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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>DeAndre Drake, an artist from Oakland who works under the name \u003ca href=\"https://airballin.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Airballin\u003c/a>, recently airbrushed a casket with images of victims of police brutality. And for lack of a better word, it’s beautiful.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The casket is vibrant. Next to the names and faces with which we’ve come to be familiar, Drake has painted images of people who took notable political stands: Muhammad Ali, Colin Kaepernick and Assata Shakur. There’s also a police line’s yellow tape, an American flag, a Confederate flag, the 14th Amendment, a baby in the crosshairs of a rifle’s scope and JFK’s famous words: “We must never forget that art is not a form of propaganda, it is a form of truth.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Drake reveals the casket to the public on Saturday, July 18, as part of the pop-up art show \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/CCjeLLvMcD5/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">My Skin Is Not A Crime\u003c/a>\u003c/em> at the Joyce Gordon Gallery in Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Drake’s casket comes during an ongoing series of actions this summer in response to the issue of police brutality. I’ve seen people jogging in solidarity, sitting in honor of those killed and even skateboarding down Twin Peaks while toting signs that read “Black Lives Matter.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But this show of solidarity is a bit more morbid, and blunt. It’s also a new level of artwork for Drake.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13883356\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 600px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-13883356 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/07/IMG_2445-scaled-e1594788064343-800x1067.jpeg\" alt='The \"My Skin Is Not a Crime\" airbrushed casket' width=\"600\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/07/IMG_2445-scaled-e1594788064343-800x1067.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/07/IMG_2445-scaled-e1594788064343-1020x1360.jpeg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/07/IMG_2445-scaled-e1594788064343-160x213.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/07/IMG_2445-scaled-e1594788064343-768x1024.jpeg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/07/IMG_2445-scaled-e1594788064343-1152x1536.jpeg 1152w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/07/IMG_2445-scaled-e1594788064343-1536x2048.jpeg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/07/IMG_2445-scaled-e1594788064343.jpeg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The ‘My Skin Is Not a Crime’ airbrushed casket, created by DeAndre Drake.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Last year, he airbrushed backpacks as a part of a giveaway for school kids in Oakland. He once used an Indy car as a canvas for a paint job inspired by Pink Floyd’s \u003cem>The Wall\u003c/em>. In December of 2018, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13847457/the-delicate-art-of-adulting-during-the-holidays\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">I watched\u003c/a> as he and his daughter painted nude models at a warehouse in West Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So why suddenly make a political statement with a casket?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The most touching part of George Floyd’s story was the quote from his daughter,” says Drake over the phone. “’My daddy changed the world.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Drake wants his own daughter to be able to look at him and say the same words—not just because he painted a casket, but because he used his art to bring awareness. “It’s not guaranteed to change the world, but it’s my attempt,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And he’s not alone in his effort, the community has already shown support.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Drake says that after paying for the casket in full, he told the business, \u003ca href=\"https://titancasket.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Titan Casket\u003c/a>, about his plans. They immediately refunded him 25% of the total.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When he ran behind on finishing the project, he got backup from another artist, \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/richairbrush/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Rich Diltz\u003c/a>, who came down from the Sacramento area to support the endeavor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Joyce Gordon Gallery is hosting the casket and, on Saturday, holding a \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/CCjeLLvMcD5/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">memorial\u003c/a> dedicated to those who’ve lost their lives to police violence. Cephus X Johnson (aka “Uncle Bobby”), the uncle of Oscar Grant and a police accountability activist, is scheduled to speak.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And the casket itself will have a mock funeral procession, with a real hearse donated by Thompson Funeral home. That procession will be flanked by a group of bikers, convening at the \u003ca href=\"https://www.google.com/maps/place/Jamba+Rockridge+Shopping+Center/@37.8333862,-122.2517,17z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m5!3m4!1s0x80857defaf03e58f:0x849cfd6826678a94!8m2!3d37.833382!4d-122.249506\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Rockridge Jamba Juice\u003c/a> at 12:45pm and leaving at 1:45pm. The bikers are scheduled to meet up with the hearse at the \u003ca href=\"https://www.google.com/maps/place/Lucky/@37.7996682,-122.255534,17z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m12!1m6!3m5!1s0x808f8739eddd00d3:0x5dd486b4c19fb65c!2sLucky!8m2!3d37.799664!4d-122.25334!3m4!1s0x808f8739eddd00d3:0x5dd486b4c19fb65c!8m2!3d37.799664!4d-122.25334\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Lucky’s on E. 18th\u003c/a> around 2:15pm, and then ride the southern rim of Lake Merritt all the way to the Joyce Gordon Gallery on 14th Street.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The memorial event runs from 3pm to 7pm, and afterward, the casket will be on display in the gallery for a short period.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13883558\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-13883558\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/07/Airballin.Casket.Above_-1020x1360.jpg\" alt=\"Sandra Bland, the 14th Amendment, an enslaved young man, Trayvon Martin and Nia Wilson all grace the casket created by DeAndre Drake. \" width=\"640\" height=\"853\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/07/Airballin.Casket.Above_-1020x1360.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/07/Airballin.Casket.Above_-800x1067.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/07/Airballin.Casket.Above_-160x213.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/07/Airballin.Casket.Above_-768x1024.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/07/Airballin.Casket.Above_-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/07/Airballin.Casket.Above_-1536x2048.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/07/Airballin.Casket.Above_.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sandra Bland, the 14th Amendment, an enslaved young man, Trayvon Martin and Nia Wilson all grace the casket created by DeAndre Drake. \u003ccite>(Airballin)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Drake says there are three larger goals for his piece of art. 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"content": "\u003cp>Looking for things to do in the Bay Area this weekend? The Do List has you covered with concerts, festivals, exhibitions, plays, performances and more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You can listen to this week’s episode with KQED’s Gabe Meline and Sam Lefebvre above, or read about our picks below.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Michael Feinstein\u003c/strong>: I don’t wanna say it… you don’t wanna admit it… but the holidays are here. And along with it come holiday concerts. It’s my personal opinion that if you’re gonna do a holiday concert, you should go all the way into syrupy sentimentalism, and after seeing him earlier this year, I can say that Michael Feinstein is the master of it. A constantly beaming smile, between-song stories about home and mother, it’s the whole nostalgic package. There’s a reason he’s among the best in the cabaret field. Michael Feinstein’s holiday show runs Thursday through Sunday, Dec. 5-8, in the elegant confines of Feinstein’s at the Nikko Hotel in San Francisco. \u003ca href=\"https://www.feinsteinssf.com/event/5f0c1805eed4142b59212366151094c7\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Details here\u003c/a>.\u003cem>—GM\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Angel Olsen\u003c/strong>: The other night I was at this sort of avant-drag theater performance in downtown Oakland, when one of the artists performed “\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6uaN60k0-zY\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Lark\u003c/a>” by the songwriter Angel Olsen. It’s the opening song on her most recent album, \u003cem>All Mirrors\u003c/em>, and it really impressed on me just how instantly classic her work is—that in the midst of these ’90s rock anthems and expected torch songs, a drag queen does a two-month old ballad by Angel Olsen. 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The reception and screening is Friday, Dec. 6, from 6pm–9pm, at Ashara Ekandayo Gallery in Oakland. \u003ca href=\"https://www.asharaekundayogallery.com/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Details here\u003c/a>.\u003cem>—GM\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Local Gift Ideas\u003c/strong>: On Friday, Dec. 6, Oakland arts nonprofit \u003cstrong>Creative Growth\u003c/strong> holds their annual holiday studio sale. Creative Growth has played a critical role in promoting artwork by people with disabilities for decades, and this is a longstanding event where you can buy original works at affordable prices. It’s decorated the homes of some of my more stylish friends. \u003ca href=\"https://creativegrowth.org/exhibitions/holiday-studio-sale-2019\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Details here\u003c/a>. On Saturday, Dec. 7, the \u003cstrong>East Bay Alternative Book & Zine Fest\u003c/strong> gets underway at Omni Commons in Oakland—the tenth annual installment of a crucial self-publishing summit. \u003ca href=\"https://omnicommons.org/calendar/events/10th-annual-east-bay-alternative-book-zine-fest/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Details here\u003c/a>. And finally, on Sunday, Dec. 8, \u003cstrong>SFMOMA\u003c/strong> presents a small press book bazaar with community partners including Colpa Press and the Black Aesthetic. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Looking for things to do in the Bay Area this weekend? The Do List has you covered with concerts, festivals, exhibitions, plays, performances and more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You can listen to this week’s episode with KQED’s Gabe Meline and Sam Lefebvre above, or read about our picks below.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Michael Feinstein\u003c/strong>: I don’t wanna say it… you don’t wanna admit it… but the holidays are here. And along with it come holiday concerts. It’s my personal opinion that if you’re gonna do a holiday concert, you should go all the way into syrupy sentimentalism, and after seeing him earlier this year, I can say that Michael Feinstein is the master of it. A constantly beaming smile, between-song stories about home and mother, it’s the whole nostalgic package. There’s a reason he’s among the best in the cabaret field. Michael Feinstein’s holiday show runs Thursday through Sunday, Dec. 5-8, in the elegant confines of Feinstein’s at the Nikko Hotel in San Francisco. \u003ca href=\"https://www.feinsteinssf.com/event/5f0c1805eed4142b59212366151094c7\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Details here\u003c/a>.\u003cem>—GM\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Angel Olsen\u003c/strong>: The other night I was at this sort of avant-drag theater performance in downtown Oakland, when one of the artists performed “\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6uaN60k0-zY\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Lark\u003c/a>” by the songwriter Angel Olsen. It’s the opening song on her most recent album, \u003cem>All Mirrors\u003c/em>, and it really impressed on me just how instantly classic her work is—that in the midst of these ’90s rock anthems and expected torch songs, a drag queen does a two-month old ballad by Angel Olsen. She performs Saturday, Dec. 7, at the Fox Theater. \u003ca href=\"http://thefoxoakland.com/events/angel-olsen\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Details here\u003c/a>.