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"content": "\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\">S\u003c/span>an Francisco has long positioned itself as a progressive foil for the rest of the country, especially in the realm of LGBTQ+ rights. And while red states scramble to pass increasingly hateful anti-trans laws, California has become a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11929233/california-becomes-first-sanctuary-state-for-transgender-youth-seeking-medical-care\">sanctuary state for trans youth healthcare\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>LGBTQ+ culture and history is rich and deep here. We have San Francisco’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13901451/the-worlds-first-transgender-district-creates-a-support-system-in-san-francisco\">Transgender Cultural District\u003c/a>, the first of its kind in the world, tons of trans-inclusive nightlife spaces and a number of beloved, influential queer and trans folks in politics and the arts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But undercutting all of that is a sheer disregard — and sometimes utter disdain — for this city’s poorest residents, a disproportionate number of whom are LGBTQ+. If San Francisco wants to live up to its progressive ideals, Banko Brown’s life must be treated like it actually mattered.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13928880\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13928880\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/banko-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/banko-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/banko-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/banko-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/banko-768x432.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/banko.jpg 1392w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Banko Brown. \u003ccite>(GoFundMe/Illustration by Gabe Meline)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Brown was a 24-year-old trans man shot and killed by a downtown Walgreens security guard, Michael Earle-Wayne Anthony, on April 27 on Market Street. San Francisco police have told reporters that Brown was suspected of shoplifting, and that he was unarmed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Anthony was arrested, jailed and released three days later, when District Attorney Brooke Jenkins declined to file charges, claiming that the security guard acted in self-defense. But given the fact that Brown had no weapons on him, and that a \u003ca href=\"https://missionlocal.org/2023/05/walgreens-banko-brown-michael-earl-wayne-anthony-video/\">witness told Mission Local\u003c/a> that Anthony followed Brown outside and shot him in the chest, Jenkins’ decision has come under public scrutiny. On Monday, after pressure grew stronger, the DA asked the San Francisco Police Department to reopen the investigation. [aside postid='news_11948964']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brown’s family and supporters are urging Jenkins to release the video of the shooting. (On May 9, San Francisco’s Board of Supervisors unanimously \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11948964/san-francisco-supervisors-raise-pressure-on-da-to-release-video-of-banko-brown-killing\">passed a resolution asking Jenkins to release evidence\u003c/a>.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brown’s death is a gross illustration of the cruelty permeating San Francisco, a supposedly inclusive beacon. Brown was said to be homeless or housing insecure for the past 10 years, since he was 14 years old. This is a sadly common predicament for LGBTQ+ youth, especially trans youth, whose homelessness rates hover at close to 40%, often because of family rejection, according to a \u003ca href=\"https://www.thetrevorproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/Trevor-Project-Homelessness-Report.pdf\">2021 national survey from the Trevor Project\u003c/a>. According to Mayor London Breed’s office, trans and gender-nonconforming people are \u003ca href=\"https://sf.gov/news/mayor-london-breed-announces-housing-subsidies-transgender-and-gender-nonconforming\">18 times more likely to experience homelessness\u003c/a> than the rest of the population.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13928894\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13928894\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/009_KQED_WalgreensBankoBrown_05092023-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/009_KQED_WalgreensBankoBrown_05092023-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/009_KQED_WalgreensBankoBrown_05092023-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/009_KQED_WalgreensBankoBrown_05092023-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/009_KQED_WalgreensBankoBrown_05092023-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/009_KQED_WalgreensBankoBrown_05092023-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/009_KQED_WalgreensBankoBrown_05092023.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">People walk past a memorial for Banko Brown outside of a Walgreens in San Francisco on May 9, 2023, where he was shot to death by a store security guard on April 27. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Sleeping on the street, as Brown — himself an advocate for trans rights at the \u003ca href=\"https://youngwomenfree.org/?gad=1&gclid=CjwKCAjw3ueiBhBmEiwA4BhspFyWOPlBO4kg2BS_6QPxZkEfYbJWTv-dijgkNYWCb9kWJb6kZ0DrVhoCpZwQAvD_BwE\">Young Women’s Freedom Center\u003c/a> — was said to have done recently, puts individuals in grave danger of violence. And being in moment-to-moment survival mode makes it incredibly challenging to access the labyrinthian bureaucracy of social services, let alone earn enough income to rent a room in San Francisco or the greater Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite enormous structural problems — primarily the astronomical gap between the average rent and minimum wage — that make it difficult for poor San Franciscans to hold on to their housing, there’s a pervasively condescending attitude towards homelessness among the public. Many otherwise thoughtful people view this visible suffering as an inconvenience to the housed, rather than a human rights violation we step over and shun everyday. [ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As wealth inequality and homelessness rates continue to grow, it’s inevitable that more people will steal for survival. And as the privileged among us continue to fixate on property crime and ignore root causes, more corporations like Walgreens will employ armed security guards to protect their property. (On the topic of of stealing, Walgreens \u003ca href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/dec/07/want-to-be-a-criminal-in-america-stealing-billions-is-your-best-bet-to-go-scot-free\">recently paid $4.5 million\u003c/a> in a wage settlement with 2,650 California employees.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Coupled with the news that, in New York during the same week, a homeless cis Black man, Jordan Neely, was \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/04/opinion/jordan-neely-killed.html\">killed by a vigilante for making a disturbance on a train\u003c/a>, it’s easy to imagine a future with more Banko Browns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13928897\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13928897\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/001_KQED_WalgreensBankoBrown_05092023-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/001_KQED_WalgreensBankoBrown_05092023-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/001_KQED_WalgreensBankoBrown_05092023-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/001_KQED_WalgreensBankoBrown_05092023-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/001_KQED_WalgreensBankoBrown_05092023-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/001_KQED_WalgreensBankoBrown_05092023-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/001_KQED_WalgreensBankoBrown_05092023.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A poster with a photo of Banko Brown says, ‘Gone But Never Forgotten’ on a fence outside of a Walgreens in San Francisco on May 9, 2023, where he was shot to death by a store security guard on April 27. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Although activist movements have made gains towards police accountability over the past decade, the role of private security in violent oppression has largely gone unaddressed. Brown’s death calls to mind the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13920198/zumbi-zion-i-improper-restraint-at-hospital\">ongoing fight for justice for beloved Oakland hip-hop artist Zumbi\u003c/a>, who died after Alta Bates hospital staff and Allied Universal security guards piled on top of him while he was in treatment for a mental health crisis. His family’s lawyer compared his manner of death to that of George Floyd, and while the coroner ruled his death a homicide, former Alameda County District Attorney Nancy O’Malley initially declined to file charges. Like Jenkins, she \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13920004/zumbi-homicide-investigation-criminal-charges\">reopened the investigation\u003c/a>, which is still ongoing, after a massive public outcry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These cases illustrate the difficulty of holding private security guards accountable for violence. Unlike police, their conduct is not public record, making it possible for the powerful, multinational corporations that employ them to make allegations disappear.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many San Franciscans say they care about LGBTQ+ rights and racial justice, and Brown’s death shows that these issues run so much deeper than representation in entertainment and electoral politics. It means creating a city where all of us can live in dignity. Mayor Breed \u003ca href=\"https://sfmayor.org/article/mayor-london-breed-announces-plan-end-trans-homelessness-2027\">vowed to end trans homelessness by 2027\u003c/a>. Right now, we’re far from it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As one of Banko Brown’s supporters said during public comment at the May 2 San Francisco Board of Supervisors meeting, “The shit that’s being put on is a front. San Francisco is a front.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-12127869\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/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=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Banko Brown’s family is \u003ca href=\"https://www.gofundme.com/f/in-memory-and-support-for-banko-brown\">seeking support on GoFundMe\u003c/a>. Follow the \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/young_women_free/\">Young Women’s Freedom Center\u003c/a> for calls to action. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story was updated to include the result of the Board of Supervisors’ May 9 vote. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\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\">S\u003c/span>an Francisco has long positioned itself as a progressive foil for the rest of the country, especially in the realm of LGBTQ+ rights. And while red states scramble to pass increasingly hateful anti-trans laws, California has become a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11929233/california-becomes-first-sanctuary-state-for-transgender-youth-seeking-medical-care\">sanctuary state for trans youth healthcare\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>LGBTQ+ culture and history is rich and deep here. We have San Francisco’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13901451/the-worlds-first-transgender-district-creates-a-support-system-in-san-francisco\">Transgender Cultural District\u003c/a>, the first of its kind in the world, tons of trans-inclusive nightlife spaces and a number of beloved, influential queer and trans folks in politics and the arts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But undercutting all of that is a sheer disregard — and sometimes utter disdain — for this city’s poorest residents, a disproportionate number of whom are LGBTQ+. If San Francisco wants to live up to its progressive ideals, Banko Brown’s life must be treated like it actually mattered.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13928880\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13928880\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/banko-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/banko-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/banko-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/banko-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/banko-768x432.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/banko.jpg 1392w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Banko Brown. \u003ccite>(GoFundMe/Illustration by Gabe Meline)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Brown was a 24-year-old trans man shot and killed by a downtown Walgreens security guard, Michael Earle-Wayne Anthony, on April 27 on Market Street. San Francisco police have told reporters that Brown was suspected of shoplifting, and that he was unarmed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Anthony was arrested, jailed and released three days later, when District Attorney Brooke Jenkins declined to file charges, claiming that the security guard acted in self-defense. But given the fact that Brown had no weapons on him, and that a \u003ca href=\"https://missionlocal.org/2023/05/walgreens-banko-brown-michael-earl-wayne-anthony-video/\">witness told Mission Local\u003c/a> that Anthony followed Brown outside and shot him in the chest, Jenkins’ decision has come under public scrutiny. On Monday, after pressure grew stronger, the DA asked the San Francisco Police Department to reopen the investigation. \u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brown’s family and supporters are urging Jenkins to release the video of the shooting. (On May 9, San Francisco’s Board of Supervisors unanimously \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11948964/san-francisco-supervisors-raise-pressure-on-da-to-release-video-of-banko-brown-killing\">passed a resolution asking Jenkins to release evidence\u003c/a>.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brown’s death is a gross illustration of the cruelty permeating San Francisco, a supposedly inclusive beacon. Brown was said to be homeless or housing insecure for the past 10 years, since he was 14 years old. This is a sadly common predicament for LGBTQ+ youth, especially trans youth, whose homelessness rates hover at close to 40%, often because of family rejection, according to a \u003ca href=\"https://www.thetrevorproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/Trevor-Project-Homelessness-Report.pdf\">2021 national survey from the Trevor Project\u003c/a>. According to Mayor London Breed’s office, trans and gender-nonconforming people are \u003ca href=\"https://sf.gov/news/mayor-london-breed-announces-housing-subsidies-transgender-and-gender-nonconforming\">18 times more likely to experience homelessness\u003c/a> than the rest of the population.