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In one moment, all the \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/NICKIMINAJ/status/1751290347957911700\">Ben Shapiro tweets\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/arts-entertainment/2021/09/14/nicki-minaj-covid-19-vaccine-conspiracy/\">COVID conspiracies\u003c/a>, irredeemable \u003ca href=\"https://www.reddit.com/r/rateyourmusic/comments/1aeyxcl/nicki_minajs_bigfoot_is_now_the_second_lowest/\">diss tracks\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/C3jycgCO7ih/\">scattered whisper-rambles on Instagram Live\u003c/a> became distant memories. She was not here to play. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We are talking about a \u003ca href=\"https://www.setlist.fm/setlist/nicki-minaj/2024/oakland-arena-oakland-ca-53ad7bb5.html\">36-song setlist\u003c/a>, with smash hits and deep cuts alike. Six costume changes, robot dancers, a subway train, phone booths for her different alter egos. Lots of simulated copulation — group, duo and solo. Nicki, at age 41, coming for vengeance on workouts like “Roman’s Revenge,” and showing off her vocals on “Save Me.” And, just three months after being released, Nicki’s new songs from \u003cem>Pink Friday 2\u003c/em> — a smoldering “Big Difference,” set closer “Everybody” — coming off like classics. \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13953294\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/GettyImages-2053279794.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13953294\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/GettyImages-2053279794.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/GettyImages-2053279794-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/GettyImages-2053279794-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/GettyImages-2053279794-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/GettyImages-2053279794-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/GettyImages-2053279794-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nicki Minaj performs during the opening night of her Pink Friday 2 World Tour at the Oakland Arena on March 1, 2024. \u003ccite>(Kevin Mazur/WireImage for Live Nation)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>What’s evident is Nicki is \u003cem>hungry\u003c/em> again. Maybe the competition got to her, and she upped her game. Maybe it was always in hiding. While she performed, I found myself wondering if her whole meandering, is-she-on-drugs-or-isn’t-she thing of late has been an elaborate psy-op to hide intense training and rehearsal. Whatever happened, it’s resulted in her giving 100% again. The show (“this magical historic night,” Nicki declared) recalled the first time I saw her headline the Bay Area, \u003ca href=\"https://bohemian.com/live-review-nicki-minaj-at-the-paramount-theater-oakland/\">in 2012 at the Paramount Theatre\u003c/a> — how unstoppable she seemed then, how she gave her all to the crowd. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There have been rough patches in the interim, to be sure. Bay Area fans may remember a fraught Concord Pavilion show in 2015 that suffered from beleaguered choreography and a strange detachment that seemed concerning, especially after \u003cem>The Pinkprint\u003c/em>’s multiple references to Percocet. The show ended with a \u003ca href=\"https://www.vibe.com/music/music-news/nicki-minaj-concert-brawl-video-369856/\">giant brawl in the crowd\u003c/a>; as I left I saw one guy \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/gmeline/status/632463878668943360\">face-down, knocked out\u003c/a>. The vibes, as they say, were off.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13953293\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/GettyImages-2053279787.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13953293\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/GettyImages-2053279787.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/GettyImages-2053279787-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/GettyImages-2053279787-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/GettyImages-2053279787-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/GettyImages-2053279787-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/GettyImages-2053279787-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nicki Minaj performs during the opening night of her Pink Friday 2 World Tour at the Oakland Arena on March 1, 2024. \u003ccite>(Kevin Mazur/WireImage for Live Nation)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Friday night, fans got the old Nicki. And not just with older deep cuts like “Favorite” and “Win Again,” which roused diehards but caused the overall energy to dip. One of the show’s early peaks was “FTCU,” and the modern phenomenon of an arena screaming the \u003ca href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/tag/ftcu?lang=en\">30 seconds of a song that are famous on TikTok\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The inspirational Nicki showed up too, during “The Night Is Still Young.” “I wanna tell you guys something right now,” she said. “No matter what is happening right now outside of Gag City, inside here, we are radiating positivity, success, prosperity, intelligence and wisdom” — later telling her audience, many clad in in sequined skirts, pink wigs, fuzzy hats and platform heels, “You still have time to do what you have to do! Don’t waste a minute of your life! Promise me that!” \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13953295\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/GettyImages-2053284188.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13953295\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/GettyImages-2053284188.