\u003cem>—SL\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ashara Ekandayo Gallery Closing Reception\u003c/strong>: Nia Wilson, the 18-year-old woman who was murdered at MacArthur BART station a year and a half ago, had a lot of friends, a bright future, and with her cousins, a rap group, Girlz N the Hood. This week, there’s a short video screening and multimedia performance of \u003cem>Nia Wilson Station\u003c/em>, a project that examines the dangers that black women face in public spaces. It’s part of the final First Friday reception for Ashara Ekandayo Gallery, which is closing after two years with a show called \u003cem>Adjust Yo Eyes for This Darkness\u003c/em>. The reception and screening is Friday, Dec. 6, from 6pm–9pm, at Ashara Ekandayo Gallery in Oakland. \u003ca href=\"https://www.asharaekundayogallery.com/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Details here\u003c/a>.\u003cem>—GM\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Local Gift Ideas\u003c/strong>: On Friday, Dec. 6, Oakland arts nonprofit \u003cstrong>Creative Growth\u003c/strong> holds their annual holiday studio sale. Creative Growth has played a critical role in promoting artwork by people with disabilities for decades, and this is a longstanding event where you can buy original works at affordable prices. It’s decorated the homes of some of my more stylish friends. \u003ca href=\"https://creativegrowth.org/exhibitions/holiday-studio-sale-2019\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Details here\u003c/a>. On Saturday, Dec. 7, the \u003cstrong>East Bay Alternative Book & Zine Fest\u003c/strong> gets underway at Omni Commons in Oakland—the tenth annual installment of a crucial self-publishing summit. \u003ca href=\"https://omnicommons.org/calendar/events/10th-annual-east-bay-alternative-book-zine-fest/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Details here\u003c/a>. And finally, on Sunday, Dec. 8, \u003cstrong>SFMOMA\u003c/strong> presents a small press book bazaar with community partners including Colpa Press and the Black Aesthetic. This event coincides with the opening of a new exhibition, \u003cem>Printed Publics: Contemporary Art and Design Publishing in the Bay Area\u003c/em>, and admission to the entire museum is free all day. \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfmoma.org/event/small-press-book-bazaar/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Details here\u003c/a>.\u003cem>—SL\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Storm Large\u003c/strong>: Many people know this wonderful pop vocalist as a singer in the lounge- and classical-influenced ensemble Pink Martini. As for her own solo concerts… they can get \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0kWpsB8x2Xs\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">a little raucous\u003c/a>. Large brings her show “Holiday Ordeal” to the Hammer Theatre Center in San Jose on Saturday, Dec. 7; there’s an early show for the family, and a late show for adults that’s more risqué. Details here. And next weekend, coming full circle on this week’s picks, she’ll be at Feinstein’s in San Francisco; \u003ca href=\"https://www.feinsteinssf.com/event/fd576714964c8312665bd2f560da54d5\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">details here\u003c/a>.\u003cem>—GM\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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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\">L\u003c/span>ast week, BART was under fire again, as an \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11744106/bart-releases-report-with-new-details-of-officers-roles-in-oscar-grant-killing\">investigation into what truly occurred\u003c/a> leading up to the shooting of Oscar Grant by former BART officer Johannes Mehserle on the morning of Jan. 1, 2009 was made public.\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>Meanwhile, in the same week, the culture within BART’s car doors got some shine by Oakland-based rap trio \u003ca href=\"https://www.treycoastal.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Trey Coastal\u003c/a> as they dropped their single “\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G_nN5O2EZcE&feature=youtu.be\">End Of The Line\u003c/a>“—an ode to the folks who dance on BART.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Granted, the revelations around Grant’s killing and the music video are mostly unrelated. But after reading the news report and then watching the music video, it hit me: BART is essentially one big 121-mile, 1000-volt barometer of the Bay Area’s culture.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>BART is \u003ca href=\"//www.bart.gov/sites/default/files/docs/2018_BART%20Factsheet.pdf\">a big deal\u003c/a>: 679 trains that take riders from 48 different stations on over 126 million trips annually. Just last year, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11689230/assembly-votes-to-send-bart-development-bill-to-governor\">Governor Brown approved a bill\u003c/a> allowing BART to develop land around their stations for higher-density housing. And in 2016, BART got a \u003ca href=\"https://www.bart.gov/news/articles/2016/news20161013\">$3.5 billion bond\u003c/a> through the voter-passed Measure RR, aimed at rebuilding and maintaining key aspects of the system’s infrastructure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Around that same time, BART was found to have an overwhelming amount of \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfgate.com/crime/article/BART-admits-77-percent-of-train-cameras-are-fake-6818459.php\">non-functioning cameras\u003c/a>, which adds to the fear some riders have around safety, especially considering the amount of crime on BART property. Two months ago, a teenage girl was \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/crime/article/Woman-killed-in-shooting-at-West-Oakland-BART-13726137.php\">shot at West Oakland BART\u003c/a>; in July of last year, a woman was \u003ca href=\"https://www.eastbaytimes.com/2018/07/28/woman-recently-released-from-santa-rita-jail-found-dead-in-dublin-bart/\">killed at Pleasanton BART\u003c/a>; and of course, last year, the heinous \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13837639/nia-wilson-and-the-war-on-black-women\">murder of Nia Wilson\u003c/a> occurred on a platform at MacArthur BART.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Add that to the somewhat comical but obviously classist \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W2cQlejay3M\">video\u003c/a> of the guy calling the cops on someone for eating on the train, plus news reports about “\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5gT5NULvRSk\">junkies taking over the Civic Center station\u003c/a>,” and rumors about \u003ca href=\"http://cbslocal.com/2018/02/22/bart-considers-constructing-second-transbay-tube/\">burrowing another Transbay Tube\u003c/a> because the current system is at capacity, and you can see why I say: where BART goes, the Bay goes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13856838\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13856838\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/05/BARTDancers1-800x409.jpg\" alt=\"A still from Trey Coastal's 'End of the Line' video.\" width=\"800\" height=\"409\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/05/BARTDancers1-800x409.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/05/BARTDancers1-160x82.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/05/BARTDancers1-768x393.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/05/BARTDancers1-1020x522.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/05/BARTDancers1.jpg 1065w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A still from Trey Coastal’s ‘End of the Line’ video. \u003ccite>(Director: Noah Coogler)\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\">B\u003c/span>ut before last week, I don’t think I’ve ever taken a moment to really appreciate how much BART reflects the Bay as a whole. From the \u003ca href=\"https://eastbaysol.files.wordpress.com/2014/01/evict-this1.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">1950s photos\u003c/a> of the state taking people’s property under eminent domain to construct West Oakland BART to the \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/oursf/article/Nixon-s-futuristic-BART-ride-It-does-look-7025172.php#photo-9691143\">photos of President Nixon\u003c/a> riding the newly opened BART in 1972, it’s all a sign of the times. Even BART’s recent expansion into Antioch and Silicon Valley reflects the population growth and lack of affordable housing in traditional city centers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>People dressed in wild costumes headed to Bay To Breakers show the Bay Area’s kooky-creative side. The \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j_2RRapKxeg\">protests that blocked the trains on Black Friday in 2014\u003c/a> show the Bay Area’s strong political will. And although the shooting of Oscar Grant was over 10 years ago, the new revelations around that case illustrate the importance of AB 1421, the police transparency bill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So when I see Trey Coastal’s song dedicated to the dancers who use BART as their stage, I can’t help but also see the significance in something some see as mundane.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s what makes it so special,” says Anshil Popli, the director of photography on Trey Coastal’s video. “BART is something that we take every day… dancing is a huge part of that. It’s one of those things we look past every day, but to have that on video makes it special to me.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G_nN5O2EZcE\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Popli tells me he was blown away at some of the responses he got at certain stops while filming. “I call them ‘white stops’—places where you know you’re going to see an upscale crowd in a changing Oakland. To bring back something that’s so simple, art in its rarest form, is what it’s about,” says Popli. “And the people I thought wouldn’t appreciate the dancing and the music actually did. Man, we live in a strange time. It’s good to see that art alleviates the pain.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For some, BART dancers are artwork. For others, they’re annoying. And to BART officers, dancing for money on BART is illegal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The issues around BART dancers aren’t new. Five years ago, \u003ca href=\"https://postnewsgroup.com/2014/04/25/girl-suspected-dancing-bart-arrested-assaulted-officer/\">Nubia Bowe\u003c/a> was abused and aggressively arrested for reportedly dancing on BART and soliciting money. I’ve personally seen people dancing on BART since the years when base fare was $1.10. It’s part of a long tradition, and part of the larger picture of artists navigating the Bay’s high cost of living.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Dancing on BART been poppin’ since I was in high school,” says “End of the Line” director Noah Coogler. “Every time I look at the video, I think we captured a piece of history.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Coogler, the brother of director Ryan Coogler, says they shot the dance routines in about three hours. “While we were there, I felt like nobody felt off-put… I even saw a couple of white folks give out dubs,” Coogler tells me.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13856839\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13856839\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/05/BARTDancers2-800x408.jpg\" alt=\"A still from Trey Coastal's 'End of the Line' video.\" width=\"800\" height=\"408\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/05/BARTDancers2-800x408.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/05/BARTDancers2-160x82.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/05/BARTDancers2-768x392.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/05/BARTDancers2-1020x520.