man,” Richie Rich’s “Sideshow” and “Half Thang,” or Dru Down’s “Pimp of the Year,” which stayed on the Billboard charts for 24 weeks and would often evoke boisterous sing-alongs when played in local clubs.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/qnVtwzaw6lM'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/qnVtwzaw6lM'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>Mitchell himself had reportedly popularized drive-by shootings, becoming one of the inspirations for the Nino Brown character in the 1991 movie \u003ci>New Jack City\u003c/i>, which featured a hip-hop soundtrack.. And Mitchell’s rival, Milton “Mickey Mo” Moore, financed the first rap record to come out of the Bay Area: Motorcycle Mike’s “Super Rat.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So while Philadelphia’s Schooly-D and L.A.’s Ice-T are often credited as the first gangsta rap artists, the genre has been heavily influenced by Bay Area criminal icons like Moore, Ward, Mitchell and San Francisco’s Fillmore Slim. Just like the Panthers predated conscious rap and progressive politics, the Bay basically been gangsta for years.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Afrofuturism is at the heart of hip-hop’s imagination\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Not all hip-hop artists follow a street playbook. Nearly as influential as \u003ci>The Mack\u003c/i> was Sun Ra’s 1974 cult classic \u003ci>Space is the Place\u003c/i>, filmed at locations in Oakland, including the current Merritt College campus. Its origins date back to a 1971 \u003ca href=\"https://www.openculture.com/2014/07/full-lecture-and-reading-list-from-sun-ras-1971-uc-berkeley-course.html\">lecture course\u003c/a> given by Sun Ra at UC Berkeley, titled “The Black Man in the Cosmos.” The film’s convoluted plot depicts Ra as a time-traveling jazz musician who engages in a game of tarot with an “overseer” to decide the fate of the Black race. 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In the Bay Area, Hieroglyphics’ Del the Funky Homosapien would imagine dystopian futures worthy of anime treatments; Blackalicious’ work would contain themes of technology as a means of liberation; and Zion I’s lyrics would reach towards spiritual enlightenment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13924298\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13924298\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/GettyImages-486166770-800x516.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"516\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/GettyImages-486166770-800x516.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/GettyImages-486166770-1020x657.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/GettyImages-486166770-160x103.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/GettyImages-486166770-768x495.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/GettyImages-486166770.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sun Ra and his Sun Ra Archestra perform with a steel sculpture on September 23, 1978, at Hill Auditorium in Ann Arbor, Michigan. \u003ccite>(Leni Sinclair/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Sun Ra was part of the Black Arts Movement (BAM) of the 1960s, which began in Harlem but was grounded in the Bay Area. 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And during the late ’80s, a flourishing of political graffiti around the anti-apartheid movement crested into bold statements against police brutality and Christopher Columbus by Bay Area aerosol legends Mike Dream, Spie and the TDK collective in the early ’90s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Baraka later became a founding board member of Oakland’s Eastside Arts Alliance, whose annual Malcolm X Jazz Arts Festival in San Antonio Park has featured hip-hop freestyle rhyme and dance cyphers, live painting in honor of Mike Dream, tributes to boogaloo, and performances by The Coup and the Last Poets’ Umar Bin Hassan. Meanwhile, Baraka’s daughter Dominique DiPrima would become the KRON-TV host of the popular Bay Area hip-hop show \u003cem>Home Turf\u003c/em>. \u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Spoken word, feminism\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>From the Black Arts Movement lineage comes a local emphasis on spoken word poetry and alternative theater. This legacy of artistic expression ultimately connects pioneering poet/playwright Ntozake Shange to the hip-hop inspired Oakland poet Chinaka Hodge, and to the field of hip-hop theater explored by Marc Bamuthi Joseph in the Bay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In her 1976 choreopoem \u003cem>for colored girls who’ve considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf\u003c/em>, first performed at a lesbian bar on Solano Avenue in Albany, Shange foreshadowed women in hip-hop’s existential struggle with sexuality, self-affirmation and self-love while dealing with misogyny, toxic relationships and Black female identity. In “No More Love Poems pt 1,” Shange’s Lady in Orange describes “being left screaming in a street full of lunatics whispering slut, \u003cem>beeitch\u003c/em>…” — pronouncing the word with the same drawn-out intonation as Too Short would a decade later.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13924299\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 801px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13924299\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/801px-Ntozake_Shange_Reid_Lecture_Women_Issues_Luncheon_Womens_Center_November_1978_Crisco_edit.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"801\" height=\"1023\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/801px-Ntozake_Shange_Reid_Lecture_Women_Issues_Luncheon_Womens_Center_November_1978_Crisco_edit.jpg 801w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/801px-Ntozake_Shange_Reid_Lecture_Women_Issues_Luncheon_Womens_Center_November_1978_Crisco_edit-160x204.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/801px-Ntozake_Shange_Reid_Lecture_Women_Issues_Luncheon_Womens_Center_November_1978_Crisco_edit-768x981.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 801px) 100vw, 801px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ntozake Shange in 1978. \u003ccite>(Barnard College/Wikimedia Commons)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>These same themes are present to some degree in the music of Bay Area women in funk — a list that includes Little Sister, Sugar Pie DeSanto, the Brides of Funkenstein, and Betty Davis (who recorded her first two albums in San Francisco with Bay Area musicians). The Pointer Sisters, the Oakland group whose career began with the self-affirming hit “\u003ca href=\"https://youtu.be/F2U1OUxXSMM\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Yes We Can Can\u003c/a>,” would later be referenced by Ice Cube, the Treacherous Three and Salt-n-Pepa.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As SF State professor and cultural anthropologist Dawn-Elissa Fischer points out, the tradition extends even further back. “Some of the ideas that Angela Davis and Patricia Collins write about in terms of the impact of blues women — when we talk about the Panthers, we want to remember, while there are obvious ties, there’s this longer tradition of posting, boasting and rapping in the work of blues women in the Bay Area and elsewhere.” The same ideas and themes of the blues era, she says, were magnified and amplified during the funk era, and again in the hip-hop era.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fischer, a contributor to \u003cem>The Smithsonian Anthology of Hip-Hop and Rap\u003c/em> and an advisor on KQED’s \u003ci>That’s My Word\u003c/i>, regularly studies funk music as well as contemporary rap in her work, connecting dots between generational movements. She maintains the funky divas of the 1970s provided not only an artistic blueprint for rappers like the Conscious Daughters to talk about gender, sexuality and reproductive rights, but an aesthetic influence as well. Local emcee Coco Peila, she says, is an example of both, along with Mystic, Suga-T and Ryan Nicole.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In looking critically at the intersection of funk, boogaloo, and the Black Panthers, Fischer says, “There was a lot of labor, gender and sexuality components of all of these movements, and specifically various forms of Black power. And \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11858928/west-oakland-mural-honors-women-of-black-panther-party\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Black women are a critical part of this paradigm\u003c/a>.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The legacy of these movements is not only part of hip-hop history and American history, but Bay Area history specifically. What made these movements so significant and generational in their influence was their intersectional longevity. Funk, boogaloo, and social movements all spoke to each other throughout their existence. That dialogue has become a longer discussion with the advent of hip-hop, which, as it’s evolved, has carried along with it the aesthetics of past movements \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">—\u003c/span> be they Afros and boots, Black Power salutes, or tick-tocking robot moves over bass grooves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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It’s staunchly independent and doesn’t ask for approval. It’s the product of pimps and hustlers just as much as activists and intellectuals. In the Bay — \u003cem>rewind that Mac Dre song\u003c/em> — we dance a little different. [aside postID='arts_13924126']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s no secret that hip-hop in the Bay has been overlooked. But something else has happened. The rest of the country, befuddled but fascinated, has hijacked our production, slang and dance styles as their own. Our DJs have inspired the world; our graffiti artists too. Spend a little time in hip-hop, and you’ll quickly notice just how much the Bay has influenced without recognition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the year 2023 marks what’s widely accepted as the 50th anniversary of the birth of hip-hop, it’s time to give the Bay its shine. That’s why we’re spending the whole year telling the story of this culture, piece by piece.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13924235\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/NoahHaytin.FourPortraits.2-800x295.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"295\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13924235\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/NoahHaytin.FourPortraits.2-800x295.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/NoahHaytin.FourPortraits.2-1020x376.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/NoahHaytin.FourPortraits.2-160x59.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/NoahHaytin.FourPortraits.2-768x283.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/NoahHaytin.FourPortraits.2-1536x566.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/NoahHaytin.FourPortraits.2.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sly Stone, E_40, Mistah F.A.B. and Kamaiyah. \u003ccite>(Illustration by Noah Haytin/NOH8TIN )\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>We’ll give you inside stories of hit records and deep cuts. We’ll break down how our innovative social, political and cultural movements contributed to hip-hop’s DNA. We’ll also go well beyond the music, and show how artists like Boots Riley and Tupac Shakur forced direct action for police accountability; how trailblazing women like Pam the Funkstress and the Conscious Daughters pushed hip-hop forward; and how Too Short, E-40, JT the Bigga Figga, Hieroglyphics and other entrepreneurs created the blueprint for independent artists.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Through regular feature stories, interviews, playlists, photo galleries, podcast episodes and live events throughout 2023, we’re here to backcue the record and make sure the Bay gets its due. [aside postid='arts_13923978']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We’ve also embarked on an ambitious endeavor, one that’s collaborative by design: a searchable, filterable \u003ca href=\"http://kqed.org/bayareahiphop/timeline\">timeline of important moments in Bay Area hip-hop history\u003c/a>. It’s already over 200 entries long, and we’ll be adding to it as the year goes on for future generations to explore.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>No single person can tell the entire story of Bay Area hip-hop. It’s too huge, too variegated. That’s why we’re working with contributors — journalists, visual artists, rappers, academics, turntablists — to capture as much of this history before it dissipates. We’re also working with an advisory panel consisting of \u003ca href=\"https://jeffchang.net/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jeff Chang\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.daveyd.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Davey D Cook\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://anthropology.sfsu.edu/people/dawn-elissa-fischer\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Dawn-Elissa Fischer\u003c/a>, all three of whom live and breathe hip-hop history. [aside postid='arts_13924042']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But importantly, we want to hear from you. Tap in and talk to us \u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/bayareahiphop/about\">here\u003c/a>. Fact-check us when needed. Tell us what you’ve seen and where you’ve been. The permanent record needs you.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you’re alive in 2023, you’ve been affected by hip-hop. For decades, it’s transformed not just music but art, politics, education and culture. So this series isn’t just for the old heads — it’s for young fans wanting to connect to the lineage; for those eager to learn about the Bay Area’s social, political and cultural history; for any of the millions across the globe whose life soundtrack spans the music of Mac Dre, The Jacka, Blackalicious, Keak Da Sneak, Kamaiyah, Digital Underground, DJ Shadow, MC Hammer, The Coup, Mystic, I.M.P., Saafir, Mistah F.A.B., the Invisibl Skratch Piklz and… you know what? If we listed everyone, we’d be here ’til infinity. [aside postid='arts_13924170']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hip-hop history is so much more than New York, L.A. and Atlanta. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>This story is part of \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"http://kqed.org/bayareahiphop\">That’s My Word\u003c/a>\u003cem>, KQED’s year-long exploration of Bay Area hip-hop history, with new content dropping all throughout 2023.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">B\u003c/span>efore \u003cem>8 Mile\u003c/em>, before Scribble Jam and WorldStar, and before MTV and BET developed freestyle shows, there was the Hiero-Hobo battle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pitting Saafir and his Hobo Junction crew against Casual and his Hieroglyphics crew, the 1994 rap battle held in KMEL’s San Francisco studios, broadcast live on the air, lasted more than 40 minutes. But its aftereffects lasted for decades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was like an out-of-body experience, just watching it,” said KMEL host Sway. “It was the most amazing, beautiful conflict you could ever witness.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Above, watch Shomari Smith’s 2021 short documentary \u003cem>The Battle\u003c/em>, which includes rare footage of the battle itself, and read below for some of the director’s reflections on this landmark meeting of Bay Area greats.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-13120075\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2017/04/Microphone.Break_-800x97.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"48\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/04/Microphone.Break_.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/04/Microphone.Break_-160x19.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/04/Microphone.Break_-768x93.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/04/Microphone.Break_-240x29.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/04/Microphone.Break_-375x45.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/04/Microphone.Break_-520x63.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>GABE MELINE: In the realm of Bay Area hip-hop history, in your own words, how important was this battle?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>SHOMARI SMITH\u003c/strong>: This battle was one of \u003cem>the\u003c/em> most important, for sure, for West Coast MCs, especially during that time. There was a different style from New York that kind of spawned out of the West Coast, and it was great to see West Coast MCs just battling it out live on the radio. You don’t see that very often — I can’t think of another live battle that happened on the air, at all. It’s usually at a show, or on record. So yeah, it was unique, and very, very important.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13923938']\u003cstrong>Freestyle battles weren’t as big a thing in the Bay as they were in New York, or Philly, or Cincinnati. Why do you think that is? \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s interesting, because there \u003cem>was\u003c/em> a culture for it here. It was just smaller. You had to seek it out. A lot of it happened on street corners; you wouldn’t find it formally happening. And I believe it just had a lot to do with what was popularized here — Too Short, sort of spawning the culture, he had a totally different style. It wasn’t a battle-rap style. There was this subculture of MCs who liked to battle and meet up, but it was just a smaller community on the West Coast.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13924171\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13924171\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/Saafir.Battle.72dpi-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"A man in a beanie and headphones raps assertively into a microphone in a radio station studio\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/Saafir.Battle.72dpi-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/Saafir.Battle.72dpi-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/Saafir.Battle.72dpi-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/Saafir.Battle.72dpi-768x432.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/Saafir.Battle.72dpi-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/Saafir.Battle.72dpi.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Saafir takes aim at Casual during the Hieroglyphics / Hobo Junction rap battle at KMEL Studios, Nov. 18, 1994. \u003ccite>(Alex Asher Daniel / Courtesy Skyfre Productions)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What ripple effects would you say the Hiero-Hobo battle had, for its participants but also in the culture at large?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The battle really spawned out of a personal dispute. And I think the biggest thing is that no one was physically hurt. So many times, you’ll see two rappers have a problem with each other, and then there’s a fight. Neither of these two guys ever got hurt over this battle, and there was a resolve on the mic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But then also, as the tapes traveled, and now with \u003cem>The Battle\u003c/em> being available online, you hear this energy and spontaneity. It spread this understanding that, yes, there are rappers’ rappers here in the Bay Area that very early on were following in the tradition of some of the original elements of hip-hop. It really brought attention to the Bay Area in a way that we hadn’t seen before.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID='arts_13918720']\u003cstrong>When you first set out to do this documentary… were you worried at all about reigniting old disputes?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>No. Making the \u003ca href=\"https://youtu.be/QVKJWlxpPy4\">Souls of Mischief documentary\u003c/a>, because they were a part of the battle, it was something that came up over and over again. At a certain point, I started making the battle a part of my line of questioning. And the last piece of it came when I ran into Saafir in Los Angeles, and I hadn’t seen him in a very, very long time, and he said so many nice things about the Souls. Right then and there, I knew this was something I could do.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Twenty years had passed. They had moved on. It seemed like they looked back on it finally like, “Oh, we were young guys, and I can’t believe we did that.” It was that energy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>One thing that really comes across is that, despite the passage of time, everybody remembers the events in that cramped studio really, really vividly.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s really incredible! Even 20 years later, the way they tell the story, like with the energy around it. A friend of mine, Alex Asher Daniel, who’s close with Hiero, also was in the room that night, and he brought a video camera to the battle. And Alex has had the tape this entire time, been watching it since the ’90s, but there’s no other tape that’s ever really surfaced of it. Everyone else who videotaped that night, I’m not sure what they did with their footage, or if it got lost, or it’s so far removed now, but nothing else has ever really surfaced.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I think the greatest element of the film is to actually see the footage of these guys in the studio facing off. It’s a special moment in hip-hop, and I think it deserved to be documented. We have to tell our own stories in our own way, and that’s why the way it’s told, the way I formed it, was very intentional. I didn’t have an angle in it, which was something Saafir really thanked me for, because he knows that I’m close with Hiero.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13924404\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13924404\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/Casual.Battle.KMEL_-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"A man in a colorful jacket, rapping into a microphone, surrounded by supporters\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/Casual.Battle.KMEL_-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/Casual.Battle.KMEL_-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/Casual.Battle.KMEL_-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/Casual.Battle.KMEL_-768x432.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/Casual.Battle.KMEL_-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/Casual.Battle.KMEL_.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Casual battles it out against Saafir at KMEL studios in San Francisco, Nov. 18, 1994. \u003ccite>(Alex Asher Daniel/Courtesy Skyfre Productions)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>So here’s the million-dollar question: Who do \u003cem>you\u003c/em> think won the battle?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Well, this is where my allegiance comes in. It’s Hiero, for sure. My whole thing was, if you’re only saying what is coming from your head at that moment, I think that’s pretty remarkable. Casual did not prepare at all, and that’s pretty incredible, to go live on the air with no rhymes written. I don’t know if there’s an MC that does that anymore. So yeah, my allegiance will always be with the Hiero crew, for sure. [aside postid='arts_13924167']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Is there anything else you want to add about the battle?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like I was saying before, things spawned from the battle. Crews got involved. But no one died. This was a hip-hop conflict that was resolved in the right way, in the spirit of the culture. I really like to emphasize that because it seems like, more and more, people have trouble solving problems that don’t end up fatal. 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"content": "\u003cp>February marks Black History Month, a tradition that got its start in the Jim Crow era and was officially recognized in 1976 as part of the nation’s bicentennial celebrations. It aims to honor the contributions that African Americans have made and to recognize their sacrifices.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here are three things to know about Black History Month:\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>It was Negro History Week before it was Black History Month\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>In 1926, \u003ca href=\"https://naacp.org/find-resources/history-explained/civil-rights-leaders/carter-g-woodson\">Carter G. Woodson\u003c/a>, the scholar often referred to as the “father of Black history,” established Negro History Week to focus attention on Black contributions to civilization. According to the NAACP, Woodson — at the time only the second Black American after W.E.B. Du Bois to earn a doctorate from Harvard University — “fervently believed that Black people should be proud of their heritage and [that] all Americans should understand the largely overlooked achievements of Black Americans.