Nobuya Brings Elegant Late-Night Sushi Boxes to the East Bay Suburbs
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(Thien Pham)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/tag/the-midnight-diners\">\u003cem>The Midnight Diners\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem> is a regular collaboration between KQED food editor Luke Tsai and graphic novelist \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/thiendog/?hl=en\">\u003cem>Thien Pham\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem>. Follow them each week as they explore the hot pot restaurants, taco carts and 24-hour casino buffets that make up the Bay Area’s after-hours dining scene. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Everything about \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/nobuya.sushi/\">Nobuya\u003c/a> is a bit of a surprise. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Start with the restaurant’s location on a quiet, semi-residential stretch of Pleasant Hill. We hadn’t previously found \u003cem>any\u003c/em> late-night dining in this particular swath of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/tag/contra-costa-county\">Contra Costa County\u003c/a> suburbs, so when we heard about this newish sushi spot and izakaya, we were surprised to learn that it stays open until 11:30 p.m. on weekends. When we pulled up at a little before 10 on a recent Friday night, we were struck by the casual elegance of the dining room — all paper lanterns and light wood partitions, with quaint little nooks to sit in should you want some privacy. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The crowd, at least at this hour, skewed toward older couples and groups of middle-aged businessmen, but the atmosphere — aided by an upbeat \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/City_pop\">city pop\u003c/a> soundtrack — felt lively and fun.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>We made a beeline for the sushi counter, where our server immediately dropped off two bowls of piping hot miso soup. The main reason we’d made the trek out to Pleasant Hill is because Nobuya specializes in the kind of ornate wooden sushi boxes that are trendy now on social media — glistening, jewel-like slabs of sashimi, each one artfully arranged in its own little compartment. Here in the Bay Area, we’ve mostly only seen these boxes at higher-end Japanese restaurants in San Francisco or down on the Peninsula. To be able to snag one this far away from the big city at this hour of the night? We knew we had to try it.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, our gregarious sushi chef, Carlos, turned out to be a one-man orchestrator of good vibes. He chatted amiably in Spanish with the middle-aged couple seated next to us, then slid enough free bites across the counter — a raw oyster topped with flying fish roe and citrusy soy, a baked scallop in a pool of lemon cream sauce — that we started to worry we’d been recognized. In the end, he really did just come across as an uncommonly friendly dude, eager to chat about his favorite East Bay sushi joints (\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/utzutzu/\">Utzutzu\u003c/a> in Alameda and \u003ca href=\"https://www.sushi-sho.com/\">Sushi Sho\u003c/a> in El Cerrito — both deep cuts that made it clear that he knew ball).\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1920\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/09/nobuya.jpg\" alt=\"Illustration: Exterior of a sushi restaurant lit up at night. The sign above reads, "Nobuya."\" class=\"wp-image-13994008\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/09/nobuya.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/09/nobuya-160x160.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/09/nobuya-768x768.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/09/nobuya-1536x1536.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/09/nobuya-600x600.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">The rare late-night restaurant in the Pleasant Hill area, Nobuya is open until 11:30 p.m. on weekends. (Thien Pham)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Nobuya isn’t an overly precious sushi restaurant. It doesn’t offer traditional omakase service, and you can do well for yourself whether your raw fish indulgence of choice is simple nigiri or saucy, over-the-top Americanized rolls (the “Chuck Norris” seems to be a popular choice). We started with a Snow Cracker appetizer from the “Today’s Special” section of the menu, where the most interesting izakaya-style small plates are listed. This was the perfect little appetizer, proving that the kitchen doesn’t take itself too seriously: one big jalapeño stuffed with snow crab and cream cheese, coated in panko, deep-fried and cut into bite-size segments, like a tiki bar’s take on a jalapeño popper.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The main event was not one but two different, but equally excellent, sushi boxes. First came the Omakase Box, whose nine compartments each contained three generous slices of sashimi: hirame (fluke), sea bream, chutoro, maguro, hamachi, salmon, amaebi (sweet shrimp), uni-topped scallops and, in the center, a mound of roe-topped sushi rice. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Every cut was delicious — the clean bite of the hirame, the heavy ocean umami of the sea bream, the delicate sweetness of the shrimp. We were given an unlimited supply of toasted seaweed to make little wraps with, and, since the box included the shrimp, the chef served their deep-fried heads on the side so we could enjoy their pungent crunch. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>In the end, my favorite item in the box was the one I normally find the most boring: the lean maguro, which came in thick slabs topped with a dab of yuzu kosho pepper paste, and had an impossibly smooth texture and clean, savory flavor.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\u003cp>At $69, the box is a bit of a splurge, but I’ve definitely paid more for smaller portions of lower-quality sushi. The same was true of the kaisen box ($59), which embodied a different form of luxury. For this set, a layer of sushi rice was topped with a whole row of uni. Next to that, a row of ikura, a row of sweet scallops and, finally, a whole row of sliced toro, with little flowers scattered on top to make it pretty. You could stir everything together and eat it \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13986360/yaichi-kaisendon-japanese-seafood-bowls-udon-milpitas\">like a rice bowl\u003c/a>, but we opted to pile a bit of this ‘n’ that onto the sheets of nori, rolling the whole thing up and eating it in one bite.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Either of the sushi boxes would be easily shareable, just like the oden (fish cake soup) we ordered as a finishing dish. I loved sipping on the rich, peppery broth between bites of sushi to cleanse my palate.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Add it all up, and Nobuya really ought to be \u003cem>the\u003c/em> late-night hotspot for this corner of the East Bay suburbs. But the restaurant was nearly half empty for the duration of our visit, and more and more so as the hour crept past 10 p.m.. For now, it seems, the vast majority of Nobuya’s clientele are locals from Pleasant Hill and its immediate surroundings (who all tend to be in bed by 9 o’clock, Carlos confided with a chuckle). The place has yet to be discovered by the legion of twenty- and thirtysomething food influencers always on the lookout for a new spot to hype up. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>As good as the food at Nobuya is, that almost certainly won’t be the case for much longer. In the meantime, I’m going to relish the opportunity to walk in at 10 o’clock, without a reservation or any prior planning, and luxuriate in one of the most satisfying late-night sashimi dinners in the Bay. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003chr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"/>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/nobuya.sushi/\">Nobuya\u003c/a> is open Monday through Thursday 11:30 a.m.–3 p.m. and 5–10:15 p.m., and Friday and Saturday 11:30 a.m.–3 p.m. and 5–11:30 p.m. at 1428 Contra Costa Blvd. in Pleasant Hill.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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We hadn’t previously found \u003cem>any\u003c/em> late-night dining in this particular swath of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/tag/contra-costa-county\">Contra Costa County\u003c/a> suburbs, so when we heard about this newish sushi spot and izakaya, we were surprised to learn that it stays open until 11:30 p.m. on weekends. When we pulled up at a little before 10 on a recent Friday night, we were struck by the casual elegance of the dining room — all paper lanterns and light wood partitions, with quaint little nooks to sit in should you want some privacy. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The crowd, at least at this hour, skewed toward older couples and groups of middle-aged businessmen, but the atmosphere — aided by an upbeat \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/City_pop\">city pop\u003c/a> soundtrack — felt lively and fun.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>We made a beeline for the sushi counter, where our server immediately dropped off two bowls of piping hot miso soup. The main reason we’d made the trek out to Pleasant Hill is because Nobuya specializes in the kind of ornate wooden sushi boxes that are trendy now on social media — glistening, jewel-like slabs of sashimi, each one artfully arranged in its own little compartment. Here in the Bay Area, we’ve mostly only seen these boxes at higher-end Japanese restaurants in San Francisco or down on the Peninsula. To be able to snag one this far away from the big city at this hour of the night? We knew we had to try it.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, our gregarious sushi chef, Carlos, turned out to be a one-man orchestrator of good vibes. He chatted amiably in Spanish with the middle-aged couple seated next to us, then slid enough free bites across the counter — a raw oyster topped with flying fish roe and citrusy soy, a baked scallop in a pool of lemon cream sauce — that we started to worry we’d been recognized. In the end, he really did just come across as an uncommonly friendly dude, eager to chat about his favorite East Bay sushi joints (\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/utzutzu/\">Utzutzu\u003c/a> in Alameda and \u003ca href=\"https://www.sushi-sho.com/\">Sushi Sho\u003c/a> in El Cerrito — both deep cuts that made it clear that he knew ball).\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1920\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/09/nobuya.jpg\" alt=\"Illustration: Exterior of a sushi restaurant lit up at night. The sign above reads, "Nobuya."\" class=\"wp-image-13994008\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/09/nobuya.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/09/nobuya-160x160.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/09/nobuya-768x768.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/09/nobuya-1536x1536.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/09/nobuya-600x600.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">The rare late-night restaurant in the Pleasant Hill area, Nobuya is open until 11:30 p.m. on weekends. (Thien Pham)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Nobuya isn’t an overly precious sushi restaurant. It doesn’t offer traditional omakase service, and you can do well for yourself whether your raw fish indulgence of choice is simple nigiri or saucy, over-the-top Americanized rolls (the “Chuck Norris” seems to be a popular choice). We started with a Snow Cracker appetizer from the “Today’s Special” section of the menu, where the most interesting izakaya-style small plates are listed. This was the perfect little appetizer, proving that the kitchen doesn’t take itself too seriously: one big jalapeño stuffed with snow crab and cream cheese, coated in panko, deep-fried and cut into bite-size segments, like a tiki bar’s take on a jalapeño popper.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The main event was not one but two different, but equally excellent, sushi boxes. First came the Omakase Box, whose nine compartments each contained three generous slices of sashimi: hirame (fluke), sea bream, chutoro, maguro, hamachi, salmon, amaebi (sweet shrimp), uni-topped scallops and, in the center, a mound of roe-topped sushi rice. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Every cut was delicious — the clean bite of the hirame, the heavy ocean umami of the sea bream, the delicate sweetness of the shrimp. We were given an unlimited supply of toasted seaweed to make little wraps with, and, since the box included the shrimp, the chef served their deep-fried heads on the side so we could enjoy their pungent crunch. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>In the end, my favorite item in the box was the one I normally find the most boring: the lean maguro, which came in thick slabs topped with a dab of yuzu kosho pepper paste, and had an impossibly smooth texture and clean, savory flavor.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\u003cp>At $69, the box is a bit of a splurge, but I’ve definitely paid more for smaller portions of lower-quality sushi. The same was true of the kaisen box ($59), which embodied a different form of luxury. For this set, a layer of sushi rice was topped with a whole row of uni. Next to that, a row of ikura, a row of sweet scallops and, finally, a whole row of sliced toro, with little flowers scattered on top to make it pretty. 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"content": "\u003cp>It was around 9 p.m. on a recent Sunday when the four-alarm email came through: A large number of volunteers were needed in Brentwood first thing Wednesday morning to harvest 80 peach trees — ideally before all of the lovely, softball-sized fruit dropped to the ground and went to waste.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With apologies for the short notice, the email asked, might I be able to help?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These are the kinds of messages that pop into your inbox when you join \u003ca href=\"https://www.forestr.org/fruit-rescue/\">Contra Costa Fruit Rescue\u003c/a>’s scrappy band of volunteer fruit pickers. The volunteers harvest surplus cherries, peaches, apples and pears — whatever’s in season — from backyard orchards throughout Contra Costa County, donating the rescued fruit to local food pantries and soup kitchens.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fruit Rescue is just one of a handful of fruit gleaning operations overseen by the Castro Valley–based nonprofit ForestR, which runs similar programs in \u003ca href=\"https://www.forestr.org/solano-gleans/\">Dixon\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.forestr.org/gleaning/\">Castro Valley\u003c/a>. And while a peach emergency might not seem like the \u003ci>most\u003c/i> pressing matter during this era of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12052452/you-cant-trust-anyone-in-oakland-fear-of-ice-raids-grips-day-laborers\">ICE raids\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12032030/uc-berkeley-faculty-rally-to-defend-free-speech-and-protest-cuts\">free speech crackdowns\u003c/a>, the group’s efforts are making a real impact. So far in 2025, in Contra Costa County alone, Fruit Rescue has harvested and donated more than 75,000 pounds of usable fruit that would have otherwise gone to waste.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those donations are even more crucial now, with the country teetering on the \u003ca href=\"https://fortune.com/2025/08/22/recession-warning-economic-outlook-trump-tariffs-inflation-immigration-crackdown-zandi/\">brink of a recession\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/food-bank-trump-usda-cuts-20265038.php\">food insecurity on the rise\u003c/a>. Program lead Pat Schultz says the food banks she works with have seen their budgets slashed by a quarter or more, the result of \u003ca href=\"http://banks\">funding cuts by both the Trump administration and the state of California\u003c/a>. Meanwhile, the number of people who need food assistance \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/california-divide/2023/12/food-insecurity-california/\">has only gone up\u003c/a> since the height of the pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13980091\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13980091\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/08/250812_RESCUING-FRUIT-IN-CONTRA-COSTA-COUNTY-_GH-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"Two women in matching green Fruit Rescue T-shirts stand in a pear orchard.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/08/250812_RESCUING-FRUIT-IN-CONTRA-COSTA-COUNTY-_GH-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/08/250812_RESCUING-FRUIT-IN-CONTRA-COSTA-COUNTY-_GH-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/08/250812_RESCUING-FRUIT-IN-CONTRA-COSTA-COUNTY-_GH-KQED-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/08/250812_RESCUING-FRUIT-IN-CONTRA-COSTA-COUNTY-_GH-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">ForestR CEO Nimone Li-Hardisty (left) and Pat Schultz, program lead and Lamorinda area harvest leader, stop at their first location of the morning — a Martinez home registered for “gleaning,” the practice of harvesting excess crops to donate to food partners. \u003ccite>(Gustavo Hernandez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Especially with the high cost that we have in the Bay Area, it’s easy to go from ‘everything is fine’ to ‘I’m on the street or food insecure.’ Most people are one month away from disaster,” Schultz says. “The need for this type of work is only increasing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even apart from the altruistic aspect of the work, Fruit Rescue’s gleaning events — which are open to anyone who signs up through the group’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.eventbrite.com/o/fruit-rescue-57801496893\">Eventbrite page\u003c/a> — are a fun, family-friendly way to spend a morning. The aforementioned peach-picking session didn’t wind up happening (backyard fruit can be a fickle enterprise), but my nine-year-old daughter and I drove out to Martinez’s Alhambra Valley on an impossibly clear-skied Tuesday morning to harvest about a dozen Bartlett pear trees in a tidy, picturesque frontyard orchard.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13980089\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13980089\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/08/250812_RESCUING-FRUIT-IN-CONTRA-COSTA-COUNTY-_GH-25-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"People picking pears from trees in an orchard.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/08/250812_RESCUING-FRUIT-IN-CONTRA-COSTA-COUNTY-_GH-25-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/08/250812_RESCUING-FRUIT-IN-CONTRA-COSTA-COUNTY-_GH-25-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/08/250812_RESCUING-FRUIT-IN-CONTRA-COSTA-COUNTY-_GH-25-KQED-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/08/250812_RESCUING-FRUIT-IN-CONTRA-COSTA-COUNTY-_GH-25-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Volunteers harvest pears in the frontyard orchard. \u003ccite>(Gustavo Hernandez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Amber Martinez, who heads up Fruit Rescue’s Martinez gleaning events, showed us how to use long, lacrosse-stick-like fruit-picker poles to nudge the ripe pears off the tree branches and gave a quick rundown of dos and don’ts. (DON’T climb the trees. DO place squishy, rotten pears into blue buckets so they can be composted later.) Working alongside seven or eight other volunteers — mostly affable retirees for this midweek session — we picked the trees clean in about an hour and a half, ready to move on to the next harvest site.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As an added bonus? The pears were so plentiful that each volunteer wound up taking home a bagful for themselves — including fruit with slight imperfections that many food pantries can’t accept.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13980090\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13980090\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/08/250812_RESCUING-FRUIT-IN-CONTRA-COSTA-COUNTY-_GH-26-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"Crates of pears loaded into the truck of a car.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/08/250812_RESCUING-FRUIT-IN-CONTRA-COSTA-COUNTY-_GH-26-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/08/250812_RESCUING-FRUIT-IN-CONTRA-COSTA-COUNTY-_GH-26-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/08/250812_RESCUING-FRUIT-IN-CONTRA-COSTA-COUNTY-_GH-26-KQED-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/08/250812_RESCUING-FRUIT-IN-CONTRA-COSTA-COUNTY-_GH-26-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A volunteer’s vehicle filled with crates of fruit, snacks and tools. \u003ccite>(Gustavo Hernandez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Nancy Hobart, the homeowner, says she’s had fruit gleaners come harvest the pear and Fuyu persimmon trees on her property for the past 15 years because she hates to see food going to waste. Fruit Rescue has been the most reliable of these services. “They’re so professional,” she says. “There’s hardly a leaf left out in the orchard.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nimone Li-Hardisty says she and her husband, Yonaton Hardisty, founded ForestR — the nonprofit that operates Fruit Rescue — shortly after a conversation with their then-teenage children, who told them they weren’t planning on ever having kids of their own. “The world is burning,” Li-Hardisty recalls her children saying. “You guys messed it up.” Today, she remembers that conversation as an “oh shit” moment that made her want to be proactive about improving the planet. “We don’t want our kids to have to be on Mars,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As Li-Hardisty explains it, ForestR takes a highly localized, three-pronged approach to environmental beautification that includes cleaning (mainly of a stretch of highway in Castro Valley), greening (e.g. through planting trees and creating small “\u003ca href=\"https://www.forestr.org/pocket-parks/\">pocket parks\u003c/a>”) \u003ci>and \u003c/i>gleaning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13980084\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13980084\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/08/250812_RESCUING-FRUIT-IN-CONTRA-COSTA-COUNTY-_GH-6-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"A woman reaches up into a tree with a fruit-picking tool.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/08/250812_RESCUING-FRUIT-IN-CONTRA-COSTA-COUNTY-_GH-6-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/08/250812_RESCUING-FRUIT-IN-CONTRA-COSTA-COUNTY-_GH-6-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/08/250812_RESCUING-FRUIT-IN-CONTRA-COSTA-COUNTY-_GH-6-KQED-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/08/250812_RESCUING-FRUIT-IN-CONTRA-COSTA-COUNTY-_GH-6-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Li-Hardisty leans in to pick a pear. \u003ccite>(Gustavo Hernandez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Schultz, the Contra Costa Fruit Rescue lead, joined forces with ForestR in 2022 to revive the gleaning program she’d been involved in for about a decade but had shut down during the pandemic. A retired music teacher, Schultz says her interest in food rescue stems from her Depression-era parents, who taught her that wasting food was not okay. “They were the original recyclers,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here in the Bay Area, Schultz says interest in this kind of work accelerated during the pandemic, which “made people far more aware of food,” she says. Suddenly, in affluent parts of Contra Costa County like Lafayette, where Schultz lives, “You had to stand in line [at the grocery store,] and you may or may not get what you want.” Many people started gardening during that time, getting in touch with their yards in a deeper way — and they wanted to make sure the food they grew wouldn’t go to waste.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The upshot is that more and more people have \u003ca href=\"https://www.forestr.org/fruit-rescue/fruit-rescue-tree-donors/\">reached out to Fruit Rescue\u003c/a> to have their fruit trees gleaned. And it isn’t primarily folks like Hobart who have mini-orchards, essentially, in their yard, Schultz stresses. Most of the people who participate in the program only have one or two trees. “But one apple tree can easily yield 200 to 300 pounds,” she says. “One grapefruit tree can be 400 pounds.” In fact, Schultz says there’s one elderly gentleman who calls her every year about his apple tree, which only yields 10 pounds of apples — “but for him, it’s critical that this fruit not go to waste.” Schultz goes by herself each year to personally harvest his tree.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13980088\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13980088\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/08/250812_RESCUING-FRUIT-IN-CONTRA-COSTA-COUNTY-_GH-24-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"A woman in work gloves holding pears.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/08/250812_RESCUING-FRUIT-IN-CONTRA-COSTA-COUNTY-_GH-24-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/08/250812_RESCUING-FRUIT-IN-CONTRA-COSTA-COUNTY-_GH-24-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/08/250812_RESCUING-FRUIT-IN-CONTRA-COSTA-COUNTY-_GH-24-KQED-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/08/250812_RESCUING-FRUIT-IN-CONTRA-COSTA-COUNTY-_GH-24-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Aurora, a volunteer with Contra Costa Fruit Rescue for four years, holds pears that she harvested. She says cherry season is her favorite time to pick. \u003ccite>(Gustavo Hernandez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Fruit Rescue isn’t unique. A handful of similar organizations operate around the Bay Area, like \u003ca href=\"https://www.villageharvest.org/\">Village Harvest\u003c/a>, which is mostly based in the South Bay and Peninsula, and \u003ca href=\"https://urbantilth.org/grow/orchard-for-all/\">Urban Tilth\u003c/a>, which oversees a network of small backyard orchards in Richmond. But these gleaning programs aren’t exactly super-common either, which is why Schultz hopes fruit lovers in other cities might be inspired to replicate Fruit Rescue and ForestR’s model.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">[aside postID='arts_13976236,arts_13966665,news_12036573']\u003c/span>My own Tuesday morning fruit expedition ended at another backyard orchard in Martinez. There, a single large apple tree had at least three different varieties of apples grafted onto it, including a crop of Pink Ladies that were wonderfully crisp and tart straight off the tree.