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On his Acereros roster were Pablo Sandoval, the 2012 World Series hero for the San Francisco Giants; Chris Carter, the former Oakland A’s prospect who led the American League in home runs in 2016; and Bruce Maxwell, the former A’s catcher who in 2017 was the first MLB player to kneel during the national anthem in protest of police brutality.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID='arts_13910698']After a recent team photoshoot in front of the Monclova stadium, Boyd got a glimpse of the steel town (Acereros translates to “Steelers”) while riding in the back of a truck. Monclova, a three-hour drive south of the Texas border, is a long way from Palo Alto, where Tatiana is expecting the couple’s second child in September. She recently resigned from her job with the school district to care for Bria full-time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It takes a special family dynamic to want to go through this,” said Tatiana, who plans to visit BJ in June and July. “The 2-year-old takes it hard when Dad leaves. I was excited because I wanted to visit and experience something new. You only live once, and why not?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.instagram.com/p/CdeJadEOWxh/\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘I Have to Leave the States to Make More Money’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The Mexican League contract is the biggest of Boyd’s career. The team provides players with shared apartments—humble dwellings for professional athletes looking to jump-start careers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If I can play with these big leaguers here, I can play with them in the States,” said the burly left-handed hitter who batted .319 with 15 homers in Double-A last season with the Minnesota Twins organization. “Some of my teammates ask, ‘How did you not get a shot?’ It is what it is.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The “shot” Boyd seeks is in the majors, where a declining percentage of Black players—from a high of 18% in the 1980s to around 7% last season—leads Boyd wondering if more than stats have kept him from opportunities. He isn’t alone. In 2020, after police killings of unarmed Black civilians led to national protests, a group of Black baseball players formed the \u003ca href=\"https://www.playersalliance.org/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Players Alliance\u003c/a>, aimed at growing diversity and equity in the game. MLB has pledged to donate up to $150 million over 10 years to the organization. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It doesn’t add up for me as an African American player that I have to leave the States to make more money,” Boyd said. “There’s a reason Bruce is in the (Mexican) league. He took a knee.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13913456\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/05/BJBoyd.TraderJoes-800x571.jpg\" alt=\"A sign mounted at Trader Joe's across from Palo Alto High School in 2012, congratulating BJ Boyd on his signing with the Oakland A's.\" width=\"800\" height=\"571\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13913456\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/05/BJBoyd.TraderJoes-800x571.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/05/BJBoyd.TraderJoes-1020x728.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/05/BJBoyd.TraderJoes-160x114.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/05/BJBoyd.TraderJoes-768x548.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/05/BJBoyd.TraderJoes-1536x1097.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/05/BJBoyd.TraderJoes.jpg 1574w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A sign mounted at Trader Joe’s across from Palo Alto High School in 2012, congratulating BJ Boyd on his signing with the Oakland A’s. \u003ccite>(Nina Thorsen/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>A Brush With the A’s, and a Return to Football\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>After being drafted by the A’s in 2012, Boyd proved a consistent hitter during his first five seasons in the lower minor leagues—taking buses from town to town, living with host families. The center fielder’s breakout season came in 2017 when, while playing with Double-A Midland, he was in contention for the Texas League batting title and finished third, hitting .323.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He played in 2018 with Triple-A Nashville, one level below the A’s, and hit .271 with 49 RBIs. But with a crowded outfield in Oakland, Boyd didn’t like his chances of making the MLB roster in spring training. After seven minor-league seasons, and with his college football eligibility intact, Boyd returned to the other sport he excelled at in his youth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a teenager, Boyd jumped at the A’s signing bonus instead of pursuing college football. “The instant money was right there, and I didn’t come from money,” Boyd said. It’s a decision he regrets after years in the minors of getting passed for opportunities he feels he deserved. When the A’s drafted dual-sport athlete Kyler Murray in 2018, Boyd wasn’t surprised when the Heisman Trophy-winning quarterback turned down the A’s offer for instant stardom in the NFL.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dual sport athletes were once more common, with Bo Jackson and Deion Sanders setting the standard for NFL-MLB crossovers in the 1980s and 1990s. Jackson is the only player to become an MLB All-Star and NFL Pro Bowl player. Sanders once played in an NFL game and MLB playoff game on the same day. Over the last 20 years, however, as professional teams invest more money in players and athletes become more specialized, the trend has fallen off.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even more uncommon is what Boyd attempted. At age 26, the 230-pounder was eight years older than many of his Foothill teammates. He brought “a sense of maturity that the young guys followed,” assistant coach Brandon Younger said. Working as a security guard at night, Boyd took classes during the day. On the football field, the running back totaled 653 total yards and six touchdowns for an Owls team that finished the 2019 regular season unbeaten.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13913458\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/05/BJBoyd.night_-800x503.jpg\" alt=\"A young couple holds their toddler daughter on the baseball field at night. \" width=\"800\" height=\"503\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13913458\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/05/BJBoyd.night_-800x503.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/05/BJBoyd.night_-1020x641.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/05/BJBoyd.night_-160x101.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/05/BJBoyd.night_-768x482.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/05/BJBoyd.night_-1536x965.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/05/BJBoyd.night_-1920x1206.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/05/BJBoyd.night_.jpg 2009w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">‘He’s always made something out of nothing,” says wife Tatiana (left) of BJ Boyd. 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He resumed coaching youth baseball teams—Top Tier and Swagger Athletics—in the South Bay, and worked out with a personal trainer to stay prepared for his next professional opportunity. (Boyd continues to work with area youth; in February, he joined Oakland native and former MLB All-Star Tyson Ross in hosting a free baseball clinic at the \u003ca href=\"https://www.riekes.org/athletic-fitness\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Riekes Center\u003c/a> in Menlo Park.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2021, Boyd gave baseball another chance. After a brief stint with an independent league team, the Twins signed him to a minor-league deal. The outfielder established himself as one the league’s best hitters with Double-A Wichita. And for the first time in his career, he was driving the ball out of the park. “He was hitting home run after home run,” recalls Tatiana, who flew to the Midwest with Bria to catch the hot hitting in person. “He knew he was back and he wanted to stay back. He was on fire and it was so much fun to watch.” Boyd’s previous season high for homers was eight; he equaled that total over a nine-game span in August alone. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Boyd was called up to Triple-A St. Paul, where his hitting fell off. Despite his impressive Double-A statistics, coming after two years away from baseball, Boyd didn’t receive MLB calls once the owners’ lockout ended this spring. Then Monclova offered.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13913457\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 600px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/05/BJBoyd.Acereros.jpg\" alt=\"A man in a blue baseball uniform runs the bases on the baseball diamond.\" width=\"600\" height=\"600\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13913457\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/05/BJBoyd.Acereros.jpg 600w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/05/BJBoyd.Acereros-160x160.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">BJ Boyd in uniform for the Acereros, in Monclova, where he hopes to join a roster that includes Bay Area favorites Pablo Sandoval and Josh Reddick. \u003ccite>(Courtesy the Boyd Family)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>A League in Need of His Hitting\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>“For me, going to Mexico, I feel way better,” said Boyd, who hopes to join an active roster that includes former A’s Gold Glove winner Josh Reddick. “People make jokes and say it’s an exile league. They take care of their players better than the minor leagues. They pay better than the States.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the current MLB season rolls along, Boyd can’t help but notice paltry offensive stats across the league. The A’s, who once drafted Boyd, currently have a .199 team batting average. The Arizona Diamondbacks are hitting .203. The \u003ca href=\"https://www.baseball-reference.com/leagues/majors/2022-standard-batting.shtml\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">league average is .234\u003c/a>, on pace to be the worst average in its 152-year history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Boyd’s ability to hit for a high average is a skill that, in recent years, has been devalued by MLB teams whose analytics say batters should swing for the fences, or not at all. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003ch2>‘I Have to Leave the States to Make More Money’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The Mexican League contract is the biggest of Boyd’s career. The team provides players with shared apartments—humble dwellings for professional athletes looking to jump-start careers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If I can play with these big leaguers here, I can play with them in the States,” said the burly left-handed hitter who batted .319 with 15 homers in Double-A last season with the Minnesota Twins organization. “Some of my teammates ask, ‘How did you not get a shot?’ It is what it is.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The “shot” Boyd seeks is in the majors, where a declining percentage of Black players—from a high of 18% in the 1980s to around 7% last season—leads Boyd wondering if more than stats have kept him from opportunities. He isn’t alone. In 2020, after police killings of unarmed Black civilians led to national protests, a group of Black baseball players formed the \u003ca href=\"https://www.playersalliance.org/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Players Alliance\u003c/a>, aimed at growing diversity and equity in the game. MLB has pledged to donate up to $150 million over 10 years to the organization. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It doesn’t add up for me as an African American player that I have to leave the States to make more money,” Boyd said. “There’s a reason Bruce is in the (Mexican) league. He took a knee.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13913456\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/05/BJBoyd.TraderJoes-800x571.jpg\" alt=\"A sign mounted at Trader Joe's across from Palo Alto High School in 2012, congratulating BJ Boyd on his signing with the Oakland A's.\" width=\"800\" height=\"571\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13913456\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/05/BJBoyd.TraderJoes-800x571.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/05/BJBoyd.TraderJoes-1020x728.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/05/BJBoyd.TraderJoes-160x114.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/05/BJBoyd.TraderJoes-768x548.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/05/BJBoyd.TraderJoes-1536x1097.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/05/BJBoyd.TraderJoes.jpg 1574w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A sign mounted at Trader Joe’s across from Palo Alto High School in 2012, congratulating BJ Boyd on his signing with the Oakland A’s. \u003ccite>(Nina Thorsen/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>A Brush With the A’s, and a Return to Football\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>After being drafted by the A’s in 2012, Boyd proved a consistent hitter during his first five seasons in the lower minor leagues—taking buses from town to town, living with host families. The center fielder’s breakout season came in 2017 when, while playing with Double-A Midland, he was in contention for the Texas League batting title and finished third, hitting .323.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He played in 2018 with Triple-A Nashville, one level below the A’s, and hit .271 with 49 RBIs. But with a crowded outfield in Oakland, Boyd didn’t like his chances of making the MLB roster in spring training. After seven minor-league seasons, and with his college football eligibility intact, Boyd returned to the other sport he excelled at in his youth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a teenager, Boyd jumped at the A’s signing bonus instead of pursuing college football. “The instant money was right there, and I didn’t come from money,” Boyd said. It’s a decision he regrets after years in the minors of getting passed for opportunities he feels he deserved. When the A’s drafted dual-sport athlete Kyler Murray in 2018, Boyd wasn’t surprised when the Heisman Trophy-winning quarterback turned down the A’s offer for instant stardom in the NFL.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dual sport athletes were once more common, with Bo Jackson and Deion Sanders setting the standard for NFL-MLB crossovers in the 1980s and 1990s. Jackson is the only player to become an MLB All-Star and NFL Pro Bowl player. Sanders once played in an NFL game and MLB playoff game on the same day. Over the last 20 years, however, as professional teams invest more money in players and athletes become more specialized, the trend has fallen off.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even more uncommon is what Boyd attempted. At age 26, the 230-pounder was eight years older than many of his Foothill teammates. He brought “a sense of maturity that the young guys followed,” assistant coach Brandon Younger said. Working as a security guard at night, Boyd took classes during the day. 