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Woodson, the son of former enslaved people, famously \u003ca href=\"https://www.williamjames.edu/news/Why-We-Celebrate-Black-History-Month.html\">said\u003c/a>: “If a race has no history, if it has no worthwhile tradition, it becomes a negligible factor in the thought of the world, and it stands in danger of being exterminated.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Woodson chose a week in February because of Abraham Lincoln, whose birthday was Feb. 12, and Frederick Douglass, who was born enslaved and did not know his actual birth date, but chose to celebrate it on Feb. 14.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Those two people were central to helping to afford Black people the experience of freedom that they have now,” says W. Marvin Dulaney, president of the Association for the Study of African American Life and History (\u003ca href=\"https://asalh.org/\">ASALH\u003c/a>), which Woodson founded in 1915 and today is the official promoter of Black History Month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the decades after the Civil War and through \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2019/07/27/744130358/red-summer-in-chicago-100-years-after-the-race-riots\">the racial violence that erupted across the country in the years following World War I\u003c/a>, there was a concerted effort to repress the teaching of Black history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13908784']“In the South, they tried to suppress Black history or African American history in the public schools,” Dulaney says, “particularly about things like Reconstruction and slavery, literally distorting the curriculum.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the university level, Black studies programs were almost nonexistent, he says. “California was the first state to actually mandate Black history in 1951 for the public schools.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Largely as a result of the civil rights and Black consciousness movements of the 1960s, “you saw an uptick in Black history courses,” says LaGarrett King, an associate professor of social studies education at the University at Buffalo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Across the country, public schools “created all these courses and mandates for Black history,” unofficially creating a Black History Month, King says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13924582\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13924582\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/02/gettyimages-176910681_custom-73d60c53d3e0848609a14c4255b4b7db7f9a4dc8-scaled-e1675277909214-800x527.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"527\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/02/gettyimages-176910681_custom-73d60c53d3e0848609a14c4255b4b7db7f9a4dc8-scaled-e1675277909214-800x527.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/02/gettyimages-176910681_custom-73d60c53d3e0848609a14c4255b4b7db7f9a4dc8-scaled-e1675277909214-1020x672.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/02/gettyimages-176910681_custom-73d60c53d3e0848609a14c4255b4b7db7f9a4dc8-scaled-e1675277909214-160x105.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/02/gettyimages-176910681_custom-73d60c53d3e0848609a14c4255b4b7db7f9a4dc8-scaled-e1675277909214-768x506.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/02/gettyimages-176910681_custom-73d60c53d3e0848609a14c4255b4b7db7f9a4dc8-scaled-e1675277909214-1536x1012.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/02/gettyimages-176910681_custom-73d60c53d3e0848609a14c4255b4b7db7f9a4dc8-scaled-e1675277909214.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Civil rights leader Martin Luther King (C) waves to supporters on the Mall in Washington DC (Washington Monument in background) during 1963’s ‘March on Washington.’ \u003ccite>(AFP via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The Black press also helped push the idea, says Marcus Hunter, a sociology professor at the University of California, Los Angeles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“\u003cem>The Chicago Defender\u003c/em>, the \u003cem>Philadelphia Tribune\u003c/em>, the \u003cem>Baltimore Afro-American\u003c/em> … they all started to say that this is something we’re celebrating,” Hunter says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13909125']By 1976, it became official, with President Gerald R. Ford \u003ca href=\"https://www.fordlibrarymuseum.gov/library/speeches/760074.htm\">declaring\u003c/a> February as Black History Month and calling on the public to “seize the opportunity to honor the too-often neglected accomplishments of Black Americans in every area of endeavor throughout our history.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today, Black History Month is also celebrated in \u003ca href=\"https://www.canada.ca/en/canadian-heritage/campaigns/black-history-month/about.html\">Canada\u003c/a> every February and the \u003ca href=\"https://www.creativesupport.co.uk/the-history-of-black-history-month/\">United Kingdom\u003c/a> in October.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>There’s a new theme every year\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Each year, the ASALH chooses a different theme for Black History Month. This year, the theme is “Black Resistance.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“African Americans have resisted historic and ongoing oppression, in all forms, especially the racial terrorism of lynching, racial pogroms, and police killings since our arrival upon these shores,” the ASALH says of \u003ca href=\"https://asalh.org/black-history-themes/\">this year’s theme\u003c/a>. “These efforts have been to advocate for a dignified self-determined life in a just democratic society in the United States and beyond the United States political jurisdiction.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dulaney says this year’s theme was chosen, in part, because of the current politically charged environment around race.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13892105']He calls efforts in states like \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2023/01/22/1150259944/florida-rejects-ap-class-african-american-studies\">Florida\u003c/a>, which recently rejected a new Advanced Placement course covering African American studies, and\u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/education-alabama-race-and-ethnicity-5ed4c96f5ed24ece30eac7fc5360ecbd#:~:text=(AP)%20%E2%80%94%20The%20Alabama%20State,about%20race%20in%20the%20classroom.\"> Alabama\u003c/a>, where the State Board of Education has voted to limit how educators can talk about race in the classroom, “a strong retrenchment” against coming to terms with Black history. In light of that, the theme seemed appropriate this year, Dulaney says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>King acknowledges that some people might interpret this year’s theme as politically provocative, but it shouldn’t be seen that way. Rather, it’s an effort to reframe the conversation about Black history around a theme of empowerment, he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“With resistance there is an implied understanding of oppression, and it seems to be a segment of the population who do not want to admit those historical facts,” he says. “Yet, resistance helps us understand the power that Black people have in terms of their historical realities, which counters the concept of victimhood that many say drives Black History education.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Recent controversies over how race is taught echo a time when Black history was often ignored\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>For Dulaney, the culture wars playing out across the country over how students learn about race feel like a case of history repeating itself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For many, recent events — the police killings of \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2021/03/13/973983947/a-year-after-breonna-taylors-killing-family-says-theres-no-accountability\">Breonna Taylor\u003c/a> and George Floyd, for example, and the ongoing controversy surrounding critical race theory, an academic framework stating that people who are white have benefited from ingrained racism in American institutions — look like a recurring pattern, he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I grew up in Ohio and we didn’t learn about a single African or African American man or woman who had ever done anything in history,” the 72-year-old Dulaney says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13892820']“Starting in the ‘60s, through the ‘70s, we were very successful in integrating African American history of culture into the curriculum,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, “now here we are back, having to push that agenda again … [against those] trying to suppress the teaching of African American history and culture.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>King thinks the current controversy surrounding critical race theory will die down. “My personal feelings are that they’ll find another politically manufactured outrage and move on to the next thing,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>UCLA’s Hunter thinks that debate is indicative of where the country is right now. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>February marks Black History Month, a tradition that got its start in the Jim Crow era and was officially recognized in 1976 as part of the nation’s bicentennial celebrations. It aims to honor the contributions that African Americans have made and to recognize their sacrifices.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here are three things to know about Black History Month:\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>It was Negro History Week before it was Black History Month\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>In 1926, \u003ca href=\"https://naacp.org/find-resources/history-explained/civil-rights-leaders/carter-g-woodson\">Carter G. Woodson\u003c/a>, the scholar often referred to as the “father of Black history,” established Negro History Week to focus attention on Black contributions to civilization. According to the NAACP, Woodson — at the time only the second Black American after W.E.B. Du Bois to earn a doctorate from Harvard University — “fervently believed that Black people should be proud of their heritage and [that] all Americans should understand the largely overlooked achievements of Black Americans.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Woodson, the son of former enslaved people, famously \u003ca href=\"https://www.williamjames.edu/news/Why-We-Celebrate-Black-History-Month.html\">said\u003c/a>: “If a race has no history, if it has no worthwhile tradition, it becomes a negligible factor in the thought of the world, and it stands in danger of being exterminated.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Woodson chose a week in February because of Abraham Lincoln, whose birthday was Feb. 12, and Frederick Douglass, who was born enslaved and did not know his actual birth date, but chose to celebrate it on Feb. 14.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“In the South, they tried to suppress Black history or African American history in the public schools,” Dulaney says, “particularly about things like Reconstruction and slavery, literally distorting the curriculum.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the university level, Black studies programs were almost nonexistent, he says. “California was the first state to actually mandate Black history in 1951 for the public schools.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Largely as a result of the civil rights and Black consciousness movements of the 1960s, “you saw an uptick in Black history courses,” says LaGarrett King, an associate professor of social studies education at the University at Buffalo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Across the country, public schools “created all these courses and mandates for Black history,” unofficially creating a Black History Month, King says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13924582\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13924582\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/02/gettyimages-176910681_custom-73d60c53d3e0848609a14c4255b4b7db7f9a4dc8-scaled-e1675277909214-800x527.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"527\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/02/gettyimages-176910681_custom-73d60c53d3e0848609a14c4255b4b7db7f9a4dc8-scaled-e1675277909214-800x527.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/02/gettyimages-176910681_custom-73d60c53d3e0848609a14c4255b4b7db7f9a4dc8-scaled-e1675277909214-1020x672.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/02/gettyimages-176910681_custom-73d60c53d3e0848609a14c4255b4b7db7f9a4dc8-scaled-e1675277909214-160x105.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/02/gettyimages-176910681_custom-73d60c53d3e0848609a14c4255b4b7db7f9a4dc8-scaled-e1675277909214-768x506.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/02/gettyimages-176910681_custom-73d60c53d3e0848609a14c4255b4b7db7f9a4dc8-scaled-e1675277909214-1536x1012.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/02/gettyimages-176910681_custom-73d60c53d3e0848609a14c4255b4b7db7f9a4dc8-scaled-e1675277909214.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Civil rights leader Martin Luther King (C) waves to supporters on the Mall in Washington DC (Washington Monument in background) during 1963’s ‘March on Washington.’ \u003ccite>(AFP via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The Black press also helped push the idea, says Marcus Hunter, a sociology professor at the University of California, Los Angeles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“\u003cem>The Chicago Defender\u003c/em>, the \u003cem>Philadelphia Tribune\u003c/em>, the \u003cem>Baltimore Afro-American\u003c/em> … they all started to say that this is something we’re celebrating,” Hunter says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>By 1976, it became official, with President Gerald R. Ford \u003ca href=\"https://www.fordlibrarymuseum.gov/library/speeches/760074.htm\">declaring\u003c/a> February as Black History Month and calling on the public to “seize the opportunity to honor the too-often neglected accomplishments of Black Americans in every area of endeavor throughout our history.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today, Black History Month is also celebrated in \u003ca href=\"https://www.canada.ca/en/canadian-heritage/campaigns/black-history-month/about.html\">Canada\u003c/a> every February and the \u003ca href=\"https://www.creativesupport.co.uk/the-history-of-black-history-month/\">United Kingdom\u003c/a> in October.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>There’s a new theme every year\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Each year, the ASALH chooses a different theme for Black History Month. This year, the theme is “Black Resistance.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“African Americans have resisted historic and ongoing oppression, in all forms, especially the racial terrorism of lynching, racial pogroms, and police killings since our arrival upon these shores,” the ASALH says of \u003ca href=\"https://asalh.org/black-history-themes/\">this year’s theme\u003c/a>. “These efforts have been to advocate for a dignified self-determined life in a just democratic society in the United States and beyond the United States political jurisdiction.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dulaney says this year’s theme was chosen, in part, because of the current politically charged environment around race.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>He calls efforts in states like \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2023/01/22/1150259944/florida-rejects-ap-class-african-american-studies\">Florida\u003c/a>, which recently rejected a new Advanced Placement course covering African American studies, and\u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/education-alabama-race-and-ethnicity-5ed4c96f5ed24ece30eac7fc5360ecbd#:~:text=(AP)%20%E2%80%94%20The%20Alabama%20State,about%20race%20in%20the%20classroom.\"> Alabama\u003c/a>, where the State Board of Education has voted to limit how educators can talk about race in the classroom, “a strong retrenchment” against coming to terms with Black history. In light of that, the theme seemed appropriate this year, Dulaney says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>King acknowledges that some people might interpret this year’s theme as politically provocative, but it shouldn’t be seen that way. Rather, it’s an effort to reframe the conversation about Black history around a theme of empowerment, he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“With resistance there is an implied understanding of oppression, and it seems to be a segment of the population who do not want to admit those historical facts,” he says. “Yet, resistance helps us understand the power that Black people have in terms of their historical realities, which counters the concept of victimhood that many say drives Black History education.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Recent controversies over how race is taught echo a time when Black history was often ignored\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>For Dulaney, the culture wars playing out across the country over how students learn about race feel like a case of history repeating itself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For many, recent events — the police killings of \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2021/03/13/973983947/a-year-after-breonna-taylors-killing-family-says-theres-no-accountability\">Breonna Taylor\u003c/a> and George Floyd, for example, and the ongoing controversy surrounding critical race theory, an academic framework stating that people who are white have benefited from ingrained racism in American institutions — look like a recurring pattern, he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I grew up in Ohio and we didn’t learn about a single African or African American man or woman who had ever done anything in history,” the 72-year-old Dulaney says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>In the days of yore, before digital recording, cassettes, vinyl and even 8-tracks existed, there lived audio cylinders — also known as tin foil phonographs. These circular tin, foil and wax objects were all the rage between the 1880s and 1920s, having been \u003ca href=\"https://www.loc.gov/collections/edison-company-motion-pictures-and-sound-recordings/articles-and-essays/history-of-edison-sound-recordings/history-of-the-cylinder-phonograph/#:~:text=The%20patent%20on%20the%20phonograph,written%20on%20April%2018%2C%201877.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">invented by Thomas Edison\u003c/a> so that humans could listen to music and make their own recordings. They captured songs, comedy acts, readings of all descriptions, messages between families and — that perennial favorite — out-of-tune children singing at home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You name it, people a century ago phonographed it, leaving behind a compelling (and infinitely weird) snapshot of life and culture at the turn of the 19th century. Which is why UC Santa Barbara has taken the time to archive 10,000 surviving tin foil phonographs in the \u003ca href=\"https://cylinders.library.ucsb.edu/index.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Cylinder Audio Archive\u003c/a>. That archive is now all online, organized by theme, and incredibly easy to search using key words. (Certainly a lot easier than trying to locate and play the original cylinders.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13924233\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13924233\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/GettyImages-90727823-800x642.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"642\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/GettyImages-90727823-800x642.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/GettyImages-90727823-1020x819.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/GettyImages-90727823-160x128.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/GettyImages-90727823-768x617.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/GettyImages-90727823-1536x1234.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/GettyImages-90727823-2048x1645.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/GettyImages-90727823-1920x1542.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">One Edison Blue and one Edison Purple Amberol cylindrical phonograph records, from 1912 and 1914. \u003ccite>(SSPL/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Here are five of the most astonishing things I stumbled across while exploring the archive.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Frisco, Frisco and More Frisco\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Are you one of the (\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11339599/why-do-some-hate-the-nickname-frisco\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">incorrect\u003c/a>) people who thinks “Frisco” is only used by tourists? Are you perhaps one of those Herb Caen fans who agrees with his 1953 assertion that “Frisco is a nickname that reminds the city uncomfortably of the early, brawling, boisterous days of the Barbary Coast”? Hey, maybe you’re just too damn fancy to truncate place names.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13919589']Either way, if you are not currently on the “Frisco” train, just know that UCSB’s archive is awash with reasons to love the term. There’s a glorious duet of “\u003ca href=\"https://cylinders.library.ucsb.edu/detail.php?query_type=mms_id&query=990025090450203776&r=7&of=18\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Hello Frisco!\u003c/a>” by Harvey Hindermyer and Helen Clark from 1915. (The song was written to celebrate the first direct phone call between New York and San Francisco.) There are a number of \u003ca href=\"https://cylinders.library.ucsb.edu/detail.php?query_type=mms_id&query=990026662280203776&r=1&of=18\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">jaunty little numbers\u003c/a> recorded by the \u003ca href=\"https://syncopatedtimes.com/frisco-jass-band/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Frisco Jazz Band\u003c/a> in 1917 and ’18. (The band was based in New York, but its members were all from California.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Searching for the term also brought me to a delightful xylophonist named \u003ca href=\"https://cylinders.library.ucsb.edu/detail.php?query_type=mms_id&query=990025263690203776&r=11&of=18\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Lou “Frisco” Chiha\u003c/a>, who, according to several newspaper articles from the time, publicized his Edison cylinder recordings by playing along with them on stages across the country. When he stopped playing and the music continued, it blew the minds of audiences everywhere.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>All of the racism\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>There was another “Frisco” I found in the archive — 1913’s “\u003ca href=\"https://cylinders.library.ucsb.edu/search.php?query_type=keyword&query=frisco+dan&nq=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Frisco Dan\u003c/a>” by Billy Murray, about a sailor who has a girl in every port all over the world. The reason I didn’t put it in the positive Frisco section is because it sounds \u003cem>exactly\u003c/em> like an \u003cem>SNL\u003c/em> parody making fun of how racist people were in the 1910s. (To give you some specifics so you can avoid listening to it, there is a fake accent used here not dissimilar to the one Mickey Rooney does all the way through \u003cem>Breakfast at Tiffany’s\u003c/em>. Ugh.