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There are also international conversations and actions pushing changes in the way we’re policed, and there’s an ongoing global pandemic that has killed over one million people worldwide.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So why are we listening to entertainers?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Why do we need a breakdown of the meetings between \u003ca href=\"https://www.politico.com/news/2020/10/15/ice-cube-trump-partnership-429713\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ice Cube\u003c/a> and President Trump’s camps? Why do we care about \u003ca href=\"https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/50-cent-fk-donald-trump-after-support-president\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">50 Cent’s flip-flopping political views\u003c/a>? Did we really need \u003ca href=\"https://news.yahoo.com/diddy-starts-political-party-empower-194913724.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Diddy\u003c/a> to hop on the airwaves and announce he’s starting a new political party? Why is \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/30/arts/music/lil-wayne-trump.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Lil Wayne’s\u003c/a> support of Trump noteworthy? Why is \u003ca href=\"https://deadline.com/2020/09/jeezy-joe-biden-kanye-west-1234578676/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Young Jeezy’s\u003c/a> support of Joe Biden a story? Why… \u003cem>is \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://www.tmz.com/2020/10/03/kanye-west-california-ballot-vice-president-candidate/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Kanye West\u003c/a>?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hella questions. At the top of my list: when it comes to creating change in our community, in this election cycle and beyond, what is the role of Black men? ‘Cause judging from these popular stories I’m seeing… it’s questionable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13888699\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 499px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13888699\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/10/123024745_134014161795446_9026917441314080281_n.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"499\" height=\"499\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/10/123024745_134014161795446_9026917441314080281_n.jpg 499w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/10/123024745_134014161795446_9026917441314080281_n-160x160.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 499px) 100vw, 499px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Truth. \u003ccite>(Via \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/ksj.events/\">Kola Shobo\u003c/a>/IG)\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\">L\u003c/span>ast week I turned to \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/OGpenn/status/1318220298383028225?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">social media\u003c/a> in search of answers. I needed stories of Black men taking action to make this world a bit better, both through electoral politics and outside of the political structure. No, you don’t hear me: I \u003ci>needed\u003c/i> these stories.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So it was refreshing to learn about Maryland’s \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/nealcarter\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Neal Carter\u003c/a> and his Nu View Consulting organization, which focuses on getting African Americans living with disabilities politically engaged. Or \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/CameronWhitten\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Cameron Whitten\u003c/a>, a Black man in Portland, Oregon who’s politically active; I’ve been following Black Lives Matter protests up there since the summer and he’s the first African American man involved that I’ve heard of.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I needed to be introduced to the education work \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/michaelsorrell\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Michael Sorrell\u003c/a> is doing in Texas, the organizing work \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/LamontLilly\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Lamont Lilly\u003c/a> is doing out of Durham, NC, and the work of \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/codyrenard\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Cody Renard Richard,\u003c/a> who in \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H7KumWIxyTk&feature=emb_title\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">this interview\u003c/a> from earlier this year explains how he’s fighting for equal rights in the world of Broadway theatre in New York.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://youtu.be/3HtaCBegNWg\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Locally, people suggested I check out the work of Tur-Ha Ak, whose work with \u003ca href=\"https://www.antipoliceterrorproject.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the Anti Police-Terror Project\u003c/a> I’ve mentioned in my writing before. The Oakland group \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3HtaCBegNWg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Black London\u003c/a> put out an admonition to vote and claim representation for the people in their video for “Power.” And I was asked to look at the work of \u003ca href=\"https://www.hellablackpod.com/pbo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">People’s Breakfast Oakland\u003c/a>, which I’ve also noted in past columns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Partially inspired by People’s Breakfast Oakland, Sacramento’s \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/coach_jmcgowan\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jordan McGowan\u003c/a> told me about co-founding the \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/sacneighbor916\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Sacramento Neighbor Project\u003c/a>, which focuses on community-based responses to police violence and using mutual aid to get resources to those in need. Without talking to McGowan, I might not have known about \u003ca href=\"https://news.yahoo.com/father-found-hanged-sacramento-park-120000333.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Willie Brown\u003c/a>, an African American man who has been on life support after being found hanging from a basketball hoop in a Sacramento park last week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That might a bit more important than what \u003ca href=\"https://www.complex.com/music/2020/09/ti-interview-ring\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">T.I\u003c/a>. has to say about politics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But maybe it’s not \u003ci>sexy\u003c/i> enough? I’m not a media strategist or anything, but I’m starting to think big publications are more concerned with generating revenue from click-based advertising than actually informing the masses about critical issues during a time when so much is at stake.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Again, why are we listening to entertainers?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1NZEHNSC2Q0\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">O\u003c/span>K, here’s a story that might be more enticing: the former drug kingpin-turned-author, Oakland’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/CG2m3nTMjVZ/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Darryl Reed\u003c/a>, who was granted clemency by President Obama, is voting for the first time and politically organizing in his community of East Oakland. Where’s the news on that?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reed is supporting the organization \u003ca href=\"https://100blackmenba.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">100 Black Men of The Bay Area\u003c/a> to engage people in voter education, registration and voting. Neale Clunie, a representative for the organization, tells me they’re part of the “\u003ca href=\"https://100blackmenba.org/event/we-ride-we-vote/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">We Ride, We Vote\u003c/a>” biking and voting event on Sunday, Nov. 1, from 1-5 pm in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Clunie also tells me that his organization is teaming up with the \u003ca href=\"https://ncbw.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">National Coalition of 100 Black Women\u003c/a>. “Black women are the cornerstone of the Democratic party; they generally have a better turnout,” says Clunie. He’s right: according to \u003ca href=\"https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2020/08/18/men-and-women-in-the-u-s-continue-to-differ-in-voter-turnout-rate-party-identification/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Pew Research\u003c/a>, eligible Black women voters have shown up more readily than Black men for decades. (To be fair, women vote in larger numbers than men in general.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Much has been written about the power of Black women voters, and Pastor Michael McBride, of \u003ca href=\"https://thewayberkeley.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Way Christian Center in Berkeley,\u003c/a> says that doesn’t have to negatively impact Black men when it comes to voting or community organizing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Men don’t have to shrink or cower or disappear for women to be strong,” Pastor McBride tells me. “We just have to be willing and humble. Coordination with all of our community is happening at the same time.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>(McBride, who was on the move when we talked, mistakenly thought I said my name was “Twin” when I introduced myself as Pen. He explained that Twin is someone he’s working with in order to quell a festering beef after a recent shooting—evidence of Pastor McBride’s community involvement.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McBride then said he’s on the verge of embarking on a “\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/CG_dCXUBmYo/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Black bus tour\u003c/a>” through the United States’ southeast region. He and a team of folks aim to hit 14 cities—Orlando, Atlanta and Raleigh, to name a few—over a span of 10 days to assist people in getting to the polls.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McBride says the role of Black men right now is “to be what we’ve always been when we’ve been at our best.” Black men are freedom fighters, truth tellers and protectors of our community, he says. “We need to lead with a healthy sense of strength and humility to understand the complexity of the issues that have impacted all of the members of the community,” says McBride. “Leadership doesn’t always require to be out in front. It’s about discerning the moment. The plight of Black people requires a lot more coordination in order to beat white supremacy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13888697\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13888697\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/10/image-asset-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Pastor Michael McBride, center, leads a 2017 march in Berkeley to protest white supremacists.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/10/image-asset-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/10/image-asset-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/10/image-asset-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/10/image-asset-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/10/image-asset.jpg 1500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pastor Michael McBride, center, leads a 2017 march in Berkeley to protest white supremacists. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Michael McBride)\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\">A\u003c/span>long with the prevalence of Black male entertainers’ tone-deaf participation in politics, the popular stories of actual Black male politicians have been disheartening.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The story of Kentucky’s\u003ca href=\"https://thegrio.com/2020/10/21/something-fishy-about-daniel-cameron-breonna-taylor-case/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> Attorney General Daniel Cameron \u003c/a>blocking the process of holding the cops who killed Breonna Taylor accountable is disgusting. The highly publicized extramarital affair of former Florida Governor Candidate \u003ca href=\"https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/14/politics/andrew-gillum-bisexual/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Andrew Gillium\u003c/a> makes me ask what the media’s aim is. And here in the Bay Area, I’ve been following the unearthing of details around front-running Vallejo mayoral candidate \u003ca href=\"https://openvallejo.org/2020/10/13/domestic-violence-bordering-on-torture-records-reveal-years-of-allegations-against-vallejo-councilmember/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Hakeem Brown\u003c/a> and his history of domestic abuse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So, again, I \u003ci>needed\u003c/i> these benevolent stories.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I’m not giving anyone a pass as a “good guy.” I’m not naive enough to think that in this society any man has clean hands—or any human, for that matter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But there should be more appreciation for someone like Colin Kaepernick, who is using his popularity to back \u003ca href=\"https://level.medium.com/abolition-for-the-people-397ef29e3ca5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Abolition For The People\u003c/a>, a publication rooted in challenging America’s prison-industrial complex. Or acclaimed poet \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/story/2020-10-05/45-lies-trump-poetry-project-rappers-broadway-daveed-diggs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Marc Bamuthi Joseph\u003c/a>, who’s using his platform to let other lyricists express themselves about the lies our current president has told in a project he calls \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/45lies2020/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">45 Lies\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hell, even \u003ca href=\"https://youtu.be/Oq56pAdXqi8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Mike Tyson\u003c/a>, who recently had a conversation with Lil Boosie about his derogatory comments on the LGBTQ community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Black male celebrities can do so much by simply not playing into the media’s need to feed off of clickbait. I’m not saying don’t get involved in politics, this isn’t a “\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AlHuaOIvRLY\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">shut up and dribble\u003c/a>” situation. (Or even a shut up and “riddle” situation, for the rappers in the room.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But there’s another way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Barbershop-style discussions with former President \u003ca href=\"https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/barack-obama-stopping-lebron-james-175511212.html\">Barack Obama\u003c/a> are cool and all, but the best approach is using your platform to push the ideas of lesser-known people who, though not always “newsworthy,” have been steeped in the work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://youtu.be/LMJvApfx_Ik\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">W\u003c/span>ith the reintroduction of the term “super predator” into the popular lexicon, this week’s research proved to be the reminder I needed, just a note that we’re much more than what popular media depicts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And as a Black man, who is also a member of “the media,” it’s my job to do all that I can to make sure we push for more of what\u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2020-09-27/los-angeles-times-apology-racism\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> The Los Angeles Times\u003c/a> attempted to do a few weeks ago with its public apology for its decades worth of misrepresenting Black and brown urban communities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Again, there is a lot going on in the world: I haven’t even mentioned global warming.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But this had to be written, if not then we’d risk falling back down a path that could lead to the type of storytelling that supported the incarceration of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2019/06/19/what-trump-has-said-central-park-five/1501321001/\">Central Park Five\u003c/a> and the passing of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2019/6/20/18677998/joe-biden-1994-crime-bill-law-mass-incarceration\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">1994 Crime Bill\u003c/a>—a bill that adversely impacted a generation of Black men.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Well, not the \u003cem>entire\u003c/em> generation. There were some entertainers who made so-called “gangsta rap” music and leveraged the concept of being a “super predator” for their own financial gain.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A few of them are now being postured as “political leaders.” Go figure.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">M\u003c/span>an, there sure are a number of Black men in the political arena looking like clowns these days. And as much as I enjoy a good laugh, I don’t think it’s really the time to be entertained.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-13833985\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/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>There’s a pretty big election happening right now in the United States. There are also international conversations and actions pushing changes in the way we’re policed, and there’s an ongoing global pandemic that has killed over one million people worldwide.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So why are we listening to entertainers?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Why do we need a breakdown of the meetings between \u003ca href=\"https://www.politico.com/news/2020/10/15/ice-cube-trump-partnership-429713\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ice Cube\u003c/a> and President Trump’s camps? Why do we care about \u003ca href=\"https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/50-cent-fk-donald-trump-after-support-president\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">50 Cent’s flip-flopping political views\u003c/a>? Did we really need \u003ca href=\"https://news.yahoo.com/diddy-starts-political-party-empower-194913724.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Diddy\u003c/a> to hop on the airwaves and announce he’s starting a new political party? Why is \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/30/arts/music/lil-wayne-trump.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Lil Wayne’s\u003c/a> support of Trump noteworthy? Why is \u003ca href=\"https://deadline.com/2020/09/jeezy-joe-biden-kanye-west-1234578676/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Young Jeezy’s\u003c/a> support of Joe Biden a story? Why… \u003cem>is \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://www.tmz.com/2020/10/03/kanye-west-california-ballot-vice-president-candidate/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Kanye West\u003c/a>?