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The couple are currently expecting their second child together. \u003ccite>(Courtesy the Boyd Family)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>‘Home Run After Home Run’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>“He didn’t grow up with a lot,” said Tatiana, who as a child lived blocks away from BJ in north Palo Alto. The two began dating when she returned from college. “He’s always had to make something out of nothing, always looking for the next thing to do to get better as a person.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As for Tatiana, “She’s the reason why I get to play,” Boyd said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shortly after the football season, Tatiana gave birth to Bria. When the coronavirus struck in 2020, the MLB season was postponed and Foothill’s football season was canceled. BJ and Tatiana got married in September 2020 in Carmel, at a time when Boyd was unsure of his athletic future. He resumed coaching youth baseball teams—Top Tier and Swagger Athletics—in the South Bay, and worked out with a personal trainer to stay prepared for his next professional opportunity. (Boyd continues to work with area youth; in February, he joined Oakland native and former MLB All-Star Tyson Ross in hosting a free baseball clinic at the \u003ca href=\"https://www.riekes.org/athletic-fitness\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Riekes Center\u003c/a> in Menlo Park.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2021, Boyd gave baseball another chance. After a brief stint with an independent league team, the Twins signed him to a minor-league deal. The outfielder established himself as one the league’s best hitters with Double-A Wichita. And for the first time in his career, he was driving the ball out of the park. “He was hitting home run after home run,” recalls Tatiana, who flew to the Midwest with Bria to catch the hot hitting in person. “He knew he was back and he wanted to stay back. He was on fire and it was so much fun to watch.” Boyd’s previous season high for homers was eight; he equaled that total over a nine-game span in August alone. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Boyd was called up to Triple-A St. Paul, where his hitting fell off. Despite his impressive Double-A statistics, coming after two years away from baseball, Boyd didn’t receive MLB calls once the owners’ lockout ended this spring. Then Monclova offered.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13913457\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 600px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/05/BJBoyd.Acereros.jpg\" alt=\"A man in a blue baseball uniform runs the bases on the baseball diamond.\" width=\"600\" height=\"600\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13913457\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/05/BJBoyd.Acereros.jpg 600w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/05/BJBoyd.Acereros-160x160.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">BJ Boyd in uniform for the Acereros, in Monclova, where he hopes to join a roster that includes Bay Area favorites Pablo Sandoval and Josh Reddick. \u003ccite>(Courtesy the Boyd Family)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>A League in Need of His Hitting\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>“For me, going to Mexico, I feel way better,” said Boyd, who hopes to join an active roster that includes former A’s Gold Glove winner Josh Reddick. “People make jokes and say it’s an exile league. They take care of their players better than the minor leagues. They pay better than the States.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the current MLB season rolls along, Boyd can’t help but notice paltry offensive stats across the league. The A’s, who once drafted Boyd, currently have a .199 team batting average. The Arizona Diamondbacks are hitting .203. The \u003ca href=\"https://www.baseball-reference.com/leagues/majors/2022-standard-batting.shtml\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">league average is .234\u003c/a>, on pace to be the worst average in its 152-year history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Boyd’s ability to hit for a high average is a skill that, in recent years, has been devalued by MLB teams whose analytics say batters should swing for the fences, or not at all. 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During Spanish colonial rule, land in Bolivia was taken from Indigenous people, leaving them \u003ca href=\"https://www.ohchr.org/EN/NewsEvents/Pages/DisplayNews.aspx?NewsID=27620&LangID=E\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">impoverished and marginalized\u003c/a>. Over the years, many women in these groups \u003ca href=\"https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0306422016685969\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">abandoned their cultural costumes\u003c/a> to avoid discrimination.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“By skating in \u003cem>polleras\u003c/em>, we want to show that girls and women can do anything, no matter how you look or how people see you,” says Daniela Santiváñez, who founded \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/imillaskate/?hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">ImillaSkate\u003c/a> with two friends in 2019. “The message is to be yourself and be proud of who you are.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Skateboarding is a big part of that. “It teaches you confidence, self-love, to get up from falls—and to be authentic, too,” she adds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13912371\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13912371\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/ld_imillaskate_012_custom-5e892166f726316085c060815dcc027a246d7a60-1-800x800.jpg\" alt=\"An older woman wearing a sun hat and feminine skirt and top looks down at her feet as she stands on a skateboard. At her side is a younger woman wearing a backwards baseball cap, baggy athletic jacket and blue sneakers.\" width=\"800\" height=\"800\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Skater Huara Medina Montaño, 24, teaches a fellow skater’s mother how to ride a skateboard.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Award-winning Brazilian photographer \u003ca href=\"https://luisadorr.com/about\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Luisa Dörr\u003c/a>, who discovered the young women on Instagram, captured their vibe in a series of intimate portraits taken over two weeks in September and October 2021.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13898794']“I was fascinated by their passion for their culture and the need to preserve it,” says Dörr. “Skating was just the excuse to bring up other issues.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The nine crew members, most in their 20s, meet regularly to practice. It’s especially important to them to wear traditional dress at public events.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“At first, I used to feel a little awkward” about wearing the \u003cem>pollera\u003c/em> while skating, says ImillaSkate member Susan Meza. But now, she adds, she understands “the object of doing it and I feel more comfortable and free.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here’s a selection from Dörr’s photo series.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13912405\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13912405\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/ld_imillaskate_021_custom-42f3ee609e2388b990d784de9d458e108210791f-2-800x800.jpg\" alt=\"Six girls practice skateboarding on a ramp. Mountains and the city serve as a dramatic backdrop.\" width=\"800\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/ld_imillaskate_021_custom-42f3ee609e2388b990d784de9d458e108210791f-2-800x800.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/ld_imillaskate_021_custom-42f3ee609e2388b990d784de9d458e108210791f-2-1020x1020.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/ld_imillaskate_021_custom-42f3ee609e2388b990d784de9d458e108210791f-2-160x160.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/ld_imillaskate_021_custom-42f3ee609e2388b990d784de9d458e108210791f-2-768x768.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/ld_imillaskate_021_custom-42f3ee609e2388b990d784de9d458e108210791f-2-1536x1536.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/ld_imillaskate_021_custom-42f3ee609e2388b990d784de9d458e108210791f-2-2048x2048.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/ld_imillaskate_021_custom-42f3ee609e2388b990d784de9d458e108210791f-2-1920x1920.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">This skate park is a favorite place to practice. The athletes say the view is amazing, and the park is calm because it’s far from the city.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13912373\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13912373\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/ld_imilla_05_custom-c97d0b0b70f21ff8070836a838ebb35f4d631ce9-1-800x800.jpg\" alt=\"Girls in traditional Bolivian attire, wearing their hair in long braids, skateboard together in a park, trees in the distance.\" width=\"800\" height=\"800\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Crew members skate in Pairumani Park on the outskirts of Cochabamba—one of their favorite spots because of its beauty.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13912375\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13912375\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/ld_imilla_10_custom-2c796f5aca60a2772cd28457ea7a1a3eb49d0b00-1-800x800.jpg\" alt=\"A young, determined looking woman sits elegantly at the feet of an older woman resting in a wheelchair.\" width=\"800\" height=\"800\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Skater Luisa Zurita, 32, wears her grandmother’s traditional pollera skirt while her grandmother styles her hair. “We dress like this to promote the acceptance of our [Indigenous] culture within Bolivian society,” says fellow ImillaSkate member Huara Medina Montaño. “Dressing [this way] symbolizes strength, security, elegance.”\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13912377\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13912377\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/ld_custom-d2b677963231b390f891c1c00008e7c3e7fbc1d9-1-800x400.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/ld_custom-d2b677963231b390f891c1c00008e7c3e7fbc1d9-1-800x400.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/ld_custom-d2b677963231b390f891c1c00008e7c3e7fbc1d9-1-1020x510.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/ld_custom-d2b677963231b390f891c1c00008e7c3e7fbc1d9-1-160x80.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/ld_custom-d2b677963231b390f891c1c00008e7c3e7fbc1d9-1-768x384.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/ld_custom-d2b677963231b390f891c1c00008e7c3e7fbc1d9-1-1536x768.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/ld_custom-d2b677963231b390f891c1c00008e7c3e7fbc1d9-1-2048x1024.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/ld_custom-d2b677963231b390f891c1c00008e7c3e7fbc1d9-1-1920x960.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Left: Deysi Tacuri Lopez, 27, gets her hair styled by Joselin Brenda Mamani Tinta. Traditionally, Indigenous women in Bolivia wear their hair in two long plaits. Right: A detail of the hairstyle. “Pollera women give extra importance to their hair,” says Tinta. Her grandmother told her that brushing hair gets rid of bad energy.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13912395\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13912395\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/ld_imillaskate_014_custom-940ff80a9320380a8fd68aea50f6ae52ee8ee884-2-800x800.jpg\" alt=\"A young woman in traditional Bolivian hat, skirt and braids sits on a dusty car, skateboard resting between her legs.\" width=\"800\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/ld_imillaskate_014_custom-940ff80a9320380a8fd68aea50f6ae52ee8ee884-2-800x800.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/ld_imillaskate_014_custom-940ff80a9320380a8fd68aea50f6ae52ee8ee884-2-1020x1020.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/ld_imillaskate_014_custom-940ff80a9320380a8fd68aea50f6ae52ee8ee884-2-160x160.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/ld_imillaskate_014_custom-940ff80a9320380a8fd68aea50f6ae52ee8ee884-2-768x768.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/ld_imillaskate_014_custom-940ff80a9320380a8fd68aea50f6ae52ee8ee884-2-1536x1536.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/ld_imillaskate_014_custom-940ff80a9320380a8fd68aea50f6ae52ee8ee884-2-2048x2048.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/ld_imillaskate_014_custom-940ff80a9320380a8fd68aea50f6ae52ee8ee884-2-1920x1920.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Luisa Zurita started skateboarding in 2016. At first, her family didn’t approve of her engaging in the sport. But they changed their minds after her grandmother saw Luisa skating on a TV program. When she realized it was her granddaughter’s passion, her grandmother gave her the blessing to keep skating.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13912381\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13912381\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/ld_imilla_06_custom-f3a254ecb8dbe64afb0cf195f402a7d331ca966a-800x800.jpg\" alt=\"A young woman with closed eyes rests her right arm and head on a skateboard deck, as she lies on the ground, a serene expression on her face.\" width=\"800\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/ld_imilla_06_custom-f3a254ecb8dbe64afb0cf195f402a7d331ca966a-800x800.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/ld_imilla_06_custom-f3a254ecb8dbe64afb0cf195f402a7d331ca966a-1020x1020.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/ld_imilla_06_custom-f3a254ecb8dbe64afb0cf195f402a7d331ca966a-160x160.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/ld_imilla_06_custom-f3a254ecb8dbe64afb0cf195f402a7d331ca966a-768x768.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/ld_imilla_06_custom-f3a254ecb8dbe64afb0cf195f402a7d331ca966a-1536x1536.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/ld_imilla_06_custom-f3a254ecb8dbe64afb0cf195f402a7d331ca966a-2048x2048.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/ld_imilla_06_custom-f3a254ecb8dbe64afb0cf195f402a7d331ca966a-1920x1920.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Daniela Santiváñez, 25, is the co-founder of ImillaSkate. She says the group’s aim is to “grow” the sport in Bolivia and advocate for “more spaces to practice so we can participate in sports tournaments around the world as other athletes do.”\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13912384\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13912384\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/ld-2_custom-29a26e7fb03d7de9b6c05ba118c799bb83b52cc2-800x400.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/ld-2_custom-29a26e7fb03d7de9b6c05ba118c799bb83b52cc2-800x400.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/ld-2_custom-29a26e7fb03d7de9b6c05ba118c799bb83b52cc2-1020x510.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/ld-2_custom-29a26e7fb03d7de9b6c05ba118c799bb83b52cc2-160x80.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/ld-2_custom-29a26e7fb03d7de9b6c05ba118c799bb83b52cc2-768x384.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/ld-2_custom-29a26e7fb03d7de9b6c05ba118c799bb83b52cc2-1536x768.