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"content": "\u003cp>Trying to recall the first time I heard the voice of Aretha Franklin is like trying to recall when I first noticed the sky.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From the time I could crawl across our green shag carpet at our home in Oakland’s Fruitvale District, I can recall rummaging through the dual polished mahogany cabinets in our home that served as a treasure chest for my mother’s LPs and 45s. I’d flip through cardboard sleeves covered with the faces of Teddy, Tina, Isaac, James, Diana and Smokey, an act that would often evoke a \u003cem>“girl, you don’t know nothin’ about this,”\u003c/em> followed by a brief history lesson from by mother and grandmother, culminating in a decadent sampling of music.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many names were exalted. But I came to understand that there was only one queen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Saturday mornings were reserved for her. As I partook in the weekly ritual of morning chores, Aretha’s voice would pour over my soul like warm honey, transforming my pajamas and headscarf into an ornate ball gown and elaborate bouffant. Broom sticks became makeshift mic stands. And, for a few minutes, the voice overpowering the faint crackle of the spinning 45 belonged to me. A child of the ’80s, born to a daughter of Detroit, I demanded R-E-S-P-E-C-T when I was still learning to spell, I was feeling like a natural woman before I hit puberty, and I vowed I’d never be in someone’s chain of fools before I ever went on a date.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13839193\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13839193\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/08/Aretha.Jamedra.Inline-800x563.jpg\" alt=\"Aretha Franklin accepts the Vanguard Award onstage during the 39th NAACP Image Awards on February 14, 2008 in Los Angeles, California.\" width=\"800\" height=\"563\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/08/Aretha.Jamedra.Inline-800x563.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/08/Aretha.Jamedra.Inline-160x113.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/08/Aretha.Jamedra.Inline-768x541.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/08/Aretha.Jamedra.Inline-1020x718.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/08/Aretha.Jamedra.Inline-1200x845.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/08/Aretha.Jamedra.Inline.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/08/Aretha.Jamedra.Inline-1180x831.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/08/Aretha.Jamedra.Inline-960x676.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/08/Aretha.Jamedra.Inline-240x169.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/08/Aretha.Jamedra.Inline-375x264.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/08/Aretha.Jamedra.Inline-520x366.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Aretha Franklin accepts the Vanguard Award onstage during the 39th NAACP Image Awards on February 14, 2008 in Los Angeles, California. \u003ccite>(Jesse Grant/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>As I matured, my fascination for the family’s old records would give way to the novelty of compact discs, new jack swing, R&B and neo-soul. But Aretha’s indelible impact couldn’t be erased. I’d find myself craving her voice when modern music failed to take me to the places only Aretha could reach. And as I grew older and aged into love and romance, I discovered new dimensions to her music. The urgency of her plea on “Call Me,” articulating feelings of longing I’d had yet to experience. The eternal truth of “(You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman,” which took on an entirely new meaning once I crossed the threshold into womanhood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Whenever I thought my adoration for Aretha had diminished, she’d resurface and stir my soul in a way only she could. She’d translate emotions from a pivotal film in my youth, \u003cem>Waiting to Exhale\u003c/em>. She’d collaborate with my then-favorite artist Lauryn Hill on her album \u003cem>A Rose is Still A Rose\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And at Barack Obama’s 2009 inauguration, her presence on the Capitol steps that morning meant that a piece of me was there onstage beside America’s first black president.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While other artists from her generation struggled to reinvent themselves and connect with a younger audience, Aretha never wavered from the confidence of her throne. Hers was a gift that required no embellishment or novelty; even when she was called to \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KBCWLhlJV0Y\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">duet with a contemporary pop star\u003c/a>, it rarely felt forced. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Trying to recall the first time I heard the voice of Aretha Franklin is like trying to recall when I first noticed the sky.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From the time I could crawl across our green shag carpet at our home in Oakland’s Fruitvale District, I can recall rummaging through the dual polished mahogany cabinets in our home that served as a treasure chest for my mother’s LPs and 45s. I’d flip through cardboard sleeves covered with the faces of Teddy, Tina, Isaac, James, Diana and Smokey, an act that would often evoke a \u003cem>“girl, you don’t know nothin’ about this,”\u003c/em> followed by a brief history lesson from by mother and grandmother, culminating in a decadent sampling of music.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many names were exalted. But I came to understand that there was only one queen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Saturday mornings were reserved for her. As I partook in the weekly ritual of morning chores, Aretha’s voice would pour over my soul like warm honey, transforming my pajamas and headscarf into an ornate ball gown and elaborate bouffant. Broom sticks became makeshift mic stands. And, for a few minutes, the voice overpowering the faint crackle of the spinning 45 belonged to me. A child of the ’80s, born to a daughter of Detroit, I demanded R-E-S-P-E-C-T when I was still learning to spell, I was feeling like a natural woman before I hit puberty, and I vowed I’d never be in someone’s chain of fools before I ever went on a date.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13839193\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13839193\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/08/Aretha.Jamedra.Inline-800x563.jpg\" alt=\"Aretha Franklin accepts the Vanguard Award onstage during the 39th NAACP Image Awards on February 14, 2008 in Los Angeles, California.\" width=\"800\" height=\"563\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/08/Aretha.Jamedra.Inline-800x563.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/08/Aretha.Jamedra.Inline-160x113.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/08/Aretha.Jamedra.Inline-768x541.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/08/Aretha.Jamedra.Inline-1020x718.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/08/Aretha.Jamedra.Inline-1200x845.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/08/Aretha.Jamedra.Inline.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/08/Aretha.Jamedra.Inline-1180x831.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/08/Aretha.Jamedra.Inline-960x676.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/08/Aretha.Jamedra.Inline-240x169.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/08/Aretha.Jamedra.Inline-375x264.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/08/Aretha.Jamedra.Inline-520x366.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Aretha Franklin accepts the Vanguard Award onstage during the 39th NAACP Image Awards on February 14, 2008 in Los Angeles, California. \u003ccite>(Jesse Grant/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>As I matured, my fascination for the family’s old records would give way to the novelty of compact discs, new jack swing, R&B and neo-soul. But Aretha’s indelible impact couldn’t be erased. I’d find myself craving her voice when modern music failed to take me to the places only Aretha could reach. And as I grew older and aged into love and romance, I discovered new dimensions to her music. The urgency of her plea on “Call Me,” articulating feelings of longing I’d had yet to experience. The eternal truth of “(You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman,” which took on an entirely new meaning once I crossed the threshold into womanhood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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Black people will be free.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n\u003cp lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Aretha Franklin in a December 1970 issue of Jet Magazine, on why she was willing to post bond for Angela Davis. \u003ca href=\"https://t.co/UN7at4MiyD\">pic.twitter.com/UN7at4MiyD\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>— Jacobin (@jacobinmag) \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/jacobinmag/status/1030117996138823680?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 16, 2018\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>The next year, Franklin wrote a letter to Black Panther Party Minister of Culture Emory Douglas, expressing her regret that due to timing issues, she couldn’t appear at a fundraiser for the Oakland-headquartered organization. “I love what you are doing in the community, and I am looking forward to meeting all of you,” she wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I am also gratified that you thought enough to write and let me know your feelings, as once in a while one feels so inadequate in this business and wonders if people really feel we have talent or not and if that talent brings a smile or so from those we try to reach.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Davis \u003ca href=\"https://www.thenation.com/article/aretha-franklin-musical-genius-truth-teller-freedom-fighter/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">told \u003cem>The Nation\u003c/em> \u003c/a>this week that Franklin was among her most high-profile supporters. “Her bold public call for justice in my case helped in a major way to consolidate the international campaign for my freedom,” Davis said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n\u003cp lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">just found this mind blowingly humble letter from Aretha Franklin to Emory Douglas, Minster of Culture for Culture of the Black Panther Party while doing some archival digging: “Once in a while one feels so inadequate in this business” \u003ca href=\"https://t.co/tGh7FXTMxT\">pic.twitter.com/tGh7FXTMxT\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>— your friend jeff (@muttgomery) \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/muttgomery/status/1029045575423942656?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 13, 2018\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Franklin’s connection to the Bay Area was also cemented in her concert appearances over the decades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a teenager in the 1950s, Franklin performed at the Oakland Civic Auditorium (later named for industrialist Henry J. 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"content": "\u003cp>Aretha Franklin, the undisputed “Queen of Soul” who sang with matchless style on such classics as “Think,” “I Say a Little Prayer” and her signature song, “Respect,” and stood as a cultural icon around the globe, has died at age 76 from pancreatic cancer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Publicist Gwendolyn Quinn tells The Associated Press through a family statement that Franklin died Thursday at 9:50 a.m. at her home in Detroit. The statement said “Franklin’s official cause of death was due to advanced pancreatic cancer of the neuroendocrine type, which was confirmed by Franklin’s oncologist, Dr. Philip Phillips of Karmanos Cancer Institute” in Detroit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The family added: “In one of the darkest moments of our lives, we are not able to find the appropriate words to express the pain in our heart. We have lost the matriarch and rock of our family. The love she had for her children, grandchildren, nieces, nephews, and cousins knew no bounds.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The statement continued:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have been deeply touched by the incredible outpouring of love and support we have received from close friends, supporters and fans all around the world. Thank you for your compassion and prayers. We have felt your love for Aretha and it brings us comfort to know that her legacy will live on. As we grieve, we ask that you respect our privacy during this difficult time.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Funeral arrangements will be announced in the coming days.