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hella questions. At the top of my list: when it comes to creating change in our community, in this election cycle and beyond, what is the role of Black men? ‘Cause judging from these popular stories I’m seeing… it’s questionable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13888699\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 499px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13888699\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/10/123024745_134014161795446_9026917441314080281_n.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"499\" height=\"499\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/10/123024745_134014161795446_9026917441314080281_n.jpg 499w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/10/123024745_134014161795446_9026917441314080281_n-160x160.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 499px) 100vw, 499px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Truth. \u003ccite>(Via \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/ksj.events/\">Kola Shobo\u003c/a>/IG)\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\">L\u003c/span>ast week I turned to \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/OGpenn/status/1318220298383028225?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">social media\u003c/a> in search of answers. I needed stories of Black men taking action to make this world a bit better, both through electoral politics and outside of the political structure. No, you don’t hear me: I \u003ci>needed\u003c/i> these stories.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So it was refreshing to learn about Maryland’s \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/nealcarter\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Neal Carter\u003c/a> and his Nu View Consulting organization, which focuses on getting African Americans living with disabilities politically engaged. Or \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/CameronWhitten\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Cameron Whitten\u003c/a>, a Black man in Portland, Oregon who’s politically active; I’ve been following Black Lives Matter protests up there since the summer and he’s the first African American man involved that I’ve heard of.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I needed to be introduced to the education work \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/michaelsorrell\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Michael Sorrell\u003c/a> is doing in Texas, the organizing work \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/LamontLilly\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Lamont Lilly\u003c/a> is doing out of Durham, NC, and the work of \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/codyrenard\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Cody Renard Richard,\u003c/a> who in \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H7KumWIxyTk&feature=emb_title\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">this interview\u003c/a> from earlier this year explains how he’s fighting for equal rights in the world of Broadway theatre in New York.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/3HtaCBegNWg'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/3HtaCBegNWg'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>Locally, people suggested I check out the work of Tur-Ha Ak, whose work with \u003ca href=\"https://www.antipoliceterrorproject.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the Anti Police-Terror Project\u003c/a> I’ve mentioned in my writing before. The Oakland group \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3HtaCBegNWg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Black London\u003c/a> put out an admonition to vote and claim representation for the people in their video for “Power.” And I was asked to look at the work of \u003ca href=\"https://www.hellablackpod.com/pbo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">People’s Breakfast Oakland\u003c/a>, which I’ve also noted in past columns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Partially inspired by People’s Breakfast Oakland, Sacramento’s \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/coach_jmcgowan\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jordan McGowan\u003c/a> told me about co-founding the \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/sacneighbor916\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Sacramento Neighbor Project\u003c/a>, which focuses on community-based responses to police violence and using mutual aid to get resources to those in need. Without talking to McGowan, I might not have known about \u003ca href=\"https://news.yahoo.com/father-found-hanged-sacramento-park-120000333.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Willie Brown\u003c/a>, an African American man who has been on life support after being found hanging from a basketball hoop in a Sacramento park last week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That might a bit more important than what \u003ca href=\"https://www.complex.com/music/2020/09/ti-interview-ring\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">T.I\u003c/a>. has to say about politics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But maybe it’s not \u003ci>sexy\u003c/i> enough? I’m not a media strategist or anything, but I’m starting to think big publications are more concerned with generating revenue from click-based advertising than actually informing the masses about critical issues during a time when so much is at stake.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Again, why are we listening to entertainers?\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/1NZEHNSC2Q0'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/1NZEHNSC2Q0'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">O\u003c/span>K, here’s a story that might be more enticing: the former drug kingpin-turned-author, Oakland’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/CG2m3nTMjVZ/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Darryl Reed\u003c/a>, who was granted clemency by President Obama, is voting for the first time and politically organizing in his community of East Oakland. Where’s the news on that?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reed is supporting the organization \u003ca href=\"https://100blackmenba.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">100 Black Men of The Bay Area\u003c/a> to engage people in voter education, registration and voting. Neale Clunie, a representative for the organization, tells me they’re part of the “\u003ca href=\"https://100blackmenba.org/event/we-ride-we-vote/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">We Ride, We Vote\u003c/a>” biking and voting event on Sunday, Nov. 1, from 1-5 pm in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Clunie also tells me that his organization is teaming up with the \u003ca href=\"https://ncbw.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">National Coalition of 100 Black Women\u003c/a>. “Black women are the cornerstone of the Democratic party; they generally have a better turnout,” says Clunie. He’s right: according to \u003ca href=\"https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2020/08/18/men-and-women-in-the-u-s-continue-to-differ-in-voter-turnout-rate-party-identification/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Pew Research\u003c/a>, eligible Black women voters have shown up more readily than Black men for decades. (To be fair, women vote in larger numbers than men in general.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Much has been written about the power of Black women voters, and Pastor Michael McBride, of \u003ca href=\"https://thewayberkeley.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Way Christian Center in Berkeley,\u003c/a> says that doesn’t have to negatively impact Black men when it comes to voting or community organizing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Men don’t have to shrink or cower or disappear for women to be strong,” Pastor McBride tells me. “We just have to be willing and humble. Coordination with all of our community is happening at the same time.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>(McBride, who was on the move when we talked, mistakenly thought I said my name was “Twin” when I introduced myself as Pen. He explained that Twin is someone he’s working with in order to quell a festering beef after a recent shooting—evidence of Pastor McBride’s community involvement.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McBride then said he’s on the verge of embarking on a “\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/CG_dCXUBmYo/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Black bus tour\u003c/a>” through the United States’ southeast region. He and a team of folks aim to hit 14 cities—Orlando, Atlanta and Raleigh, to name a few—over a span of 10 days to assist people in getting to the polls.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McBride says the role of Black men right now is “to be what we’ve always been when we’ve been at our best.” Black men are freedom fighters, truth tellers and protectors of our community, he says. “We need to lead with a healthy sense of strength and humility to understand the complexity of the issues that have impacted all of the members of the community,” says McBride. “Leadership doesn’t always require to be out in front. It’s about discerning the moment. The plight of Black people requires a lot more coordination in order to beat white supremacy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13888697\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13888697\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/10/image-asset-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Pastor Michael McBride, center, leads a 2017 march in Berkeley to protest white supremacists.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/10/image-asset-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/10/image-asset-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/10/image-asset-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/10/image-asset-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/10/image-asset.jpg 1500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pastor Michael McBride, center, leads a 2017 march in Berkeley to protest white supremacists. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Michael McBride)\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\">A\u003c/span>long with the prevalence of Black male entertainers’ tone-deaf participation in politics, the popular stories of actual Black male politicians have been disheartening.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The story of Kentucky’s\u003ca href=\"https://thegrio.com/2020/10/21/something-fishy-about-daniel-cameron-breonna-taylor-case/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> Attorney General Daniel Cameron \u003c/a>blocking the process of holding the cops who killed Breonna Taylor accountable is disgusting. The highly publicized extramarital affair of former Florida Governor Candidate \u003ca href=\"https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/14/politics/andrew-gillum-bisexual/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Andrew Gillium\u003c/a> makes me ask what the media’s aim is. And here in the Bay Area, I’ve been following the unearthing of details around front-running Vallejo mayoral candidate \u003ca href=\"https://openvallejo.org/2020/10/13/domestic-violence-bordering-on-torture-records-reveal-years-of-allegations-against-vallejo-councilmember/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Hakeem Brown\u003c/a> and his history of domestic abuse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So, again, I \u003ci>needed\u003c/i> these benevolent stories.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I’m not giving anyone a pass as a “good guy.” I’m not naive enough to think that in this society any man has clean hands—or any human, for that matter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But there should be more appreciation for someone like Colin Kaepernick, who is using his popularity to back \u003ca href=\"https://level.medium.com/abolition-for-the-people-397ef29e3ca5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Abolition For The People\u003c/a>, a publication rooted in challenging America’s prison-industrial complex. Or acclaimed poet \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/story/2020-10-05/45-lies-trump-poetry-project-rappers-broadway-daveed-diggs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Marc Bamuthi Joseph\u003c/a>, who’s using his platform to let other lyricists express themselves about the lies our current president has told in a project he calls \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/45lies2020/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">45 Lies\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hell, even \u003ca href=\"https://youtu.be/Oq56pAdXqi8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Mike Tyson\u003c/a>, who recently had a conversation with Lil Boosie about his derogatory comments on the LGBTQ community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Black male celebrities can do so much by simply not playing into the media’s need to feed off of clickbait. I’m not saying don’t get involved in politics, this isn’t a “\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AlHuaOIvRLY\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">shut up and dribble\u003c/a>” situation. (Or even a shut up and “riddle” situation, for the rappers in the room.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But there’s another way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Barbershop-style discussions with former President \u003ca href=\"https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/barack-obama-stopping-lebron-james-175511212.html\">Barack Obama\u003c/a> are cool and all, but the best approach is using your platform to push the ideas of lesser-known people who, though not always “newsworthy,” have been steeped in the work.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/LMJvApfx_Ik'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/LMJvApfx_Ik'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">W\u003c/span>ith the reintroduction of the term “super predator” into the popular lexicon, this week’s research proved to be the reminder I needed, just a note that we’re much more than what popular media depicts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And as a Black man, who is also a member of “the media,” it’s my job to do all that I can to make sure we push for more of what\u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2020-09-27/los-angeles-times-apology-racism\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> The Los Angeles Times\u003c/a> attempted to do a few weeks ago with its public apology for its decades worth of misrepresenting Black and brown urban communities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Again, there is a lot going on in the world: I haven’t even mentioned global warming.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But this had to be written, if not then we’d risk falling back down a path that could lead to the type of storytelling that supported the incarceration of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2019/06/19/what-trump-has-said-central-park-five/1501321001/\">Central Park Five\u003c/a> and the passing of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2019/6/20/18677998/joe-biden-1994-crime-bill-law-mass-incarceration\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">1994 Crime Bill\u003c/a>—a bill that adversely impacted a generation of Black men.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Well, not the \u003cem>entire\u003c/em> generation. There were some entertainers who made so-called “gangsta rap” music and leveraged the concept of being a “super predator” for their own financial gain.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003ci>In 2020, the United States faces an election like no other. Citizens will vote in the midst of a global pandemic, severe climate change, an uprising for racial justice and an administration that has eroded the norms of democracy. In ‘\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/tag/whats-on-your-ballot\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">What’s on Your Ballot\u003c/a>,’ KQED checks in with ten different artists, activists and cultural figures about the issues on their minds and their hopes for the country.\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">R\u003c/span>uby Ibarra makes transcending boundaries seem normal: During the day, Ibarra works at a biotech company, joining researchers around the world in the fight for a COVID-19 vaccine. Outside her 9-to-5, she’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.rubyibarra.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">one of the fiercest rappers in the Bay Area\u003c/a>. In the last few years, the Filipino-American artist has gained a following for her cutting lyrics, commanding rhythmic style and multilingual approach. (Ibarra often flows between English, Tagalog and Waray, a language native to Tacloban City, her hometown in the Philippines.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Beyond her music, Ibarra is politically active on social media, encouraging her followers to take the COVID-19 pandemic seriously, support the Black Lives Matter movement and speak out against repression of civil liberties in the Philippines. For Ibarra, 2020 has illustrated just how intensely this country is riddled with divisions—divisions she hopes can be broken down as we move into November and beyond.\u003cem>—Eda Yu\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"From KQED's California Voter Guide\" link1='https://www.kqed.org/voterguide/,KQED 2020 California Voter Guide: All the State Props, All the Bay Area Measures' hero=https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/2020/10/KQED-Election-2020-Aside-CA-Voter-Guide.png]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>As we head into the election, what do you make of the political climate in the United States today?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Especially for people in my generation, I hope that everyone’s been paying attention to what’s going on in this country—especially in terms of race relations and, more recently, how those in power are approaching this global pandemic. I hope those are factors people consider in this upcoming election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I’m not here to sway anybody’s vote one way or the other. It’s more important to me that everybody goes out to the polls, submits mail-in ballots, and really makes their voice heard in this upcoming election. I see this as the most important election so far in my lifetime. This year has shown how divided this country can be, and I just hope that after the election, we can find more common ground as a nation. I understand that everybody has different beliefs, especially in a melting pot like America, but I do urge people to consider the effects of our votes in a long-term sense. Whatever candidate that you choose, I hope people think about how it’s going to affect everybody else—if it’s going to drive this country into a more positive space—and not to go at it in a selfish way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>It’s about the long-term, bigger picture consequences of what your actions are right now.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And I’m not here to say that a vote is going to fix all our problems. As we’ve seen with this current president, it can even mobilize and embolden certain communities in this country that were afraid to speak up before. I just want people to consider the long-term effects of their choices.