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13890853']It’s one thing to know America’s racist history in theory; it’s quite another to face it down via specific moments from pop culture history. And, dear God, there is a lot to face down in UCSB’s Cylinder Audio Archive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://cylinders.library.ucsb.edu/detail.php?query_type=mms_id&query=990036399730203776&r=5&of=7\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Golden and Hughes\u003c/a>, who used to perform in blackface, are here. As are \u003ca href=\"https://cylinders.library.ucsb.edu/detail.php?query_type=mms_id&query=990041107070203776&r=4&of=212\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">songs romanticizing the Old South\u003c/a>. Then there’s \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ada_Jones\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ada Jones\u003c/a>, a white woman who had no qualms about \u003ca href=\"https://cylinders.library.ucsb.edu/detail.php?query_type=mms_id&query=990025429880203776&r=7&of=7\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">using the N-word in ballads\u003c/a>, or doing skits in which \u003ca href=\"https://cylinders.library.ucsb.edu/detail.php?query_type=mms_id&query=990025615920203776&r=2&of=23\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">she impersonated Jewish people\u003c/a>. There’s a track called “\u003ca href=\"https://cylinders.library.ucsb.edu/detail.php?query_type=mms_id&query=990025386080203776&r=14&of=293\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Arrah Wanna\u003c/a>” about an Irishman marrying an Indigenous woman that is exactly as awful as it sounds. (There are a lot of \u003ca href=\"https://cylinders.library.ucsb.edu/detail.php?query_type=mms_id&query=990036280780203776&r=10&of=222\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Irish impersonators\u003c/a> in this archive, by the way.) One of the most bizarre relics here is a song by Edward Meeker, titled “\u003ca href=\"https://cylinders.library.ucsb.edu/detail.php?query_type=mms_id&query=990030498980203776&r=12&of=293\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Argentines, the Portuguese and the Greeks\u003c/a>.” It features a baffling degree of extremely specific xenophobia that I had, until now, been entirely unaware of.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Needless to say, if you stay in the archive for longer than five minutes, you \u003cem>will\u003c/em> hear something very offensive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13924228\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13924228\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/GettyImages-120817326-800x1155.jpg\" alt=\"A woman holding an Edison Gold Moulded cylinder record that can be played on the phonograph that stands on a table in front of her.\" width=\"800\" height=\"1155\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/GettyImages-120817326-800x1155.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/GettyImages-120817326-1020x1472.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/GettyImages-120817326-160x231.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/GettyImages-120817326-768x1109.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/GettyImages-120817326-1064x1536.jpg 1064w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/GettyImages-120817326-1419x2048.jpg 1419w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/GettyImages-120817326-1920x2772.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/GettyImages-120817326-scaled.jpg 1773w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A 1904 magazine ad showing an Edison phonograph with a horn and hand crank. \u003ccite>(Stock Montage/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Unintentional Terror\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>You know \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R7jZorZeWro\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">that one Death Cab For Cutie song\u003c/a> about watching movies from the 1950s and obsessing about the fact that everyone on the screen is dead now? These archives are a bit like that, only much, much more frightening because the majority of these recordings sound like something that would suddenly start playing from the attic in a \u003cem>Paranormal Activity\u003c/em> movie.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Crackles, echos, speeds that are just a little bit off-kilter, voices yelling in the distance, the sound of children who are definitely dead… There is something incredibly eerie about all of it. Once upon a time, the scariest recording here was probably an actor named \u003ca href=\"https://cylinders.library.ucsb.edu/detail.php?query_type=mms_id&query=990047160590203776&r=6&of=7\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Edward Brigham doing the ghost scene from \u003cem>Hamlet\u003c/em>\u003c/a>. Now? Honestly? Literally every clip here could be used in a horror movie. Take this\u003ca href=\"https://cylinders.library.ucsb.edu/detail.php?query_type=mms_id&query=990041108090203776&r=4&of=24\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> recording of a man and two children talking imperceptibly about a “sociable\u003c/a>” as just one of many examples. Chilling.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Historical business\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13884403']The archive is peppered with interesting glimpses of how national events worked their way into entertainment in the Victorian era. “\u003ca href=\"https://cylinders.library.ucsb.edu/detail.php?query_type=mms_id&query=990025232980203776&r=1&of=299\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Keep the Home Fires Burning\u003c/a>” is a ballad for women missing their menfolk away fighting World War I. “\u003ca href=\"https://cylinders.library.ucsb.edu/detail.php?query_type=mms_id&query=990025593380203776&r=4&of=55\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bunker Hill,\u003c/a>” recorded by Harlan and Stanley in 1905, is a patriotic look back on the Revolutionary War — a conflict that had happened in their own lifetimes. And references to presidents show up in some of the \u003ca href=\"https://cylinders.library.ucsb.edu/search.php?nq=1&query=Humorous+songs&query_type=keyword\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">comic songs\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://cylinders.library.ucsb.edu/detail.php?query_type=mms_id&query=990025382950203776&r=3&of=8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Presidents Theodore Roosevelt\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://cylinders.library.ucsb.edu/detail.php?query_type=mms_id&query=990047154350203776&r=6&of=11\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">William H. Taft\u003c/a> also utilized the new technology to make speeches and pass on information about new laws. (Some of what they commit to audio here is so incredibly dull, you have to wonder if anyone ever listened to it on purpose.) You can find the \u003ca href=\"https://cylinders.library.ucsb.edu/detail.php?query_type=mms_id&query=990041106240203776&r=5&of=212\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Gettysburg Address\u003c/a> in the archive as well, though not Lincoln’s original version, obviously.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Some very predictable sexism\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The sexism on display in the archive isn’t as consistently shocking as the racism, but I was entirely taken aback after stumbling across a couple of \u003ca href=\"https://cylinders.library.ucsb.edu/search.php?query_type=keyword&query=gash&nq=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">bawdy limericks about female anatomy\u003c/a>. (I now imagine my grandparents’ and great-grandparents’ younger lives quite differently, thanks to this one recording.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other sexist content includes songs about \u003ca href=\"https://cylinders.library.ucsb.edu/detail.php?query_type=mms_id&query=990025660200203776&r=19&of=293\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">women with unattractive bodies\u003c/a>, ugly \u003ca href=\"https://cylinders.library.ucsb.edu/detail.php?query_type=mms_id&query=990025431380203776&r=10&of=293\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">women still being marriage material as long as they can cook\u003c/a> and songs about how much nicer men would be \u003ca href=\"https://cylinders.library.ucsb.edu/detail.php?query_type=mms_id&query=990025384450203776&r=2&of=293\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">if Eve had never met Adam\u003c/a>. (Suffragettes are Eve’s fault as well, apparently. Super hot take.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Women couldn’t even vote while all of this was being recorded, and less than 20% of the workforce was female, so it’s not terribly surprising that this generation was judged almost entirely on physical attractiveness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13924337\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13924337\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/GettyImages-143231579-scaled-e1674780076232-800x638.jpg\" alt=\"An artist's rendition of a besuited man playing a cornet into a phonograph horn.\" width=\"800\" height=\"638\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/GettyImages-143231579-scaled-e1674780076232-800x638.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/GettyImages-143231579-scaled-e1674780076232-1020x813.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/GettyImages-143231579-scaled-e1674780076232-160x128.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/GettyImages-143231579-scaled-e1674780076232-768x612.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/GettyImages-143231579-scaled-e1674780076232-1536x1224.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/GettyImages-143231579-scaled-e1674780076232.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">How people used to record onto cylinders, according to a wood engraving from 1889. \u003ccite>(Stock Montage/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So, what have we learned? Wandering around these archives without a plan will give you an extraordinary glimpse into the past — the quaint stuff, the weird stuff and the downright awful stuff we’d rather forget happened. That’s exactly why UCSB’s Cylinder Audio Archive is so important. These recordings stand as a great reminder of how far we’ve come, and just how much progress is still possible.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>In the days of yore, before digital recording, cassettes, vinyl and even 8-tracks existed, there lived audio cylinders — also known as tin foil phonographs. These circular tin, foil and wax objects were all the rage between the 1880s and 1920s, having been \u003ca href=\"https://www.loc.gov/collections/edison-company-motion-pictures-and-sound-recordings/articles-and-essays/history-of-edison-sound-recordings/history-of-the-cylinder-phonograph/#:~:text=The%20patent%20on%20the%20phonograph,written%20on%20April%2018%2C%201877.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">invented by Thomas Edison\u003c/a> so that humans could listen to music and make their own recordings. They captured songs, comedy acts, readings of all descriptions, messages between families and — that perennial favorite — out-of-tune children singing at home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You name it, people a century ago phonographed it, leaving behind a compelling (and infinitely weird) snapshot of life and culture at the turn of the 19th century. Which is why UC Santa Barbara has taken the time to archive 10,000 surviving tin foil phonographs in the \u003ca href=\"https://cylinders.library.ucsb.edu/index.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Cylinder Audio Archive\u003c/a>. That archive is now all online, organized by theme, and incredibly easy to search using key words. (Certainly a lot easier than trying to locate and play the original cylinders.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13924233\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13924233\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/GettyImages-90727823-800x642.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"642\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/GettyImages-90727823-800x642.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/GettyImages-90727823-1020x819.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/GettyImages-90727823-160x128.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/GettyImages-90727823-768x617.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/GettyImages-90727823-1536x1234.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/GettyImages-90727823-2048x1645.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/GettyImages-90727823-1920x1542.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">One Edison Blue and one Edison Purple Amberol cylindrical phonograph records, from 1912 and 1914. \u003ccite>(SSPL/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Here are five of the most astonishing things I stumbled across while exploring the archive.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Frisco, Frisco and More Frisco\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Are you one of the (\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11339599/why-do-some-hate-the-nickname-frisco\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">incorrect\u003c/a>) people who thinks “Frisco” is only used by tourists? Are you perhaps one of those Herb Caen fans who agrees with his 1953 assertion that “Frisco is a nickname that reminds the city uncomfortably of the early, brawling, boisterous days of the Barbary Coast”? Hey, maybe you’re just too damn fancy to truncate place names.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Either way, if you are not currently on the “Frisco” train, just know that UCSB’s archive is awash with reasons to love the term. There’s a glorious duet of “\u003ca href=\"https://cylinders.library.ucsb.edu/detail.php?query_type=mms_id&query=990025090450203776&r=7&of=18\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Hello Frisco!\u003c/a>” by Harvey Hindermyer and Helen Clark from 1915. (The song was written to celebrate the first direct phone call between New York and San Francisco.) There are a number of \u003ca href=\"https://cylinders.library.ucsb.edu/detail.php?query_type=mms_id&query=990026662280203776&r=1&of=18\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">jaunty little numbers\u003c/a> recorded by the \u003ca href=\"https://syncopatedtimes.com/frisco-jass-band/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Frisco Jazz Band\u003c/a> in 1917 and ’18. (The band was based in New York, but its members were all from California.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Searching for the term also brought me to a delightful xylophonist named \u003ca href=\"https://cylinders.library.ucsb.edu/detail.php?query_type=mms_id&query=990025263690203776&r=11&of=18\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Lou “Frisco” Chiha\u003c/a>, who, according to several newspaper articles from the time, publicized his Edison cylinder recordings by playing along with them on stages across the country. When he stopped playing and the music continued, it blew the minds of audiences everywhere.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>All of the racism\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>There was another “Frisco” I found in the archive — 1913’s “\u003ca href=\"https://cylinders.library.ucsb.edu/search.php?query_type=keyword&query=frisco+dan&nq=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Frisco Dan\u003c/a>” by Billy Murray, about a sailor who has a girl in every port all over the world. The reason I didn’t put it in the positive Frisco section is because it sounds \u003cem>exactly\u003c/em> like an \u003cem>SNL\u003c/em> parody making fun of how racist people were in the 1910s. (To give you some specifics so you can avoid listening to it, there is a fake accent used here not dissimilar to the one Mickey Rooney does all the way through \u003cem>Breakfast at Tiffany’s\u003c/em>. Ugh.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>It’s one thing to know America’s racist history in theory; it’s quite another to face it down via specific moments from pop culture history. And, dear God, there is a lot to face down in UCSB’s Cylinder Audio Archive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://cylinders.library.ucsb.edu/detail.php?query_type=mms_id&query=990036399730203776&r=5&of=7\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Golden and Hughes\u003c/a>, who used to perform in blackface, are here. As are \u003ca href=\"https://cylinders.library.ucsb.edu/detail.php?query_type=mms_id&query=990041107070203776&r=4&of=212\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">songs romanticizing the Old South\u003c/a>. Then there’s \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ada_Jones\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ada Jones\u003c/a>, a white woman who had no qualms about \u003ca href=\"https://cylinders.library.ucsb.edu/detail.php?query_type=mms_id&query=990025429880203776&r=7&of=7\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">using the N-word in ballads\u003c/a>, or doing skits in which \u003ca href=\"https://cylinders.library.ucsb.edu/detail.php?query_type=mms_id&query=990025615920203776&r=2&of=23\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">she impersonated Jewish people\u003c/a>. There’s a track called “\u003ca href=\"https://cylinders.library.ucsb.edu/detail.php?query_type=mms_id&query=990025386080203776&r=14&of=293\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Arrah Wanna\u003c/a>” about an Irishman marrying an Indigenous woman that is exactly as awful as it sounds. (There are a lot of \u003ca href=\"https://cylinders.library.ucsb.edu/detail.php?query_type=mms_id&query=990036280780203776&r=10&of=222\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Irish impersonators\u003c/a> in this archive, by the way.) One of the most bizarre relics here is a song by Edward Meeker, titled “\u003ca href=\"https://cylinders.library.ucsb.edu/detail.php?query_type=mms_id&query=990030498980203776&r=12&of=293\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Argentines, the Portuguese and the Greeks\u003c/a>.” It features a baffling degree of extremely specific xenophobia that I had, until now, been entirely unaware of.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Needless to say, if you stay in the archive for longer than five minutes, you \u003cem>will\u003c/em> hear something very offensive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13924228\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13924228\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/GettyImages-120817326-800x1155.jpg\" alt=\"A woman holding an Edison Gold Moulded cylinder record that can be played on the phonograph that stands on a table in front of her.\" width=\"800\" height=\"1155\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/GettyImages-120817326-800x1155.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/GettyImages-120817326-1020x1472.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/GettyImages-120817326-160x231.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/GettyImages-120817326-768x1109.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/GettyImages-120817326-1064x1536.jpg 1064w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/GettyImages-120817326-1419x2048.jpg 1419w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/GettyImages-120817326-1920x2772.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/GettyImages-120817326-scaled.jpg 1773w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A 1904 magazine ad showing an Edison phonograph with a horn and hand crank. \u003ccite>(Stock Montage/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Unintentional Terror\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>You know \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R7jZorZeWro\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">that one Death Cab For Cutie song\u003c/a> about watching movies from the 1950s and obsessing about the fact that everyone on the screen is dead now? These archives are a bit like that, only much, much more frightening because the majority of these recordings sound like something that would suddenly start playing from the attic in a \u003cem>Paranormal Activity\u003c/em> movie.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Crackles, echos, speeds that are just a little bit off-kilter, voices yelling in the distance, the sound of children who are definitely dead… There is something incredibly eerie about all of it. Once upon a time, the scariest recording here was probably an actor named \u003ca href=\"https://cylinders.library.ucsb.edu/detail.php?query_type=mms_id&query=990047160590203776&r=6&of=7\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Edward Brigham doing the ghost scene from \u003cem>Hamlet\u003c/em>\u003c/a>. Now? Honestly? Literally every clip here could be used in a horror movie. 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It’s innovatively narrated from a perspective that might be called the first person choral, levitating among multiple consciousnesses of women writers, painters and actors who channeled the spirit of Sappho in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Like Woolf’s lushly polyphonic novel \u003cem>The Waves\u003c/em>, which she called “my first work in my own style!,” \u003cem>After Sappho\u003c/em> eschews plot in favor of riverine vignettes — in this case, of and about historical personages both well-known (Colette, Gertrude Stein, Sarah Bernhardt, and Radclyffe Hall make frequent appearances) and more obscure, like the American writer Natalie Barney, the painter Romaine Brooks, and the actress Eleonora Duse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>After Sappho \u003c/em>is billed as a novel, but can’t really be said to lodge in any one category. It skates much closer to a work of “critical fabulation,” the scholar Saidiya Hartman’s term for a method of storytelling that crosses genres and responds to omissions in the historical record by imaginative reconstruction. As Hartman (who is acknowledged in a lengthy bibliographic coda) elaborates in \u003cem>Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments\u003c/em>, critical fabulation is a type of “close narration, a style which places the voice of narrator and character in inseparable relation, so that the vision, language, and rhythms of the wayward shape and arrange the text.” What Hartman accomplished for a cast of Black women living in Harlem and Philadelphia a century ago, Schwartz does for her Sapphic figures, who often traversed paths in real life and found a way to make of their lives “beautiful experiments” in the face of forces ready to snuff them out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13923036']The Italian writer Lina Poletti provides an anchoring presence and is also the book’s dedicatee. We follow her along a stone-skipping path from her lonely childhood, when she was called Cordula (which she thinks sounds like “a heap of rope”) to her various romances with other women, to her writing of a manifesto as the Fascists prepared to march on Rome in 1921. In passages often recalling the sensuous prose of Ali Smith, \u003cem>After Sappho\u003c/em> tracks not just outer movement, but psychological ambulation, picking up on the subtlest shifts in mood with the delicacy of a weathervane. There are many more dramatis personae, but to speak of any of them in isolation is to miss the point of this puckishly allusive book, to do violence to how it asks to be read. The development of these women as writers, thinkers and artists, it is clear, can only be understood in terms of their relations with one another; as Schwartz writes, Lina “had many lives, all of her own and ours tangled in among them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most of the figures are white Europeans, but we occasionally hear from more marginalized women, like a Black chorine who makes a living by singing minstrel songs and works her way up to becoming the “empress of her own nightclub.” Should more of these figures have been included? I vacillated over this question until the very last page, but ultimately felt that what would seem an oversight in a more traditional work of scholarship here seems a more forgivable lapse. The open-ended fragments never pretend to comprehensiveness, after all, and even exercise a degree of self-reflexivity about their own state of incompletion. As the ill-fated prophet Cassandra says in one section, there are “lines missing from the fragments” — lines that are lives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Schwartz, who holds a doctorate in comparative literature from U.C. Berkeley, could have easily written a series of monographs on each of the women populating her pages, but she has instead created a ravishing mosaic of creative subjectivity and self-fashioning. Rather than being embalmed in the past tense, the characters move about in the “present continuous,” which imparts a thrilling, vertiginous sense of being everything everywhere all at once. The book is exquisitely alive to the way that biographies written against the regulative grain can, as Schwartz writes, “bring forth moments of becoming that lasted for centuries; there would be more than one life unfurling in every life.” That activity of becoming is palpable on nearly every page. In one section, actresses are likened to “verbs as yet unconjugated; they contained in themselves the heady potential for any deed, any command, any future.” It’s not just actresses who possess this quality, though; in Schwartz’s skillful hands, all the characters vibrate with a sense of blood-surging-through-the-veins immediacy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='pop_102326']The book ends in 1928, the year when English women gained the right to vote and when Woolf has just published \u003cem>Orlando\u003c/em>, a novel that cheekily called itself a “biography.” Yet it was also, as Schwartz notes, “a whole fantasy,” “a talk on fiction and the future,” “a series of portraits, a manifesto, an alcove in the history of literature, an alchemical experiment, an autobiography, and a long piece from life now.” It’s a luminous summary of a book that started as a “heroically private joke” to Woolf’s lover Vita Sackville-West, but also much more: a statement of Schwartz’s own artistic intent, here splendidly and indelibly fulfilled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Rhoda Feng is a freelance writer from New York whose criticism has appeared in ‘4Columns,’ ‘The Baffler,’ ‘The White Review,’ ‘The New Republic,’ ‘Public Books,’ ‘Village Voice,’ and others.