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/GettyImages-2053284188-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/GettyImages-2053284188-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/GettyImages-2053284188-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/GettyImages-2053284188-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/GettyImages-2053284188-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nicki Minaj performs ‘Cowgirl’ during the opening night of her Pink Friday 2 World Tour at the Oakland Arena on March 1, 2024. \u003ccite>(Kevin Mazur/WireImage for Live Nation)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Fans also got the sex-positive Nicki. After a costume change into a basketball jersey-inspired yellow dress and boxing hoodie, Nicki did her best impression of Prince’s “Darling Nikki” upon the stage floor, complete with 90-degree leg lifts and a strategically positioned microphone. Cue the Beyoncé duet “Feelin’ Myself,” followed by undulating with three leather-clad beefcakes on steel beds (“Cowgirl”) and a straight-up face sit (“RNB”). \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Provocative? Sure. But she knows what she’s doing. Nicki is hyper-aware of the meta narratives around her every move — and I’m not sure that’s always a good thing. As a longtime fan, part of my hesitation about this tour is that she’s seemed less interested in being the world’s greatest rapper, and more interested in \u003cem>hearing people say\u003c/em> she’s the world’s greatest rapper. It’s been giving self-doubt, and made me hear her music as telegraphing “greatness” instead of embodying it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13953291\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/GettyImages-2053284690.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13953291\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/GettyImages-2053284690.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/GettyImages-2053284690-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/GettyImages-2053284690-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/GettyImages-2053284690-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/GettyImages-2053284690-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/GettyImages-2053284690-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nicki Minaj performs ‘Red Ruby da Sleeze’ during the opening night of her Pink Friday 2 World Tour at the Oakland Arena on March 1, 2024. \u003ccite>(Kevin Mazur/WireImage for Live Nation)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But if anyone’s earned the right to rest on her laurels, it’s Nicki. You can hear her carefree flamboyance in Doja Cat, her winking humor in Cardi B, her boss-bitch confidence in — yes — Megan Thee Stallion. But primarily, 24 years into her career, Nicki’s influence is in the fact we are talking about any of these talented women at all.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It is really, really hard to convey to younger fans the unfair reality in which we lived, for years, that allowed for one and only one female rapper at a time. Nicki blew that notion apart. With her many alter egos and endless flows, she paved a multitude of ways for women to make their mark in the industry. On Friday, she also let \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/BARIJUKU/status/1763827847473635820\">national treasure Monica\u003c/a> perform a simmering set of a half-dozen songs during her headlining set, rather than making her open to a half-full arena.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13953292\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/GettyImages-2053288493.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13953292\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/GettyImages-2053288493.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/GettyImages-2053288493-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/GettyImages-2053288493-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/GettyImages-2053288493-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/GettyImages-2053288493-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/GettyImages-2053288493-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nicki Minaj performs ‘FTCU’ during the opening night of her Pink Friday 2 World Tour at the Oakland Arena on March 1, 2024. \u003ccite>(Kevin Mazur/WireImage for Live Nation)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>During the show, I thought of the prom scene in \u003cem>Mean Girls\u003c/em>, where Cady Heron hands out pieces of her crown to the other girls at school. That’s what Nicki did. I don’t think she really wants the crown back. She just wants people to know where it came from. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During her joyous finale in Oakland — with favorites “Moment for Life,” “Starships” and the eternal “Super Bass” — she made a convincing closing argument for that fact. This jury’s verdict is in: Nicki’s resurrected herself. \u003c/p>\n\n",
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In one moment, all the \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/NICKIMINAJ/status/1751290347957911700\">Ben Shapiro tweets\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/arts-entertainment/2021/09/14/nicki-minaj-covid-19-vaccine-conspiracy/\">COVID conspiracies\u003c/a>, irredeemable \u003ca href=\"https://www.reddit.com/r/rateyourmusic/comments/1aeyxcl/nicki_minajs_bigfoot_is_now_the_second_lowest/\">diss tracks\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/C3jycgCO7ih/\">scattered whisper-rambles on Instagram Live\u003c/a> became distant memories. She was not here to play. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We are talking about a \u003ca href=\"https://www.setlist.fm/setlist/nicki-minaj/2024/oakland-arena-oakland-ca-53ad7bb5.html\">36-song setlist\u003c/a>, with smash hits and deep cuts alike. Six costume changes, robot dancers, a subway train, phone booths for her different alter egos. Lots of simulated copulation — group, duo and solo. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There have been rough patches in the interim, to be sure. Bay Area fans may remember a fraught Concord Pavilion show in 2015 that suffered from beleaguered choreography and a strange detachment that seemed concerning, especially after \u003cem>The Pinkprint\u003c/em>’s multiple references to Percocet. The show ended with a \u003ca href=\"https://www.vibe.com/music/music-news/nicki-minaj-concert-brawl-video-369856/\">giant brawl in the crowd\u003c/a>; as I left I saw one guy \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/gmeline/status/632463878668943360\">face-down, knocked out\u003c/a>. The vibes, as they say, were off.