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SCd3iSfnWSw\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>With COVID-19 and intense climate change, this year really highlighted our country’s lack of trust in science. What’s your take on that as a scientist?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Honestly, how people have approached this pandemic—with people being anti-maskers or even anti-vaxxers—it’s very frustrating for me. Having a background in science, growing up loving the sciences and seeing them as [describing] how the world works, to see this much distrust now confuses me. We need to remember that this isn’t about scientists dictating how we should operate. [Believing in COVID-19] is about public health safety and whether we’re going to be stuck in this pandemic for an additional year. This is a community effort.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We all play a part in this pandemic, and [how we behave] will determine how long we’re gonna be in this situation: how long we’re going to be in quarantine, how much longer death rates and infection rates increase. We saw a lot of people [this year] neglecting or dismissing a lot of Dr. Fauci’s comments around how to better protect ourselves. Over and over again, I’ll advise my followers to follow \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the guidelines set by the CDC\u003c/a>. These guidelines were set in place for a reason, and wearing a mask, practicing social distancing—it’s like wearing a seatbelt. You don’t really have to do it. But at the end of the day, it is going to lower the rates of infection.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What is at stake if people don’t do their part to beat COVID-19?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What’s at stake is everybody’s lives. Everybody’s safety. Everybody’s freedom to gain any sense of normalcy again. If we continue down this route of people throwing these parties and everybody hanging out with their friends like it’s 2018, we’re really not gonna see much of an improvement. It saddens me when I turn on the news and I see that America is yet again the country with the highest infection and death rates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13887194\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-13887194 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/09/D7A9898.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/09/D7A9898.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/09/D7A9898-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/09/D7A9898-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ruby Ibarra: ‘As Asian Americans in this country, we’ve seen the effects of xenophobia from COVID-19 and Trump’s rhetoric when calling it the China virus.’ \u003ccite>(Estefany Gonzalez)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>How do you think politics have affected the way we’ve handled COVID-19?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s unfortunate that politics have affected this [outbreak at all]. I honestly don’t know where a lot of this rhetoric came from—of people not only fearing science but also dismissing it or trying to [say] that [COVID-19] is a hoax or something made up to limit people’s freedoms. I don’t know how people are leading their daily lives who have this kind of mentality. But I would like to hope that everybody continues to stay informed and puts aside any biases, any political affiliations that we have, and takes the information that we get from scientists, doctors, the CDC as truths and guidelines to help us.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Has there been a lot of pressure at work to find a vaccine?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the start of this pandemic around March, we did see a very steady incline in work at my job. At the end of March and beginning of April, my company started putting all hands on deck to help with the test kits. Now we’ve been working in collaboration with other companies and researchers in developing this vaccine. [aside postid='arts_13887076']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I’m definitely not here to give out promises or deadlines—I know that people are waiting for the vaccine, and I can’t blame them because the thought is very alluring. But in reality, a vaccine takes a lot of time to develop. For other infectious diseases, it’s always taken not only several years but also multiple clinical trials. And now we’re in this rush to be the first researcher, the first country to come up with a vaccine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I don’t want us to be in that mindset of it being a race because we don’t know what the long-term effects of this initial vaccine will be, given the short span of time that we have to develop this. I also want people to recognize that it’s not just a vaccine that’s going to help us but everybody doing our part with social distancing and wearing masks. And I hope that this will also open the window to discussion where maybe we revisit how we approach these pandemics, especially seeing the disparity in the communities of color who have contracted COVID-19.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13887189\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-13887189 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/09/D7A9871.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/09/D7A9871.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/09/D7A9871-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/09/D7A9871-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ruby Ibarra: ‘I think the question of who’s in office shouldn’t determine the rhetoric that we use. How we treat other people. How we approach public health safety.’ \u003ccite>(Estefany Gonzalez)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>As an Asian American, I know you’ve been passionate about raising awareness around what’s happening in the Philippines. Do you see parallels between what’s going on abroad and the social reckoning in the States today?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are definitely a lot of parallels—even just with the people who hold power. Time and again people have compared [Filipino President Rodrigo] Duterte and Trump, and in terms of their leadership and their personality, I see the similarities. I’ve been following what’s going on with the terror law, and it’s scary. [Duterte introduced \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2020/07/21/893019057/why-rights-groups-worry-about-the-philippines-new-anti-terrorism-law\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">an anti-terrorism law\u003c/a> in July that has drawn criticism from human rights groups globally.]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Being a Filipino in the diaspora, I know that in my community we often feel removed from what’s going on in the Philippines. But it’s important for us to recognize that what happens there still affects us. It’s really frightening to see that people’s freedom of speech and right to dissent are limited. These are very basic rights. So I hope that Filipinos living in America, who have a little more freedom, recognize this and stand up and are more vocal about it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Do you feel that artists have a responsibility to use their platform or their work to speak up about social issues?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Absolutely. I’ve always felt that if I’m not using my platform to speak on things that I’m passionate about, or to speak on things for people who don’t have a voice, then I’m doing my platform a disservice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As Asian Americans in this country, we’ve seen the effects of xenophobia from COVID-19 and Trump’s rhetoric when calling it the “China virus.” If Asian-American influencers and celebrities used their platforms to speak out against the injustices that our community faces, it would at the minimum open up discourse around it. [aside postid='arts_13880441']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>I’ve felt a lot of silence from the Asian American community around racial violence, and I think that bleeds into all social issues—Black Lives Matter is no different. We’ve started to see a change in the last couple months, but I hope that change persists.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I agree with you. I think the reason for the silence is probably obviously cultural factors: Being Asian American, a lot of us have this mentality to not speak out, keep our heads down and focus on our own lane. Hopefully with the xenophobia that our community has experienced, people do recognize that this discrimination happens to the Black community every single day, and that’s why things like Black Lives Matter exist. 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For those who have been impacted by COVID-19 because of the effects of the pandemic on businesses—if you’ve lost your job, or if you’re now working from home but unable to see other people, just hang in there and remember that we’re all going through it at the same time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is all new territory—especially for artists out there who are so used to being busy. I want to remind people that it’s OK not to be busy. It’s OK to be still. I think the silver lining that I’ve found in all of this is to be present with my family and friends, whether I’m having those interactions through Zoom or being with my loved ones at home. I’m still very grateful for having those interactions compared to being impacted by the pandemic in terms of my health. So at this point, I think we just need to count our blessings. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">A\u003c/span>ll it took was a worldwide pandemic, nationwide protests of racial injustice and one huge purchase order to change a Black-owned East Bay clothing business—possibly forever.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Y’all remember the summer of 2020, right? That’s when it started. Before the natural disaster that is this election season and prior to the manmade disaster that is California’s annual wildfire season.\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>Back when people got fed up with police brutality, groups of artists \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11824301/black-lives-matter-painted-tall-on-san-francisco-streets\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">painted “Black Lives Matter”\u003c/a> on the streets of major American cities and high-ranking officials from the Democratic party \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13881731/a-front-row-seat-at-the-woke-theatre\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">posed for photos in Kente Cloth\u003c/a>. You recall: that bygone period in time when companies and celebrities issued \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/calebsaysthings/status/1269443711621947394\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">vague “statements of solidarity”\u003c/a> with the Black Lives Matter movement once they realized posturing themselves on the right side of history would do well for their bottom line.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the midst of all of that, a certain multinational Fortune 500 company made a politically incorrect blunder. It was so public, and the backlash so strong, that the company figured the best way to save face was to not only order a huge shipment of Black Lives Matter-inspired shirts for their employees, but also hire a Black-owned printing company to make them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Enter \u003ca href=\"http://www.bigprintingonline.com/bptc/shop/home\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Big Printing T-shirt Company\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13886659\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13886659\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/09/BP_KQED_5-800x422.jpeg\" alt=\"Dawaud Muhammad in the Big Printing factory in San Leandro.\" width=\"800\" height=\"422\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/09/BP_KQED_5-800x422.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/09/BP_KQED_5-1020x538.jpeg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/09/BP_KQED_5-160x84.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/09/BP_KQED_5-768x405.jpeg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/09/BP_KQED_5-1536x810.jpeg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/09/BP_KQED_5-2048x1080.jpeg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/09/BP_KQED_5-1920x1013.jpeg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dawaud Muhammad in the Big Printing factory in San Leandro. \u003ccite>(Lauren J. Richardson of LacedMedia)\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\">W\u003c/span>ith headquarters in San Leandro, Big Printing is the backbone to some of the most \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/bigprinting/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">prominent street brands\u003c/a> in the clothing game, all around the nation. Locally, they print \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/philthyrichfod/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Philthy Rich’s FOD line\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/realbeedaweeda/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Beeda Weeda’s Mackin’ & Mobbin’\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/fabbydavisjr1/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Mistah Fab’s DOPE ERA\u003c/a>, as well as the rapper \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/cookie_money/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Cookie Money\u003c/a>. Threads have been assembled in their factory and landed on the backs of Snoop Dogg, Andre Ward and Marshawn Lynch.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But success isn’t an overnight shipment. The company has been at it for over two decades. And their origin story is about as authentically 1990s East Oakland as one can get.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 1994, a 19-year-old ambitious teenager named Dawaud Muhammad was “looking for a hustle that wasn’t involved in the street life” when \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13877570/a-tribute-to-soul-beat-tv-the-black-owned-network-of-east-oakland\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Soul Beat\u003c/a>‘s footage of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11690787/when-oakland-was-a-chocolate-city-a-brief-history-of-festival-at-the-lake\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Festival at The Lake\u003c/a> caught his eye—specifically a guy selling T-shirts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Long story short: he met the guy, got some shirts wholesale and started a small business. Dawaud chose an animated brown-skinned man with a stern face and small afro as his logo. I’d go on to see the image all throughout my childhood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13886730\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13886730\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/09/Screen-Shot-2020-09-23-at-10.02.09-AM-800x791.png\" alt=\"V White and Mac Dre in Big Pimpin' turf clothes.\" width=\"800\" height=\"791\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/09/Screen-Shot-2020-09-23-at-10.02.09-AM-800x791.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/09/Screen-Shot-2020-09-23-at-10.02.09-AM-1020x1008.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/09/Screen-Shot-2020-09-23-at-10.02.09-AM-160x158.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/09/Screen-Shot-2020-09-23-at-10.02.09-AM-768x759.png 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/09/Screen-Shot-2020-09-23-at-10.02.09-AM.png 1198w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">V White and Mac Dre in Big Pimpin’ Turf Clothes. \u003ccite>(Big Printing Archives)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Initially, the company was called Big Pimpin’ Turf Clothes. There’s photos of \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/Bk4SSxVjKr0/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">V White (formerly known as V-Dal) of the Delinquents and the late Mac Dre\u003c/a>, as well as images of \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/CDRd4FXnMZA/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Master P\u003c/a>, all sporting early renditions of the gear.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I recall versions of the shirts that were made for specifically for Oakland neighborhoods, like the Shady 80s or the Murda Dubbs (Murder Doves). (And it was deeper than just clothing: A childhood friend of mine, Marcell (RIP), once put hands on someone for wearing the shirt of a ‘hood he wasn’t really from. Made the kid take the shirt off in the middle of Dimond Park.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Along the way, Big Pimpin’ blossomed. Dawaud started out selling the shirts out of his trunk. He moved on to cultural hubs like T’s Wauzi, a record store in the Eastmont Mall. And then he landed in places like the Solano Mall, Sacramento’s Arden Fair Mall and San Leandro’s Bayfair Mall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That last location proved to be immensely important. Not just because of how popular that mall used to be back in the day, but because it was the place where Dawaud would meet Kesney, who’s now the chief financial officer of Big Printing—as well as Dawaud’s partner in marriage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kesney came from a different background than Dawaud, who grew up on 86th Avenue and Birch Street in East Oakland. She’s from the East Bay suburb of Benicia. A Howard University grad who was working in Silicon Valley, her financial management expertis. e would prove to be key.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With her savviness, Big Pimpin’ Turf Clothes rebranded itself as Big Printing. It also grew from a single press in Dawaud’s grandmother’s house to multiple presses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dawaud and Kesney were married at the turn of the millennium, got a loft across the street from McClymonds High School in West Oakland in 2002, and in 2004 acquired an automatic press. So in 2005, they relocated to 900 Doolittle Drive in San Leandro.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13886729\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13886729\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/09/IMG_1468-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"New threads fresh off the Big Printing press for the Detroit-based clothing company BossTooDeath\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/09/IMG_1468-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/09/IMG_1468-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/09/IMG_1468-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/09/IMG_1468-768x576.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/09/IMG_1468-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/09/IMG_1468-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/09/IMG_1468-1920x1440.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">New threads fresh off the Big Printing press for the Detroit-based clothing company BossTooDeath. \u003ccite>(Pendarvis Harshaw)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Along with the acquisition of two embroidery machines, that move allowed the business to go from a 1,500-square-foot spot to a 2,500-square-foot location in the same area. Two years later they doubled in size to 5,000 square feet, still in San Leandro.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the company grew, they honed the focus of their clientele: motorcycle clubs, churches and startup streetwear brands.