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">\u003cem>Copyright 2023 NPR. 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"content": "\u003cp>[dropcap]Y[/dropcap]ou don’t notice it unless you’re actively looking: The two-story grey-blue building on Fillmore with tasteful gold trim, just steps away from Haight Street. Today, it’s just another well appointed, two-apartment home. But a century ago, it was the most in-demand abortion clinic in San Francisco: a clean and sterile place run by a defiant woman who was unapologetic about her profession, and unafraid of the authorities who came after her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her name was Inez Burns. And for almost three decades, she helped tens of thousands of women take charge of their own bodies and their own futures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Inez knew a little something about seizing control of her own destiny. She was born in September 1886 inside a rear tenement apartment in SoMa — then San Francisco’s gangland. Her father was an alcoholic cigar salesman who died at 39. Her mother was a cold, neglectful woman who fought with her fists and took Inez out of school after sixth grade so the child could work alongside her four siblings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13908327']Inez’s formative years made her tough, but never brittle. The natural beauty dedicated her spare time to self-improvement with an eye on clawing her way out of poverty. Inez taught herself to read well, hiding books away from her mother who considered them a waste of time. Inez learned how to walk and talk like a lady. And when she secured herself a job at the Palace Hotel at age 17, she learned to flirt like a lady as well. Inez worked as a manicurist at the hotel’s barber shop, polishing the nails of the most well-to-do men in San Francisco. She was so charming and such a good listener, her customers were prone to lavishing her with extra cash and expensive gifts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of Inez’s most adoring customers was a doctor named Eugene West who began an affair with her when she was 18. A year later, he offered Inez a job at his clinic, paying her twice what she made at the barbershop. West also covered her rent at Elmer House, a women’s rooming establishment at 324 Bush St. Within three months of starting at West’s clinic, Inez became a medical assistant and began aiding her lover in performing illegal abortions. Inez was a quick study and soon noticed that West sometimes performed sloppy work and didn’t always show his patients the care that Inez felt they were due.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After she got pregnant by another suitor named G.W. Merritt, Inez left West’s clinic, stealing a set of medical instruments as she went. Soon after, tragedy struck with the 1906 earthquake — an event that left Inez with only the dress on her back, the hat on her head and the surgical instruments she had taken from West. It wasn’t long before she needed to put them to use.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While residing alongside 40,000 other earthquake refugees in Golden Gate Park, Inez encountered seven women who were all desperate for help. One was unmarried, and six were unsure how they’d feed another mouth under the dire circumstances. Inez successfully performed abortions on each of them in the park, carefully sterilizing her instruments before and after each procedure. Though Inez offered her services for free, all women insisted on compensating her in some way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After five weeks of residing in the park, Merritt persuaded Inez to move to Pittsburgh with him to start a new life there. Inez agreed but languished on the East Coast, working for a pittance in a pickle factory. Despite Merritt’s relationship with a younger woman there, Inez bore him two children, George and Bobby. When Bobby was two, Inez managed to save enough money to escape back to San Francisco, forced by Merritt to leave George behind. The boy would return to Inez’s care only when he turned 18.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Back in San Francisco, Inez quickly embraced her inner spirit of independence and went to work performing abortions at clinics around the city, all owned by men. Within months she had enough money to start her own facility — one that she operated out of a series of homes in the city, including two in the Excelsior. Unlike many of the other abortion centers in the city at the time, Inez never advertised her services. She didn’t need to. Word quickly spread around the city about Inez’s impeccably clean clinic — one in which women felt safe, cared for and out of the clutches of exploitative male practitioners.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13923672\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13923672\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/20230112_143737-scaled-e1673569766549-800x1067.jpg\" alt=\"A two-floor home with garage underneath.\" width=\"800\" height=\"1067\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/20230112_143737-scaled-e1673569766549-800x1067.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/20230112_143737-scaled-e1673569766549-1020x1360.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/20230112_143737-scaled-e1673569766549-160x213.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/20230112_143737-scaled-e1673569766549-768x1024.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/20230112_143737-scaled-e1673569766549-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/20230112_143737-scaled-e1673569766549-1536x2048.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/20230112_143737-scaled-e1673569766549.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Fillmore Street building where Inez Burns once operated her abortion clinic.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>[dropcap]I[/dropcap]t was in 1921 that Inez moved her clinic to 327 Fillmore Street, an eight-bedroom home with three bathrooms. She painstakingly designed the waiting room there to resemble a high-end tea room, with polished floors, Tiffany lamps and sumptuous rugs. Smoking was not permitted and talking was discouraged unless between nurses and patients. Inez installed an outdoor concrete incinerator for medical waste and a secret staircase that led to a back alley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13912974']Assisting her at the clinic was a discreet team of nurses and a utility man named Joe Hoff — a former bellboy Inez had befriended at the Palace Hotel. Hoff also assisted Inez in scaring off mobsters who sporadically attempted to extort her. Inez’s business was widely considered to be the worst-kept secret in San Francisco, but making weekly payoffs to SFPD officers and politicians kept her doors open. Inez also kept a list of trustworthy physicians on call who could assist her with procedures that resulted in complications.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Inez’s services came at a price. Officially, abortions performed by her within the first eight weeks of pregnancy cost $50 (about $880 in today’s money). After that, services went up to $80 (about $1400 now). Despite this, many patients found Inez willing to perform procedures for whatever amount of money they had on hand. For truly dire cases, she charged nothing at all. In one case, she handed a patient with six children an envelope of money and advised her to leave her husband.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, Inez was making more money than she knew what to do with. With most procedures taking just 15-20 minutes, she quickly amassed a fortune. She built a home at 274 Guerrero St. — an address that delighted Inez because 274 happened to be the California penal code that outlawed abortion. Inez also purchased properties around the city (including one on Waller Street that doubled as a recovery center) and in La Honda and San Mateo County. She used five different aliases to do so.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13923671\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13923671\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/Inez-Home-Guerrero-800x722.jpg\" alt=\"A two-story rectangular home with four identical windows on the top floors and a five curved windows protruding from the building on the lower level. Large neat hedges grow in front of the home.\" width=\"800\" height=\"722\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/Inez-Home-Guerrero-800x722.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/Inez-Home-Guerrero-1020x921.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/Inez-Home-Guerrero-160x144.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/Inez-Home-Guerrero-768x693.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/Inez-Home-Guerrero-1536x1387.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/Inez-Home-Guerrero-1920x1733.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/Inez-Home-Guerrero.jpg 1964w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Guerrero Street home that Inez Burns kept until 1973. \u003ccite>(Rae Alexandra)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Inez enjoyed living lavishly, with a lively social life and fierce shopping habit. She bought a limo and hired a driver, doted on her two Pomeranians and kept regular appointments with astrologers. She underwent three plastic surgery operations: One to remove two ribs, another to remove the bones in her pinky toes and finally a facelift in her later years. Still, Inez had so much cash, she took to sewing money into drapes, burying it in lockboxes and hiding it in secret panels around her properties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As Inez’s business grew, so did complications in her love life. She married William Brown in 1915, after having a son (also named William) with him. After Brown died in 1921, Inez married Charlie Granelli, with whom she had a daughter, Alice. In 1927, while Granelli was out of the country on business, Inez fell in love with an assemblyman named Joe Burns. By then, because Inez was already an infamous figure in the city, the love triangle made for salacious headlines. Inez was granted a divorce from Granelli in May 1928 and went on to marry Burns in 1932. The couple stayed together for the rest of their lives, though the relationship was frequently an open one in which fiery disagreements were not uncommon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[dropcap]I[/dropcap]nez’s legal troubles started in 1936, when her financial situation finally came under scrutiny by the authorities. Still, she proved to be a slippery woman to pin down. She had so many informants scattered around the city, she got tipped off and was able to clear her properties before every raid. On one occasion, Inez was so indignant when police arrived that she kicked an inspector in the shins. Efforts to hold her legally accountable after one successful 1938 raid were thwarted by the fact that former patients steadfastly refused to assist investigators.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In October 1939, Inez was finally indicted for tax evasion by a grand jury, for the years 1935 and 1936. She pleaded guilty and was fined $10,000, plus an undisclosed additional sum to settle the case. At the time, Judge Harold Louderback noted: “Never in my history on the federal bench has so little information been given the court. For some reason, there seems to be a great reluctance to tell what Mrs. Burns’ business was.” (Her business cards described her only as a “Designer.”)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13828983']It was after the war that Inez’s old methods of keeping authorities at bay started to become ineffective. The SFPD had undergone major personnel changes to eradicate widespread corruption. And in 1944, a new district attorney arrived and went to war with the seedier aspects of San Francisco life. Edmund “Pat” Brown (future governor of California and father to Governor Jerry Brown) prosecuted bookies and madams in the Tenderloin. He took licenses away from the rowdiest bars, and he set his sights on Inez to make an example out of her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brown joined forces with Police Inspector Frank Ahern to go after Inez. Ahern proved impossible to pay off, though Inez tried heartily to do so. Despite Brown and Ahern amassing enormous files of evidence against Inez, a 1945 grand jury refused to indict her. Her luck ran out at the end of that year, however, when a judge announced that Inez and her faithful staff would be tried for felony conspiracy to commit abortion and practicing medicine without a license. It was the beginning of the end.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brown and Ahern had hundreds of thousands of dollars they had confiscated from Inez’s home and clinic. They had notebooks containing the names of thousands of patients and what each of them had paid. They had case history charts and receipts for medical supplies. They even found two women willing to speak about services they’d received from Inez. Part-time clinic employees Madeline Rand, Virginia Westrup and Kathryn Bartram agreed to testify against Inez and other employees in exchange for having the charges against them dropped.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13923668\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13923668\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/GettyImages-1201272584-800x1024.jpg\" alt=\"A woman with neat brown hair and a balding man bend down to assist a woman who has fainted and is on the floor.\" width=\"800\" height=\"1024\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Madeline Rand (left), prosecution witness at the Inez Burns trial in San Francisco, and Inspector Edward Penaat assist Kathryn Bartram, surprise prosecution witness who collapsed during a recess in the trial. Bartram allegedly witnessed abortions at 327 Fillmore Street when she was employed there as an anesthetist from 1934-1936. \u003ccite>(Bettmann Archive/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Despite the mountain of evidence, it took three trials for Brown to get a conviction against Inez and her employees. During the first trial, nine male and five female jurors found themselves deadlocked after days of deliberation. The second trial ended similarly with eight women and four men failing to agree on a verdict. Brown wasn’t about to back down, and in September 1946, a third trial resulted in guilty verdicts for Inez and four of her employees. Bail was successfully secured for the appeals portion of the trial, but after the court of appeals denied Inez and her cohorts a new trial and California’s Supreme Court refused to hear the case, Inez and her friends were sent to prison. Each served 29 months and were released in November 1950.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[dropcap]I[/dropcap]nez’s legal woes were far from over. In 1951, she was fined $10,000 and sentenced to a year and a day in a federal prison camp for income tax evasion (for the year 1944). Inez was released after nine months but was caught performing abortions shortly afterwards and sent straight back to prison. She was aged 66 at the time and served another 25 months. During that sentence, she was forced to testify before a San Francisco grand jury. Authorities were trying to convict figures suspected of receiving bribes from Inez. During her testimony, Inez gave nothing up, denying ever paying anyone off and seemingly relishing being back in the spotlight. After her time on the stand, she told waiting reporters, “My, I’ve had a wonderful time!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13902628']Inez was released from her final prison sentence in January of 1956. When more tax evasion charges emerged two months later, she had nothing left to offer the government. All of her properties, except for her Guerrero Street home, had already been seized by the IRS. Her son Bobby and his wife had frittered away half a million dollars Inez had left with them for safekeeping. She was broke. By that time also, Inez was so ravaged by arthritis, she could no longer perform abortions, though many women continued to seek out her services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Throughout all of her legal troubles, Burns remained dedicated to his wife. The two remained in their Guerrero Street house until 1973 — the same year that Roe v. Wade finally gave all American women the right to choose. At that time, both in their eighties, Inez and Burns moved to a convalescent home in Moss Beach. Inez died three years later at the age of 87.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Inez’s commitment to the safekeeping of women’s bodily autonomy was perhaps best summed up by Burns. “Inez is an artist,” her husband told reporters during one of her trials. “That’s her trade and she won’t quit it. She’s doing a service to the public. Saving people from shame and disgrace.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-12127869\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-800x78.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"78\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-768x75.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>To learn about other Rebel Girls from Bay Area History, visit the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/rebelgirls\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Rebel Girls homepage\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>A book celebrating women from the Rebel Girls series, \u003ca href=\"https://citylights.com/politics-current-events-history/unsung-heroines35-women-who-changed/\">‘Unsung Heroines: 35 Women Who Changed the Bay Area,’\u003c/a> is available now from City Lights.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After she got pregnant by another suitor named G.W. Merritt, Inez left West’s clinic, stealing a set of medical instruments as she went. Soon after, tragedy struck with the 1906 earthquake — an event that left Inez with only the dress on her back, the hat on her head and the surgical instruments she had taken from West. It wasn’t long before she needed to put them to use.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While residing alongside 40,000 other earthquake refugees in Golden Gate Park, Inez encountered seven women who were all desperate for help. One was unmarried, and six were unsure how they’d feed another mouth under the dire circumstances. Inez successfully performed abortions on each of them in the park, carefully sterilizing her instruments before and after each procedure. Though Inez offered her services for free, all women insisted on compensating her in some way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After five weeks of residing in the park, Merritt persuaded Inez to move to Pittsburgh with him to start a new life there. Inez agreed but languished on the East Coast, working for a pittance in a pickle factory. Despite Merritt’s relationship with a younger woman there, Inez bore him two children, George and Bobby. When Bobby was two, Inez managed to save enough money to escape back to San Francisco, forced by Merritt to leave George behind. The boy would return to Inez’s care only when he turned 18.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Back in San Francisco, Inez quickly embraced her inner spirit of independence and went to work performing abortions at clinics around the city, all owned by men. Within months she had enough money to start her own facility — one that she operated out of a series of homes in the city, including two in the Excelsior. Unlike many of the other abortion centers in the city at the time, Inez never advertised her services. She didn’t need to. Word quickly spread around the city about Inez’s impeccably clean clinic — one in which women felt safe, cared for and out of the clutches of exploitative male practitioners.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13923672\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13923672\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/20230112_143737-scaled-e1673569766549-800x1067.jpg\" alt=\"A two-floor home with garage underneath.\" width=\"800\" height=\"1067\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/20230112_143737-scaled-e1673569766549-800x1067.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/20230112_143737-scaled-e1673569766549-1020x1360.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/20230112_143737-scaled-e1673569766549-160x213.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/20230112_143737-scaled-e1673569766549-768x1024.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/20230112_143737-scaled-e1673569766549-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/20230112_143737-scaled-e1673569766549-1536x2048.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/20230112_143737-scaled-e1673569766549.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Fillmore Street building where Inez Burns once operated her abortion clinic.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class=\"utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__dropcapShortcode__dropcap\">I\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>t was in 1921 that Inez moved her clinic to 327 Fillmore Street, an eight-bedroom home with three bathrooms. She painstakingly designed the waiting room there to resemble a high-end tea room, with polished floors, Tiffany lamps and sumptuous rugs. Smoking was not permitted and talking was discouraged unless between nurses and patients. Inez installed an outdoor concrete incinerator for medical waste and a secret staircase that led to a back alley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Assisting her at the clinic was a discreet team of nurses and a utility man named Joe Hoff — a former bellboy Inez had befriended at the Palace Hotel. Hoff also assisted Inez in scaring off mobsters who sporadically attempted to extort her. Inez’s business was widely considered to be the worst-kept secret in San Francisco, but making weekly payoffs to SFPD officers and politicians kept her doors open. Inez also kept a list of trustworthy physicians on call who could assist her with procedures that resulted in complications.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Inez’s services came at a price. Officially, abortions performed by her within the first eight weeks of pregnancy cost $50 (about $880 in today’s money). After that, services went up to $80 (about $1400 now). Despite this, many patients found Inez willing to perform procedures for whatever amount of money they had on hand. For truly dire cases, she charged nothing at all. In one case, she handed a patient with six children an envelope of money and advised her to leave her husband.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, Inez was making more money than she knew what to do with. With most procedures taking just 15-20 minutes, she quickly amassed a fortune. She built a home at 274 Guerrero St. — an address that delighted Inez because 274 happened to be the California penal code that outlawed abortion. Inez also purchased properties around the city (including one on Waller Street that doubled as a recovery center) and in La Honda and San Mateo County. She used five different aliases to do so.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13923671\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13923671\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/Inez-Home-Guerrero-800x722.jpg\" alt=\"A two-story rectangular home with four identical windows on the top floors and a five curved windows protruding from the building on the lower level. Large neat hedges grow in front of the home.\" width=\"800\" height=\"722\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/Inez-Home-Guerrero-800x722.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/Inez-Home-Guerrero-1020x921.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/Inez-Home-Guerrero-160x144.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/Inez-Home-Guerrero-768x693.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/Inez-Home-Guerrero-1536x1387.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/Inez-Home-Guerrero-1920x1733.