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/05/BARTDancers2.jpg 1069w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A still from Trey Coastal’s ‘End of the Line’ video. \u003ccite>(Director: Noah Coogler)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Yung Phil, one of the dancers in Trey Coastal’s video (as well as several other Bay Area music videos, including KQED’s recently released \u003ca href=\"https://vimeo.com/333239269\">\u003cem>If Cities Could Dance: Oakland\u003c/em>\u003c/a>), tells me the reception on BART is about 50/50. And even with his success in videos, he still regularly gets on trains and performs. “It’s like representing the culture, the underground culture that the Bay has,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yung Phil also explains that there’s a safety aspect to dancers on BART. “The fact that we dance, it takes people’s minds off of being so tense, or thinking that someone is going to run up and rob them,” he says. (I hadn’t thought about it before, but as people film the dancers, it doubles as a surveillance mechanism.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You can look into a train car on any given day and see the nationalities of the local population, the fashion of the time and even the technology of the age. BART is a microcosm of us, a crystal ball of change: in 2019, AirPods show our attachment to detachment, and cashless tickets show our momentum toward digital currency.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That said, there’s also things like Marshawn Lynch and Marcus Peters \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R_vv7IufrnU\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">riding BART back from the Coliseum\u003c/a> after a Thursday night Raiders game. A prime example that it’s possible to keep it lit for the Town, even when the Town is changing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13856841\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13856841\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/05/BARTDancers4-800x411.jpg\" alt=\"A still from Trey Coastal's 'End of the Line' video.\" width=\"800\" height=\"411\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/05/BARTDancers4-800x411.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/05/BARTDancers4-160x82.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/05/BARTDancers4-768x395.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/05/BARTDancers4-1020x524.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/05/BARTDancers4.jpg 1064w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A still from Trey Coastal’s ‘End of the Line’ video. \u003ccite>(Director: Noah Coogler)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">T\u003c/span>here’s \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/05/IMG_0640.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a photo\u003c/a> of Trey Coastal in Oakland, sitting on a BART platform. The image has become a special one: it was captured by \u003ca href=\"https://www.mercedsunstar.com/sports/article229958344.html\">Shawn Washington\u003c/a>, a friend of the crew and talented photographer from the Bay. Washington \u003ca href=\"https://www.mercedsunstar.com/sports/article229958344.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">recently passed\u003c/a>, and now the photo is a snapshot of the group’s moment in time with their friend.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cam Moss, one-third of the Trey Coastal crew, tells me that the intention behind “End Of The Line” is to exude Bay Area pride. When asked about BART dancing seen a nuisance, Moss says that the dancers are “young cats that are out here, expressing themselves and not harming you in any way. This art. This is the same thing as going to museum and seeing a painting.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Adds Moss: “Some people may look down on public transportation, but that’s really where it all starts.”\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Around that same time, BART was found to have an overwhelming amount of \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfgate.com/crime/article/BART-admits-77-percent-of-train-cameras-are-fake-6818459.php\">non-functioning cameras\u003c/a>, which adds to the fear some riders have around safety, especially considering the amount of crime on BART property. Two months ago, a teenage girl was \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/crime/article/Woman-killed-in-shooting-at-West-Oakland-BART-13726137.php\">shot at West Oakland BART\u003c/a>; in July of last year, a woman was \u003ca href=\"https://www.eastbaytimes.com/2018/07/28/woman-recently-released-from-santa-rita-jail-found-dead-in-dublin-bart/\">killed at Pleasanton BART\u003c/a>; and of course, last year, the heinous \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13837639/nia-wilson-and-the-war-on-black-women\">murder of Nia Wilson\u003c/a> occurred on a platform at MacArthur BART.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Add that to the somewhat comical but obviously classist \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W2cQlejay3M\">video\u003c/a> of the guy calling the cops on someone for eating on the train, plus news reports about “\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5gT5NULvRSk\">junkies taking over the Civic Center station\u003c/a>,” and rumors about \u003ca href=\"http://cbslocal.com/2018/02/22/bart-considers-constructing-second-transbay-tube/\">burrowing another Transbay Tube\u003c/a> because the current system is at capacity, and you can see why I say: where BART goes, the Bay goes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13856838\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13856838\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/05/BARTDancers1-800x409.jpg\" alt=\"A still from Trey Coastal's 'End of the Line' video.\" width=\"800\" height=\"409\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/05/BARTDancers1-800x409.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/05/BARTDancers1-160x82.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/05/BARTDancers1-768x393.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/05/BARTDancers1-1020x522.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/05/BARTDancers1.jpg 1065w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A still from Trey Coastal’s ‘End of the Line’ video. \u003ccite>(Director: Noah Coogler)\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\">B\u003c/span>ut before last week, I don’t think I’ve ever taken a moment to really appreciate how much BART reflects the Bay as a whole. From the \u003ca href=\"https://eastbaysol.files.wordpress.com/2014/01/evict-this1.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">1950s photos\u003c/a> of the state taking people’s property under eminent domain to construct West Oakland BART to the \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/oursf/article/Nixon-s-futuristic-BART-ride-It-does-look-7025172.php#photo-9691143\">photos of President Nixon\u003c/a> riding the newly opened BART in 1972, it’s all a sign of the times. Even BART’s recent expansion into Antioch and Silicon Valley reflects the population growth and lack of affordable housing in traditional city centers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>People dressed in wild costumes headed to Bay To Breakers show the Bay Area’s kooky-creative side. The \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j_2RRapKxeg\">protests that blocked the trains on Black Friday in 2014\u003c/a> show the Bay Area’s strong political will. And although the shooting of Oscar Grant was over 10 years ago, the new revelations around that case illustrate the importance of AB 1421, the police transparency bill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So when I see Trey Coastal’s song dedicated to the dancers who use BART as their stage, I can’t help but also see the significance in something some see as mundane.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s what makes it so special,” says Anshil Popli, the director of photography on Trey Coastal’s video. “BART is something that we take every day… dancing is a huge part of that. It’s one of those things we look past every day, but to have that on video makes it special to me.”\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/G_nN5O2EZcE'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/G_nN5O2EZcE'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>Popli tells me he was blown away at some of the responses he got at certain stops while filming. “I call them ‘white stops’—places where you know you’re going to see an upscale crowd in a changing Oakland. To bring back something that’s so simple, art in its rarest form, is what it’s about,” says Popli. “And the people I thought wouldn’t appreciate the dancing and the music actually did. Man, we live in a strange time. It’s good to see that art alleviates the pain.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For some, BART dancers are artwork. For others, they’re annoying. And to BART officers, dancing for money on BART is illegal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The issues around BART dancers aren’t new. Five years ago, \u003ca href=\"https://postnewsgroup.com/2014/04/25/girl-suspected-dancing-bart-arrested-assaulted-officer/\">Nubia Bowe\u003c/a> was abused and aggressively arrested for reportedly dancing on BART and soliciting money. I’ve personally seen people dancing on BART since the years when base fare was $1.10. It’s part of a long tradition, and part of the larger picture of artists navigating the Bay’s high cost of living.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Dancing on BART been poppin’ since I was in high school,” says “End of the Line” director Noah Coogler. “Every time I look at the video, I think we captured a piece of history.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Coogler, the brother of director Ryan Coogler, says they shot the dance routines in about three hours. “While we were there, I felt like nobody felt off-put… I even saw a couple of white folks give out dubs,” Coogler tells me.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13856839\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13856839\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/05/BARTDancers2-800x408.jpg\" alt=\"A still from Trey Coastal's 'End of the Line' video.\" width=\"800\" height=\"408\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/05/BARTDancers2-800x408.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/05/BARTDancers2-160x82.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/05/BARTDancers2-768x392.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/05/BARTDancers2-1020x520.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/05/BARTDancers2.jpg 1069w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A still from Trey Coastal’s ‘End of the Line’ video. \u003ccite>(Director: Noah Coogler)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Yung Phil, one of the dancers in Trey Coastal’s video (as well as several other Bay Area music videos, including KQED’s recently released \u003ca href=\"https://vimeo.com/333239269\">\u003cem>If Cities Could Dance: Oakland\u003c/em>\u003c/a>), tells me the reception on BART is about 50/50. And even with his success in videos, he still regularly gets on trains and performs. “It’s like representing the culture, the underground culture that the Bay has,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yung Phil also explains that there’s a safety aspect to dancers on BART. “The fact that we dance, it takes people’s minds off of being so tense, or thinking that someone is going to run up and rob them,” he says. (I hadn’t thought about it before, but as people film the dancers, it doubles as a surveillance mechanism.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You can look into a train car on any given day and see the nationalities of the local population, the fashion of the time and even the technology of the age. BART is a microcosm of us, a crystal ball of change: in 2019, AirPods show our attachment to detachment, and cashless tickets show our momentum toward digital currency.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That said, there’s also things like Marshawn Lynch and Marcus Peters \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R_vv7IufrnU\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">riding BART back from the Coliseum\u003c/a> after a Thursday night Raiders game. A prime example that it’s possible to keep it lit for the Town, even when the Town is changing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13856841\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13856841\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/05/BARTDancers4-800x411.jpg\" alt=\"A still from Trey Coastal's 'End of the Line' video.\" width=\"800\" height=\"411\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/05/BARTDancers4-800x411.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/05/BARTDancers4-160x82.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/05/BARTDancers4-768x395.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/05/BARTDancers4-1020x524.