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And they’re like, ‘This kid is crazy, it better work.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But his risks weren’t reckless, and he made the money back. “I always had the data points,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s a strategy Arghandiwal used to approach his first investors years later. 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In 2018 he approached the clothing brand Oaklandish with a logo and brand identity, and told them he and his co-founders planned to start a professional team.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oaklandish believed in him. Without funding, they developed a lifestyle capsule collection. “It did numbers,” he says. “It was flying off the shelves.” [aside postid='arts_13987115']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Just as Oaklandish saw Arghandiwal’s vision, so did investors. Mike Geddes, Roots co-founder and chief purpose officer, credits Arghandiwal and his storytelling prowess. “The fact that we can gain visibility for our creative side is a huge advantage we have,” he says. “We want the brand to be more than just soccer. We want it to be about culture, purpose, artistic collaborations, and that’s all him.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Arghandiwal and his co-founders want the Roots to take on projects that actually make an impact. The team regularly supports youth sports programs and other community service. This month, they unveiled two new soccer fields where anyone can play: \u003ca href=\"https://www.oaklandrootssc.com/news/2026/03/05/leaders-from-airbnb-and-anthem-blue-cross-join-the-oakland-roots-and-soul-foundation-in-unveiling-refurbished-mini-soccer-pitch-at-lincoln-square-park/\">Lincoln Square Park\u003c/a> in Chinatown and \u003ca href=\"https://www.oaklandrootssc.com/news/2026/03/03/longfellow-fields-opens-new-mini-soccer-pitches-in-north-oakland-in-partnership-with-the-oakland-roots-and-soul-foundation/\">Longfellow Fields\u003c/a> in North Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Generally, sports teams are vehicles for billionaires to just extract revenue from a community, and then when things don’t work out, you move to a different community,” he notes. “That wasn’t our intent.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13987548\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1999px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13987548\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/03/260311-EdreeceOaklandRoots-04-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/03/260311-EdreeceOaklandRoots-04-BL_qed.jpg 1999w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/03/260311-EdreeceOaklandRoots-04-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/03/260311-EdreeceOaklandRoots-04-BL_qed-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/03/260311-EdreeceOaklandRoots-04-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1999px) 100vw, 1999px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Picture frames made by Oakland Roots players and staff sit on a table at the Oakland Roots Sports Club in Alameda on March 11, 2026. 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"content": "\u003cp>This Sunday we’ve got warm weather in the forecast, and after clocks spring ahead we’ll have an extra hour of daylight. That sounds like perfect conditions for people to celebrate the Town’s sports culture at \u003ca href=\"https://oakland68s.org/pages/fansfest\">Fans Fest 2026\u003c/a>, presented by the nonprofit \u003ca href=\"https://oakland68s.org/\">Oakland 68’s\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Scores of folks in jerseys and hats, reps from youth programs and players from local clubs are set to gather just outside the Fruitvale BART station this weekend. They’ll be celebrating the same thing they do every year, says event organizer \u003ca href=\"https://oaklandside.org/2023/04/21/oakland-athletics-leaving-las-vegas-mlb-coliseum-howard-terminal/\">Jorge Leon\u003c/a>. “Which,” he explains, “is the sports culture, the diversity here, and all the teams that are \u003cem>still here\u003c/em> in Oakland.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Taking a jab at \u003ca href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2023/nov/24/oakland-sports-teams-east-bay-athletics-raiders-warriors\">the three major professional sports franchises\u003c/a> who’ve left East Oakland in the past decade, Leon homes in on the team formerly known as the Oakland Athletics as the catalyst for this fan fest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the baseball team announced it was leaving, Leon \u003ca href=\"https://oaklandside.org/2023/04/21/oakland-athletics-leaving-las-vegas-mlb-coliseum-howard-terminal/\">founded the 68’s\u003c/a>; the nonprofit’s name is a nod to the year the Athletics moved to Oakland from Kansas City, as well as a number of major sports-related events that happened in 1968.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Leon was a lifelong die-hard fan. Key word, “was.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13987384\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13987384\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/03/0-2.jpg\" alt=\"An overhead view of a large group of sports fans, mostly wearing green, gathered inside of a building.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1500\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/03/0-2.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/03/0-2-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/03/0-2-768x576.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/03/0-2-1536x1152.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Oakland 68’s Fans Fest grew from a small gathering of a couple of hundred people to a celebration that annually brings out a couple thousand folks. \u003ccite>(Oakland 68's)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We came out of the flag-waving crew and the drummers from the bleachers,” he says, describing how the 68’s were once part of the raucous Athletics fanatics who’d activate the right field bleachers during every home game.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When the team’s ownership decided to split for \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11967603/oakland-as-relocation-to-las-vegas-sparks-outrage-among-fans\">Las Vegas\u003c/a> (although currently making an extended pit stop \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12033938/as-welcomed-by-thousands-for-home-opener-in-west-sacramento\">in West Sacramento\u003c/a>), Leon and co. launched the “SELL” movement, a simple statement requesting A’s higher-ups sell the team. The slogan has since been seen on shirts and signs in stadiums around the league. “We pissed off A’s ownership, and the MLB,” Leon says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When the Athletics stopped hosting their annual pre-season fan fest, the Oakland 68’s took over. The first year brought about 700–800 people and only a few vendors: \u003ca href=\"https://www.oaklandish.com/\">Oaklandish\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://beastoakland.com/\">Beast Oakland\u003c/a> and the newly formed \u003ca href=\"https://www.oaklandrootssc.com/\">Oakland Roots\u003c/a> soccer club.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Leon says the donated cleats and apparel from MLB players gave them something unique to raffle off to event-goers, and the community support gave them something to build on. “It really was grassroots level,” he reflects, “and now it’s on its fourth annual.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13987398\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13987398\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/03/0-1.jpg\" alt=\"Seven men stand on stage, one holding a microphone, addressing a crowd at a festival.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1919\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/03/0-1.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/03/0-1-160x154.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/03/0-1-768x737.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/03/0-1-1536x1474.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Members of the Ballers baseball team address the crowd at a recent Fans Fest in Oakland. \u003ccite>(Oakland 68's)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>This year’s event will bring out teams like the \u003ca href=\"https://bayfc.com/match/2026-match-01/\">San Jose-based Bay FC soccer club\u003c/a> and Oakland’s new women’s tackle football team, the \u003ca href=\"https://goldenstatestorm.com/\">Golden State Storm\u003c/a>, both of whom play their season-openers later this month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The youth organization \u003ca href=\"https://www.oaklandgenesis.org/\">Oakland Genesis\u003c/a>, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.ogsl.org/\">Oakland Girls Softball League\u003c/a> and the men’s ultimate frisbee team, \u003ca href=\"https://oaklandspiders.com/\">the Oakland Spiders\u003c/a>, will be present. Obviously, Leon says, the 2025 Pioneer League champion Oakland Ballers baseball team will represented as well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This year,” he notes, “because the FIFA World Cup’s coming to the Bay, we’re a little more heavy on soccer.” Members of the Bay Area Host Committee and artist \u003ca href=\"https://bayareahostcommittee.com/newsroom/local-bay-area-artist-leroid-davids-design-selected-for-the-official-fifa-world-cup-26-sf-bay-area-host-city-poster\">LeRoid David\u003c/a>, the San Francisco-raised illustrator who created the Bay Area’s 2026 FIFA World Cup poster, are scheduled to attend Sunday’s festival.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The Roots are going to set up a full-on pitch,” Leon says, adding that the newly revived semi-pro roller hockey team, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.oaklandskates.com/\">Oakland Skates\u003c/a>, will also have a net for anyone who wants to take a shot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to a face-painting booth and a beer garden, the event will feature sets from Oakland’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/djcriddy/\">DJ Criddy\u003c/a>, and live performances from \u003ca href=\"https://officialstayout.com/\">Stay Out\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/official.jwalt/\">J-Walt\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/bandalainiciativa/\">Banda La Iniciativa\u003c/a> and more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hosted by Melissa Lockard and Rick Title, the event will also have a few guest appearances. East Bay raised, former Oakland A’s baseball player \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bip_Roberts\">Leon “Bip” Roberts\u003c/a> will be in attendance, as will \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/shepmessing/\">Shep Messing\u003c/a>, one of the original members of the 1978 \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oakland_Stompers\">Oakland Stompers soccer club\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a community event, voluntarily organized by people who have regular jobs, Leon stresses that this is something done out of a sincere passion for athletic competition, and the place he calls home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is just purely for the love of Oakland,” he says, “and Oakland sports.”\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Fans Fest 2026 is a free event that takes place Sunday, March 8, 11 a.m.–4 p.m. at Fruitvale Village (3301 E. 12th St., Oakland), just outside the Fruitvale BART station. For more information, \u003ca href=\"https://oakland68s.org/pages/fansfest\">check here\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>This Sunday we’ve got warm weather in the forecast, and after clocks spring ahead we’ll have an extra hour of daylight. That sounds like perfect conditions for people to celebrate the Town’s sports culture at \u003ca href=\"https://oakland68s.org/pages/fansfest\">Fans Fest 2026\u003c/a>, presented by the nonprofit \u003ca href=\"https://oakland68s.org/\">Oakland 68’s\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Scores of folks in jerseys and hats, reps from youth programs and players from local clubs are set to gather just outside the Fruitvale BART station this weekend. They’ll be celebrating the same thing they do every year, says event organizer \u003ca href=\"https://oaklandside.org/2023/04/21/oakland-athletics-leaving-las-vegas-mlb-coliseum-howard-terminal/\">Jorge Leon\u003c/a>. “Which,” he explains, “is the sports culture, the diversity here, and all the teams that are \u003cem>still here\u003c/em> in Oakland.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Taking a jab at \u003ca href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2023/nov/24/oakland-sports-teams-east-bay-athletics-raiders-warriors\">the three major professional sports franchises\u003c/a> who’ve left East Oakland in the past decade, Leon homes in on the team formerly known as the Oakland Athletics as the catalyst for this fan fest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the baseball team announced it was leaving, Leon \u003ca href=\"https://oaklandside.org/2023/04/21/oakland-athletics-leaving-las-vegas-mlb-coliseum-howard-terminal/\">founded the 68’s\u003c/a>; the nonprofit’s name is a nod to the year the Athletics moved to Oakland from Kansas City, as well as a number of major sports-related events that happened in 1968.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Leon was a lifelong die-hard fan. Key word, “was.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13987384\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13987384\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/03/0-2.jpg\" alt=\"An overhead view of a large group of sports fans, mostly wearing green, gathered inside of a building.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1500\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/03/0-2.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/03/0-2-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/03/0-2-768x576.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/03/0-2-1536x1152.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Oakland 68’s Fans Fest grew from a small gathering of a couple of hundred people to a celebration that annually brings out a couple thousand folks. \u003ccite>(Oakland 68's)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We came out of the flag-waving crew and the drummers from the bleachers,” he says, describing how the 68’s were once part of the raucous Athletics fanatics who’d activate the right field bleachers during every home game.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When the team’s ownership decided to split for \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11967603/oakland-as-relocation-to-las-vegas-sparks-outrage-among-fans\">Las Vegas\u003c/a> (although currently making an extended pit stop \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12033938/as-welcomed-by-thousands-for-home-opener-in-west-sacramento\">in West Sacramento\u003c/a>), Leon and co. launched the “SELL” movement, a simple statement requesting A’s higher-ups sell the team. The slogan has since been seen on shirts and signs in stadiums around the league. “We pissed off A’s ownership, and the MLB,” Leon says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When the Athletics stopped hosting their annual pre-season fan fest, the Oakland 68’s took over. The first year brought about 700–800 people and only a few vendors: \u003ca href=\"https://www.oaklandish.com/\">Oaklandish\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://beastoakland.com/\">Beast Oakland\u003c/a> and the newly formed \u003ca href=\"https://www.oaklandrootssc.com/\">Oakland Roots\u003c/a> soccer club.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Leon says the donated cleats and apparel from MLB players gave them something unique to raffle off to event-goers, and the community support gave them something to build on. “It really was grassroots level,” he reflects, “and now it’s on its fourth annual.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13987398\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13987398\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/03/0-1.jpg\" alt=\"Seven men stand on stage, one holding a microphone, addressing a crowd at a festival.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1919\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/03/0-1.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/03/0-1-160x154.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/03/0-1-768x737.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/03/0-1-1536x1474.