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13953293\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/GettyImages-2053279787.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13953293\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/GettyImages-2053279787.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/GettyImages-2053279787-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/GettyImages-2053279787-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/GettyImages-2053279787-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/GettyImages-2053279787-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/GettyImages-2053279787-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nicki Minaj performs during the opening night of her Pink Friday 2 World Tour at the Oakland Arena on March 1, 2024. \u003ccite>(Kevin Mazur/WireImage for Live Nation)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Friday night, fans got the old Nicki. And not just with older deep cuts like “Favorite” and “Win Again,” which roused diehards but caused the overall energy to dip. One of the show’s early peaks was “FTCU,” and the modern phenomenon of an arena screaming the \u003ca href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/tag/ftcu?lang=en\">30 seconds of a song that are famous on TikTok\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The inspirational Nicki showed up too, during “The Night Is Still Young.” “I wanna tell you guys something right now,” she said. “No matter what is happening right now outside of Gag City, inside here, we are radiating positivity, success, prosperity, intelligence and wisdom” — later telling her audience, many clad in in sequined skirts, pink wigs, fuzzy hats and platform heels, “You still have time to do what you have to do! Don’t waste a minute of your life! Promise me that!” \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13953295\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/GettyImages-2053284188.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13953295\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/GettyImages-2053284188.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/GettyImages-2053284188-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/GettyImages-2053284188-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/GettyImages-2053284188-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/GettyImages-2053284188-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/GettyImages-2053284188-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nicki Minaj performs ‘Cowgirl’ during the opening night of her Pink Friday 2 World Tour at the Oakland Arena on March 1, 2024. \u003ccite>(Kevin Mazur/WireImage for Live Nation)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Fans also got the sex-positive Nicki. After a costume change into a basketball jersey-inspired yellow dress and boxing hoodie, Nicki did her best impression of Prince’s “Darling Nikki” upon the stage floor, complete with 90-degree leg lifts and a strategically positioned microphone. Cue the Beyoncé duet “Feelin’ Myself,” followed by undulating with three leather-clad beefcakes on steel beds (“Cowgirl”) and a straight-up face sit (“RNB”). \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Provocative? Sure. But she knows what she’s doing. Nicki is hyper-aware of the meta narratives around her every move — and I’m not sure that’s always a good thing. As a longtime fan, part of my hesitation about this tour is that she’s seemed less interested in being the world’s greatest rapper, and more interested in \u003cem>hearing people say\u003c/em> she’s the world’s greatest rapper. It’s been giving self-doubt, and made me hear her music as telegraphing “greatness” instead of embodying it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13953291\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/GettyImages-2053284690.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13953291\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/GettyImages-2053284690.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/GettyImages-2053284690-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/GettyImages-2053284690-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/GettyImages-2053284690-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/GettyImages-2053284690-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/GettyImages-2053284690-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nicki Minaj performs ‘Red Ruby da Sleeze’ during the opening night of her Pink Friday 2 World Tour at the Oakland Arena on March 1, 2024. \u003ccite>(Kevin Mazur/WireImage for Live Nation)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But if anyone’s earned the right to rest on her laurels, it’s Nicki. You can hear her carefree flamboyance in Doja Cat, her winking humor in Cardi B, her boss-bitch confidence in — yes — Megan Thee Stallion. But primarily, 24 years into her career, Nicki’s influence is in the fact we are talking about any of these talented women at all.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It is really, really hard to convey to younger fans the unfair reality in which we lived, for years, that allowed for one and only one female rapper at a time. Nicki blew that notion apart. With her many alter egos and endless flows, she paved a multitude of ways for women to make their mark in the industry. On Friday, she also let \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/BARIJUKU/status/1763827847473635820\">national treasure Monica\u003c/a> perform a simmering set of a half-dozen songs during her headlining set, rather than making her open to a half-full arena.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13953292\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/GettyImages-2053288493.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13953292\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/GettyImages-2053288493.