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The final tally for a couple of hours of work? 974 pounds of apples and pears, all donated to Concord’s \u003ca href=\"https://whiteponyexpress.org/\">White Pony Express\u003c/a>, whose food rescue program distributes the surplus fruit to food pantries and other nonprofit service providers across the region.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the end, Schultz says, the bottom-line goal is simple: “To get the fruit and then get it to someone who can use it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/contracosta_fruitrescue/\">\u003ci>Contra Costa Fruit Rescue\u003c/i>\u003c/a>\u003ci> posts upcoming gleaning events on its \u003c/i>\u003ca href=\"https://www.forestr.org/fruit-rescue/\">\u003ci>website\u003c/i>\u003c/a>\u003ci> and \u003c/i>\u003ca href=\"https://www.eventbrite.com/o/fruit-rescue-57801496893\">\u003ci>Eventbrite page\u003c/i>\u003c/a>\u003ci>. Right now, mostly pears and apples are being harvested, including events in Walnut Creek and on Bethel Island on Saturday, Aug. 30, and one in Lamorinda on Sunday, Aug. 31. On Saturday, Sept. 6, Fruit Rescue will harvest several backyard orchards in the Pleasanton/San Ramon/Danville area. Fill out this \u003c/i>\u003ca href=\"https://www.forestr.org/fruit-rescue/fruit-rescue-tree-donors/\">\u003ci>online form\u003c/i>\u003c/a>\u003ci> to register your own fruit tree(s) to be gleaned.\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>ForestR will be at the \u003c/i>\u003ca href=\"https://www.edenareachamber.com/fall-fest/\">\u003ci>Castro Valley Fall Festival\u003c/i>\u003c/a>\u003ci> on Sept. 6 and 7, where it will give away fruit and sell homemade jams made from the gleaned fruit. \u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>It was around 9 p.m. on a recent Sunday when the four-alarm email came through: A large number of volunteers were needed in Brentwood first thing Wednesday morning to harvest 80 peach trees — ideally before all of the lovely, softball-sized fruit dropped to the ground and went to waste.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With apologies for the short notice, the email asked, might I be able to help?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These are the kinds of messages that pop into your inbox when you join \u003ca href=\"https://www.forestr.org/fruit-rescue/\">Contra Costa Fruit Rescue\u003c/a>’s scrappy band of volunteer fruit pickers. The volunteers harvest surplus cherries, peaches, apples and pears — whatever’s in season — from backyard orchards throughout Contra Costa County, donating the rescued fruit to local food pantries and soup kitchens.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fruit Rescue is just one of a handful of fruit gleaning operations overseen by the Castro Valley–based nonprofit ForestR, which runs similar programs in \u003ca href=\"https://www.forestr.org/solano-gleans/\">Dixon\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.forestr.org/gleaning/\">Castro Valley\u003c/a>. And while a peach emergency might not seem like the \u003ci>most\u003c/i> pressing matter during this era of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12052452/you-cant-trust-anyone-in-oakland-fear-of-ice-raids-grips-day-laborers\">ICE raids\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12032030/uc-berkeley-faculty-rally-to-defend-free-speech-and-protest-cuts\">free speech crackdowns\u003c/a>, the group’s efforts are making a real impact. So far in 2025, in Contra Costa County alone, Fruit Rescue has harvested and donated more than 75,000 pounds of usable fruit that would have otherwise gone to waste.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those donations are even more crucial now, with the country teetering on the \u003ca href=\"https://fortune.com/2025/08/22/recession-warning-economic-outlook-trump-tariffs-inflation-immigration-crackdown-zandi/\">brink of a recession\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/food-bank-trump-usda-cuts-20265038.php\">food insecurity on the rise\u003c/a>. Program lead Pat Schultz says the food banks she works with have seen their budgets slashed by a quarter or more, the result of \u003ca href=\"http://banks\">funding cuts by both the Trump administration and the state of California\u003c/a>. Meanwhile, the number of people who need food assistance \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/california-divide/2023/12/food-insecurity-california/\">has only gone up\u003c/a> since the height of the pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13980091\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13980091\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/08/250812_RESCUING-FRUIT-IN-CONTRA-COSTA-COUNTY-_GH-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"Two women in matching green Fruit Rescue T-shirts stand in a pear orchard.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/08/250812_RESCUING-FRUIT-IN-CONTRA-COSTA-COUNTY-_GH-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/08/250812_RESCUING-FRUIT-IN-CONTRA-COSTA-COUNTY-_GH-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/08/250812_RESCUING-FRUIT-IN-CONTRA-COSTA-COUNTY-_GH-KQED-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/08/250812_RESCUING-FRUIT-IN-CONTRA-COSTA-COUNTY-_GH-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">ForestR CEO Nimone Li-Hardisty (left) and Pat Schultz, program lead and Lamorinda area harvest leader, stop at their first location of the morning — a Martinez home registered for “gleaning,” the practice of harvesting excess crops to donate to food partners. \u003ccite>(Gustavo Hernandez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Especially with the high cost that we have in the Bay Area, it’s easy to go from ‘everything is fine’ to ‘I’m on the street or food insecure.’ Most people are one month away from disaster,” Schultz says. “The need for this type of work is only increasing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even apart from the altruistic aspect of the work, Fruit Rescue’s gleaning events — which are open to anyone who signs up through the group’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.eventbrite.com/o/fruit-rescue-57801496893\">Eventbrite page\u003c/a> — are a fun, family-friendly way to spend a morning. The aforementioned peach-picking session didn’t wind up happening (backyard fruit can be a fickle enterprise), but my nine-year-old daughter and I drove out to Martinez’s Alhambra Valley on an impossibly clear-skied Tuesday morning to harvest about a dozen Bartlett pear trees in a tidy, picturesque frontyard orchard.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13980089\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13980089\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/08/250812_RESCUING-FRUIT-IN-CONTRA-COSTA-COUNTY-_GH-25-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"People picking pears from trees in an orchard.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/08/250812_RESCUING-FRUIT-IN-CONTRA-COSTA-COUNTY-_GH-25-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/08/250812_RESCUING-FRUIT-IN-CONTRA-COSTA-COUNTY-_GH-25-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/08/250812_RESCUING-FRUIT-IN-CONTRA-COSTA-COUNTY-_GH-25-KQED-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/08/250812_RESCUING-FRUIT-IN-CONTRA-COSTA-COUNTY-_GH-25-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Volunteers harvest pears in the frontyard orchard. \u003ccite>(Gustavo Hernandez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Amber Martinez, who heads up Fruit Rescue’s Martinez gleaning events, showed us how to use long, lacrosse-stick-like fruit-picker poles to nudge the ripe pears off the tree branches and gave a quick rundown of dos and don’ts. (DON’T climb the trees. DO place squishy, rotten pears into blue buckets so they can be composted later.) Working alongside seven or eight other volunteers — mostly affable retirees for this midweek session — we picked the trees clean in about an hour and a half, ready to move on to the next harvest site.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As an added bonus? The pears were so plentiful that each volunteer wound up taking home a bagful for themselves — including fruit with slight imperfections that many food pantries can’t accept.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13980090\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13980090\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/08/250812_RESCUING-FRUIT-IN-CONTRA-COSTA-COUNTY-_GH-26-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"Crates of pears loaded into the truck of a car.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/08/250812_RESCUING-FRUIT-IN-CONTRA-COSTA-COUNTY-_GH-26-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/08/250812_RESCUING-FRUIT-IN-CONTRA-COSTA-COUNTY-_GH-26-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/08/250812_RESCUING-FRUIT-IN-CONTRA-COSTA-COUNTY-_GH-26-KQED-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/08/250812_RESCUING-FRUIT-IN-CONTRA-COSTA-COUNTY-_GH-26-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A volunteer’s vehicle filled with crates of fruit, snacks and tools. \u003ccite>(Gustavo Hernandez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Nancy Hobart, the homeowner, says she’s had fruit gleaners come harvest the pear and Fuyu persimmon trees on her property for the past 15 years because she hates to see food going to waste. Fruit Rescue has been the most reliable of these services. “They’re so professional,” she says. “There’s hardly a leaf left out in the orchard.