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/Inez-Home-Guerrero.jpg 1964w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Guerrero Street home that Inez Burns kept until 1973. \u003ccite>(Rae Alexandra)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Inez enjoyed living lavishly, with a lively social life and fierce shopping habit. She bought a limo and hired a driver, doted on her two Pomeranians and kept regular appointments with astrologers. She underwent three plastic surgery operations: One to remove two ribs, another to remove the bones in her pinky toes and finally a facelift in her later years. Still, Inez had so much cash, she took to sewing money into drapes, burying it in lockboxes and hiding it in secret panels around her properties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As Inez’s business grew, so did complications in her love life. She married William Brown in 1915, after having a son (also named William) with him. After Brown died in 1921, Inez married Charlie Granelli, with whom she had a daughter, Alice. In 1927, while Granelli was out of the country on business, Inez fell in love with an assemblyman named Joe Burns. By then, because Inez was already an infamous figure in the city, the love triangle made for salacious headlines. Inez was granted a divorce from Granelli in May 1928 and went on to marry Burns in 1932. The couple stayed together for the rest of their lives, though the relationship was frequently an open one in which fiery disagreements were not uncommon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class=\"utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__dropcapShortcode__dropcap\">I\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>nez’s legal troubles started in 1936, when her financial situation finally came under scrutiny by the authorities. Still, she proved to be a slippery woman to pin down. She had so many informants scattered around the city, she got tipped off and was able to clear her properties before every raid. On one occasion, Inez was so indignant when police arrived that she kicked an inspector in the shins. Efforts to hold her legally accountable after one successful 1938 raid were thwarted by the fact that former patients steadfastly refused to assist investigators.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In October 1939, Inez was finally indicted for tax evasion by a grand jury, for the years 1935 and 1936. She pleaded guilty and was fined $10,000, plus an undisclosed additional sum to settle the case. At the time, Judge Harold Louderback noted: “Never in my history on the federal bench has so little information been given the court. For some reason, there seems to be a great reluctance to tell what Mrs. Burns’ business was.” (Her business cards described her only as a “Designer.”)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>It was after the war that Inez’s old methods of keeping authorities at bay started to become ineffective. The SFPD had undergone major personnel changes to eradicate widespread corruption. And in 1944, a new district attorney arrived and went to war with the seedier aspects of San Francisco life. Edmund “Pat” Brown (future governor of California and father to Governor Jerry Brown) prosecuted bookies and madams in the Tenderloin. He took licenses away from the rowdiest bars, and he set his sights on Inez to make an example out of her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brown joined forces with Police Inspector Frank Ahern to go after Inez. Ahern proved impossible to pay off, though Inez tried heartily to do so. Despite Brown and Ahern amassing enormous files of evidence against Inez, a 1945 grand jury refused to indict her. Her luck ran out at the end of that year, however, when a judge announced that Inez and her faithful staff would be tried for felony conspiracy to commit abortion and practicing medicine without a license. It was the beginning of the end.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brown and Ahern had hundreds of thousands of dollars they had confiscated from Inez’s home and clinic. They had notebooks containing the names of thousands of patients and what each of them had paid. They had case history charts and receipts for medical supplies. They even found two women willing to speak about services they’d received from Inez. Part-time clinic employees Madeline Rand, Virginia Westrup and Kathryn Bartram agreed to testify against Inez and other employees in exchange for having the charges against them dropped.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13923668\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13923668\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/GettyImages-1201272584-800x1024.jpg\" alt=\"A woman with neat brown hair and a balding man bend down to assist a woman who has fainted and is on the floor.\" width=\"800\" height=\"1024\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Madeline Rand (left), prosecution witness at the Inez Burns trial in San Francisco, and Inspector Edward Penaat assist Kathryn Bartram, surprise prosecution witness who collapsed during a recess in the trial. Bartram allegedly witnessed abortions at 327 Fillmore Street when she was employed there as an anesthetist from 1934-1936. \u003ccite>(Bettmann Archive/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Despite the mountain of evidence, it took three trials for Brown to get a conviction against Inez and her employees. During the first trial, nine male and five female jurors found themselves deadlocked after days of deliberation. The second trial ended similarly with eight women and four men failing to agree on a verdict. Brown wasn’t about to back down, and in September 1946, a third trial resulted in guilty verdicts for Inez and four of her employees. Bail was successfully secured for the appeals portion of the trial, but after the court of appeals denied Inez and her cohorts a new trial and California’s Supreme Court refused to hear the case, Inez and her friends were sent to prison. Each served 29 months and were released in November 1950.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class=\"utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__dropcapShortcode__dropcap\">I\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>nez’s legal woes were far from over. In 1951, she was fined $10,000 and sentenced to a year and a day in a federal prison camp for income tax evasion (for the year 1944). Inez was released after nine months but was caught performing abortions shortly afterwards and sent straight back to prison. She was aged 66 at the time and served another 25 months. During that sentence, she was forced to testify before a San Francisco grand jury. Authorities were trying to convict figures suspected of receiving bribes from Inez. During her testimony, Inez gave nothing up, denying ever paying anyone off and seemingly relishing being back in the spotlight. After her time on the stand, she told waiting reporters, “My, I’ve had a wonderful time!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Inez was released from her final prison sentence in January of 1956. When more tax evasion charges emerged two months later, she had nothing left to offer the government. All of her properties, except for her Guerrero Street home, had already been seized by the IRS. Her son Bobby and his wife had frittered away half a million dollars Inez had left with them for safekeeping. She was broke. By that time also, Inez was so ravaged by arthritis, she could no longer perform abortions, though many women continued to seek out her services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Throughout all of her legal troubles, Burns remained dedicated to his wife. The two remained in their Guerrero Street house until 1973 — the same year that Roe v. Wade finally gave all American women the right to choose. At that time, both in their eighties, Inez and Burns moved to a convalescent home in Moss Beach. Inez died three years later at the age of 87.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Inez’s commitment to the safekeeping of women’s bodily autonomy was perhaps best summed up by Burns. “Inez is an artist,” her husband told reporters during one of her trials. “That’s her trade and she won’t quit it. She’s doing a service to the public. Saving people from shame and disgrace.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-12127869\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-800x78.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"78\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-768x75.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>To learn about other Rebel Girls from Bay Area History, visit the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/rebelgirls\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Rebel Girls homepage\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>All this rain got you down? Sick to death of grey skies and finding out just how many boots you own that look kind of waterproof but, in reality, are not at all? Same.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='news_11936674']If it makes you feel any better, this bleak, all-encompassing torrential rain we’ve been getting hammered by isn’t actually as unprecedented or freaky as some commentators would have you believe. Outside of the on-off drought we’ve long dealt with, stormy deluges of varying degrees have been flooding the Bay Area for about as far back as records go.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before you fall into the abyss that is wondering why the region hasn’t gotten any better at dealing with heavy rainfall, let’s just take a look back at some storms of the past. May they remind us that one day — some day! —there will be an end to all of this depressing weather.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>1862\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13923720\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13923720\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/Screen-Shot-2023-01-13-at-3.00.34-PM-800x804.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"804\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/Screen-Shot-2023-01-13-at-3.00.34-PM-800x804.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/Screen-Shot-2023-01-13-at-3.00.34-PM-1020x1025.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/Screen-Shot-2023-01-13-at-3.00.34-PM-160x161.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/Screen-Shot-2023-01-13-at-3.00.34-PM-768x772.png 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/Screen-Shot-2023-01-13-at-3.00.34-PM.png 1158w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lithograph of K Street in Sacramento depicting the Great Flood of 1862.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>During a 15-day period between December 1861 and January 1862, nearly 20 inches of rain fell on San Francisco. The city wound up on the receiving end of 24 inches total over the course of a month. (By comparison, SF and Oakland have so far received 13 and a half inches of rain from these recent atmospheric rivers.) Sacramento had it far worse, though.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In January, 1862, the \u003cem>Sacramento Bee\u003c/em> reported that the “condition of the state” was “watery” — “a vast seas such as was never before witnessed here, and this entire district has become a series of desolation.” Between the Sacramento and San Joaquin Valleys, “what movable property such as houses and fences that the water might have left, was broken up and scattered by the joint action of wind and waves.” Livestock losses devastated the entire region. To offer assistance to their neighbors in the north, San Francisco quickly sent $5,000 in cash and “cooked provisions” to Sacramento. That was despite the fact that weather-related issues abounded in San Francisco even two months after the widespread floods.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On March 22, 1862, the \u003cem>Weekly Butte Democrat\u003c/em> reported a new disaster. “On Friday morning last, a lake, which has been forming in the vicinity of the Mission, among the hills, burst its banks and rushed forth in vast volume of water, tearing away gardens, banks, fences in its course. The pond, or lake, was nearly half a mile long and a quarter of a mile wide and over twenty feet deep. About 100 feet of the Market Street Railroad was carried away.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite what you might have heard, the Bay Area has not seen floods this bad ever since.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>1904\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13923676\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13923676\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/opensfhistory_wnp32.0307-800x466.jpg\" alt=\"Black and white image of classic San Francisco trolley running through an empty flooded street.\" width=\"800\" height=\"466\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/opensfhistory_wnp32.0307-800x466.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/opensfhistory_wnp32.0307-160x93.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/opensfhistory_wnp32.0307-768x447.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/opensfhistory_wnp32.0307.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A United Railroads streetcar trundles through a flooded 16th Street (facing towards South Van Ness). \u003ccite>(OpenSFHistory / wnp32.0307)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In September 1904, 3.25 inches of rain fell in San Francisco in 24 hours, breaking a city record. And things were bad across the entire region. The \u003cem>Bakersfield Morning Echo\u003c/em> reported that, “At Napa, San Jose, Stockton and many others, the rainfall has been unprecedented for September.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Later that month, the \u003cem>Salt Lake City Tribune\u003c/em> noted: “The unprecedented rainstorms continue, the precipitation being … 4.42 inches, more than four times the amount ever before recorded [in San Francisco] in the month of September. At the Cliff House, several windows were broken by the spray driven in from the ocean.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>1937\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13923678\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13923678\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/opensfhistory_wnp30.0091-800x619.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"619\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/opensfhistory_wnp30.0091-800x619.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/opensfhistory_wnp30.0091-160x124.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/opensfhistory_wnp30.0091-768x594.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/opensfhistory_wnp30.0091.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">1930s: A motorcar and a streetcar marked ‘CASTRO’, side-by-side, working their way through the flooded northeast corner of Church and Market. \u003ccite>(OpenSFHistory / wnp30.0091)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>At the end of 1937, the \u003cem>Pasadena Post \u003c/em>reported extensively on storms that were ravaging California. On Dec. 12, it described the situation in San Francisco thusly: “Planes grounded. Four ships battered. Shipping at a standstill. Slight damage from gales. Five persons killed, indirect result of storms.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The following day, the paper reported: “Flood waters smashed through … the Sacramento and San Joaquin valleys today in the aftermath of one of the most severe rainstorms on record … The rest of the state was digging itself out of the mud and the debris left by receding waters.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>1941\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13923680\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13923680\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/opensfhistory_wnp27.4927-800x620.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"620\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/opensfhistory_wnp27.4927-800x620.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/opensfhistory_wnp27.4927-160x124.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/opensfhistory_wnp27.4927-768x595.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/opensfhistory_wnp27.4927.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">View north at the intersection of Market and Church Streets, after a ‘flash flood’ that happened after the city was hit with almost an inch of rain in less than an hour. (For context, the block across the intersection is Safeway now.) \u003ccite>(OpenSFHistory / wnp27.4927)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>On April 4, 1941, the \u003cem>Contra Costa Gazette\u003c/em> wrote: “San Francisco, Oakland, Berkeley, El Cerrito, Mill Valley, San Rafael, Santa Rosa and peninsula cities reported one of the heaviest sustained rainfalls of their experience.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In San Francisco, more than half an inch fell in 30 minutes. In Mill Valley, 1.87 inches of rain fell between midnight and 8 a.m. Marin County creeks filled quickly and overflowed over streets and highways. There were some landslides. Water also poured into the San Pablo underpass connecting with the San Francisco Oakland Bay bridge, trapping automobiles. There also was water in the South San Francisco underpass on Bayshore Highway.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>1952\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13923681\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13923681\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/opensfhistory_wnp27.7888-800x657.jpg\" alt=\"A man stands outside a corner store named Busy Bee Market behind a deserted flooded street.\" width=\"800\" height=\"657\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/opensfhistory_wnp27.7888-800x657.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/opensfhistory_wnp27.7888-160x131.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/opensfhistory_wnp27.7888-768x631.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/opensfhistory_wnp27.7888.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">46th and Irving flooded after a storm in November 1952. \u003ccite>(OpenSFHistory / wnp27.7888)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>This storm was so terrible, it was front page news all the way in South Carolina. On Jan. 15, 1952, the \u003cem>Times and Democrat \u003c/em>reported: “A raging storm roared across Northern California … It gave California its worst winter in half a century … Countless trees came down in hundreds of towns, breaking power and telephone lines. Many communities were without electricity or gas. San Francisco’s rainfall for the season reached 17.91 inches, the most on any comparable date since 1890.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>1960\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13923682\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13923682\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/opensfhistory_wnp27.7889-800x675.jpg\" alt=\"1950s style cars line up in two-way traffic on a flooded, tree-lined road. \" width=\"800\" height=\"675\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/opensfhistory_wnp27.7889-800x675.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/opensfhistory_wnp27.7889-160x135.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/opensfhistory_wnp27.7889-768x648.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/opensfhistory_wnp27.7889.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">In November 1960, the Park-Presidio Bypass through Golden Gate Park flooded after heavy early morning downpours. It caused chaos for commuters. \u003ccite>(OpenSFHistory / wnp27.7889)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The massive storm of Nov. 1960 caused the most havoc in Oregon and Washington, but the aftermath in the Bay was newsworthy, as evidenced by the photo above. San Francisco got an inch and a quarter of rainfall in one day.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>1982\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13923683\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13923683\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/GettyImages-1298879845-800x486.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"486\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/GettyImages-1298879845-800x486.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/GettyImages-1298879845-1020x619.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/GettyImages-1298879845-160x97.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/GettyImages-1298879845-768x466.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/GettyImages-1298879845-1536x932.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/GettyImages-1298879845-2048x1243.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/GettyImages-1298879845-1920x1165.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Storms in January 1982 resulted in major landslides and flooding throughout the Bay Area. Here, a couple rows a dinghy through San Rafael. \u003ccite>(Vincent Maggiora/San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The 1982 storms that pummeled the Bay were particularly horrendous. The \u003cem>Selma Enterprise\u003c/em> reported on Jan. 14, 1982 that, “More than three dozen people died in Bay Area rain, flooding and mudslides and seven north state counties have been declared disaster areas.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The deluge blanketed the entire Bay Area, as seen in this graphic by the \u003cem>Modesto Bee\u003c/em>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13923716\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13923716\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/Screen-Shot-2023-01-13-at-12.46.56-PM-800x512.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"512\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/Screen-Shot-2023-01-13-at-12.46.56-PM-800x512.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/Screen-Shot-2023-01-13-at-12.46.56-PM-1020x653.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/Screen-Shot-2023-01-13-at-12.46.56-PM-160x102.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/Screen-Shot-2023-01-13-at-12.46.56-PM-768x492.png 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/Screen-Shot-2023-01-13-at-12.46.56-PM-1536x983.png 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/Screen-Shot-2023-01-13-at-12.46.56-PM.png 1712w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The ‘Modesto Bee’ made this graphic to drive home the widespread destruction caused by the storms of January 1982. \u003ccite>(Modesto Bee / Bee Graphics)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Here’s what the flooding looked like in Guerneville. Yikes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13923684\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13923684\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/GettyImages-1206294403-800x481.jpg\" alt=\"Eight people and a dog travel in a small motorboat in front of a sign that reads "Abby's Playland."\" width=\"800\" height=\"481\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/GettyImages-1206294403-800x481.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/GettyImages-1206294403-1020x613.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/GettyImages-1206294403-160x96.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/GettyImages-1206294403-768x461.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/GettyImages-1206294403-1536x923.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/GettyImages-1206294403-2048x1231.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/GettyImages-1206294403-1920x1154.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">January 1982 flood in Guerneville. \u003ccite>(Steve Ringman/San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>1996\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13923686\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13923686\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/GettyImages-1321932265-800x471.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"471\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/GettyImages-1321932265-800x471.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/GettyImages-1321932265-1020x600.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/GettyImages-1321932265-160x94.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/GettyImages-1321932265-768x452.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/GettyImages-1321932265-1536x904.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/GettyImages-1321932265.jpg 1569w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">West bound I-580 in Oakland flooded on Dec. 10, 1996, after a levee at the Gallagher and Burke Quarry gave way, deluging tons of dirt and water onto the freeway below. Four vehicles got stuck in the aftermath. \u003ccite>(MICHAEL MACOR/The San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In December 1996, nearly 68,000 homes between Eureka and San Luis Obispo — many of them in the East Bay — dealt with storm-related blackouts. San Rafael got hit hardest with 3.10 inches of rain in one day. The entire Bay Area was under a high wind advisory, SFO got hit with a rash of delays, and traffic chaos was everywhere. Parts of 101 got coned off, I-580 in Oakland was closed because of a broken water main, mudslides blocked Highway 17 between Los Gatos and Santa Cruz, and flooding shut down Highway 121 in Sonoma County.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>2005\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13923685\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13923685\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/GettyImages-1321889625-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Partially submerged SUVs work their way down a flooded road. Four men stand on the back of one vehicle.