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/ld-2_custom-29a26e7fb03d7de9b6c05ba118c799bb83b52cc2-2048x1024.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/ld-2_custom-29a26e7fb03d7de9b6c05ba118c799bb83b52cc2-1920x960.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Left: Skater Miriam Estefanny Morales, 23, at La Cancha market in the city of Cochabamba. In addition to the pollera skirt, she wears a traditional hat as part of the Indigenous women’s attire. Right: Members of the crew look at braided hair extensions at La Cancha market.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13912396\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13912396\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/ld-3_custom-3e4634e757344600e5990d0b55f46ea6693bc342-1-800x400.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/ld-3_custom-3e4634e757344600e5990d0b55f46ea6693bc342-1-800x400.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/ld-3_custom-3e4634e757344600e5990d0b55f46ea6693bc342-1-1020x510.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/ld-3_custom-3e4634e757344600e5990d0b55f46ea6693bc342-1-160x80.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/ld-3_custom-3e4634e757344600e5990d0b55f46ea6693bc342-1-768x384.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/ld-3_custom-3e4634e757344600e5990d0b55f46ea6693bc342-1-1536x768.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/ld-3_custom-3e4634e757344600e5990d0b55f46ea6693bc342-1-2048x1024.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/ld-3_custom-3e4634e757344600e5990d0b55f46ea6693bc342-1-1920x960.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Left: ImillaSkate athletes show off their matching high-top Vans. Right: Deysi Tacuri Lopez wears the medals she won from skate competitions in Chile and Bolivia. She started skating 7 years ago.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13912409 aligncenter\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/ld_imillaskate_011_custom-71b7d37f44bc8cd502773d60857fff2c12bd1042-2-800x802.jpg\" alt=\"A woman in traditional Bolivian dress and hat stands beneath a tree, skateboard resting behind her head, on her shoulders.\" width=\"800\" height=\"802\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/ld_imillaskate_011_custom-71b7d37f44bc8cd502773d60857fff2c12bd1042-2-800x802.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/ld_imillaskate_011_custom-71b7d37f44bc8cd502773d60857fff2c12bd1042-2-1020x1022.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/ld_imillaskate_011_custom-71b7d37f44bc8cd502773d60857fff2c12bd1042-2-160x160.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/ld_imillaskate_011_custom-71b7d37f44bc8cd502773d60857fff2c12bd1042-2-768x770.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/ld_imillaskate_011_custom-71b7d37f44bc8cd502773d60857fff2c12bd1042-2-1533x1536.jpg 1533w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/ld_imillaskate_011_custom-71b7d37f44bc8cd502773d60857fff2c12bd1042-2-2044x2048.jpg 2044w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/ld_imillaskate_011_custom-71b7d37f44bc8cd502773d60857fff2c12bd1042-2-1920x1924.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13912410\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13912410\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/ld_imillaskate_002a_custom-19a1a56065cd09eb3177567cde26171dc4b00863-2-800x803.jpg\" alt=\"A young woman floats on her back in green water, her dress and braids floating around her.\" width=\"800\" height=\"803\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/ld_imillaskate_002a_custom-19a1a56065cd09eb3177567cde26171dc4b00863-2-800x803.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/ld_imillaskate_002a_custom-19a1a56065cd09eb3177567cde26171dc4b00863-2-1020x1024.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/ld_imillaskate_002a_custom-19a1a56065cd09eb3177567cde26171dc4b00863-2-160x161.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/ld_imillaskate_002a_custom-19a1a56065cd09eb3177567cde26171dc4b00863-2-768x771.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/ld_imillaskate_002a_custom-19a1a56065cd09eb3177567cde26171dc4b00863-2-1530x1536.jpg 1530w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/ld_imillaskate_002a_custom-19a1a56065cd09eb3177567cde26171dc4b00863-2-2040x2048.jpg 2040w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/ld_imillaskate_002a_custom-19a1a56065cd09eb3177567cde26171dc4b00863-2-1920x1928.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ellinor Buitrago Méndez, 25, says that wearing the pollera while skateboarding sends the message to women that they can do whatever they like while preserving who they are.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13912407\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13912407\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/ld_imillaskate_015_custom-ea1e2ef2bbcb62f53988b3fe15c4927ec3a8d791-1-800x800.jpg\" alt=\"A young woman in traditional Bolivian dress and hat sits elegantly on a green lawn, surrounded by trees.\" width=\"800\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/ld_imillaskate_015_custom-ea1e2ef2bbcb62f53988b3fe15c4927ec3a8d791-1-800x800.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/ld_imillaskate_015_custom-ea1e2ef2bbcb62f53988b3fe15c4927ec3a8d791-1-1020x1020.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/ld_imillaskate_015_custom-ea1e2ef2bbcb62f53988b3fe15c4927ec3a8d791-1-160x160.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/ld_imillaskate_015_custom-ea1e2ef2bbcb62f53988b3fe15c4927ec3a8d791-1-768x768.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/ld_imillaskate_015_custom-ea1e2ef2bbcb62f53988b3fe15c4927ec3a8d791-1-1536x1536.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/ld_imillaskate_015_custom-ea1e2ef2bbcb62f53988b3fe15c4927ec3a8d791-1-2048x2048.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/ld_imillaskate_015_custom-ea1e2ef2bbcb62f53988b3fe15c4927ec3a8d791-1-1920x1920.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ellinor Buitrago Méndez wears a pollera and a traditional hat with her red Vans. Fellow skater Medina says “some of the girls inherited their polleras from their mothers and grandmothers,” but each girl styles them differently according to their own personal taste.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13912411\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13912411\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/ld_imilla_11_custom-b070c9cf356bb3dd3a6af03da8d2799dd46fff6d-1-800x800.jpg\" alt=\"Five girls dance enthusiastically, their skirts swaying. Tree branches shield them from the sun.\" width=\"800\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/ld_imilla_11_custom-b070c9cf356bb3dd3a6af03da8d2799dd46fff6d-1-800x800.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/ld_imilla_11_custom-b070c9cf356bb3dd3a6af03da8d2799dd46fff6d-1-1020x1020.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/ld_imilla_11_custom-b070c9cf356bb3dd3a6af03da8d2799dd46fff6d-1-160x160.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/ld_imilla_11_custom-b070c9cf356bb3dd3a6af03da8d2799dd46fff6d-1-768x768.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/ld_imilla_11_custom-b070c9cf356bb3dd3a6af03da8d2799dd46fff6d-1-1536x1536.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/ld_imilla_11_custom-b070c9cf356bb3dd3a6af03da8d2799dd46fff6d-1-2048x2048.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/ld_imilla_11_custom-b070c9cf356bb3dd3a6af03da8d2799dd46fff6d-1-1920x1920.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The girls dance at Pairumani Park on the outskirts of Cochabamba. “We are all unique and our differences make the world such a rich place,” says Daniela Santiváñez. “We should respect everyone for who they are. We want to show how beautiful Bolivia’s culture is.”\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Grace Widyatmadja and Ben de la Cruz photo edited this piece.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2022 NPR. To see more, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">visit NPR\u003c/a>.\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=PHOTOS%3A+How+this+Bolivian+all-female+skate+crew+is+celebrating+their+Indigenous+roots&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/div>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>And they’re not just doing it for the fashion. The crew—called ImillaSkate (\u003cem>imilla\u003c/em> means “young girl” in the Aymara and Quechua languages)—want to pay homage to their heritage and call out the persecution that the Aymara and Quechua people, majority ethnic groups in Bolivia, have long faced. During Spanish colonial rule, land in Bolivia was taken from Indigenous people, leaving them \u003ca href=\"https://www.ohchr.org/EN/NewsEvents/Pages/DisplayNews.aspx?NewsID=27620&LangID=E\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">impoverished and marginalized\u003c/a>. Over the years, many women in these groups \u003ca href=\"https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0306422016685969\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">abandoned their cultural costumes\u003c/a> to avoid discrimination.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“By skating in \u003cem>polleras\u003c/em>, we want to show that girls and women can do anything, no matter how you look or how people see you,” says Daniela Santiváñez, who founded \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/imillaskate/?hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">ImillaSkate\u003c/a> with two friends in 2019. “The message is to be yourself and be proud of who you are.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Skateboarding is a big part of that. “It teaches you confidence, self-love, to get up from falls—and to be authentic, too,” she adds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13912371\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13912371\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/ld_imillaskate_012_custom-5e892166f726316085c060815dcc027a246d7a60-1-800x800.jpg\" alt=\"An older woman wearing a sun hat and feminine skirt and top looks down at her feet as she stands on a skateboard. At her side is a younger woman wearing a backwards baseball cap, baggy athletic jacket and blue sneakers.\" width=\"800\" height=\"800\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Skater Huara Medina Montaño, 24, teaches a fellow skater’s mother how to ride a skateboard.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Award-winning Brazilian photographer \u003ca href=\"https://luisadorr.com/about\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Luisa Dörr\u003c/a>, who discovered the young women on Instagram, captured their vibe in a series of intimate portraits taken over two weeks in September and October 2021.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“I was fascinated by their passion for their culture and the need to preserve it,” says Dörr. “Skating was just the excuse to bring up other issues.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The nine crew members, most in their 20s, meet regularly to practice. It’s especially important to them to wear traditional dress at public events.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“At first, I used to feel a little awkward” about wearing the \u003cem>pollera\u003c/em> while skating, says ImillaSkate member Susan Meza. But now, she adds, she understands “the object of doing it and I feel more comfortable and free.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here’s a selection from Dörr’s photo series.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13912405\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13912405\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/ld_imillaskate_021_custom-42f3ee609e2388b990d784de9d458e108210791f-2-800x800.jpg\" alt=\"Six girls practice skateboarding on a ramp. Mountains and the city serve as a dramatic backdrop.\" width=\"800\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/ld_imillaskate_021_custom-42f3ee609e2388b990d784de9d458e108210791f-2-800x800.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/ld_imillaskate_021_custom-42f3ee609e2388b990d784de9d458e108210791f-2-1020x1020.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/ld_imillaskate_021_custom-42f3ee609e2388b990d784de9d458e108210791f-2-160x160.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/ld_imillaskate_021_custom-42f3ee609e2388b990d784de9d458e108210791f-2-768x768.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/ld_imillaskate_021_custom-42f3ee609e2388b990d784de9d458e108210791f-2-1536x1536.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/ld_imillaskate_021_custom-42f3ee609e2388b990d784de9d458e108210791f-2-2048x2048.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/ld_imillaskate_021_custom-42f3ee609e2388b990d784de9d458e108210791f-2-1920x1920.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">This skate park is a favorite place to practice. The athletes say the view is amazing, and the park is calm because it’s far from the city.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13912373\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13912373\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/ld_imilla_05_custom-c97d0b0b70f21ff8070836a838ebb35f4d631ce9-1-800x800.jpg\" alt=\"Girls in traditional Bolivian attire, wearing their hair in long braids, skateboard together in a park, trees in the distance.\" width=\"800\" height=\"800\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Crew members skate in Pairumani Park on the outskirts of Cochabamba—one of their favorite spots because of its beauty.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13912375\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13912375\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/ld_imilla_10_custom-2c796f5aca60a2772cd28457ea7a1a3eb49d0b00-1-800x800.jpg\" alt=\"A young, determined looking woman sits elegantly at the feet of an older woman resting in a wheelchair.\" width=\"800\" height=\"800\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Skater Luisa Zurita, 32, wears her grandmother’s traditional pollera skirt while her grandmother styles her hair. “We dress like this to promote the acceptance of our [Indigenous] culture within Bolivian society,” says fellow ImillaSkate member Huara Medina Montaño. “Dressing [this way] symbolizes strength, security, elegance.”\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13912377\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13912377\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/ld_custom-d2b677963231b390f891c1c00008e7c3e7fbc1d9-1-800x400.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/ld_custom-d2b677963231b390f891c1c00008e7c3e7fbc1d9-1-800x400.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/ld_custom-d2b677963231b390f891c1c00008e7c3e7fbc1d9-1-1020x510.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/ld_custom-d2b677963231b390f891c1c00008e7c3e7fbc1d9-1-160x80.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/ld_custom-d2b677963231b390f891c1c00008e7c3e7fbc1d9-1-768x384.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/ld_custom-d2b677963231b390f891c1c00008e7c3e7fbc1d9-1-1536x768.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/ld_custom-d2b677963231b390f891c1c00008e7c3e7fbc1d9-1-2048x1024.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/ld_custom-d2b677963231b390f891c1c00008e7c3e7fbc1d9-1-1920x960.