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Social media, specifically Instagram and its paid ads, allowed the company to find customers from all around the country. “We found a lot more of ‘\u003cem>us\u003c/em>,'” says Dawaud, in reference to his community of African American entrepreneurs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We were happy and grateful to be a three-press shop with some embroidery,” says Kesney. “But as we began to work toward our niche market of developing brands, we began to see this need for our community.” Kesney says the business was a magnet for young African American folks who “had great vision, cool ideas and just needed a little bit of help to bring it to life.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13886731\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13886731\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/09/BP_KQED_7-800x450.jpeg\" alt=\"Kesney Muhammad checking her phone in the Big Printing reception area \" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/09/BP_KQED_7-800x450.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/09/BP_KQED_7-1020x574.jpeg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/09/BP_KQED_7-160x90.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/09/BP_KQED_7-768x432.jpeg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/09/BP_KQED_7-1536x864.jpeg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/09/BP_KQED_7.jpeg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kesney Muhammad checks her phone in the Big Printing reception area. \u003ccite>( Lauren J. Richardson of LacedMedia)\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\">C\u003c/span>ontractually, Big Printing can’t reveal the name of the giant Fortune 500 company that placed the huge Black Lives Matter order. But years of doing business has led Kesney to understanding the importance of this purchase order, and how it is a step toward finding a remedy to the economic divide that exists in America.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Talking with her about it brought up issues I was familiar with, like the disparity in wealth between Black and white households, as well as the U.S. unemployment rate, which is always worse for African Americans than just about any other demographic. But until I talked to Kesney, I didn’t know that so few Black-owned businesses actually have employees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Citing the U.S. Census 2012 Survey of Business Owners, \u003ca href=\"https://blackdemographics.com/economics/black-owned-businesses/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">BlackDemographics.com\u003c/a> reports that approximately 95% of African American businesses don’t have a staff, aside from the owner or partnership.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Couple that with the \u003ca href=\"https://www.nber.org/papers/w27309.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">National Bureau of Economic Research’s\u003c/a> analysis that during the early stages of COVID-19, “African-American businesses were hit especially hard, experiencing a 41 percent drop,” and you start to see how important it is for small, Black-owned businesses to be integrated into larger businesses’ supply chain.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Big Printing took some early licks this year when business slowed down in China, but otherwise they weren’t phased by COVID-19. If anything, the pandemic brought business to their door. “The business started to skyrocket,” says Dawaud, noting that they got a few people thanking them for simply being open.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But nothing was like the big order they received at the start of the summer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t know anybody who’s done 100,000 shirts,” says Dawaud, proudly reflecting on the order his company fulfilled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have a business,” says Kesney, in a grounding tone. “We work for the money that we earn. We do a damn good job for every client we go out and print. Just the chance to bid on this type of order is great for us, and well-deserved.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13886732\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13886732\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/09/IMG_1465-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Hats being embroidered at the Big Printing HQ\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/09/IMG_1465-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/09/IMG_1465-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/09/IMG_1465-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/09/IMG_1465-768x576.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/09/IMG_1465-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/09/IMG_1465-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/09/IMG_1465-1920x1440.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hats being embroidered at the Big Printing HQ. \u003ccite>(Pendarvis Harshaw)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>After 25 years of steady growth, the giant order allowed Big Printing to increase their staff by nearly 20%, acquire new machinery and double their physical footprint, in just three weeks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The beneficiaries of this investment will be the owners and employees, as well as the numerous members of the community the business serves, which is heavily African American.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kesney and Dawaud understand that ripple effect. They also understand the waves of woes that Africans Americans face when it comes to inequalities, particularly economic inequality, in the United States.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To that, Dawaud says, “You can make a statement, or you can make a donation. But you really don’t have to go that far to make a difference. All you really have to do is go to your procurement department and ask them, ‘Are we doing any business with Black vendors?’ If not, then make a conscious effort to see about changing that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">A\u003c/span>ll it took was a worldwide pandemic, nationwide protests of racial injustice and one huge purchase order to change a Black-owned East Bay clothing business—possibly forever.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Y’all remember the summer of 2020, right? That’s when it started. Before the natural disaster that is this election season and prior to the manmade disaster that is California’s annual wildfire season.\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>Back when people got fed up with police brutality, groups of artists \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11824301/black-lives-matter-painted-tall-on-san-francisco-streets\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">painted “Black Lives Matter”\u003c/a> on the streets of major American cities and high-ranking officials from the Democratic party \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13881731/a-front-row-seat-at-the-woke-theatre\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">posed for photos in Kente Cloth\u003c/a>. You recall: that bygone period in time when companies and celebrities issued \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/calebsaysthings/status/1269443711621947394\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">vague “statements of solidarity”\u003c/a> with the Black Lives Matter movement once they realized posturing themselves on the right side of history would do well for their bottom line.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the midst of all of that, a certain multinational Fortune 500 company made a politically incorrect blunder. It was so public, and the backlash so strong, that the company figured the best way to save face was to not only order a huge shipment of Black Lives Matter-inspired shirts for their employees, but also hire a Black-owned printing company to make them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Enter \u003ca href=\"http://www.bigprintingonline.com/bptc/shop/home\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Big Printing T-shirt Company\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13886659\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13886659\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/09/BP_KQED_5-800x422.jpeg\" alt=\"Dawaud Muhammad in the Big Printing factory in San Leandro.\" width=\"800\" height=\"422\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/09/BP_KQED_5-800x422.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/09/BP_KQED_5-1020x538.jpeg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/09/BP_KQED_5-160x84.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/09/BP_KQED_5-768x405.jpeg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/09/BP_KQED_5-1536x810.jpeg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/09/BP_KQED_5-2048x1080.jpeg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/09/BP_KQED_5-1920x1013.jpeg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dawaud Muhammad in the Big Printing factory in San Leandro. \u003ccite>(Lauren J. Richardson of LacedMedia)\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\">W\u003c/span>ith headquarters in San Leandro, Big Printing is the backbone to some of the most \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/bigprinting/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">prominent street brands\u003c/a> in the clothing game, all around the nation. Locally, they print \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/philthyrichfod/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Philthy Rich’s FOD line\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/realbeedaweeda/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Beeda Weeda’s Mackin’ & Mobbin’\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/fabbydavisjr1/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Mistah Fab’s DOPE ERA\u003c/a>, as well as the rapper \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/cookie_money/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Cookie Money\u003c/a>. Threads have been assembled in their factory and landed on the backs of Snoop Dogg, Andre Ward and Marshawn Lynch.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But success isn’t an overnight shipment. The company has been at it for over two decades. And their origin story is about as authentically 1990s East Oakland as one can get.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 1994, a 19-year-old ambitious teenager named Dawaud Muhammad was “looking for a hustle that wasn’t involved in the street life” when \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13877570/a-tribute-to-soul-beat-tv-the-black-owned-network-of-east-oakland\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Soul Beat\u003c/a>‘s footage of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11690787/when-oakland-was-a-chocolate-city-a-brief-history-of-festival-at-the-lake\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Festival at The Lake\u003c/a> caught his eye—specifically a guy selling T-shirts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Long story short: he met the guy, got some shirts wholesale and started a small business. Dawaud chose an animated brown-skinned man with a stern face and small afro as his logo. I’d go on to see the image all throughout my childhood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13886730\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13886730\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/09/Screen-Shot-2020-09-23-at-10.02.09-AM-800x791.png\" alt=\"V White and Mac Dre in Big Pimpin' turf clothes.\" width=\"800\" height=\"791\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/09/Screen-Shot-2020-09-23-at-10.02.09-AM-800x791.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/09/Screen-Shot-2020-09-23-at-10.02.09-AM-1020x1008.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/09/Screen-Shot-2020-09-23-at-10.02.09-AM-160x158.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/09/Screen-Shot-2020-09-23-at-10.02.09-AM-768x759.png 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/09/Screen-Shot-2020-09-23-at-10.02.09-AM.png 1198w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">V White and Mac Dre in Big Pimpin’ Turf Clothes. \u003ccite>(Big Printing Archives)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Initially, the company was called Big Pimpin’ Turf Clothes. There’s photos of \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/Bk4SSxVjKr0/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">V White (formerly known as V-Dal) of the Delinquents and the late Mac Dre\u003c/a>, as well as images of \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/CDRd4FXnMZA/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Master P\u003c/a>, all sporting early renditions of the gear.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I recall versions of the shirts that were made for specifically for Oakland neighborhoods, like the Shady 80s or the Murda Dubbs (Murder Doves). (And it was deeper than just clothing: A childhood friend of mine, Marcell (RIP), once put hands on someone for wearing the shirt of a ‘hood he wasn’t really from. Made the kid take the shirt off in the middle of Dimond Park.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Along the way, Big Pimpin’ blossomed. Dawaud started out selling the shirts out of his trunk. He moved on to cultural hubs like T’s Wauzi, a record store in the Eastmont Mall. And then he landed in places like the Solano Mall, Sacramento’s Arden Fair Mall and San Leandro’s Bayfair Mall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That last location proved to be immensely important. Not just because of how popular that mall used to be back in the day, but because it was the place where Dawaud would meet Kesney, who’s now the chief financial officer of Big Printing—as well as Dawaud’s partner in marriage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kesney came from a different background than Dawaud, who grew up on 86th Avenue and Birch Street in East Oakland. She’s from the East Bay suburb of Benicia. A Howard University grad who was working in Silicon Valley, her financial management expertis. e would prove to be key.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With her savviness, Big Pimpin’ Turf Clothes rebranded itself as Big Printing. It also grew from a single press in Dawaud’s grandmother’s house to multiple presses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dawaud and Kesney were married at the turn of the millennium, got a loft across the street from McClymonds High School in West Oakland in 2002, and in 2004 acquired an automatic press. So in 2005, they relocated to 900 Doolittle Drive in San Leandro.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13886729\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13886729\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/09/IMG_1468-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"New threads fresh off the Big Printing press for the Detroit-based clothing company BossTooDeath\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/09/IMG_1468-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/09/IMG_1468-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/09/IMG_1468-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/09/IMG_1468-768x576.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/09/IMG_1468-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/09/IMG_1468-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/09/IMG_1468-1920x1440.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">New threads fresh off the Big Printing press for the Detroit-based clothing company BossTooDeath. \u003ccite>(Pendarvis Harshaw)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Along with the acquisition of two embroidery machines, that move allowed the business to go from a 1,500-square-foot spot to a 2,500-square-foot location in the same area. Two years later they doubled in size to 5,000 square feet, still in San Leandro.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the company grew, they honed the focus of their clientele: motorcycle clubs, churches and startup streetwear brands.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Social media, specifically Instagram and its paid ads, allowed the company to find customers from all around the country. “We found a lot more of ‘\u003cem>us\u003c/em>,'” says Dawaud, in reference to his community of African American entrepreneurs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We were happy and grateful to be a three-press shop with some embroidery,” says Kesney. “But as we began to work toward our niche market of developing brands, we began to see this need for our community.” Kesney says the business was a magnet for young African American folks who “had great vision, cool ideas and just needed a little bit of help to bring it to life.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13886731\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13886731\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/09/BP_KQED_7-800x450.jpeg\" alt=\"Kesney Muhammad checking her phone in the Big Printing reception area \" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/09/BP_KQED_7-800x450.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/09/BP_KQED_7-1020x574.jpeg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/09/BP_KQED_7-160x90.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/09/BP_KQED_7-768x432.jpeg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/09/BP_KQED_7-1536x864.jpeg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/09/BP_KQED_7.jpeg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kesney Muhammad checks her phone in the Big Printing reception area. \u003ccite>( Lauren J. Richardson of LacedMedia)\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\">C\u003c/span>ontractually, Big Printing can’t reveal the name of the giant Fortune 500 company that placed the huge Black Lives Matter order. But years of doing business has led Kesney to understanding the importance of this purchase order, and how it is a step toward finding a remedy to the economic divide that exists in America.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Talking with her about it brought up issues I was familiar with, like the disparity in wealth between Black and white households, as well as the U.S. unemployment rate, which is always worse for African Americans than just about any other demographic. But until I talked to Kesney, I didn’t know that so few Black-owned businesses actually have employees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Citing the U.S. Census 2012 Survey of Business Owners, \u003ca href=\"https://blackdemographics.com/economics/black-owned-businesses/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">BlackDemographics.com\u003c/a> reports that approximately 95% of African American businesses don’t have a staff, aside from the owner or partnership.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Couple that with the \u003ca href=\"https://www.nber.org/papers/w27309.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">National Bureau of Economic Research’s\u003c/a> analysis that during the early stages of COVID-19, “African-American businesses were hit especially hard, experiencing a 41 percent drop,” and you start to see how important it is for small, Black-owned businesses to be integrated into larger businesses’ supply chain.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Big Printing took some early licks this year when business slowed down in China, but otherwise they weren’t phased by COVID-19. If anything, the pandemic brought business to their door. “The business started to skyrocket,” says Dawaud, noting that they got a few people thanking them for simply being open.