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Members of the Ballers baseball team address the crowd at a recent Fans Fest in Oakland. \u003ccite>(Oakland 68's)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>This year’s event will bring out teams like the \u003ca href=\"https://bayfc.com/match/2026-match-01/\">San Jose-based Bay FC soccer club\u003c/a> and Oakland’s new women’s tackle football team, the \u003ca href=\"https://goldenstatestorm.com/\">Golden State Storm\u003c/a>, both of whom play their season-openers later this month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The youth organization \u003ca href=\"https://www.oaklandgenesis.org/\">Oakland Genesis\u003c/a>, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.ogsl.org/\">Oakland Girls Softball League\u003c/a> and the men’s ultimate frisbee team, \u003ca href=\"https://oaklandspiders.com/\">the Oakland Spiders\u003c/a>, will be present. Obviously, Leon says, the 2025 Pioneer League champion Oakland Ballers baseball team will represented as well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This year,” he notes, “because the FIFA World Cup’s coming to the Bay, we’re a little more heavy on soccer.” Members of the Bay Area Host Committee and artist \u003ca href=\"https://bayareahostcommittee.com/newsroom/local-bay-area-artist-leroid-davids-design-selected-for-the-official-fifa-world-cup-26-sf-bay-area-host-city-poster\">LeRoid David\u003c/a>, the San Francisco-raised illustrator who created the Bay Area’s 2026 FIFA World Cup poster, are scheduled to attend Sunday’s festival.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The Roots are going to set up a full-on pitch,” Leon says, adding that the newly revived semi-pro roller hockey team, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.oaklandskates.com/\">Oakland Skates\u003c/a>, will also have a net for anyone who wants to take a shot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to a face-painting booth and a beer garden, the event will feature sets from Oakland’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/djcriddy/\">DJ Criddy\u003c/a>, and live performances from \u003ca href=\"https://officialstayout.com/\">Stay Out\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/official.jwalt/\">J-Walt\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/bandalainiciativa/\">Banda La Iniciativa\u003c/a> and more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hosted by Melissa Lockard and Rick Title, the event will also have a few guest appearances. East Bay raised, former Oakland A’s baseball player \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bip_Roberts\">Leon “Bip” Roberts\u003c/a> will be in attendance, as will \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/shepmessing/\">Shep Messing\u003c/a>, one of the original members of the 1978 \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oakland_Stompers\">Oakland Stompers soccer club\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a community event, voluntarily organized by people who have regular jobs, Leon stresses that this is something done out of a sincere passion for athletic competition, and the place he calls home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is just purely for the love of Oakland,” he says, “and Oakland sports.”\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Fans Fest 2026 is a free event that takes place Sunday, March 8, 11 a.m.–4 p.m. at Fruitvale Village (3301 E. 12th St., Oakland), just outside the Fruitvale BART station. For more information, \u003ca href=\"https://oakland68s.org/pages/fansfest\">check here\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Last Saturday, over 26,000 fans pulled up to the Oakland Roots’ home opener at the Coliseum. And though the team lost 2-1 to Monterey Bay FC, fans took home a W for the culture.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After a land blessing from Ohlone tribal spokesperson and co-director of \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h8HHoFZ3fXY\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the Sogorea Te’ Land Trust, Corrina Gould\u003c/a>, rising Oakland vocalist \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/DHjXXS3Sucb/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ysenia Martinez\u003c/a> sang the national anthem. \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/felakutchii/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">DJ Fela Kutchii\u003c/a> got the crowd dancing as the game started, and then at halftime West Coast hip-hop founding father \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/tag/too-short\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Too $hort\u003c/a> performed an anthem of his own.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the game, a 15-minute firework exhibition lit up the East Oakland sky while some of the Town’s greatest songs played through the stadium’s speakers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13973624\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-13973624 size-medium\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/03/media_38330308_38084227_compressed-800x1199.jpg\" alt=\"After the Oakland Roots first soccer match of the season, Justin Rasmussen (left) and Wolfgang Prentice (right) stand on a dark field as fireworks light up the sky above the Oakland Coliseum.\" width=\"800\" height=\"1199\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/03/media_38330308_38084227_compressed-800x1199.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/03/media_38330308_38084227_compressed-1020x1529.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/03/media_38330308_38084227_compressed-160x240.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/03/media_38330308_38084227_compressed-768x1151.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/03/media_38330308_38084227_compressed-1025x1536.jpg 1025w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/03/media_38330308_38084227_compressed-1366x2048.jpg 1366w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/03/media_38330308_38084227_compressed.jpg 1680w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">After the Oakland Roots first soccer match of the season, Justin Rasmussen (left) and Wolfgang Prentice (right) stand on a dark field as fireworks light up the sky above the Oakland Coliseum. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Oakland Roots SC)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The opening night celebration is directly in-line with what the Oakland Roots, and their sister team, \u003ca href=\"https://www.oaklandsoulsc.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the Oakland Soul\u003c/a>, have been doing since 2018: showing love to Bay Area artists and culture keepers. While it’s common for sports teams to highlight their region’s culture, this organization is truly putting on for the Town.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They have backing from legendary local athletes. They’ve showcased a wide array of artists, taken on philanthropic endeavors and gotten involved in the public school system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At their next home game on March 29, the soccer club is set to host a Rooted & Rising: Women’s Empowerment Night, which will feature the work of renowned photographer \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/brittsense/?hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Brittani “Brittsense” Sensabaugh\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13973554\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-13973554 size-medium\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/03/0-5-1-800x1200.jpg\" alt='Photographer Brittani \"Brittsense\" Sensabaugh puts the camera down and poses for a photo. ' width=\"800\" height=\"1200\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/03/0-5-1-800x1200.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/03/0-5-1-1020x1530.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/03/0-5-1-160x240.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/03/0-5-1-768x1152.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/03/0-5-1-1024x1536.jpg 1024w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/03/0-5-1.jpg 1097w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photographer Brittani ‘Brittsense’ Sensabaugh puts the camera down and poses for a photo. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Brittani \"Brittsense\" Sensabaugh)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Brittsense’s work features beautiful images of people from across the country, from housing projects in Watts to working class neighborhoods on the south side of Chicago. She’s documented the brilliant culture that exists in areas that officials have deemed blighted — places that are over-policed, where schools are underfunded. Her body of work shows the beauty of Black folks, despite it all.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her recent exhibition, \u003cem>Reach The World, But Touch The Hood First\u003c/em>, is a series of images of babies smiling, little girls with colorful beads in their hair and young boys pausing while drinking from open fire hydrants. It’s been shown \u003ca href=\"https://www.artsy.net/show/richard-beavers-gallery-reach-the-world-but-touch-the-hood-first?sort=partner_show_position\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">at galleries in New York\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/brittsense/p/DGCS-R9PwMQ/?img_index=2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">featured on MTA Subway\u003c/a> advertisements.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Brittsense, who moved back to California a few years ago after a long stint on the East Coast, hasn’t had her work shown in her hometown of Oakland in nearly a decade. So this weekend she’s calling her pop-up show at the Coliseum \u003cem>Return Home To Ourselves\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zk5P1BhFeRc\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m from 85th and D Street,” says \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/brittsense/?hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Brittsense\u003c/a>. “So the Coliseum is right down the block from where I grew up.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The duration of a soccer game might be an unusually short time for an art show, but Brittsense says it’s a big moment nonetheless.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s really like a homecoming, or a home welcoming game,” Brittsense says, noting the parallels between her journey back to home base and professional soccer’s return to the Oakland Coliseum — the place where, in 1967, \u003ca href=\"https://soccerhistoryusa.org/asha/sanfrancisco.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the Oakland Clippers\u003c/a> played in one of the earliest professional soccer matches in U.S. history. [aside postid='arts_13973027']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though not directly sports-related, Brittsense’s work is intertwined in another way. She calls the exhibition “a one-day spirit activation,” or “a ceremony reminding us of our traditions and the rituals that we come from.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Edreece Arghandiwal, co-founder and chief marketing officer of the Oakland Roots, agrees. The team is showcasing Brittsense’s work to tell a story about art and Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s the beauty of what [the Roots] are doing,” he says. “If we were just a soccer team, it wouldn’t make sense at all.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brittsense’s work will be displayed in the former site of an Oakland A’s merch store near section 105. The gallery is the brainchild of Roots’ Director of Community Engagement, Nelda Kerr.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13973626\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13973626\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/03/IMG_0565-800x554.jpg\" alt=\"A exhibition of painted portraits inside of the Oakland Coliseum. \" width=\"800\" height=\"554\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/03/IMG_0565-800x554.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/03/IMG_0565-1020x707.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/03/IMG_0565-160x111.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/03/IMG_0565-768x532.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/03/IMG_0565-1536x1064.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/03/IMG_0565-2048x1419.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/03/IMG_0565-1920x1330.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The ‘Faces of Fremont’ exhibition, as shown at the Oakland Coliseum on March 22 during the season opener for the Oakland Roots. \u003ccite>(John Christie)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“It’s kind of a flat-wall, bare-bones space,” says Kerr. When the team did a walk-through last year, she noted that it had potential and good lighting. “So I said,” Kerr recalls, “‘I’m gonna turn it into an art gallery.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During the first home game of the season last weekend, the space featured an exhibition called \u003cem>Faces of Fremont\u003c/em>, a series of painted portraits from students at East Oakland’s Fremont High School. “I chose Fremont,” says Kerr, “because Too $hort was our halftime performer and he went to Fremont.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13973604\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-13973604 size-medium\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/03/0-6-800x1101.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"1101\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/03/0-6-800x1101.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/03/0-6-1020x1404.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/03/0-6-160x220.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/03/0-6-768x1057.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/03/0-6-1116x1536.jpg 1116w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/03/0-6.jpg 1195w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">‘Sun Shinning Up,’ taken in Harlem, New York in 2015. \u003ccite>(Brittani \"Brittsense\" Sensabaugh)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In thinking of women who really showcase the strength of Oakland, Kerr says Brittsense absolutely encapsulates that. “And the power and strength of her photography,” says Kerr, “is just going to be such a surprise and delight for people who come to a game not expecting this kind of community activation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brittsense’s display will be more than images; the photographer says it’s going to be a “holistic oasis” complete with candles and massage therapy. \u003cb>\u003c/b>“I want safeness,” says Brittsense. “Protection and safeness for three hours.” [aside postid='arts_13973469']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Acknowledging that people are dealing with a lot right now, be it local or national politics, family, financial or other concerns, Brittsense is clear that her craft can lend a hand to the healing process. “I document us from a lens of love and not trauma,” she says. “So, it’s just the beginning of a conversation for us to heal.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A practitioner of the healing process, she’s also growing from her own wounds. She says this exhibition is her way to honor the legacy of her late mother who transitioned three years ago. “The love that my mother gave to me,” says Brittsense, “I gave to the world.”\u003cb> \u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13973605\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-13973605 size-medium\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/03/0-4-1-800x1091.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"1091\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/03/0-4-1-800x1091.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/03/0-4-1-1020x1391.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/03/0-4-1-160x218.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/03/0-4-1-768x1048.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/03/0-4-1-1126x1536.jpg 1126w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/03/0-4-1.jpg 1206w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">‘Cold Summer,’ taken in Brownsville Brooklyn in 2015. \u003ccite>(Brittani \"Brittsense\" Sensabaugh)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Now she wants to use that love to cultivate safe spaces, where people can process and reflect. Currently, this is something Brittsense does in classrooms around Oakland through her work at the youth media nonprofit YouthBeat. And now that she’s broken the seal on exhibiting her work locally, she wants to do more of the same.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ultimately Brittsense says — in a fitting metaphor for the Oakland soccer team — her goal is to get people to return to their roots.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She wants to remind people to dig deep within and “cultivate a blueprint of self” in order to heal from traumas they’ve experienced. “We have the tools,” she says, “because we are the tools.”