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/05/BARTDancers4.jpg 1064w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A still from Trey Coastal’s ‘End of the Line’ video. \u003ccite>(Director: Noah Coogler)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">T\u003c/span>here’s \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/05/IMG_0640.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a photo\u003c/a> of Trey Coastal in Oakland, sitting on a BART platform. The image has become a special one: it was captured by \u003ca href=\"https://www.mercedsunstar.com/sports/article229958344.html\">Shawn Washington\u003c/a>, a friend of the crew and talented photographer from the Bay. Washington \u003ca href=\"https://www.mercedsunstar.com/sports/article229958344.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">recently passed\u003c/a>, and now the photo is a snapshot of the group’s moment in time with their friend.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cam Moss, one-third of the Trey Coastal crew, tells me that the intention behind “End Of The Line” is to exude Bay Area pride. When asked about BART dancing seen a nuisance, Moss says that the dancers are “young cats that are out here, expressing themselves and not harming you in any way. This art. This is the same thing as going to museum and seeing a painting.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>In the days since 18-year-old Nia Wilson was slain in Oakland, Bay Area artists have taken up their pens to honor her memory. With hand-drawn illustrations, digital collages and mixed media works, artists from Oakland and San Francisco have demanded justice and called to #SayHerName.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Hearts are destroyed here in Oakland and all over,” write Victoria Emanuela and Caitie Metz, co-founders of feminist press \u003ca href=\"https://www.onbeinginyourbody.com/\">On Being In Your Body\u003c/a>. “Show up. Listen. Speak up. Don’t let your privilege sit on the sidelines and watch. Rest in power, Nia.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some have spoken up through their art, while others have taken to the streets. What unites them is an enduring need to honor Wilson, the teenage girl from Oakland \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/25/us/nia-wilson-bart-stabbing.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">with big dreams\u003c/a> who died while helping a stranger on the BART train.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Below, find 10 tributes to Nia Wilson by Bay Area artists.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/broobs.psd/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@broobs.psd\u003c/a>:\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13837811\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-13837811 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/broobs-800.jpg\" alt=\"'Nia Wilson' by Ruben Guadalupe Marquez (@broobs.psd)\" width=\"800\" height=\"914\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/broobs-800.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/broobs-800-160x183.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/broobs-800-768x877.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/broobs-800-240x274.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/broobs-800-375x428.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/broobs-800-520x594.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">‘Nia Wilson’ by Ruben Guadalupe Marquez (@broobs.psd)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/girasoulll/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@girasoull\u003c/a>:\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13837812\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/Blqd77jBZ4q/?taken-by=girasoulll\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-13837812 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/girasoul-800.jpg\" alt='\"Love, protect and honor Black womxn because we far too beautiful for this world. Rest easy young #angel 🙏🏽 I pray your assassination and the continual violence our peoples endure all over the diaspora be met with stronger and deeper rebellion and love🌻\" — Francis (@girasoulll)' width=\"800\" height=\"684\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/girasoul-800.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/girasoul-800-160x137.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/girasoul-800-768x657.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/girasoul-800-240x205.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/girasoul-800-375x321.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/girasoul-800-520x445.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">“Love, protect and honor Black womxn because we far too beautiful for this world. Rest easy young #angel I pray your assassination and the continual violence our peoples endure all over the diaspora be met with stronger and deeper rebellion and love.” — Francis (@girasoulll)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/onbeinginyourbody/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@onbeinginyourbody\u003c/a>:\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13837810\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/Bln_qQNnVHC/?taken-by=onbeinginyourbody\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-13837810 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/onbeinginyourbody-800.jpg\" alt='\"Hearts are destroyed here in Oakland and all over. Show up. Listen. Speak up. Don’t let your privilege sit on the sidelines and watch. Rest in power, Nia. #justicefornia\" — @onbeinginyourbody feminist press' width=\"800\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/onbeinginyourbody-800.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/onbeinginyourbody-800-160x160.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/onbeinginyourbody-800-768x768.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/onbeinginyourbody-800-240x240.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/onbeinginyourbody-800-375x375.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/onbeinginyourbody-800-520x520.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/onbeinginyourbody-800-32x32.jpg 32w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/onbeinginyourbody-800-50x50.jpg 50w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/onbeinginyourbody-800-64x64.jpg 64w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/onbeinginyourbody-800-96x96.jpg 96w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/onbeinginyourbody-800-128x128.jpg 128w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/onbeinginyourbody-800-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">“Hearts are destroyed here in Oakland and all over. Show up. Listen. Speak up. Don’t let your privilege sit on the sidelines and watch. Rest in power, Nia. #justicefornia” — @onbeinginyourbody feminist press\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/lady_luuz/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@lady_luuz\u003c/a>:\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13837817\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/BlrInvOAEEQ/?taken-by=alenamuseum\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-13837817 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/lady_luuz-800.jpg\" alt='\"Mainstream media’s continued dehumanization of Black Lives by criminalizing them is White Supremacy!\" — Alena Museum Artwork by @lady_luuz' width=\"800\" height=\"999\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/lady_luuz-800.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/lady_luuz-800-160x200.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/lady_luuz-800-768x959.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/lady_luuz-800-240x300.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/lady_luuz-800-375x468.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/lady_luuz-800-520x649.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">“Mainstream media’s continued dehumanization of Black Lives by criminalizing them is White Supremacy!” — Ale\u003cem>ń\u003c/em>a Culture Collective (Artwork by @lady_luuz)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/dimebagdarla/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@dimebagdarla\u003c/a>:\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13837822\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/BllvEzPHkscht-FDEmPIPILIBzDZmTZ1Nbw5qM0/?taken-by=dimebagdarla\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13837822\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/dimebagdarla-800.jpg\" alt='\"Made this for u nia.\" — @dimebagdarla' width=\"800\" height=\"804\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/dimebagdarla-800.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/dimebagdarla-800-160x161.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/dimebagdarla-800-768x772.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/dimebagdarla-800-240x241.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/dimebagdarla-800-375x377.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/dimebagdarla-800-520x523.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/dimebagdarla-800-32x32.jpg 32w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/dimebagdarla-800-50x50.jpg 50w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/dimebagdarla-800-64x64.jpg 64w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/dimebagdarla-800-96x96.jpg 96w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/dimebagdarla-800-128x128.jpg 128w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/dimebagdarla-800-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">“Made this for u nia.” — @dimebagdarla\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/paintpimp215/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@paintpimp215\u003c/a>:\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13837808\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/BlnFyGpAvNU/?taken-by=paintpimp215\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-13837808 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/paintpimp215-800.jpg\" alt=\"'Nia Wilson' by Jay Pee (@paintpimp215)\" width=\"800\" height=\"1000\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/paintpimp215-800.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/paintpimp215-800-160x200.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/paintpimp215-800-768x960.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/paintpimp215-800-240x300.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/paintpimp215-800-375x469.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/paintpimp215-800-520x650.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">#niawilson #bart #bayarea #oakland #thisisamerica #artlife #copic #pen #blackgirlsmatter ‘Nia Wilson’ by Jay Pee (@paintpimp215)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/sarahgreenstudio/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@sarahgreenstudio\u003c/a>:\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13837813\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/BlmZDibAMpB/?taken-by=sarahgreenstudio\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-13837813 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/sarahgreenstudio-800.jpg\" alt=\""A caption doesn't really do it, but trying to help spread visibility for Nia, who was killed in a brutal racial hate crime Sunday night on the bay area's public transportation." — Sarah Green Studio \" width=\"800\" height=\"899\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/sarahgreenstudio-800.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/sarahgreenstudio-800-160x180.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/sarahgreenstudio-800-768x863.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/sarahgreenstudio-800-240x270.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/sarahgreenstudio-800-375x421.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/sarahgreenstudio-800-520x584.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">“A caption doesn’t really do it, but trying to help spread visibility for Nia, who was killed in a brutal racial hate crime Sunday night on the bay area’s public transportation.” — Sarah Green Studio\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/shespeakseasy/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@shespeakseasy\u003c/a>:\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13837814\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/BlqX2DblN1q/?taken-by=shespeakseasy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-13837814 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/shespeakeasy-800.jpg\" alt='\"The news of Nia Wilson’s death has been on my mind all week—it hit particularly close to home as MacArthur used to be my stop. This beautiful girl deserved to grow up and live a full life without the threat of white supremacy or hatred lurking over her shoulder. As her sister Letifah said, black women deserve to live freely, always.