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13928894\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13928894\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/009_KQED_WalgreensBankoBrown_05092023-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/009_KQED_WalgreensBankoBrown_05092023-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/009_KQED_WalgreensBankoBrown_05092023-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/009_KQED_WalgreensBankoBrown_05092023-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/009_KQED_WalgreensBankoBrown_05092023-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/009_KQED_WalgreensBankoBrown_05092023-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/009_KQED_WalgreensBankoBrown_05092023.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">People walk past a memorial for Banko Brown outside of a Walgreens in San Francisco on May 9, 2023, where he was shot to death by a store security guard on April 27. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Sleeping on the street, as Brown — himself an advocate for trans rights at the \u003ca href=\"https://youngwomenfree.org/?gad=1&gclid=CjwKCAjw3ueiBhBmEiwA4BhspFyWOPlBO4kg2BS_6QPxZkEfYbJWTv-dijgkNYWCb9kWJb6kZ0DrVhoCpZwQAvD_BwE\">Young Women’s Freedom Center\u003c/a> — was said to have done recently, puts individuals in grave danger of violence. And being in moment-to-moment survival mode makes it incredibly challenging to access the labyrinthian bureaucracy of social services, let alone earn enough income to rent a room in San Francisco or the greater Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite enormous structural problems — primarily the astronomical gap between the average rent and minimum wage — that make it difficult for poor San Franciscans to hold on to their housing, there’s a pervasively condescending attitude towards homelessness among the public. Many otherwise thoughtful people view this visible suffering as an inconvenience to the housed, rather than a human rights violation we step over and shun everyday. \u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As wealth inequality and homelessness rates continue to grow, it’s inevitable that more people will steal for survival. And as the privileged among us continue to fixate on property crime and ignore root causes, more corporations like Walgreens will employ armed security guards to protect their property. (On the topic of of stealing, Walgreens \u003ca href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/dec/07/want-to-be-a-criminal-in-america-stealing-billions-is-your-best-bet-to-go-scot-free\">recently paid $4.5 million\u003c/a> in a wage settlement with 2,650 California employees.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Coupled with the news that, in New York during the same week, a homeless cis Black man, Jordan Neely, was \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/04/opinion/jordan-neely-killed.html\">killed by a vigilante for making a disturbance on a train\u003c/a>, it’s easy to imagine a future with more Banko Browns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13928897\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13928897\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/001_KQED_WalgreensBankoBrown_05092023-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/001_KQED_WalgreensBankoBrown_05092023-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/001_KQED_WalgreensBankoBrown_05092023-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/001_KQED_WalgreensBankoBrown_05092023-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/001_KQED_WalgreensBankoBrown_05092023-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/001_KQED_WalgreensBankoBrown_05092023-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/001_KQED_WalgreensBankoBrown_05092023.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A poster with a photo of Banko Brown says, ‘Gone But Never Forgotten’ on a fence outside of a Walgreens in San Francisco on May 9, 2023, where he was shot to death by a store security guard on April 27. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Although activist movements have made gains towards police accountability over the past decade, the role of private security in violent oppression has largely gone unaddressed. Brown’s death calls to mind the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13920198/zumbi-zion-i-improper-restraint-at-hospital\">ongoing fight for justice for beloved Oakland hip-hop artist Zumbi\u003c/a>, who died after Alta Bates hospital staff and Allied Universal security guards piled on top of him while he was in treatment for a mental health crisis. His family’s lawyer compared his manner of death to that of George Floyd, and while the coroner ruled his death a homicide, former Alameda County District Attorney Nancy O’Malley initially declined to file charges. Like Jenkins, she \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13920004/zumbi-homicide-investigation-criminal-charges\">reopened the investigation\u003c/a>, which is still ongoing, after a massive public outcry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These cases illustrate the difficulty of holding private security guards accountable for violence. Unlike police, their conduct is not public record, making it possible for the powerful, multinational corporations that employ them to make allegations disappear.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many San Franciscans say they care about LGBTQ+ rights and racial justice, and Brown’s death shows that these issues run so much deeper than representation in entertainment and electoral politics. It means creating a city where all of us can live in dignity. Mayor Breed \u003ca href=\"https://sfmayor.org/article/mayor-london-breed-announces-plan-end-trans-homelessness-2027\">vowed to end trans homelessness by 2027\u003c/a>. Right now, we’re far from it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As one of Banko Brown’s supporters said during public comment at the May 2 San Francisco Board of Supervisors meeting, “The shit that’s being put on is a front. San Francisco is a front.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-12127869\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/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=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Banko Brown’s family is \u003ca href=\"https://www.gofundme.com/f/in-memory-and-support-for-banko-brown\">seeking support on GoFundMe\u003c/a>. Follow the \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/young_women_free/\">Young Women’s Freedom Center\u003c/a> for calls to action. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story was updated to include the result of the Board of Supervisors’ May 9 vote. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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He was 91.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Strachwitz, recipient in 2016 of a Grammy Trustee Award, passed away Friday from complications with congestive heart failure at an assisted living facility in the San Francisco Bay Area’s Marin County, the Arhoolie Foundation said Saturday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Admired by Bob Dylan, Bonnie Raitt and many others, Strachwitz was an unlikely champion of the American vernacular — a native German born into privilege who fell deeply for his adopted country’s music and was among the most intrepid field recorders to emerge after Alan Lomax.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID='forum_2010101854728']He founded Arhoolie in 1960 and over the following decades traveled to Mississippi, Texas and Louisiana among other states on a mission that rarely relented: taping little-known artists in their home environments, be it a dance hall, a front porch, a beer joint, a backyard.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My stuff isn’t produced. 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An Arhoolie 50-year anniversary box set featured Maria Muldaur, Taj Mahal, Savoy Family Band and Cooder, who would cite the Arhoolie release \u003cem>Mississippi’s Big Joe Williams and His Nine-String Guitar\u003c/em> as an early inspiration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It just jumped out of the speaker on this little school record player,” Cooder told NPR in 2013, adding that he decided “once and for all” to become a musician. “I’m gonna do this, too. I’m gonna get good on guitar, and I’m gonna play it like that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID='arts_13883253']Strachwitz despised most commercial music — “mouse music,” he called it — but he did have just enough success to keep Arhoolie going. In the mid-1960s, he recorded an album in his living room for no charge by Berkeley-based folk performer Joe McDonald, who in turn granted publishing rights to Arhoolie. By 1969, McDonald was leading Country Joe McDonald and the Fish and one song from the Arhoolie sessions, the anti-war anthem “I-Feel-Like-I’m-Fixin’-to-Die Rag,” was a highlight of the Woodstock festival and soundtrack.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Arhoolie releases were cherished by blues fans in England, including Keith Richards of the Rolling Stones. Around the same time Strachwitz met with McDonald, he taped more than a dozen songs by bluesman “Mississippi” Fred McDowell, including McDowell’s version of an old spiritual, “You Gotta Move.” The Stones sang a few lines from it during the 1970 documentary \u003cem>Gimme Shelter\u003c/em> and recorded a cover that appeared on their acclaimed 1971 album \u003cem>Sticky Fingers\u003c/em>. Strachwitz prevailed over the resistance of the band’s lawyers and ensured that royalties were given to McDowell, who was dying of cancer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was able to give Fred McDowell the biggest check he’d ever seen in his life,” Strachwitz later said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 1993, Arhoolie was boosted again when country star Alan Jackson had a hit with “Mercury Blues,” a song co-written and first performed by K.C. Douglas for the label.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Besides his Grammy, Strachwitz received a lifetime achievement award from the Blues Symposium and was inducted as a non-performing member of the Blues Hall of Fame. In 1995, Strachwitz established the Arhoolie Foundation to “document, preserve, present and disseminate authentic traditional and regional vernacular music,” with advisers including Dylan, Bonnie Raitt and Linda Ronstadt. In 2016, Strachwitz sold his majority interest in the record label to Smithsonian Folkways Recordings, part of the national museum in Washington.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The ripple effect of Chris Strachwitz in the world of is immeasurable in preserving this music,” Raitt, a longtime friend, told the podcast \u003cem>The Kitchen Sisters Present\u003c/em> in 2019.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID='arts_10142164']The son of wealthy farm owners, he was born Count Christian Alexander Maria Strachwitz in the German region of Silesia, now part of Poland. His family, displaced at the end of World War II, moved to the United States in 1947, eventually settling in Santa Barbara, California. Strachwitz had already been exposed to swing overseas through Armed Forces Radio and became a jazz fan after seeing the movie \u003cem>New Orleans\u003c/em>, a 1947 musical featuring Louis Armstrong and Billie Holiday. 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Some of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.wga.org/uploadedfiles/members/member_info/contract-2023/WGA_proposals.pdf\">sticking points include\u003c/a> questions over staffing levels for new TV programs and income from episodes aired on streaming services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since the strike kicked off Tuesday, hundreds of writers have picketed in the Los Angeles area and in New York, outside the studios and offices of Netflix, NBCUniversal, Disney, Sony, Paramount, Warner Bros. and others.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among the signs were jokes about the artificial intelligence service \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2023/02/02/1152481564/we-asked-the-new-ai-to-do-some-simple-rocket-science-it-crashed-and-burned\">ChatGPT\u003c/a>, the wealth of studio executives and many, many references to the HBO hit \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2023/03/22/1165032183/succession-season-4-review\">\u003cem>Succession\u003c/em>\u003c/a>. 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Signs read: \"Writers Guild of America on Strike!\" and \"Without writers, Meredith Grey would not be a surgeon, no students could attend Abbot Elementary and Logan Roy would be alive!\"' width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/gettyimages-1252543810_slide-577c834bf47c4906e7f520c00d90048464f68ca8-scaled-e1683304555714-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/gettyimages-1252543810_slide-577c834bf47c4906e7f520c00d90048464f68ca8-scaled-e1683304555714-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/gettyimages-1252543810_slide-577c834bf47c4906e7f520c00d90048464f68ca8-scaled-e1683304555714-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/gettyimages-1252543810_slide-577c834bf47c4906e7f520c00d90048464f68ca8-scaled-e1683304555714-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/gettyimages-1252543810_slide-577c834bf47c4906e7f520c00d90048464f68ca8-scaled-e1683304555714-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/gettyimages-1252543810_slide-577c834bf47c4906e7f520c00d90048464f68ca8-scaled-e1683304555714.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A picketer at Paramount Studios in Los Angeles carries a sign with references to the television shows ‘Grey’s Anatomy,’ ‘Abbott Elementary’ and ‘Succession.’ \u003ccite>(VALERIE MACON/AFP via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/NazaninNour/status/1653916450858446848\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13928705\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13928705\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/wga2_slide-5485825442cc50113380e33d2a19111e2c593fb6-scaled-e1683304610284-800x533.jpg\" alt='Protesters on picket lines carry signs that read: \"Succession without writers is just The Apprentice — and look how well that turned out\" and \"Wrote ChatGPT This.\"' width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/wga2_slide-5485825442cc50113380e33d2a19111e2c593fb6-scaled-e1683304610284-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/wga2_slide-5485825442cc50113380e33d2a19111e2c593fb6-scaled-e1683304610284-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/wga2_slide-5485825442cc50113380e33d2a19111e2c593fb6-scaled-e1683304610284-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/wga2_slide-5485825442cc50113380e33d2a19111e2c593fb6-scaled-e1683304610284-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/wga2_slide-5485825442cc50113380e33d2a19111e2c593fb6-scaled-e1683304610284-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/wga2_slide-5485825442cc50113380e33d2a19111e2c593fb6-scaled-e1683304610284.