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Franklin, who had battled undisclosed health issues in recent years, had in 2017 announced her retirement from touring.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13839132\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/08/GettyImages-670445552-800x534.jpg\" alt='Aretha Franklin performs onstage during the \"Clive Davis: The Soundtrack of Our Lives\" Premiere Concert during the 2017 Tribeca Film Festival at Radio City Music Hall on April 19, 2017 in New York City. ' width=\"800\" height=\"534\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13839132\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/08/GettyImages-670445552-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/08/GettyImages-670445552-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/08/GettyImages-670445552-768x513.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/08/GettyImages-670445552-1020x681.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/08/GettyImages-670445552-1200x801.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/08/GettyImages-670445552.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/08/GettyImages-670445552-1180x788.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/08/GettyImages-670445552-960x641.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/08/GettyImages-670445552-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/08/GettyImages-670445552-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/08/GettyImages-670445552-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Aretha Franklin performs onstage during the “Clive Davis: The Soundtrack of Our Lives” Premiere Concert during the 2017 Tribeca Film Festival at Radio City Music Hall on April 19, 2017 in New York City. \u003ccite>(Noam Galai/Getty Images for Tribeca Film Festival)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A professional singer and accomplished pianist by her late teens, a superstar by her mid-20s, Franklin had long ago settled any arguments over who was the greatest popular vocalist of her time. Her gifts, natural and acquired, were a multi-octave mezzo-soprano, gospel passion and training worthy of a preacher’s daughter, taste sophisticated and eccentric, and the courage to channel private pain into liberating song.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She recorded hundreds of tracks and had dozens of hits over the span of a half century, including 20 that reached No. 1 on the R&B charts. But her reputation was defined by an extraordinary run of top 10 smashes in the late 1960s, from the morning-after bliss of “(You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman,” to the wised-up “Chain of Fools” to her unstoppable call for “Respect.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her records sold millions of copies and the music industry couldn’t honor her enough. Franklin won 18 Grammy awards. In 1987, she became the first woman inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Clive Davis, the music mogul who brought her to Arista Records and helped revive her career in the 1980s, said he was “devastated” by her death.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She was truly one of a kind. She was more than the Queen of Soul. She was a national treasure to be cherished by every generation throughout the world,” he said in a statement. “Apart from our long professional relationship, Aretha was my friend. Her loss is deeply profound and my heart is full of sadness.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fellow singers bowed to her eminence and political and civic leaders treated her as a peer. The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. was a longtime friend, and she sang at the dedication of King’s memorial, in 2011. She performed at the inaugurations of Presidents Bill Clinton and Jimmy Carter, and at the funeral for civil rights pioneer Rosa Parks. Clinton gave Franklin the National Medal of Arts. President George W. Bush awarded her the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation’s highest civilian honor, in 2005.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bill and Hillary Clinton issued a statement mourning the loss of their friend and “one of America’s greatest treasures.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For more than 50 years, she stirred our souls. She was elegant, graceful, and utterly uncompromising in her artistry. Aretha’s first music school was the church and her performances were powered by what she learned there. I’ll always be grateful for her kindness and support, including her performances at both my inaugural celebrations, and for the chance to be there for what sadly turned out to be her final performance last November at a benefit supporting the fight against HIV/AIDS.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Franklin’s best-known appearance with a president was in January 2009, when she sang “My Country ’tis of Thee” at President Barack Obama’s inauguration. She wore a gray felt hat with a huge, Swarovski rhinestone-bordered bow that became an Internet sensation and even had its own website. In 2015, she brought Obama and others to tears with a triumphant performance of “Natural Woman” at a Kennedy Center tribute to the song’s co-writer, Carole King.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Franklin endured the exhausting grind of celebrity and personal troubles dating back to childhood. She was married from 1961 to 1969 to her manager, Ted White, and their battles are widely believed to have inspired her performances on several songs, including “(Sweet Sweet Baby) Since You’ve Been Gone,” ″Think” and her heartbreaking ballad of despair, “Ain’t No Way.” The mother of two sons by age 16 (she later had two more), she was often in turmoil as she struggled with her weight, family problems and financial predicaments. Her best known producer, Jerry Wexler, nicknamed her “Our Lady of Mysterious Sorrows.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://youtu.be/Vyx34kgHGng\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Franklin married actor Glynn Turman in 1978 in Los Angeles but returned to her hometown of Detroit the following year after her father was shot by burglars and left semi-comatose until his death in 1984. She and Turman divorced that year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite growing up in Detroit, and having Smokey Robinson as a childhood friend, Franklin never recorded for Motown Records; stints with Columbia and Arista were sandwiched around her prime years with Atlantic Records. But it was at Detroit’s New Bethel Baptist Church, where her father was pastor, that Franklin learned the gospel fundamentals that would make her a soul institution.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Aretha Louise Franklin was born March 25, 1942, in Memphis, Tennessee. The Rev. C.L. Franklin soon moved his family to Buffalo, New York, then to Detroit, where the Franklins settled after the marriage of Aretha’s parents collapsed and her mother (and reputed sound-alike) Barbara returned to Buffalo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>C.L. Franklin was among the most prominent Baptist ministers of his time. He recorded dozens of albums of sermons and music and knew such gospel stars as Marion Williams and Clara Ward, who mentored Aretha and her sisters Carolyn and Erma. (Both sisters sang on Aretha’s records, and Carolyn also wrote “Ain’t No Way” and other songs for Aretha). Music was the family business and performers from Sam Cooke to Lou Rawls were guests at the Franklin house. In the living room, the shy young Aretha awed friends with her playing on the grand piano.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Franklin occasionally performed at New Bethel Baptist throughout her career; her 1987 gospel album “One Lord One Faith One Baptism” was recorded live at the church.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her most acclaimed gospel recording came in 1972 with the Grammy-winning album “Amazing Grace,” which was recorded live at New Temple Missionary Baptist Church in South Central Los Angeles and featured gospel legend James Cleveland, along with her own father (Mick Jagger was one of the celebrities in the audience). It became one of of the best-selling gospel albums ever.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The piano she began learning at age 8 became a jazzy component of much of her work, including arranging as well as songwriting. “If I’m writing and I’m producing and singing, too, you get more of me that way, rather than having four or five different people working on one song,” Franklin told The Detroit News in 2003.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Franklin was in her early teens when she began touring with her father, and she released a gospel album in 1956 through J-V-B Records. Four years later, she signed with Columbia Records producer John Hammond, who called Franklin the most exciting singer he had heard since a vocalist he promoted decades earlier, Billie Holiday. Franklin knew Motown founder Berry Gordy Jr. and considered joining his label, but decided it was just a local company at the time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Franklin recorded several albums for Columbia Records over the next six years. She had a handful of minor hits, including “Rock-A-Bye Your Baby With a Dixie Melody” and “Runnin’ Out of Fools,” but never quite caught on as the label tried to fit into her a variety of styles, from jazz and show songs to such pop numbers as “Mockingbird.” Franklin jumped to Atlantic Records when her contract ran out, in 1966.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“But the years at Columbia also taught her several important things,” critic Russell Gersten later wrote. “She worked hard at controlling and modulating her phrasing, giving her a discipline that most other soul singers lacked. She also developed a versatility with mainstream music that gave her later albums a breadth that was lacking on Motown LPs from the same period.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Most important, she learned what she didn’t like: to do what she was told to do.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At Atlantic, Wexler teamed her with veteran R&B musicians from Fame Studios in Muscle Shoals, and the result was a tougher, soulful sound, with call-and-response vocals and Franklin’s gospel-style piano, which anchored “I Say a Little Prayer,” ″Natural Woman” and others.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://youtu.be/n0POmdK18WU\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of Franklin’s dozens of hits, none was linked more firmly to her than the funky, horn-led march “Respect” and its spelled out demand for “R-E-S-P-E-C-T.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Writing in Rolling Stone magazine in 2004, Wexler said: “It was an appeal for dignity combined with a blatant lubricity. There are songs that are a call to action. There are love songs. There are sex songs. But it’s hard to think of another song where all those elements are combined.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Franklin had decided she wanted to “embellish” the R&B song written by Otis Redding, whose version had been a modest hit in 1965, Wexler said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When she walked into the studio, it was already worked out in her head,” the producer wrote. “Otis came up to my office right before ‘Respect’ was released, and I played him the tape. He said, ‘She done took my song.’ He said it benignly and ruefully. He knew the identity of the song was slipping away from him to her.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a 2004 interview with the St. Petersburg (Florida) Times, Franklin was asked whether she sensed in the ’60s that she was helping change popular music.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Somewhat, certainly with ‘Respect,’ that was a battle cry for freedom and many people of many ethnicities took pride in that word,” she answered. “It was meaningful to all of us.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 1968, Franklin was pictured on the cover of Time magazine and had more than 10 Top 20 hits in 1967 and 1968. At a time of rebellion and division, Franklin’s records were a musical union of the church and the secular, man and woman, black and white, North and South, East and West. They were produced and engineered by New Yorkers Wexler and Tom Dowd, arranged by Turkish-born Arif Mardin and backed by an interracial assembly of top session musicians based mostly in Alabama.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her popularity faded during the 1970s despite such hits as the funky “Rock Steady” and such acclaimed albums as the intimate “Spirit in the Dark.” But her career was revived in 1980 with a cameo appearance in the smash movie “The Blues Brothers” and her switch to Arista Records. Franklin collaborated with such pop and soul artists as Luther Vandross, Elton John, Whitney Houston and George Michael, with whom she recorded a No. 1 single, “I Knew You Were Waiting (for Me).” Her 1985 album “Who’s Zoomin’ Who” received some of her best reviews and included such hits as the title track and “Freeway of Love.