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nimone Li-Hardisty says she and her husband, Yonaton Hardisty, founded ForestR — the nonprofit that operates Fruit Rescue — shortly after a conversation with their then-teenage children, who told them they weren’t planning on ever having kids of their own. “The world is burning,” Li-Hardisty recalls her children saying. “You guys messed it up.” Today, she remembers that conversation as an “oh shit” moment that made her want to be proactive about improving the planet. “We don’t want our kids to have to be on Mars,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As Li-Hardisty explains it, ForestR takes a highly localized, three-pronged approach to environmental beautification that includes cleaning (mainly of a stretch of highway in Castro Valley), greening (e.g. through planting trees and creating small “\u003ca href=\"https://www.forestr.org/pocket-parks/\">pocket parks\u003c/a>”) \u003ci>and \u003c/i>gleaning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13980084\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13980084\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/08/250812_RESCUING-FRUIT-IN-CONTRA-COSTA-COUNTY-_GH-6-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"A woman reaches up into a tree with a fruit-picking tool.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/08/250812_RESCUING-FRUIT-IN-CONTRA-COSTA-COUNTY-_GH-6-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/08/250812_RESCUING-FRUIT-IN-CONTRA-COSTA-COUNTY-_GH-6-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/08/250812_RESCUING-FRUIT-IN-CONTRA-COSTA-COUNTY-_GH-6-KQED-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/08/250812_RESCUING-FRUIT-IN-CONTRA-COSTA-COUNTY-_GH-6-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Li-Hardisty leans in to pick a pear. \u003ccite>(Gustavo Hernandez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Schultz, the Contra Costa Fruit Rescue lead, joined forces with ForestR in 2022 to revive the gleaning program she’d been involved in for about a decade but had shut down during the pandemic. A retired music teacher, Schultz says her interest in food rescue stems from her Depression-era parents, who taught her that wasting food was not okay. “They were the original recyclers,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here in the Bay Area, Schultz says interest in this kind of work accelerated during the pandemic, which “made people far more aware of food,” she says. Suddenly, in affluent parts of Contra Costa County like Lafayette, where Schultz lives, “You had to stand in line [at the grocery store,] and you may or may not get what you want.” Many people started gardening during that time, getting in touch with their yards in a deeper way — and they wanted to make sure the food they grew wouldn’t go to waste.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The upshot is that more and more people have \u003ca href=\"https://www.forestr.org/fruit-rescue/fruit-rescue-tree-donors/\">reached out to Fruit Rescue\u003c/a> to have their fruit trees gleaned. And it isn’t primarily folks like Hobart who have mini-orchards, essentially, in their yard, Schultz stresses. Most of the people who participate in the program only have one or two trees. “But one apple tree can easily yield 200 to 300 pounds,” she says. “One grapefruit tree can be 400 pounds.” In fact, Schultz says there’s one elderly gentleman who calls her every year about his apple tree, which only yields 10 pounds of apples — “but for him, it’s critical that this fruit not go to waste.” Schultz goes by herself each year to personally harvest his tree.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13980088\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13980088\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/08/250812_RESCUING-FRUIT-IN-CONTRA-COSTA-COUNTY-_GH-24-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"A woman in work gloves holding pears.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/08/250812_RESCUING-FRUIT-IN-CONTRA-COSTA-COUNTY-_GH-24-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/08/250812_RESCUING-FRUIT-IN-CONTRA-COSTA-COUNTY-_GH-24-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/08/250812_RESCUING-FRUIT-IN-CONTRA-COSTA-COUNTY-_GH-24-KQED-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/08/250812_RESCUING-FRUIT-IN-CONTRA-COSTA-COUNTY-_GH-24-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Aurora, a volunteer with Contra Costa Fruit Rescue for four years, holds pears that she harvested. She says cherry season is her favorite time to pick. \u003ccite>(Gustavo Hernandez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Fruit Rescue isn’t unique. A handful of similar organizations operate around the Bay Area, like \u003ca href=\"https://www.villageharvest.org/\">Village Harvest\u003c/a>, which is mostly based in the South Bay and Peninsula, and \u003ca href=\"https://urbantilth.org/grow/orchard-for-all/\">Urban Tilth\u003c/a>, which oversees a network of small backyard orchards in Richmond. But these gleaning programs aren’t exactly super-common either, which is why Schultz hopes fruit lovers in other cities might be inspired to replicate Fruit Rescue and ForestR’s model.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>[dropcap]O[/dropcap]n the anniversary of a horrifying explosion that killed 320 men — 202 of them African American — most people would expect a reverent service or somber memorial to mark the tragedy. Not big bands full of brass instruments playing 1940s jazz and swing music. Not people dancing, twisting and flapping in jubilee.\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\">But that’s exactly the sort of energy renowned bandleader and composer Marcus Shelby wants to evoke at \u003ca href=\"https://www.portchicagoweekend.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">an event\u003c/a> marking the 80th anniversary of the Port Chicago Explosion, the deadliest incident on mainland American soil of World War II and one of the worst disasters in U.S. military history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Utilizing entertainment in order to educate people on what happened at Port Chicago, just north of Concord, is imperative to \u003ca href=\"https://linktr.ee/eastbaybec\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Yulie Padmore\u003c/a>. “Ultimately,” says Padmore, the director of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.portchicago50.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Port Chicago Alliance\u003c/a>, “this is a history I’m very passionate about.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Padmore is quick to enumerate the often-overlooked significance of the disaster and its aftermath. The subsequent legal proceedings laid the groundwork for the civil rights movement. It directly led to the desegregation of the Navy, and later the military as a whole. It also influenced desegregation in the broader U.S. workforce, as well as the country’s education system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13960707\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 829px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13960707\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/Happy-Sailors.jpeg\" alt=\"The smiles of those pictured here are a reminder that the majority of men enlisted in the Navy at the time of the Port Chicago disaster were in their late teens and early 20s.\" width=\"829\" height=\"829\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/Happy-Sailors.jpeg 829w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/Happy-Sailors-800x800.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/Happy-Sailors-160x160.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/Happy-Sailors-768x768.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 829px) 100vw, 829px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The majority of men enlisted in the Navy at the time of the Port Chicago disaster were in their late teens and early 20s. \u003ccite>(Naval History and Heritage Command )\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“What we’re saying is,” says Padmore during a phone call, “this work happened \u003cem>right here\u003c/em> in The Bay.