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">On left, a picket sign outside Netflix headquarters in Hollywood. 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One holds up a sign reading: \"I told ChatGPT to write a picket sign and it sucked.\"' width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/ap23123731722844_slide-ef6ba136fb3116c851e9b8d73aa76ae9926e712a-scaled-e1683305121407-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/ap23123731722844_slide-ef6ba136fb3116c851e9b8d73aa76ae9926e712a-scaled-e1683305121407-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/ap23123731722844_slide-ef6ba136fb3116c851e9b8d73aa76ae9926e712a-scaled-e1683305121407-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/ap23123731722844_slide-ef6ba136fb3116c851e9b8d73aa76ae9926e712a-scaled-e1683305121407-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/ap23123731722844_slide-ef6ba136fb3116c851e9b8d73aa76ae9926e712a-scaled-e1683305121407-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/ap23123731722844_slide-ef6ba136fb3116c851e9b8d73aa76ae9926e712a-scaled-e1683305121407.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A WGA protest outside the Netflix headquarters in New York City. \u003ccite>(AP Photo/Stefan Jeremiah)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/marinarachael/status/1653560546405515264\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">\u003cem>Copyright 2023 NPR. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2023/05/03/1173552824/what-writers-strike-means-for-viewers\">The standoff\u003c/a> could last months and shut down Hollywood production. (The \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2023/05/03/1173439467/writers-guild-strike-2023-comparison-2007\">last writers’ strike\u003c/a> lasted from November 2007 into February 2008.) Some of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.wga.org/uploadedfiles/members/member_info/contract-2023/WGA_proposals.pdf\">sticking points include\u003c/a> questions over staffing levels for new TV programs and income from episodes aired on streaming services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since the strike kicked off Tuesday, hundreds of writers have picketed in the Los Angeles area and in New York, outside the studios and offices of Netflix, NBCUniversal, Disney, Sony, Paramount, Warner Bros. and others.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among the signs were jokes about the artificial intelligence service \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2023/02/02/1152481564/we-asked-the-new-ai-to-do-some-simple-rocket-science-it-crashed-and-burned\">ChatGPT\u003c/a>, the wealth of studio executives and many, many references to the HBO hit \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2023/03/22/1165032183/succession-season-4-review\">\u003cem>Succession\u003c/em>\u003c/a>. Here are some of our favorites:\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13928704\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13928704\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/gettyimages-1252543810_slide-577c834bf47c4906e7f520c00d90048464f68ca8-scaled-e1683304555714-800x533.jpg\" alt='Protesters on a picket line. Signs read: \"Writers Guild of America on Strike!\" and \"Without writers, Meredith Grey would not be a surgeon, no students could attend Abbot Elementary and Logan Roy would be alive!\"' width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/gettyimages-1252543810_slide-577c834bf47c4906e7f520c00d90048464f68ca8-scaled-e1683304555714-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/gettyimages-1252543810_slide-577c834bf47c4906e7f520c00d90048464f68ca8-scaled-e1683304555714-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/gettyimages-1252543810_slide-577c834bf47c4906e7f520c00d90048464f68ca8-scaled-e1683304555714-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/gettyimages-1252543810_slide-577c834bf47c4906e7f520c00d90048464f68ca8-scaled-e1683304555714-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/gettyimages-1252543810_slide-577c834bf47c4906e7f520c00d90048464f68ca8-scaled-e1683304555714-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/gettyimages-1252543810_slide-577c834bf47c4906e7f520c00d90048464f68ca8-scaled-e1683304555714.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A picketer at Paramount Studios in Los Angeles carries a sign with references to the television shows ‘Grey’s Anatomy,’ ‘Abbott Elementary’ and ‘Succession.’ \u003ccite>(VALERIE MACON/AFP via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Harry Belafonte, the civil rights and entertainment giant who began as a groundbreaking actor and singer and became an activist, humanitarian and conscience of the world, has died. He was 96.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Belafonte died Tuesday of congestive heart failure at his New York home, his wife Pamela by his side, said Ken Sunshine, of public relations firm Sunshine Sachs Morgan & Lylis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With his glowing, handsome face and silky-husky voice, Belafonte was one of the first Black performers to gain a wide following on film and to sell a million records as a singer; many still know him for his signature hit “\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H5dpBWlRANE\">Banana Boat Song (Day-O)\u003c/a>,” and its call of “Day-O! Daaaaay-O.” But he forged a greater legacy once he scaled back his performing career in the 1960s and lived out his hero Paul Robeson’s decree that artists are “gatekeepers of truth.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H5dpBWlRANE\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He stands as the model and the epitome of the celebrity activist. Few kept up with Belafonte’s time and commitment and none his stature as a meeting point among Hollywood, Washington and the civil rights movement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Belafonte not only participated in protest marches and benefit concerts, but helped organize and raise support for them. He worked closely with his friend and generational peer the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., often intervening on his behalf with both politicians and fellow entertainers and helping him financially. He risked his life and livelihood and set high standards for younger Black celebrities, scolding Jay Z and Beyoncé for failing to meet their “social responsibilities,” and mentoring Usher, Common, Danny Glover and many others. In Spike Lee’s 2018 film \u003cem>BlacKkKlansman\u003c/em>, he was fittingly cast as an elder statesman schooling young activists about the country’s past.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Belafonte’s friend, civil rights leader Andrew Young, would note that Belafonte was the rare person to grow more radical with age. He was ever engaged and unyielding, willing to take on Southern segregationists, Northern liberals, the billionaire Koch brothers and the country’s first Black president, Barack Obama, whom Belafonte would remember asking to cut him “some slack.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Belafonte responded, “What makes you think that’s not what I’ve been doing?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13928238\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/04/GettyImages-621734964-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13928238\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/04/GettyImages-621734964-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/04/GettyImages-621734964-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/04/GettyImages-621734964-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/04/GettyImages-621734964-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/04/GettyImages-621734964.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Harry Belafonte attends the 2016 Library Lions gala at New York Public Library on November 7, 2016 in New York City. \u003ccite>(Gary Gershoff/WireImage)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Belafonte had been a major artist since the 1950s. He won a Tony Award in 1954 for his starring role in John Murray Anderson’s \u003cem>Almanac\u003c/em> and five years later became the first Black performer to win an Emmy for the TV special “Tonight with Harry Belafonte.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 1954, he co-starred with Dorothy Dandridge in the Otto Preminger-directed musical \u003cem>Carmen Jones\u003c/em>, a popular breakthrough for an all-Black cast. The 1957 movie \u003cem>Island in the Sun\u003c/em> was banned in several Southern cities, where theater owners were threatened by the Ku Klux Klan because of the film’s interracial romance between Belafonte and Joan Fontaine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His \u003cem>Calypso\u003c/em>, released in 1955, became the first officially certified million-selling album by a solo performer, and started a national infatuation with Caribbean rhythms (Belafonte was nicknamed, reluctantly, the “King of Calypso″). Admirers of Belafonte included a young Bob Dylan, who debuted on record in the early ’60s by playing harmonica on Belafonte’s “\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sRVlYpDAOEI\">Midnight Special\u003c/a>.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Harry was the best balladeer in the land and everybody knew it,” Dylan later wrote. “He was a fantastic artist, sang about lovers and slaves — chain gang workers, saints and sinners and children. … Harry was that rare type of character that radiates greatness, and you hope that some of it rubs off on you.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kMXBJW1PuU8\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Belafonte befriended King in the spring of 1956 after the young civil rights leader called and asked for a meeting. They spoke for hours, and Belafonte would remember feeling King raised him to the “higher plane of social protest.” Then at the peak of his singing career, Belafonte was soon producing a benefit concert for the bus boycott in Montgomery, Alabama that helped make King a national figure. By the early 1960s, he had decided to make civil rights his priority.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was having almost daily talks with Martin,” Belafonte wrote in his memoir \u003cem>My Song\u003c/em>, published in 2011. “I realized that the movement was more important than anything else.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Kennedys were among the first politicians to seek his opinions, which he willingly shared. John F. Kennedy, at a time when Blacks were as likely to vote for Republicans as for Democrats, was so anxious for his support that during the 1960 election he visited Belafonte at his Manhattan home. Belafonte schooled Kennedy on the importance of King, and arranged for them to speak.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was quite taken by the fact that he (Kennedy) knew so little about the Black community,” Belafonte told NBC in 2013. “He knew the headlines of the day, but he wasn’t really anywhere nuanced or detailed on the depth of Black anguish or what our struggle’s really about.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Belafonte would often criticize the Kennedys for their reluctance to challenge the Southern segregationists who were then a substantial part of the Democratic Party. He argued with Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy, the president’s brother, over the government’s failure to protect the “Freedom Riders” trying to integrate bus stations. He was among the Black activists at a widely publicized meeting with the attorney general, when playwright Lorraine Hansberry and others stunned Kennedy by questioning whether the country even deserved Black allegiance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Bobby turned red at that. I had never seen him so shaken,” Belafonte later wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13928235\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/04/GettyImages-3226639-800x652.jpg\" alt=\"Two Black men in the 1960s dressed in formal evening wear.\" width=\"800\" height=\"652\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13928235\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/04/GettyImages-3226639-800x652.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/04/GettyImages-3226639-1020x831.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/04/GettyImages-3226639-160x130.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/04/GettyImages-3226639-768x626.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/04/GettyImages-3226639.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">American actor and singer Harry Belafonte with American actor Sidney Poitier at the New York premiere of director George Stevens’ film, ‘The Greatest Story Ever Told,’ in which Poitier starred, New York City, circa 1965. \u003ccite>(Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In 1963, Belafonte was deeply involved with the March on Washington. He recruited his close friend Sidney Poitier, Paul Newman and other celebrities and persuaded the left-wing Marlon Brando to co-chair the Hollywood delegation with the more conservative Charlton Heston, a pairing designed to appeal to the broadest possible audience. In 1964, he and Poitier personally delivered tens of thousands of dollar to activists in Mississippi after three “Freedom Summer” volunteers were murdered — the two celebrities were chased by car at one point by members of the KKK. The following year, he brought in Tony Bennett, Joan Baez and other singers to perform for the marchers in Selma, Alabama.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When King was assassinated, in 1968, Belafonte helped pick out the suit he was buried in, sat next to his widow, Coretta, at the funeral, and continued to support his family, in part through an insurance policy he had taken out on King in his lifetime.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Much of my political outlook was already in place when I encountered Dr. King,” Belafonte later wrote. “I was well on my way and utterly committed to the civil rights struggle. I came to him with expectations and he affirmed them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>King’s death left Belafonte isolated from the civil rights community. He was turned off by the separatist beliefs of Stokely Carmichael and other “Black Power” activists and had little chemistry with King’s designated successor, the Rev. Ralph Abernathy. But the entertainer’s causes extended well beyond the U.S.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He mentored South African singer and activist Miriam Makeba and helped introduce her to American audiences, the two winning a Grammy in 1964 for the concert record \u003cem>An Evening With Belafonte/Makeba\u003c/em>. He coordinated Nelson Mandela’s first visit to the U.S. since being released from prison in 1990. A few years earlier, he initiated the all-star, million-selling “We Are the World” recording, the Grammy-winning charity song for famine relief in Africa.