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Critics consistently praised Franklin’s singing but sometimes questioned her material; she covered songs by Stephen Sondheim, Bread, the Doobie Brothers. For Aretha, anything she performed was “soul.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From her earliest recording sessions at Columbia, when she asked to sing “Over the Rainbow,” she defied category. The 1998 Grammys gave her a chance to demonstrate her range. Franklin performed “Respect,” then, with only a few minutes’ notice, filled in for an ailing Luciano Pavarotti and drew rave reviews for her rendition of “Nessun Dorma,” a stirring aria for tenors from Puccini’s “Turandot.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m sure many people were surprised, but I’m not there to prove anything,” Franklin told The Associated Press. “Not necessary.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fame never eclipsed Franklin’s charitable works, or her loyalty to Detroit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Franklin sang the national anthem at Super Bowl in her hometown in 2006, after grousing that Detroit’s rich musical legacy was being snubbed when the Rolling Stones were chosen as halftime performers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I didn’t think there was enough (Detroit representation) by any means,” she said. “And it was my feeling, ‘How dare you come to Detroit, a city of legends — musical legends, plural — and not ask one or two of them to participate?’ That’s not the way it should be.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Franklin did most of her extensive touring by bus after Redding’s death in a 1967 plane crash, and a rough flight to Detroit in 1982 left her with a fear of flying that anti-anxiety tapes and classes couldn’t help. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Funeral arrangements will be announced in the coming days.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Franklin, who had battled undisclosed health issues in recent years, had in 2017 announced her retirement from touring.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13839132\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/08/GettyImages-670445552-800x534.jpg\" alt='Aretha Franklin performs onstage during the \"Clive Davis: The Soundtrack of Our Lives\" Premiere Concert during the 2017 Tribeca Film Festival at Radio City Music Hall on April 19, 2017 in New York City. ' width=\"800\" height=\"534\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13839132\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/08/GettyImages-670445552-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/08/GettyImages-670445552-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/08/GettyImages-670445552-768x513.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/08/GettyImages-670445552-1020x681.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/08/GettyImages-670445552-1200x801.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/08/GettyImages-670445552.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/08/GettyImages-670445552-1180x788.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/08/GettyImages-670445552-960x641.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/08/GettyImages-670445552-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/08/GettyImages-670445552-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/08/GettyImages-670445552-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Aretha Franklin performs onstage during the “Clive Davis: The Soundtrack of Our Lives” Premiere Concert during the 2017 Tribeca Film Festival at Radio City Music Hall on April 19, 2017 in New York City. \u003ccite>(Noam Galai/Getty Images for Tribeca Film Festival)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A professional singer and accomplished pianist by her late teens, a superstar by her mid-20s, Franklin had long ago settled any arguments over who was the greatest popular vocalist of her time. Her gifts, natural and acquired, were a multi-octave mezzo-soprano, gospel passion and training worthy of a preacher’s daughter, taste sophisticated and eccentric, and the courage to channel private pain into liberating song.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She recorded hundreds of tracks and had dozens of hits over the span of a half century, including 20 that reached No. 1 on the R&B charts. But her reputation was defined by an extraordinary run of top 10 smashes in the late 1960s, from the morning-after bliss of “(You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman,” to the wised-up “Chain of Fools” to her unstoppable call for “Respect.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her records sold millions of copies and the music industry couldn’t honor her enough. Franklin won 18 Grammy awards. In 1987, she became the first woman inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Clive Davis, the music mogul who brought her to Arista Records and helped revive her career in the 1980s, said he was “devastated” by her death.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She was truly one of a kind. She was more than the Queen of Soul. She was a national treasure to be cherished by every generation throughout the world,” he said in a statement. “Apart from our long professional relationship, Aretha was my friend. Her loss is deeply profound and my heart is full of sadness.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fellow singers bowed to her eminence and political and civic leaders treated her as a peer. The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. was a longtime friend, and she sang at the dedication of King’s memorial, in 2011. She performed at the inaugurations of Presidents Bill Clinton and Jimmy Carter, and at the funeral for civil rights pioneer Rosa Parks. Clinton gave Franklin the National Medal of Arts. President George W. Bush awarded her the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation’s highest civilian honor, in 2005.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bill and Hillary Clinton issued a statement mourning the loss of their friend and “one of America’s greatest treasures.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For more than 50 years, she stirred our souls. She was elegant, graceful, and utterly uncompromising in her artistry. Aretha’s first music school was the church and her performances were powered by what she learned there. I’ll always be grateful for her kindness and support, including her performances at both my inaugural celebrations, and for the chance to be there for what sadly turned out to be her final performance last November at a benefit supporting the fight against HIV/AIDS.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Franklin’s best-known appearance with a president was in January 2009, when she sang “My Country ’tis of Thee” at President Barack Obama’s inauguration. She wore a gray felt hat with a huge, Swarovski rhinestone-bordered bow that became an Internet sensation and even had its own website. In 2015, she brought Obama and others to tears with a triumphant performance of “Natural Woman” at a Kennedy Center tribute to the song’s co-writer, Carole King.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Franklin endured the exhausting grind of celebrity and personal troubles dating back to childhood. She was married from 1961 to 1969 to her manager, Ted White, and their battles are widely believed to have inspired her performances on several songs, including “(Sweet Sweet Baby) Since You’ve Been Gone,” ″Think” and her heartbreaking ballad of despair, “Ain’t No Way.” The mother of two sons by age 16 (she later had two more), she was often in turmoil as she struggled with her weight, family problems and financial predicaments. Her best known producer, Jerry Wexler, nicknamed her “Our Lady of Mysterious Sorrows.”\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/Vyx34kgHGng'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/Vyx34kgHGng'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>Franklin married actor Glynn Turman in 1978 in Los Angeles but returned to her hometown of Detroit the following year after her father was shot by burglars and left semi-comatose until his death in 1984. She and Turman divorced that year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite growing up in Detroit, and having Smokey Robinson as a childhood friend, Franklin never recorded for Motown Records; stints with Columbia and Arista were sandwiched around her prime years with Atlantic Records. But it was at Detroit’s New Bethel Baptist Church, where her father was pastor, that Franklin learned the gospel fundamentals that would make her a soul institution.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Aretha Louise Franklin was born March 25, 1942, in Memphis, Tennessee. The Rev. C.L. Franklin soon moved his family to Buffalo, New York, then to Detroit, where the Franklins settled after the marriage of Aretha’s parents collapsed and her mother (and reputed sound-alike) Barbara returned to Buffalo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>C.L. Franklin was among the most prominent Baptist ministers of his time. He recorded dozens of albums of sermons and music and knew such gospel stars as Marion Williams and Clara Ward, who mentored Aretha and her sisters Carolyn and Erma. (Both sisters sang on Aretha’s records, and Carolyn also wrote “Ain’t No Way” and other songs for Aretha). Music was the family business and performers from Sam Cooke to Lou Rawls were guests at the Franklin house. In the living room, the shy young Aretha awed friends with her playing on the grand piano.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Franklin occasionally performed at New Bethel Baptist throughout her career; her 1987 gospel album “One Lord One Faith One Baptism” was recorded live at the church.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her most acclaimed gospel recording came in 1972 with the Grammy-winning album “Amazing Grace,” which was recorded live at New Temple Missionary Baptist Church in South Central Los Angeles and featured gospel legend James Cleveland, along with her own father (Mick Jagger was one of the celebrities in the audience). It became one of of the best-selling gospel albums ever.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The piano she began learning at age 8 became a jazzy component of much of her work, including arranging as well as songwriting. “If I’m writing and I’m producing and singing, too, you get more of me that way, rather than having four or five different people working on one song,” Franklin told The Detroit News in 2003.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Franklin was in her early teens when she began touring with her father, and she released a gospel album in 1956 through J-V-B Records. Four years later, she signed with Columbia Records producer John Hammond, who called Franklin the most exciting singer he had heard since a vocalist he promoted decades earlier, Billie Holiday. Franklin knew Motown founder Berry Gordy Jr. and considered joining his label, but decided it was just a local company at the time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Franklin recorded several albums for Columbia Records over the next six years. She had a handful of minor hits, including “Rock-A-Bye Your Baby With a Dixie Melody” and “Runnin’ Out of Fools,” but never quite caught on as the label tried to fit into her a variety of styles, from jazz and show songs to such pop numbers as “Mockingbird.” Franklin jumped to Atlantic Records when her contract ran out, in 1966.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“But the years at Columbia also taught her several important things,” critic Russell Gersten later wrote. “She worked hard at controlling and modulating her phrasing, giving her a discipline that most other soul singers lacked. She also developed a versatility with mainstream music that gave her later albums a breadth that was lacking on Motown LPs from the same period.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Most important, she learned what she didn’t like: to do what she was told to do.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At Atlantic, Wexler teamed her with veteran R&B musicians from Fame Studios in Muscle Shoals, and the result was a tougher, soulful sound, with call-and-response vocals and Franklin’s gospel-style piano, which anchored “I Say a Little Prayer,” ″Natural Woman” and others.\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/n0POmdK18WU'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/n0POmdK18WU'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>Of Franklin’s dozens of hits, none was linked more firmly to her than the funky, horn-led march “Respect” and its spelled out demand for “R-E-S-P-E-C-T.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Writing in Rolling Stone magazine in 2004, Wexler said: “It was an appeal for dignity combined with a blatant lubricity. There are songs that are a call to action. There are love songs. There are sex songs. But it’s hard to think of another song where all those elements are combined.