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Padmore and Shelby are just two of the many folks preparing for \u003ca href=\"https://www.portchicagoweekend.org/\">Port Chicago Weekend\u003c/a>, a three-day series of events spanning from July 18–July 21. Along with live music and dancing, the lineup includes a performance of \u003cem>\u003ca class=\"showMoreInfo\" href=\"https://www.tickets831.com/Event/port-chicago-50-the-play-289922\">Port Chicago 50\u003c/a>\u003c/em>, a play by David Shackelford and Dennis Rowe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Attendees will also get to hear firsthand from relatives of those who died in the tragic events of July 17, 1944 — exactly 80 years ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13960705\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 960px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13960705\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/POCH-2-080_1.jpg\" alt=\"A group of African American sailors marching at Port Chicago.\" width=\"960\" height=\"700\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/POCH-2-080_1.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/POCH-2-080_1-800x583.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/POCH-2-080_1-160x117.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/POCH-2-080_1-768x560.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A group of African American sailors marching at Port Chicago. \u003ccite>(National Park Service Collection)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>[dropcap]I[/dropcap]n 1944, the United States was in the thick of World War II, and all throughout the Bay Area, workers played a huge role in the war effort. Women entered the workforce in droves, a shift often symbolized through the fictional character of \u003ca href=\"https://www.nps.gov/places/rosie-the-riveter-in-richmond-audio-program.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Rosie The Riveter\u003c/a>, and immortalized in a namesake park and museum in Richmond. Around that same time, UC Berkeley scientists worked on \u003ca href=\"https://www.osti.gov/opennet/manhattan-project-history/Places/Other/berkeley.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Manhattan Project\u003c/a>, which brought about the atom bomb. Thousands more labored in mills in Marin County, factories in Oakland and on ships in Hunters Point, all in support of the war effort.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In July, at a naval base on Suisun Bay, hundreds of men worked tirelessly to load munitions onto a 440-foot-long cargo ship, the S.S. \u003cem>E.A. Bryan\u003c/em>. Reports show that between big cluster bombs, small ammunitions, naval mines and other explosives, \u003ca href=\"https://www.history.navy.mil/research/library/online-reading-room/title-list-alphabetically/p/port-chicago-ca-explosion/online-documents/court-of-inquiry/factual-detail-prior-to-explosion.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">over 4,600 pounds of weaponry\u003c/a> was loaded onto the vessel at the time of the incident. The cargo ship itself, loaded with over 5,000 barrels of bunker oil, was highly flammable. Approximately 430 tons of ammunition and bombs sat in railroad cars not far from where the ship was moored. Another ship, the S.S. \u003cem>Quinault Victory\u003c/em>, was directly adjacent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13960721\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 683px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13960721\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/9781596437968.IN05.jpg\" alt=\"Navy servicemen working on the pier during WWII.\" width=\"683\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/9781596437968.IN05.jpg 683w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/9781596437968.IN05-160x240.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 683px) 100vw, 683px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Navy servicemen working on the pier during WWII. \u003ccite>(National Park Service, Port Chicago Naval Magazine National Memorial )\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Just after 10 p.m. on the night of July 17, witnesses heard the sound of metal falling before a booming explosion sent a fireball measuring three miles in diameter into the sky. Shrapnel was launched 1,200 feet into the air. The explosion was reportedly heard as far away as Nevada. It \u003ca href=\"http://www.asjournal.org/59-2015/commemorating-port-chicago-naval-magazine-disaster-1944/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">measured 3.4 on the Richter scale\u003c/a> in Berkeley, 20 miles away.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of those men working on the ship, 320 were killed instantly, vaporized by the blast. Hundreds more were injured. Those who perished in the explosion accounted for 15% of African American servicemen who died during WWII.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The exact cause of the explosion was never identified. But during a trial, it became clear that \u003ca href=\"https://www.usni.org/magazines/naval-history-magazine/2021/august/port-chicago-revisited\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the Navy hadn’t followed protocol\u003c/a> in training the largely African American workers how to properly load munitions. What’s more, three weeks later the remaining workers were sent to Mare Island in Vallejo to continue loading munitions for the Navy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Seeing that no new safety measures had been taken, workers protested. \u003ca href=\"https://www.nps.gov/poch/learn/historyculture/people.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Over 250 men initially refused\u003c/a> the unsafe labor conditions. But soon, the majority returned to work, leaving 50 men — known as the Port Chicago 50 — to protest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13960706\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13960706\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/2-Joshua-Schick.jpg\" alt=\"African Americans accounted for 5.5% of the Navy during WWII--over 187,000 sailors-- but only 64 were commissioned as officers.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1400\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/2-Joshua-Schick.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/2-Joshua-Schick-800x583.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/2-Joshua-Schick-1020x744.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/2-Joshua-Schick-160x117.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/2-Joshua-Schick-768x560.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/2-Joshua-Schick-1536x1120.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">African Americans accounted for 5.5% of the Navy during WWII — over 187,000 sailors — but only 64 were commissioned as officers. \u003ccite>(National Archives)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Charged with disobedience and mutiny during wartime, the men were supported by Thurgood Marshall, who wasn’t their lawyer but attended the hearings and publicized their case. This was years before Marshall worked on the landmark case \u003cem>Brown v. Board of Education\u003c/em> or became the first African American Supreme Court justice, but as lead counsel with the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, Marshall’s name still held weight.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In support of the Port Chicago 50, \u003ca href=\"https://www.nps.gov/poch/learn/historyculture/the-mutiny-trial.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Marshall said\u003c/a>, “This is not 50 men on trial for mutiny. This is the Navy on trial for its whole vicious policy toward Negroes. Negroes in the Navy don’t mind loading ammunition. They just want to know why they are the only ones doing the loading.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the end, the 50 men were imprisoned, with sentences ranging from eight to 15 years at Terminal Island Disciplinary Barracks in San Pedro. The higher ranking officers, all of them white, walked away scot-free. On Capitol Hill, the Navy requested compensation for each of the victim’s families in the amount of $5,000; after protests from the staunchly racist Mississippi Congressman John Rankin, that figure was reduced to $3,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13960727\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 320px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13960727\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/joe-small.jpeg\" alt=\"Navy serviceman and Port Chicago 50 member, Joseph Small.\" width=\"320\" height=\"790\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/joe-small.jpeg 320w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/joe-small-160x395.jpeg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 320px) 100vw, 320px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Navy serviceman and Port Chicago 50 member Joseph Small. \u003ccite>(Robert L. Allen)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>[dropcap]B[/dropcap]y January 1946, the war was over and the Port Chicago 50 were released from prison. That same year, \u003ca href=\"https://www.usni.org/magazines/naval-history-magazine/2021/february/segregation-navy#:~:text=On%20paper%2C%20the%20history%20of,convictions%20of%2050%20black%20sailors.