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Belafonte’s early life and career paralleled those of Poitier, who died in 2022. Both spent part of their childhoods in the Caribbean and ended up in New York. Both served in the military during World War II, acted in the American Negro Theatre and then broke into film. Poitier shared his belief in civil rights, but still dedicated much of his time to acting, a source of some tension between them. While Poitier had a sustained and historic run in the 1960s as a leading man and box office success, Belafonte grew tired of acting and turned down parts he regarded as “neutered.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Sidney radiated a truly saintly dignity and calm. Not me,” Belafonte wrote in his memoir. “I didn’t want to tone down my sexuality, either. Sidney did that in every role he took.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13928231\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/04/GettyImages-883555460-800x514.jpg\" alt=\"A man in a dark jacket holds up a peace sign against overhead wires\" width=\"800\" height=\"514\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13928231\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/04/GettyImages-883555460-800x514.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/04/GettyImages-883555460-1020x655.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/04/GettyImages-883555460-160x103.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/04/GettyImages-883555460-768x494.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/04/GettyImages-883555460.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Harry Belafonte joins more than 300,000 people in the hitherto biggest peace demonstration in Germany, October 1981. \u003ccite>(Klaus Roseullstein bild via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Belafonte was very much a human being. He acknowledged extra-marital affairs, negligence as a parent and a frightening temper, driven by lifelong insecurity. “Woe to the musician who missed his cue, or the agent who fouled up a booking,” he confided.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In his memoir, he chastised Poitier for a “radical breach″ by backing out on a commitment to star as Mandela in a TV miniseries Belafonte had conceived, then agreeing to play Mandela for a rival production. He became so estranged from King’s widow and children that he was not asked to speak at her funeral. In 2013, he sued three of King’s children over control of some of the civil rights leader’s personal papers. In his memoir, he would allege that the King children were more interested in “selling trinkets and memorabilia” than in serious thought.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He made news years earlier when he compared Colin Powell, the first Black secretary of state, to a slave “permitted to come into the house of the master” for his service in the George W. Bush administration. He was in Washington in January 2009 as Obama was inaugurated, officiating along with Baez and others at a gala called the Inaugural Peace Ball. But Belafonte would later criticize Obama for failing to live up to his promise and lacking “fundamental empathy with the dispossessed, be they white or Black.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Belafonte did occasionally serve in government, as cultural adviser for the Peace Corps during the Kennedy administration and decades later as goodwill ambassador for UNICEF. For his film and music career, he received the motion picture academy’s Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award, a National Medal of Arts, a Grammy for lifetime achievement and numerous other honorary prizes. He found special pleasure in winning a New York Film Critics Award in 1996 for his work as a gangster in Robert Altman’s \u003cem>Kansas City\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m as proud of that film critics’ award as I am of all my gold records,” he wrote in his memoir.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He was married three times, most recently to photographer Pamela Frank, and had four children. Three of them — Shari, David and Gina — became actors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zh1ow6zKapQ\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Harry Belafonte was born Harold George Bellanfanti Jr. in 1927, in a community of West Indians in Harlem. His father was a seaman and cook with Dutch and Jamaican ancestry and his mother, part Scottish, worked as a domestic. Both parents were undocumented immigrants and Belafonte recalled living “an underground life, as criminals of a sort, on the run.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The household was violent: Belafonte sustained brutal beatings from his father, and he was sent to live for several years with relatives in Jamaica. Belafonte was a poor reader — he was probably dyslexic, he later realized — and dropped out of high school, soon joining the Navy. While in the service, he read \u003cem>Color and Democracy\u003c/em> by the Black scholar W.E.B. Du Bois and was deeply affected, calling it the start of his political education.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the war, he found a job in New York as an assistant janitor for some apartment buildings. One tenant liked him enough to give him free tickets to a play at the American Negro Theatre, a community repertory for black performers. Belafonte was so impressed that he joined as a volunteer, then as an actor. Poitier was a peer, both of them “skinny, brooding and vulnerable within our hard shells of self-protection,” Belafonte later wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Belafonte met Brando, Walter Matthau and other future stars while taking acting classes at the New School for Social Research. Brando was an inspiration as an actor, and he and Belafonte became close, sometimes riding on Brando’s motorcycle or double dating or playing congas together at parties. Over the years, Belafonte’s political and artistic lives would lead to friendships with everyone from Frank Sinatra and Lester Young to Eleanor Roosevelt and Fidel Castro.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13928230\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/04/GettyImages-50409742-800x779.jpg\" alt=\"A man in a suit stands against a brick building in the 1960s\" width=\"800\" height=\"779\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13928230\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/04/GettyImages-50409742-800x779.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/04/GettyImages-50409742-1020x993.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/04/GettyImages-50409742-160x156.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/04/GettyImages-50409742-768x748.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/04/GettyImages-50409742.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Singer Harry Belafonte in his film debut as Mr. Williams, School Principal, in ‘Bright Road.’ \u003ccite>(John Swope/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>His early stage credits included \u003cem>Days of Our Youth\u003c/em> and Sean O’Casey’s \u003cem>Juno and the Peacock\u003c/em>, a play Belafonte remembered less because of his own performance than because of a backstage visitor, Robeson, the actor, singer and activist.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What I remember more than anything Robeson said, was the love he radiated, and the profound responsibility he felt, as an actor, to use his platform as a bully pulpit,″ Belafonte wrote in his memoir. His friendship with Robeson and support for left-wing causes eventually brought trouble from the government. FBI agents visited him at home and allegations of Communism nearly cost him an appearance on \u003cem>The Ed Sullivan Show\u003c/em>. Leftists suspected, and Belafonte emphatically denied, that he had named names of suspected Communists so he could perform on Sullivan’s show.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By the 1950s, Belafonte was also singing, finding gigs at the Blue Note, the Vanguard and other clubs — he was backed for one performance by Charlie Parker and Max Roach — and becoming immersed in folk, blues, jazz and the calypso he had heard while living in Jamaica. Starting in 1954, he released such top 10 albums as \u003cem>Mark Twain and Other Folk Favorites\u003c/em> and \u003cem>Belafonte\u003c/em>, and his popular singles included “Mathilda,” “Jamaica Farewell″ and “The Banana Boat Song,” a reworked Caribbean ballad that was a late addition to his “Calypso″ record.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We found ourselves one or two songs short, so we threw in `Day-O’ as filler,″ Belafonte wrote in his memoir.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DYYkJ0kwNss\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He was a superstar, but one criticized, and occasionally sued, for taking traditional material and not sharing the profits. Belafonte expressed regret and also worried about being typecast as a calypso singer, declining for years to sing “Day-O″ live after he gave television performances against banana boat backdrops.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Belafonte was the rare young artist to think about the business side of show business. He started one of the first all-Black music publishing companies. He produced plays, movies and TV shows, including Off-Broadway’s \u003cem>To Be Young, Gifted, and Black\u003c/em>, in 1969. He was the first Black person to produce for TV.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Belafonte made history in 1968 by filling in for Johnny Carson on the “Tonight” show for a full week. Later that year, a simple, spontaneous gesture led to another milestone. Appearing on a taped TV special starring Petula Clark, Belafonte joined the British singer on the anti-war song “On the Path of Glory.” At one point, Clark placed a hand on Belafonte’s arm. The show’s sponsor, Chrysler, demanded the segment be reshot. Clark and Belafonte resisted, successfully, and for the first time a man and woman of different colors touched on national television.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the 1970s, he returned to movie acting, co-starring with Poitier in \u003cem>Buck and the Preacher\u003c/em>, a commercial flop, and the raucous and popular comedy \u003cem>Uptown Saturday Night\u003c/em>. His other film credits include \u003cem>Bobby\u003c/em>, \u003cem>White Man’s Burden\u003c/em>, and cameos in Altman’s \u003cem>The Player\u003c/em> and \u003cem>Ready to Wear\u003c/em>. He also appeared in the Altman-directed TV series \u003cem>Tanner on Tanner\u003c/em> and was among those interviewed for \u003cem>When the Levees Broke\u003c/em>, Spike Lee’s HBO documentary about Hurricane Katrina. In 2011, HBO aired a documentary about Belafonte, \u003cem>Sing Your Song\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mindful to the end that he grew up in poverty, Belafonte did not think of himself as an artist who became an activist, but an activist who happened to be an artist.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When you grow up, son,” Belafonte remembered his mother telling him, “never go to bed at night knowing that there was something you could have done during the day to strike a blow against injustice and you didn’t do it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to his wife, Belafonte is survived by his children Adrienne Belafonte Biesemeyer, Shari Belafonte, Gina Belafonte and David Belafonte; two stepchildren, Sarah Frank and Lindsey Frank; and eight grandchildren.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Belafonte not only participated in protest marches and benefit concerts, but helped organize and raise support for them. He worked closely with his friend and generational peer the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., often intervening on his behalf with both politicians and fellow entertainers and helping him financially. He risked his life and livelihood and set high standards for younger Black celebrities, scolding Jay Z and Beyoncé for failing to meet their “social responsibilities,” and mentoring Usher, Common, Danny Glover and many others. In Spike Lee’s 2018 film \u003cem>BlacKkKlansman\u003c/em>, he was fittingly cast as an elder statesman schooling young activists about the country’s past.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Belafonte’s friend, civil rights leader Andrew Young, would note that Belafonte was the rare person to grow more radical with age. He was ever engaged and unyielding, willing to take on Southern segregationists, Northern liberals, the billionaire Koch brothers and the country’s first Black president, Barack Obama, whom Belafonte would remember asking to cut him “some slack.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Belafonte responded, “What makes you think that’s not what I’ve been doing?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13928238\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/04/GettyImages-621734964-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13928238\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/04/GettyImages-621734964-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/04/GettyImages-621734964-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/04/GettyImages-621734964-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/04/GettyImages-621734964-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/04/GettyImages-621734964.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Harry Belafonte attends the 2016 Library Lions gala at New York Public Library on November 7, 2016 in New York City. \u003ccite>(Gary Gershoff/WireImage)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Belafonte had been a major artist since the 1950s. He won a Tony Award in 1954 for his starring role in John Murray Anderson’s \u003cem>Almanac\u003c/em> and five years later became the first Black performer to win an Emmy for the TV special “Tonight with Harry Belafonte.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 1954, he co-starred with Dorothy Dandridge in the Otto Preminger-directed musical \u003cem>Carmen Jones\u003c/em>, a popular breakthrough for an all-Black cast. The 1957 movie \u003cem>Island in the Sun\u003c/em> was banned in several Southern cities, where theater owners were threatened by the Ku Klux Klan because of the film’s interracial romance between Belafonte and Joan Fontaine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His \u003cem>Calypso\u003c/em>, released in 1955, became the first officially certified million-selling album by a solo performer, and started a national infatuation with Caribbean rhythms (Belafonte was nicknamed, reluctantly, the “King of Calypso″). Admirers of Belafonte included a young Bob Dylan, who debuted on record in the early ’60s by playing harmonica on Belafonte’s “\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sRVlYpDAOEI\">Midnight Special\u003c/a>.