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Left: Deysi Tacuri Lopez, 27, gets her hair styled by Joselin Brenda Mamani Tinta. Traditionally, Indigenous women in Bolivia wear their hair in two long plaits. Right: A detail of the hairstyle. “Pollera women give extra importance to their hair,” says Tinta. Her grandmother told her that brushing hair gets rid of bad energy.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13912395\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13912395\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/ld_imillaskate_014_custom-940ff80a9320380a8fd68aea50f6ae52ee8ee884-2-800x800.jpg\" alt=\"A young woman in traditional Bolivian hat, skirt and braids sits on a dusty car, skateboard resting between her legs.\" width=\"800\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/ld_imillaskate_014_custom-940ff80a9320380a8fd68aea50f6ae52ee8ee884-2-800x800.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/ld_imillaskate_014_custom-940ff80a9320380a8fd68aea50f6ae52ee8ee884-2-1020x1020.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/ld_imillaskate_014_custom-940ff80a9320380a8fd68aea50f6ae52ee8ee884-2-160x160.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/ld_imillaskate_014_custom-940ff80a9320380a8fd68aea50f6ae52ee8ee884-2-768x768.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/ld_imillaskate_014_custom-940ff80a9320380a8fd68aea50f6ae52ee8ee884-2-1536x1536.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/ld_imillaskate_014_custom-940ff80a9320380a8fd68aea50f6ae52ee8ee884-2-2048x2048.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/ld_imillaskate_014_custom-940ff80a9320380a8fd68aea50f6ae52ee8ee884-2-1920x1920.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Luisa Zurita started skateboarding in 2016. At first, her family didn’t approve of her engaging in the sport. But they changed their minds after her grandmother saw Luisa skating on a TV program. When she realized it was her granddaughter’s passion, her grandmother gave her the blessing to keep skating.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13912381\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13912381\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/ld_imilla_06_custom-f3a254ecb8dbe64afb0cf195f402a7d331ca966a-800x800.jpg\" alt=\"A young woman with closed eyes rests her right arm and head on a skateboard deck, as she lies on the ground, a serene expression on her face.\" width=\"800\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/ld_imilla_06_custom-f3a254ecb8dbe64afb0cf195f402a7d331ca966a-800x800.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/ld_imilla_06_custom-f3a254ecb8dbe64afb0cf195f402a7d331ca966a-1020x1020.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/ld_imilla_06_custom-f3a254ecb8dbe64afb0cf195f402a7d331ca966a-160x160.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/ld_imilla_06_custom-f3a254ecb8dbe64afb0cf195f402a7d331ca966a-768x768.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/ld_imilla_06_custom-f3a254ecb8dbe64afb0cf195f402a7d331ca966a-1536x1536.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/ld_imilla_06_custom-f3a254ecb8dbe64afb0cf195f402a7d331ca966a-2048x2048.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/ld_imilla_06_custom-f3a254ecb8dbe64afb0cf195f402a7d331ca966a-1920x1920.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Daniela Santiváñez, 25, is the co-founder of ImillaSkate. She says the group’s aim is to “grow” the sport in Bolivia and advocate for “more spaces to practice so we can participate in sports tournaments around the world as other athletes do.”\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13912384\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13912384\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/ld-2_custom-29a26e7fb03d7de9b6c05ba118c799bb83b52cc2-800x400.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/ld-2_custom-29a26e7fb03d7de9b6c05ba118c799bb83b52cc2-800x400.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/ld-2_custom-29a26e7fb03d7de9b6c05ba118c799bb83b52cc2-1020x510.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/ld-2_custom-29a26e7fb03d7de9b6c05ba118c799bb83b52cc2-160x80.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/ld-2_custom-29a26e7fb03d7de9b6c05ba118c799bb83b52cc2-768x384.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/ld-2_custom-29a26e7fb03d7de9b6c05ba118c799bb83b52cc2-1536x768.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/ld-2_custom-29a26e7fb03d7de9b6c05ba118c799bb83b52cc2-2048x1024.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/ld-2_custom-29a26e7fb03d7de9b6c05ba118c799bb83b52cc2-1920x960.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Left: Skater Miriam Estefanny Morales, 23, at La Cancha market in the city of Cochabamba. In addition to the pollera skirt, she wears a traditional hat as part of the Indigenous women’s attire. Right: Members of the crew look at braided hair extensions at La Cancha market.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13912396\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13912396\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/ld-3_custom-3e4634e757344600e5990d0b55f46ea6693bc342-1-800x400.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/ld-3_custom-3e4634e757344600e5990d0b55f46ea6693bc342-1-800x400.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/ld-3_custom-3e4634e757344600e5990d0b55f46ea6693bc342-1-1020x510.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/ld-3_custom-3e4634e757344600e5990d0b55f46ea6693bc342-1-160x80.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/ld-3_custom-3e4634e757344600e5990d0b55f46ea6693bc342-1-768x384.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/ld-3_custom-3e4634e757344600e5990d0b55f46ea6693bc342-1-1536x768.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/ld-3_custom-3e4634e757344600e5990d0b55f46ea6693bc342-1-2048x1024.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/ld-3_custom-3e4634e757344600e5990d0b55f46ea6693bc342-1-1920x960.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Left: ImillaSkate athletes show off their matching high-top Vans. Right: Deysi Tacuri Lopez wears the medals she won from skate competitions in Chile and Bolivia. She started skating 7 years ago.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13912409 aligncenter\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/ld_imillaskate_011_custom-71b7d37f44bc8cd502773d60857fff2c12bd1042-2-800x802.jpg\" alt=\"A woman in traditional Bolivian dress and hat stands beneath a tree, skateboard resting behind her head, on her shoulders.\" width=\"800\" height=\"802\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/ld_imillaskate_011_custom-71b7d37f44bc8cd502773d60857fff2c12bd1042-2-800x802.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/ld_imillaskate_011_custom-71b7d37f44bc8cd502773d60857fff2c12bd1042-2-1020x1022.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/ld_imillaskate_011_custom-71b7d37f44bc8cd502773d60857fff2c12bd1042-2-160x160.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/ld_imillaskate_011_custom-71b7d37f44bc8cd502773d60857fff2c12bd1042-2-768x770.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/ld_imillaskate_011_custom-71b7d37f44bc8cd502773d60857fff2c12bd1042-2-1533x1536.jpg 1533w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/ld_imillaskate_011_custom-71b7d37f44bc8cd502773d60857fff2c12bd1042-2-2044x2048.jpg 2044w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/ld_imillaskate_011_custom-71b7d37f44bc8cd502773d60857fff2c12bd1042-2-1920x1924.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13912410\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13912410\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/ld_imillaskate_002a_custom-19a1a56065cd09eb3177567cde26171dc4b00863-2-800x803.jpg\" alt=\"A young woman floats on her back in green water, her dress and braids floating around her.\" width=\"800\" height=\"803\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/ld_imillaskate_002a_custom-19a1a56065cd09eb3177567cde26171dc4b00863-2-800x803.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/ld_imillaskate_002a_custom-19a1a56065cd09eb3177567cde26171dc4b00863-2-1020x1024.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/ld_imillaskate_002a_custom-19a1a56065cd09eb3177567cde26171dc4b00863-2-160x161.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/ld_imillaskate_002a_custom-19a1a56065cd09eb3177567cde26171dc4b00863-2-768x771.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/ld_imillaskate_002a_custom-19a1a56065cd09eb3177567cde26171dc4b00863-2-1530x1536.jpg 1530w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/ld_imillaskate_002a_custom-19a1a56065cd09eb3177567cde26171dc4b00863-2-2040x2048.jpg 2040w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/ld_imillaskate_002a_custom-19a1a56065cd09eb3177567cde26171dc4b00863-2-1920x1928.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ellinor Buitrago Méndez, 25, says that wearing the pollera while skateboarding sends the message to women that they can do whatever they like while preserving who they are.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13912407\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13912407\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/ld_imillaskate_015_custom-ea1e2ef2bbcb62f53988b3fe15c4927ec3a8d791-1-800x800.jpg\" alt=\"A young woman in traditional Bolivian dress and hat sits elegantly on a green lawn, surrounded by trees.\" width=\"800\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/ld_imillaskate_015_custom-ea1e2ef2bbcb62f53988b3fe15c4927ec3a8d791-1-800x800.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/ld_imillaskate_015_custom-ea1e2ef2bbcb62f53988b3fe15c4927ec3a8d791-1-1020x1020.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/ld_imillaskate_015_custom-ea1e2ef2bbcb62f53988b3fe15c4927ec3a8d791-1-160x160.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/ld_imillaskate_015_custom-ea1e2ef2bbcb62f53988b3fe15c4927ec3a8d791-1-768x768.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/ld_imillaskate_015_custom-ea1e2ef2bbcb62f53988b3fe15c4927ec3a8d791-1-1536x1536.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/ld_imillaskate_015_custom-ea1e2ef2bbcb62f53988b3fe15c4927ec3a8d791-1-2048x2048.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/ld_imillaskate_015_custom-ea1e2ef2bbcb62f53988b3fe15c4927ec3a8d791-1-1920x1920.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ellinor Buitrago Méndez wears a pollera and a traditional hat with her red Vans. Fellow skater Medina says “some of the girls inherited their polleras from their mothers and grandmothers,” but each girl styles them differently according to their own personal taste.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13912411\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13912411\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/ld_imilla_11_custom-b070c9cf356bb3dd3a6af03da8d2799dd46fff6d-1-800x800.jpg\" alt=\"Five girls dance enthusiastically, their skirts swaying. Tree branches shield them from the sun.\" width=\"800\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/ld_imilla_11_custom-b070c9cf356bb3dd3a6af03da8d2799dd46fff6d-1-800x800.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/ld_imilla_11_custom-b070c9cf356bb3dd3a6af03da8d2799dd46fff6d-1-1020x1020.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/ld_imilla_11_custom-b070c9cf356bb3dd3a6af03da8d2799dd46fff6d-1-160x160.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/ld_imilla_11_custom-b070c9cf356bb3dd3a6af03da8d2799dd46fff6d-1-768x768.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/ld_imilla_11_custom-b070c9cf356bb3dd3a6af03da8d2799dd46fff6d-1-1536x1536.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/ld_imilla_11_custom-b070c9cf356bb3dd3a6af03da8d2799dd46fff6d-1-2048x2048.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/ld_imilla_11_custom-b070c9cf356bb3dd3a6af03da8d2799dd46fff6d-1-1920x1920.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The girls dance at Pairumani Park on the outskirts of Cochabamba. “We are all unique and our differences make the world such a rich place,” says Daniela Santiváñez. “We should respect everyone for who they are. We want to show how beautiful Bolivia’s culture is.”\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Grace Widyatmadja and Ben de la Cruz photo edited this piece.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2022 NPR. To see more, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">visit NPR\u003c/a>.\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=PHOTOS%3A+How+this+Bolivian+all-female+skate+crew+is+celebrating+their+Indigenous+roots&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/div>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13911650\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/Screen-Shot-2022-04-07-at-5.05.13-PM-1.png\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13911650\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/Screen-Shot-2022-04-07-at-5.05.13-PM-1-800x570.png\" alt=\"A referee in a black and white shirt splashes an adult competitor in a tricycle race with a bucket of water.\" width=\"800\" height=\"570\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/Screen-Shot-2022-04-07-at-5.05.13-PM-1-800x570.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/Screen-Shot-2022-04-07-at-5.05.13-PM-1-1020x726.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/Screen-Shot-2022-04-07-at-5.05.13-PM-1-160x114.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/Screen-Shot-2022-04-07-at-5.05.13-PM-1-768x547.png 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/Screen-Shot-2022-04-07-at-5.05.13-PM-1-1536x1094.png 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/Screen-Shot-2022-04-07-at-5.05.13-PM-1-2048x1458.png 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/Screen-Shot-2022-04-07-at-5.05.13-PM-1-1920x1367.png 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A competitor in Thee Parkside’s annual tricycle races gets doused with a bucket of water, mid-ride. \u003ccite>(Instagram/@theeparkside)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>As you may have noticed, San Francisco is gearing up \u003cem>hard\u003c/em> for this Sunday’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfmoma.org/exhibition/2022-soapbox-derby-at-mclaren-park/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">SFMOMA Soapbox Derby at McLaren Park\u003c/a>. The wacky race—announced live by KQED Arts’ own \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/ogpenn\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Pendarvis Harshaw\u003c/a>—was inspired by a similar \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11910363/wacky-homemade-cars-will-soon-roll-down-the-hill-in-sfs-mclaren-park-again\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">1975 event in which artists hurled themselves down a hill\u003c/a> in vehicles of their own making. (The materials back then included everything from bread to vibrators.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Let’s not forget, however, that beyond the SFMOMA event, Bay Area residents have a long and rich history of participating in foolish races on wheels—usually for nothing more than the glory of it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here are five of the best.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The Illegal Soapbox Society’s Bernal Hill Races\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uYCAF5EnVi0\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Back before the internet existed, unusual humans who wanted to connect and bond with other unusual humans were forced to regularly leave their homes and endanger themselves physically. San Francisco’s Illegal Soapbox Society formed in 1992 to facilitate this, holding races down Bernal Hill every third Sunday between the months of May and October.