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But nothing was like the big order they received at the start of the summer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t know anybody who’s done 100,000 shirts,” says Dawaud, proudly reflecting on the order his company fulfilled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have a business,” says Kesney, in a grounding tone. “We work for the money that we earn. We do a damn good job for every client we go out and print. Just the chance to bid on this type of order is great for us, and well-deserved.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13886732\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13886732\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/09/IMG_1465-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Hats being embroidered at the Big Printing HQ\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/09/IMG_1465-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/09/IMG_1465-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/09/IMG_1465-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/09/IMG_1465-768x576.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/09/IMG_1465-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/09/IMG_1465-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/09/IMG_1465-1920x1440.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hats being embroidered at the Big Printing HQ. \u003ccite>(Pendarvis Harshaw)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>After 25 years of steady growth, the giant order allowed Big Printing to increase their staff by nearly 20%, acquire new machinery and double their physical footprint, in just three weeks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The beneficiaries of this investment will be the owners and employees, as well as the numerous members of the community the business serves, which is heavily African American.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kesney and Dawaud understand that ripple effect. They also understand the waves of woes that Africans Americans face when it comes to inequalities, particularly economic inequality, in the United States.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To that, Dawaud says, “You can make a statement, or you can make a donation. But you really don’t have to go that far to make a difference. All you really have to do is go to your procurement department and ask them, ‘Are we doing any business with Black vendors?’ If not, then make a conscious effort to see about changing that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">O\u003c/span>n my first listen to the nine-track project \u003cem>Twice on Sunday (Season 1)\u003c/em> by Grand Nationxl, I knew it was a significant piece of art. I had no idea it was the first shot in a series of blows that the collective, formed by over a dozen Bay Area artists, were looking to make on the preverbal \u003cem>rap game\u003c/em>.\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>In the weeks following their first release in June, Grand Nationxl (named after a popular American-made muscle car) dropped multiple videos, appeared at the Portland-based Mic Check PDX virtual music festival, recorded podcast episodes and more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now that summer is coming to a close, Grand Nationxl—a wolf pack, as they sometimes refer to themselves—isn’t relenting. Today they dropped an updated edition of the first album—essentially a new release with nine new tracks. They also released the audio version of their live studio session, \u003cem>Live From Airship Laboratories.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And recently they announced plans to open the floodgates for individual projects.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The individuals? There’s a lot of ’em. Full disclosure: A few of ’em are folks I’d consider good friends. That said, I’m writing about them because given that I’ve been in a silo-styled apartment writing my ass off alone for the past six months, I kind of forgot how important it is to work with friends when making art. Until they reminded me.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13886194\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13886194\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/09/IMG_1212-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Grand Nationxl screens the visuals that accompany their album Twice on Sunday. \" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/09/IMG_1212-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/09/IMG_1212-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/09/IMG_1212-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/09/IMG_1212-768x576.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/09/IMG_1212-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/09/IMG_1212-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/09/IMG_1212-1920x1440.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Grand Nationxl screens the visuals that accompany their album ‘Twice on Sunday.’ \u003ccite>(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\">O\u003c/span>n a Thursday evening last month, I stopped at a red light at 17th and Telegraph in Oakland. Across the street, I noticed two artists painting a three-story mural on the backside of YR Media’s building. I’d later find out it was \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/wolfe_.pack/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Rachel Wolfe Goldsmith\u003c/a> and a friend, creating this big, bold beautiful work of art, and dancing while doing so.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I pulled through that intersection en route to a vacant parking lot on 13th Street between Broadway and Webster. That’s where Grand Nationxl was screening a filmed \u003ca href=\"https://youtu.be/YkSzMFX9HRc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">40-minute studio session\u003c/a> of their latest project.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>(I almost hit one of those \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13862998/to-reduce-loitering-a-plaza-downtown-oakland-landlords-plan-to-annex-a-street\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">new little plant thingies\u003c/a> as I parked. Bounced out the car and noticed the sign for the now-shuttered Wolfman Books. Next to it, Good Mother Gallery had a mural of George Floyd on the wall. Signs of the time.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I walked into a parking lot on the backside of the Tribune Tavern. On one wall was another Rachel Wolfe Goldsmith mural. On the other wall, the projected video images of \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/kvnalln/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Kevin Allen\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/dameonbledsoe/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">D. Bledsoe\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/firstnameian/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ian Kelly\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/blvckachilles/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Blvck Achilles\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/brookfieldduece/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Brookfield Duece\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/champgreen/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Champ Green\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/moegreen110/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Moe Green\u003c/a> (no relation), \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/pass510/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Passwurdz \u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/manidraper/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Mani Draper\u003c/a> and more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to the real-life presence of most of the roster of artists mentioned above, about 25–30 other people filled the lot. Everyone was masked, spread at proper intervals of distance, although handshakes and hugs were definitely exchanged as people took in the multimedia presentation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Community, coming together to celebrate music that was born out of community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://youtu.be/Qpf4CJ6GpNU\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The substance in Grand Nationxl’s songs range from Champ Green’s poetic philosophies on navigating Bay Area public transportation to Moe Green’s tribute to legendary R&B artists like Sam Cooke, Marvin Gaye and Vallejo’s Levitti.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They’re also rife with artistic articulation of the current human experience for some folks living in the Bay Area. During one of the recording sessions, Ian Kelly tells me, he was late to the studio because he was running errands for his job with Instacart. So in the verse he recorded that night, he cut himself off mid-flow, saying “I would give you sixteen, but Instacart calling”—and then he answers his phone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the filmed studio session of the song, the other participants in Grand Nationxl vibe with Kelly through the entire verse. And then during the Instacart phone call, they get completely still. The beat drops as Kelly answers the call, allowing him to clarify that the customer’s request is for whole milk and not two percent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s just one of many standout moments in this project. It shows how much fun they were having as a collective, and at the same time, how applicable the lyrics are to real life. “Ever seen zombies that was yo classmates?” asks Brookfield Duece on one track. “Chevron settled to kill me early,” states D. Bledsoe on another. “What happens if I stop making excuses and really grow up?” rhetorically raps Kevin Allen on the album.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The lyrical sparring in the studio sessions led to raps so layered, it inspired Special, host of the \u003ca href=\"https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/specialsays/id1466724968\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Special Delivery Podcast\u003c/a>, to do a series of episodes breaking down the stories behind the music.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In one interview, producer \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/rootsanbranches/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">DJ Basta\u003c/a> explains that multiple artists added different instruments to influence the composition and production of each song prior to any lyrics hitting the track. In another interview, Brookfield Duece explains how a song got named: old-school style, riding around in a car with each other, listening to the song and talking about it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In-person, collaborative creation. It’s far from a revolutionary concept, but in 2020, it’s rare.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13886196\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13886196\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/09/IMG_2795-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"D. 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Bledsoe, Kevin Allen, Brookfield Duece, Passwurdz, Moe Green on the set of a video shoot in North Oakland. \u003ccite>(Grand Nationxl)\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\">I\u003c/span>n one episode, D. Bledsoe mentions a question that’s come up a few times: why there are so many dudes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s the same discussion he, Kevin Allen and I had a few weeks ago. My point was about reading the room in the rap world. Women have been tired of being overlooked for a while now. And that there have been a few notable compilation-type projects as of late with few or no women present, referring to J.Cole & Co.’s \u003cem>Revenge of the Dreamers III\u003c/em> and E-40’s \u003cem>Practice Makes Paper\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The first edition of Grand Nationxl’s \u003cem>Twice on Sunday (Season One)\u003c/em> features one woman: vocalist\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/katelamontsings/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> Kate Lamont\u003c/a>, who appears on multiple tracks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>D. Bledsoe explained to Special during the podcast interview, as he and Kevin Allen did to me when we talked in person: the project happened organically, with a number of invites sent out widely to individuals of all backgrounds, letting them know what was in the works—tap in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After that, a series of studio sessions were held, and whoever showed up got put on. It was that simple.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If we’re being honest, there’s value to any occasion that allows for a group of Black American men to come together, have fun, be vulnerable, share their truths, and create quality art for the masses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s not a group,” Brookfield Duece tells me in a later conversation, explaining that it’s “like a TV show” with recurring characters. He says there’s a certain intentionality to the parenthetical presence of “Season One.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The second version of \u003cem>Twice on Sunday (Season 1)\u003c/em> features nine completely new songs, and \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/msjanehandcock/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jane Handcock\u003c/a> has her signature all over that project. On top of that, Jane, a vocalist and emcee from Richmond, is set to release an individual project titled \u003cem>Fa Real\u003c/em> in October; that’ll be the second solo release from the Grand Nationxl collective after Kevin Allen drops his \u003cem>Heroes Eventually Die\u003c/em> EP next week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Looking down the line, each member of the collective has new releases planned.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s an impressive assembly of artistic individuals. They’ve all got lives and careers that can stand on their own. They could’ve easily been sequestered in their apartments, writing their asses off alone, but no. They decided to come together and be part of a collective; or rather, a wolf pack.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">O\u003c/span>n my first listen to the nine-track project \u003cem>Twice on Sunday (Season 1)\u003c/em> by Grand Nationxl, I knew it was a significant piece of art. I had no idea it was the first shot in a series of blows that the collective, formed by over a dozen Bay Area artists, were looking to make on the preverbal \u003cem>rap game\u003c/em>.\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>In the weeks following their first release in June, Grand Nationxl (named after a popular American-made muscle car) dropped multiple videos, appeared at the Portland-based Mic Check PDX virtual music festival, recorded podcast episodes and more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now that summer is coming to a close, Grand Nationxl—a wolf pack, as they sometimes refer to themselves—isn’t relenting. Today they dropped an updated edition of the first album—essentially a new release with nine new tracks. They also released the audio version of their live studio session, \u003cem>Live From Airship Laboratories.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And recently they announced plans to open the floodgates for individual projects.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The individuals? There’s a lot of ’em. Full disclosure: A few of ’em are folks I’d consider good friends. That said, I’m writing about them because given that I’ve been in a silo-styled apartment writing my ass off alone for the past six months, I kind of forgot how important it is to work with friends when making art. Until they reminded me.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13886194\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13886194\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/09/IMG_1212-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Grand Nationxl screens the visuals that accompany their album Twice on Sunday. \" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/09/IMG_1212-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/09/IMG_1212-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/09/IMG_1212-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/09/IMG_1212-768x576.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/09/IMG_1212-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/09/IMG_1212-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/09/IMG_1212-1920x1440.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Grand Nationxl screens the visuals that accompany their album ‘Twice on Sunday.’ \u003ccite>(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\">O\u003c/span>n a Thursday evening last month, I stopped at a red light at 17th and Telegraph in Oakland. Across the street, I noticed two artists painting a three-story mural on the backside of YR Media’s building. I’d later find out it was \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/wolfe_.pack/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Rachel Wolfe Goldsmith\u003c/a> and a friend, creating this big, bold beautiful work of art, and dancing while doing so.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I pulled through that intersection en route to a vacant parking lot on 13th Street between Broadway and Webster. That’s where Grand Nationxl was screening a filmed \u003ca href=\"https://youtu.be/YkSzMFX9HRc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">40-minute studio session\u003c/a> of their latest project.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>(I almost hit one of those \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13862998/to-reduce-loitering-a-plaza-downtown-oakland-landlords-plan-to-annex-a-street\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">new little plant thingies\u003c/a> as I parked. Bounced out the car and noticed the sign for the now-shuttered Wolfman Books. Next to it, Good Mother Gallery had a mural of George Floyd on the wall. Signs of the time.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I walked into a parking lot on the backside of the Tribune Tavern. On one wall was another Rachel Wolfe Goldsmith mural. On the other wall, the projected video images of \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/kvnalln/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Kevin Allen\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/dameonbledsoe/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">D. Bledsoe\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/firstnameian/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ian Kelly\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/blvckachilles/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Blvck Achilles\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/brookfieldduece/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Brookfield Duece\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/champgreen/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Champ Green\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/moegreen110/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Moe Green\u003c/a> (no relation), \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/pass510/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Passwurdz \u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/manidraper/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Mani Draper\u003c/a> and more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to the real-life presence of most of the roster of artists mentioned above, about 25–30 other people filled the lot. Everyone was masked, spread at proper intervals of distance, although handshakes and hugs were definitely exchanged as people took in the multimedia presentation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Community, coming together to celebrate music that was born out of community.