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Franklin had decided she wanted to “embellish” the R&B song written by Otis Redding, whose version had been a modest hit in 1965, Wexler said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When she walked into the studio, it was already worked out in her head,” the producer wrote. “Otis came up to my office right before ‘Respect’ was released, and I played him the tape. He said, ‘She done took my song.’ He said it benignly and ruefully. He knew the identity of the song was slipping away from him to her.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a 2004 interview with the St. Petersburg (Florida) Times, Franklin was asked whether she sensed in the ’60s that she was helping change popular music.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Somewhat, certainly with ‘Respect,’ that was a battle cry for freedom and many people of many ethnicities took pride in that word,” she answered. “It was meaningful to all of us.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 1968, Franklin was pictured on the cover of Time magazine and had more than 10 Top 20 hits in 1967 and 1968. At a time of rebellion and division, Franklin’s records were a musical union of the church and the secular, man and woman, black and white, North and South, East and West. They were produced and engineered by New Yorkers Wexler and Tom Dowd, arranged by Turkish-born Arif Mardin and backed by an interracial assembly of top session musicians based mostly in Alabama.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her popularity faded during the 1970s despite such hits as the funky “Rock Steady” and such acclaimed albums as the intimate “Spirit in the Dark.” But her career was revived in 1980 with a cameo appearance in the smash movie “The Blues Brothers” and her switch to Arista Records. Franklin collaborated with such pop and soul artists as Luther Vandross, Elton John, Whitney Houston and George Michael, with whom she recorded a No. 1 single, “I Knew You Were Waiting (for Me).” Her 1985 album “Who’s Zoomin’ Who” received some of her best reviews and included such hits as the title track and “Freeway of Love.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Critics consistently praised Franklin’s singing but sometimes questioned her material; she covered songs by Stephen Sondheim, Bread, the Doobie Brothers. For Aretha, anything she performed was “soul.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From her earliest recording sessions at Columbia, when she asked to sing “Over the Rainbow,” she defied category. The 1998 Grammys gave her a chance to demonstrate her range. Franklin performed “Respect,” then, with only a few minutes’ notice, filled in for an ailing Luciano Pavarotti and drew rave reviews for her rendition of “Nessun Dorma,” a stirring aria for tenors from Puccini’s “Turandot.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m sure many people were surprised, but I’m not there to prove anything,” Franklin told The Associated Press. “Not necessary.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fame never eclipsed Franklin’s charitable works, or her loyalty to Detroit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Franklin sang the national anthem at Super Bowl in her hometown in 2006, after grousing that Detroit’s rich musical legacy was being snubbed when the Rolling Stones were chosen as halftime performers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I didn’t think there was enough (Detroit representation) by any means,” she said. “And it was my feeling, ‘How dare you come to Detroit, a city of legends — musical legends, plural — and not ask one or two of them to participate?’ That’s not the way it should be.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Franklin did most of her extensive touring by bus after Redding’s death in a 1967 plane crash, and a rough flight to Detroit in 1982 left her with a fear of flying that anti-anxiety tapes and classes couldn’t help. She told Time in 1998 that the custom bus was a comfortable alternative: “You can pull over, go to Red Lobster. You can’t pull over at 35,000 feet.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She only released a few albums over the past two decades, including “A Rose is Still a Rose,” which featured songs by Sean “Diddy” Combs, Lauryn Hill and other contemporary artists, and “So Damn Happy,” for which Franklin wrote the gratified title ballad. Franklin’s autobiography, “Aretha: From These Roots,” came out in 1999, when she was in her 50s. But she always made it clear that her story would continue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>In the days since 18-year-old Nia Wilson was slain in Oakland, Bay Area artists have taken up their pens to honor her memory. With hand-drawn illustrations, digital collages and mixed media works, artists from Oakland and San Francisco have demanded justice and called to #SayHerName.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Hearts are destroyed here in Oakland and all over,” write Victoria Emanuela and Caitie Metz, co-founders of feminist press \u003ca href=\"https://www.onbeinginyourbody.com/\">On Being In Your Body\u003c/a>. “Show up. Listen. Speak up. Don’t let your privilege sit on the sidelines and watch. Rest in power, Nia.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some have spoken up through their art, while others have taken to the streets. What unites them is an enduring need to honor Wilson, the teenage girl from Oakland \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/25/us/nia-wilson-bart-stabbing.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">with big dreams\u003c/a> who died while helping a stranger on the BART train.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Below, find 10 tributes to Nia Wilson by Bay Area artists.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/broobs.psd/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@broobs.psd\u003c/a>:\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13837811\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-13837811 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/broobs-800.jpg\" alt=\"'Nia Wilson' by Ruben Guadalupe Marquez (@broobs.psd)\" width=\"800\" height=\"914\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/broobs-800.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/broobs-800-160x183.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/broobs-800-768x877.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/broobs-800-240x274.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/broobs-800-375x428.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/broobs-800-520x594.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">‘Nia Wilson’ by Ruben Guadalupe Marquez (@broobs.psd)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/girasoulll/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@girasoull\u003c/a>:\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13837812\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/Blqd77jBZ4q/?taken-by=girasoulll\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-13837812 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/girasoul-800.jpg\" alt='\"Love, protect and honor Black womxn because we far too beautiful for this world. Rest easy young #angel 🙏🏽 I pray your assassination and the continual violence our peoples endure all over the diaspora be met with stronger and deeper rebellion and love🌻\" — Francis (@girasoulll)' width=\"800\" height=\"684\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/girasoul-800.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/girasoul-800-160x137.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/girasoul-800-768x657.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/girasoul-800-240x205.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/girasoul-800-375x321.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/girasoul-800-520x445.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">“Love, protect and honor Black womxn because we far too beautiful for this world. Rest easy young #angel I pray your assassination and the continual violence our peoples endure all over the diaspora be met with stronger and deeper rebellion and love.” — Francis (@girasoulll)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/onbeinginyourbody/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@onbeinginyourbody\u003c/a>:\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13837810\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/Bln_qQNnVHC/?taken-by=onbeinginyourbody\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-13837810 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/onbeinginyourbody-800.jpg\" alt='\"Hearts are destroyed here in Oakland and all over. Show up. Listen. Speak up. Don’t let your privilege sit on the sidelines and watch. Rest in power, Nia. #justicefornia\" — @onbeinginyourbody feminist press' width=\"800\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/onbeinginyourbody-800.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/onbeinginyourbody-800-160x160.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/onbeinginyourbody-800-768x768.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/onbeinginyourbody-800-240x240.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/onbeinginyourbody-800-375x375.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/onbeinginyourbody-800-520x520.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/onbeinginyourbody-800-32x32.jpg 32w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/onbeinginyourbody-800-50x50.jpg 50w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/onbeinginyourbody-800-64x64.jpg 64w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/onbeinginyourbody-800-96x96.jpg 96w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/onbeinginyourbody-800-128x128.jpg 128w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/onbeinginyourbody-800-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">“Hearts are destroyed here in Oakland and all over. Show up. Listen. Speak up. Don’t let your privilege sit on the sidelines and watch. Rest in power, Nia. #justicefornia” — @onbeinginyourbody feminist press\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/lady_luuz/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@lady_luuz\u003c/a>:\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13837817\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/BlrInvOAEEQ/?taken-by=alenamuseum\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-13837817 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/lady_luuz-800.jpg\" alt='\"Mainstream media’s continued dehumanization of Black Lives by criminalizing them is White Supremacy!\" — Alena Museum Artwork by @lady_luuz' width=\"800\" height=\"999\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/lady_luuz-800.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/lady_luuz-800-160x200.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/lady_luuz-800-768x959.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/lady_luuz-800-240x300.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/lady_luuz-800-375x468.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/lady_luuz-800-520x649.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">“Mainstream media’s continued dehumanization of Black Lives by criminalizing them is White Supremacy!” — Ale\u003cem>ń\u003c/em>a Culture Collective (Artwork by @lady_luuz)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/dimebagdarla/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@dimebagdarla\u003c/a>:\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13837822\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/BllvEzPHkscht-FDEmPIPILIBzDZmTZ1Nbw5qM0/?taken-by=dimebagdarla\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13837822\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/dimebagdarla-800.jpg\" alt='\"Made this for u nia.\" — @dimebagdarla' width=\"800\" height=\"804\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/dimebagdarla-800.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/dimebagdarla-800-160x161.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/dimebagdarla-800-768x772.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/dimebagdarla-800-240x241.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/dimebagdarla-800-375x377.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/dimebagdarla-800-520x523.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/dimebagdarla-800-32x32.jpg 32w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/dimebagdarla-800-50x50.jpg 50w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/dimebagdarla-800-64x64.jpg 64w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/dimebagdarla-800-96x96.jpg 96w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/dimebagdarla-800-128x128.jpg 128w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/dimebagdarla-800-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">“Made this for u nia.” — @dimebagdarla\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/paintpimp215/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@paintpimp215\u003c/a>:\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13837808\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/BlnFyGpAvNU/?taken-by=paintpimp215\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-13837808 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/paintpimp215-800.jpg\" alt=\"'Nia Wilson' by Jay Pee (@paintpimp215)\" width=\"800\" height=\"1000\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/paintpimp215-800.