\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Brittsense’s exhibit ‘Return Home to Ourselves’ will be on display during the \u003ca href=\"https://www.oaklandrootssc.com/schedule/\">Oakland Roots’ game at the Oakland Coliseum on March 29\u003c/a>. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Last Saturday, over 26,000 fans pulled up to the Oakland Roots’ home opener at the Coliseum. And though the team lost 2-1 to Monterey Bay FC, fans took home a W for the culture.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After a land blessing from Ohlone tribal spokesperson and co-director of \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h8HHoFZ3fXY\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the Sogorea Te’ Land Trust, Corrina Gould\u003c/a>, rising Oakland vocalist \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/DHjXXS3Sucb/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ysenia Martinez\u003c/a> sang the national anthem. \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/felakutchii/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">DJ Fela Kutchii\u003c/a> got the crowd dancing as the game started, and then at halftime West Coast hip-hop founding father \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/tag/too-short\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Too $hort\u003c/a> performed an anthem of his own.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the game, a 15-minute firework exhibition lit up the East Oakland sky while some of the Town’s greatest songs played through the stadium’s speakers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13973624\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-13973624 size-medium\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/03/media_38330308_38084227_compressed-800x1199.jpg\" alt=\"After the Oakland Roots first soccer match of the season, Justin Rasmussen (left) and Wolfgang Prentice (right) stand on a dark field as fireworks light up the sky above the Oakland Coliseum.\" width=\"800\" height=\"1199\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/03/media_38330308_38084227_compressed-800x1199.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/03/media_38330308_38084227_compressed-1020x1529.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/03/media_38330308_38084227_compressed-160x240.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/03/media_38330308_38084227_compressed-768x1151.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/03/media_38330308_38084227_compressed-1025x1536.jpg 1025w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/03/media_38330308_38084227_compressed-1366x2048.jpg 1366w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/03/media_38330308_38084227_compressed.jpg 1680w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">After the Oakland Roots first soccer match of the season, Justin Rasmussen (left) and Wolfgang Prentice (right) stand on a dark field as fireworks light up the sky above the Oakland Coliseum. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Oakland Roots SC)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The opening night celebration is directly in-line with what the Oakland Roots, and their sister team, \u003ca href=\"https://www.oaklandsoulsc.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the Oakland Soul\u003c/a>, have been doing since 2018: showing love to Bay Area artists and culture keepers. While it’s common for sports teams to highlight their region’s culture, this organization is truly putting on for the Town.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They have backing from legendary local athletes. They’ve showcased a wide array of artists, taken on philanthropic endeavors and gotten involved in the public school system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At their next home game on March 29, the soccer club is set to host a Rooted & Rising: Women’s Empowerment Night, which will feature the work of renowned photographer \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/brittsense/?hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Brittani “Brittsense” Sensabaugh\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13973554\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-13973554 size-medium\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/03/0-5-1-800x1200.jpg\" alt='Photographer Brittani \"Brittsense\" Sensabaugh puts the camera down and poses for a photo. ' width=\"800\" height=\"1200\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/03/0-5-1-800x1200.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/03/0-5-1-1020x1530.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/03/0-5-1-160x240.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/03/0-5-1-768x1152.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/03/0-5-1-1024x1536.jpg 1024w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/03/0-5-1.jpg 1097w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photographer Brittani ‘Brittsense’ Sensabaugh puts the camera down and poses for a photo. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Brittani \"Brittsense\" Sensabaugh)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Brittsense’s work features beautiful images of people from across the country, from housing projects in Watts to working class neighborhoods on the south side of Chicago. She’s documented the brilliant culture that exists in areas that officials have deemed blighted — places that are over-policed, where schools are underfunded. Her body of work shows the beauty of Black folks, despite it all.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her recent exhibition, \u003cem>Reach The World, But Touch The Hood First\u003c/em>, is a series of images of babies smiling, little girls with colorful beads in their hair and young boys pausing while drinking from open fire hydrants. It’s been shown \u003ca href=\"https://www.artsy.net/show/richard-beavers-gallery-reach-the-world-but-touch-the-hood-first?sort=partner_show_position\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">at galleries in New York\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/brittsense/p/DGCS-R9PwMQ/?img_index=2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">featured on MTA Subway\u003c/a> advertisements.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Brittsense, who moved back to California a few years ago after a long stint on the East Coast, hasn’t had her work shown in her hometown of Oakland in nearly a decade. So this weekend she’s calling her pop-up show at the Coliseum \u003cem>Return Home To Ourselves\u003c/em>.\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/Zk5P1BhFeRc'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/Zk5P1BhFeRc'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>“I’m from 85th and D Street,” says \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/brittsense/?hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Brittsense\u003c/a>. “So the Coliseum is right down the block from where I grew up.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The duration of a soccer game might be an unusually short time for an art show, but Brittsense says it’s a big moment nonetheless.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s really like a homecoming, or a home welcoming game,” Brittsense says, noting the parallels between her journey back to home base and professional soccer’s return to the Oakland Coliseum — the place where, in 1967, \u003ca href=\"https://soccerhistoryusa.org/asha/sanfrancisco.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the Oakland Clippers\u003c/a> played in one of the earliest professional soccer matches in U.S. history. \u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though not directly sports-related, Brittsense’s work is intertwined in another way. She calls the exhibition “a one-day spirit activation,” or “a ceremony reminding us of our traditions and the rituals that we come from.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Edreece Arghandiwal, co-founder and chief marketing officer of the Oakland Roots, agrees. The team is showcasing Brittsense’s work to tell a story about art and Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s the beauty of what [the Roots] are doing,” he says. “If we were just a soccer team, it wouldn’t make sense at all.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brittsense’s work will be displayed in the former site of an Oakland A’s merch store near section 105. The gallery is the brainchild of Roots’ Director of Community Engagement, Nelda Kerr.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13973626\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13973626\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/03/IMG_0565-800x554.jpg\" alt=\"A exhibition of painted portraits inside of the Oakland Coliseum. \" width=\"800\" height=\"554\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/03/IMG_0565-800x554.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/03/IMG_0565-1020x707.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/03/IMG_0565-160x111.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/03/IMG_0565-768x532.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/03/IMG_0565-1536x1064.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/03/IMG_0565-2048x1419.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/03/IMG_0565-1920x1330.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The ‘Faces of Fremont’ exhibition, as shown at the Oakland Coliseum on March 22 during the season opener for the Oakland Roots. \u003ccite>(John Christie)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“It’s kind of a flat-wall, bare-bones space,” says Kerr. When the team did a walk-through last year, she noted that it had potential and good lighting. “So I said,” Kerr recalls, “‘I’m gonna turn it into an art gallery.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During the first home game of the season last weekend, the space featured an exhibition called \u003cem>Faces of Fremont\u003c/em>, a series of painted portraits from students at East Oakland’s Fremont High School. “I chose Fremont,” says Kerr, “because Too $hort was our halftime performer and he went to Fremont.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13973604\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-13973604 size-medium\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/03/0-6-800x1101.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"1101\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/03/0-6-800x1101.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/03/0-6-1020x1404.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/03/0-6-160x220.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/03/0-6-768x1057.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/03/0-6-1116x1536.jpg 1116w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/03/0-6.jpg 1195w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">‘Sun Shinning Up,’ taken in Harlem, New York in 2015. \u003ccite>(Brittani \"Brittsense\" Sensabaugh)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In thinking of women who really showcase the strength of Oakland, Kerr says Brittsense absolutely encapsulates that. “And the power and strength of her photography,” says Kerr, “is just going to be such a surprise and delight for people who come to a game not expecting this kind of community activation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brittsense’s display will be more than images; the photographer says it’s going to be a “holistic oasis” complete with candles and massage therapy. \u003cb>\u003c/b>“I want safeness,” says Brittsense. “Protection and safeness for three hours.” \u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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Roots players put on their game faces. Old-school cars with gleaming rims swing donuts in a display of Town pride.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Even to have been on the field in that context is a very surreal moment,” Jones says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://youtu.be/dntXxjV1mv8?si=g96vEdSoRwGtb0-7\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Coming up with an anthem bold enough to hype up an entire stadium might sound like a challenge. But Jones says the track came together entirely organically. The rapper’s connection to the Roots goes way back. A decade ago, the Oakland-raised Jones met future Roots co-founder Edreece Arghandiwal, who let Jones record music in the office of his tech start-up. They kept in touch and remained close over the years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In April 2024, the night before the Roots’ last home opener, Jones went to the studio and recorded what would become “Tru 2 My Roots.” He sent it to Arghandiwal. “He just wanted to run it,” Jones says. “It was just all by surprise. It was pretty much all just improvised.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13972889,arts_13972636,arts_13971354']Now, the track will blast through the Coliseum speakers as Roots players jog onto the field. It’s just the latest example of the Bay Area’s cross-pollination between sports and hip-hop. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/tag/too-hort\">Too $hort\u003c/a> will perform at halftime during the Roots’ home opener on March 22. Along with Green Day’s Billy Joe Armstrong, the rap legend also recently purchased an ownership stake in another upstart team, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13972636/billie-joe-armstrong-too-short-oakland-ballers-baseball\">the Ballers\u003c/a>, who began competing in the Pioneer baseball league last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>E-40 — whose 2014 song “Choices” is an unofficial Golden State Warriors anthem — has become a high-profile supporter of the Bay Area’s new WNBA team, the Golden State Valkyries, whose debut season begins at Chase Center in May. The Warriors also recently launched a music and film division, Golden State Entertainment, which teamed up with San Francisco label EMPIRE to put out P-Lo’s latest album, \u003ci>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13971354/p-lo-for-the-soil-warriors-golden-state-entertainment-nba-all-star-weekend\">For the Soil\u003c/a>\u003c/i>, the soundtrack of last month’s NBA All-Star Weekend.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13973034\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13973034\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/03/240406_OAK_v_MB-402_2000.jpg\" alt=\"man in teal jersey with mic on green soccer field\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/03/240406_OAK_v_MB-402_2000.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/03/240406_OAK_v_MB-402_2000-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/03/240406_OAK_v_MB-402_2000-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/03/240406_OAK_v_MB-402_2000-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/03/240406_OAK_v_MB-402_2000-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/03/240406_OAK_v_MB-402_2000-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/03/240406_OAK_v_MB-402_2000-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dee Dot Jones performing at an Oakland Roots vs. Monterey Bay match in 2024. \u003ccite>(Oakland Roots SC)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>While sports teams and local pride go hand in hand, the Roots take repping Oakland a step further. Since their beginnings in 2018, \u003ca href=\"https://oaklandside.org/2022/06/28/oakland-roots-homegrown-soccer-club-community-part-2/\">community service\u003c/a> is baked into what they do. The Roots and their sister team, Oakland Soul, work with a long list of youth sports leagues, after-school arts programs and organizations that champion gender and racial equity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Soccer might not be as popular in the U.S. as it is in other parts of the world, but there are plenty of immigrant diasporas in Oakland from Latin America, the Arab world, Africa and Asia who grew up with a deep love of the sport. And with several other sports leagues now gone from Oakland, the Roots have an opportunity to expand appreciation for soccer and its culture in the Town as the team grows.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jones is here for it. “The story that we’re telling is definitely my favorite part of it,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>The stories behind our names, given or chosen, preserve memories that would otherwise be lost to time. Sko Habibi is the name \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/skohabibi/?hl=en\">Jasko Begovic\u003c/a> chose when he started identifying as an artist over two decades ago. Sko, short for Jasko, and habibi, the Arabic word for beloved. His name, like his work, is a glimpse at the communities and people who helped him on his journey to create, and survive. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Begovic first heard the word habibi while sitting at the dinner table of a friend’s family. He was a young teen, recently relocated to Germany as a refugee. Even with a full house and over 10 mouths to feed, his friends’ loud and loving Lebanese family were clear that there was always room for Begovic. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Their generosity was the epitome of the immigrant way, making space where there should be none, turning scraps into meals that leave everyone fed and cared for. That ethos is now at the crux of Begovic’s work, and his own drive to create community. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Begovic may finally be getting his flowers from art institutions — his textile sculptures, which bridge the worlds of fashion and soccer, are included in the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art’s \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://www.sfmoma.org/exhibition/get-in-the-game/\">Get in the Game\u003c/a>\u003c/em> show — but he has been making waves in the Bay Area art scene for years. \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13970168\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/01/20250110_Sko-Habibi_DMB_00077.jpg\" alt=\"man with camo jacket and cat head in embroidered textiles on back\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13970168\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/01/20250110_Sko-Habibi_DMB_00077.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/01/20250110_Sko-Habibi_DMB_00077-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/01/20250110_Sko-Habibi_DMB_00077-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/01/20250110_Sko-Habibi_DMB_00077-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/01/20250110_Sko-Habibi_DMB_00077-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/01/20250110_Sko-Habibi_DMB_00077-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/01/20250110_Sko-Habibi_DMB_00077-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jasko Begovic poses wearing one of his embellished garments. \u003ccite>(David M. Barreda/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>As a multimedia textile artist who splits his time between creating art, coaching young soccer players and raising a toddler, Begovic isn’t interested in climbing the ranks of the art world. He isn’t in competition with anyone else (a rule that admittedly gets tossed as soon as he laces up his sneakers and joins a soccer game). \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Begovic, art is how he stays human and asserts his personhood in a world hell-bent on limiting his humanity: as a man raised in a mixed Muslim family, as a genocide survivor, or as a refugee. \u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Art as a language\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Begovic was born in former Yugoslavia and raised in a small village alongside a huge Bosnian family. His childhood was idyllic; warm memories saturate his stories about running around with cousins. But that was before the war in Bosnia began, before his older brother was conscripted, and his family was separated. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At 11, a Serbian uncle hid Begovic and his cousin until they could escape through a soldier exchange. This miraculous intervention allowed him to flee the country, leaving his family’s ancestral land for refugee status in Germany. \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13970169\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/01/20250110_Sko-Habibi_DMB_00117.jpg\" alt=\"man poses in camo jacket and hat\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13970169\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/01/20250110_Sko-Habibi_DMB_00117.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/01/20250110_Sko-Habibi_DMB_00117-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/01/20250110_Sko-Habibi_DMB_00117-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/01/20250110_Sko-Habibi_DMB_00117-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/01/20250110_Sko-Habibi_DMB_00117-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/01/20250110_Sko-Habibi_DMB_00117-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/01/20250110_Sko-Habibi_DMB_00117-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">After fleeing with his family to Germany, Begovic connected with other teenagers through graffiti and hip-hop. ‘It provoked my spirit,’ he remembers. \u003ccite>(David M. Barreda/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>It was as a bored kid in the back of a German classroom, surrounded by a language he didn’t understand and peers who had no context for the genocide he had just survived, that Begovic found art. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By chance, he was seated next to a kid named Daniel who scribbled in journals instead of paying attention in class. Watching Daniel write graffiti and practice his tags was Begovic’s introduction to street art, and it became their shared mode of communication. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In former Yugoslavia, art was a craft some students excelled at — Begovic was not a good artist. But suddenly, the function of art shifted. Through his new classmate he was introduced to the world of hip-hop, and the Balkan, African and Arab immigrant communities who were using it to connect to each other. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It provoked my spirit,” Begovic remembers. “That’s where understanding art as language was birthed in me.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Depicting ‘the immigrant’s world’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>This bridging of language and cultures through art is at the heart of all of his creations. For Begovic, shedding shame around the violence and displacement he experienced frees him up to create. “I embrace it,” he says. “I’m not running away from my journey. I transform it and make it my own.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This transformation is emphasized in the fabrics he chooses and the stories they tell. He constructs the mannequins wearing his textile pieces to stand tall, with stretched necks and confident stares. Neon colors and deconstructed sports jerseys announce their presence. Begovic sews the names of loved ones who have passed onto the laces of his figures’ shoes in beads, making it clear that each character is an externalization of the grief he carries. \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13970172\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/01/20250110_Sko-Habibi_DMB_00014.jpg\" alt=\"'fly refugees' patch next to figurine of soccer player\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13970172\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/01/20250110_Sko-Habibi_DMB_00014.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/01/20250110_Sko-Habibi_DMB_00014-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/01/20250110_Sko-Habibi_DMB_00014-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/01/20250110_Sko-Habibi_DMB_00014-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/01/20250110_Sko-Habibi_DMB_00014-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/01/20250110_Sko-Habibi_DMB_00014-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/01/20250110_Sko-Habibi_DMB_00014-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A patch in Begovic’s studio. \u003ccite>(David M. Barreda/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But there is also a performative, comedic aspect to it all. Instead of “Fly Emirates,” Begovic’s soccer shorts have “Fly Refugees” embroidered on them. “It’s playing on the whole Emirates element, the money, the richness,” he says. “It also comes from the flea market culture. Gucci with three Cs, Adidas with four stripes. That’s the immigrant’s world.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s a world familiar to those who are denied entry across many borders. And Begovic’s work opens a window into lives otherwise relegated to the margins. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In November 2024, Begovic performed an art piece at \u003cem>Light Travels (Du Sang)\u003c/em>, a runway show by the Oakland fashion designer and artist \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/asaadbruno/?hl=en\">Asaad Bruno\u003c/a>. Begovic, inhabiting his Sko Habibi identity, presented \u003cem>Flee Market\u003c/em>, a recreation of the refugee reality on the streets of major cities across the globe. The performance opened with Sko Habibi arranging items on a heavy green tarp while speaking to himself in Bosnian. At least a hundred audience members sat quietly, fixated on the nimble movements of the masked man at center of the scene.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vendors and potential customers joined him. In this staging, the performers were friends, other members of Oakland’s burgeoning arts and soccer community. They passed a soccer ball around, playing with Begovic’s young daughter on the runway. Suddenly, a blaring police sirens cut through the playful atmosphere, sending everyone on the run. In seconds, the tarp was strategically rolled up, and Sko Habibi made his escape. It’s a scene pulled straight from the streets of Paris, where the audio was recorded. \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13971511\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1200px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/02/14_SFMOMA_Get-in-the-Game-Install-View_Millman0844.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"1600\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13971511\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/02/14_SFMOMA_Get-in-the-Game-Install-View_Millman0844.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/02/14_SFMOMA_Get-in-the-Game-Install-View_Millman0844-800x1067.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/02/14_SFMOMA_Get-in-the-Game-Install-View_Millman0844-1020x1360.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/02/14_SFMOMA_Get-in-the-Game-Install-View_Millman0844-160x213.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/02/14_SFMOMA_Get-in-the-Game-Install-View_Millman0844-768x1024.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/02/14_SFMOMA_Get-in-the-Game-Install-View_Millman0844-1152x1536.jpg 1152w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Installation view of ‘Get in the Game’ with Begovic’s textile work on mannequins and hanging from the back wall. \u003ccite>(Courtesy SFMOM; Photo by Matthew Millman)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>‘Feels like home’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>On the seventh floor of SFMOMA, the museum’s blockbuster art-meets-sports show \u003ci>Get in the Game\u003c/i> features work Begovic first created for the Oakland Roots and Oakland Soul soccer teams. His original commission of a few pieces turned into over a dozen, and surfaced a number of characters he felt compelled to depict in a short film titled \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://youtu.be/KP7liMnBnYg?si=RthSV-IbwPJ1lR9n\">HumanE.T.\u003c/a>\u003c/em>, made in collaboration with the Oakland Roots. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The title plays on the “alien” status imposed on refugees and migrants. “As immigrants, as refugees, on our passports, on our visas it’s like, alien, alien,” Begovic says. “The E.T. comes from [being seen as] extraterrestrial. You are the other, you’re an outsider, you’re a foreigner, you’re a refugee.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Begovic’s aim, he says, is to transform that othering into something else. “To ask, am I really that different from you?” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During our conversation, Begovic describes his love for spending time at 24th and Mission Streets with his daughter, whose unabashed curiosity helps him see the world around him with wonder and awe. Part of his attraction to the intersection comes from the expressions of life reflecting “back home,” even if it’s not \u003cem>his\u003c/em> home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13970165\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/01/20250110_Sko-Habibi_DMB_00165.jpg\" alt=\"white man in baseball cap in dim light\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13970165\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/01/20250110_Sko-Habibi_DMB_00165.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/01/20250110_Sko-Habibi_DMB_00165-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/01/20250110_Sko-Habibi_DMB_00165-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/01/20250110_Sko-Habibi_DMB_00165-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/01/20250110_Sko-Habibi_DMB_00165-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/01/20250110_Sko-Habibi_DMB_00165-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/01/20250110_Sko-Habibi_DMB_00165-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">‘Even though my village is so far away,’ Begovic says, ‘I still find that frequency through other communities, through people, through art.’ \u003ccite>(David M. Barreda/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I’m not Mexican, I don’t understand a lot of the tradition, and even the food is different, but at the same time the essence of how they go about life and interacting with each other —” he pauses, “when I go there, I’m like, ‘Oh, I’m home.’ It’s not Bosnian or Balkan culture, but it feels like home.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Maybe that’s what I find in these places, in people that are genuine,” he continues. “Maybe home can be an interaction with a person on the street. It can be a lady that has the same laugh as my mom. Even though my village is so far away, I still find that frequency through other communities, through people, through art.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Where most see limits and irreconcilable grief, Begovic hears connection and possibility. At the heart of Sko Habibi’s inner world is a child, unafraid to question authority and push back on the dominant narrative. His work asks us to face the scarier feelings without fear; it asks us to sit with others and listen to the stories they want to share and the truths they safeguard. If we do that, maybe we will arrive somewhere even more human.\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>Work by Jasko Begovic (Sko Habibi) is on view at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art in ‘\u003ca href=\"https://www.sfmoma.org/exhibition/get-in-the-game/\">Get in the Game\u003c/a>’ through Feb. 18, 2025.\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>The stories behind our names, given or chosen, preserve memories that would otherwise be lost to time. Sko Habibi is the name \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/skohabibi/?hl=en\">Jasko Begovic\u003c/a> chose when he started identifying as an artist over two decades ago. Sko, short for Jasko, and habibi, the Arabic word for beloved. His name, like his work, is a glimpse at the communities and people who helped him on his journey to create, and survive. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Begovic first heard the word habibi while sitting at the dinner table of a friend’s family. He was a young teen, recently relocated to Germany as a refugee. Even with a full house and over 10 mouths to feed, his friends’ loud and loving Lebanese family were clear that there was always room for Begovic. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Their generosity was the epitome of the immigrant way, making space where there should be none, turning scraps into meals that leave everyone fed and cared for. That ethos is now at the crux of Begovic’s work, and his own drive to create community. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Begovic may finally be getting his flowers from art institutions — his textile sculptures, which bridge the worlds of fashion and soccer, are included in the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art’s \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://www.sfmoma.org/exhibition/get-in-the-game/\">Get in the Game\u003c/a>\u003c/em> show — but he has been making waves in the Bay Area art scene for years. \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13970168\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/01/20250110_Sko-Habibi_DMB_00077.jpg\" alt=\"man with camo jacket and cat head in embroidered textiles on back\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13970168\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/01/20250110_Sko-Habibi_DMB_00077.