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/Qpf4CJ6GpNU'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/Qpf4CJ6GpNU'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>The substance in Grand Nationxl’s songs range from Champ Green’s poetic philosophies on navigating Bay Area public transportation to Moe Green’s tribute to legendary R&B artists like Sam Cooke, Marvin Gaye and Vallejo’s Levitti.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They’re also rife with artistic articulation of the current human experience for some folks living in the Bay Area. During one of the recording sessions, Ian Kelly tells me, he was late to the studio because he was running errands for his job with Instacart. So in the verse he recorded that night, he cut himself off mid-flow, saying “I would give you sixteen, but Instacart calling”—and then he answers his phone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the filmed studio session of the song, the other participants in Grand Nationxl vibe with Kelly through the entire verse. And then during the Instacart phone call, they get completely still. The beat drops as Kelly answers the call, allowing him to clarify that the customer’s request is for whole milk and not two percent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s just one of many standout moments in this project. It shows how much fun they were having as a collective, and at the same time, how applicable the lyrics are to real life. “Ever seen zombies that was yo classmates?” asks Brookfield Duece on one track. “Chevron settled to kill me early,” states D. Bledsoe on another. “What happens if I stop making excuses and really grow up?” rhetorically raps Kevin Allen on the album.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The lyrical sparring in the studio sessions led to raps so layered, it inspired Special, host of the \u003ca href=\"https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/specialsays/id1466724968\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Special Delivery Podcast\u003c/a>, to do a series of episodes breaking down the stories behind the music.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In one interview, producer \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/rootsanbranches/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">DJ Basta\u003c/a> explains that multiple artists added different instruments to influence the composition and production of each song prior to any lyrics hitting the track. In another interview, Brookfield Duece explains how a song got named: old-school style, riding around in a car with each other, listening to the song and talking about it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In-person, collaborative creation. It’s far from a revolutionary concept, but in 2020, it’s rare.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13886196\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13886196\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/09/IMG_2795-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"D. 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It’s simultaneously a joke and a serious statement: dance is a time-honored expression of community. And over time, hip-hop has become another reason to gather, the music and dance forms intimately entwined—for performers like \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/aunsica/?hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Anne Pesata\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/raven_paven_11/?hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Raven Bright\u003c/a>—with their Indigenous identity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s all these different styles within this community [of people] who are all expressing their love for hip-hop within the same environment as is in powwow,” says Pesata (Jicarilla Apache), who describes the scene as inter-tribal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city of Albuquerque, on occupied Tewa lands, figures prominently in creating this inter-tribal dynamic. It’s a place where Indigenous people of different backgrounds—the state is home to 19 Pueblos, three Apache tribes and the Navajo Nation—gather to share their cultures and experiences.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13882354\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/06/AnneRaven.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-13882354 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/06/AnneRaven-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/06/AnneRaven-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/06/AnneRaven-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/06/AnneRaven-768x432.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/06/AnneRaven-1020x573.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/06/AnneRaven.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dancers Raven Bright and Anne Pesata. Photo by Shaandiin Tome.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Albuquerque is also where Pesata met Raven Bright (Diné) at \u003ca href=\"https://elreylive.com/event/353463/18th-Annual-Breakin-Hearts-All-Ages-Hip-Hop-Event\">Breakin’ Hearts\u003c/a>, an annual dance battle, their dance partnership later becoming a relationship. Both dancers are shy by nature, but the warmth of Albuquerque’s dance community brought them out of their shells. “I didn’t want to be judged,” says Pesata of her tendency to keep her dancing private. “Learning that other people did the same thing, but in front of others, was shocking to me. To see so many people sharing it and being creative with one another so openly—it was really inspiring.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Their stories start in different places. Pesata, who grew up on the Jicarilla Apache reservation in Dulce, participated in traditional dance ceremonies and powwows from a young age. Hip-hop always spoke to her, she says, in a way pop music never did. “Hip-hop is made by the people, for the people,” she says. “Hip-hop is definitely its own culture and it definitely comes from specific places, inner city experiences. But there’s something about the things that they talk about, the struggles that they go through…being from the rez, I experienced similar things.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, Bright grew up 200 miles away, in the border town of Gallup, and didn’t connect to his Indigenous heritage (his father is Diné, or Navajo, and his mother is white) until later, when he began to spend more time on the Navajo reservation. “There were two separate worlds,” Bright says of Gallup and the reservation, “and being able to be a part of hip-hop culture helped me connect those worlds together.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13882371\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/06/004-Final-cut-CC.00_01_22_02.Still007.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13882371\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/06/004-Final-cut-CC.00_01_22_02.Still007-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/06/004-Final-cut-CC.00_01_22_02.Still007-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/06/004-Final-cut-CC.00_01_22_02.Still007-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/06/004-Final-cut-CC.00_01_22_02.Still007-768x432.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/06/004-Final-cut-CC.00_01_22_02.Still007-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/06/004-Final-cut-CC.00_01_22_02.Still007.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dj Randy L. Barton aka Randy Boogie at the Breakin’ Hearts event in Albuquerque. Photo by Austin Madrid. \u003ccite>(Austin Madrid)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Randy Boogie is part of Bright’s story—the two met in Gallup when Randy was doing hip-hop workshops with his Indigenous dance crew Foundations of Freedom, which he started in 2002. Bright is part of the crew’s second generation. At gatherings like The Sacred Cypher, an event where ceremony, hip-hop and powwow cultures unite. For Randy, the connections between Indigenous traditions and hip-hop are obvious: “The DJ is the drumming. The emcee is the chanting. The graffiti art is the petroglyphs.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://open.spotify.com/embed/playlist/2MuCoT4Zj1UNnbCvUZk20j\" width=\"100%\" height=\"380\" frameborder=\"0\" allowtransparency=\"true\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13882355\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/06/IMG_7502ShaandiinTome.jpeg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13882355\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/06/IMG_7502ShaandiinTome.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/06/IMG_7502ShaandiinTome.jpeg 640w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/06/IMG_7502ShaandiinTome-160x120.jpeg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Director/DP Shaandiin Tome with dancers Anne Pesata and Raven Bright. Photo by Forrest Goodluck. \u003ccite>(Forrest Goodluck)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>This expansion on what Indigenous dance is and can be is at the heart of Pesata and Bright’s freestyle movements, which are informed by hip-hop as much as they are by contemporary Indigenous dance. Both are members of \u003ca href=\"https://dancingearth.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Dancing Earth\u003c/a>, a dance company founded by Rulan Tangen that brings performers together from many Indigenous communities. \u003ca href=\"https://dancingearth.org/btw-us-2020\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Recent productions\u003c/a> have explored renewable energy and Indigenous ecological knowledge with movements decolonized from Western forms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To Pesata and Bright, the dance style they’ve developed isn’t just about honoring the past, but creating a base for the future, one that doesn’t rely on narrow definitions and stereotypes—for art forms or people. “When I dance I am experiencing the relationship with the music,” Pesata says. “So putting a label and a name on something that’s that personal and that spiritual is kind of a disservice.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the end, Bright agrees, it’s about finding oneself through movement and music: “When you go out into a circle and move your body, that’s the truest form of yourself that you’re giving off.” \u003cem>— Text by Sarah Hotchkiss\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Explore our virtual story map and learn more about the murals and locations featured in this episode of If Cities Could Dance. \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://uploads.knightlab.com/storymapjs/4d72621d07063db4c4778f6461829723/if-cities-could-dance-albuquerque/draft.html\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"100%\" height=\"500\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">I\u003c/span>f there’s one thing I’ve learned in the past two months, it’s that a worldwide pandemic can’t stifle the artists of Northern California. Which makes sense—it’s one of the most innovative places on the planet. Creativity is in our cellular membranes and the culture pulses through our veins. Plus, the rent is too damn high to quit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-13833985\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/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>Let’s start with the well-known names. This past weekend, Oakland’s own \u003cstrong>Kehlani\u003c/strong> hit No. 1 on the Apple Music charts with her latest album, \u003cem>It Was Good Until It Wasn’t\u003c/em>. As the project took off, Kehlani made videos in quarantine and took to Twitter sharing intimate details of her experience to promote the album. It was something she had to do—otherwise, citing the coronavirus, \u003ca href=\"https://pitchfork.com/thepitch/kehlani-it-was-good-until-it-wasnt-album-cover-interview/?mbid=social_facebook&utm_source=facebook&utm_social-type=owned&utm_brand=p4k&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter&utm_brand=p4k&mbid=social_twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_social-type=owned\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">her label would’ve postponed the release of her album\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Just a few days before that, Sacramento’s \u003cstrong>Mozzy\u003c/strong> dropped \u003cem>Beyond Bulletproof.\u003c/em> He’d recently broadcasted a series of \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZAVuUtxc5fg&feature=emb_title\">public therapy sessions\u003c/a>, and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13880011/mozzys-new-album-processes-trauma-incarceration-by-documenting-his-healing\">initially dropped the album through JPay\u003c/a>—a service for incarcerated folks—a week before the album’s general release. On top of that, he did an interview with Rap Radar’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/tv/B_xsftpHAQn/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link\">Elliott Wilson\u003c/a>. Active on the internet, in the streets and behind bars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Bay’s even getting active in television. Check the soundtrack for this season of \u003cem>Insecure\u003c/em>, which features previously released music from \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/LilSnickerfoot/status/1252642870319702016?s=20\">\u003cstrong>Michael Sneed\u003c/strong>\u003c/a> in one episode and \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/kamaiyah/status/1259701062908252160?s=20\">\u003cstrong>Kamaiyah\u003c/strong>\u003c/a> in another. And, of course, the Bay’s own \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/B_x8IAsJaGc/\">\u003cstrong>Nijla Mu’min\u003c/strong>\u003c/a> directed \u003cem>Insecure\u003c/em>‘s fourth episode from this season.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pReD5WRO3vI\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As for getting active in Hollywood, check Netflix’s \u003ca href=\"https://variety.com/2020/film/reviews/all-day-and-a-night-review-ashton-sanders-1234593865/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>All Day and A Night\u003c/em>\u003c/a>. The story of an aspiring rapper from Oakland, the film has star power from Oakland’s \u003cstrong>Yahya Abdul-Mateen II\u003c/strong> and a bunch of cameos from Northern California folks, including members of the dance crew \u003cstrong>Turf Fiendz\u003c/strong> and Oakland’s \u003cstrong>Rolanda D. Bell\u003c/strong>. The film was written by San Francisco’s \u003cstrong>Joe Robert Cole\u003c/strong>, was filmed in Oakland and Alameda, and \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL09XmXSlwDoreuB74JlQD-a4KfsTVvxie\">its soundtrack\u003c/a> features \u003cstrong>Tia Nomore, SOBxRBE, Paris,\u003c/strong> the \u003cstrong>Conscious Daughters, P-Lo, Mac Dre\u003c/strong> and more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And then there’s \u003cstrong>Kool John\u003c/strong>, who’s also featured on the aforementioned soundtrack. The Richmond artist was recently shot six times during a robbery, recovered, and \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/K00LJ0HN/status/1257490570995331073?s=20\">hopped on Twitter to remix a Tupac quote to fit to his situation\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Further evidence that despite catastrophic circumstances, we don’t know how to stop.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13880487\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 600px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13880487\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/05/EXMN6okXgAIjAZs-800x800.jpg\" alt=\"Nappy Nina's 30 Bag album cover\" width=\"600\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/05/EXMN6okXgAIjAZs-800x800.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/05/EXMN6okXgAIjAZs-160x160.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/05/EXMN6okXgAIjAZs-768x768.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/05/EXMN6okXgAIjAZs-1020x1020.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/05/EXMN6okXgAIjAZs-1920x1920.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/05/EXMN6okXgAIjAZs.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nappy Nina’s ’30 Bag’ album cover. \u003ccite>(Nappy Nina)\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\">F\u003c/span>or artists in the Northern California, being creative is damn near synonymous with breathing. Even when we leave our region, we carry it with us. Ask Oakland’s own \u003cstrong>Nappy Nina\u003c/strong>, who’s currently living in New York and bringing heat to all the \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/Nappy_Nina/status/1259252529814265860?s=20\">MENcees\u003c/a> out there. Nappy Nina’s latest project \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://nappynina.lnk.to/30Bag\">30 Bag\u003c/a>\u003c/em>, full of quality vibes and strategic wordplay, dropped on her 30th birthday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13880374\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 238px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-13880374\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/05/EWzRrqCUEAAO1Cw.jpg\" alt=\"Drew Banga by Stoni\" width=\"238\" height=\"345\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/05/EWzRrqCUEAAO1Cw.jpg 621w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/05/EWzRrqCUEAAO1Cw-160x232.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 238px) 100vw, 238px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Drew Banga by Stoni. \u003ccite>(Stoni)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Need that more twang in your tunes? On Texas rapper \u003cstrong>Siddiq\u003c/strong>’s latest album, \u003ca href=\"https://li.sten.to/SlideMusic\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>Slide Music\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, his southern delivery pairs well with the production of Oakland’s \u003cstrong>1-O.A.K.\u003c/strong>, Alameda’s \u003cstrong>Trackademicks\u003c/strong> and the rest of the HNRL crew—\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/allsongs/2020/05/11/853575718/heat-check-shook-up-shook-down-shook-out\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">even NPR thinks so\u003c/a>. The track that caught my ear is “Wantanabe,” produced by Oakland’s \u003cstrong>Drew Banga\u003c/strong>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I’ve \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13859615/rightnowish-rap-producer-drew-banga-on-music-and-fatherhood\">talked to Banga\u003c/a> on a few occasions, I can assure you he’s a really bright guy. But I’m thoroughly convinced the term “take a break” isn’t in his lexicon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Banga just released a song and dance, “\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/DrewwwBanga/status/1258847454583091201?s=20\">G-Step\u003c/a>,” with San Francisco’s \u003cstrong>Jordan “Stunnaman02” Gomes\u003c/strong>. Banga then turned around and announced he’s got an upcoming project with Oakland lyricist \u003cstrong>Stoni\u003c/strong> called \u003cem>Ferrari Fawcet\u003c/em>, set to drop in July. Evidently, Stoni isn’t familiar with slowing down either, as she’s been occupying her time by \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/CallHerStoni/status/1251240115227123714?s=20\">drawing folks\u003c/a> on commission—she’s done over 20 pieces.