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/paintpimp215-800-160x200.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/paintpimp215-800-768x960.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/paintpimp215-800-240x300.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/paintpimp215-800-375x469.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/paintpimp215-800-520x650.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">#niawilson #bart #bayarea #oakland #thisisamerica #artlife #copic #pen #blackgirlsmatter ‘Nia Wilson’ by Jay Pee (@paintpimp215)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/sarahgreenstudio/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@sarahgreenstudio\u003c/a>:\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13837813\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/BlmZDibAMpB/?taken-by=sarahgreenstudio\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-13837813 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/sarahgreenstudio-800.jpg\" alt=\""A caption doesn't really do it, but trying to help spread visibility for Nia, who was killed in a brutal racial hate crime Sunday night on the bay area's public transportation." — Sarah Green Studio \" width=\"800\" height=\"899\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/sarahgreenstudio-800.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/sarahgreenstudio-800-160x180.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/sarahgreenstudio-800-768x863.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/sarahgreenstudio-800-240x270.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/sarahgreenstudio-800-375x421.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/sarahgreenstudio-800-520x584.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">“A caption doesn’t really do it, but trying to help spread visibility for Nia, who was killed in a brutal racial hate crime Sunday night on the bay area’s public transportation.” — Sarah Green Studio\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/shespeakseasy/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@shespeakseasy\u003c/a>:\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13837814\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/BlqX2DblN1q/?taken-by=shespeakseasy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-13837814 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/shespeakeasy-800.jpg\" alt='\"The news of Nia Wilson’s death has been on my mind all week—it hit particularly close to home as MacArthur used to be my stop. This beautiful girl deserved to grow up and live a full life without the threat of white supremacy or hatred lurking over her shoulder. As her sister Letifah said, black women deserve to live freely, always.\" — Rachel Frankel (@shespeakeasy)' width=\"800\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/shespeakeasy-800.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/shespeakeasy-800-160x160.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/shespeakeasy-800-768x768.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/shespeakeasy-800-240x240.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/shespeakeasy-800-375x375.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/shespeakeasy-800-520x520.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/shespeakeasy-800-32x32.jpg 32w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/shespeakeasy-800-50x50.jpg 50w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/shespeakeasy-800-64x64.jpg 64w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/shespeakeasy-800-96x96.jpg 96w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/shespeakeasy-800-128x128.jpg 128w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/shespeakeasy-800-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">“The news of Nia Wilson’s death has been on my mind all week—it hit particularly close to home as MacArthur used to be my stop. This beautiful girl deserved to grow up and live a full life without the threat of white supremacy or hatred lurking over her shoulder. As her sister Letifah said, black women deserve to live freely, always.” — Rachel Frankel (@shespeakseasy)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/lostboyillustrations/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@lostboyillustrations\u003c/a>:\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13837809\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/BlmGkDnFE-f/?taken-by=lostboyillustrations\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-13837809 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/lostboyillustrations-800.jpg\" alt='\"No fucking words... #niawilson #SAYHERNAME #blacklivesmatter #oaklandlove\" — Fin Lee (@lostboyillustrations)' width=\"800\" height=\"1000\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/lostboyillustrations-800.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/lostboyillustrations-800-160x200.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/lostboyillustrations-800-768x960.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/lostboyillustrations-800-240x300.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/lostboyillustrations-800-375x469.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/lostboyillustrations-800-520x650.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">“No fucking words… #niawilson #SAYHERNAME #blacklivesmatter #oaklandlove” — Fin Lee (@lostboyillustrations)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/kaylanijuanita/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@kaylanijuanita\u003c/a>:\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13837807\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/Blm0PGagZyh/?taken-by=kaylanijuanita\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-13837807 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/kaylanijuanita-800.jpg\" alt=\""I'm not sure how I feel about everything. I want to know why he did it, but I know there's nothing he can say that will justify any of it. I'm just angry. And I know that we won't know his motives for sure until after the interrogation and investigation, but I really deep in my soul KNOW it was a hate crime. 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I want to know why he did it, but I know there’s nothing he can say that will justify any of it. I’m just angry. And I know that we won’t know his motives for sure until after the interrogation and investigation, but I really deep in my soul KNOW it was a hate crime.” — Kaylani Juanita (@kaylanijuanita)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>In the days since 18-year-old Nia Wilson was slain in Oakland, Bay Area artists have taken up their pens to honor her memory. With hand-drawn illustrations, digital collages and mixed media works, artists from Oakland and San Francisco have demanded justice and called to #SayHerName.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Hearts are destroyed here in Oakland and all over,” write Victoria Emanuela and Caitie Metz, co-founders of feminist press \u003ca href=\"https://www.onbeinginyourbody.com/\">On Being In Your Body\u003c/a>. “Show up. Listen. Speak up. Don’t let your privilege sit on the sidelines and watch. Rest in power, Nia.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some have spoken up through their art, while others have taken to the streets. What unites them is an enduring need to honor Wilson, the teenage girl from Oakland \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/25/us/nia-wilson-bart-stabbing.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">with big dreams\u003c/a> who died while helping a stranger on the BART train.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Below, find 10 tributes to Nia Wilson by Bay Area artists.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/broobs.psd/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@broobs.psd\u003c/a>:\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13837811\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-13837811 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/broobs-800.jpg\" alt=\"'Nia Wilson' by Ruben Guadalupe Marquez (@broobs.psd)\" width=\"800\" height=\"914\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/broobs-800.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/broobs-800-160x183.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/broobs-800-768x877.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/broobs-800-240x274.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/broobs-800-375x428.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/broobs-800-520x594.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">‘Nia Wilson’ by Ruben Guadalupe Marquez (@broobs.psd)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/girasoulll/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@girasoull\u003c/a>:\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13837812\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/Blqd77jBZ4q/?taken-by=girasoulll\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-13837812 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/girasoul-800.jpg\" alt='\"Love, protect and honor Black womxn because we far too beautiful for this world. Rest easy young #angel 🙏🏽 I pray your assassination and the continual violence our peoples endure all over the diaspora be met with stronger and deeper rebellion and love🌻\" — Francis (@girasoulll)' width=\"800\" height=\"684\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/girasoul-800.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/girasoul-800-160x137.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/girasoul-800-768x657.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/girasoul-800-240x205.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/girasoul-800-375x321.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/girasoul-800-520x445.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">“Love, protect and honor Black womxn because we far too beautiful for this world. Rest easy young #angel I pray your assassination and the continual violence our peoples endure all over the diaspora be met with stronger and deeper rebellion and love.” — Francis (@girasoulll)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/onbeinginyourbody/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@onbeinginyourbody\u003c/a>:\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13837810\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/Bln_qQNnVHC/?taken-by=onbeinginyourbody\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-13837810 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/onbeinginyourbody-800.jpg\" alt='\"Hearts are destroyed here in Oakland and all over. Show up. Listen. Speak up. Don’t let your privilege sit on the sidelines and watch. Rest in power, Nia. #justicefornia\" — @onbeinginyourbody feminist press' width=\"800\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/onbeinginyourbody-800.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/onbeinginyourbody-800-160x160.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/onbeinginyourbody-800-768x768.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/onbeinginyourbody-800-240x240.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/onbeinginyourbody-800-375x375.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/onbeinginyourbody-800-520x520.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/onbeinginyourbody-800-32x32.jpg 32w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/onbeinginyourbody-800-50x50.jpg 50w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/onbeinginyourbody-800-64x64.jpg 64w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/onbeinginyourbody-800-96x96.jpg 96w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/onbeinginyourbody-800-128x128.jpg 128w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/onbeinginyourbody-800-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">“Hearts are destroyed here in Oakland and all over. Show up. Listen. Speak up. Don’t let your privilege sit on the sidelines and watch. Rest in power, Nia. #justicefornia” — @onbeinginyourbody feminist press\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/lady_luuz/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@lady_luuz\u003c/a>:\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13837817\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/BlrInvOAEEQ/?taken-by=alenamuseum\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-13837817 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/lady_luuz-800.jpg\" alt='\"Mainstream media’s continued dehumanization of Black Lives by criminalizing them is White Supremacy!