\" — Rachel Frankel (@shespeakeasy)' width=\"800\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/shespeakeasy-800.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/shespeakeasy-800-160x160.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/shespeakeasy-800-768x768.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/shespeakeasy-800-240x240.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/shespeakeasy-800-375x375.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/shespeakeasy-800-520x520.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/shespeakeasy-800-32x32.jpg 32w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/shespeakeasy-800-50x50.jpg 50w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/shespeakeasy-800-64x64.jpg 64w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/shespeakeasy-800-96x96.jpg 96w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/shespeakeasy-800-128x128.jpg 128w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/shespeakeasy-800-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">“The news of Nia Wilson’s death has been on my mind all week—it hit particularly close to home as MacArthur used to be my stop. This beautiful girl deserved to grow up and live a full life without the threat of white supremacy or hatred lurking over her shoulder. As her sister Letifah said, black women deserve to live freely, always.” — Rachel Frankel (@shespeakseasy)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/lostboyillustrations/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@lostboyillustrations\u003c/a>:\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13837809\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/BlmGkDnFE-f/?taken-by=lostboyillustrations\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-13837809 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/lostboyillustrations-800.jpg\" alt='\"No fucking words... #niawilson #SAYHERNAME #blacklivesmatter #oaklandlove\" — Fin Lee (@lostboyillustrations)' width=\"800\" height=\"1000\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/lostboyillustrations-800.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/lostboyillustrations-800-160x200.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/lostboyillustrations-800-768x960.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/lostboyillustrations-800-240x300.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/lostboyillustrations-800-375x469.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/lostboyillustrations-800-520x650.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">“No fucking words… #niawilson #SAYHERNAME #blacklivesmatter #oaklandlove” — Fin Lee (@lostboyillustrations)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/kaylanijuanita/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@kaylanijuanita\u003c/a>:\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13837807\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/Blm0PGagZyh/?taken-by=kaylanijuanita\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-13837807 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/kaylanijuanita-800.jpg\" alt=\""I'm not sure how I feel about everything. I want to know why he did it, but I know there's nothing he can say that will justify any of it. I'm just angry. And I know that we won't know his motives for sure until after the interrogation and investigation, but I really deep in my soul KNOW it was a hate crime. Artwork by Kaylani Juanita (@kaylanijuanita)\" width=\"800\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/kaylanijuanita-800.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/kaylanijuanita-800-160x160.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/kaylanijuanita-800-768x768.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/kaylanijuanita-800-240x240.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/kaylanijuanita-800-375x375.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/kaylanijuanita-800-520x520.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/kaylanijuanita-800-32x32.jpg 32w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/kaylanijuanita-800-50x50.jpg 50w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/kaylanijuanita-800-64x64.jpg 64w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/kaylanijuanita-800-96x96.jpg 96w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/kaylanijuanita-800-128x128.jpg 128w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/kaylanijuanita-800-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">“I’m not sure how I feel about everything. I want to know why he did it, but I know there’s nothing he can say that will justify any of it. I’m just angry. And I know that we won’t know his motives for sure until after the interrogation and investigation, but I really deep in my soul KNOW it was a hate crime.” — Kaylani Juanita (@kaylanijuanita)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>In the days since 18-year-old Nia Wilson was slain in Oakland, Bay Area artists have taken up their pens to honor her memory. With hand-drawn illustrations, digital collages and mixed media works, artists from Oakland and San Francisco have demanded justice and called to #SayHerName.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Hearts are destroyed here in Oakland and all over,” write Victoria Emanuela and Caitie Metz, co-founders of feminist press \u003ca href=\"https://www.onbeinginyourbody.com/\">On Being In Your Body\u003c/a>. “Show up. Listen. Speak up. Don’t let your privilege sit on the sidelines and watch. Rest in power, Nia.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some have spoken up through their art, while others have taken to the streets. What unites them is an enduring need to honor Wilson, the teenage girl from Oakland \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/25/us/nia-wilson-bart-stabbing.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">with big dreams\u003c/a> who died while helping a stranger on the BART train.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Below, find 10 tributes to Nia Wilson by Bay Area artists.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/broobs.psd/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@broobs.psd\u003c/a>:\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13837811\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-13837811 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/broobs-800.jpg\" alt=\"'Nia Wilson' by Ruben Guadalupe Marquez (@broobs.psd)\" width=\"800\" height=\"914\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/broobs-800.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/broobs-800-160x183.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/broobs-800-768x877.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/broobs-800-240x274.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/broobs-800-375x428.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/broobs-800-520x594.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">‘Nia Wilson’ by Ruben Guadalupe Marquez (@broobs.psd)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/girasoulll/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@girasoull\u003c/a>:\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13837812\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/Blqd77jBZ4q/?taken-by=girasoulll\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-13837812 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/girasoul-800.jpg\" alt='\"Love, protect and honor Black womxn because we far too beautiful for this world. Rest easy young #angel 🙏🏽 I pray your assassination and the continual violence our peoples endure all over the diaspora be met with stronger and deeper rebellion and love🌻\" — Francis (@girasoulll)' width=\"800\" height=\"684\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/girasoul-800.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/girasoul-800-160x137.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/girasoul-800-768x657.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/girasoul-800-240x205.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/girasoul-800-375x321.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/girasoul-800-520x445.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">“Love, protect and honor Black womxn because we far too beautiful for this world. Rest easy young #angel I pray your assassination and the continual violence our peoples endure all over the diaspora be met with stronger and deeper rebellion and love.” — Francis (@girasoulll)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/onbeinginyourbody/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@onbeinginyourbody\u003c/a>:\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13837810\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/Bln_qQNnVHC/?taken-by=onbeinginyourbody\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-13837810 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/onbeinginyourbody-800.jpg\" alt='\"Hearts are destroyed here in Oakland and all over. Show up. Listen. Speak up. Don’t let your privilege sit on the sidelines and watch. Rest in power, Nia. #justicefornia\" — @onbeinginyourbody feminist press' width=\"800\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/onbeinginyourbody-800.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/onbeinginyourbody-800-160x160.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/onbeinginyourbody-800-768x768.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/onbeinginyourbody-800-240x240.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/onbeinginyourbody-800-375x375.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/onbeinginyourbody-800-520x520.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/onbeinginyourbody-800-32x32.jpg 32w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/onbeinginyourbody-800-50x50.jpg 50w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/onbeinginyourbody-800-64x64.jpg 64w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/onbeinginyourbody-800-96x96.jpg 96w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/onbeinginyourbody-800-128x128.jpg 128w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/onbeinginyourbody-800-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">“Hearts are destroyed here in Oakland and all over. Show up. Listen. Speak up. Don’t let your privilege sit on the sidelines and watch. Rest in power, Nia. #justicefornia” — @onbeinginyourbody feminist press\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/lady_luuz/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@lady_luuz\u003c/a>:\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13837817\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/BlrInvOAEEQ/?taken-by=alenamuseum\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-13837817 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/lady_luuz-800.jpg\" alt='\"Mainstream media’s continued dehumanization of Black Lives by criminalizing them is White Supremacy!\" — Alena Museum Artwork by @lady_luuz' width=\"800\" height=\"999\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/lady_luuz-800.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/lady_luuz-800-160x200.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/lady_luuz-800-768x959.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/lady_luuz-800-240x300.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/lady_luuz-800-375x468.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/lady_luuz-800-520x649.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">“Mainstream media’s continued dehumanization of Black Lives by criminalizing them is White Supremacy!” — Ale\u003cem>ń\u003c/em>a Culture Collective (Artwork by @lady_luuz)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/dimebagdarla/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@dimebagdarla\u003c/a>:\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13837822\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/BllvEzPHkscht-FDEmPIPILIBzDZmTZ1Nbw5qM0/?taken-by=dimebagdarla\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13837822\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/dimebagdarla-800.jpg\" alt='\"Made this for u nia.\" — @dimebagdarla' width=\"800\" height=\"804\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/dimebagdarla-800.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/dimebagdarla-800-160x161.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/dimebagdarla-800-768x772.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/dimebagdarla-800-240x241.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/dimebagdarla-800-375x377.