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Harry was the best balladeer in the land and everybody knew it,” Dylan later wrote. “He was a fantastic artist, sang about lovers and slaves — chain gang workers, saints and sinners and children. … Harry was that rare type of character that radiates greatness, and you hope that some of it rubs off on you.”\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/kMXBJW1PuU8'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/kMXBJW1PuU8'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>Belafonte befriended King in the spring of 1956 after the young civil rights leader called and asked for a meeting. They spoke for hours, and Belafonte would remember feeling King raised him to the “higher plane of social protest.” Then at the peak of his singing career, Belafonte was soon producing a benefit concert for the bus boycott in Montgomery, Alabama that helped make King a national figure. By the early 1960s, he had decided to make civil rights his priority.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was having almost daily talks with Martin,” Belafonte wrote in his memoir \u003cem>My Song\u003c/em>, published in 2011. “I realized that the movement was more important than anything else.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Kennedys were among the first politicians to seek his opinions, which he willingly shared. John F. Kennedy, at a time when Blacks were as likely to vote for Republicans as for Democrats, was so anxious for his support that during the 1960 election he visited Belafonte at his Manhattan home. Belafonte schooled Kennedy on the importance of King, and arranged for them to speak.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was quite taken by the fact that he (Kennedy) knew so little about the Black community,” Belafonte told NBC in 2013. “He knew the headlines of the day, but he wasn’t really anywhere nuanced or detailed on the depth of Black anguish or what our struggle’s really about.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Belafonte would often criticize the Kennedys for their reluctance to challenge the Southern segregationists who were then a substantial part of the Democratic Party. He argued with Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy, the president’s brother, over the government’s failure to protect the “Freedom Riders” trying to integrate bus stations. He was among the Black activists at a widely publicized meeting with the attorney general, when playwright Lorraine Hansberry and others stunned Kennedy by questioning whether the country even deserved Black allegiance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Bobby turned red at that. I had never seen him so shaken,” Belafonte later wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13928235\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/04/GettyImages-3226639-800x652.jpg\" alt=\"Two Black men in the 1960s dressed in formal evening wear.\" width=\"800\" height=\"652\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13928235\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/04/GettyImages-3226639-800x652.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/04/GettyImages-3226639-1020x831.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/04/GettyImages-3226639-160x130.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/04/GettyImages-3226639-768x626.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/04/GettyImages-3226639.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">American actor and singer Harry Belafonte with American actor Sidney Poitier at the New York premiere of director George Stevens’ film, ‘The Greatest Story Ever Told,’ in which Poitier starred, New York City, circa 1965. \u003ccite>(Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In 1963, Belafonte was deeply involved with the March on Washington. He recruited his close friend Sidney Poitier, Paul Newman and other celebrities and persuaded the left-wing Marlon Brando to co-chair the Hollywood delegation with the more conservative Charlton Heston, a pairing designed to appeal to the broadest possible audience. In 1964, he and Poitier personally delivered tens of thousands of dollar to activists in Mississippi after three “Freedom Summer” volunteers were murdered — the two celebrities were chased by car at one point by members of the KKK. The following year, he brought in Tony Bennett, Joan Baez and other singers to perform for the marchers in Selma, Alabama.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When King was assassinated, in 1968, Belafonte helped pick out the suit he was buried in, sat next to his widow, Coretta, at the funeral, and continued to support his family, in part through an insurance policy he had taken out on King in his lifetime.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Much of my political outlook was already in place when I encountered Dr. King,” Belafonte later wrote. “I was well on my way and utterly committed to the civil rights struggle. I came to him with expectations and he affirmed them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>King’s death left Belafonte isolated from the civil rights community. He was turned off by the separatist beliefs of Stokely Carmichael and other “Black Power” activists and had little chemistry with King’s designated successor, the Rev. Ralph Abernathy. But the entertainer’s causes extended well beyond the U.S.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He mentored South African singer and activist Miriam Makeba and helped introduce her to American audiences, the two winning a Grammy in 1964 for the concert record \u003cem>An Evening With Belafonte/Makeba\u003c/em>. He coordinated Nelson Mandela’s first visit to the U.S. since being released from prison in 1990. A few years earlier, he initiated the all-star, million-selling “We Are the World” recording, the Grammy-winning charity song for famine relief in Africa.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Belafonte’s early life and career paralleled those of Poitier, who died in 2022. Both spent part of their childhoods in the Caribbean and ended up in New York. Both served in the military during World War II, acted in the American Negro Theatre and then broke into film. Poitier shared his belief in civil rights, but still dedicated much of his time to acting, a source of some tension between them. While Poitier had a sustained and historic run in the 1960s as a leading man and box office success, Belafonte grew tired of acting and turned down parts he regarded as “neutered.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Sidney radiated a truly saintly dignity and calm. Not me,” Belafonte wrote in his memoir. “I didn’t want to tone down my sexuality, either. Sidney did that in every role he took.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13928231\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/04/GettyImages-883555460-800x514.jpg\" alt=\"A man in a dark jacket holds up a peace sign against overhead wires\" width=\"800\" height=\"514\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13928231\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/04/GettyImages-883555460-800x514.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/04/GettyImages-883555460-1020x655.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/04/GettyImages-883555460-160x103.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/04/GettyImages-883555460-768x494.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/04/GettyImages-883555460.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Harry Belafonte joins more than 300,000 people in the hitherto biggest peace demonstration in Germany, October 1981. \u003ccite>(Klaus Roseullstein bild via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Belafonte was very much a human being. He acknowledged extra-marital affairs, negligence as a parent and a frightening temper, driven by lifelong insecurity. “Woe to the musician who missed his cue, or the agent who fouled up a booking,” he confided.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In his memoir, he chastised Poitier for a “radical breach″ by backing out on a commitment to star as Mandela in a TV miniseries Belafonte had conceived, then agreeing to play Mandela for a rival production. He became so estranged from King’s widow and children that he was not asked to speak at her funeral. In 2013, he sued three of King’s children over control of some of the civil rights leader’s personal papers. In his memoir, he would allege that the King children were more interested in “selling trinkets and memorabilia” than in serious thought.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He made news years earlier when he compared Colin Powell, the first Black secretary of state, to a slave “permitted to come into the house of the master” for his service in the George W. Bush administration. He was in Washington in January 2009 as Obama was inaugurated, officiating along with Baez and others at a gala called the Inaugural Peace Ball. But Belafonte would later criticize Obama for failing to live up to his promise and lacking “fundamental empathy with the dispossessed, be they white or Black.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Belafonte did occasionally serve in government, as cultural adviser for the Peace Corps during the Kennedy administration and decades later as goodwill ambassador for UNICEF. For his film and music career, he received the motion picture academy’s Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award, a National Medal of Arts, a Grammy for lifetime achievement and numerous other honorary prizes. He found special pleasure in winning a New York Film Critics Award in 1996 for his work as a gangster in Robert Altman’s \u003cem>Kansas City\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m as proud of that film critics’ award as I am of all my gold records,” he wrote in his memoir.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He was married three times, most recently to photographer Pamela Frank, and had four children. Three of them — Shari, David and Gina — became actors.\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/Zh1ow6zKapQ'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/Zh1ow6zKapQ'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>Harry Belafonte was born Harold George Bellanfanti Jr. in 1927, in a community of West Indians in Harlem. His father was a seaman and cook with Dutch and Jamaican ancestry and his mother, part Scottish, worked as a domestic. Both parents were undocumented immigrants and Belafonte recalled living “an underground life, as criminals of a sort, on the run.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The household was violent: Belafonte sustained brutal beatings from his father, and he was sent to live for several years with relatives in Jamaica. Belafonte was a poor reader — he was probably dyslexic, he later realized — and dropped out of high school, soon joining the Navy. While in the service, he read \u003cem>Color and Democracy\u003c/em> by the Black scholar W.E.B. Du Bois and was deeply affected, calling it the start of his political education.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the war, he found a job in New York as an assistant janitor for some apartment buildings. One tenant liked him enough to give him free tickets to a play at the American Negro Theatre, a community repertory for black performers. Belafonte was so impressed that he joined as a volunteer, then as an actor. Poitier was a peer, both of them “skinny, brooding and vulnerable within our hard shells of self-protection,” Belafonte later wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Belafonte met Brando, Walter Matthau and other future stars while taking acting classes at the New School for Social Research. Brando was an inspiration as an actor, and he and Belafonte became close, sometimes riding on Brando’s motorcycle or double dating or playing congas together at parties. Over the years, Belafonte’s political and artistic lives would lead to friendships with everyone from Frank Sinatra and Lester Young to Eleanor Roosevelt and Fidel Castro.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13928230\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/04/GettyImages-50409742-800x779.jpg\" alt=\"A man in a suit stands against a brick building in the 1960s\" width=\"800\" height=\"779\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13928230\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/04/GettyImages-50409742-800x779.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/04/GettyImages-50409742-1020x993.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/04/GettyImages-50409742-160x156.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/04/GettyImages-50409742-768x748.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/04/GettyImages-50409742.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Singer Harry Belafonte in his film debut as Mr. Williams, School Principal, in ‘Bright Road.’ \u003ccite>(John Swope/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>His early stage credits included \u003cem>Days of Our Youth\u003c/em> and Sean O’Casey’s \u003cem>Juno and the Peacock\u003c/em>, a play Belafonte remembered less because of his own performance than because of a backstage visitor, Robeson, the actor, singer and activist.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What I remember more than anything Robeson said, was the love he radiated, and the profound responsibility he felt, as an actor, to use his platform as a bully pulpit,″ Belafonte wrote in his memoir. His friendship with Robeson and support for left-wing causes eventually brought trouble from the government. FBI agents visited him at home and allegations of Communism nearly cost him an appearance on \u003cem>The Ed Sullivan Show\u003c/em>. Leftists suspected, and Belafonte emphatically denied, that he had named names of suspected Communists so he could perform on Sullivan’s show.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By the 1950s, Belafonte was also singing, finding gigs at the Blue Note, the Vanguard and other clubs — he was backed for one performance by Charlie Parker and Max Roach — and becoming immersed in folk, blues, jazz and the calypso he had heard while living in Jamaica. Starting in 1954, he released such top 10 albums as \u003cem>Mark Twain and Other Folk Favorites\u003c/em> and \u003cem>Belafonte\u003c/em>, and his popular singles included “Mathilda,” “Jamaica Farewell″ and “The Banana Boat Song,” a reworked Caribbean ballad that was a late addition to his “Calypso″ record.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We found ourselves one or two songs short, so we threw in `Day-O’ as filler,″ Belafonte wrote in his memoir.