\" — Alena Museum Artwork by @lady_luuz' width=\"800\" height=\"999\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/lady_luuz-800.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/lady_luuz-800-160x200.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/lady_luuz-800-768x959.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/lady_luuz-800-240x300.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/lady_luuz-800-375x468.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/lady_luuz-800-520x649.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">“Mainstream media’s continued dehumanization of Black Lives by criminalizing them is White Supremacy!” — Ale\u003cem>ń\u003c/em>a Culture Collective (Artwork by @lady_luuz)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/dimebagdarla/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@dimebagdarla\u003c/a>:\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13837822\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/BllvEzPHkscht-FDEmPIPILIBzDZmTZ1Nbw5qM0/?taken-by=dimebagdarla\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13837822\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/dimebagdarla-800.jpg\" alt='\"Made this for u nia.\" — @dimebagdarla' width=\"800\" height=\"804\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/dimebagdarla-800.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/dimebagdarla-800-160x161.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/dimebagdarla-800-768x772.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/dimebagdarla-800-240x241.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/dimebagdarla-800-375x377.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/dimebagdarla-800-520x523.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/dimebagdarla-800-32x32.jpg 32w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/dimebagdarla-800-50x50.jpg 50w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/dimebagdarla-800-64x64.jpg 64w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/dimebagdarla-800-96x96.jpg 96w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/dimebagdarla-800-128x128.jpg 128w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/dimebagdarla-800-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">“Made this for u nia.” — @dimebagdarla\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/paintpimp215/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@paintpimp215\u003c/a>:\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13837808\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/BlnFyGpAvNU/?taken-by=paintpimp215\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-13837808 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/paintpimp215-800.jpg\" alt=\"'Nia Wilson' by Jay Pee (@paintpimp215)\" width=\"800\" height=\"1000\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/paintpimp215-800.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/paintpimp215-800-160x200.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/paintpimp215-800-768x960.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/paintpimp215-800-240x300.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/paintpimp215-800-375x469.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/paintpimp215-800-520x650.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">#niawilson #bart #bayarea #oakland #thisisamerica #artlife #copic #pen #blackgirlsmatter ‘Nia Wilson’ by Jay Pee (@paintpimp215)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/sarahgreenstudio/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@sarahgreenstudio\u003c/a>:\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13837813\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/BlmZDibAMpB/?taken-by=sarahgreenstudio\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-13837813 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/sarahgreenstudio-800.jpg\" alt=\""A caption doesn't really do it, but trying to help spread visibility for Nia, who was killed in a brutal racial hate crime Sunday night on the bay area's public transportation." — Sarah Green Studio \" width=\"800\" height=\"899\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/sarahgreenstudio-800.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/sarahgreenstudio-800-160x180.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/sarahgreenstudio-800-768x863.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/sarahgreenstudio-800-240x270.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/sarahgreenstudio-800-375x421.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/sarahgreenstudio-800-520x584.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">“A caption doesn’t really do it, but trying to help spread visibility for Nia, who was killed in a brutal racial hate crime Sunday night on the bay area’s public transportation.” — Sarah Green Studio\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/shespeakseasy/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@shespeakseasy\u003c/a>:\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13837814\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/BlqX2DblN1q/?taken-by=shespeakseasy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-13837814 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/shespeakeasy-800.jpg\" alt='\"The news of Nia Wilson’s death has been on my mind all week—it hit particularly close to home as MacArthur used to be my stop. This beautiful girl deserved to grow up and live a full life without the threat of white supremacy or hatred lurking over her shoulder. As her sister Letifah said, black women deserve to live freely, always.\" — Rachel Frankel (@shespeakeasy)' width=\"800\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/shespeakeasy-800.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/shespeakeasy-800-160x160.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/shespeakeasy-800-768x768.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/shespeakeasy-800-240x240.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/shespeakeasy-800-375x375.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/shespeakeasy-800-520x520.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/shespeakeasy-800-32x32.jpg 32w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/shespeakeasy-800-50x50.jpg 50w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/shespeakeasy-800-64x64.jpg 64w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/shespeakeasy-800-96x96.jpg 96w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/shespeakeasy-800-128x128.jpg 128w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/shespeakeasy-800-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">“The news of Nia Wilson’s death has been on my mind all week—it hit particularly close to home as MacArthur used to be my stop. This beautiful girl deserved to grow up and live a full life without the threat of white supremacy or hatred lurking over her shoulder. As her sister Letifah said, black women deserve to live freely, always.” — Rachel Frankel (@shespeakseasy)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/lostboyillustrations/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@lostboyillustrations\u003c/a>:\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13837809\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/BlmGkDnFE-f/?taken-by=lostboyillustrations\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-13837809 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/lostboyillustrations-800.jpg\" alt='\"No fucking words... #niawilson #SAYHERNAME #blacklivesmatter #oaklandlove\" — Fin Lee (@lostboyillustrations)' width=\"800\" height=\"1000\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/lostboyillustrations-800.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/lostboyillustrations-800-160x200.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/lostboyillustrations-800-768x960.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/lostboyillustrations-800-240x300.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/lostboyillustrations-800-375x469.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/lostboyillustrations-800-520x650.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">“No fucking words… #niawilson #SAYHERNAME #blacklivesmatter #oaklandlove” — Fin Lee (@lostboyillustrations)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/kaylanijuanita/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@kaylanijuanita\u003c/a>:\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13837807\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/Blm0PGagZyh/?taken-by=kaylanijuanita\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-13837807 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/kaylanijuanita-800.jpg\" alt=\""I'm not sure how I feel about everything. I want to know why he did it, but I know there's nothing he can say that will justify any of it. I'm just angry. And I know that we won't know his motives for sure until after the interrogation and investigation, but I really deep in my soul KNOW it was a hate crime. Artwork by Kaylani Juanita (@kaylanijuanita)\" width=\"800\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/kaylanijuanita-800.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/kaylanijuanita-800-160x160.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/kaylanijuanita-800-768x768.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/kaylanijuanita-800-240x240.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/kaylanijuanita-800-375x375.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/kaylanijuanita-800-520x520.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/kaylanijuanita-800-32x32.jpg 32w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/kaylanijuanita-800-50x50.jpg 50w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/kaylanijuanita-800-64x64.jpg 64w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/kaylanijuanita-800-96x96.jpg 96w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/kaylanijuanita-800-128x128.jpg 128w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/kaylanijuanita-800-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">“I’m not sure how I feel about everything. I want to know why he did it, but I know there’s nothing he can say that will justify any of it. I’m just angry. And I know that we won’t know his motives for sure until after the interrogation and investigation, but I really deep in my soul KNOW it was a hate crime.” — Kaylani Juanita (@kaylanijuanita)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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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\">T\u003c/span>he Warriors are everywhere these days: the top of Tribune Tower illuminated in blue and gold, AC Transit buses with “Go Warriors” in the front digital display. Even the man pushing a cart past me last week wore a long Warriors banner tied around his neck and draped down his back, as if it were a cape.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-13833985\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/OGPenn.Cap_-160x184.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"160\" height=\"184\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/OGPenn.Cap_-160x184.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/OGPenn.Cap_.jpg 180w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 160px) 100vw, 160px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I walked past him and entered Halftime Sports Bar, where my best friend Jesus El sat. I knew he wasn’t doing well—the bar was nearly empty, and as I started to ask why he was watching the hockey game on the mounted TV, I realized he was staring blankly through the screen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jesus was mourning the death of a superhero.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sadiki Fuller, the former Golden State Warriors mascot, had been found dead just a few days prior, leaving behind his mother, two biological sisters, and hundreds of fans who knew him as Thunder, the team’s high-flying mascot in blue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sadiki also left behind a number of younger people he’d mentored. Jesus was one of them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13832829\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13832829\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/SADIKI.fromwebsite-800x600.png\" alt='Sadiki Fuller went from NBA mascot to standup comic without missing a beat. \"He had a gift,\" said former Houston Rockets mascot Jerry Burrell.' width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/SADIKI.fromwebsite-800x600.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/SADIKI.fromwebsite-160x120.