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/GettyImages-2053288493-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/GettyImages-2053288493-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/GettyImages-2053288493-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/GettyImages-2053288493-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/GettyImages-2053288493-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nicki Minaj performs ‘FTCU’ during the opening night of her Pink Friday 2 World Tour at the Oakland Arena on March 1, 2024. \u003ccite>(Kevin Mazur/WireImage for Live Nation)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>During the show, I thought of the prom scene in \u003cem>Mean Girls\u003c/em>, where Cady Heron hands out pieces of her crown to the other girls at school. That’s what Nicki did. I don’t think she really wants the crown back. She just wants people to know where it came from. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>When we look back on history, all too often we stay focused on the big events — the disasters, the elections, the assassinations. But when it comes to getting an accurate view of a bygone era, it’s almost always the footage of everyday occurrences that tells us the most.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13950886']\u003cem>Raymond Cooper’s Oakland\u003c/em>, a photography collection currently on display at the \u003ca href=\"https://www.ebpco.org/opw\">Oakland Photo Workshop\u003c/a>, does just that. In Cooper’s images, we see snapshots of lives and characters, places and social events that vividly take us back to the streets and living rooms of 1970s Oakland. Two young men hanging on a street corner. Children posing with a parked Chrysler Sunbeam. A woman with a beautiful Afro smoking a cigarette on her porch. A Black cowboy riding through a parade.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13953021\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2251px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13953021\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/kids.jpg\" alt=\"Two children sit on the floor of a comfortable living room. They are surrounded by green plants, a white lamp behind them. \" width=\"2251\" height=\"1676\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/kids.jpg 2251w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/kids-800x596.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/kids-1020x759.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/kids-160x119.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/kids-768x572.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/kids-1536x1144.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/kids-2048x1525.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/kids-1920x1430.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2251px) 100vw, 2251px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Intimate family portraits are a high point of ‘Raymond Cooper’s Oakland.’ \u003ccite>(Rae Alexandra)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The images feel warm, familiar and intimate. They might not be of your friends and family, but they’ll make you think of the people who are. And their ability to take us to the least documented corners of the Town of 50 years ago is what makes them just a little bit magical.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The pictures on display represent an eclectic hodgepodge of Cooper’s two decades working as a photographer. (He also owned Sundance, a camera supply store on Webster Street.) In addition to Cooper’s street and home photography, there are some distinctly ’70s works of futuristic collage, a collection of fashion portraiture and some behind-the-scenes snaps, often involving hair stylists.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13953026\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1458px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13953026\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/Screen-Shot-2024-02-26-at-1.58.59-PM.png\" alt=\"A young white man wearing short shorts and knee high tube socks plays an arcade game.\" width=\"1458\" height=\"972\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/Screen-Shot-2024-02-26-at-1.58.59-PM.png 1458w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/Screen-Shot-2024-02-26-at-1.58.59-PM-800x533.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/Screen-Shot-2024-02-26-at-1.58.59-PM-1020x680.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/Screen-Shot-2024-02-26-at-1.58.59-PM-160x107.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/Screen-Shot-2024-02-26-at-1.58.59-PM-768x512.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1458px) 100vw, 1458px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Little is known about most of the locations and subjects of Cooper’s photos, but they distinctly reflect the era in which they were taken. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of the East Bay Photo Collective/ Aja Cooper)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.sfgate.com/local/article/stolen-photos-reveal-1970s-oakland-17494418.php\">The story of how Cooper’s photography got this little renaissance\u003c/a> is a delightful one. In 2021, a skateboarder named Ben Tolford rescued several binders of slides that had been dumped next to a trashcan in Oakland. While studying them at home, he found a self-portrait of Cooper that had the photographer’s name on it. He also found a baby picture with the name Aja on it. Tolford used social media to locate her — Aja is Cooper’s daughter — and returned the slides, which had been stolen from her storage space. Many more of Cooper’s photos had previously been lost in a house fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What’s left of Cooper’s portfolio tells a colorful story about trends, community and belonging. It provides contemporary audiences with an on-the-ground view of everyday Oakland life half a century ago. And it brings back vivid memories for those who lived through it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13953030\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13953030\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/raymondatsundance-scaled-e1708988629717.jpg\" alt=\"A slightly damaged photograph of a Black man on the phone inside a small business. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cem>Raymond Cooper’s Oakland\u003c/em>, a photography collection currently on display at the \u003ca href=\"https://www.ebpco.org/opw\">Oakland Photo Workshop\u003c/a>, does just that. In Cooper’s images, we see snapshots of lives and characters, places and social events that vividly take us back to the streets and living rooms of 1970s Oakland. Two young men hanging on a street corner. Children posing with a parked Chrysler Sunbeam. A woman with a beautiful Afro smoking a cigarette on her porch. A Black cowboy riding through a parade.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13953021\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2251px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13953021\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/kids.jpg\" alt=\"Two children sit on the floor of a comfortable living room. They are surrounded by green plants, a white lamp behind them. \" width=\"2251\" height=\"1676\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/kids.jpg 2251w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/kids-800x596.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/kids-1020x759.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/kids-160x119.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/kids-768x572.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/kids-1536x1144.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/kids-2048x1525.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/kids-1920x1430.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2251px) 100vw, 2251px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Intimate family portraits are a high point of ‘Raymond Cooper’s Oakland.’ \u003ccite>(Rae Alexandra)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The images feel warm, familiar and intimate. They might not be of your friends and family, but they’ll make you think of the people who are. And their ability to take us to the least documented corners of the Town of 50 years ago is what makes them just a little bit magical.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The pictures on display represent an eclectic hodgepodge of Cooper’s two decades working as a photographer. (He also owned Sundance, a camera supply store on Webster Street.) In addition to Cooper’s street and home photography, there are some distinctly ’70s works of futuristic collage, a collection of fashion portraiture and some behind-the-scenes snaps, often involving hair stylists.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13953026\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1458px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13953026\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/Screen-Shot-2024-02-26-at-1.58.59-PM.png\" alt=\"A young white man wearing short shorts and knee high tube socks plays an arcade game.\" width=\"1458\" height=\"972\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/Screen-Shot-2024-02-26-at-1.58.59-PM.png 1458w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/Screen-Shot-2024-02-26-at-1.58.59-PM-800x533.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/Screen-Shot-2024-02-26-at-1.58.59-PM-1020x680.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/Screen-Shot-2024-02-26-at-1.58.59-PM-160x107.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/Screen-Shot-2024-02-26-at-1.58.59-PM-768x512.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1458px) 100vw, 1458px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Little is known about most of the locations and subjects of Cooper’s photos, but they distinctly reflect the era in which they were taken. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of the East Bay Photo Collective/ Aja Cooper)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.sfgate.com/local/article/stolen-photos-reveal-1970s-oakland-17494418.php\">The story of how Cooper’s photography got this little renaissance\u003c/a> is a delightful one. In 2021, a skateboarder named Ben Tolford rescued several binders of slides that had been dumped next to a trashcan in Oakland. While studying them at home, he found a self-portrait of Cooper that had the photographer’s name on it. He also found a baby picture with the name Aja on it. Tolford used social media to locate her — Aja is Cooper’s daughter — and returned the slides, which had been stolen from her storage space. Many more of Cooper’s photos had previously been lost in a house fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp> \u003ca href=\"#episode-transcript\">\u003ci>View the full episode transcript.\u003c/i>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year I drove over 33,000 miles all around Northern California, constantly pursuing a deeper understanding of this region’s culture. And then one day, while sitting in traffic, it hit me: you can tell a lot about our culture by simply looking at the freeways.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13952673\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13952673\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/Freeway_Grove-Shafter_2024-01-28_Amir-Aziz_001-1-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"An overhead shot of the MacArthur Maze, an interchange of freeways in Oakland. \" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/Freeway_Grove-Shafter_2024-01-28_Amir-Aziz_001-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/Freeway_Grove-Shafter_2024-01-28_Amir-Aziz_001-1-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/Freeway_Grove-Shafter_2024-01-28_Amir-Aziz_001-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/Freeway_Grove-Shafter_2024-01-28_Amir-Aziz_001-1-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/Freeway_Grove-Shafter_2024-01-28_Amir-Aziz_001-1-1536x1023.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/Freeway_Grove-Shafter_2024-01-28_Amir-Aziz_001-1-2048x1364.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/Freeway_Grove-Shafter_2024-01-28_Amir-Aziz_001-1-1920x1279.