\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/DYYkJ0kwNss'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/DYYkJ0kwNss'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>He was a superstar, but one criticized, and occasionally sued, for taking traditional material and not sharing the profits. Belafonte expressed regret and also worried about being typecast as a calypso singer, declining for years to sing “Day-O″ live after he gave television performances against banana boat backdrops.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Belafonte was the rare young artist to think about the business side of show business. He started one of the first all-Black music publishing companies. He produced plays, movies and TV shows, including Off-Broadway’s \u003cem>To Be Young, Gifted, and Black\u003c/em>, in 1969. He was the first Black person to produce for TV.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Belafonte made history in 1968 by filling in for Johnny Carson on the “Tonight” show for a full week. Later that year, a simple, spontaneous gesture led to another milestone. Appearing on a taped TV special starring Petula Clark, Belafonte joined the British singer on the anti-war song “On the Path of Glory.” At one point, Clark placed a hand on Belafonte’s arm. The show’s sponsor, Chrysler, demanded the segment be reshot. Clark and Belafonte resisted, successfully, and for the first time a man and woman of different colors touched on national television.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the 1970s, he returned to movie acting, co-starring with Poitier in \u003cem>Buck and the Preacher\u003c/em>, a commercial flop, and the raucous and popular comedy \u003cem>Uptown Saturday Night\u003c/em>. His other film credits include \u003cem>Bobby\u003c/em>, \u003cem>White Man’s Burden\u003c/em>, and cameos in Altman’s \u003cem>The Player\u003c/em> and \u003cem>Ready to Wear\u003c/em>. He also appeared in the Altman-directed TV series \u003cem>Tanner on Tanner\u003c/em> and was among those interviewed for \u003cem>When the Levees Broke\u003c/em>, Spike Lee’s HBO documentary about Hurricane Katrina. In 2011, HBO aired a documentary about Belafonte, \u003cem>Sing Your Song\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mindful to the end that he grew up in poverty, Belafonte did not think of himself as an artist who became an activist, but an activist who happened to be an artist.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When you grow up, son,” Belafonte remembered his mother telling him, “never go to bed at night knowing that there was something you could have done during the day to strike a blow against injustice and you didn’t do it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>In 1966, San Francisco drag queens and trans women who frequented Compton’s Cafeteria were fed up with police harassment. In those days, it was common for cops to brutalize gender nonconforming people and arrest them for crimes like “female impersonation.” One night, when police showed up at Compton’s and grabbed a trans woman’s arm, the patrons fought back — coffee cups went flying, purses clunked officers’ heads and a newsstand went ablaze.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This rebellion, and the one at New York’s Stonewall Inn three years later in 1969, set the stage for the modern-day LGBTQ+ rights movement. [aside postid='arts_11838357']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These days, in the age of rainbow corporate advertising at Pride, many (at least, in the Bay Area) have forgotten that queer visibility in mainstream spaces has not always been a given. But with \u003ca href=\"https://www.aclu.org/legislative-attacks-on-lgbtq-rights\">451 anti-LGBTQ+ bills\u003c/a> — most of them targeting trans rights — in statehouses nationwide this year alone, the conditions that led to the riot at Compton’s Cafeteria no longer feel like echoes from the distant past.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tennessee’s anti-drag law, the first of its kind in the nation, was \u003ca href=\"https://www.politico.com/news/2023/04/01/federal-judge-temporarily-blocks-tennessees-anti-drag-law-00090047\">temporarily blocked by a federal judge\u003c/a>, and its fate will be decided in court. Using the archaic language of the Compton’s Cafeteria days, it categorizes “male or female impersonators” as inherently explicit — akin to strippers, no matter the content of their performance — and bans them from performing on public property or in places where minors could be present. LGBTQ+ advocates have called the law overly broad, raising fears that it could become a pretext for policing gender nonconforming people’s right to simply exist in public — an eerie callback to norms from over half a century ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a sliding slope,” says Honey Mahogany, the San Francisco Democratic Party chair and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13901451/the-worlds-first-transgender-district-creates-a-support-system-in-san-francisco\">Transgender Cultural District\u003c/a> co-founder who first rose to prominence as a drag performer before entering politics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Along with Alex U. Inn, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13919897/san-francisco-arts-commission-juanita-more-30-years\">Juanita MORE!\u003c/a>, Oasis nightclub owner D’Arcy Drollinger and Sister Roma of the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, Mahogany is part of a coalition of drag activists organizing an upcoming march and rally called \u003ca href=\"https://www.mobilize.us/activateamerica/event/557263/\">Drag Up! Fight Back!\u003c/a> The protest kicks off this Saturday, April 8, at 11 a.m. outside San Francisco City Hall, and will move towards Union Square, where the day will finish with performances.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13899475\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13899475\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/010_SanFrancisco_PeoplesMarch_06272021-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/010_SanFrancisco_PeoplesMarch_06272021-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/010_SanFrancisco_PeoplesMarch_06272021-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/010_SanFrancisco_PeoplesMarch_06272021-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/010_SanFrancisco_PeoplesMarch_06272021-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/010_SanFrancisco_PeoplesMarch_06272021-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/010_SanFrancisco_PeoplesMarch_06272021.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">(From left) John Weber, Alex U. Inn, Juanita MORE! and Leandro Gonzales lead the People’s March and Rally in San Francisco on June 27, 2021. Inn and MORE! are two key organizers of Drag Up! Fight Back! \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“The LGBTQ community is not taking this lying down,” Mahogany says. “Drag queens will not be silenced and we will not go back to the closet. We will not be relegated to just the back of a dark room in a club. We are here, part of the community.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She and other advocates don’t buy rightwing lawmakers’ guise of protecting children by restricting drag — a freedom of expression protected by the First Amendment. “It’s an art form,” she says. “And like all arts, it can be provocative, it can be explicit. And it can also be child appropriate. We’ve seen that play out through Drag Story Hour in many really wonderful ways that have been both affirming for the community and also affirming for a lot of those kids.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13926077']Drag Up! Fight Back! anticipates thousands of attendees, and has garnered support from lawmakers like State Senator Scott Wiener. He says that while these attacks on LGBTQ+ rights are playing out mostly in red states, Californians shouldn’t be complacent. “If the Republicans take over both the Congress and the presidency in the future, they will absolutely pass these laws into effect nationally,” he says. “We’re already seeing this with abortion, that they’re trying to effectively ban abortion pills nationwide. They will do the same with respect to LGBTQ people. This is our fight and it’s our fight everywhere.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Outside of attending Saturday’s march, Wiener says Californians can help by supporting frontline LGBTQ+ organizations in other states. He and Mahogany both pointed to the importance of electing pro-LGBTQ+ political candidates. Mahogany says the San Francisco Democratic Party recently phone-banked to turn out voters for a federal judges’ race in Wisconsin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That is going to have huge consequences for the people of Wisconsin because when these types of laws and bills are passed, we know that we have a judge who is going to be impartial and enforce our Constitution,” Mahogany says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Drag Up! Fight Back! comes during a particularly difficult week for the LGBTQ+ arts community. Just days ago, on Monday, San Francisco drag icon \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13927233/heklina-dies-drag-legend-san-francsico\">Heklina unexpectedly died\u003c/a> while on tour in London. Though many are mourning, Mahogany says Heklina’s defiant spirit is also a source of motivation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If we don’t stand up now, then Heklinas of the future won’t be able to do what she has been able to achieve,” she says. “We’re fighting for all of the people that came before us. And I think it makes us even more determined to have our voice heard.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-13835025\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2018/06/Compact_Logo_Break-800x78.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"78\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/06/Compact_Logo_Break.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/06/Compact_Logo_Break-160x16.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/06/Compact_Logo_Break-768x75.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/06/Compact_Logo_Break-240x23.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/06/Compact_Logo_Break-375x37.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/06/Compact_Logo_Break-520x51.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://www.mobilize.us/activateamerica/event/557263/\">Drag Up! 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Drag Up! Fight Back! anticipates thousands of attendees, and has garnered support from lawmakers like State Senator Scott Wiener. He says that while these attacks on LGBTQ+ rights are playing out mostly in red states, Californians shouldn’t be complacent. “If the Republicans take over both the Congress and the presidency in the future, they will absolutely pass these laws into effect nationally,” he says. “We’re already seeing this with abortion, that they’re trying to effectively ban abortion pills nationwide. They will do the same with respect to LGBTQ people. This is our fight and it’s our fight everywhere.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Outside of attending Saturday’s march, Wiener says Californians can help by supporting frontline LGBTQ+ organizations in other states. He and Mahogany both pointed to the importance of electing pro-LGBTQ+ political candidates. Mahogany says the San Francisco Democratic Party recently phone-banked to turn out voters for a federal judges’ race in Wisconsin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That is going to have huge consequences for the people of Wisconsin because when these types of laws and bills are passed, we know that we have a judge who is going to be impartial and enforce our Constitution,” Mahogany says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Drag Up! Fight Back! comes during a particularly difficult week for the LGBTQ+ arts community. Just days ago, on Monday, San Francisco drag icon \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13927233/heklina-dies-drag-legend-san-francsico\">Heklina unexpectedly died\u003c/a> while on tour in London. Though many are mourning, Mahogany says Heklina’s defiant spirit is also a source of motivation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If we don’t stand up now, then Heklinas of the future won’t be able to do what she has been able to achieve,” she says. “We’re fighting for all of the people that came before us. And I think it makes us even more determined to have our voice heard.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-13835025\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2018/06/Compact_Logo_Break-800x78.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"78\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/06/Compact_Logo_Break.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/06/Compact_Logo_Break-160x16.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/06/Compact_Logo_Break-768x75.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/06/Compact_Logo_Break-240x23.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/06/Compact_Logo_Break-375x37.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/06/Compact_Logo_Break-520x51.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://www.mobilize.us/activateamerica/event/557263/\">Drag Up! Fight Back!\u003c/a> begins at San Francisco City Hall on April 8 at 11 a.m. The march moves to Union Square where it will continue with a rally and performances until 3 p.m. \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/honeymahogany/\">Follow Honey Mahogany on Instagram\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Heklina, the San Francisco drag legend and longtime performer at clubs around the city, has died in London, according to multiple reports.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/joshuagrannell/posts/pfbid02KjDojuS1c3sNoGwranKLk9FKkfunAZYLBj3GD3qJhiKW5t7kmqVRsCDfdqoUWHWel\">a Facebook post\u003c/a> on Monday, friend and colleague Peaches Christ wrote, “I am shocked and horrified to bring this news to you. … This morning, in London, England, I went to collect my dear friend Heklina, who is co-starring with me in a ‘Mommie Queerest’ show here, and found her dead. I do not know the cause of death yet. I know this is shocking news and I am beyond stunned.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>London’s Soho Theatre, where Peaches Christ and Heklina had been performing together in “Mommie Queerest,” also \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/sohotheatre/status/1642989190072680451\">posted a message\u003c/a> of being “in shock and incredibly saddened with news of Heklina’s passing. Our thoughts are with Peaches, Mommie Queerest company, Heklina’s family, friends + their wider community.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>Watch a short documentary on Heklina here\u003c/strong>:\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61qbUimYg9g\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Heklina co-founded popular drag club Oasis, regularly performed at El Rio and The Stud, and was the creator and hostess of the long-running show Trannyshack (later called Mother). Heklina appeared regularly in drag parodies of popular television shows like \u003cem>Sex in the City\u003c/em>, \u003cem>Golden Girls\u003c/em> and \u003cem>Roseanne\u003c/em>, and produced and hosted a party called Daytime Realness — with the tagline “Dancing, Drag & Disorder” — most recently at El Rio just weeks ago, on March 19.