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the Navy ended all formal segregation\u003c/a>. Two years later, on July 26, 1948, \u003ca href=\"https://www.archives.gov/milestone-documents/executive-order-9981\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">President Harry Truman formally desegregated the military\u003c/a> and established the President’s Committee on Equality of Treatment and Opportunity in the Armed Services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 1999, President\u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/1999/12/24/us/sailor-from-mutiny-in-44-wins-a-presidential-pardon.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> Bill Clinton officially pardoned Port Chicago 50 member Freddie Meeks\u003c/a>. But a number of other men refused to accept the pardon, as it would inherently acknowledge some form of guilt.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“\u003ca href=\"https://portchicago50.com/exoneration.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">My goal is to the see the men exonerated this year\u003c/a>,” says Yulie Padmore. Working with the likes of \u003ca href=\"https://portchicagomemorial.org/about/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Friends of Port Chicago National Memorial\u003c/a> President \u003ca href=\"https://www.nps.gov/articles/000/diana-mcdaniel.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Rev. Diana McDaniel\u003c/a>, Padmore is also actively ensuring that the story of the Port Chicago disaster and the Port Chicago 50 is accessible to all.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 1994, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.nps.gov/poch/planyourvisit/things2do.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Port Chicago Naval Magazine National Memorial\u003c/a> was dedicated to those who died in the explosion. Fifteen years later, \u003ca href=\"https://portchicagomemorial.org/2009/10/29/president-obama-signs-bill-designating-port-chicago-memorial-as-unit-of-the-national-parks-service/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">President Barack Obama\u003c/a> signed a bill establishing that same site as a unit of the National Park Service. The problem is that the public doesn’t readily have access to that land, as it’s on an active naval base.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But there’s a new park in the works: \u003ca href=\"https://www.ebparks.org/parks/thurgood-marshall\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Thurgood Marshall Regional Park — Home of the Port Chicago 50\u003c/a>. “We’re going to have a visitors center here in the Bay Area,” says Padmore of the forthcoming space in the Los Medanos Hills, a 2,500-acre site between the cities of Concord and Pittsburg. And although \u003ca href=\"https://www.ebparks.org/projects/thurgood-marshall-regional-park-land-use-plan\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the center is 40 years out\u003c/a>, just the name of the site is a significant step. “It’s the first regional park named after people who’ve been formerly incarcerated,” says Padmore, noting that the community pushed to add “Home of the Port Chicago 50” to the title.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13960728\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 960px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13960728\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/960x0-8.jpeg\" alt=\"Navy servicemen honored at Port Chicago.\" width=\"960\" height=\"755\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/960x0-8.jpeg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/960x0-8-800x629.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/960x0-8-160x126.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/960x0-8-768x604.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Navy servicemen honored at Port Chicago. \u003ccite>(U.S. Navy via National Archives)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“It’s much greater than we can imagine at this point,” Padmore tells me. “Folks from California, we go to Washington, D.C., and we learn about our history … but where do we have a significant history of this magnitude for African Americans in the state of California?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although the center’s opening is well into the future, and the story of the disaster at Port Chicago happened 80 years in the past, this piece of history is more relevant now than ever.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From workers rights to diversity, equity and inclusion in the workplace, this month’s 80th anniversary event holds weight. For academics and activists, there’s the opportunity to learn about people like Dr. Robert L. Allen, who wrote the book \u003cem>The Port Chicago Mutiny\u003c/em>. There’s even something for those discussing reparations and land repatriation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And, in addition to education, as Padmore reminds us, there’s room for entertainment — all while honoring the legacy of the Port Chicago 50.\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Port Chicago Weekend takes place Thursday–Sunday, July 18–21, at various locations in Port Chicago, Vallejo, Pittsburg, Oakland, San Francisco and San Bruno. \u003ca href=\"https://portchicagoweekend.org/\">More details on the weekend’s events here\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class=\"utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__dropcapShortcode__dropcap\">O\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>n the anniversary of a horrifying explosion that killed 320 men — 202 of them African American — most people would expect a reverent service or somber memorial to mark the tragedy. Not big bands full of brass instruments playing 1940s jazz and swing music. Not people dancing, twisting and flapping in jubilee.\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\">But that’s exactly the sort of energy renowned bandleader and composer Marcus Shelby wants to evoke at \u003ca href=\"https://www.portchicagoweekend.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">an event\u003c/a> marking the 80th anniversary of the Port Chicago Explosion, the deadliest incident on mainland American soil of World War II and one of the worst disasters in U.S. military history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Utilizing entertainment in order to educate people on what happened at Port Chicago, just north of Concord, is imperative to \u003ca href=\"https://linktr.ee/eastbaybec\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Yulie Padmore\u003c/a>. “Ultimately,” says Padmore, the director of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.portchicago50.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Port Chicago Alliance\u003c/a>, “this is a history I’m very passionate about.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Padmore is quick to enumerate the often-overlooked significance of the disaster and its aftermath. The subsequent legal proceedings laid the groundwork for the civil rights movement. It directly led to the desegregation of the Navy, and later the military as a whole. It also influenced desegregation in the broader U.S. workforce, as well as the country’s education system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13960707\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 829px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13960707\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/Happy-Sailors.jpeg\" alt=\"The smiles of those pictured here are a reminder that the majority of men enlisted in the Navy at the time of the Port Chicago disaster were in their late teens and early 20s.\" width=\"829\" height=\"829\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/Happy-Sailors.jpeg 829w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/Happy-Sailors-800x800.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/Happy-Sailors-160x160.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/Happy-Sailors-768x768.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 829px) 100vw, 829px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The majority of men enlisted in the Navy at the time of the Port Chicago disaster were in their late teens and early 20s. \u003ccite>(Naval History and Heritage Command )\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“What we’re saying is,” says Padmore during a phone call, “this work happened \u003cem>right here\u003c/em> in The Bay.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Padmore and Shelby are just two of the many folks preparing for \u003ca href=\"https://www.portchicagoweekend.org/\">Port Chicago Weekend\u003c/a>, a three-day series of events spanning from July 18–July 21. Along with live music and dancing, the lineup includes a performance of \u003cem>\u003ca class=\"showMoreInfo\" href=\"https://www.tickets831.com/Event/port-chicago-50-the-play-289922\">Port Chicago 50\u003c/a>\u003c/em>, a play by David Shackelford and Dennis Rowe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Attendees will also get to hear firsthand from relatives of those who died in the tragic events of July 17, 1944 — exactly 80 years ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13960705\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 960px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13960705\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/POCH-2-080_1.jpg\" alt=\"A group of African American sailors marching at Port Chicago.