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/01/20250110_Sko-Habibi_DMB_00077-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/01/20250110_Sko-Habibi_DMB_00077-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/01/20250110_Sko-Habibi_DMB_00077-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/01/20250110_Sko-Habibi_DMB_00077-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/01/20250110_Sko-Habibi_DMB_00077-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/01/20250110_Sko-Habibi_DMB_00077-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jasko Begovic poses wearing one of his embellished garments. \u003ccite>(David M. Barreda/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>As a multimedia textile artist who splits his time between creating art, coaching young soccer players and raising a toddler, Begovic isn’t interested in climbing the ranks of the art world. He isn’t in competition with anyone else (a rule that admittedly gets tossed as soon as he laces up his sneakers and joins a soccer game). \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Begovic, art is how he stays human and asserts his personhood in a world hell-bent on limiting his humanity: as a man raised in a mixed Muslim family, as a genocide survivor, or as a refugee. \u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Art as a language\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Begovic was born in former Yugoslavia and raised in a small village alongside a huge Bosnian family. His childhood was idyllic; warm memories saturate his stories about running around with cousins. But that was before the war in Bosnia began, before his older brother was conscripted, and his family was separated. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At 11, a Serbian uncle hid Begovic and his cousin until they could escape through a soldier exchange. This miraculous intervention allowed him to flee the country, leaving his family’s ancestral land for refugee status in Germany. \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13970169\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/01/20250110_Sko-Habibi_DMB_00117.jpg\" alt=\"man poses in camo jacket and hat\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13970169\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/01/20250110_Sko-Habibi_DMB_00117.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/01/20250110_Sko-Habibi_DMB_00117-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/01/20250110_Sko-Habibi_DMB_00117-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/01/20250110_Sko-Habibi_DMB_00117-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/01/20250110_Sko-Habibi_DMB_00117-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/01/20250110_Sko-Habibi_DMB_00117-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/01/20250110_Sko-Habibi_DMB_00117-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">After fleeing with his family to Germany, Begovic connected with other teenagers through graffiti and hip-hop. ‘It provoked my spirit,’ he remembers. \u003ccite>(David M. Barreda/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>It was as a bored kid in the back of a German classroom, surrounded by a language he didn’t understand and peers who had no context for the genocide he had just survived, that Begovic found art. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By chance, he was seated next to a kid named Daniel who scribbled in journals instead of paying attention in class. Watching Daniel write graffiti and practice his tags was Begovic’s introduction to street art, and it became their shared mode of communication. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In former Yugoslavia, art was a craft some students excelled at — Begovic was not a good artist. But suddenly, the function of art shifted. Through his new classmate he was introduced to the world of hip-hop, and the Balkan, African and Arab immigrant communities who were using it to connect to each other. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It provoked my spirit,” Begovic remembers. “That’s where understanding art as language was birthed in me.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Depicting ‘the immigrant’s world’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>This bridging of language and cultures through art is at the heart of all of his creations. For Begovic, shedding shame around the violence and displacement he experienced frees him up to create. “I embrace it,” he says. “I’m not running away from my journey. I transform it and make it my own.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This transformation is emphasized in the fabrics he chooses and the stories they tell. He constructs the mannequins wearing his textile pieces to stand tall, with stretched necks and confident stares. Neon colors and deconstructed sports jerseys announce their presence. Begovic sews the names of loved ones who have passed onto the laces of his figures’ shoes in beads, making it clear that each character is an externalization of the grief he carries. \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13970172\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/01/20250110_Sko-Habibi_DMB_00014.jpg\" alt=\"'fly refugees' patch next to figurine of soccer player\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13970172\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/01/20250110_Sko-Habibi_DMB_00014.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/01/20250110_Sko-Habibi_DMB_00014-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/01/20250110_Sko-Habibi_DMB_00014-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/01/20250110_Sko-Habibi_DMB_00014-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/01/20250110_Sko-Habibi_DMB_00014-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/01/20250110_Sko-Habibi_DMB_00014-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/01/20250110_Sko-Habibi_DMB_00014-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A patch in Begovic’s studio. \u003ccite>(David M. Barreda/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But there is also a performative, comedic aspect to it all. Instead of “Fly Emirates,” Begovic’s soccer shorts have “Fly Refugees” embroidered on them. “It’s playing on the whole Emirates element, the money, the richness,” he says. “It also comes from the flea market culture. Gucci with three Cs, Adidas with four stripes. That’s the immigrant’s world.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s a world familiar to those who are denied entry across many borders. And Begovic’s work opens a window into lives otherwise relegated to the margins. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In November 2024, Begovic performed an art piece at \u003cem>Light Travels (Du Sang)\u003c/em>, a runway show by the Oakland fashion designer and artist \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/asaadbruno/?hl=en\">Asaad Bruno\u003c/a>. Begovic, inhabiting his Sko Habibi identity, presented \u003cem>Flee Market\u003c/em>, a recreation of the refugee reality on the streets of major cities across the globe. The performance opened with Sko Habibi arranging items on a heavy green tarp while speaking to himself in Bosnian. At least a hundred audience members sat quietly, fixated on the nimble movements of the masked man at center of the scene.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vendors and potential customers joined him. In this staging, the performers were friends, other members of Oakland’s burgeoning arts and soccer community. They passed a soccer ball around, playing with Begovic’s young daughter on the runway. Suddenly, a blaring police sirens cut through the playful atmosphere, sending everyone on the run. In seconds, the tarp was strategically rolled up, and Sko Habibi made his escape. It’s a scene pulled straight from the streets of Paris, where the audio was recorded. \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13971511\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1200px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/02/14_SFMOMA_Get-in-the-Game-Install-View_Millman0844.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"1600\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13971511\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/02/14_SFMOMA_Get-in-the-Game-Install-View_Millman0844.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/02/14_SFMOMA_Get-in-the-Game-Install-View_Millman0844-800x1067.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/02/14_SFMOMA_Get-in-the-Game-Install-View_Millman0844-1020x1360.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/02/14_SFMOMA_Get-in-the-Game-Install-View_Millman0844-160x213.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/02/14_SFMOMA_Get-in-the-Game-Install-View_Millman0844-768x1024.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/02/14_SFMOMA_Get-in-the-Game-Install-View_Millman0844-1152x1536.jpg 1152w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Installation view of ‘Get in the Game’ with Begovic’s textile work on mannequins and hanging from the back wall. \u003ccite>(Courtesy SFMOM; Photo by Matthew Millman)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>‘Feels like home’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>On the seventh floor of SFMOMA, the museum’s blockbuster art-meets-sports show \u003ci>Get in the Game\u003c/i> features work Begovic first created for the Oakland Roots and Oakland Soul soccer teams. His original commission of a few pieces turned into over a dozen, and surfaced a number of characters he felt compelled to depict in a short film titled \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://youtu.be/KP7liMnBnYg?si=RthSV-IbwPJ1lR9n\">HumanE.T.\u003c/a>\u003c/em>, made in collaboration with the Oakland Roots. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The title plays on the “alien” status imposed on refugees and migrants. “As immigrants, as refugees, on our passports, on our visas it’s like, alien, alien,” Begovic says. “The E.T. comes from [being seen as] extraterrestrial. You are the other, you’re an outsider, you’re a foreigner, you’re a refugee.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Begovic’s aim, he says, is to transform that othering into something else. “To ask, am I really that different from you?” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During our conversation, Begovic describes his love for spending time at 24th and Mission Streets with his daughter, whose unabashed curiosity helps him see the world around him with wonder and awe. Part of his attraction to the intersection comes from the expressions of life reflecting “back home,” even if it’s not \u003cem>his\u003c/em> home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13970165\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/01/20250110_Sko-Habibi_DMB_00165.jpg\" alt=\"white man in baseball cap in dim light\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13970165\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/01/20250110_Sko-Habibi_DMB_00165.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/01/20250110_Sko-Habibi_DMB_00165-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/01/20250110_Sko-Habibi_DMB_00165-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/01/20250110_Sko-Habibi_DMB_00165-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/01/20250110_Sko-Habibi_DMB_00165-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/01/20250110_Sko-Habibi_DMB_00165-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/01/20250110_Sko-Habibi_DMB_00165-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">‘Even though my village is so far away,’ Begovic says, ‘I still find that frequency through other communities, through people, through art.’ \u003ccite>(David M. 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His work asks us to face the scarier feelings without fear; it asks us to sit with others and listen to the stories they want to share and the truths they safeguard. If we do that, maybe we will arrive somewhere even more human.\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>[dropcap]A[/dropcap] quarter century ago, during the 2000 NBA All-Star slam dunk contest, Vince Carter put on a show that solidified his nickname of “Half-Man Half-Amazing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He hit a reverse 360 dunk that made Shaquille O’Neal react like a 7-foot kid. He followed it with “The East Bay Funk,” in which he hit off a bounce pass from his cousin and fellow member of the NBA Hall of Fame Tracy McGrady.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-13833985\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/OGPenn.Cap_.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"135\" height=\"155\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/OGPenn.Cap_.jpg 180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/OGPenn.Cap_-160x184.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 135px) 100vw, 135px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On his final attempt, he jumped so far into the sky that upon his descent, he was able to put his entire right forearm into the rim, hanging there for a few seconds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The stars in the audience were stunned. Carter hanging off the rim from his forearm is an image forever etched into basketball history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The All-Star Game returns to the Bay Area this February. A lot has changed since then.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13970096\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1712px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13970096\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/01/GettyImages-72442645-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1712\" height=\"2560\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/01/GettyImages-72442645-scaled.jpg 1712w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/01/GettyImages-72442645-800x1196.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/01/GettyImages-72442645-1020x1525.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/01/GettyImages-72442645-160x239.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/01/GettyImages-72442645-768x1149.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/01/GettyImages-72442645-1027x1536.jpg 1027w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/01/GettyImages-72442645-1369x2048.jpg 1369w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/01/GettyImages-72442645-1920x2871.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1712px) 100vw, 1712px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Vince Carter of the Toronto Raptors hangs with his forearm inside the rim during the NBA Allstar Game Slam Dunk Contest at the Oakland Coliseum on Feb. 13, 2000. \u003ccite>(Jed Jacobsohn /Allsport)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>When Vince Carter finally returned to Earth, he landed on the floor of the Oakland Arena. Professional hoops are no longer played there; the Warriors moved to the Chase Center in San Francisco in 2019.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the past decade, the Dubs have won four NBA championships, three before leaving Oakland. But this year, after a promising start, they’re playing .500 ball. As star guard Steph Curry said in a recent interview, “We’re very mid right now.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID='news_12006567']In fact, the whole Bay Area pro sports landscape, once rich with accolades, has been mid.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The San Francisco 49ers, one of the winningest franchises in NFL history, had a dismal year. Over the past three decades, they’ve repeatedly come close to being crowned champs, but they haven’t won a Super Bowl since 1995.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Raiders, founded in Oakland in 1966, moved to Las Vegas in 2020. And last year, the Oakland Athletics, the baseball team that once shared a stadium with the Raiders, also left for Las Vegas — taking the scenic route through Sacramento for a couple seasons.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13970097\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13970097\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/01/20240926_AsFinalHomeGame_GC-31.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/01/20240926_AsFinalHomeGame_GC-31.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/01/20240926_AsFinalHomeGame_GC-31-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/01/20240926_AsFinalHomeGame_GC-31-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/01/20240926_AsFinalHomeGame_GC-31-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/01/20240926_AsFinalHomeGame_GC-31-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/01/20240926_AsFinalHomeGame_GC-31-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/01/20240926_AsFinalHomeGame_GC-31-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A fan cheers during the A’s final home game at the Oakland Coliseum. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Sacramento sports fans are no stranger to change either. Their basketball team, the Kings, recently fired head coach Mike Brown. That’s par for the course; the team has had eight different head coaches in the past 12 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The only remaining major league baseball team in Northern California, the San Francisco Giants, were two games under .500 last year. And Northern California’s only pro hockey team, the San Jose Sharks, had the worst record in the entire NHL last year — and they aren’t doing much better this season.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sure, it’s not all bad. The Bay FC soccer team had a solid inaugural year. The Golden State Valkyries play their first WNBA game later this spring. And the Oakland Roots soccer team is set to play a few games at the Oakland Coliseum next season.