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pReD5WRO3vI\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">O\u003c/span>ne of the silver linings of this downtime is the ability to get familiar with artists I should’ve been listening to. For example, San Francisco’s \u003cstrong>Troy LLF\u003c/strong>, who just released \u003ca href=\"https://soundcloud.com/troyllf\">\u003cem>Til Death Do Us Part II\u003c/em>. \u003c/a>Troy LLF’s mature lyrical approach is a great counterbalance to the party music our region’s often associated with.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another artist who’s newly on my radar is Oakland’s \u003cstrong>Mahawam\u003c/strong>. I couldn’t help but notice Mahawam’s recent video for, “\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pReD5WRO3vI\">HOPING NO ONE NOTICE\u003c/a>.” And if you like that trippy-hop vibe, I’d suggest checking out the work of \u003cstrong>MH the Verb\u003c/strong>, who calls Oakland home now but is originally from New York by way of Philly. The new 420-friendly video for his song “\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/tv/B_NbXTSFLPN/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link\">Birthstones\u003c/a>” is a great introduction to his lyrical space odyssey of an album, \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://ffm.to/spaceninja\">Afronaut\u003c/a>\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Need more vibes? Check out \u003ca href=\"https://www.ashiakarana.com/\">\u003cstrong>Ashia Karana\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>—she grew up between New Jersey and Atlanta, but came to the Bay to study sound healing. The people she met influenced her so much that the cover art for her new project, \u003cem>Trust\u003c/em>, is done by Bay Area singer, songwriter and graphic designer \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/stoneycreation/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cstrong>Stoney\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>. (No relation to the aforementioned Stoni.) I listened to Ashia’s project twice last weekend, and ended up on the floor of my apartment holding a staring contest with the ceiling. I won.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://youtu.be/e1U-t277yXE\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another mention along those vibe lines: Oakland’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/jadaimani510/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cstrong>Jada Imani\u003c/strong>\u003c/a> dropped a new atmospheric single while sheltering in place, called “\u003ca href=\"https://jadaimani.bandcamp.com/track/i-think-that-i-am\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">I Think That I Am\u003c/a>.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Need more of that romantic R&B feel in your life? The new single from Union City’s \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/larrenwong\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cstrong>LarrenWong\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>, “\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/larrenwong/status/1253575585583861760?s=20\">Out My Way\u003c/a>,” almost made me text an ex. But then the pure vocals from Oakland’s \u003cstrong>Dom Jones\u003c/strong>, on her latest single “\u003ca href=\"https://distrokid.com/hyperfollow/domjones/crazytown\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Crazy Town\u003c/a>,” reminded me to put my phone down.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Soon after that, I was told to remain focused on my craft by an elder statesman, Vallejo’s \u003cstrong>E-40\u003c/strong>. He just dropped \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/E40/status/1259646488428212224?s=20\">The Curb Commentator\u003c/a>\u003c/em>, the first of a four-part EP series scheduled to drop throughout the year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I repeat: E-40’s releasing a \u003cem>four-part project\u003c/em> this year, and he’s 52 years old. What’s your excuse?\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13880470\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 600px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13880470\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/05/1589057767_2ddb8bc5b3da89215a12aefd69d36f6b.jpg\" alt=\"Cruise USA, Larry June and Cardo's latest project\" width=\"600\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/05/1589057767_2ddb8bc5b3da89215a12aefd69d36f6b.jpg 750w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/05/1589057767_2ddb8bc5b3da89215a12aefd69d36f6b-160x160.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cruise USA, Larry June and Cardo’s latest project. \u003ccite>(Larry June)\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\">S\u003c/span>omeone with a similar consistency and penchant for putting real-spill over dope beats is San Francisco’s \u003cstrong>Larry June\u003c/strong>. I honestly didn’t know he even dropped a project last week until I started writing this article. I checked his Twitter, just because dude drops a new project every time the fog comes in over the Golden Gate, and sure enough, his latest project \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/LarryJuneTFM/status/1258943562248421378?s=20\">Cruise USA\u003c/a>\u003c/em> is on all platforms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A good example of an “I’m not letting COVID stop my artistic flow,” is Allen “\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/LooveMoore2020/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cstrong>Loove Moore\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>” Moore. He’s from West Oakland—specifically, Acorn–and he’s a musician, multimedia maker and a self-proclaimed introvert who’s found solace in creating a safe place for others to be themselves. That space was a weekly talent showcase called “\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/LooveAtTheLake/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Loove at the Lake\u003c/a>.” Last year, in its first year of operation, it was featured in the \u003ca href=\"https://projects.sfchronicle.com/2019/visuals/lake-merritt-backyard/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>San Francisco Chronicle\u003c/em>\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But now that people aren’t (supposed to be) gathering en masse, he’s spending his time shooting and editing videos for the music he’s continually making. How’s he staying inspired?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I march to my own understanding of life,” Loove Moore told me during a phone call, sitting outside of a studio working on a podcast. “I feel like self-expression is needed, so I don’t explode.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He says it’s not just the resilient mentality that comes with being raised in West Oakland, but “the spirit” from the black church that has pushed his artistic endeavors. And now, he creates something new, constantly. When asked what the key to it all is, he simply says: “I just participate in life, bro.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And it’s as simple as that for some of us. Creating is just how we participate in life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13880517\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13880517\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/05/LoveMoore-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"LoveMoore.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/05/LoveMoore-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/05/LoveMoore-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/05/LoveMoore-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/05/LoveMoore-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/05/LoveMoore.jpg 1080w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Loove Moore. \u003ccite>(Instagram)\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>ats off to the artists from this region who haven’t stopped creating. To those who’ve been sitting on work and finally dropped it, as well as those who’ve used this time in isolation to get creative.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I’m looking forward to the work of Class of 2020 high school graduate (and future NYU student) \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/official.jwalt/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cstrong>J.Walt\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>, who’s dropping a project called \u003cem>Yours Truly\u003c/em> this weekend.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Keeping an eye as well on East Bay lyricist \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/tv/CAIso0bggWP/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cstrong>Ruby Ibarra\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>, who just dropped a new video this week and is guaranteed to be working on more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Berkeley’s \u003cstrong>Caleborate\u003c/strong> also dropped a five-track project called “\u003ca href=\"http://ffm.to/sparksinthestudio\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Sparks In The Studio\u003c/a>,” just this week. I’ve yet to listen to it, but given what I know of the guy’s work, it’ll be worthwhile.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fellow Berkeleyite \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/RexxLifeRaj/status/1260401866661232640?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cstrong>Rexx Life Raj\u003c/strong>\u003c/a> announced a new video coming Friday. I’ll watch that in tandem with \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/kamaiyah/status/1260646823082905600?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Kamaiyah’s latest song\u003c/a>, as she’s just announced that she’s dropping new music every Friday, starting this week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a consumer and fan, I want to thank y’all for your art. It’s needed all the time, and especially right now.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">I\u003c/span>f there’s one thing I’ve learned in the past two months, it’s that a worldwide pandemic can’t stifle the artists of Northern California. Which makes sense—it’s one of the most innovative places on the planet. Creativity is in our cellular membranes and the culture pulses through our veins. Plus, the rent is too damn high to quit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-13833985\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/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>Let’s start with the well-known names. This past weekend, Oakland’s own \u003cstrong>Kehlani\u003c/strong> hit No. 1 on the Apple Music charts with her latest album, \u003cem>It Was Good Until It Wasn’t\u003c/em>. As the project took off, Kehlani made videos in quarantine and took to Twitter sharing intimate details of her experience to promote the album. It was something she had to do—otherwise, citing the coronavirus, \u003ca href=\"https://pitchfork.com/thepitch/kehlani-it-was-good-until-it-wasnt-album-cover-interview/?mbid=social_facebook&utm_source=facebook&utm_social-type=owned&utm_brand=p4k&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter&utm_brand=p4k&mbid=social_twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_social-type=owned\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">her label would’ve postponed the release of her album\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Just a few days before that, Sacramento’s \u003cstrong>Mozzy\u003c/strong> dropped \u003cem>Beyond Bulletproof.\u003c/em> He’d recently broadcasted a series of \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZAVuUtxc5fg&feature=emb_title\">public therapy sessions\u003c/a>, and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13880011/mozzys-new-album-processes-trauma-incarceration-by-documenting-his-healing\">initially dropped the album through JPay\u003c/a>—a service for incarcerated folks—a week before the album’s general release. On top of that, he did an interview with Rap Radar’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/tv/B_xsftpHAQn/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link\">Elliott Wilson\u003c/a>. Active on the internet, in the streets and behind bars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Bay’s even getting active in television. Check the soundtrack for this season of \u003cem>Insecure\u003c/em>, which features previously released music from \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/LilSnickerfoot/status/1252642870319702016?s=20\">\u003cstrong>Michael Sneed\u003c/strong>\u003c/a> in one episode and \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/kamaiyah/status/1259701062908252160?s=20\">\u003cstrong>Kamaiyah\u003c/strong>\u003c/a> in another. And, of course, the Bay’s own \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/B_x8IAsJaGc/\">\u003cstrong>Nijla Mu’min\u003c/strong>\u003c/a> directed \u003cem>Insecure\u003c/em>‘s fourth episode from this season.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/pReD5WRO3vI'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/pReD5WRO3vI'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>As for getting active in Hollywood, check Netflix’s \u003ca href=\"https://variety.com/2020/film/reviews/all-day-and-a-night-review-ashton-sanders-1234593865/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>All Day and A Night\u003c/em>\u003c/a>. The story of an aspiring rapper from Oakland, the film has star power from Oakland’s \u003cstrong>Yahya Abdul-Mateen II\u003c/strong> and a bunch of cameos from Northern California folks, including members of the dance crew \u003cstrong>Turf Fiendz\u003c/strong> and Oakland’s \u003cstrong>Rolanda D. Bell\u003c/strong>. The film was written by San Francisco’s \u003cstrong>Joe Robert Cole\u003c/strong>, was filmed in Oakland and Alameda, and \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL09XmXSlwDoreuB74JlQD-a4KfsTVvxie\">its soundtrack\u003c/a> features \u003cstrong>Tia Nomore, SOBxRBE, Paris,\u003c/strong> the \u003cstrong>Conscious Daughters, P-Lo, Mac Dre\u003c/strong> and more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And then there’s \u003cstrong>Kool John\u003c/strong>, who’s also featured on the aforementioned soundtrack. The Richmond artist was recently shot six times during a robbery, recovered, and \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/K00LJ0HN/status/1257490570995331073?s=20\">hopped on Twitter to remix a Tupac quote to fit to his situation\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Further evidence that despite catastrophic circumstances, we don’t know how to stop.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13880487\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 600px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13880487\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/05/EXMN6okXgAIjAZs-800x800.jpg\" alt=\"Nappy Nina's 30 Bag album cover\" width=\"600\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/05/EXMN6okXgAIjAZs-800x800.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/05/EXMN6okXgAIjAZs-160x160.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/05/EXMN6okXgAIjAZs-768x768.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/05/EXMN6okXgAIjAZs-1020x1020.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/05/EXMN6okXgAIjAZs-1920x1920.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/05/EXMN6okXgAIjAZs.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nappy Nina’s ’30 Bag’ album cover. \u003ccite>(Nappy Nina)\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\">F\u003c/span>or artists in the Northern California, being creative is damn near synonymous with breathing. Even when we leave our region, we carry it with us. Ask Oakland’s own \u003cstrong>Nappy Nina\u003c/strong>, who’s currently living in New York and bringing heat to all the \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/Nappy_Nina/status/1259252529814265860?s=20\">MENcees\u003c/a> out there. Nappy Nina’s latest project \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://nappynina.lnk.to/30Bag\">30 Bag\u003c/a>\u003c/em>, full of quality vibes and strategic wordplay, dropped on her 30th birthday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13880374\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 238px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-13880374\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/05/EWzRrqCUEAAO1Cw.jpg\" alt=\"Drew Banga by Stoni\" width=\"238\" height=\"345\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/05/EWzRrqCUEAAO1Cw.jpg 621w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/05/EWzRrqCUEAAO1Cw-160x232.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 238px) 100vw, 238px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Drew Banga by Stoni. \u003ccite>(Stoni)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Need that more twang in your tunes? On Texas rapper \u003cstrong>Siddiq\u003c/strong>’s latest album, \u003ca href=\"https://li.sten.to/SlideMusic\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>Slide Music\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, his southern delivery pairs well with the production of Oakland’s \u003cstrong>1-O.A.K.\u003c/strong>, Alameda’s \u003cstrong>Trackademicks\u003c/strong> and the rest of the HNRL crew—\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/allsongs/2020/05/11/853575718/heat-check-shook-up-shook-down-shook-out\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">even NPR thinks so\u003c/a>. The track that caught my ear is “Wantanabe,” produced by Oakland’s \u003cstrong>Drew Banga\u003c/strong>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I’ve \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13859615/rightnowish-rap-producer-drew-banga-on-music-and-fatherhood\">talked to Banga\u003c/a> on a few occasions, I can assure you he’s a really bright guy. But I’m thoroughly convinced the term “take a break” isn’t in his lexicon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Banga just released a song and dance, “\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/DrewwwBanga/status/1258847454583091201?s=20\">G-Step\u003c/a>,” with San Francisco’s \u003cstrong>Jordan “Stunnaman02” Gomes\u003c/strong>. Banga then turned around and announced he’s got an upcoming project with Oakland lyricist \u003cstrong>Stoni\u003c/strong> called \u003cem>Ferrari Fawcet\u003c/em>, set to drop in July. Evidently, Stoni isn’t familiar with slowing down either, as she’s been occupying her time by \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/CallHerStoni/status/1251240115227123714?s=20\">drawing folks\u003c/a> on commission—she’s done over 20 pieces.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/pReD5WRO3vI'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/pReD5WRO3vI'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">O\u003c/span>ne of the silver linings of this downtime is the ability to get familiar with artists I should’ve been listening to. For example, San Francisco’s \u003cstrong>Troy LLF\u003c/strong>, who just released \u003ca href=\"https://soundcloud.com/troyllf\">\u003cem>Til Death Do Us Part II\u003c/em>. \u003c/a>Troy LLF’s mature lyrical approach is a great counterbalance to the party music our region’s often associated with.