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/dimebagdarla-800-520x523.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/dimebagdarla-800-32x32.jpg 32w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/dimebagdarla-800-50x50.jpg 50w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/dimebagdarla-800-64x64.jpg 64w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/dimebagdarla-800-96x96.jpg 96w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/dimebagdarla-800-128x128.jpg 128w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/dimebagdarla-800-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">“Made this for u nia.” — @dimebagdarla\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/paintpimp215/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@paintpimp215\u003c/a>:\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13837808\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/BlnFyGpAvNU/?taken-by=paintpimp215\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-13837808 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/paintpimp215-800.jpg\" alt=\"'Nia Wilson' by Jay Pee (@paintpimp215)\" width=\"800\" height=\"1000\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/paintpimp215-800.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/paintpimp215-800-160x200.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/paintpimp215-800-768x960.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/paintpimp215-800-240x300.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/paintpimp215-800-375x469.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/paintpimp215-800-520x650.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">#niawilson #bart #bayarea #oakland #thisisamerica #artlife #copic #pen #blackgirlsmatter ‘Nia Wilson’ by Jay Pee (@paintpimp215)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/sarahgreenstudio/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@sarahgreenstudio\u003c/a>:\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13837813\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/BlmZDibAMpB/?taken-by=sarahgreenstudio\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-13837813 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/sarahgreenstudio-800.jpg\" alt=\""A caption doesn't really do it, but trying to help spread visibility for Nia, who was killed in a brutal racial hate crime Sunday night on the bay area's public transportation." — Sarah Green Studio \" width=\"800\" height=\"899\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/sarahgreenstudio-800.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/sarahgreenstudio-800-160x180.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/sarahgreenstudio-800-768x863.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/sarahgreenstudio-800-240x270.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/sarahgreenstudio-800-375x421.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/sarahgreenstudio-800-520x584.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">“A caption doesn’t really do it, but trying to help spread visibility for Nia, who was killed in a brutal racial hate crime Sunday night on the bay area’s public transportation.” — Sarah Green Studio\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/shespeakseasy/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@shespeakseasy\u003c/a>:\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13837814\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/BlqX2DblN1q/?taken-by=shespeakseasy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-13837814 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/shespeakeasy-800.jpg\" alt='\"The news of Nia Wilson’s death has been on my mind all week—it hit particularly close to home as MacArthur used to be my stop. This beautiful girl deserved to grow up and live a full life without the threat of white supremacy or hatred lurking over her shoulder. As her sister Letifah said, black women deserve to live freely, always.\" — Rachel Frankel (@shespeakeasy)' width=\"800\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/shespeakeasy-800.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/shespeakeasy-800-160x160.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/shespeakeasy-800-768x768.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/shespeakeasy-800-240x240.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/shespeakeasy-800-375x375.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/shespeakeasy-800-520x520.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/shespeakeasy-800-32x32.jpg 32w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/shespeakeasy-800-50x50.jpg 50w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/shespeakeasy-800-64x64.jpg 64w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/shespeakeasy-800-96x96.jpg 96w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/shespeakeasy-800-128x128.jpg 128w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/shespeakeasy-800-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">“The news of Nia Wilson’s death has been on my mind all week—it hit particularly close to home as MacArthur used to be my stop. This beautiful girl deserved to grow up and live a full life without the threat of white supremacy or hatred lurking over her shoulder. As her sister Letifah said, black women deserve to live freely, always.” — Rachel Frankel (@shespeakseasy)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/lostboyillustrations/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@lostboyillustrations\u003c/a>:\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13837809\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/BlmGkDnFE-f/?taken-by=lostboyillustrations\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-13837809 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/lostboyillustrations-800.jpg\" alt='\"No fucking words... #niawilson #SAYHERNAME #blacklivesmatter #oaklandlove\" — Fin Lee (@lostboyillustrations)' width=\"800\" height=\"1000\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/lostboyillustrations-800.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/lostboyillustrations-800-160x200.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/lostboyillustrations-800-768x960.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/lostboyillustrations-800-240x300.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/lostboyillustrations-800-375x469.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/lostboyillustrations-800-520x650.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">“No fucking words… #niawilson #SAYHERNAME #blacklivesmatter #oaklandlove” — Fin Lee (@lostboyillustrations)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/kaylanijuanita/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@kaylanijuanita\u003c/a>:\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13837807\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/Blm0PGagZyh/?taken-by=kaylanijuanita\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-13837807 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/kaylanijuanita-800.jpg\" alt=\""I'm not sure how I feel about everything. I want to know why he did it, but I know there's nothing he can say that will justify any of it. I'm just angry. And I know that we won't know his motives for sure until after the interrogation and investigation, but I really deep in my soul KNOW it was a hate crime. Artwork by Kaylani Juanita (@kaylanijuanita)\" width=\"800\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/kaylanijuanita-800.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/kaylanijuanita-800-160x160.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/kaylanijuanita-800-768x768.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/kaylanijuanita-800-240x240.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/kaylanijuanita-800-375x375.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/kaylanijuanita-800-520x520.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/kaylanijuanita-800-32x32.jpg 32w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/kaylanijuanita-800-50x50.jpg 50w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/kaylanijuanita-800-64x64.jpg 64w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/kaylanijuanita-800-96x96.jpg 96w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/kaylanijuanita-800-128x128.jpg 128w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/kaylanijuanita-800-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">“I’m not sure how I feel about everything. I want to know why he did it, but I know there’s nothing he can say that will justify any of it. I’m just angry. And I know that we won’t know his motives for sure until after the interrogation and investigation, but I really deep in my soul KNOW it was a hate crime.” — Kaylani Juanita (@kaylanijuanita)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">N\u003c/span>ia Wilson and her sister Lahtifa did everything right. They were just at the wrong place at the wrong time—the United States of America in 2018.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They paid their BART fare. They traveled together. They stayed in a well-lit part of the MacArthur BART station in Oakland at a reasonable hour on a Sunday night. And they were still attacked.\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>As one police official put it, Nia was killed “prison style,” a knife through her neck. Her killer also stabbed her sister. Lahtifa lived. Nia didn’t.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The first report broke late Sunday evening, with the story widely circulated by the Monday work hours, leading the week’s news cycle. The headline “Two Young Women Stabbed” appeared beside stories of Donald Trump’s Twitter tirade against Iran and R. Kelly’s 19-minute song, in which he apparently admits what we all know he’s been doing to young women. I couldn’t listen to it. When there’s a war on black women, why would I want to listen to the enemy?\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13837836\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13837836\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/IMG_9449-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"People attend a vigil for Nia Wilson at MacArthur BART in Oakland, July 23, 2018.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/IMG_9449-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/IMG_9449-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/IMG_9449-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/IMG_9449-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/IMG_9449-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/IMG_9449.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/IMG_9449-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/IMG_9449-960x640.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/IMG_9449-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/IMG_9449-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/IMG_9449-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">People attend a vigil for Nia Wilson at MacArthur BART in Oakland, July 23, 2018. \u003ccite>(Aaron Jamison (IG: @heru32))\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In spite of it all, photos of Nia and support for the Wilson family dominated national social media. Questions arose as to when BART would release surveillance footage or photos of the suspect, including from Oakland’s own Kehlani. As soon as BART officials published a photo of the suspected assailant, John Lee Cowell, his history surfaced: a restraining order filed against him by employees at a Richmond medical facility, a record for a robbery charge, a mention of a recent run-in with BART police. He showed a pattern of being a lewd, erratic person; someone you’d expect to commit an atrocity like this.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unfortunately, Nia and Lahtifa didn’t expect it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Maybe they were expecting to be safe on BART. What with all its money from the uptick in ridership and recent bond measures, its security guards and promises to replace fake decoy cameras, it should be safe to ride, right? Never mind the fact that BART had had \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfgate.com/crime/article/Teen-s-slaying-may-have-been-BART-s-third-in-13097963.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">two other unreported homicides\u003c/a> within the past week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nia and Lahtifa were probably thinking like the majority of people walking the streets of America: if you do everything right, you’ll be safe. America, with all its laws and regulations and anti-terrorism propaganda, \u003cem>should\u003c/em> be safe—regardless of it still being America.