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13910308']The competing soapboxes were officially divided into three categories: cars with hard wheels, cars with tires and “customized kiddie carts.” But \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfgate.com/sports/article/It-s-All-Downhill-From-Here-Soapbox-racers-2840221.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">one 1997 \u003cem>SFGate \u003c/em>article\u003c/a> also reported the participation of “a lowrider Safeway shopping cart that throws flames, smoke and water; a wooden pallet on wheels; a lawn chair; a two-man bobsled called Amphetamine Reptile; and a one-man chopped skateboard that functions as a luge.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though initially inspired by the 1975 SFMOMA Soapbox Derby, the Bernal offshoot took on a life of its own, with a distinctly ’90s flavor—even appearing in a 1994 episode of \u003cem>The Real World\u003c/em>. “This is mostly the bike messenger crowd,” \u003cem>SFGate\u003c/em> observed, “drinking beer from cans in bags, enticed by the opportunity to see contact between skin and asphalt.” Fittingly, the legacy of the races lives on today at the Mission District bar Zeitgeist, which still has souvenir posters from the races on display.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The Mint’s Memorial Day Tricycle Race\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mZRNYrAuGeU\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The year was 1972, the starting point was the Mint on Market Street, and the competition was fierce. It was the first annual Memorial Day Tricycle Race—an event that would ultimately run for over two decades. The colorful and chaotic fundraiser involved scores of two-person teams—sometimes in costume, sometimes in drag, sometimes in almost nothing at all—racing between bars all over the city. One person sat on the tricycle while the other pushed, and wherever the duos landed en route, they got free drinks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The race was thought up by Mint employee Les Balmain and Mint owner Charlotte Coleman, who owned a wealth of legendary gay bars in the city, including Twin Peaks. In its 21 years, the Memorial Day Tricycle Race raised thousands of dollars for both AIDS- and guide dog-related charities. Media coverage of the tricycle race peaked in 1976 when Jimmy Carter’s 26-year-old son Chip took part, and repeatedly asked onlookers to “vote for daddy.” Carter is reported to have continued even after his handlebars fell off.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The Rambler Cup Relay Race\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13911625\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13911625\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/Rambler-Race-800x480.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/Rambler-Race-800x480.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/Rambler-Race-1020x612.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/Rambler-Race-160x96.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/Rambler-Race-768x461.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/Rambler-Race-1536x921.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/Rambler-Race-2048x1229.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/Rambler-Race-1920x1152.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Illustrations that accompanied the San Francisco Examiner’s report about 1894’s Rambler Relay race that traveled from San Francisco to Oakland via San Jose. \u003ccite>(SF Examiner)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>On Apr. 9, 1894, the \u003cem>San Francisco Examiner\u003c/em> provided an exhaustive summary about this then-popular relay bicycle race that ran from San Francisco to Oakland via San Jose. Seven local bicycle clubs took part in the 100-mile course, starting out from Ninth and Market. “There was a strong armed man behind every racer,” the paper reported, “and when [the] whistle blew, those brawny gentlemen shoved and the seven men shot down Market Street like seven skyrockets.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13909983']The race lasted five hours and 22 minutes, causing disruption, excitement and a plethora of injury along the way. The \u003cem>Examiner\u003c/em> described racers colliding with two dogs, a cow and a human bystander, and made it abundantly clear that nobody in this race had any regard for anything else going on around them. “What made Magill so late at the end of the sixth relay was his attempt to ride under the legs of a moving horse,” it noted at one point. “Magill went down, rubbed his skinned knees and rode off with the loss of some minutes and some cuticle.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“All of Oakland” came out to see the Garden City Club cross the finish line first.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The Pop’s/Parkside Independence Day Tricycle Race\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6gqqz4dJQB4\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There were a combination of factors that swiftly made Pop’s one of the Mission District’s greatest dives after it first opened in 2003. Strong drinks, hedonistic patrons, an abnormally flattering photo booth and, yes, the annual Fourth of July tricycle races. Just grown humans, most of them drunk, riding children’s tricycles, trying to weave around tiny orange cones on the York Street side of the bar. Looking on—loudly—were the Pop’s patrons who were either too long-limbed, too drunk or too sensible to participate, who instead spilled out of the bar to holler from the sidelines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After Malia Spanyol sold Pop’s in 2014, the tricycle races moved to her other venue, Thee Parkside, and added another component: \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/Bk5wAOKFsUZ/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">ladies’ arm wrestling\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Bring Your Own Big Wheel Race\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GFJgs7b_zgU\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It all started calmly enough. In 2000, a man named John Brumit decided to ride a children’s big wheel toy down the Lombard St. wiggle because: San Francisco. After Brumit drew a small crowd, he decided to perform the hilarious stunt every year. This, of course, grew into a full-blown race in 2007 because—again—San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The anarchy that ensued that year was enough to get the calamitous competition moved in 2008, to the \u003cem>real\u003c/em> crookedest street in San Francisco—the Vermont Street wiggle near 20th Street in Potrero Hill. That’s where the race happens annually to this day—including Sunday, Apr. 17 beginning at 2pm. To register and check the rules (no rubber wheels!), visit \u003ca href=\"https://bringyourownbigwheel.com/bring-your-own-big-wheel-is-currently-a-go-for-2022/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">BringYourOwnWheel.com\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13910779\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13910779\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/03/Stomper.MAIN_.jpg\" alt=\"Five different baseball mascots pose around Pen Harshaw\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/03/Stomper.MAIN_.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/03/Stomper.MAIN_-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/03/Stomper.MAIN_-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The author poses with Stomper at the 2008 MLB All-Star Game, at the old Yankee Stadium in the Bronx. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Pendarvis Harshaw)\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\">H\u003c/span>as anyone checked on the A’s mascot, Stomper?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Asking because his team, the Oakland Athletics, is at it again.\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>You know their M.O.: trading their star players to top-tier contenders, instead of paying them the big long-term contracts they deserve, \u003cem>and\u003c/em> simultaneously planning an escape route to relocate the entire franchise because their new stadium plan isn’t panning out exactly as they wish.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s kind of masterful how this franchise has committed to mediocrity and distanced itself from the claim that it’s “Rooted in Oakland,” again and again.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The headlines this week—”\u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/sports/shea/article/A-s-ignite-the-mother-of-all-baseball-fire-17001721.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">A’s Ignite Mother of All Baseball Fire Sales with Matt Olson, Chris Bassitt Trades\u003c/a>,” to quote the \u003cem>San Francisco Chronicle\u003c/em>—give us long-suffering fans another example of why the team being represented by a white elephant—an unwanted gift—is an all-too-apt, self-fulfilling prophecy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So yeah, someone check on Stomper, and make sure he’s OK.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YJCm7ytjA8Q\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He’s seen this scheme every six or seven years. The team gets some great young prospects and raises their skill levels and name recognition over a few seasons. The team plays well—sometimes even making it to the playoffs—only to fall short and leave fans wondering if it will ever find that one piece it always seems to need to turn into a serious title contender.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But during the offseason, and sometimes even mid-season, instead of buying in, the A’s front office sells out. They get rid of talented players and replace them with more prospects, journeymen, and utility players in order to keep the payroll low. There’s a whole movie about it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZTTwenD0_9g\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After this offseason, when \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2022/03/11/1085979676/major-league-baseballs-lockout-ends-after-both-sides-reach-a-deal\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Major League Baseball’s owners locked out their players\u003c/a> over labor disagreements, I see things haven’t changed much.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Just this week, the team got rid of superstar third baseman Matt Chapman, sending him across the northern border to Toronto. His corner-mate over at first, Matt Olson, was sent south to the Atlanta Braves. One of the team’s top pitchers, Chris Bassitt? Sent to the New York Mets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These names follow behind the likes of all-stars Marcus Semien, Josh Donaldson, and many more who came through The Town bearing gifts, only to be passed to the next team.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Who could forget when \u003ca href=\"https://bleacherreport.com/articles/2147547-oakland-athletics-yoenis-cespedes-t-shirt-giveaway-becomes-awkward-after-trade\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Yoenis Cespedes\u003c/a> was traded just before his T-shirt giveaway game at the Coliseum? [\u003cem>Damn, you’re killing me. This one was heartbreaking.—Ed.\u003c/em>]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yeah, \u003ca href=\"https://www.mercurynews.com/2022/03/14/kurtenbach-dont-give-the-as-your-money-they-dont-know-what-to-do-with-it/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">there’s plenty of reasons not to give the A’s your money\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13910783\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 604px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13910783\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/03/Stomper.Pen_.2007.jpg\" alt=\"Pen Harshaw with the A's mascot, a giant elephant, poses for the camera\" width=\"604\" height=\"453\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/03/Stomper.Pen_.2007.jpg 604w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/03/Stomper.Pen_.2007-160x120.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 604px) 100vw, 604px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The author with Stomper at Children’s Hospital in Oakland, circa 2007. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Pendarvis Harshaw)\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\">E\u003c/span>specially when you consider all they’ve done to move closer to downtown—a move that isn’t looking too promising after \u003ca href=\"https://www.courthousenews.com/proposed-oakland-as-stadium-faces-setback-from-state-panel/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">this week’s vote\u003c/a> by the Seaport Planning Advisory Committee, who recommended that the San Francisco Bay Conservation and Development Commission maintain the Howard Terminal waterfront site for maritime use. It’s not the final straw for the plan, but it means that the future of the A’s in Oakland boils down to yet another hearing, this time on June 2.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an interview, team president Dave Kaval told ABC 7’s Casey Pratt of a backup plan: The team is \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/CaseyPrattABC7/status/1504235503645691910?s=20&t=5oaMn6X3cqZaLDx-QEDs5g\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">getting close to picking a site for a stadium in Vegas\u003c/a>, because, you know, this is business.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I bet it’d be hot as hell in that elephant suit in Vegas. Really, has anyone checked on Stomper? I’m worried about him. No one has seen more players come and go than my gray pachyderm friend.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He was there for the crazy joy and playoff heartbreak of the 2012 and 2013 seasons (damn you, Verlander). In 2002, he was in the building for Tejada’s MVP season and the 20-game winning streak. For the evolution of Hudson, Mulder and Zito. And for the emergence of the latest crop of stars the team didn’t hold onto.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/i/status/1111380040124502016\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stomper is just a youngster in baseball history terms, making his first appearance in 1997—a down period when it really needed his help. But he’s part of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.britannica.com/topic/Oakland-Athletics\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Athletics’ history\u003c/a> that starts in Philadelphia in 1901, where the team got the “white elephant” tag soon after its inception.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>John McGraw, an early manager of the then-New York Giants baseball team, said the Athletics, who were ironically signing big-name players at the time, wouldn’t make any money and would have a big “white elephant” on their hands.