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID='news_12019505']But on the whole, it’s been rough for local sports fans. Last year we mourned the loss of legendary athletes Rickey Henderson and Willie Mays. We even said goodbye to an entire collegiate athletic division, the Pac-12.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All this to say, when the All-Star Game comes around, you might run into some sports fans with some chips on their shoulders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13970334\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13970334\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/01/GettyImages-1209815211.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/01/GettyImages-1209815211.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/01/GettyImages-1209815211-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/01/GettyImages-1209815211-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/01/GettyImages-1209815211-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/01/GettyImages-1209815211-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/01/GettyImages-1209815211-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/01/GettyImages-1209815211-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Oakland ‘The Town’ logo is projected on the floor before a game between the Golden State Warriors and the Sacramento Kings at the Chase Center in 2020. \u003ccite>(Lachlan Cunningham/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>[dropcap]N[/dropcap]ot only has sports been mid, the cost of living has been high. That’s reflected most directly in the issue of housing disparity. In 2000, the City’s second-ever homeless census counted 5,376 people living without proper shelter. Last May, San Francisco tallied more than 8,300.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A 2018 United Nations report characterized the living conditions of San Francisco and Oakland’s unhoused population as “cruel and inhuman” and “a violation of multiple human rights.” Those conditions were exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic, and last year, the Supreme Court’s Grants Pass decision led to large sweeps of encampments all around the region.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even with these efforts to rid the streets of the people who call them home, mass homelessness is so widespread that visitors enjoying the glitz of All-Star weekend will have no choice but to be at least subtly aware of what’s going on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13952165\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13952165\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/013_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_09082022.jpg\" alt='RVs in an encampment with signs that read \"Where do we go?\" and \"Respect existence or expect resistance.\"' width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/013_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_09082022.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/013_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_09082022-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/013_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_09082022-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/013_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_09082022-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/013_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_09082022-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/013_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_09082022-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Signs cover two RVs at the Wood Street encampment in Oakland on Sept. 8, 2022, while CalTrans moved in to clear the area. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Concerns about homelessness, crime and the fentanyl epidemic have fueled political turmoil, as voters have rallied for tough-on-crime stances, voted against prison reform initiatives and lost faith in elected officials — even recalling two local district attorneys and the mayor of Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As driverless cars whiz past the neon lights of cannabis dispensaries, new high rises have redrawn the City’s skyline. The region has grown not just vertically but horizontally, with new developments adding to urban sprawl.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And the influence of tech money in the region is as clear as the Rakuten logo on the Warriors’ official jersey. If you haven’t been here since 2000, it’s changed a lot. Even to those of us from here, it looks like an entirely new place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID='arts_13964538']In the winter of 2000, I was a 12 year-old aspiring baseball player, but I couldn’t pass up free tickets gifted to my oldest friend Jon and I for the NBA All-Star weekend rookie game. We considered hiding out in the bathroom to see the dunk contest later that evening, but ended up hanging out in front of the arena and enjoying ourselves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The energy in the Town was live. Around the arena, radio station vans pulled up and people played arcade-style hoop games. Despite the losing records of the local sports teams and the community issues of the time, it was fun.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13970128\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 924px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13970128\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/01/GettyImages-1359133980.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"924\" height=\"1356\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/01/GettyImages-1359133980.jpg 924w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/01/GettyImages-1359133980-800x1174.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/01/GettyImages-1359133980-160x235.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/01/GettyImages-1359133980-768x1127.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 924px) 100vw, 924px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sean Evelya of Oakland dunks the ball at one of the many basketball activities outside the Oakland Arena for the 2000 All-Star Game. \u003ccite>(Ray Chavez/MediaNews Group/Bay Area News via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>[dropcap]S[/dropcap]o as we dig deeper into 2025, I acknowledge that some of us are on edge about both national and local issues. And yeah, our pro sports teams are going through something right now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But this event, first and foremost, is for the home team. Make it memorable. And to visitors coming to the Bay, be prepared: there are different realities based on your economic status. After bringing your luggage straight to the hotel instead of leaving it in your car, come out and enjoy the festivities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There will inevitably be a protest of some sort, you’ll hear some E-40, and I’d bet my pink slip that there’ll be at least one sideshow that weekend. This is one of the most unique places in the world, mostly because there are so many people here from all around the world.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While our sports teams (hopefully) get on the mend, there’s arguably no place with more game. Soak some.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class=\"utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__dropcapShortcode__dropcap\">A\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp> quarter century ago, during the 2000 NBA All-Star slam dunk contest, Vince Carter put on a show that solidified his nickname of “Half-Man Half-Amazing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He hit a reverse 360 dunk that made Shaquille O’Neal react like a 7-foot kid. He followed it with “The East Bay Funk,” in which he hit off a bounce pass from his cousin and fellow member of the NBA Hall of Fame Tracy McGrady.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-13833985\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/OGPenn.Cap_.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"135\" height=\"155\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/OGPenn.Cap_.jpg 180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/OGPenn.Cap_-160x184.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 135px) 100vw, 135px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On his final attempt, he jumped so far into the sky that upon his descent, he was able to put his entire right forearm into the rim, hanging there for a few seconds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The stars in the audience were stunned. Carter hanging off the rim from his forearm is an image forever etched into basketball history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The All-Star Game returns to the Bay Area this February. A lot has changed since then.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13970096\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1712px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13970096\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/01/GettyImages-72442645-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1712\" height=\"2560\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/01/GettyImages-72442645-scaled.jpg 1712w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/01/GettyImages-72442645-800x1196.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/01/GettyImages-72442645-1020x1525.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/01/GettyImages-72442645-160x239.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/01/GettyImages-72442645-768x1149.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/01/GettyImages-72442645-1027x1536.jpg 1027w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/01/GettyImages-72442645-1369x2048.jpg 1369w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/01/GettyImages-72442645-1920x2871.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1712px) 100vw, 1712px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Vince Carter of the Toronto Raptors hangs with his forearm inside the rim during the NBA Allstar Game Slam Dunk Contest at the Oakland Coliseum on Feb. 13, 2000. \u003ccite>(Jed Jacobsohn /Allsport)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>When Vince Carter finally returned to Earth, he landed on the floor of the Oakland Arena. Professional hoops are no longer played there; the Warriors moved to the Chase Center in San Francisco in 2019.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the past decade, the Dubs have won four NBA championships, three before leaving Oakland. But this year, after a promising start, they’re playing .500 ball. As star guard Steph Curry said in a recent interview, “We’re very mid right now.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>In fact, the whole Bay Area pro sports landscape, once rich with accolades, has been mid.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The San Francisco 49ers, one of the winningest franchises in NFL history, had a dismal year. Over the past three decades, they’ve repeatedly come close to being crowned champs, but they haven’t won a Super Bowl since 1995.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Raiders, founded in Oakland in 1966, moved to Las Vegas in 2020. And last year, the Oakland Athletics, the baseball team that once shared a stadium with the Raiders, also left for Las Vegas — taking the scenic route through Sacramento for a couple seasons.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13970097\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13970097\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/01/20240926_AsFinalHomeGame_GC-31.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/01/20240926_AsFinalHomeGame_GC-31.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/01/20240926_AsFinalHomeGame_GC-31-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/01/20240926_AsFinalHomeGame_GC-31-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/01/20240926_AsFinalHomeGame_GC-31-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/01/20240926_AsFinalHomeGame_GC-31-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/01/20240926_AsFinalHomeGame_GC-31-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/01/20240926_AsFinalHomeGame_GC-31-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A fan cheers during the A’s final home game at the Oakland Coliseum. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Sacramento sports fans are no stranger to change either. Their basketball team, the Kings, recently fired head coach Mike Brown. That’s par for the course; the team has had eight different head coaches in the past 12 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The only remaining major league baseball team in Northern California, the San Francisco Giants, were two games under .500 last year. And Northern California’s only pro hockey team, the San Jose Sharks, had the worst record in the entire NHL last year — and they aren’t doing much better this season.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sure, it’s not all bad. The Bay FC soccer team had a solid inaugural year. The Golden State Valkyries play their first WNBA game later this spring. And the Oakland Roots soccer team is set to play a few games at the Oakland Coliseum next season.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>But on the whole, it’s been rough for local sports fans. Last year we mourned the loss of legendary athletes Rickey Henderson and Willie Mays. We even said goodbye to an entire collegiate athletic division, the Pac-12.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All this to say, when the All-Star Game comes around, you might run into some sports fans with some chips on their shoulders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13970334\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13970334\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/01/GettyImages-1209815211.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/01/GettyImages-1209815211.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/01/GettyImages-1209815211-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/01/GettyImages-1209815211-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/01/GettyImages-1209815211-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/01/GettyImages-1209815211-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/01/GettyImages-1209815211-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/01/GettyImages-1209815211-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Oakland ‘The Town’ logo is projected on the floor before a game between the Golden State Warriors and the Sacramento Kings at the Chase Center in 2020. \u003ccite>(Lachlan Cunningham/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class=\"utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__dropcapShortcode__dropcap\">N\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>ot only has sports been mid, the cost of living has been high. That’s reflected most directly in the issue of housing disparity. In 2000, the City’s second-ever homeless census counted 5,376 people living without proper shelter. Last May, San Francisco tallied more than 8,300.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A 2018 United Nations report characterized the living conditions of San Francisco and Oakland’s unhoused population as “cruel and inhuman” and “a violation of multiple human rights.” Those conditions were exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic, and last year, the Supreme Court’s Grants Pass decision led to large sweeps of encampments all around the region.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even with these efforts to rid the streets of the people who call them home, mass homelessness is so widespread that visitors enjoying the glitz of All-Star weekend will have no choice but to be at least subtly aware of what’s going on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13952165\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13952165\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/013_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_09082022.jpg\" alt='RVs in an encampment with signs that read \"Where do we go?\" and \"Respect existence or expect resistance.\"' width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/013_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_09082022.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/013_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_09082022-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/013_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_09082022-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/013_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_09082022-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/013_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_09082022-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/013_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_09082022-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Signs cover two RVs at the Wood Street encampment in Oakland on Sept. 8, 2022, while CalTrans moved in to clear the area. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Concerns about homelessness, crime and the fentanyl epidemic have fueled political turmoil, as voters have rallied for tough-on-crime stances, voted against prison reform initiatives and lost faith in elected officials — even recalling two local district attorneys and the mayor of Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As driverless cars whiz past the neon lights of cannabis dispensaries, new high rises have redrawn the City’s skyline. The region has grown not just vertically but horizontally, with new developments adding to urban sprawl.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And the influence of tech money in the region is as clear as the Rakuten logo on the Warriors’ official jersey. If you haven’t been here since 2000, it’s changed a lot. Even to those of us from here, it looks like an entirely new place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>In the winter of 2000, I was a 12 year-old aspiring baseball player, but I couldn’t pass up free tickets gifted to my oldest friend Jon and I for the NBA All-Star weekend rookie game. We considered hiding out in the bathroom to see the dunk contest later that evening, but ended up hanging out in front of the arena and enjoying ourselves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The energy in the Town was live. Around the arena, radio station vans pulled up and people played arcade-style hoop games. Despite the losing records of the local sports teams and the community issues of the time, it was fun.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13970128\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 924px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13970128\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/01/GettyImages-1359133980.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"924\" height=\"1356\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/01/GettyImages-1359133980.jpg 924w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/01/GettyImages-1359133980-800x1174.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/01/GettyImages-1359133980-160x235.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/01/GettyImages-1359133980-768x1127.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 924px) 100vw, 924px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sean Evelya of Oakland dunks the ball at one of the many basketball activities outside the Oakland Arena for the 2000 All-Star Game. \u003ccite>(Ray Chavez/MediaNews Group/Bay Area News via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class=\"utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__dropcapShortcode__dropcap\">S\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>o as we dig deeper into 2025, I acknowledge that some of us are on edge about both national and local issues. And yeah, our pro sports teams are going through something right now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But this event, first and foremost, is for the home team. Make it memorable. And to visitors coming to the Bay, be prepared: there are different realities based on your economic status. After bringing your luggage straight to the hotel instead of leaving it in your car, come out and enjoy the festivities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There will inevitably be a protest of some sort, you’ll hear some E-40, and I’d bet my pink slip that there’ll be at least one sideshow that weekend. This is one of the most unique places in the world, mostly because there are so many people here from all around the world.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13965627\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 840px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13965627\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/IMG_5246.jpg\" alt=\"This is what it looks like to be really rooted in Oakland.\" width=\"840\" height=\"1260\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/IMG_5246.jpg 840w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/IMG_5246-800x1200.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/IMG_5246-160x240.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/IMG_5246-768x1152.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 840px) 100vw, 840px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">This is what it looks like to be really rooted in Oakland. \u003ccite>(Azael Garcia)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Now that the elephant, the clowns and the circus \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101907199/oakland-fans-say-goodbye-to-as-baseball-during-final-home-games-in-the-coliseum\">have left the Town\u003c/a>, we can focus on sports teams that are actually rooted in the East Bay. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003ca href=\"https://www.oaklandrootssc.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Oakland Roots\u003c/a>, a USL Championship league soccer club that was founded in \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">2018, has been all about this community since its inception. \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Along with its sister organization, the women’s team \u003ca href=\"https://www.oaklandsoulsc.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Oakland Soul\u003c/a> (founded in 2023), the Roots have shown what it means to be steeped in the place they call home. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The club was founded by \u003ca href=\"https://oaklandside.org/2022/06/28/oakland-roots-homegrown-soccer-club-community-part-2/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Edreece Arghandiwal and Benno Nagel\u003c/a>, two local soccer fans who love Oakland. As an organization, they’ve signed players from Northern California, hired Bay Area DJs to spin at their games and invited some extremely talented local artists to performing during halftime. They’ve incorporated key aspects of their fanbase’s culture into their sporting events, and they’ve even managed to keep ticket prices reasonable. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13965628\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 840px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13965628\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/IMG_5244.jpg\" alt=\"Melissa Castro poses for a photo while wearing the latest Oakland Roots jersey.\" width=\"840\" height=\"1260\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/IMG_5244.jpg 840w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/IMG_5244-800x1200.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/IMG_5244-160x240.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/IMG_5244-768x1152.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 840px) 100vw, 840px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Melissa Castro poses for a photo while wearing the latest Oakland Roots jersey. \u003ccite>(Azael Garcia)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Earlier this week the Roots took their community efforts a step further by debuting a fly new jersey that celebrates Oakland’s diversity, Latin American culture and the influence of the African diaspora.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The jersey is a combined effort between the Roots, athletic clothing brand \u003ca href=\"https://us.charly.com/?143375449341&keyword=capptus&gad_source=1&gclid=Cj0KCQjwr9m3BhDHARIsANut04bVM8-ifcpH4isbcLPc6_xcmrWbp6P-9tgXWYyx4P1-dSlQS7aXkCAaApUmEALw_wcB\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CHARLY\u003c/a> and Oakland’s Afro-Latin hip-hop duo, \u003ca href=\"https://www.losrakas.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Los Rakas\u003c/a>. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Designed by \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/inceptionofdrapes/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Torron Thompson\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/taulibikharo/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Taulib Ikharo\u003c/a>, the kit highlights Latin America’s cultural wealth. The jersey has a black base with a multicolored skeletal outline of a ribcage on the front, a nod to calaveras, or sugar skulls, that are a staple in \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13920993/a-family-tradition-of-altar-making-as-told-by-rio-yanez\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Día de Los Muertos\u003c/a> celebrations.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Around the skeleton is a design that’s inspired by a textile that can be found in places like Colombia, Peru and Panama; it’s known as Mola. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Raka Dun and Raka Rich, the Panamanian duo who make up Los Rakas, say this was added to highlight the Indigenous culture of their native Central American soil. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13965664\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 840px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13965664\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/img_5239.jpg\" alt=\"Raka Rich\" width=\"840\" height=\"1260\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/img_5239.jpg 840w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/img_5239-800x1200.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/img_5239-160x240.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/img_5239-768x1152.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 840px) 100vw, 840px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Raka Rich. \u003ccite>(Azael Garcia)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“The Panamanians made it cool, they’re the ones who really rep it,” says Raka Rich of the Mola textile. “Especially the Afro-Panamanians.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Raka Dun explains that the Mola design, full of colorful figures and intricate lines, has a cultural relevance that’s comparable to that of Kente cloth in the West African country of Ghana.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">For jersey designer Ikharo, a Nigerian American DJ and former professional football player who was raised in Oakland, it was imperative to show the connections between Latin heritage and the broader African diaspora.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">I thought it was very important to tie that in,” says Ikharo. “It’s important to show that we are one.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13965665\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 840px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13965665\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/img_5240.jpg\" alt=\"Raka Dun\" width=\"840\" height=\"1260\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/img_5240.jpg 840w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/img_5240-800x1200.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/img_5240-160x240.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/img_5240-768x1152.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 840px) 100vw, 840px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Raka Dun. \u003ccite>(Azael Garcia)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The jersey, which will only be available for purchase at this Sunday’s game, debuted earlier this week by way of a social media ad campaign. In the video, Los Rakas and a mariachi band are posted around an altar, an o\u003cspan class=\"mw-page-title-main\">frenda, \u003c/span>in the middle of East Oakland’s lush green Redwood Regional Park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There, between the dense trees that only allow scattered rays of sunlight through, Raka Dun and Raka Rich recite poetic verses in Spanish that reference life and death as they honor Hispanic Heritage Month and Día de Los Muertos.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“The poem that we did,” says Raka Dun, “we did it for our brother, Big Smoke, he recently passed away.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Raka Rich shares an “RIP Big Smoke\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">” as he\u003c/span> echoes the sentiment of mourning their friend, who was also known as \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/DAKQg_0vpOv/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Anthony Stringfield\u003c/span>\u003c/a>, an MC and dancer who performed alongside Los Rakas since the early 2000s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2qgn3I0LxIc\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Los Rakas’ work in the community and on stages around the Bay Area has been widely recognized, and this jersey is something that’s been brewing for some time. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“We literally talked about it like 10 years ago,” Rich reflects. \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“We really said, ‘When we blow up we’re gonna buy a soccer team and bring it to Oakland’.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Although Los Rakas aren’t the owners of the team, it’s still a major accomplishment. “To be able to come out with a soccer jersey is something we always thought about,” says Dun. “And to do it with the official Oakland soccer team, it’s like a dream come true.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Grammy-nominated duo isn’t new to partnering with other entities. In the past they’ve collaborated on \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2bVlRWjSCU4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a sneaker with the Puma shoe company\u003c/a>, created a board design with \u003ca href=\"https://zachary-jones.com/zambombazo/los-rakas-raka-mola-la-cultura-kuna-en-nuestros-disenos/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">San Francisco-based skate company FTC\u003c/a> and had a song featured in \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EcexXRHd1cs&t=37s\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the soccer video game FIFA\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13965658\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 840px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13965658\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/IMG_5242.jpg\" alt=\"Los Rakas, CHARLY and The Oakland Roots newest jersey.\" width=\"840\" height=\"1260\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/IMG_5242.jpg 840w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/IMG_5242-800x1200.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/IMG_5242-160x240.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/IMG_5242-768x1152.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 840px) 100vw, 840px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Details on Los Rakas and the Oakland Roots’ new jersey are inspired by Indigenous textiles from Central America. \u003ccite>(Azael Garcia)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But this work with the Roots is different.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This debut comes the same week as the Oakland A’s final baseball game in the Town. And as the Roots are set to play games at the abandoned Oakland Coliseum next year, \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Raka Dun recognizes the bigger picture. \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“It’s the end of an era, and the beginning of a new era,” he says.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new soccer jersey will only be available for purchase at this Sunday’s Roots game, during which Los Rakas will perform.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When asked what fans should anticipate at this weekend’s event, Raka Dun says, “Expect people to get out of their seat, and have a good time.” He adds,\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> “It’s going to be a Raka party.” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>The Oakland Roots play FC Tulsa at California State University, East Bay’s Pioneer Stadium in Hayward at 3 p.m. on Sept. 29. \u003ca href=\"https://seatgeek.com/oakland-roots-sc-tickets\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tickets and details here\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13965627\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 840px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13965627\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/IMG_5246.jpg\" alt=\"This is what it looks like to be really rooted in Oakland.\" width=\"840\" height=\"1260\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/IMG_5246.jpg 840w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/IMG_5246-800x1200.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/IMG_5246-160x240.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/IMG_5246-768x1152.