\" width=\"960\" height=\"700\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/POCH-2-080_1.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/POCH-2-080_1-800x583.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/POCH-2-080_1-160x117.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/POCH-2-080_1-768x560.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A group of African American sailors marching at Port Chicago. \u003ccite>(National Park Service Collection)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class=\"utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__dropcapShortcode__dropcap\">I\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>n 1944, the United States was in the thick of World War II, and all throughout the Bay Area, workers played a huge role in the war effort. Women entered the workforce in droves, a shift often symbolized through the fictional character of \u003ca href=\"https://www.nps.gov/places/rosie-the-riveter-in-richmond-audio-program.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Rosie The Riveter\u003c/a>, and immortalized in a namesake park and museum in Richmond. Around that same time, UC Berkeley scientists worked on \u003ca href=\"https://www.osti.gov/opennet/manhattan-project-history/Places/Other/berkeley.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Manhattan Project\u003c/a>, which brought about the atom bomb. Thousands more labored in mills in Marin County, factories in Oakland and on ships in Hunters Point, all in support of the war effort.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In July, at a naval base on Suisun Bay, hundreds of men worked tirelessly to load munitions onto a 440-foot-long cargo ship, the S.S. \u003cem>E.A. Bryan\u003c/em>. Reports show that between big cluster bombs, small ammunitions, naval mines and other explosives, \u003ca href=\"https://www.history.navy.mil/research/library/online-reading-room/title-list-alphabetically/p/port-chicago-ca-explosion/online-documents/court-of-inquiry/factual-detail-prior-to-explosion.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">over 4,600 pounds of weaponry\u003c/a> was loaded onto the vessel at the time of the incident. The cargo ship itself, loaded with over 5,000 barrels of bunker oil, was highly flammable. Approximately 430 tons of ammunition and bombs sat in railroad cars not far from where the ship was moored. Another ship, the S.S. \u003cem>Quinault Victory\u003c/em>, was directly adjacent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13960721\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 683px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13960721\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/9781596437968.IN05.jpg\" alt=\"Navy servicemen working on the pier during WWII.\" width=\"683\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/9781596437968.IN05.jpg 683w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/9781596437968.IN05-160x240.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 683px) 100vw, 683px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Navy servicemen working on the pier during WWII. \u003ccite>(National Park Service, Port Chicago Naval Magazine National Memorial )\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Just after 10 p.m. on the night of July 17, witnesses heard the sound of metal falling before a booming explosion sent a fireball measuring three miles in diameter into the sky. Shrapnel was launched 1,200 feet into the air. The explosion was reportedly heard as far away as Nevada. It \u003ca href=\"http://www.asjournal.org/59-2015/commemorating-port-chicago-naval-magazine-disaster-1944/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">measured 3.4 on the Richter scale\u003c/a> in Berkeley, 20 miles away.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of those men working on the ship, 320 were killed instantly, vaporized by the blast. Hundreds more were injured. Those who perished in the explosion accounted for 15% of African American servicemen who died during WWII.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The exact cause of the explosion was never identified. But during a trial, it became clear that \u003ca href=\"https://www.usni.org/magazines/naval-history-magazine/2021/august/port-chicago-revisited\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the Navy hadn’t followed protocol\u003c/a> in training the largely African American workers how to properly load munitions. What’s more, three weeks later the remaining workers were sent to Mare Island in Vallejo to continue loading munitions for the Navy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Seeing that no new safety measures had been taken, workers protested. \u003ca href=\"https://www.nps.gov/poch/learn/historyculture/people.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Over 250 men initially refused\u003c/a> the unsafe labor conditions. But soon, the majority returned to work, leaving 50 men — known as the Port Chicago 50 — to protest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13960706\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13960706\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/2-Joshua-Schick.jpg\" alt=\"African Americans accounted for 5.5% of the Navy during WWII--over 187,000 sailors-- but only 64 were commissioned as officers.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1400\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/2-Joshua-Schick.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/2-Joshua-Schick-800x583.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/2-Joshua-Schick-1020x744.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/2-Joshua-Schick-160x117.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/2-Joshua-Schick-768x560.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/2-Joshua-Schick-1536x1120.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">African Americans accounted for 5.5% of the Navy during WWII — over 187,000 sailors — but only 64 were commissioned as officers. \u003ccite>(National Archives)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Charged with disobedience and mutiny during wartime, the men were supported by Thurgood Marshall, who wasn’t their lawyer but attended the hearings and publicized their case. This was years before Marshall worked on the landmark case \u003cem>Brown v. Board of Education\u003c/em> or became the first African American Supreme Court justice, but as lead counsel with the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, Marshall’s name still held weight.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In support of the Port Chicago 50, \u003ca href=\"https://www.nps.gov/poch/learn/historyculture/the-mutiny-trial.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Marshall said\u003c/a>, “This is not 50 men on trial for mutiny. This is the Navy on trial for its whole vicious policy toward Negroes. Negroes in the Navy don’t mind loading ammunition. They just want to know why they are the only ones doing the loading.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the end, the 50 men were imprisoned, with sentences ranging from eight to 15 years at Terminal Island Disciplinary Barracks in San Pedro. The higher ranking officers, all of them white, walked away scot-free. On Capitol Hill, the Navy requested compensation for each of the victim’s families in the amount of $5,000; after protests from the staunchly racist Mississippi Congressman John Rankin, that figure was reduced to $3,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13960727\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 320px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13960727\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/joe-small.jpeg\" alt=\"Navy serviceman and Port Chicago 50 member, Joseph Small.\" width=\"320\" height=\"790\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/joe-small.jpeg 320w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/joe-small-160x395.jpeg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 320px) 100vw, 320px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Navy serviceman and Port Chicago 50 member Joseph Small. \u003ccite>(Robert L. Allen)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class=\"utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__dropcapShortcode__dropcap\">B\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>y January 1946, the war was over and the Port Chicago 50 were released from prison. That same year, \u003ca href=\"https://www.usni.org/magazines/naval-history-magazine/2021/february/segregation-navy#:~:text=On%20paper%2C%20the%20history%20of,convictions%20of%2050%20black%20sailors.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the Navy ended all formal segregation\u003c/a>. 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