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13837839\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 600px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13837839\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/Nia.jpg\" alt=\"Nia Wilson.\" width=\"600\" height=\"784\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/Nia.jpg 600w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/Nia-160x209.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/Nia-240x314.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/Nia-375x490.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/Nia-520x679.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nia Wilson.\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>till being America,” you know: a place where a white guy could “randomly” stab two black women on public transportation, and not only walk away from the scene of the crime, but get back on that same form of public transportation the next day. Then, be identified not by BART officials but by an anonymous tipster. Which then allowed the police to calmly arrest him, a domestic terrorist, with no conflict or force.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ahhhh, America. You show your true colors all too often, especially to black women.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13837740/sayhername-10-illustrated-tributes-to-nia-wilson-lighting-up-social-media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#SayHerName: 10 Illustrated Tributes to Nia Wilson Lighting Up Social Media\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11684939/nia-wilsons-purpose-oakland-buries-a-daughter-and-demands-justice-in-her-name\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Nia Wilson’s Purpose: Oakland Buries a Daughter and Demands Justice in Her Name\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>We’ve got to be honest with ourselves and realize that an unprovoked stabbing of two black women on a public transit platform by a white man isn’t just “random.” It’s a byproduct of our society, America 2018—and every year since Betsy Ross sewed the first flag.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These sorts of attacks, which often go unreported, are in addition to the daily injustices black women face. You know, like how according to census figures, a \u003ca href=\"https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/black-women-become-most-educated-group-in-us-a7063361.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">higher percentage of black women are enrolled in college\u003c/a> than any other group in America, but suffer \u003ca href=\"https://www.infoplease.com/us/wage-gap/wage-gap-gender-and-race\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">payment discrepancies\u003c/a>, earning 64 cents for every dollar a white man earns for the same amount of work. How black women have the highest \u003ca href=\"http://www.laist.com/2018/06/21/black_babies_die_at_twice_the_rate.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">infant mortality rates\u003c/a>, which is tied to high rates of \u003ca href=\"https://www.propublica.org/article/black-women-disproportionately-suffer-complications-of-pregnancy-and-childbirth-lets-talk-about-it\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">maternal mortality rates\u003c/a> for black women.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13837837\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13837837\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/IMG_9492-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"People attend a vigil for Nia Wilson at MacArthur BART in Oakland, July 23, 2018.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/IMG_9492-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/IMG_9492-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/IMG_9492-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/IMG_9492-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/IMG_9492-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/IMG_9492.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/IMG_9492-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/IMG_9492-960x640.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/IMG_9492-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/IMG_9492-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/IMG_9492-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">People attend a vigil for Nia Wilson at MacArthur BART in Oakland, July 23, 2018. \u003ccite>(Aaron Jamison (IG: @heru32))\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Along with health issues, like heart disease, stroke and diabetes, diseases related to stress are killing black women at an \u003ca href=\"https://www.self.com/story/black-women-health-conditions\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">alarming rate\u003c/a>—stress often due to racism and sexism. And while homicides among women of all demographics are over 50 percent likely to be the product of their romantic/former romantic partner, black women die at a \u003ca href=\"https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2017/07/homicides-women/534306/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">higher rate\u003c/a> than any other group when it comes to domestic violence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Wilson sisters were just two of the many casualties in the war on black women. Many other women read their story and now walk down the street in a deeper fear than before. And yet they continue to walk down the street, to catch the train, to pursue happiness, in spite of the world we live in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13837838\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13837838\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/IMG_9553-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A vigil for Nia Wilson at MacArthur BART in Oakland, July 23, 2018.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/IMG_9553-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/IMG_9553-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/IMG_9553-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/IMG_9553-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/IMG_9553-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/IMG_9553.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/IMG_9553-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/IMG_9553-960x640.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/IMG_9553-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/IMG_9553-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/IMG_9553-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A vigil for Nia Wilson at MacArthur BART in Oakland, July 23, 2018. \u003ccite>(Aaron Jamison (IG: @heru32))\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\">Y\u003c/span>es, there are individuals and organizations who work to make this place more just for women of all backgrounds. Locally, groups like \u003ca href=\"http://misssey.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Misssey\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://www.cceb.org/claires-house/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Claire’s House\u003c/a> have done and will continue to do that work. In response to this case in particular, activist and organizer \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/brownblaze/status/1021500677246398464\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ashley Yates launched a GoFundMe\u003c/a> to “purchase self-defense items such as tasers, pepper spray and attention-getting devices for Black women/femmes and queer persons in Oakland and the Bay Area.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it’s not solely women’s job to remedy this war. It’d be asinine to think so. The onus is on us, the men. And I’m not just talking about the ones who commit the heinous acts, but the men who let stuff slide. The men who don’t call out misogynistic behavior in their friends. The men who knowingly benefit from a male-dominated society, and quietly go along with it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13837835\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13837835\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/IMG_9359-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"People attend a vigil for Nia Wilson at MacArthur BART in Oakland, July 23, 2018.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/IMG_9359-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/IMG_9359-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/IMG_9359-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/IMG_9359-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/IMG_9359-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/IMG_9359.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/IMG_9359-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/IMG_9359-960x640.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/IMG_9359-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/IMG_9359-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/IMG_9359-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">People attend a vigil for Nia Wilson at MacArthur BART in Oakland, July 23, 2018. \u003ccite>(Aaron Jamison (IG: @heru32))\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Even myself, a man with a platform, who all too often uses it to tell a man’s point of view. It’s my job to lift the voices of the many African-American girls and women who attended a vigil for Nia on Monday afternoon. It’s my job to make sure the photos of the faces, the solemn expressions, the heartbroken children, concerned mothers, and angry community members are amplified. It’s my job to tell the world that these are people who said prayers, and then wiped their tears, balled their fists and punched the sky as they marched to where a group of white supremacists had planned to meet, letting them know we won’t stand for it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The black community of Oakland is beautiful in that way. Even with our flaws and infighting, and in a city where sex trafficking and violence against women has been prevalent for decades, what we won’t let happen is a malicious attack from outsiders. I’m amazed by my community rising to call when moved to do so; such a group of resilient, artistic, spiritual, hardworking folks. People didn’t leave their anger behind social media posts this time around. They showed up at MacArthur BART and made their presence felt.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I’m proud to call this home. Maybe why we fight so hard is to ensure this will remain home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-12127869\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-800x78.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"78\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-768x75.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Pendarvis Harshaw is the author of ‘\u003ca href=\"http://www.latimes.com/local/abcarian/la-me-abcarian-og-harshaw-20170409-story.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">OG Told Me\u003c/a>,’ a memoir about growing up in Oakland. Find him on Twitter \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/ogpenn\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\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\">N\u003c/span>ia Wilson and her sister Lahtifa did everything right. They were just at the wrong place at the wrong time—the United States of America in 2018.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They paid their BART fare. They traveled together. They stayed in a well-lit part of the MacArthur BART station in Oakland at a reasonable hour on a Sunday night. And they were still attacked.\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>As one police official put it, Nia was killed “prison style,” a knife through her neck. Her killer also stabbed her sister. Lahtifa lived. Nia didn’t.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The first report broke late Sunday evening, with the story widely circulated by the Monday work hours, leading the week’s news cycle. The headline “Two Young Women Stabbed” appeared beside stories of Donald Trump’s Twitter tirade against Iran and R. Kelly’s 19-minute song, in which he apparently admits what we all know he’s been doing to young women. I couldn’t listen to it. When there’s a war on black women, why would I want to listen to the enemy?\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13837836\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13837836\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/IMG_9449-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"People attend a vigil for Nia Wilson at MacArthur BART in Oakland, July 23, 2018.