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An overhead shot of the MacArthur Maze, an interchange of freeways in Oakland. \u003ccite>(Amir Aziz)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Deep potholes turn into kiddie pools when it rains, and signs remind us to be mindful of freeway flooding, evidence of crumbling infrastructure and climate change. Self-automated tollbooths exemplify the post-pandemic changes to labor. No two drivers are alike, so Nissan Altimas travel at the speed of light, zooming past Prii that move as slow as molasses in the winter; it’s clear that this place is the epicenter of diversity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The development of cookie-cutter homes alongside the freeway in suburban areas display our continued sprawl. The rise in homelessness is evidenced by the number of people I see walking on the shoulder of freeways, pushing shopping carts and carrying large backpacks. The amount of shootings on freeways shows us that we do \u003cem>indeed\u003c/em> have a problem with guns in this country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The freeways are dangerous, and they’re beautiful. For some, they’re a quick way to get from point A to point B. For others, the freeway is the route to happiness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13952680\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13952680\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/Freeway_Grove-Shafter_2024-01-28_Amir-Aziz_019-1-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Light traffic on the move and Oakland in the background on an overcast day in the Bay. \" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/Freeway_Grove-Shafter_2024-01-28_Amir-Aziz_019-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/Freeway_Grove-Shafter_2024-01-28_Amir-Aziz_019-1-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/Freeway_Grove-Shafter_2024-01-28_Amir-Aziz_019-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/Freeway_Grove-Shafter_2024-01-28_Amir-Aziz_019-1-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/Freeway_Grove-Shafter_2024-01-28_Amir-Aziz_019-1-1536x1023.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/Freeway_Grove-Shafter_2024-01-28_Amir-Aziz_019-1-2048x1364.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/Freeway_Grove-Shafter_2024-01-28_Amir-Aziz_019-1-1920x1279.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Light traffic on the move and Oakland in the background on an overcast day in the Bay. \u003ccite>(Amir Aziz)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>I live on the freeway, bobbing to my music while crossing bridges, yelling at people who cut me off. I slow down for the California Highway Patrol (CHP), and speed up when the freeway is empty. And far too often I sit in places where traffic is notoriously snarled — near the Sunol Grade, on the Yolo Bypass, or passing through the MacArthur Maze — and I ask myself questions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What does the prevalence of futuristic charging stations and electric cars say about the South Bay? Who controls the cameras of the self-driving cars in San Francisco? Why are Vallejo’s onramps so abrupt? Why can’t people learn how to merge?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And most importantly, if we can readily see the issues that plague our society, why do we keep driving past them?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This week, as we celebrate Rightnowish’s 200th episode, I give you a glimpse into the things that I think about while I’m bending corners on Northern California’s highways and byways.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"200\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https://playlist.megaphone.fm/?e=KQINC8689330178\" width=\"100%\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Episode Transcript\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Pendarvis Harshaw, host:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Hey, what’s up y’all?! \u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">[sings]\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Do you know what today is? It’s our 200th episode. Two hundred. We bicentennial out here, man, yeah!\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Thank you to everyone, everyone who’s appeared on this podcast, tuned in, shared it with a friend. If you’ve attended an event, thank you. And of course, as always, big love to the home team! Thank you for helping me make this thing. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Two-hundo! Yeah, let’s do it!\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Okay look, today I’ve got a special, personal essay for you. Yes, just for you, from me. It’s about how I’m always driving all around Northern California constantly in pursuit of a deeper understanding of the culture of this region. And then one day, while sitting in traffic, it all clicked: \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">This\u003c/span> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">is the culture. Right here. On this freeway. Gridlocked, surrounded by hybrids and under buckets, with signs of the times all around us! I gotta let the people know! \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">So, Imma let y’all know… \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">[Radio tuning, static]\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">[Music]\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Pendarvis Harshaw:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> You can tell a lot about the state of society in this region by simply looking at California’s freeways. And because of that, the freeways both fascinate me and they frighten me. They’re the key to life out here, and they’re a death trap. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">On one hand, they allow folks quicker ways to get to work, home, the homie’s house or a happy place.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">A lot of us live on the freeways, myself included. The roads bend and curve around the foothills and valleys that make up this immaculate piece of land. If you take the right road, it’ll push you up to an elevation that’ll allow you to see the sun touching the earth in a whole new way. On a clear day, California’s freeways provide brief glimpses of heaven. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">[Traffic, street noise]\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Pendarvis Harshaw:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> And, at the same time, every single day these freeways produce the most hellacious traffic for no [car horn]-ing reason. At that one spot where multiple lanes converge– sending one group of drivers to San Francisco, and the others through Emeryville– it can take 15 minutes to drive a quarter mile. There’s aggressive honking, animated hand gestures and cold eye contact. Some cars are going too slow, others too fast. And then, when you finally get through it all, there’s inevitably two people at the front of the line who act as if they’ve never merged before. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">On top of the possibility of sitting in traffic so long that your soul rots inside of your living flesh, there’s a chance that being involved in an accident while driving on one of these freeways might actually take your life. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">In this state, around four-thousand drivers die in car accidents each year. State by state, adjusted for population, California’s rate of drivers killed in car accidents is lower than most. But out here, nasty weather and DUI’s, distracted driving and high-speed joyriding– those aren’t the only hazards to avoid on the highways and byways. \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Unfortunately, it can get even more dangerous to drive in the golden state. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">According to\u003c/span> \u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.ca.gov/2024/01/23/governor-newsom-announces-significant-reduction-in-freeway-shootings-across-california/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">state reports\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, l\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">ast year there were 274 shootings on California freeways, a drop from \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">349 the year prior. Shootings are attributed to a wide range of occurrences – from mistaken identity, to conflicts between rival factions to road rage. Sadly, shootings on freeways aren’t new, but during the height of the pandemic there was a spike in freeway shootings, and California wasn’t alone in that rise. Across the nation confirmed reports of shootings have gone up more than 50% since 2019. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">In Northern California, a number of the shootings have been concentrated in the East Bay and have resulted in bystanders caught in crossfire, including children. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">[Music]\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Pendarvis Harshaw: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">There’s a certain way you have to move while on the highways and freeways in California, it’s a culture unto itself.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">These roads don’t just connect locations, they merge people of different ethnicities, religions, races and economic backgrounds. Some folks drive wildly, covering both lanes. Some people drive conservatively, hands on 10 and 2, not going a single mile per hour over the speed limit. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Not everyone out here drives, and I know plenty of people who avoid the freeways. But if you’re looking for a place to take an interesting sample size of life out here, the freeway is a microcosm of everything that’s going on right now.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> \u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">[White noise of highway traffic]\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">[Music]\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Pendarvis Harshaw:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Last year I drove all around Northern California, putting over thirty-thousand miles on my lil Honda hybrid. I call her Hot Chocolate, after the popular 1970s and 80s British soul band, the one that made the song,“Sexy Thing,” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">[Sexy Thing by Hot Chocolate, playing through a car radio]\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“Where are you from? You sexy thing”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Pendarvis Harshaw:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">… amongst other notable tracks. All that mileage was in effort to gain an understanding of the culture of this region. Working as a journalist, I go from studios to schools, radio stations to live events, constantly in traffic. Somewhere along the way, between the Sunol Grade and the MacArthur Maze, I realized that I was looking past the greatest example of what’s going on in this part of the world: the freeway!\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">[Music]\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Pendarvis Harshaw: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">We can start by looking at the signs. We’ve got these digital billboards notifying drivers that ‘driving high is a DUI’\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">[Sounds of sizzling, long exhale]\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Pendarvis Harshaw:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> …because we’re clearly a state that enjoys its cannabis. All over this region there are signs telling folks that certain freeways and highways are subject to flooding. That’s the most modest way of saying, “Yo, we’ve got some archaic infrastructure, and climate change is kicking our ass!” On some freeways, there are signs asking drivers to be mindful of pedestrians. As the amount of unsheltered people living near underpasses increases, so do the amount of people I’ve seen walking on the shoulder or even across the freeway. Yeah, I’m very mindful.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The signs of the times don’t stop there. Look at the cars: the bumper stickers in Berkeley boasting leftist leaning political perspectives, trucks with the Trump flags can be spotted from Folsom to Fresno.