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another artist who’s newly on my radar is Oakland’s \u003cstrong>Mahawam\u003c/strong>. I couldn’t help but notice Mahawam’s recent video for, “\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pReD5WRO3vI\">HOPING NO ONE NOTICE\u003c/a>.” And if you like that trippy-hop vibe, I’d suggest checking out the work of \u003cstrong>MH the Verb\u003c/strong>, who calls Oakland home now but is originally from New York by way of Philly. The new 420-friendly video for his song “\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/tv/B_NbXTSFLPN/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link\">Birthstones\u003c/a>” is a great introduction to his lyrical space odyssey of an album, \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://ffm.to/spaceninja\">Afronaut\u003c/a>\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Need more vibes? Check out \u003ca href=\"https://www.ashiakarana.com/\">\u003cstrong>Ashia Karana\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>—she grew up between New Jersey and Atlanta, but came to the Bay to study sound healing. The people she met influenced her so much that the cover art for her new project, \u003cem>Trust\u003c/em>, is done by Bay Area singer, songwriter and graphic designer \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/stoneycreation/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cstrong>Stoney\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>. (No relation to the aforementioned Stoni.) I listened to Ashia’s project twice last weekend, and ended up on the floor of my apartment holding a staring contest with the ceiling. I won.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/e1U-t277yXE'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/e1U-t277yXE'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>Another mention along those vibe lines: Oakland’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/jadaimani510/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cstrong>Jada Imani\u003c/strong>\u003c/a> dropped a new atmospheric single while sheltering in place, called “\u003ca href=\"https://jadaimani.bandcamp.com/track/i-think-that-i-am\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">I Think That I Am\u003c/a>.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Need more of that romantic R&B feel in your life? The new single from Union City’s \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/larrenwong\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cstrong>LarrenWong\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>, “\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/larrenwong/status/1253575585583861760?s=20\">Out My Way\u003c/a>,” almost made me text an ex. But then the pure vocals from Oakland’s \u003cstrong>Dom Jones\u003c/strong>, on her latest single “\u003ca href=\"https://distrokid.com/hyperfollow/domjones/crazytown\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Crazy Town\u003c/a>,” reminded me to put my phone down.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Soon after that, I was told to remain focused on my craft by an elder statesman, Vallejo’s \u003cstrong>E-40\u003c/strong>. 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That space was a weekly talent showcase called “\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/LooveAtTheLake/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Loove at the Lake\u003c/a>.” Last year, in its first year of operation, it was featured in the \u003ca href=\"https://projects.sfchronicle.com/2019/visuals/lake-merritt-backyard/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>San Francisco Chronicle\u003c/em>\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But now that people aren’t (supposed to be) gathering en masse, he’s spending his time shooting and editing videos for the music he’s continually making. How’s he staying inspired?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I march to my own understanding of life,” Loove Moore told me during a phone call, sitting outside of a studio working on a podcast. “I feel like self-expression is needed, so I don’t explode.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He says it’s not just the resilient mentality that comes with being raised in West Oakland, but “the spirit” from the black church that has pushed his artistic endeavors. And now, he creates something new, constantly. When asked what the key to it all is, he simply says: “I just participate in life, bro.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And it’s as simple as that for some of us. Creating is just how we participate in life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13880517\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13880517\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/05/LoveMoore-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"LoveMoore.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/05/LoveMoore-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/05/LoveMoore-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/05/LoveMoore-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/05/LoveMoore-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/05/LoveMoore.jpg 1080w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Loove Moore. \u003ccite>(Instagram)\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>ats off to the artists from this region who haven’t stopped creating. 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"content": "\u003cp>When Felicia Gangloff-Bailey and Karega Bailey’s newborn daughter, Kamaiu, passed away last year, the couple says they became “angel parents.” It’s a term that exemplifies their seemingly ever-present optimism and uplifting approach to dealing with grief.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This mindset is something the duo brings to their professional life as well, working as educators and restorative justice practitioners. They’re also musicians, making up half of the band, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2019/03/17/703119553/oakland-collective-sol-development-preserves-the-the-sol-of-black-folk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Sol Development, \u003c/a>along with Brittany Tanner and Lauren Adams.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Recently, Felicia and Karega worked to publish a book full of affirmations that can be used as a toolkit, of sorts, to give guidance to other people who are dealing with grief. The book is call \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://soldevelopment.bandcamp.com/merch/sol-affirmations-a-tool-kit-for-reflection-and-manifesting-the-light-within\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Sol Affirmations.\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This week on Rightnowish, we’re discussing the importance of understanding grief and how uplifting words help process the highs and lows that life can throw at you.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"200\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https://playlist.megaphone.fm?e=KQINC6750467118&light=true\" width=\"100%\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13879955\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13879955\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/05/R6crQPWw-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A bracelet dedicated to Kamaiu, aka Baby Bailey, worn by Felicia and Karega. \" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/05/R6crQPWw-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/05/R6crQPWw-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/05/R6crQPWw-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/05/R6crQPWw-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/05/R6crQPWw-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A bracelet dedicated to Kamaiu, aka Baby Bailey, worn by Felicia and Karega. \u003ccite>(Adrian Walker)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Below are lightly edited excerpts of my conversation with Felicia and Karega Bailey.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Karega: So, \u003ca href=\"https://soldevelopment.bandcamp.com/merch/sol-affirmations-a-tool-kit-for-reflection-and-manifesting-the-light-within\">Sol Affirmations\u003c/a> is this body of work that lends itself and is birthed from some of the greatest challenges around loss, around grief, but also around light and around love. The amount of love that shows up in this text is unreal. I recently did an assessment looking at how much time I was examining love and you realize that grief is love, it’s just love after a loss. It’s very difficult to name love and feel love and practice love without you being able to place it in the direction where you intended it to go.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Pen: On the note of just affirmations in general. A quick Google search of affirmations doesn’t show Black folks. A quick Instagram and Twitter search of the word “affirmation” doesn’t show Black folks. But I know for a fact Black folks use affirmations. I use them all the time. Like Jadakiss’s “We Gonna Make It” comes to mind. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Felicia : I think it’s really dope that you bring that up, because from what I understand about the power of music, in particular of hip hop, there is this connection that, once it’s made available, opens a pathway to so much regarding choice behaviors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Karega: I don’t know how they sanitized our melanin from the space of affirmations and mindfulness, but we belong there. These things have been with us forever. We have oral tradition, right? We have griots. We are orators in nature…\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Pen: In 2019, \u003ca href=\"https://soldevelopment.bandcamp.com/album/the-sol-of-black-folk\">you put the album out\u003c/a>. You also are doing the work of working with mothers who’ve lost children to gun violence, and you all are expecting a child. Bring me back to that experience.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Felicia: 2019 at the beginning of the year. So much to celebrate, Karega had a birthday. I told him we were expecting on his birthday. You know, and then. Shortly after a month later, a little under a month later, we released this album that we had been working so hard on for so long. That was so special, I think, for me to be with child in such a time where our music is taking off. We had so many opportunities to perform. I mean, so many. It’s almost a blur for me right now…\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13879956\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13879956\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/05/eqJuJsGw-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A shared moment between Karega and Felicia\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/05/eqJuJsGw-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/05/eqJuJsGw-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/05/eqJuJsGw-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/05/eqJuJsGw-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/05/eqJuJsGw-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A shared moment between Karega and Felicia \u003ccite>(Adrian Walker)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Karega: I had so much joy every single day and so many of our performances and so many of our press spaces, Felicia and I would just hold this very warm eye contact just thinking that our child is here witnessing all of this, experiencing all of this. And then the birth of Kamaiu, and that also represents the birth of Felicia as a mother. And that also represents the birth of me as a father. But then we also have a very new experience in that we’re birthed into being angel parents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Felicia: I was reflecting yesterday, Karega and I were kind of talking about a couple that reached out to us. She opened this identity up for me. She was the first person that [introduced] “angel parents.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Felicia: At first it was something that I didn’t really want to accept. All of our birth stories are different. We share, however, the same feeling of missing the memories that we thought we would have. But I’ve come to understand that, that we are still parents. I am infinitely Kamaiu’s mother. And I’m still working that out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Karega: We have to become better as a community at the gentleness we prescribe to the mothers. Because you wouldn’t imagine the way their wombs still hurt. It still hurts in the same place, and I’ve heard it over and over again from the mothers in the gun violence space. And then to learn that my wife has a wound that hurts in the same place, and it just really makes me want to tap everybody on the shoulder and just remind them of the power of the gentleness for some things in which you cannot understand or have words for.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12127869\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"78\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-768x75.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>Rightnowish is an arts and culture podcast produced at KQED. 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The amount of love that shows up in this text is unreal. I recently did an assessment looking at how much time I was examining love and you realize that grief is love, it’s just love after a loss. It’s very difficult to name love and feel love and practice love without you being able to place it in the direction where you intended it to go.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Pen: On the note of just affirmations in general. A quick Google search of affirmations doesn’t show Black folks. A quick Instagram and Twitter search of the word “affirmation” doesn’t show Black folks. But I know for a fact Black folks use affirmations. I use them all the time. Like Jadakiss’s “We Gonna Make It” comes to mind. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Felicia : I think it’s really dope that you bring that up, because from what I understand about the power of music, in particular of hip hop, there is this connection that, once it’s made available, opens a pathway to so much regarding choice behaviors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Karega: I don’t know how they sanitized our melanin from the space of affirmations and mindfulness, but we belong there. These things have been with us forever. We have oral tradition, right? We have griots. We are orators in nature…\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Pen: In 2019, \u003ca href=\"https://soldevelopment.bandcamp.com/album/the-sol-of-black-folk\">you put the album out\u003c/a>. You also are doing the work of working with mothers who’ve lost children to gun violence, and you all are expecting a child. Bring me back to that experience.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Felicia: 2019 at the beginning of the year. So much to celebrate, Karega had a birthday. I told him we were expecting on his birthday. You know, and then. Shortly after a month later, a little under a month later, we released this album that we had been working so hard on for so long. That was so special, I think, for me to be with child in such a time where our music is taking off. We had so many opportunities to perform. I mean, so many. 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The \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/B-LHRqCgSbn/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">S-Curl commercial\u003c/a> that shows the styles of the time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At this point, it’s incredible that this footage has survived. If you lived it, you may or may not want to travel back then. But for me, it’s what the big homies always talked about—so I’m fascinated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not just by the commercials, but the commentary from Night Dog, whose no-holds-barred \u003ca href=\"https://youtu.be/kONpdG_hKpI?t=50s\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">call-in talk show\u003c/a> was a Soul Beat TV staple. The music videos were the soundtrack to my childhood, with lyrics I didn’t fully understood until now. Even the background scenes of Oakland, in the music videos and commercials Soul Beat showed, is now rare documentary footage, what with all the changes that have occurred here. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>It couldn’t have come at a better time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In early March, when the coronavius was something Americans were just starting to seriously prepare for, Rynell “Showbiz” Williams started the \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/soulbeattv/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Soul Beat TV Instagram page\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/DjBiz/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Showbiz\u003c/a> is a longtime radio DJ, formerly with 94.9 KWILD, and currently a host on the morning show with 102.5 KDON. He’s also from East Oakland, and grew up watching Soul Beat TV on Channel 37.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Soul Beat in Oakland was everything,” Showbiz says, over the phone. “It was (one of) the first black-owned television network(s)… Before BET. Before TV One. There was Soul Beat. And it was started by\u003ca href=\"https://www.eastbaytimes.com/2004/07/28/soul-beat-owner-chuck-johnson-dies/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> Chuck Johnson\u003c/a>.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chuck Johnson was a former Marine who spent some time in Hollywood, where he worked on movies like \u003cem>Dolemite\u003c/em> before coming to Oakland and starting Soul Beat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although the production was sometimes low quality, the network’s appeal was immediate in making something for the people, by the people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was black faces that you saw. It was black businesses that you saw,” says Showbiz. “The beauty was all about the Soul Beat commercials.”\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/ySQmXtwz-AI'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/ySQmXtwz-AI'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/tv/B-Hkv4pg0Ew/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">corny car commercial\u003c/a> where everyone waves on cue. The commercial for Harputs, an urban \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajCwxC3s2Nc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">clothing store in San Francisco\u003c/a> that has since pivoted to more \u003ca href=\"https://thecollection.sbe.com/creators/gus-robin-harputs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">upscale fashion\u003c/a> . The \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/B-LHRqCgSbn/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">S-Curl commercial\u003c/a> that shows the styles of the time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At this point, it’s incredible that this footage has survived. If you lived it, you may or may not want to travel back then. But for me, it’s what the big homies always talked about—so I’m fascinated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not just by the commercials, but the commentary from Night Dog, whose no-holds-barred \u003ca href=\"https://youtu.be/kONpdG_hKpI?t=50s\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">call-in talk show\u003c/a> was a Soul Beat TV staple. The music videos were the soundtrack to my childhood, with lyrics I didn’t fully understood until now. Even the background scenes of Oakland, in the music videos and commercials Soul Beat showed, is now rare documentary footage, what with all the changes that have occurred here. \u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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