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/GettyImages-1321889625-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/GettyImages-1321889625-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/GettyImages-1321889625-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/GettyImages-1321889625-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/GettyImages-1321889625-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/GettyImages-1321889625-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/GettyImages-1321889625-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">New Year’s Eve 2005/’06 on Soscal Street in Napa. It flooded with about four feet of water. \u003ccite>(Michael Macor/ The San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>2005 started with flooding in Sacramento, saw parts of Yosemite closed because of flooding in May, then ended with a series of storms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before 2006 got ready to roll in, the \u003cem>Modesto Bee\u003c/em> relayed that: “Areas north of the San Francisco Bay Area, already saturated from earlier onslaughts of rain and wind, bore the brunt of nature’s fury with rainfall totals averaging about four inches [in 24 hours]. Some mountainous areas near the Humboldt County coast got as much as six inches.” SFO had delays on “most flights” and parts of I-5 and 101 closed. Not a party.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If current forecasts are to be believed, the Bay is scheduled for a break in the rain next week … before more storms at the end of the month. Good luck out there.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>All this rain got you down? Sick to death of grey skies and finding out just how many boots you own that look kind of waterproof but, in reality, are not at all? Same.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>If it makes you feel any better, this bleak, all-encompassing torrential rain we’ve been getting hammered by isn’t actually as unprecedented or freaky as some commentators would have you believe. Outside of the on-off drought we’ve long dealt with, stormy deluges of varying degrees have been flooding the Bay Area for about as far back as records go.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before you fall into the abyss that is wondering why the region hasn’t gotten any better at dealing with heavy rainfall, let’s just take a look back at some storms of the past. May they remind us that one day — some day! —there will be an end to all of this depressing weather.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>1862\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13923720\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13923720\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/Screen-Shot-2023-01-13-at-3.00.34-PM-800x804.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"804\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/Screen-Shot-2023-01-13-at-3.00.34-PM-800x804.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/Screen-Shot-2023-01-13-at-3.00.34-PM-1020x1025.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/Screen-Shot-2023-01-13-at-3.00.34-PM-160x161.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/Screen-Shot-2023-01-13-at-3.00.34-PM-768x772.png 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/Screen-Shot-2023-01-13-at-3.00.34-PM.png 1158w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lithograph of K Street in Sacramento depicting the Great Flood of 1862.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>During a 15-day period between December 1861 and January 1862, nearly 20 inches of rain fell on San Francisco. The city wound up on the receiving end of 24 inches total over the course of a month. (By comparison, SF and Oakland have so far received 13 and a half inches of rain from these recent atmospheric rivers.) Sacramento had it far worse, though.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In January, 1862, the \u003cem>Sacramento Bee\u003c/em> reported that the “condition of the state” was “watery” — “a vast seas such as was never before witnessed here, and this entire district has become a series of desolation.” Between the Sacramento and San Joaquin Valleys, “what movable property such as houses and fences that the water might have left, was broken up and scattered by the joint action of wind and waves.” Livestock losses devastated the entire region. To offer assistance to their neighbors in the north, San Francisco quickly sent $5,000 in cash and “cooked provisions” to Sacramento. That was despite the fact that weather-related issues abounded in San Francisco even two months after the widespread floods.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On March 22, 1862, the \u003cem>Weekly Butte Democrat\u003c/em> reported a new disaster. “On Friday morning last, a lake, which has been forming in the vicinity of the Mission, among the hills, burst its banks and rushed forth in vast volume of water, tearing away gardens, banks, fences in its course. The pond, or lake, was nearly half a mile long and a quarter of a mile wide and over twenty feet deep. About 100 feet of the Market Street Railroad was carried away.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite what you might have heard, the Bay Area has not seen floods this bad ever since.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>1904\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13923676\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13923676\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/opensfhistory_wnp32.0307-800x466.jpg\" alt=\"Black and white image of classic San Francisco trolley running through an empty flooded street.\" width=\"800\" height=\"466\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/opensfhistory_wnp32.0307-800x466.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/opensfhistory_wnp32.0307-160x93.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/opensfhistory_wnp32.0307-768x447.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/opensfhistory_wnp32.0307.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A United Railroads streetcar trundles through a flooded 16th Street (facing towards South Van Ness). \u003ccite>(OpenSFHistory / wnp32.0307)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In September 1904, 3.25 inches of rain fell in San Francisco in 24 hours, breaking a city record. And things were bad across the entire region. The \u003cem>Bakersfield Morning Echo\u003c/em> reported that, “At Napa, San Jose, Stockton and many others, the rainfall has been unprecedented for September.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Later that month, the \u003cem>Salt Lake City Tribune\u003c/em> noted: “The unprecedented rainstorms continue, the precipitation being … 4.42 inches, more than four times the amount ever before recorded [in San Francisco] in the month of September. At the Cliff House, several windows were broken by the spray driven in from the ocean.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>1937\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13923678\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13923678\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/opensfhistory_wnp30.0091-800x619.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"619\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/opensfhistory_wnp30.0091-800x619.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/opensfhistory_wnp30.0091-160x124.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/opensfhistory_wnp30.0091-768x594.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/opensfhistory_wnp30.0091.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">1930s: A motorcar and a streetcar marked ‘CASTRO’, side-by-side, working their way through the flooded northeast corner of Church and Market. \u003ccite>(OpenSFHistory / wnp30.0091)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>At the end of 1937, the \u003cem>Pasadena Post \u003c/em>reported extensively on storms that were ravaging California. On Dec. 12, it described the situation in San Francisco thusly: “Planes grounded. Four ships battered. Shipping at a standstill. Slight damage from gales. Five persons killed, indirect result of storms.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The following day, the paper reported: “Flood waters smashed through … the Sacramento and San Joaquin valleys today in the aftermath of one of the most severe rainstorms on record … The rest of the state was digging itself out of the mud and the debris left by receding waters.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>1941\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13923680\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13923680\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/opensfhistory_wnp27.4927-800x620.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"620\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/opensfhistory_wnp27.4927-800x620.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/opensfhistory_wnp27.4927-160x124.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/opensfhistory_wnp27.4927-768x595.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/opensfhistory_wnp27.4927.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">View north at the intersection of Market and Church Streets, after a ‘flash flood’ that happened after the city was hit with almost an inch of rain in less than an hour. (For context, the block across the intersection is Safeway now.) \u003ccite>(OpenSFHistory / wnp27.4927)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>On April 4, 1941, the \u003cem>Contra Costa Gazette\u003c/em> wrote: “San Francisco, Oakland, Berkeley, El Cerrito, Mill Valley, San Rafael, Santa Rosa and peninsula cities reported one of the heaviest sustained rainfalls of their experience.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In San Francisco, more than half an inch fell in 30 minutes. In Mill Valley, 1.87 inches of rain fell between midnight and 8 a.m. Marin County creeks filled quickly and overflowed over streets and highways. There were some landslides. Water also poured into the San Pablo underpass connecting with the San Francisco Oakland Bay bridge, trapping automobiles. There also was water in the South San Francisco underpass on Bayshore Highway.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>1952\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13923681\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13923681\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/opensfhistory_wnp27.7888-800x657.jpg\" alt=\"A man stands outside a corner store named Busy Bee Market behind a deserted flooded street.\" width=\"800\" height=\"657\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/opensfhistory_wnp27.7888-800x657.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/opensfhistory_wnp27.7888-160x131.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/opensfhistory_wnp27.7888-768x631.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/opensfhistory_wnp27.7888.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">46th and Irving flooded after a storm in November 1952. \u003ccite>(OpenSFHistory / wnp27.7888)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>This storm was so terrible, it was front page news all the way in South Carolina. On Jan. 15, 1952, the \u003cem>Times and Democrat \u003c/em>reported: “A raging storm roared across Northern California … It gave California its worst winter in half a century … Countless trees came down in hundreds of towns, breaking power and telephone lines. Many communities were without electricity or gas. San Francisco’s rainfall for the season reached 17.91 inches, the most on any comparable date since 1890.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>1960\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13923682\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13923682\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/opensfhistory_wnp27.7889-800x675.jpg\" alt=\"1950s style cars line up in two-way traffic on a flooded, tree-lined road. \" width=\"800\" height=\"675\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/opensfhistory_wnp27.7889-800x675.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/opensfhistory_wnp27.7889-160x135.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/opensfhistory_wnp27.7889-768x648.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/opensfhistory_wnp27.7889.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">In November 1960, the Park-Presidio Bypass through Golden Gate Park flooded after heavy early morning downpours. It caused chaos for commuters. \u003ccite>(OpenSFHistory / wnp27.7889)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The massive storm of Nov. 1960 caused the most havoc in Oregon and Washington, but the aftermath in the Bay was newsworthy, as evidenced by the photo above. San Francisco got an inch and a quarter of rainfall in one day.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>1982\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13923683\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13923683\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/GettyImages-1298879845-800x486.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"486\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/GettyImages-1298879845-800x486.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/GettyImages-1298879845-1020x619.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/GettyImages-1298879845-160x97.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/GettyImages-1298879845-768x466.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/GettyImages-1298879845-1536x932.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/GettyImages-1298879845-2048x1243.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/GettyImages-1298879845-1920x1165.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Storms in January 1982 resulted in major landslides and flooding throughout the Bay Area. Here, a couple rows a dinghy through San Rafael. \u003ccite>(Vincent Maggiora/San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The 1982 storms that pummeled the Bay were particularly horrendous. The \u003cem>Selma Enterprise\u003c/em> reported on Jan. 14, 1982 that, “More than three dozen people died in Bay Area rain, flooding and mudslides and seven north state counties have been declared disaster areas.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The deluge blanketed the entire Bay Area, as seen in this graphic by the \u003cem>Modesto Bee\u003c/em>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13923716\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13923716\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/Screen-Shot-2023-01-13-at-12.46.56-PM-800x512.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"512\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/Screen-Shot-2023-01-13-at-12.46.56-PM-800x512.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/Screen-Shot-2023-01-13-at-12.46.56-PM-1020x653.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/Screen-Shot-2023-01-13-at-12.46.56-PM-160x102.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/Screen-Shot-2023-01-13-at-12.46.56-PM-768x492.png 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/Screen-Shot-2023-01-13-at-12.46.56-PM-1536x983.png 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/Screen-Shot-2023-01-13-at-12.46.56-PM.png 1712w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The ‘Modesto Bee’ made this graphic to drive home the widespread destruction caused by the storms of January 1982. \u003ccite>(Modesto Bee / Bee Graphics)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Here’s what the flooding looked like in Guerneville. Yikes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13923684\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13923684\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/GettyImages-1206294403-800x481.jpg\" alt=\"Eight people and a dog travel in a small motorboat in front of a sign that reads "Abby's Playland."\" width=\"800\" height=\"481\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/GettyImages-1206294403-800x481.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/GettyImages-1206294403-1020x613.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/GettyImages-1206294403-160x96.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/GettyImages-1206294403-768x461.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/GettyImages-1206294403-1536x923.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/GettyImages-1206294403-2048x1231.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/GettyImages-1206294403-1920x1154.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">January 1982 flood in Guerneville. \u003ccite>(Steve Ringman/San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>1996\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13923686\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13923686\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/GettyImages-1321932265-800x471.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"471\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/GettyImages-1321932265-800x471.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/GettyImages-1321932265-1020x600.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/GettyImages-1321932265-160x94.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/GettyImages-1321932265-768x452.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/GettyImages-1321932265-1536x904.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/GettyImages-1321932265.jpg 1569w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">West bound I-580 in Oakland flooded on Dec. 10, 1996, after a levee at the Gallagher and Burke Quarry gave way, deluging tons of dirt and water onto the freeway below. Four vehicles got stuck in the aftermath. \u003ccite>(MICHAEL MACOR/The San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In December 1996, nearly 68,000 homes between Eureka and San Luis Obispo — many of them in the East Bay — dealt with storm-related blackouts. San Rafael got hit hardest with 3.10 inches of rain in one day. The entire Bay Area was under a high wind advisory, SFO got hit with a rash of delays, and traffic chaos was everywhere. Parts of 101 got coned off, I-580 in Oakland was closed because of a broken water main, mudslides blocked Highway 17 between Los Gatos and Santa Cruz, and flooding shut down Highway 121 in Sonoma County.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>2005\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13923685\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13923685\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/GettyImages-1321889625-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Partially submerged SUVs work their way down a flooded road. Four men stand on the back of one vehicle.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/GettyImages-1321889625-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/GettyImages-1321889625-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/GettyImages-1321889625-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/GettyImages-1321889625-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/GettyImages-1321889625-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/GettyImages-1321889625-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/GettyImages-1321889625-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">New Year’s Eve 2005/’06 on Soscal Street in Napa. It flooded with about four feet of water. \u003ccite>(Michael Macor/ The San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>2005 started with flooding in Sacramento, saw parts of Yosemite closed because of flooding in May, then ended with a series of storms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before 2006 got ready to roll in, the \u003cem>Modesto Bee\u003c/em> relayed that: “Areas north of the San Francisco Bay Area, already saturated from earlier onslaughts of rain and wind, bore the brunt of nature’s fury with rainfall totals averaging about four inches [in 24 hours]. Some mountainous areas near the Humboldt County coast got as much as six inches.” SFO had delays on “most flights” and parts of I-5 and 101 closed. Not a party.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>As 1954 dawned, America knew Marilyn Monroe and Joe DiMaggio were on the verge of marriage. The imminent nuptials were the subject of gossip everywhere, but no one had any idea where or when it would happen. When Monroe and her beau of two years showed up at San Francisco City Hall on Jan. 14, 1954, chaos ensued.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The trail of Monroe and DiMaggio’s possible wedding locations had been subject to rumors in the press for weeks. After a Las Vegas wedding ceremony was canceled by the pair — they were originally scheduled to marry at the Hotel El Rancho on Jan. 4 — something of a wild goose chase commenced for journalists and fans alike.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13908259']When one reporter reached out to one of DiMaggio’s four sisters for information, she said the couple were “on a motor trip.” Some of the baseball legend’s friends told reporters that DiMaggio and Monroe were going back to Vegas in a few days to wed at a new location. When the papers couldn’t keep track of what was actually happening, they dramatically declared Monroe and DiMaggio “missing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before they’d even arrived at City Hall with six friends in tow, news had leaked about Monroe and DiMaggio’s wedding plans. Monroe was happy to talk to the waiting reporters on the way into the building. “I met him two years ago on a blind date in Los Angeles,” she said, “and a couple of days ago we started talking about this.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>DiMaggio was less keen to deal with the assembled press. “All right fellas, I don’t want to rush you,” he said, “but we’ve got to get on with the ceremony.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The couple were married inside Judge Charles S. Peery’s City Hall chambers at 1:45 p.m. David Dunn, the deputy county clerk, struggled to get through the throngs of people to even hand over the marriage license to the judge. Watching on inside the chambers were friends from DiMaggio’s circle — his brother Tom, his first baseball manager Frank “Lefty” O’Doul and his business partner Reno Barsocchini. Each of the men brought their wives. After the ceremony, photos were briefly taken of DiMaggio and Monroe locked in a kiss in front of a shelf full of law books.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to a report in the \u003cem>San Francisco Examiner\u003c/em> the following day, getting the couple out of the building was no easy feat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>They raced down the City Hall corridors pursued by press and public and made the mistake of heading for the Real Estate Department, which leads to exactly nowhere. Then they were forced to double back, dash through the pursuing crowds and run for the elevators. Scores of persons tried to beat them downstairs by running at breakneck speeds down the stairs.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>By the time the small party exited the building, there was even more pandemonium waiting outside. Three hundred well-wishers, City Hall workers, autograph seekers and even more reporters had gathered to catch a glimpse of the couple.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13922540\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13922540\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/12/GettyImages-517212694-800x666.jpg\" alt=\"A couple dressed in smart 1950s clothing squeeze through a large door, surrounded by photographers and press.\" width=\"800\" height=\"666\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Just married! Marilyn Monroe and Joe DiMaggio exit City Hall after a brief wedding ceremony, surrounded by press. \u003ccite>(Getty Images/ Bettmann)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>On the way out, DiMaggio was just as keen to get away from the throngs as he had been on the way in. “We’ve got to get going,” he said. “We’ve got to put a lot of miles behind us.” When asked by reporters where he and Monroe would honeymoon, DiMaggio replied, “North, south, west and east.” (In truth, they were heading to Japan.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>DiMaggio was more forthcoming about where the newlyweds planned to live, however. “We’ll probably be doing a lot of commuting, but San Francisco will be our headquarters,” he said. Despite his fame as a New York Yankee, DiMaggio was deeply attached to San Francisco; he was raised by his Sicilian parents in a ground-floor apartment at 2047 Taylor St., the eighth of nine children.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before speeding off in a Cadillac, Monroe told the reporters she had no intention of leaving her career as an actress, but she was “looking forward to being a housewife too.