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 840px) 100vw, 840px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">This is what it looks like to be really rooted in Oakland. \u003ccite>(Azael Garcia)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Now that the elephant, the clowns and the circus \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101907199/oakland-fans-say-goodbye-to-as-baseball-during-final-home-games-in-the-coliseum\">have left the Town\u003c/a>, we can focus on sports teams that are actually rooted in the East Bay. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003ca href=\"https://www.oaklandrootssc.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Oakland Roots\u003c/a>, a USL Championship league soccer club that was founded in \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">2018, has been all about this community since its inception. \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Along with its sister organization, the women’s team \u003ca href=\"https://www.oaklandsoulsc.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Oakland Soul\u003c/a> (founded in 2023), the Roots have shown what it means to be steeped in the place they call home. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The club was founded by \u003ca href=\"https://oaklandside.org/2022/06/28/oakland-roots-homegrown-soccer-club-community-part-2/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Edreece Arghandiwal and Benno Nagel\u003c/a>, two local soccer fans who love Oakland. As an organization, they’ve signed players from Northern California, hired Bay Area DJs to spin at their games and invited some extremely talented local artists to performing during halftime. They’ve incorporated key aspects of their fanbase’s culture into their sporting events, and they’ve even managed to keep ticket prices reasonable. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13965628\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 840px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13965628\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/IMG_5244.jpg\" alt=\"Melissa Castro poses for a photo while wearing the latest Oakland Roots jersey.\" width=\"840\" height=\"1260\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/IMG_5244.jpg 840w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/IMG_5244-800x1200.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/IMG_5244-160x240.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/IMG_5244-768x1152.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 840px) 100vw, 840px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Melissa Castro poses for a photo while wearing the latest Oakland Roots jersey. \u003ccite>(Azael Garcia)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Earlier this week the Roots took their community efforts a step further by debuting a fly new jersey that celebrates Oakland’s diversity, Latin American culture and the influence of the African diaspora.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The jersey is a combined effort between the Roots, athletic clothing brand \u003ca href=\"https://us.charly.com/?143375449341&keyword=capptus&gad_source=1&gclid=Cj0KCQjwr9m3BhDHARIsANut04bVM8-ifcpH4isbcLPc6_xcmrWbp6P-9tgXWYyx4P1-dSlQS7aXkCAaApUmEALw_wcB\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CHARLY\u003c/a> and Oakland’s Afro-Latin hip-hop duo, \u003ca href=\"https://www.losrakas.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Los Rakas\u003c/a>. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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The jersey has a black base with a multicolored skeletal outline of a ribcage on the front, a nod to calaveras, or sugar skulls, that are a staple in \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13920993/a-family-tradition-of-altar-making-as-told-by-rio-yanez\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Día de Los Muertos\u003c/a> celebrations.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Around the skeleton is a design that’s inspired by a textile that can be found in places like Colombia, Peru and Panama; it’s known as Mola. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Raka Dun and Raka Rich, the Panamanian duo who make up Los Rakas, say this was added to highlight the Indigenous culture of their native Central American soil. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13965664\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 840px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13965664\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/img_5239.jpg\" alt=\"Raka Rich\" width=\"840\" height=\"1260\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/img_5239.jpg 840w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/img_5239-800x1200.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/img_5239-160x240.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/img_5239-768x1152.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 840px) 100vw, 840px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Raka Rich. \u003ccite>(Azael Garcia)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“The Panamanians made it cool, they’re the ones who really rep it,” says Raka Rich of the Mola textile. “Especially the Afro-Panamanians.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Raka Dun explains that the Mola design, full of colorful figures and intricate lines, has a cultural relevance that’s comparable to that of Kente cloth in the West African country of Ghana.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">For jersey designer Ikharo, a Nigerian American DJ and former professional football player who was raised in Oakland, it was imperative to show the connections between Latin heritage and the broader African diaspora.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">I thought it was very important to tie that in,” says Ikharo. “It’s important to show that we are one.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13965665\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 840px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13965665\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/img_5240.jpg\" alt=\"Raka Dun\" width=\"840\" height=\"1260\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/img_5240.jpg 840w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/img_5240-800x1200.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/img_5240-160x240.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/img_5240-768x1152.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 840px) 100vw, 840px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Raka Dun. \u003ccite>(Azael Garcia)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The jersey, which will only be available for purchase at this Sunday’s game, debuted earlier this week by way of a social media ad campaign. In the video, Los Rakas and a mariachi band are posted around an altar, an o\u003cspan class=\"mw-page-title-main\">frenda, \u003c/span>in the middle of East Oakland’s lush green Redwood Regional Park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There, between the dense trees that only allow scattered rays of sunlight through, Raka Dun and Raka Rich recite poetic verses in Spanish that reference life and death as they honor Hispanic Heritage Month and Día de Los Muertos.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“The poem that we did,” says Raka Dun, “we did it for our brother, Big Smoke, he recently passed away.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Raka Rich shares an “RIP Big Smoke\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">” as he\u003c/span> echoes the sentiment of mourning their friend, who was also known as \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/DAKQg_0vpOv/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Anthony Stringfield\u003c/span>\u003c/a>, an MC and dancer who performed alongside Los Rakas since the early 2000s.\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/2qgn3I0LxIc'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/2qgn3I0LxIc'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Los Rakas’ work in the community and on stages around the Bay Area has been widely recognized, and this jersey is something that’s been brewing for some time. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“We literally talked about it like 10 years ago,” Rich reflects. \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“We really said, ‘When we blow up we’re gonna buy a soccer team and bring it to Oakland’.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Although Los Rakas aren’t the owners of the team, it’s still a major accomplishment. “To be able to come out with a soccer jersey is something we always thought about,” says Dun. “And to do it with the official Oakland soccer team, it’s like a dream come true.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Grammy-nominated duo isn’t new to partnering with other entities. In the past they’ve collaborated on \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2bVlRWjSCU4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a sneaker with the Puma shoe company\u003c/a>, created a board design with \u003ca href=\"https://zachary-jones.com/zambombazo/los-rakas-raka-mola-la-cultura-kuna-en-nuestros-disenos/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">San Francisco-based skate company FTC\u003c/a> and had a song featured in \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EcexXRHd1cs&t=37s\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the soccer video game FIFA\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13965658\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 840px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13965658\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/IMG_5242.jpg\" alt=\"Los Rakas, CHARLY and The Oakland Roots newest jersey.\" width=\"840\" height=\"1260\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/IMG_5242.jpg 840w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/IMG_5242-800x1200.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/IMG_5242-160x240.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/IMG_5242-768x1152.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 840px) 100vw, 840px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Details on Los Rakas and the Oakland Roots’ new jersey are inspired by Indigenous textiles from Central America. \u003ccite>(Azael Garcia)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But this work with the Roots is different.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This debut comes the same week as the Oakland A’s final baseball game in the Town. And as the Roots are set to play games at the abandoned Oakland Coliseum next year, \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Raka Dun recognizes the bigger picture. \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“It’s the end of an era, and the beginning of a new era,” he says.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new soccer jersey will only be available for purchase at this Sunday’s Roots game, during which Los Rakas will perform.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When asked what fans should anticipate at this weekend’s event, Raka Dun says, “Expect people to get out of their seat, and have a good time.” He adds,\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> “It’s going to be a Raka party.” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>The Oakland Roots play FC Tulsa at California State University, East Bay’s Pioneer Stadium in Hayward at 3 p.m. on Sept. 29. \u003ca href=\"https://seatgeek.com/oakland-roots-sc-tickets\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tickets and details here\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>On Sunday morning, I woke up, gathered my superpowers, and added a couple lines to what’s sure to be one of the most Oakland-centric poems ever created.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But in order to achieve that status, it’ll take your poetic superpowers as well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland’s \u003ca href=\"http://www.chapter510.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Chapter 510\u003c/a>, an organization that champions literacy—especially for marginalized youth—has partnered with the \u003ca href=\"https://www.oaklandrootssc.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Oakland Roots\u003c/a> soccer club for the second annual “Write Your Roots” event series. It’s a part of the larger \u003ca href=\"https://poets.org/national-poetry-month\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">National Poetry Month\u003c/a> celebration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the next four weeks, Oakland residents are invited to participate in the \u003ca href=\"https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSc0jSuH8cychLCuA-R1KHVFMl9wyTR02ZxRDY3r9OEaA7cu9Q/viewform\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">All-Town Poem\u003c/a> (Spanish version\u003ca href=\"https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSejZkADhUaTJhjfcuUbIkj0QX_usAchhnEai4K0dWDXpX2i0g/viewform\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> here\u003c/a>), where writers can submit an entry on the theme of power at any time. The entries will then be edited and arranged into poem form, with all submissions getting credit by name—or superhero/supershero/supertheyro name, if they so choose.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This year’s entries should be a strong follow-up to last year’s effort, which produced the epic poem “\u003ca href=\"https://chapter510.medium.com/because-this-city-english-12579f5fa3a5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Because This City\u003c/a>.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chapter 510 Program Manager and Teaching Artist Jahan Khalighi says the overall goal is to create a community-based exercise in creativity, imagination, and power-building. For Khalighi, it’s about looking at “access to inspiration as a basic human right.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13895177\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13895177\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/04/Tongo-Elijah-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"San Francisco Poet Laureate Tongo Eisen-Martin stands in the middle of Elijah and Amaya at Oakland's Westlake Middle School\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/04/Tongo-Elijah-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/04/Tongo-Elijah-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/04/Tongo-Elijah-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/04/Tongo-Elijah-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/04/Tongo-Elijah-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/04/Tongo-Elijah-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/04/Tongo-Elijah-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Francisco Poet Laureate Tongo Eisen-Martin stands between students Elijah and Amaya at Oakland’s Westlake Middle School. \u003ccite>(Robbie Sweeny)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>On top of that, each day in April Chapter 510 is posting writing prompts on \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/chapter510/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Instagram\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/chptr510\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Twitter\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/chapter510\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Facebook\u003c/a>. If so moved to share a poem, Chapter 510 encourages people to use the hashtag “\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/explore/tags/peda2021/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#Peda2021\u003c/a>” to keep track of all the submissions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition, Chapter 510 offers a \u003ca href=\"https://static1.squarespace.com/static/580fe27615d5db24ca661579/t/606655a20a81c439ea07796c/1617319330909/Write+Your+Roos+Lesson+Plans+2021+%283%29.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">poetry curriculum\u003c/a> for educators, optimized for both distanced and in-person classrooms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lastly, with entertainment venues and community gathering spaces around the Bay Area on the verge of reopening, Chapter 510’s newest location at Swan’s Market is scheduled for a grand opening on April 30.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chapter 510 will culminate the month’s worth of writing with its first city-wide \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/CNGhWHuhgm7/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Write Your Roots Day\u003c/a>, which Mayor Libby Schaff officially proclaimed just last week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chapter 510 celebrates Write Your Roots Day on Friday, April 30, at 546 9th Street (at Swan’s Market) from 12pm-6pm. \u003ca href=\"http://www.chapter510.org/events-1/2021/4/30/write-your-roots-all-town-epic-poetry-day\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Details here\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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