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The team flipped the insult, adopting it as a mark of pride, and ran with it as their mascot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID='arts_13839115']\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">P\u003c/span>layers notoriously have pre- and post-game rituals. They eat specific meals or write messages on their cleats. It’s reported that former A’s star \u003ca href=\"https://bleacherreport.com/articles/375113-top-mlb-superstitions-and-rituals\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Mark McGuire\u003c/a> wore the same jockstrap from his high school days, up until it was stolen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So I really think we should get Stomper on the phone. Because if I were that big smiling elephant, I’d feel some sort of guilt about seeing so many players come and go. I’d feel like \u003cem>I\u003c/em> was the reason the A’s have had so much turnover. Not the insufficient, anarchic business model that leaves fans unfulfilled, no matter how hard we cheer for the team. It’s like the Babe Ruth curse. Baseball superstitions aren’t about logical conclusions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nope, let’s address the elephant in the room—we can look past the \u003ca href=\"https://www.postnewsgroup.com/billionaire-john-fisher-linked-to-privatization-of-schools-and-port-of-oakland/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">many issues\u003c/a> of billionaire team owner John Fisher, but we can’t look past the fact the mascot of the team is obviously bringing the A’s some bad energy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Check on Stomper. He might be next on the trading block—because it’d be easier to get rid of him than to throw out an owner and president who obviously don’t care about The Town.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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They said each member of the women’s team was paid thousands of dollars less than the men at nearly every level of competition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Twenty-eight players then sued U.S. Soccer in March 2019, alleging that female players were consistently paid less than their male counterparts despite superior performance on the field.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The lawsuit came months after the U.S. men’s soccer team failed to qualify for the World Cup in 2018—and just before the women’s team went on to win its second consecutive tournament in 2019, to the crowd’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2019/07/07/739305526/four-peat-u-s-womens-soccer-team-wins-world-cup-title\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">celebratory chants\u003c/a> of “Equal pay!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='pop_110334']In May 2020, a federal judge \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2020/05/02/849492863/federal-judge-dismisses-u-s-womens-soccer-team-s-equal-pay-claim\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">dismissed the women’s claim\u003c/a> that they were paid less for the same work—along with other key parts of the suit, pointing to differences in the structure of the men’s and women’s contracts (which they had agreed to in collective bargaining). Other aspects of the suit related to working conditions were settled out of court in December.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several of the players filed an appeal on the equal pay claims in July 2021, saying the judge had not looked at rates of pay and the fact that \u003ca href=\"https://www.espn.com/soccer/united-states-usaw/story/4071258/uswnt-lawsuit-versus-us-soccer-explained-defining-the-pay-gapswhats-at-stake-for-both-sides\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">women had to win more often\u003c/a> than men in order to receive bonuses.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>It’s not quite final yet\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The settlement is contingent on the ratification of a new collective bargaining agreement by the USWNT Players Association. The players and the federation are operating under a “memorandum of understanding” that runs through the end of March, \u003ca href=\"https://theathletic.com/news/uswnt-players-reach-settlement-with-us-soccer-for-total-of-24-million-in-pay-discrimination-lawsuit/BXmnGmymxK4b/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>The Athletic \u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"https://theathletic.com/news/uswnt-players-reach-settlement-with-us-soccer-for-total-of-24-million-in-pay-discrimination-lawsuit/BXmnGmymxK4b/\">reports\u003c/a>. The district court will be able to schedule final approval of the settlement once the agreement has been ratified.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“After the parties finalize the settlement agreement, they plan to advise the district court of the settlement, and then seek a limited remand from this Court under Federal Rule of the Appellate Procedure 12.1 so that the district court can consider the settlement,” the parties said in a joint motion filed in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit on Tuesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>ESPN reports that settlement talks accelerated in recent weeks, ahead of a scheduled March 7 hearing (which the parties have asked the court to postpone while they finalize the settlement agreement).\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>The players foresee a lasting impact\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The agreement falls short of the more than $66 million that the players had sought in back pay but still amounts to a significant victory for the team.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='news_11759612']“We feel like this is a huge win—obviously contingent upon the ratification of the CBA—but it will have equal pay on everything moving forward,” Megan Rapinoe, captain of the Seattle-based OL Reign and the women’s national team, told \u003cem>The Athletic\u003c/em>. “It’s honestly kind of surreal. 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That could thrust the singles competition into the same limbo that has \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2022/02/10/1079829894/doping-scandal-olympics-russian-skater\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">held up medals for the team event\u003c/a>, in which Russia took gold and the U.S. silver.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Richardson’s suspension just before the Tokyo Olympics triggered an outpouring of support for her and criticism for anti-doping rules, particularly because cannabis has shed much of the stigma it once carried. Dozens of U.S. states have legalized its use to some degree.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dr. Michael Joyner, a physician and researcher on exercise physiology at the Mayo Clinic in Minnesota, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2021/07/03/1012907963/what-to-know-about-olympic-marijuana-bans\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">told NPR last July\u003c/a> that he was surprised at how weak the scientific evidence is for banning cannabis in athletes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='pop_97017']“I think this is a legacy of just kind of poor regulation in terms of not specifically saying what drug is banned for which event,” he said, “and also this sort of reefer madness sort of holdover.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cannabis remains on the list of banned substances that the World Anti-Doping Agency released shortly after the Tokyo Olympics. 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She attempted a third quad but fell on the landing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Valieva performed a difficult triple axle as well, making her only the fourth woman to ever land that jump at a Winter Olympics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Valieva also completed quad jumps during the \u003ca href=\"https://olympics.com/en/news/skating-kamila-valieva-record-rostelecom-cup\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">ISU Grand Prix Rostelecom Cup \u003c/a>in November of last year, where she set a world record score. She holds nine world records in the sport.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/ISU_Figure/status/1464663616183955456\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Other news from the Olympics this weekend\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>American alpine ski star Mikaela Shiffrin suffered a rare fall during the giant slalom, knocking her out of one of her best events. 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He spent eight years as an NFL running back in the 1990s before moving to the sidelines. As offensive coordinator for the Kansas City Chiefs, he has helped propel one of the league’s top-ranked teams for the last four seasons. The Chiefs lost by three points in overtime to the Super Bowl-bound Cincinnati Bengals. A Chiefs win would have had the team playing for a championship for the third time in as many years. Yet, in nearly a dozen interviews across the league over the past few years, Bieniemy hasn’t managed to garner a head coaching position.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13863975']John Feinstein, author of \u003cem>Raise a Fist, Take a Knee: Race and the Illusion of Progress in Modern Sports, \u003c/em>tells NPR that in an interview for the book, Bieniemy told him\u003cem> “\u003c/em>some of those guys were legitimately looking at me as a possible head coach. Other guys were just, you know, carrying out their Rooney Rule … obligations, and you can tell, when you walk into the room, which is which.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jim Caldwell has had greater success in his coaching career—until recently. He’s been on the coaching staff of two Super Bowl champion clubs and was head coach of the Indianapolis Colts from 2009 to 2011 and the Detroit Lions from 2014 to 2017. Despite his resume, Caldwell has been passed over for head coaching jobs with several franchises since he was let go by the Lions five years ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jonathan Beane, the NFL’s chief diversity and inclusion officer, acknowledges that the Rooney Rule has fallen short of its ultimate goal, but he credits the policy with getting more minority candidates in front of hiring panels. “When you have more candidates from different backgrounds that are part of the process and actually are in the room to compete for roles, the opportunity of a diverse candidate getting hired goes up,” he tells NPR.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Feinstein says the problem with that thinking is that too often the rule is simply about checking a box to prove compliance. “I think for a lot of the NFL, the Rooney Rule is simply there so they can say, ‘Hey, we interviewed Brian Flores; hey, we interviewed Eric Bieniemy,'” he says. “And until that attitude changes, you can require five [minority candidate] interviews for every opening” and it still won’t make a difference.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13908959\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13908959\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/02/ap22017084592848_wide-e7cc0a42b3b5ce4e7d357542e8a3291e8f9839f7-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/02/ap22017084592848_wide-e7cc0a42b3b5ce4e7d357542e8a3291e8f9839f7-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/02/ap22017084592848_wide-e7cc0a42b3b5ce4e7d357542e8a3291e8f9839f7-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/02/ap22017084592848_wide-e7cc0a42b3b5ce4e7d357542e8a3291e8f9839f7-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/02/ap22017084592848_wide-e7cc0a42b3b5ce4e7d357542e8a3291e8f9839f7-768x432.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/02/ap22017084592848_wide-e7cc0a42b3b5ce4e7d357542e8a3291e8f9839f7-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/02/ap22017084592848_wide-e7cc0a42b3b5ce4e7d357542e8a3291e8f9839f7-2048x1152.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/02/ap22017084592848_wide-e7cc0a42b3b5ce4e7d357542e8a3291e8f9839f7-1920x1080.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pittsburgh Steelers head coach Mike Tomlin watches from the sideline during the first half of an NFL wild-card playoff game against the Kansas City Chiefs in January. Tomlin is currently the league’s only Black head coach. \u003ccite>(AP Photo/Ed Zurga)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>There are few owners of color in the NFL\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The NFL has only two owners of color, Kim Pegula, who is Asian American and co-owns the Buffalo Bills with her billionaire husband, and Jacksonville Jaguars owner Shahid Khan, who was born in Pakistan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many of the owners simply perceive a white coach as the safe choice, says Jodi Balsam, a former counsel for operations and litigation at the NFL.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t think there’s a single NFL owner out there who thinks to himself, ‘I won’t hire somebody who’s Black,'” Balsam tells NPR. But there are “risk averse” owners, she concedes. “When it comes to hiring at the senior-most levels, they tend to revert to what they’re comfortable with … and they perceive hiring somebody who’s Black as risky.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13905474']To be sure, the current record on minority hires for the top coaching job is a low-water mark for the league. Things were better at the end of the 2010-2011 season, and again in 2017-2018, with a quarter of the head coaching positions held by minorities. But there have been other lows, too: the Detroit Lions were fined $200,000 for violating the policy soon after it took effect. And nearly a decade later, in 2012, there were no minority hires to fill a slew of head coach vacancies and general manager positions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Rooney Rule has been tweaked and expanded since it was introduced in 2003. Now it requires teams to interview at least two external minority candidates for head coaching jobs and one external minority candidate for offensive and defensive coordinator positions. After much discussion, a provision was also approved that grants teams who hire minority candidates a pair of future third-round draft picks. And owners agreed to eliminate clauses that prevented coordinators already under contract from interviewing for head coaching jobs with other teams. Top front office jobs, such as general manager, were also included under the rule.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The NFL commissioner has \u003ca href=\"https://www.acslaw.org/wp-content/uploads/old-uploads/originals/documents/Proxmire_Issue_Brief.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">wide latitude\u003c/a> in meting out fines to teams that violate the policy. But whatever penalty might be imposed, it would likely be overshadowed by the public relations hit a franchise would take.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Flores suit and the current round of hiring have placed renewed scrutiny on teams. It comes after the league struggled to respond to “take a knee” protests against police brutality that began in 2016. NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell initially said players had to stand during the national anthem. Years later, he backtracked, offering an implicit apology to former San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick, who was effectively shut out of the league after becoming the public face of those protests. More recently, Jon Gruden was \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2021/10/12/1045182590/raiders-coach-jon-gruden-resigns-after-reports-of-derogatory-language-in-emails\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">forced to resign\u003c/a> as head coach of the Las Vegas Raiders after years of emails he’d written surfaced that contained racist, misogynistic and homophobic language.