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/SADIKI.fromwebsite-768x576.png 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/SADIKI.fromwebsite-240x180.png 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/SADIKI.fromwebsite-375x281.png 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/SADIKI.fromwebsite-520x390.png 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/SADIKI.fromwebsite.png 942w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sadiki Fuller went from NBA mascot to standup comic without missing a beat. “He had a gift,” said former Houston Rockets mascot Jerry Burrell. \u003ccite>(via sadikifuller.com)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Sadiki had come into Jesus’ life with the same prescient timing that brought him into the Warriors’ organization—during a period when his talents, wisdom and uplifting spirit were most needed. During a time when the Warriors definitely were \u003cem>not\u003c/em> everywhere.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jesus and Sadiki’s relationship was the stuff of mythological folklore; a chance meeting leads to a call to action, resulting in life-changing circumstances in which both emerge better for having traveled the journey together. Especially Jesus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last week when I sat down with Jesus at the bar, he summed it up by saying to me, “No one prepares you for your hero to die.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13832832\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13832832\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/SADIKI.Oracleoutside-800x800.jpg\" alt=\"Thunder hitting a dunk for the fans outside the arena, 1990s.\" width=\"800\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/SADIKI.Oracleoutside-800x800.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/SADIKI.Oracleoutside-160x160.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/SADIKI.Oracleoutside-768x768.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/SADIKI.Oracleoutside-1020x1020.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/SADIKI.Oracleoutside-960x960.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/SADIKI.Oracleoutside-240x240.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/SADIKI.Oracleoutside-375x375.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/SADIKI.Oracleoutside-520x520.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/SADIKI.Oracleoutside-32x32.jpg 32w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/SADIKI.Oracleoutside-50x50.jpg 50w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/SADIKI.Oracleoutside-64x64.jpg 64w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/SADIKI.Oracleoutside-96x96.jpg 96w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/SADIKI.Oracleoutside-128x128.jpg 128w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/SADIKI.Oracleoutside-150x150.jpg 150w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/SADIKI.Oracleoutside.jpg 1080w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Thunder hitting a dunk for the fans outside the arena, 1990s. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Jesus El)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">J\u003c/span>esus—or Zeus, as many people call him—was in elementary school when he first saw Thunder perform, watching in awe as the man in full-body spandex flew off a trampoline, hit flips and dunked basketballs with ease.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The next year, Zeus and Sadiki’s paths crossed again. Zeus, one of the millions of kids with an outlandish dream of becoming a superhero, asked the masked man how he could be like him. Sadiki, from behind the mesh face-wear, simply said, “Go to Head Over Heels.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Zeus went home, found Head Over Heels under “Gyms” in the Yellow Pages, and called the number. The organization offered Zeus free gymnastics classes in exchange for working—cleaning everything from dishes to gym mats.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Zeus did that for a year, calling Thunder’s office number everyday along the way, just to tell him about his progress. Until one day, Thunder invited Zeus down to the Warriors headquarters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Zeus didn’t know it at the time, but Sadiki Fuller was giving him something more than access to a professional NBA facility. He was passing down the torch of mentorship; unveiling the real path to becoming a superhero.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.instagram.com/p/Bi6EBLGnbBL/?taken-by=zeusdadunka\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">A\u003c/span> couple of days ago, I talked to Sadiki’s mother, Brenda Orr, who told me about his childhood in Houston, Texas. “His first love was gymnastics. He loved to flip, and do acrobatic things,” Orr told me. “He would teach all the kids in the neighborhood. He had his own gymnastics class on my front lawn; we could never grow grass because he was always flipping on it!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the conference call, including his two sisters, Aiisha and Jari, they told me story after story exemplifying Sadiki’s charisma and leadership.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A couple of years ago, I had my 40th birthday. He showed up, and I was outside socializing,” said Aiisha. “By the time I realized he was there, all my friends were charmed by him. He told everyone he was hugger, and he went around and hugged each and every one of them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That charisma, charm and urge to uplift others is what made him standout, both socially and professionally. Jerry Burrell, former mascot for the Houston Rockets, says he first met Sadiki in 1994, when he was looking for guys to be a part of a dunk team—not just any dunk team, but a team of superheroes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He was tall and skinny, and didn’t look like a superhero, so I blew him off,” Burrell told me. “But he kept calling me.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Burrell kept Sadiki as a backup dunker, but Sadiki soon got his time to shine. One day, as the team packed their belongings after a show at a high school, a crowd of people gathered to compliment them on their performance. Next thing Burrell knew, “(Sadiki) was making little kids balloon animals, and at one point he did a flip. He was tying it all together with funny anecdotes and references. He had them eating out of his hand,” said Burrell.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I realized that I had gotten him wrong,” said Burrell, who quickly brought Sadiki onto his High Impact Squad. “It didn’t matter that he didn’t have the ‘superhero look.’ He had a gift.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13832828\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13832828\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/SADIKI.balloonscourt-800x572.jpg\" alt=\"Sadiki Fuller, always outgoing, twisting balloons on the court.\" width=\"800\" height=\"572\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/SADIKI.balloonscourt-800x572.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/SADIKI.balloonscourt-160x114.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/SADIKI.balloonscourt-768x549.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/SADIKI.balloonscourt-1020x729.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/SADIKI.balloonscourt-1200x858.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/SADIKI.balloonscourt.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/SADIKI.balloonscourt-1180x843.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/SADIKI.balloonscourt-960x686.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/SADIKI.balloonscourt-240x172.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/SADIKI.balloonscourt-375x268.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/SADIKI.balloonscourt-520x372.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sadiki Fuller, always outgoing, twisting balloons on the court. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Jesus El)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">T\u003c/span>he Warriors discovered Sadiki’s gift two years later, after the team abandoned a failed experiment with a mascot by the name of Berserker. A Warriors rep had caught wind of Sadiki’s talents, and brought him on board to play a new, more acrobatic mascot, named Thunder.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sadiki would go on to dunk, flip and fly through the air at Warriors games, in schools and at social events for the next five years—a particularly downtrodden era for Warriors fandom. (As \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/30/sports/basketball/golden-state-warriors-mascot-thunder-sadiki-fuller.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a \u003cem>New York Times\u003c/em> piece on Sadiki\u003c/a> notes, the Warriors went 97-281 during his tenure.) But that didn’t matter to Sadiki. When he performed, he’d go all in. He’d breakdance at center court. He’d hit handstands, and while inverted, he’d kick his legs in rhythm to the music on the stadium’s PA system. Solely by using body language—his face shrouded by a mask—he’d convey excitement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And of course, when it was time, he’d hit a trampoline that was held in place by his young assistant, Zeus, take to the sky like a rocket, and then come down while slamming the ball with the power of Shango—lighting up the Oracle with wild cheers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/warriors/status/997193788882866178\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">I\u003c/span>n other words, Sadiki kept people smiling during the dark ages. He was the life of the party. And when he wasn’t on the court, hitting flips and uplifting spirits, he was busy forming his own dunk team—Team Thunder.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He always told us his goal wasn’t to make us better dunkers or performers, but to make us better men,” said Eddie Johnson, one of the original members of Team Thunder. Johnson, who Sadiki recruited after seeing his Taekwondo performance at a Warriors game, dunked for years with Team Thunder—which eventually morphed into the Flying Dubs after the Seattle Supersonics rebranded themselves as the Oklahoma City Thunder.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In fact, the Supersonics’ name change had further impact: to avoid confusion, the Warriors decided to part ways with their mascot, Thunder. Sadiki took it as a sign to move to Los Angeles and pursue his dream of standup comedy, which he performed for the past 15 years with relative success (including one time he got to imitate Chris Rock—\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n-glDhAFLJA&feature=youtu.be&t=2m35s\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>in front of\u003c/em> Chris Rock\u003c/a>).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But during his time flying through the air in Oakland for screaming fans, Sadiki quietly showed a handful of young men a better path in life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13832830\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 743px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13832830\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/SADIKI.HeadHeels.jpg\" alt=\"Zeus teaches a new generation at Head Over Heels gym in Emeryville.\" width=\"743\" height=\"740\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/SADIKI.HeadHeels.jpg 743w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/SADIKI.HeadHeels-160x159.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/SADIKI.HeadHeels-240x239.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/SADIKI.HeadHeels-375x373.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/SADIKI.HeadHeels-520x518.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/SADIKI.HeadHeels-32x32.jpg 32w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/SADIKI.HeadHeels-50x50.jpg 50w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/SADIKI.HeadHeels-64x64.jpg 64w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/SADIKI.HeadHeels-96x96.jpg 96w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/SADIKI.HeadHeels-128x128.jpg 128w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/SADIKI.HeadHeels-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 743px) 100vw, 743px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Zeus teaches a new generation at Head Over Heels gym in Emeryville. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Jesus El)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Although he never became an official NBA mascot himself, Zeus worked as the Oakland A’s mascot, Stomper, for a year. He’s also traveled the world by acro-dunking, performing at many NBA games as well as schools and youth centers. He’s earned a couple of plaques from the Guinness Book of World Records for acrobatic slam-dunking. And he even has a photo with Beyoncé from an NBA All-Star Game in Denver—his second-most major accomplishment, in my eyes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His first, of course, is the long-running mentorship program he and other members of the Flying Dubs continue to run to this day, even after the Warriors discontinued their involvement with the dunk team a few seasons ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Johnson, now a father of four, focuses much of his time and energy on his family these days. But every once in a while, he makes the journey to Head Over Heels gymnasium in Emeryville, where his former dunk team teammate, Zeus, teaches young people the art of gymnastics, acrobatic slam dunking and life skills, for free. Giving them the same path he got from Sadiki years ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The path of a superhero.