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We at El Rio are absolutely devastated to hear of the passing of Heklina,” wrote El Rio co-owner Lynne Angel in an email to KQED. “She was a huge part of our extended family and we will miss her terribly. The mark she made on the San Francisco drag and performance scene is incomparable. We were blessed to work with her often and she was a joy to witness both on stage and off. May she be surrounded by cats, ’80s New Wave and football butts eternally. Rest in Power to one of the best.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Heklina was born in Minneapolis, and was raised in New York, New England and Iceland. After a stint in the Navy, Heklina moved to San Francisco; in an interview segment from a KQED documentary in 2015, Heklina recalled that “immediately I fell in love with it, and I felt right at home.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12242568\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-12242568\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2016/10/heklina-2015-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Heklina\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/10/heklina-2015-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/10/heklina-2015-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/10/heklina-2015-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/10/heklina-2015-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/10/heklina-2015-1920x1280.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/10/heklina-2015-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/10/heklina-2015-960x640.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/10/heklina-2015-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/10/heklina-2015-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/10/heklina-2015-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Heklina, pictured here in a promotional photo for one of many events at Oasis. \u003ccite>(Nick Ice)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I met Heklina around 1995 — which now feels like many generations past, just a year before she started her weekly party T-Shack at The Stud,” veteran drag performer Juanita MORE! wrote in an email to KQED. “I performed on the second week of the club, not caring or taking any consideration about what the theme was — and that’s how our friendship rolled. … We respected and knew what each other was great at doing. We cracked each other up all the time. The sound of her laugh will be missed greatly by everyone.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID='arts_10134691']Artist and filmmaker Leo Herrera started working for Heklina as a photographer shortly after he first moved to San Francisco in 2003; Herrera was 21 at the time. By then, Trannyshack had become a San Francisco drag institution, and Heklina took Herrera under her wing. “Trannyshack brought drag back to its transgressive roots, and its roots of political resistance,” Herrera said. “There was a lot of healing that happened in the spaces that Heklina created, especially for folks that had come out of the AIDS crisis, and had moved from really homophobic places, like it was for me and my brother.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Herrera says Heklina influenced a generation of artists — both drag performers and others like him who’ve gone on to make an impact in other fields. “I think a lot of us always strived to get her approval because it was really hard to. But once you got one of her deep cackles, you knew you had done something right.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/sfoasis/status/1643009770927042560\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>News of Heklina’s passing devastated the drag community in San Francisco and beyond. “I kept thinking it was an April Fool’s joke, it doesn’t make sense. I spoke to her the day before yesterday when she was heading to England from Iceland,” Oasis owner D’Arcy Drollinger told the \u003ca href=\"https://datebook.sfchronicle.com/entertainment/drag-performer-heklina-reported-dead-in-london\">\u003ci>San Francisco Chronicle\u003c/i>\u003c/a>. “But it is confirmed, it is real.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By Monday afternoon, a tearful crowd gathered for an informal memorial at Oasis, which Heklina co-owned until 2019. “She was a powerhouse. And she also had a soft side, and a vulnerable side, that I was lucky enough to get to know,” booking manager Carissa Hatchel, who performs as Snaxx, told KQED. “She was a very complicated person, and was very, very important to so many people in the community for so many decades now.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I started drag about eight years ago, and Heklina was one of the first queens I ever saw,” said Oasis performer Nicki Jizz. “She was unfiltered, she was unapologetically Heklina. She said whatever came to her mind. She didn’t care what anyone thought — which is a great trait for a drag performer.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement, State Senator Scott Wiener said he first saw Heklina perform in the 1990s, and was “devastated” by the news.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Heklina was an icon in the truest sense — funny, caring, outrageous, and brave,” Wiener wrote. “I’ve rarely worked with someone as fierce, creative, and dedicated. … She was the soul of San Francisco, and it’s hard to imagine the city without her.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Herrera echoed the sentiments of many on Monday that Heklina was synonymous with the best of drag tradition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A successful artist embodies their medium, so when we think of a brush or an instrument, we think of their name,” he said. “And I think for many of us, when we hear drag, we’re going to think of Heklina. She embodied the oldest and most powerful kind of drag that was about survival and political freedom, and I think we’re all going to miss that very much.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-12127869\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/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=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/scottshafer\">Scott Shafer\u003c/a> contributed to this report. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Heklina, the San Francisco drag legend and longtime performer at clubs around the city, has died in London, according to multiple reports.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/joshuagrannell/posts/pfbid02KjDojuS1c3sNoGwranKLk9FKkfunAZYLBj3GD3qJhiKW5t7kmqVRsCDfdqoUWHWel\">a Facebook post\u003c/a> on Monday, friend and colleague Peaches Christ wrote, “I am shocked and horrified to bring this news to you. … This morning, in London, England, I went to collect my dear friend Heklina, who is co-starring with me in a ‘Mommie Queerest’ show here, and found her dead. I do not know the cause of death yet. I know this is shocking news and I am beyond stunned.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>London’s Soho Theatre, where Peaches Christ and Heklina had been performing together in “Mommie Queerest,” also \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/sohotheatre/status/1642989190072680451\">posted a message\u003c/a> of being “in shock and incredibly saddened with news of Heklina’s passing. Our thoughts are with Peaches, Mommie Queerest company, Heklina’s family, friends + their wider community.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>Watch a short documentary on Heklina here\u003c/strong>:\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\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/61qbUimYg9g'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/61qbUimYg9g'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>Heklina co-founded popular drag club Oasis, regularly performed at El Rio and The Stud, and was the creator and hostess of the long-running show Trannyshack (later called Mother). Heklina appeared regularly in drag parodies of popular television shows like \u003cem>Sex in the City\u003c/em>, \u003cem>Golden Girls\u003c/em> and \u003cem>Roseanne\u003c/em>, and produced and hosted a party called Daytime Realness — with the tagline “Dancing, Drag & Disorder” — most recently at El Rio just weeks ago, on March 19.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>The first time Zêdan Xelef saw United States soldiers, they were 8 years old. It was 2003 – the start of the U.S. war in Iraq.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We would run behind their tanks and they would give us cookies and things like that. But I also knew they were killing other people elsewhere,” said Xelef.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Xelef is from the Sinjar District in Iraq, and they’re \u003ca href=\"https://www.britannica.com/topic/Yazidi\">Êzîdî\u003c/a>, one of the country’s religious and ethnic minorities. Once the war began, life destabilized in their region. They describe it as more of a civil war. They say fighting broke out between Muslims and Êzîdîs in their village and their family was forced to move to a Êzîdî-only village.[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Zêdan Xelef, poet and student, San Francisco State University\"]‘All of these memory deposits that were attacked — my work is concerned with memory. Memory of the land, memory of the people, and my personal memory.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For us, the terrorist attacks and the kidnappings were very common,” said Xelef.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This week marks 20 years since the war in Iraq began on March 19, 2003, and the ways of counting its costs are numerous. The war is estimated to have \u003ca href=\"https://sgp.fas.org/crs/natsec/RL33110.pdf\">cost the United States more than $800 billion\u003c/a>, and \u003ca href=\"https://watson.brown.edu/costsofwar/costs/human/civilians/iraqi\">hundreds of thousands of Iraqis are estimated to have died\u003c/a> because of the conflict.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13926148\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/03/RS63545_03052023_iraqwaranniversary-441-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-13926148 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/03/RS63545_03052023_iraqwaranniversary-441-qut-800x532.jpg\" alt=\"Five people sit together inside a neat room, with high ceilings and light yellow-painted walls, in a semi-circle indoors facing a man with glasses and tan shirt. A bay window with a piano sits just beyond them.\" width=\"800\" height=\"532\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/03/RS63545_03052023_iraqwaranniversary-441-qut-800x532.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/03/RS63545_03052023_iraqwaranniversary-441-qut-1020x678.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/03/RS63545_03052023_iraqwaranniversary-441-qut-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/03/RS63545_03052023_iraqwaranniversary-441-qut-768x511.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/03/RS63545_03052023_iraqwaranniversary-441-qut-1536x1022.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/03/RS63545_03052023_iraqwaranniversary-441-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Poet and translator Zêdan Xelef, 28, performs some of their work at a gathering at the Persian Center in Berkeley, during a poetry reading to remember the 2007 bombing of Al-Mutanabbi Street in Baghdad, on March 5, 2023. \u003ccite>(Kori Suzuki/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But at a poetry reading earlier this month in Berkeley, a collective gathered to remember a different kind of loss – one to the memory and culture of Iraq.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>The bombing of Al-Mutanabbi Street\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>On March 5, 2007, a car bomb exploded on Baghdad’s historic Al-Mutanabbi Street, known as the street of the booksellers. Over 30 people were killed and more than 100 were injured. The reverberations rang around the world.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Beau Beausoleil, a former bookseller and poet based in San Francisco, remembers the day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If I was an Iraqi, that’s where my bookstore would’ve been. And as a poet, that would be my cultural community that had been attacked,” said Beausoleil.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the days after the attack, Beausoleil organized a literary response. It took the form of an anthology of prose and poetry commemorating and reflecting on the tragedy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13926147\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/03/RS63548_03052023_iraqwaranniversary-475-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13926147\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/03/RS63548_03052023_iraqwaranniversary-475-qut-800x532.jpg\" alt=\"A man wearing glasses and a dark shirt stands next to a door.\" width=\"800\" height=\"532\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/03/RS63548_03052023_iraqwaranniversary-475-qut-800x532.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/03/RS63548_03052023_iraqwaranniversary-475-qut-1020x678.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/03/RS63548_03052023_iraqwaranniversary-475-qut-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/03/RS63548_03052023_iraqwaranniversary-475-qut-768x511.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/03/RS63548_03052023_iraqwaranniversary-475-qut-1536x1022.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/03/RS63548_03052023_iraqwaranniversary-475-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Poet Beau Beausoleil, who co-edited ‘Al-Mutanabbi Street Starts Here,’ stands for a portrait at the Persian Center in Berkeley, on March 5, 2023. \u003ccite>(Kori Suzuki/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The final product was the anthology \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/groups/85909663901/\">Al-Mutanabbi Street Starts Here\u003c/a>\u003c/em>, published in 2013, that Beausoleil co-edited with Kuwaiti-born poet Deema Shehabi.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I like to say that wherever someone sits down and picks up a book to read or sits and begins to write towards the truth, it is there that Al-Mutanabbi Street starts,” said Beausoleil.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The reading at the Persian Center in Berkeley was one of more than 15 taking place on that day worldwide commemorating the attack on Al-Mutanabbi Street.