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13922541\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13922541\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/12/GettyImages-517240042-800x627.jpg\" alt=\"Joe DiMaggio sits in the driver's seat of a Cadillac, Marilyn Monroe smiling by his side. They both look elated. Photographers are visible through the passenger window.\" width=\"800\" height=\"627\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Joe DiMaggio and Marilyn Monroe leave City Hall in a Cadillac as newlyweds. \u003ccite>(Getty Images/ Bettmann)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Monroe and DiMaggio might have had a more glamorous wedding ceremony if they weren’t both already divorced. In 1942, Monroe donned a white dress and veil for her marriage to 21-year-old Jimmy Dougherty. She was just 16 at the time and the marriage lasted four years. DiMaggio married his first wife Dorothy Arnold at North Beach’s gorgeous Saints Peter and Paul Church on Washington Square in 1939. Their union lasted five years, resulting in the birth of one son, Joe Jr.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13919569']As such, DiMaggio and Monroe’s wedding was cause for some scandal in 1954. A spokesman for the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of San Francisco publicly stated that DiMaggio was automatically excommunicated from the church when he remarried. (If DiMaggio was in the least bit phased by this piece of news, he never showed it.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite DiMaggio’s assertion that the couple’s home base would be San Francisco, he and Monroe ended up spending most of their 10-month marriage in Los Angeles — something rumored to have strained the union. On his way out of both their Beverly Hills home and the marriage itself, a stone-faced DiMaggio is said to have told reporters, “I’ll never be coming back to this house.” He added, “San Francisco has always been my home.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The press conference that followed DiMaggio’s exit saw a deeply vulnerable Monroe in floods of tears, though it was she that had filed for the divorce on the grounds of “mental cruelty.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13922545\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13922545\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/12/tears-800x653.jpg\" alt=\"Marilyn Monroe gazes out of a car's passenger side door, white handkerchief held over her mouth, shellshocked expression on her face.\" width=\"800\" height=\"653\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Marilyn Monroe, directly after announcing her separation from Joe DiMaggio. Much was made in the newspapers about how much she cried in her attorney’s car as they left. \u003ccite>(Getty Images/ Bettmann)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Despite the sad end to the much-hyped relationship, DiMaggio regretted the split almost immediately. In one letter written to Monroe after their separation, DiMaggio wrote: “I love you and want to be with you … There is nothing I would like better than to restore your confidence in me … My heart split even wider seeing you cry in front of all those people.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='news_11891074']DiMaggio also wrote to Monroe: “Don’t know what your thoughts are about me, but I can tell you I love you sincerely — way deep in my heart, irregardless of anything.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>DiMaggio would later claim that his partnership with Monroe was the best relationship he ever had. In John and Rock Positano’s 2017 book, \u003cem>Dinner With DiMaggio\u003c/em>, the baseball legend is quoted saying: “We got along exceptionally well in every possible way. When we got together in the bedroom, it was like the gods were fighting; there were thunderclouds and lightning above us.” DiMaggio never remarried.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eight years after the couple split, when Monroe died suddenly at her home on Aug. 4, 1962, DiMaggio was utterly devastated, unable to hold back tears even in front of reporters. Having reconnected with Monroe in 1961 after her split from Arthur Miller, it was DiMaggio who claimed Monroe’s body and arranged her funeral.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>DiMaggio spent the rest of his life — another 37 years — sending roses to Monroe’s crypt at \u003ca href=\"https://www.dignitymemorial.com/funeral-homes/los-angeles-ca/pierce-brothers-westwood-village-memorial-park-and-mortuary/4798\">Pierce Brothers Memorial Park\u003c/a> in Los Angeles three times a week. It was a reflection of the dedication he felt on that day in 1954 when the pair tied the knot. If only they’d had a happier ending.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>The inspiration for Jason Moran’s new album, \u003cem>From the Dancehall to the Battlefield,\u003c/em> came from a distinguished source, who passed it down like a family heirloom. Randy Weston, a fellow pianist-composer in the jazz tradition, was still performing in his mid-80s a decade or so ago, when he welcomed Moran to his home in Brooklyn with an admonishment: \u003cem>You need to know about James Reese Europe.\u003c/em> (Weston, an NEA Jazz Master,\u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/01/obituaries/randy-weston-dead.html\"> died in 2018\u003c/a> at 92.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He literally sat me down in his apartment with his wife, Fatoumata,” Moran tells NPR. “They gave me a five-hour history lesson about James Reese Europe. And Randy Weston has a way of talking about history, and especially diasporic Black history, in relationship to the music we make here in America; he’s always trying to find these ties. He locates James Reese Europe as kind of a seminal knot-maker in the line. It’s like, ‘You’ve got to know the guy who invented the Big Knot.’ And that was really where it started for me.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>James Reese Europe was a fearless pioneer in African-American history: a bandleader, composer and organizer who laid the groundwork for jazz in the early 20th century. He also founded and incorporated The Clef Club — a first-of-its-kind musicians’ union, contracting agency and social organization whose resident orchestra he brought to Carnegie Hall in 1912. (The ‘\u003ca href=\"https://www.carnegiehall.org/Explore/Articles/2021/03/31/When-Jazz-Arrived-at-Carnegie-Hall\">Concert of Negro Music\u003c/a>,’ as it was billed, is often remembered today as the first jazz concert in the prestigious concert hall, though “jazz” wasn’t a word Europe ever used.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13909444']America’s engagement in World War I plunged James Reese Europe into a different theater of operations. Commissioned as a lieutenant in the 369th Infantry, known as the Harlem Hellfighters, he formed a regimental band that garnered acclaim for its originality and syncopated fire. Europe’s friend Noble Sissle served as his drum major and the lyricist on a number of gripping songs from the front, like “\u003ca href=\"https://youtu.be/YeIET9ZIkGk\">On Patrol in No Man’s Land\u003c/a>,” composed in a field hospital after a gas attack. When the war was over, the 369th Infantry returned as heroes — marching up Fifth Avenue in a victory parade, with Europe’s band providing the beat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For this and other reasons, Europe was a progenitor and pacesetter for American popular music, and for African-American culture; one of his contemporaries, pianist-composer Eubie Blake, later remembered him as “the Martin Luther King of music.” Scholars and historians in our time — like Dr. Tammy Kernodle, the University Distinguished Professor of Music at Miami University in Ohio, hold analogous views. “He’s such a pivotal figure,” Dr. Kernodle tells NPR, “and his influence crosses all types of spheres — social, intellectual, musical, cultural, political — so it’s unfortunate that he has not received the kind of attention that he deserves, because there’s so much that can be gleaned from his life and his career.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Moran has been doing some of that gleaning, delving into research about Europe’s story and music, and considering what he means in the greater scheme of Black life. Several years ago he put together a multimedia tribute titled \u003cem>Harlem Hellfighters: James Reese Europe and The Absence Of Ruin, \u003c/em>presenting it at festivals abroad and the Kennedy Center.\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2018/12/07/674440715/a-century-later-an-illuminated-eulogy-for-a-jazz-pioneer\"> Covering that project for NPR Music\u003c/a> in 2018, Michelle Mercer wrote: “There’s more purposeful meaning in Moran’s song adaptations than a team of the most avid musicologists could hope to find.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Y_0Fhg7G3c\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The same is now true of \u003cem>From the Dancehall to the Battlefield, \u003c/em>which Moran has\u003ca href=\"https://jasonmoran.bandcamp.com/album/from-the-dancehall-to-the-battlefield\"> released digitally\u003c/a> through his own YES Records. A brilliant and often startling listen, it’s the latest act of radical reimagining from Moran, whose previous forays into Black music history include celebrated tributes to\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2014/09/13/347664601/modern-misbehavin-jason-moran-gets-into-the-mind-of-fats-waller\"> Fats Waller\u003c/a> and\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2015/10/08/446866440/jason-moran-plays-thelonious-monks-town-hall-concert\"> Thelonious Monk\u003c/a>. At the album’s center strides The Bandwagon, his flagship trio with bassist Tarus Mateen and drummer Nasheet Waits, who bring a headlong urgency to some of the songs, like Europe’s “Castle House Rag.” Elsewhere, Moran expands the frame to include collaborators like alto saxophonist Logan Richardson, clarinetist Darryl Harper and trumpeter David Adewumi.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13914579']One elegiac track, “Flee as a Bird to your Mountain,” comes linked via interpretive segue to the Albert Ayler free-jazz anthem “Ghosts,” soulfully performed by tenor saxophonist Brian Settles. In his liner notes, Moran explains that “Flee as a Bird” was “a piece the 369th Infantry band played when a soldier did not return from the battlefield. Brian represents the restless soul fighting for his last breath before the last shovel full of dirt covers his body.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The album’s overture and title track, “From the Dancehall to the Battlefield,” features a voiceover by Moran, putting the facts of the case in an urgent and poetic light. He notes that as a boy in Washington, D.C., James Reese Europe studied with violinist Joseph Douglass, grandson of the abolitionist Frederick Douglass — “because Douglass innately knew that liberation not only speaks from the mind, but also from instrument.” And he muses about the implications of Europe’s syncopated beat — “because syncopation is about urgency, pushing the beat ahead to apply the anticipation of the oncoming downbeat, an outlook that is inherently futuristic.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Retrofitting the notion of Afrofuturism, as Moran explains, was part of the mission for the album. It’s one reason that his voiceover concludes with a bequest: “From to the dance hall to the battlefield,” he says, “and back home to you.” It’s why he has incorporated a sing-along into many of his performances over the last several years: using his composition “For James” as a means of activating his audiences, co-implicating them in Europe’s historical narrative. I’ve witnessed this a few times, in settings as intimate as The Village Vanguard and as grand as the Newport Jazz Festival — where, as Moran pointed out from the stage, the stone ramparts and cast-iron cannons at Fort Adams brought a layer of resonance to the music.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For James” is the natural endpoint on Moran’s new album, and he decided to splice a couple of different recordings together. 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"content": "\u003cp>[dropcap]I[/dropcap]n 1949, Marie Mason Potts took on a role that would transform the latter half of her life. She became editor of \u003cem>Smoke Signal, \u003c/em>the first newspaper in California to be written, edited and controlled exclusively by Indigenous Americans. Potts took over just as a new, post-war wave of Native American activism was swelling. And what she did with the paper for the next 30 years would indelibly impact the lives of countless Indigenous people all over America.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Smoke Signal\u003c/em> was first established by Potts’ youngest daughter, Kitty Flores, on behalf of the Federated Indians of California (FIC). Its first issue published in January 1948, when Flores was just 22. When Flores was forced to relocate for her husband’s job, Potts — who had contributed to the paper for the past 18 months — wasn’t about to let \u003cem>Smoke Signal\u003c/em> fall out of print. She remained dedicated to it, even during times of personal crisis, for the rest of her life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Smoke Signal’\u003c/em>s initial goal was to unify disparate Indigenous communities so that they could work together as one force. “In Unity, There is Strength” its masthead declared, issue after issue. However, the longer Potts worked on the paper, the more embedded she became in every aspect of Indigenous activism — something she had already been involved with since her teens. Potts’ work at the paper ultimately transcended the normal commitments of a reporter or editor, and stretched into the realms of personal advice and legal assistance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13882943']When \u003cem>Smoke Signal’\u003c/em>s readers were struggling to deal with government officials or institutions, Potts sent them the forms they needed, instructions on how to file them and a list of official contacts who might be able to assist with land claims, civil rights issues and other legal battles. Potts’ willingness to be so hands-on provided essential support for Native communities in California — but her impact was much wider.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Smoke Signal’\u003c/em>s longevity was due not just to Potts’ knowledge and dedication to its readers, but to how successfully the paper reflected the communities it was serving. Potts recognized that writing about activism alone would not hold a large enough audience’s attention. So alongside news, analysis and regular columns, she made sure there were notices of obituaries, births and events — and, crucially, not a small amount of humor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“An Indian was being interviewed for a position,” one \u003cem>Smoke Signal\u003c/em> joke read. “Among the questions asked was, ‘Do you know a foreign language?’ His reply was: ‘Yes. English.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[dropcap]P[/dropcap]otts knew the importance of levity during dark times. Indeed, she had endured plenty of her own. Potts was born in Big Meadow, Plumas County, the ancestral lands of the Northern Maidu. Today, we know it as Taylorsville, a name given to the area by white settlers during the Gold Rush. Potts’ birth, in fact, was the result of a rape committed by a white prospector. On the subject of her biological father and others like him, Potts once said, “They called the child a half-breed. I don’t know why they were ashamed of fathering a child. But that’s white society for you. My father was one of those sons o’ bitches.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At five years old, Potts was enrolled — terrified and convinced she would be murdered — at the government-operated Greenville Indian School. She attended alongside several cousins and her older sister and brother. (The three siblings were given the last name Mason while attending.) By the time Potts had graduated from Pennsylvania’s Carlisle Indian Industrial School in 1915, she had no homeland to return to. Big Meadow had been submerged under a new hydroelectric reservoir, \u003ca href=\"https://www.lakealmanorarea.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Lake Almanor\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Potts never recovered from the loss of her homeland. But she captured its splendor in \u003cem>The Northern Maidu\u003c/em>, a book Potts wrote in 1971 to leave a permanent record of how her people had lived.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>How wonderful it was, lying awake at night sometimes, to hear the coyotes bark and the hoot owls uttering their calls among the trees. Sometimes there would be the running clatter of squirrels on the bark slabs above us; and in spring and summer, just as it grew light before the sun rose, there came the enchantment of the bird chorus, the orchestra of the Great Spirit all around us. That clean pine smell on the morning wind — where can we find it now?\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Though Carlisle was an institution founded on ideas of settler colonialism, Potts thoroughly enjoyed her time there. She was an eager student and a social butterfly who thrived because she was able to connect with Indigenous people from all over the country. Her circle of girlfriends included women from the Chippewa, Cherokee, Pomo, Cayuga, Konkow and Pawnee nations. Carlisle was also where Potts cultivated an interest in journalism, while contributing to the school’s two newspapers, the \u003cem>Arrow \u003c/em>and the\u003cem> Red Man.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13889944']Shortly after graduation, Potts married Hensley Henry Potts, of the Konkow nation. (“A branch of the Maidu, but we didn’t speak the same Indian language,” she later explained.) The couple quickly got to work building their family. Raising children would dominate the next two decades for Potts. The couple’s first daughter, Josephine, arrived in 1916. Then came Jeanne in 1918, William in 1920, Nora in 1921, Pansy in 1922 and Kitty in 1924.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With the Potts’ large family, however, came much tragedy. William died in infancy, Kitty was killed in a car crash in her mid-twenties, and Josephine passed on before she’d reached the age of 30. Potts found great comfort in her 20 grandchildren and, of course, in fighting to improve the lives of those that remained around her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[dropcap]O[/dropcap]nce her children were grown, Potts had more time to dedicate to her personal passions. She moved to Sacramento in 1942 and went to work lecturing at Sacramento State about her heritage, Native American history and cultural preservation. She gave speeches all over the country about Indigenous issues — and her years raising a family came in handy. That background enabled her to talk to groups of small children and at youth groups, after she’d given speeches at civic organizations and churches.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Potts’ commitment to \u003cem>Smoke Signal\u003c/em> spurred on her activism everywhere else. Starting in 1950, she chaired the “Indian exhibit” at the California State Fair. During the Korean and Vietnam Wars, she ensured Native American veterans, and those still fighting overseas, received free copies of the newspaper. In the ‘60s, she was western regional vice president of the California League for American Indians, an organization that helped Indigenous people access higher education. She also assisted the National Congress of American Indians with their community outreach and activism. She planned and attended countless Indigenous conferences, providing detailed summaries of each for \u003cem>Smoke Signal\u003c/em> readers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13870041']When Potts’ grandson (one of Pansy’s children) took part in the occupation of Alcatraz, not only did she spend time on the island with him and his fellow protesters, she actively assisted them. She printed their “\u003ca href=\"https://libguides.uml.edu/c.php?g=945022&p=6878950#:~:text=Proclamation%20to%20the%20Great%20White,Indians%20by%20right%20of%20discovery.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Proclamation to the Great White Father and All His People\u003c/a>” on the front page of \u003cem>Smoke Signal,\u003c/em> along with a list of supplies and equipment that the occupiers needed. She helped to distribute and collect petitions in support of the occupation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Just as Potts knew the importance of providing humor alongside the news in \u003cem>Smoke Signal\u003c/em>, she also understood that joy and revelry were useful tools in the struggle. In addition to traveling with Maidu dancers to demonstrate traditional dances and explain their significance to others, Potts had also enthusiastically assisted in bringing back the annual Bear Dance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In \u003cem>The Northern Maidu\u003c/em>, Potts explained:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>From ancient times, the Maidu observed a Spring ceremony which took place when the first edible shoots came through the ground … It was an offering of thanks for having survived the winter, as well as an appeasement, not only to the bear spirits, but to the rattlesnakes … The grizzly bear was a symbol of life to us. If he had survived the winter, so had the tribe.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>It was after traveling to the Bear Dance in Janesville in June 1978 that Potts’ spirit took the “no looking back” journey to the great “unknown.” The location felt fated. It was just 25 miles from Potts’ birthplace in Susanville. She was 83. When Potts died, \u003cem>Smoke Signal\u003c/em> died with her. But the paper’s legacy lives on — a testament to a life lived passionately, thoughtfully and in a near-constant state of service.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-12127869\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-800x78.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"78\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-768x75.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>To learn about other Rebel Girls from Bay Area History, visit the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/rebelgirls\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Rebel Girls homepage\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>A book celebrating women from the Rebel Girls series, \u003ca href=\"https://citylights.com/politics-current-events-history/unsung-heroines35-women-who-changed/\">‘Unsung Heroines: 35 Women Who Changed the Bay Area,’\u003c/a> is available now from City Lights.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>When \u003cem>Smoke Signal’\u003c/em>s readers were struggling to deal with government officials or institutions, Potts sent them the forms they needed, instructions on how to file them and a list of official contacts who might be able to assist with land claims, civil rights issues and other legal battles. Potts’ willingness to be so hands-on provided essential support for Native communities in California — but her impact was much wider.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Smoke Signal’\u003c/em>s longevity was due not just to Potts’ knowledge and dedication to its readers, but to how successfully the paper reflected the communities it was serving. Potts recognized that writing about activism alone would not hold a large enough audience’s attention. So alongside news, analysis and regular columns, she made sure there were notices of obituaries, births and events — and, crucially, not a small amount of humor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>When Potts’ grandson (one of Pansy’s children) took part in the occupation of Alcatraz, not only did she spend time on the island with him and his fellow protesters, she actively assisted them. She printed their “\u003ca href=\"https://libguides.uml.edu/c.php?g=945022&p=6878950#:~:text=Proclamation%20to%20the%20Great%20White,Indians%20by%20right%20of%20discovery.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Proclamation to the Great White Father and All His People\u003c/a>” on the front page of \u003cem>Smoke Signal,\u003c/em> along with a list of supplies and equipment that the occupiers needed. She helped to distribute and collect petitions in support of the occupation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Just as Potts knew the importance of providing humor alongside the news in \u003cem>Smoke Signal\u003c/em>, she also understood that joy and revelry were useful tools in the struggle. In addition to traveling with Maidu dancers to demonstrate traditional dances and explain their significance to others, Potts had also enthusiastically assisted in bringing back the annual Bear Dance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In \u003cem>The Northern Maidu\u003c/em>, Potts explained:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>From ancient times, the Maidu observed a Spring ceremony which took place when the first edible shoots came through the ground … It was an offering of thanks for having survived the winter, as well as an appeasement, not only to the bear spirits, but to the rattlesnakes … The grizzly bear was a symbol of life to us. If he had survived the winter, so had the tribe.