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-12127869\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-800x78.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"78\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-768x75.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Pendarvis Harshaw is the author of ‘\u003ca href=\"http://www.latimes.com/local/abcarian/la-me-abcarian-og-harshaw-20170409-story.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">OG Told Me\u003c/a>,’ a memoir about growing up in Oakland. Find him on Twitter \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/ogpenn\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sadiki also left behind a number of younger people he’d mentored. Jesus was one of them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13832829\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13832829\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/SADIKI.fromwebsite-800x600.png\" alt='Sadiki Fuller went from NBA mascot to standup comic without missing a beat. \"He had a gift,\" said former Houston Rockets mascot Jerry Burrell.' width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/SADIKI.fromwebsite-800x600.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/SADIKI.fromwebsite-160x120.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/SADIKI.fromwebsite-768x576.png 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/SADIKI.fromwebsite-240x180.png 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/SADIKI.fromwebsite-375x281.png 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/SADIKI.fromwebsite-520x390.png 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/SADIKI.fromwebsite.png 942w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sadiki Fuller went from NBA mascot to standup comic without missing a beat. “He had a gift,” said former Houston Rockets mascot Jerry Burrell. \u003ccite>(via sadikifuller.com)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Sadiki had come into Jesus’ life with the same prescient timing that brought him into the Warriors’ organization—during a period when his talents, wisdom and uplifting spirit were most needed. During a time when the Warriors definitely were \u003cem>not\u003c/em> everywhere.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jesus and Sadiki’s relationship was the stuff of mythological folklore; a chance meeting leads to a call to action, resulting in life-changing circumstances in which both emerge better for having traveled the journey together. 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Zeus, one of the millions of kids with an outlandish dream of becoming a superhero, asked the masked man how he could be like him. Sadiki, from behind the mesh face-wear, simply said, “Go to Head Over Heels.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Zeus went home, found Head Over Heels under “Gyms” in the Yellow Pages, and called the number. The organization offered Zeus free gymnastics classes in exchange for working—cleaning everything from dishes to gym mats.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Zeus did that for a year, calling Thunder’s office number everyday along the way, just to tell him about his progress. Until one day, Thunder invited Zeus down to the Warriors headquarters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Zeus didn’t know it at the time, but Sadiki Fuller was giving him something more than access to a professional NBA facility. He was passing down the torch of mentorship; unveiling the real path to becoming a superhero.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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He told everyone he was hugger, and he went around and hugged each and every one of them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That charisma, charm and urge to uplift others is what made him standout, both socially and professionally. Jerry Burrell, former mascot for the Houston Rockets, says he first met Sadiki in 1994, when he was looking for guys to be a part of a dunk team—not just any dunk team, but a team of superheroes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He was tall and skinny, and didn’t look like a superhero, so I blew him off,” Burrell told me. “But he kept calling me.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Burrell kept Sadiki as a backup dunker, but Sadiki soon got his time to shine. One day, as the team packed their belongings after a show at a high school, a crowd of people gathered to compliment them on their performance. Next thing Burrell knew, “(Sadiki) was making little kids balloon animals, and at one point he did a flip. He was tying it all together with funny anecdotes and references. He had them eating out of his hand,” said Burrell.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I realized that I had gotten him wrong,” said Burrell, who quickly brought Sadiki onto his High Impact Squad. “It didn’t matter that he didn’t have the ‘superhero look.’ He had a gift.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13832828\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13832828\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/SADIKI.balloonscourt-800x572.jpg\" alt=\"Sadiki Fuller, always outgoing, twisting balloons on the court.\" width=\"800\" height=\"572\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/SADIKI.balloonscourt-800x572.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/SADIKI.balloonscourt-160x114.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/SADIKI.balloonscourt-768x549.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/SADIKI.balloonscourt-1020x729.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/SADIKI.balloonscourt-1200x858.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/SADIKI.balloonscourt.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/SADIKI.balloonscourt-1180x843.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/SADIKI.balloonscourt-960x686.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/SADIKI.balloonscourt-240x172.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/SADIKI.balloonscourt-375x268.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/SADIKI.balloonscourt-520x372.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sadiki Fuller, always outgoing, twisting balloons on the court. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Jesus El)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">T\u003c/span>he Warriors discovered Sadiki’s gift two years later, after the team abandoned a failed experiment with a mascot by the name of Berserker. A Warriors rep had caught wind of Sadiki’s talents, and brought him on board to play a new, more acrobatic mascot, named Thunder.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sadiki would go on to dunk, flip and fly through the air at Warriors games, in schools and at social events for the next five years—a particularly downtrodden era for Warriors fandom. (As \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/30/sports/basketball/golden-state-warriors-mascot-thunder-sadiki-fuller.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a \u003cem>New York Times\u003c/em> piece on Sadiki\u003c/a> notes, the Warriors went 97-281 during his tenure.) But that didn’t matter to Sadiki. When he performed, he’d go all in. He’d breakdance at center court. He’d hit handstands, and while inverted, he’d kick his legs in rhythm to the music on the stadium’s PA system. Solely by using body language—his face shrouded by a mask—he’d convey excitement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And of course, when it was time, he’d hit a trampoline that was held in place by his young assistant, Zeus, take to the sky like a rocket, and then come down while slamming the ball with the power of Shango—lighting up the Oracle with wild cheers.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>David Wiegand, Assistant Managing Editor at the \u003cem>San Francisco Chronicle\u003c/em> and my co-host on \u003cem>The Do List\u003c/em> on KQED from 2008 to 2017, \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/entertainment/article/David-Wiegand-Chronicle-arts-editor-and-TV-12879905.php\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">died unexpectedly\u003c/a> at his home Monday. He was a colleague, friend, dog lover, and someone who seemed to know everyone and everything about music, theater and the arts here in the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By all accounts, David was a workaholic, helping plan the \u003cem>Chronicle\u003c/em>’s coverage for big events; writing TV reviews; editing copy, sometimes late into the night, from the paper’s critics; and filling in for them when needed. Yet somehow he always found time for \u003cem>The Do List\u003c/em>, which he often remarked was his favorite part of the week. (While out in public, he got a kick out of the fact that people recognized his voice from the show and told him how much they enjoyed it.) \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13830917\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/David-Wiegand-and-Cy-Musiker-at-The-Do-List-Live-event-at-The-Chapel-in-2015-e1525220054642-800x460.jpeg\" alt=\"David Wiegand and KQED's Cy Musiker at The Do List Live event at The Chapel in 2015.\" width=\"800\" height=\"460\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13830917\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/David-Wiegand-and-Cy-Musiker-at-The-Do-List-Live-event-at-The-Chapel-in-2015-e1525220054642-800x460.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/David-Wiegand-and-Cy-Musiker-at-The-Do-List-Live-event-at-The-Chapel-in-2015-e1525220054642-160x92.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/David-Wiegand-and-Cy-Musiker-at-The-Do-List-Live-event-at-The-Chapel-in-2015-e1525220054642-768x442.jpeg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/David-Wiegand-and-Cy-Musiker-at-The-Do-List-Live-event-at-The-Chapel-in-2015-e1525220054642-960x552.jpeg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/David-Wiegand-and-Cy-Musiker-at-The-Do-List-Live-event-at-The-Chapel-in-2015-e1525220054642-240x138.jpeg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/David-Wiegand-and-Cy-Musiker-at-The-Do-List-Live-event-at-The-Chapel-in-2015-e1525220054642-375x216.jpeg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/David-Wiegand-and-Cy-Musiker-at-The-Do-List-Live-event-at-The-Chapel-in-2015-e1525220054642-520x299.jpeg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/David-Wiegand-and-Cy-Musiker-at-The-Do-List-Live-event-at-The-Chapel-in-2015-e1525220054642.jpeg 1000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">David Wiegand and KQED’s Cy Musiker at The Do List Live event at The Chapel in 2015. \u003ccite>(KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>When David, radio producer Suzie Racho, Vice President Jo Anne Wallace and I created \u003cem>The Do List\u003c/em> in October of 2008, Wiegand brought the show credibility and depth. Usually when talking about an upcoming event, he had previously interviewed the artist, or heard them perform a year ago, or 20 years ago, and kept a vivid memory of why they were so good at their art.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>David loved classical music, rock ‘n’ roll, rap, cabaret and jazz, theater and the occasional opera — though he had little use for Wagner. He got a huge kick out of standup comics, and the way they skewered the pompous and the stupid. And David got just as excited about discovering young talent, a new singer or lyricist, or painter, or a great new theater group. In other words, there was nothing stale about his taste, and he was proud to have a role in publicizing something great that no one had heard of before.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>David and Suzie Racho and I were an odd trio, sometimes. He could be cranky when he felt like it; he also had a razor-sharp wit. We often disagreed on whether a performer was great or crap. But that was David — passionately caring about art, about \u003cem>The Do List\u003c/em>, and the trust our listeners gave us to help them find a great show.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>David never missed a show or a deadline. And he believed deeply that the arts mattered in society, that they could both bring us joy and new insights about the world.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We’re going to miss his insights, his voice and his wisdom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/entertainment/article/David-Wiegand-Chronicle-arts-editor-and-TV-12879905.php\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read the \u003c/a>\u003c/em>Chronicle\u003cem>’s obituary of David Wiegand here.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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