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This was more than just a car bombing in a place where we were involved in a war,” said Persis Karim, a member of the Al-Mutanabbi Street Starts Here collective, who helped organize the reading in Berkeley. “It was an attack on culture, an attack on ideas, an attack on freedom of speech, and it represented the sort of the worst aspects of what happens in war and occupation and invasions by other countries.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Reflecting on the war\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>In front of an audience of few more than two dozen, Xelef recited a song their grandmother, who was a farmer, used to sing before going out to harvest in the fields. Xelef sang the brief verses, almost like a prayer, in their native tongue, Kurmanji, a northern dialect of Kurdish.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The song is about one morning when the villagers go to harvest from the land. It’s springtime and there is fog. The villagers are like happy animals because of the green pastures, and the song depicts a scenery of dancing animals like deers and goats,” explained Xelef.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As Xelef got older, memories like these became increasingly under attack. In 2007, a car bomb destroyed an Êzîdî oral history archive, containing recordings of the very songs their grandmother would sing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13926144\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/03/RS63533_03052023_iraqwaranniversary-109-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13926144\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/03/RS63533_03052023_iraqwaranniversary-109-qut-800x532.jpg\" alt=\"A woman wearing a multicolored scarf and pink shirt stands behind an art piece.\" width=\"800\" height=\"532\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/03/RS63533_03052023_iraqwaranniversary-109-qut-800x532.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/03/RS63533_03052023_iraqwaranniversary-109-qut-1020x678.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/03/RS63533_03052023_iraqwaranniversary-109-qut-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/03/RS63533_03052023_iraqwaranniversary-109-qut-768x511.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/03/RS63533_03052023_iraqwaranniversary-109-qut-1536x1022.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/03/RS63533_03052023_iraqwaranniversary-109-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Francisco State University professor Persis Karim, 60, stands for a portrait at the Persian Center in Berkeley, on March 5, 2023. ‘I’m just a person who doesn’t want us to forget what has happened,’ she said. \u003ccite>(Kori Suzuki/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Later, in August 2014, the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, or ISIS, took control of the Sinjar District. It’s estimated that in a matter of days, over \u003ca href=\"https://journals.plos.org/plosmedicine/article?id=10.1371/journal.pmed.1002297\">3,000 Êzîdîs were either killed or died of starvation, thirst or injuries while another 6,000 were kidnapped\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Xelef was among the many Êzîdîs who fled to the slopes of nearby Mount Sinjar looking for safety from ISIS.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was trapped on the mountain because the entire region was controlled by ISIS. But not the mountain itself,” recalled Xelef. “We would get attacked from ISIS every day for a week. We made it to the top of the mountain and they told us that President Barack Obama announced an international coalition against ISIS, and the coalition was able to open a passage for the people who were besieged on the mountain.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Xelef was able to make it to a refugee camp for the internally displaced on the Turkey-Syria-Iraq border, and reunite with some members of their family. But, they say, not everyone made it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I did lose my grandmother, but she wasn’t killed by ISIS,” they said. “She died of thirst on the mountain.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eventually, Xelef got a job at the American University of Iraq, Sulaimani. They moved to Oakland a year ago, and they are currently pursuing a master’s in fine arts in poetry at San Francisco State University. They’re also working to preserve the Êzîdî oral histories like the ones their grandmother taught them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They say they believe the war, with all of its attacks, be it the looting of Iraq’s National Museum in 2003, or the destruction of the Êzîdî cassette tape archive in 2007, or the attack on the book market on Al-Mutanabbi Street, was an attack on memory and imagination.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“All of these memory deposits that were attacked — my work is concerned with memory. Memory of the land, memory of the people, and my personal memory,” said Xelef.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13926146\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/03/RS63547_03052023_iraqwaranniversary-413-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13926146\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/03/RS63547_03052023_iraqwaranniversary-413-qut-800x532.jpg\" alt=\"A woman wearing a pink jacket and dark coat stands outside.\" width=\"800\" height=\"532\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/03/RS63547_03052023_iraqwaranniversary-413-qut-800x532.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/03/RS63547_03052023_iraqwaranniversary-413-qut-1020x678.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/03/RS63547_03052023_iraqwaranniversary-413-qut-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/03/RS63547_03052023_iraqwaranniversary-413-qut-768x511.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/03/RS63547_03052023_iraqwaranniversary-413-qut-1536x1022.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/03/RS63547_03052023_iraqwaranniversary-413-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rana Alshalyan, 43, stands for a portrait outside the Persian Center in Berkeley. Alshalyan used to live in Basra, Iraq, and now works in education in Oakland. \u003ccite>(Kori Suzuki/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Rana Alshalyan, from Basra, Iraq, says the war is regrettable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We wish that it never happened. If we wanted change, it’s supposed to be from the inside. Not from the outside. But it was hard,” said Alshalyan. “Saddam Hussein was a dictator who killed his own people. Nobody thought his regime would be changed someday. So they thought the American government might help the Iraqis. But, that was just stupid.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the United States marks 20 years since it began the war in Iraq, projects like the Al-Mutanabbi Street Starts Here collective are working to identify the toll it inflicted on the country — not just in dollars or lives, but in ways harder to quantify.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Beausoleil, co-editor of \u003cem>Al-Mutanabbi Street Starts Here\u003c/em>, says the book and its annual readings are not a project of healing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My feeling is you cannot heal the wounds until you identify all the wounds. And all the wounds we have left on the body of Iraq both literally and metaphorically will be coming to the surface for generations,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Beau Beausoleil, a former bookseller and poet based in San Francisco, remembers the day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If I was an Iraqi, that’s where my bookstore would’ve been. And as a poet, that would be my cultural community that had been attacked,” said Beausoleil.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the days after the attack, Beausoleil organized a literary response. It took the form of an anthology of prose and poetry commemorating and reflecting on the tragedy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13926147\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/03/RS63548_03052023_iraqwaranniversary-475-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13926147\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/03/RS63548_03052023_iraqwaranniversary-475-qut-800x532.jpg\" alt=\"A man wearing glasses and a dark shirt stands next to a door.\" width=\"800\" height=\"532\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/03/RS63548_03052023_iraqwaranniversary-475-qut-800x532.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/03/RS63548_03052023_iraqwaranniversary-475-qut-1020x678.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/03/RS63548_03052023_iraqwaranniversary-475-qut-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/03/RS63548_03052023_iraqwaranniversary-475-qut-768x511.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/03/RS63548_03052023_iraqwaranniversary-475-qut-1536x1022.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/03/RS63548_03052023_iraqwaranniversary-475-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Poet Beau Beausoleil, who co-edited ‘Al-Mutanabbi Street Starts Here,’ stands for a portrait at the Persian Center in Berkeley, on March 5, 2023. \u003ccite>(Kori Suzuki/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The final product was the anthology \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/groups/85909663901/\">Al-Mutanabbi Street Starts Here\u003c/a>\u003c/em>, published in 2013, that Beausoleil co-edited with Kuwaiti-born poet Deema Shehabi.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I like to say that wherever someone sits down and picks up a book to read or sits and begins to write towards the truth, it is there that Al-Mutanabbi Street starts,” said Beausoleil.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The reading at the Persian Center in Berkeley was one of more than 15 taking place on that day worldwide commemorating the attack on Al-Mutanabbi Street.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This was more than just a car bombing in a place where we were involved in a war,” said Persis Karim, a member of the Al-Mutanabbi Street Starts Here collective, who helped organize the reading in Berkeley. “It was an attack on culture, an attack on ideas, an attack on freedom of speech, and it represented the sort of the worst aspects of what happens in war and occupation and invasions by other countries.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Reflecting on the war\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>In front of an audience of few more than two dozen, Xelef recited a song their grandmother, who was a farmer, used to sing before going out to harvest in the fields. Xelef sang the brief verses, almost like a prayer, in their native tongue, Kurmanji, a northern dialect of Kurdish.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The song is about one morning when the villagers go to harvest from the land. It’s springtime and there is fog. The villagers are like happy animals because of the green pastures, and the song depicts a scenery of dancing animals like deers and goats,” explained Xelef.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As Xelef got older, memories like these became increasingly under attack. In 2007, a car bomb destroyed an Êzîdî oral history archive, containing recordings of the very songs their grandmother would sing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13926144\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/03/RS63533_03052023_iraqwaranniversary-109-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13926144\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/03/RS63533_03052023_iraqwaranniversary-109-qut-800x532.jpg\" alt=\"A woman wearing a multicolored scarf and pink shirt stands behind an art piece.\" width=\"800\" height=\"532\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/03/RS63533_03052023_iraqwaranniversary-109-qut-800x532.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/03/RS63533_03052023_iraqwaranniversary-109-qut-1020x678.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/03/RS63533_03052023_iraqwaranniversary-109-qut-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/03/RS63533_03052023_iraqwaranniversary-109-qut-768x511.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/03/RS63533_03052023_iraqwaranniversary-109-qut-1536x1022.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/03/RS63533_03052023_iraqwaranniversary-109-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Francisco State University professor Persis Karim, 60, stands for a portrait at the Persian Center in Berkeley, on March 5, 2023. ‘I’m just a person who doesn’t want us to forget what has happened,’ she said. \u003ccite>(Kori Suzuki/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Later, in August 2014, the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, or ISIS, took control of the Sinjar District. It’s estimated that in a matter of days, over \u003ca href=\"https://journals.plos.org/plosmedicine/article?id=10.1371/journal.pmed.1002297\">3,000 Êzîdîs were either killed or died of starvation, thirst or injuries while another 6,000 were kidnapped\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Xelef was among the many Êzîdîs who fled to the slopes of nearby Mount Sinjar looking for safety from ISIS.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was trapped on the mountain because the entire region was controlled by ISIS. But not the mountain itself,” recalled Xelef. “We would get attacked from ISIS every day for a week. We made it to the top of the mountain and they told us that President Barack Obama announced an international coalition against ISIS, and the coalition was able to open a passage for the people who were besieged on the mountain.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Xelef was able to make it to a refugee camp for the internally displaced on the Turkey-Syria-Iraq border, and reunite with some members of their family. But, they say, not everyone made it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I did lose my grandmother, but she wasn’t killed by ISIS,” they said. “She died of thirst on the mountain.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eventually, Xelef got a job at the American University of Iraq, Sulaimani. They moved to Oakland a year ago, and they are currently pursuing a master’s in fine arts in poetry at San Francisco State University. They’re also working to preserve the Êzîdî oral histories like the ones their grandmother taught them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They say they believe the war, with all of its attacks, be it the looting of Iraq’s National Museum in 2003, or the destruction of the Êzîdî cassette tape archive in 2007, or the attack on the book market on Al-Mutanabbi Street, was an attack on memory and imagination.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“All of these memory deposits that were attacked — my work is concerned with memory. 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