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/IMG_9449-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/IMG_9449-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/IMG_9449-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/IMG_9449-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/IMG_9449-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/IMG_9449.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/IMG_9449-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/IMG_9449-960x640.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/IMG_9449-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/IMG_9449-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/IMG_9449-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">People attend a vigil for Nia Wilson at MacArthur BART in Oakland, July 23, 2018. \u003ccite>(Aaron Jamison (IG: @heru32))\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In spite of it all, photos of Nia and support for the Wilson family dominated national social media. Questions arose as to when BART would release surveillance footage or photos of the suspect, including from Oakland’s own Kehlani. As soon as BART officials published a photo of the suspected assailant, John Lee Cowell, his history surfaced: a restraining order filed against him by employees at a Richmond medical facility, a record for a robbery charge, a mention of a recent run-in with BART police. He showed a pattern of being a lewd, erratic person; someone you’d expect to commit an atrocity like this.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unfortunately, Nia and Lahtifa didn’t expect it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Maybe they were expecting to be safe on BART. What with all its money from the uptick in ridership and recent bond measures, its security guards and promises to replace fake decoy cameras, it should be safe to ride, right? Never mind the fact that BART had had \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfgate.com/crime/article/Teen-s-slaying-may-have-been-BART-s-third-in-13097963.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">two other unreported homicides\u003c/a> within the past week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nia and Lahtifa were probably thinking like the majority of people walking the streets of America: if you do everything right, you’ll be safe. America, with all its laws and regulations and anti-terrorism propaganda, \u003cem>should\u003c/em> be safe—regardless of it still being America.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13837839\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 600px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13837839\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/Nia.jpg\" alt=\"Nia Wilson.\" width=\"600\" height=\"784\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/Nia.jpg 600w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/Nia-160x209.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/Nia-240x314.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/Nia-375x490.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/Nia-520x679.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nia Wilson.\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>till being America,” you know: a place where a white guy could “randomly” stab two black women on public transportation, and not only walk away from the scene of the crime, but get back on that same form of public transportation the next day. Then, be identified not by BART officials but by an anonymous tipster. Which then allowed the police to calmly arrest him, a domestic terrorist, with no conflict or force.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ahhhh, America. You show your true colors all too often, especially to black women.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13837740/sayhername-10-illustrated-tributes-to-nia-wilson-lighting-up-social-media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#SayHerName: 10 Illustrated Tributes to Nia Wilson Lighting Up Social Media\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11684939/nia-wilsons-purpose-oakland-buries-a-daughter-and-demands-justice-in-her-name\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Nia Wilson’s Purpose: Oakland Buries a Daughter and Demands Justice in Her Name\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>We’ve got to be honest with ourselves and realize that an unprovoked stabbing of two black women on a public transit platform by a white man isn’t just “random.” It’s a byproduct of our society, America 2018—and every year since Betsy Ross sewed the first flag.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These sorts of attacks, which often go unreported, are in addition to the daily injustices black women face. You know, like how according to census figures, a \u003ca href=\"https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/black-women-become-most-educated-group-in-us-a7063361.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">higher percentage of black women are enrolled in college\u003c/a> than any other group in America, but suffer \u003ca href=\"https://www.infoplease.com/us/wage-gap/wage-gap-gender-and-race\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">payment discrepancies\u003c/a>, earning 64 cents for every dollar a white man earns for the same amount of work. How black women have the highest \u003ca href=\"http://www.laist.com/2018/06/21/black_babies_die_at_twice_the_rate.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">infant mortality rates\u003c/a>, which is tied to high rates of \u003ca href=\"https://www.propublica.org/article/black-women-disproportionately-suffer-complications-of-pregnancy-and-childbirth-lets-talk-about-it\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">maternal mortality rates\u003c/a> for black women.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13837837\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13837837\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/IMG_9492-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"People attend a vigil for Nia Wilson at MacArthur BART in Oakland, July 23, 2018.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/IMG_9492-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/IMG_9492-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/IMG_9492-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/IMG_9492-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/IMG_9492-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/IMG_9492.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/IMG_9492-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/IMG_9492-960x640.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/IMG_9492-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/IMG_9492-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/IMG_9492-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">People attend a vigil for Nia Wilson at MacArthur BART in Oakland, July 23, 2018. \u003ccite>(Aaron Jamison (IG: @heru32))\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Along with health issues, like heart disease, stroke and diabetes, diseases related to stress are killing black women at an \u003ca href=\"https://www.self.com/story/black-women-health-conditions\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">alarming rate\u003c/a>—stress often due to racism and sexism. And while homicides among women of all demographics are over 50 percent likely to be the product of their romantic/former romantic partner, black women die at a \u003ca href=\"https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2017/07/homicides-women/534306/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">higher rate\u003c/a> than any other group when it comes to domestic violence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Wilson sisters were just two of the many casualties in the war on black women. Many other women read their story and now walk down the street in a deeper fear than before. And yet they continue to walk down the street, to catch the train, to pursue happiness, in spite of the world we live in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13837838\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13837838\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/IMG_9553-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A vigil for Nia Wilson at MacArthur BART in Oakland, July 23, 2018.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/IMG_9553-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/IMG_9553-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/IMG_9553-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/IMG_9553-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/IMG_9553-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/IMG_9553.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/IMG_9553-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/IMG_9553-960x640.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/IMG_9553-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/IMG_9553-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/IMG_9553-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A vigil for Nia Wilson at MacArthur BART in Oakland, July 23, 2018. \u003ccite>(Aaron Jamison (IG: @heru32))\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\">Y\u003c/span>es, there are individuals and organizations who work to make this place more just for women of all backgrounds. Locally, groups like \u003ca href=\"http://misssey.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Misssey\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://www.cceb.org/claires-house/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Claire’s House\u003c/a> have done and will continue to do that work. In response to this case in particular, activist and organizer \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/brownblaze/status/1021500677246398464\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ashley Yates launched a GoFundMe\u003c/a> to “purchase self-defense items such as tasers, pepper spray and attention-getting devices for Black women/femmes and queer persons in Oakland and the Bay Area.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it’s not solely women’s job to remedy this war. It’d be asinine to think so. The onus is on us, the men. And I’m not just talking about the ones who commit the heinous acts, but the men who let stuff slide. The men who don’t call out misogynistic behavior in their friends. The men who knowingly benefit from a male-dominated society, and quietly go along with it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13837835\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13837835\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/IMG_9359-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"People attend a vigil for Nia Wilson at MacArthur BART in Oakland, July 23, 2018.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/IMG_9359-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/IMG_9359-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/IMG_9359-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/IMG_9359-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/IMG_9359-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/IMG_9359.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/IMG_9359-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/IMG_9359-960x640.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/IMG_9359-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/IMG_9359-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/IMG_9359-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">People attend a vigil for Nia Wilson at MacArthur BART in Oakland, July 23, 2018. \u003ccite>(Aaron Jamison (IG: @heru32))\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Even myself, a man with a platform, who all too often uses it to tell a man’s point of view. It’s my job to lift the voices of the many African-American girls and women who attended a vigil for Nia on Monday afternoon. It’s my job to make sure the photos of the faces, the solemn expressions, the heartbroken children, concerned mothers, and angry community members are amplified. It’s my job to tell the world that these are people who said prayers, and then wiped their tears, balled their fists and punched the sky as they marched to where a group of white supremacists had planned to meet, letting them know we won’t stand for it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The black community of Oakland is beautiful in that way. Even with our flaws and infighting, and in a city where sex trafficking and violence against women has been prevalent for decades, what we won’t let happen is a malicious attack from outsiders. I’m amazed by my community rising to call when moved to do so; such a group of resilient, artistic, spiritual, hardworking folks. 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