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13908962\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13908962\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/02/gettyimages-613006826_custom-f97a5013d911721d6d056c2efd00c749ed8f41c5-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/02/gettyimages-613006826_custom-f97a5013d911721d6d056c2efd00c749ed8f41c5-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/02/gettyimages-613006826_custom-f97a5013d911721d6d056c2efd00c749ed8f41c5-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/02/gettyimages-613006826_custom-f97a5013d911721d6d056c2efd00c749ed8f41c5-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/02/gettyimages-613006826_custom-f97a5013d911721d6d056c2efd00c749ed8f41c5-768x511.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/02/gettyimages-613006826_custom-f97a5013d911721d6d056c2efd00c749ed8f41c5-1536x1023.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/02/gettyimages-613006826_custom-f97a5013d911721d6d056c2efd00c749ed8f41c5-2048x1364.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/02/gettyimages-613006826_custom-f97a5013d911721d6d056c2efd00c749ed8f41c5-1920x1279.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Eli Harold (from left), Colin Kaepernick and Eric Reid of the San Francisco 49ers kneel in protest during the national anthem prior to a game against the Arizona Cardinals at Levi’s Stadium on Oct. 6, 2016, in Santa Clara. \u003ccite>(Thearon W. Henderson/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I think the racial reckoning has heightened everybody’s awareness for this and made it an open discussion,” says Richard Lapchick, the director of the Institute for Diversity and Ethics in Sport at the University of Central Florida. “But just discussing it doesn’t change anything.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>The NFL and NBA have different cultures\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>For a study in contrasts, compare the NFL’s record since the Rooney Rule went into effect to what’s happened in the National Basketball Association over the same period. In both leagues, about 70% of the players are Black. But the NFL’s one African American head coach represents barely 3% of those top slots. The NBA this season has \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/01/sports/basketball/nba-black-coaches-diversity.html?partner=slack&smid=sl-share\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">13 Black head coaches\u003c/a> spread among 30 teams—or 43%. (The NBA’s figure has has been as high as 48% in the 2012-2013 season and as low as 23% in 2020-2021.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many credit the leadership of the late David Stern, who was NBA commissioner for three decades until 2014, for shaping an inclusive culture in the basketball league.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stern was “very aggressive about letting owners know that he thought minority leadership in the league was very important,” Feinstein says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13884595']That didn’t happen overnight. And it was helped along by a “very different” relationship between owners and players, says Scott Brooks, the director of research at the Global Sport Institute at Arizona State University.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brooks says the NBA has managed a cultural shift that has so far eluded the NFL.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the NFL is focusing on numbers, “the NBA, they’re beyond numbers,” he tells NPR. “They’re thinking about the relationships with the athletes. How this makes the athletes feel.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He says it also helps that on-court legend Michael Jordan is among several owners and co-owners of color in the league.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Problems in the NFL pipeline\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The road to NFL head coach can be a long and winding one. But there are some common paths. Consider the teams in this year’s Super Bowl: The Los Angeles Rams’ head coach Sean McVay and the Cincinnati Bengals’ Zac Taylor are both white and have similar resumes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McVay and Taylor played Division I college football and held a variety of positions on their way to the head coach job — most notably as offensive coordinators, a position widely seen as a conduit to the top coaching job. In recent weeks, too, two of the three hires for head coaching positions, Hackett and Daboll, previously worked as offensive coordinators. Notably, \u003ca href=\"https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/01/nfl-owners-have-problem-coaches-color/604771/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">few minorities hold key offensive coordinator positions\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For those coaches who are former players, more quarterbacks—from either the college or the pro level—have managed to make the switch and get on a career path to the top.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>African Americans, however, have long been discouraged from becoming quarterbacks—a position that has traditionally been dominated by white players. “In the ’60s and ’70s, almost every Black quarterback coming out of college was told to change positions,” says Feinstein\u003cem>. “\u003c/em>The excuse usually was because you’re fast and the underlying notion was, well, because you’re not smart enough.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s changing, though, with an influx of Black starting quarterbacks in the league, says Brooks. “Will that give us more Blacks and nonwhites in these other positions? … That remains to be seen.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Beane, the NFL’s diversity officer, is optimistic that the recent expansion of the Rooney Rule will have an impact on the number of minorities on the sidelines. “I have to be hopeful,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">\u003cem>This story includes reporting from KQED’s Rae Alexandra. 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And owners agreed to eliminate clauses that prevented coordinators already under contract from interviewing for head coaching jobs with other teams. Top front office jobs, such as general manager, were also included under the rule.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The NFL commissioner has \u003ca href=\"https://www.acslaw.org/wp-content/uploads/old-uploads/originals/documents/Proxmire_Issue_Brief.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">wide latitude\u003c/a> in meting out fines to teams that violate the policy. But whatever penalty might be imposed, it would likely be overshadowed by the public relations hit a franchise would take.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Flores suit and the current round of hiring have placed renewed scrutiny on teams. It comes after the league struggled to respond to “take a knee” protests against police brutality that began in 2016. NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell initially said players had to stand during the national anthem. 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"content": "\u003cp>The signs were there back in August. When Buster Posey—the greatest catcher in the history of the San Francisco Giants—was asked about his future with the team, he was non-committal. Posey simply said, “I’ll get to the end of the season and kind of assess at that point, talk to my wife and see where we are.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='news_11891544']For most Giants fans, it didn’t even register. Posey has long felt so unequivocally \u003cem>ours\u003c/em> that his departure hasn’t just seemed unthinkable to fans—it’s something most of us never even stopped to consider. The Giants are the only MLB team Posey has ever played for, and he has shown an unshakeable commitment to them since he arrived at age 22 in 2009. That commitment has been delivered right back to him by the fans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In his retirement announcement, held at Oracle Park on Thursday afternoon, Posey said: “The last week to 10 days, I’ve been thinking, ‘How do you thank a fan base?’ And the Giants fanbase is more than just fans, it’s a community. That sense of community is something that we could feel in the ballpark each night. I hope it’s worked the other way.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Posey was the last player we had left who’d helped win all three of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/ourturbulentdecade/2010-once-considered-underdogs-bay-area-sports-teams-ruled-the-2010s\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Giants’ World Series titles in 2010, 2012 and 2014\u003c/a>. Posey had distinguished himself in all three by \u003cem>not\u003c/em> being one of the big personalities on the team. Instead, he was the respectable lynchpin at the center of the whirlwind—always calm, collected and controlled, no matter what was happening around him. And, over the years, as his wildcard teammates peeled off and defected (Brian Wilson and Sergio Romo to the Dodgers, Tim Lincecum to the Angels, Madison Bumgarner to the Diamondbacks, etc.) Posey has remained right here in San Francisco. Ol’ faithful.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/MLBONFOX/status/1456020054030667777\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, he gave us another hint that the end might be nigh, after the Giants had their World Series hopes dashed by the Dodgers on Oct. 14. After that game, Posey said, “I’m definitely going to take some time with my wife and talk with her. Be able to be a full-time dad of four kids for the first time in a while. Take it slow and see how things progress.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With hindsight, we probably should’ve seen the writing on the wall. Posey has always been just as much of a family man as he was a dedicated ball player. After he married his high school sweetheart Kristen in 2009, the happy couple welcomed twins Addison and Lee in 2011. They adopted twin girls in 2020, and Posey sat out the short pandemic season, prioritizing his babies’ health over the danger of potentially contracting COVID-19 on the field. His younger girls, Ada and Livvi, were already up against it, having been born eight weeks premature. \u003cem>USA Today\u003c/em> called Posey’s decision to stay home “a tremendous sacrifice.” But he himself noted, “From a family standpoint, making a decision to protect children—our children—it was relatively easy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='news_11745241']Posey and his wife’s commitment to children stretches far beyond their own family. In 2016, they established \u003ca href=\"https://bp28.org/mission/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">BP28\u003c/a>, a charity that raises funds and awareness for pediatric cancer. The organization has so far raised $5.5 million for treatment and research, and has established partnerships with UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital, North Carolina’s V Foundation and the Texas Children’s Hospital.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We can look at \u003ca href=\"https://www.mlb.com/player/buster-posey-457763\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Posey’s astonishing baseball stats\u003c/a> all day (and we should—it’s very satisfying), but it’s clear that this man has important goals off the field as well. Important enough to walk away from a $22 million option to stay on with the Giants. Since news leaked, late on Wednesday, that Posey was about to announce his retirement, fan responses have been sad, sure. But most of them have been rooted in pride and respect. That’s the result of Posey’s commitment to the San Francisco Giants on the field, and the compassionate way he lives his life off it. It’s born from his skills as a ballplayer, but also of his supreme likability as a human.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fans might not want to see him go, but the gratitude held for Posey and what he did in the course of his career with the Giants is palpable today.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/BaySean/status/1456019375215955971\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/crawnikflip/status/1456027919684354056\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/bayarealuke/status/1456016637564309506\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/McCoveyChron/status/1456019630154080259\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/JohnLynchWTRF/status/1456020001631113232\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/thatguytylor/status/1456043068675661828\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/DaltonJ_Johnson/status/1456016432135802883\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/Jared_Carrabis/status/1456015579261898764\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/annkillion/status/1456037503933116420\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/MLBJesus/status/1456015451423711233\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Posey’s former teammate \u003ca href=\"https://www.nbcsports.com/bayarea/giants/buster-poseys-reaction-game-162-hinted-retirement-sergio-romo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Sergio Romo shared in an interview\u003c/a> on Wednesday that he’d recently noticed a shift in Posey’s demeanor on the field. “This was something that was like, ‘Wow, I wouldn’t be surprised if he decided to walk home and do the family thing,’” Romo said. “Here he is. He is deciding to do the family thing. In a sense, it wasn’t surprising, but it is surprising from a fan standpoint because the guy has a lot of baseball left, in my opinion.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='news_10608660']Tellingly, during Thursday’s press conference, Posey’s long list of thanks to everyone who’d helped him achieve his “lifelong dream of becoming a professional baseball player” started with his family. He struggled to hold back tears while talking about the love and support Kristen has offered him throughout his career. He told his children, “Being your dad is the greatest joy in my life.” Then he thanked his parents, “for teaching me the responsibility for caring for other people.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Throughout his speech, though he referenced the Giants’ considerable achievements during his tenure, Posey’s focus remained on family. When thanking his teammates, he mentioned the “Good men, good husbands and good fathers” he had played alongside. And when he talked about baseball itself, he did so through the lens of what it means to the families and friends that attend the games.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Baseball is a vessel that can be used to make wonderful memories,” Posey said, “but ultimately it’s not what defines you.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13905866\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13905866\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/11/GettyImages-1345603474-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/11/GettyImages-1345603474-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/11/GettyImages-1345603474-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/11/GettyImages-1345603474-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/11/GettyImages-1345603474-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/11/GettyImages-1345603474-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/11/GettyImages-1345603474-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/11/GettyImages-1345603474-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Buster Posey during Game 1 of the National League Division Series against the Dodgers, at Oracle Park. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>The signs were there back in August. When Buster Posey—the greatest catcher in the history of the San Francisco Giants—was asked about his future with the team, he was non-committal. Posey simply said, “I’ll get to the end of the season and kind of assess at that point, talk to my wife and see where we are.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>For most Giants fans, it didn’t even register. Posey has long felt so unequivocally \u003cem>ours\u003c/em> that his departure hasn’t just seemed unthinkable to fans—it’s something most of us never even stopped to consider. The Giants are the only MLB team Posey has ever played for, and he has shown an unshakeable commitment to them since he arrived at age 22 in 2009. That commitment has been delivered right back to him by the fans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In his retirement announcement, held at Oracle Park on Thursday afternoon, Posey said: “The last week to 10 days, I’ve been thinking, ‘How do you thank a fan base?’ And the Giants fanbase is more than just fans, it’s a community. That sense of community is something that we could feel in the ballpark each night. I hope it’s worked the other way.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Posey was the last player we had left who’d helped win all three of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/ourturbulentdecade/2010-once-considered-underdogs-bay-area-sports-teams-ruled-the-2010s\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Giants’ World Series titles in 2010, 2012 and 2014\u003c/a>. Posey had distinguished himself in all three by \u003cem>not\u003c/em> being one of the big personalities on the team. Instead, he was the respectable lynchpin at the center of the whirlwind—always calm, collected and controlled, no matter what was happening around him. And, over the years, as his wildcard teammates peeled off and defected (Brian Wilson and Sergio Romo to the Dodgers, Tim Lincecum to the Angels, Madison Bumgarner to the Diamondbacks, etc.) Posey has remained right here in San Francisco. Ol’ faithful.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, he gave us another hint that the end might be nigh, after the Giants had their World Series hopes dashed by the Dodgers on Oct. 14. After that game, Posey said, “I’m definitely going to take some time with my wife and talk with her. Be able to be a full-time dad of four kids for the first time in a while. Take it slow and see how things progress.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With hindsight, we probably should’ve seen the writing on the wall. Posey has always been just as much of a family man as he was a dedicated ball player. After he married his high school sweetheart Kristen in 2009, the happy couple welcomed twins Addison and Lee in 2011. They adopted twin girls in 2020, and Posey sat out the short pandemic season, prioritizing his babies’ health over the danger of potentially contracting COVID-19 on the field. His younger girls, Ada and Livvi, were already up against it, having been born eight weeks premature. \u003cem>USA Today\u003c/em> called Posey’s decision to stay home “a tremendous sacrifice.” But he himself noted, “From a family standpoint, making a decision to protect children—our children—it was relatively easy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Posey and his wife’s commitment to children stretches far beyond their own family. In 2016, they established \u003ca href=\"https://bp28.org/mission/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">BP28\u003c/a>, a charity that raises funds and awareness for pediatric cancer. The organization has so far raised $5.5 million for treatment and research, and has established partnerships with UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital, North Carolina’s V Foundation and the Texas Children’s Hospital.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We can look at \u003ca href=\"https://www.mlb.com/player/buster-posey-457763\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Posey’s astonishing baseball stats\u003c/a> all day (and we should—it’s very satisfying), but it’s clear that this man has important goals off the field as well. Important enough to walk away from a $22 million option to stay on with the Giants. Since news leaked, late on Wednesday, that Posey was about to announce his retirement, fan responses have been sad, sure. But most of them have been rooted in pride and respect. That’s the result of Posey’s commitment to the San Francisco Giants on the field, and the compassionate way he lives his life off it. It’s born from his skills as a ballplayer, but also of his supreme likability as a human.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fans might not want to see him go, but the gratitude held for Posey and what he did in the course of his career with the Giants is palpable today.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"headTitle": "Ava DuVernay’s ‘Colin in Black and White’ Dramatizes Colin Kaepernick’s Early Years | KQED",
"content": "\u003cp>If you had any questions about where Colin Kaepernick’s activist spirit originated, a look at Netflix’s new limited series, \u003cem>Colin in Black and White,\u003c/em> removes all doubt.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These days, Kaepernick is known as the ex-San Francisco 49ers quarterback whose decision to kneel during the national anthem in 2016 to protest racial injustice inspired others and kicked off years of conflicts. He \u003ca href=\"https://www.nbcsports.com/bayarea/49ers/colin-kaepernicks-nfl-absence-notable-despite-roger-goodells-claims\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">became a free agent\u003c/a> in 2017 and remains unsigned by an NFL team, a situation many analysts attributed to political blowback from the controversy sparked by his protest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But \u003cem>Colin in Black and White\u003c/em> makes the case that he’s been fighting those kinds of battles since he was in middle school, facing down clueless coaches, oblivious friends and well-intentioned white parents who adopted a biracial kid but seemed to have little idea how to handle his desire to embrace Blackness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ej42P9FTwZg\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Storytelling subtle as a sledgehammer\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Created by Kaepernick with superstar director/executive producer Ava DuVernay, \u003cem>Colin in Black and White \u003c/em>delivers its message with storytelling subtle as a sledgehammer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Focused on scenes in the former NFL quarterback’s life stretching from eighth grade to his last year of high school, the series is a scripted drama spiced by onscreen narration from the real-life Kaepernick, emphasizing his struggle to be the kind of athlete—and man—that he chooses to be.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kaepernick sets the tone early, speaking ominously while visual images morph from Black professional athletes examined by white coaches and team doctors to slaves getting a once over from white men selling them at auction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What’s being established is a power dynamic,” says Kaepernick, clad in all black, pacing through the frame. “Before they put you on the field, teams poke and prod and examine you. Searching for any defect…no boundary respected. No dignity left intact.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='pop_107203']The show tends to make its points over and over, with Kaepernick’s voiceovers explaining things that also play out in scripted scenes. It can make the show feel inconsistent; at times, the narration expands your understanding with exciting looks at Black history. In other moments, it just emphasizes something you already know. Ditto with Kaepernick’s performances, which are sometimes passionate and emotional, other times stilted and a little heavy handed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The series itself often feels like a not-so-passive aggressive swipe at the authority figures—all seemingly white—who doubted his goals and made it tougher for him to be himself, including his parents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Played by Nick Offerman and Mary-Louise Parker, Rick and Teresa Kaepernick are well-meaning white folk who listen to Christian rock on long car rides and dress like all their clothes came from T.J. Maxx and Marshalls. They adopted Colin as a baby in Wisconsin and moved to Turlock, California—another place, the former NFL star notes wryly, known for dairy farming and a scarcity of Black people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though they clearly love Kaepernick, his parents are also shown as clueless and a bit bewildered by his efforts to connect with Black people and Black culture—from trying to wear cornrows in his hair like his basketball hero Allen Iverson, to taking a Black girl to a formal dance in high school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13905480\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13905480\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/10/colin-parents-2-fab906090c24fceb7110f28bc5a60acc9355ab77-2-800x600.jpe\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mary-Louise Parker and Nick Offerman play Teresa and Rick Kaepernick in Netflix’s ‘Colin in Black and White.’\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Their responses can be inconsistent. In the show’s first episode, Teresa responds to her son’s efforts to get his hair braided into cornrows by taking him to a barbershop recommended by her Black co-workers. But when they visit the stylist’s home a few months later for a touch-up, Teresa gets unnerved by the neighborhood and her son’s love for the soul food they share with him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eventually, a harsh, white baseball coach—and they all seem to be harsh, white coaches here—demands Kaepernick cut his hair to stay on the team. It’s a position backed by his parents, who don’t seem to understand or respect the obvious: his hairstyle choice is an example of a young man of color, reaching toward his Blackness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='pop_110334']“You look like a thug!” Teresa says to him, finally. Young Kaepernick is soon back at Supercuts, getting his Iverson-inspired locks unbraided and cut down. Actor Jaden Michael, who plays Kaepernick with a bright-eyed optimism that helps ease some of the series’ heavy handedness, does a great job communicating his sense of suppressed confusion, betrayal and anger all at once.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I knew it wasn’t right,” Kaepernick himself says in a voiceover, “but I didn’t have the knowledge, wisdom or language to fight back.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a more subtle show, the scene with Teresa would be enough to communicate the impact of that pejorative—thug—flung at a young Black man who just wanted to look like his hero. But Kaepernick also speaks on the history of the term as a coded racial epithet, re-explaining something in a way that feels a little on the nose.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are other scenes which don’t make his parents look great, including a moment when Teresa hides a photo of Kaepernick posing with a Black girl he took to the formal dance, while urging him to date the white daughter of a friend. It makes you wonder if they ever realized the impact of such actions on their young Black son, and why they don’t seem to talk to him in-depth about race at a crucial moment in his life.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>A character who chooses to be unapologetically Black\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>What I found most compelling about \u003cem>Colin in Black and White\u003c/em> is something I wish the show had spent more time exploring: Kaepernick’s decision to choose being Black.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13905475\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13905475\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/10/colin-jaden-as-kap_wide-c24344aa0f990c5b29d91738fa6a726cea84c0ee-800x449.jpe\" alt=\"A Black teenage boy with cornrows looks up, half-smiling.\" width=\"800\" height=\"449\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jaden Michael plays a young Colin Kaepernick in Netflix’s ‘Colin in Black and White.’ \u003ccite>(Netflix)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>After all, as the TV series depicts, he’s in a situation where many people around him—coaches, friends and family—don’t understand his thirst for Black culture. Other than friends at school, he doesn’t seem to have any other Black people in his life. He could have easily chosen to reflect white culture more in his life choices.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Colin in Black and White \u003c/em>seems to present this choice as a given—a natural thing for Kaepernick to look up to Black sports stars, seek to date Black women and embrace hip hop culture. But for him, and many biracial kids like him—including the former President of the United States—self-identifying as a Black man can be an affirmative choice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And in today’s increasingly multiracial society, it’s a choice more young people are negotiating everyday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13881679']There are moments in this series when his parents make it plain that they wish he would make a different decision. “How long do you think this is going to last?” Teresa asks her son in an exasperated tone as they arrive at the hairstylist’s home. “The braids?” he asks, sounding confused.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“All of it,” she says, clearly unnerved by the world her son is eager to step into.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For a show that emphasizes so many of its points about race so directly, it’s odd that this isn’t talked about more. Later episodes show Kaepernick asserting himself a different way; refusing a slew of opportunities to pursue a career in Major League Baseball to follow his dream of being a football quarterback.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though the series details all the rejections he got from college football programs convinced he wasn’t big enough for the position, the drama here wasn’t quite so suspenseful. We know he eventually makes it to the NFL.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Overall, \u003cem>Colin in Black & White\u003c/em> demonstrates why Kaepernick has become the principled man he is today. It’s a very good series which humanizes a courageous athlete who has too often been belittled and misrepresented by ignorant ideologues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But a little more subtlety and a slightly wider lens could have turned this very good program into a truly great one.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">\u003cem>Copyright 2021 NPR. 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