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>It was after traveling to the Bear Dance in Janesville in June 1978 that Potts’ spirit took the “no looking back” journey to the great “unknown.” The location felt fated. It was just 25 miles from Potts’ birthplace in Susanville. She was 83. When Potts died, \u003cem>Smoke Signal\u003c/em> died with her. But the paper’s legacy lives on — a testament to a life lived passionately, thoughtfully and in a near-constant state of service.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-12127869\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-800x78.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"78\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-768x75.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>To learn about other Rebel Girls from Bay Area History, visit the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/rebelgirls\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Rebel Girls homepage\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Her iconic afro silhouette. The recognizable cadence of her voice: both urgent and patient. Oakland-based activist and educator Angela Davis is a cultural icon whose life’s work has influenced so many. Her impact on generations past and present is the subject of \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://museumca.org/on-view/angela-davis-seize-the-time/\">Angela Davis – Seize the Time\u003c/a>\u003c/em>, an exhibition on view through June 11, 2023 at the Oakland Museum of California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID='arts_13891079'] The show centers around Davis’ incarceration, trial and the global campaigns to “Free Angela Davis.” Posters and artwork inspired by Davis line the walls. There are buttons, newspapers and vinyl albums enclosed in a glass case, along with an original pamphlet of Nikki Giovanni’s “Poem of Angela Yvonne Davis.” A \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jq5ck1VV_gI\">video interview\u003c/a> of Davis from 2019 plays on loop in one area – on a recent visit, her voice reverberates through the space as I walk around.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But at the heart of the exhibition is the extensive archive of documents and media collected over decades by community archivist \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13891079/the-archivist-and-the-activist-behind-a-new-book-about-angela-davis\">Lisbet Tellefsen\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Most archival material never sees the light of day in this way,” says Tellefsen. “You might get a poster exhibit. You might have a research project where you would go into the stacks and request a box where you could see a handful of documents. But it is really rare for this type of material in this amount to be actually seen on gallery walls. To me, that’s revelatory.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13921812\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1280px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13921812\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/11/Lisbet-at-exhibit-resized.jpg\" alt=\"Smiling woman stands against wall with profile of Angela Davis\" width=\"1280\" height=\"768\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/11/Lisbet-at-exhibit-resized.jpg 1280w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/11/Lisbet-at-exhibit-resized-800x480.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/11/Lisbet-at-exhibit-resized-1020x612.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/11/Lisbet-at-exhibit-resized-160x96.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/11/Lisbet-at-exhibit-resized-768x461.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Archivist Lisbet Tellefsen stands at the entry to ‘Angela Davis – Seize the Time’ at the Oakland Museum of California. \u003ccite>(Christine Cueto)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Tellefsen has known Davis socially for 40 years and was excited to preserve the history of Davis’ life and activism. “Every time I would visit Angela’s house, she would give me something else lying around,” Tellefsen recounts. “One time she took me to her storage unit in East Oakland and is giving me posters and I’m like, ‘Hey, I promise I’ll take good care of them.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some of the very first Angela Davis posters Tellefsen collected — which are included in the show — came from a trip to Cuba in the mid-1980s, where the archivist stumbled across a shop selling old revolutionary posters, including ones in solidarity with African Americans, like Davis and the Black Panthers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13921807\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2507px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13921807\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/11/07_Federal-Bureau-of-Investigation-FBI_Wanted-by-the-FBI_Aug_19_1970.jpg\" alt=\"Black and white image of wanted poster with fingerprints and pictures\" width=\"2507\" height=\"2503\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/11/07_Federal-Bureau-of-Investigation-FBI_Wanted-by-the-FBI_Aug_19_1970.jpg 2507w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/11/07_Federal-Bureau-of-Investigation-FBI_Wanted-by-the-FBI_Aug_19_1970-800x799.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/11/07_Federal-Bureau-of-Investigation-FBI_Wanted-by-the-FBI_Aug_19_1970-1020x1018.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/11/07_Federal-Bureau-of-Investigation-FBI_Wanted-by-the-FBI_Aug_19_1970-160x160.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/11/07_Federal-Bureau-of-Investigation-FBI_Wanted-by-the-FBI_Aug_19_1970-768x767.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/11/07_Federal-Bureau-of-Investigation-FBI_Wanted-by-the-FBI_Aug_19_1970-1536x1534.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/11/07_Federal-Bureau-of-Investigation-FBI_Wanted-by-the-FBI_Aug_19_1970-2048x2045.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/11/07_Federal-Bureau-of-Investigation-FBI_Wanted-by-the-FBI_Aug_19_1970-1920x1917.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2507px) 100vw, 2507px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Federal Bureau of Investigation’s ‘Wanted by the FBI’ poster from August 18, 1970. \u003ccite>(Lisbet Tellefsen Archive)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Another significant windfall for her collection came about 15 to 20 years ago when newspapers started liquidating their photo archives. Tellefsen was able to preserve thousands of Black Panther and Angela Davis Newswire photographs, some of which are on display in \u003cem>Seize the Time\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I started to see with all these pieces of the puzzle of her life story [how] her path was beginning to be reconstructed in a visual way,” Tellefsen says. “I started to look for more material and more threads. And as I embraced it as an archiving project, there was no detail too small.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the final room of the exhibit, I flip through binders of more — somehow still more! — documents and images that didn’t make the cut to be hung on the walls. It’s striking, says Tellefsen, “that one person could generate so much material, you know, pre-internet.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She’s not a Kardashian, she’s not a president,” she says. “It’s like, really, what did it mean for a young Black woman from America to be a symbol all around the world?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13921809\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1200px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13921809\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/11/Angela-Davis-Royce-Hall-UCLA_1200.jpg\" alt=\"Overhead view of full lecture hall with Angela Davis on stage\" width=\"1200\" height=\"959\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/11/Angela-Davis-Royce-Hall-UCLA_1200.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/11/Angela-Davis-Royce-Hall-UCLA_1200-800x639.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/11/Angela-Davis-Royce-Hall-UCLA_1200-1020x815.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/11/Angela-Davis-Royce-Hall-UCLA_1200-160x128.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/11/Angela-Davis-Royce-Hall-UCLA_1200-768x614.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">UCLA Lecture, Oct. 6, 1969, UPI Telephoto. \u003ccite>(Lisbet Tellefsen Archive)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>‘I was inspired to take action’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Angela Davis’ courage of conviction meant something special to my mother, Andrea Proehl. As a 21-year-old senior at UCLA in 1969, she served as a teaching assistant for a class taught by the then 25-year-old Angela Davis. So of course I took my mother to see the exhibit. She was struck by the very first image in the exhibition, which shows Angela Davis giving a lecture at UCLA’s Royce Hall in 1969.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I remember we had a meeting of all the TAs on the lawn,” my mother recalls. “She was just very captivating as she was speaking to us. And it was not anything about the mechanics of the class. She was really speaking to us about the sense of responsibility as a human being on this planet, as well as being a good citizen.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Davis taught in the philosophy department at UCLA until the UC Regents fired her for being a communist. My mother said there was a big uprising in the free speech area of campus when the news came down: “The Black Student Union was representing and everybody was out in force.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Davis’ image still stirs feelings of my mother’s time as a young woman, energized by Davis and coming into her own. “Whenever I see her silhouette – you always know it’s her,” my mother reflects. “Always makes me happy in some way. Not so much brings a smile, but just good memories and I think [it] was such a good growth period for me.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She adds, “I was inspired to take action and not just sit and watch.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13921811\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1170px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13921811\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/11/Erica-Persons.jpg\" alt=\"Young Black woman on stage in front of mic\" width=\"1170\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/11/Erica-Persons.jpg 1170w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/11/Erica-Persons-800x547.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/11/Erica-Persons-1020x697.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/11/Erica-Persons-160x109.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/11/Erica-Persons-768x525.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1170px) 100vw, 1170px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Erica Persons speaks at a Black History Month assembly at East Bay Innovation Academy. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Erica Persons)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Davis’ enduring influence\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Today, Davis remains an influential activist and catalyst for change for younger generations. This is clear from Erica Persons, a 19-year-old Laney College student, who I spoke with during her visit to the museum.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Auntie Angela, there she go!” Persons exclaims after taking in the show’s images. “She’s just so powerful in so many ways. It was a very meaningful and sacred experience to see her in that exhibit.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Persons interns for the organization \u003ca href=\"https://rjoyoakland.org/\">RJOY: Restorative Justice for Oakland Youth\u003c/a>, founded by Fania Davis, Angela Davis’ sister. Persons also started and led two Black Student Unions at two different schools during her high school years, inspired by Davis and the Black Panther Party.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Persons, Davis is an inspiration. “She’s just influenced me a whole lot just to speak out and not just be a bystander,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13921810\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13921810\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/11/angela.jpg\" alt=\"Black woman in face mask raises right arm in solidarity\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1164\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/11/angela.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/11/angela-800x485.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/11/angela-1020x618.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/11/angela-160x97.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/11/angela-768x466.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/11/angela-1536x931.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Angela Davis addresses the assembled crowd at a Juneteenth rally at the Port of Oakland on June 19, 2020. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>And it’s not just Davis’ past actions that speak to the present. Persons points to Davis’ continued presence in the community and ongoing commitment to fighting for social justice. She remembers being at an Oakland rally for George Floyd in 2020 that Davis attended.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She popped out and was talking to us and I just thought that was super meaningful ’cause she’s still very active in the community,” Persons says. “You know, she didn’t just leave.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When we head out from the exhibit, Persons pauses to read one more placard in the show and learns something new: “She grew up in Alabama. I never knew that.” Persons always thought Davis was from Oakland. It’s no matter, though: “She still a Town legend.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12127869\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"78\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-768x75.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>‘Angela Davis – Seize the Time’ is on view at the Oakland Museum of California through June 11, 2023. \u003ca href=\"https://museumca.org/on-view/angela-davis-seize-the-time/\">Details here\u003c/a>.\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp> The show centers around Davis’ incarceration, trial and the global campaigns to “Free Angela Davis.” Posters and artwork inspired by Davis line the walls. There are buttons, newspapers and vinyl albums enclosed in a glass case, along with an original pamphlet of Nikki Giovanni’s “Poem of Angela Yvonne Davis.” A \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jq5ck1VV_gI\">video interview\u003c/a> of Davis from 2019 plays on loop in one area – on a recent visit, her voice reverberates through the space as I walk around.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But at the heart of the exhibition is the extensive archive of documents and media collected over decades by community archivist \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13891079/the-archivist-and-the-activist-behind-a-new-book-about-angela-davis\">Lisbet Tellefsen\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Most archival material never sees the light of day in this way,” says Tellefsen. “You might get a poster exhibit. You might have a research project where you would go into the stacks and request a box where you could see a handful of documents. But it is really rare for this type of material in this amount to be actually seen on gallery walls. To me, that’s revelatory.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13921812\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1280px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13921812\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/11/Lisbet-at-exhibit-resized.jpg\" alt=\"Smiling woman stands against wall with profile of Angela Davis\" width=\"1280\" height=\"768\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/11/Lisbet-at-exhibit-resized.jpg 1280w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/11/Lisbet-at-exhibit-resized-800x480.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/11/Lisbet-at-exhibit-resized-1020x612.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/11/Lisbet-at-exhibit-resized-160x96.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/11/Lisbet-at-exhibit-resized-768x461.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Archivist Lisbet Tellefsen stands at the entry to ‘Angela Davis – Seize the Time’ at the Oakland Museum of California. \u003ccite>(Christine Cueto)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Tellefsen has known Davis socially for 40 years and was excited to preserve the history of Davis’ life and activism. “Every time I would visit Angela’s house, she would give me something else lying around,” Tellefsen recounts. “One time she took me to her storage unit in East Oakland and is giving me posters and I’m like, ‘Hey, I promise I’ll take good care of them.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some of the very first Angela Davis posters Tellefsen collected — which are included in the show — came from a trip to Cuba in the mid-1980s, where the archivist stumbled across a shop selling old revolutionary posters, including ones in solidarity with African Americans, like Davis and the Black Panthers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13921807\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2507px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13921807\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/11/07_Federal-Bureau-of-Investigation-FBI_Wanted-by-the-FBI_Aug_19_1970.jpg\" alt=\"Black and white image of wanted poster with fingerprints and pictures\" width=\"2507\" height=\"2503\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/11/07_Federal-Bureau-of-Investigation-FBI_Wanted-by-the-FBI_Aug_19_1970.jpg 2507w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/11/07_Federal-Bureau-of-Investigation-FBI_Wanted-by-the-FBI_Aug_19_1970-800x799.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/11/07_Federal-Bureau-of-Investigation-FBI_Wanted-by-the-FBI_Aug_19_1970-1020x1018.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/11/07_Federal-Bureau-of-Investigation-FBI_Wanted-by-the-FBI_Aug_19_1970-160x160.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/11/07_Federal-Bureau-of-Investigation-FBI_Wanted-by-the-FBI_Aug_19_1970-768x767.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/11/07_Federal-Bureau-of-Investigation-FBI_Wanted-by-the-FBI_Aug_19_1970-1536x1534.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/11/07_Federal-Bureau-of-Investigation-FBI_Wanted-by-the-FBI_Aug_19_1970-2048x2045.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/11/07_Federal-Bureau-of-Investigation-FBI_Wanted-by-the-FBI_Aug_19_1970-1920x1917.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2507px) 100vw, 2507px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Federal Bureau of Investigation’s ‘Wanted by the FBI’ poster from August 18, 1970. \u003ccite>(Lisbet Tellefsen Archive)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Another significant windfall for her collection came about 15 to 20 years ago when newspapers started liquidating their photo archives. Tellefsen was able to preserve thousands of Black Panther and Angela Davis Newswire photographs, some of which are on display in \u003cem>Seize the Time\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I started to see with all these pieces of the puzzle of her life story [how] her path was beginning to be reconstructed in a visual way,” Tellefsen says. “I started to look for more material and more threads. And as I embraced it as an archiving project, there was no detail too small.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the final room of the exhibit, I flip through binders of more — somehow still more! — documents and images that didn’t make the cut to be hung on the walls. It’s striking, says Tellefsen, “that one person could generate so much material, you know, pre-internet.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She’s not a Kardashian, she’s not a president,” she says. “It’s like, really, what did it mean for a young Black woman from America to be a symbol all around the world?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13921809\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1200px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13921809\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/11/Angela-Davis-Royce-Hall-UCLA_1200.jpg\" alt=\"Overhead view of full lecture hall with Angela Davis on stage\" width=\"1200\" height=\"959\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/11/Angela-Davis-Royce-Hall-UCLA_1200.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/11/Angela-Davis-Royce-Hall-UCLA_1200-800x639.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/11/Angela-Davis-Royce-Hall-UCLA_1200-1020x815.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/11/Angela-Davis-Royce-Hall-UCLA_1200-160x128.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/11/Angela-Davis-Royce-Hall-UCLA_1200-768x614.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">UCLA Lecture, Oct. 6, 1969, UPI Telephoto. \u003ccite>(Lisbet Tellefsen Archive)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>‘I was inspired to take action’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Angela Davis’ courage of conviction meant something special to my mother, Andrea Proehl. As a 21-year-old senior at UCLA in 1969, she served as a teaching assistant for a class taught by the then 25-year-old Angela Davis. So of course I took my mother to see the exhibit. She was struck by the very first image in the exhibition, which shows Angela Davis giving a lecture at UCLA’s Royce Hall in 1969.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I remember we had a meeting of all the TAs on the lawn,” my mother recalls. “She was just very captivating as she was speaking to us. And it was not anything about the mechanics of the class. She was really speaking to us about the sense of responsibility as a human being on this planet, as well as being a good citizen.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Davis taught in the philosophy department at UCLA until the UC Regents fired her for being a communist. My mother said there was a big uprising in the free speech area of campus when the news came down: “The Black Student Union was representing and everybody was out in force.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Davis’ image still stirs feelings of my mother’s time as a young woman, energized by Davis and coming into her own. “Whenever I see her silhouette – you always know it’s her,” my mother reflects. “Always makes me happy in some way. Not so much brings a smile, but just good memories and I think [it] was such a good growth period for me.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She adds, “I was inspired to take action and not just sit and watch.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13921811\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1170px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13921811\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/11/Erica-Persons.jpg\" alt=\"Young Black woman on stage in front of mic\" width=\"1170\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/11/Erica-Persons.jpg 1170w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/11/Erica-Persons-800x547.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/11/Erica-Persons-1020x697.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/11/Erica-Persons-160x109.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/11/Erica-Persons-768x525.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1170px) 100vw, 1170px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Erica Persons speaks at a Black History Month assembly at East Bay Innovation Academy. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Erica Persons)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Davis’ enduring influence\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Today, Davis remains an influential activist and catalyst for change for younger generations. This is clear from Erica Persons, a 19-year-old Laney College student, who I spoke with during her visit to the museum.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Auntie Angela, there she go!” Persons exclaims after taking in the show’s images. “She’s just so powerful in so many ways. It was a very meaningful and sacred experience to see her in that exhibit.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Persons interns for the organization \u003ca href=\"https://rjoyoakland.org/\">RJOY: Restorative Justice for Oakland Youth\u003c/a>, founded by Fania Davis, Angela Davis’ sister. 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