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">There’s big cars with small ‘blue lives matter’ decals, SUVs with skis overhead, heading to Tahoe. There’s Pacific Islander biker crews with palm trees etched on their leather vests, lowrider squads in the slow lane, back to back to back to back, sun glistening off candy paint and gold thangs; cars with 49ers flags on both sides as they ride. Man, look, the first time I saw a “Las Vegas Raiders” license plate frame, I damn near lost my mind.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">All around the Bay Area there are cars with broken windows, covered in translucent plastic or taped pieces of cardboard because of break-ins. It’s heart shattering. And the sheer number of hybrids and electric vehicles in the South Bay is astounding. I often wonder who’s on the other side of the camera as I stare at the self-driving cars when I get off the freeway in Frisco. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Somewhere, right now in the East Bay there’s a 2004 Nissan Altima with no license plates breaking the sound barrier as they hit the HOV lane.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">[Engine rumbles, traffic noise]\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Pendarvis Harshaw: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The freeway shows us where our money goes. \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">18-wheelers drive in the second lane of 880. Big box trucks slow down traffic on the 5. I don’t drive behind lumber trucks coming down highway 50 because the movie \u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Final Destination 2\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> scarred me as a teen. Sweet childhood memories come to mind as I point to a caravan of vehicles carrying miscellaneous pieces of amusement rides – the carnival is in town!\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">There are constantly military vehicles headed to Travis Airforce Base, and a fleet of police officers in Vacaville, so you’ve got to be mindful of the CHP speed traps. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Tickets suck. The financial penalty for being in the carpool lane at the wrong time differs from county to county. And I still don’t understand how the express lane on 680 works, so I just stay out of it. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Between these tickets and tolls, how much money does the state make off of drivers? I wonder.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">As workers in orange vests and hard hats lay pavement and new lines on the road, the freeways are growing even wider. What do these freeways say about the future of our region?\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">I watch adjacent developments of cookie-cutter housing situations on land that was once a salt marsh, rolling hillsides, and grassy valleys. We’re sprawling further and further into the Delta and Central Valley. Who is this housing for? \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> \u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">[Music]\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Pendarvis Harshaw: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">I sit in traffic, listening to funk songs and podcasts, stand up comedy and early 90s southern gangsta rap, asking myself philosophical questions:\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">How much of the airborne pollution in this region comes from vehicles on the freeway? How many animals – turkeys, skunks, deer and other wildlife – are killed by cars every year? Is the love of my life in that Jetta that just cut me off? So many questions come from these freeways, and so do answers about the world right now.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The amount of shootings on freeways shows us that we do indeed have a serious problem with access to guns in this country. The amount of people walking on the side of the road, carrying backpacks or pushing shopping carts, that’s a clear sign that there are far too many unhoused people in this state. The biggest issues of our time, from class disparities to climate change, can be identified by simply looking at what’s happening on the freeway and it’s been that way. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">When they constructed the interstate highway system in this country, you know the one that decimated a number of working class majority African American communities, while building the infrastructure that supported the droves of middle class, mostly white communities being replanted in the suburbs of this country, what did that say about America in the 1950s? \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">[Music]\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Pendarvis Harshaw: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Go even further back, it’s not just freeways that show where our money is invested and where the culture is headed. How we move, why we move and the way we move has always been a clear window into our way of life. It not only shows the innovation and creativity, but the issues as well. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">So my question, as I sit in traffic in Emeryville, watching two people argue at that same old spot that pisses everyone off: if we can see the issues, why do we keep driving past them?\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">[Car honks three times, motorcycle engine rumbles]\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Pendarvis Harshaw: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">This episode was written and recited by me, Pendarvis Harshaw. It was produced by Marisol Medina Cadena. Chris Hambrick is our editor. Christopher Beale is our sound designer and engineer. Sheree Bishop is the Rightnowish production intern. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp> \u003ca href=\"#episode-transcript\">\u003ci>View the full episode transcript.\u003c/i>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year I drove over 33,000 miles all around Northern California, constantly pursuing a deeper understanding of this region’s culture. And then one day, while sitting in traffic, it hit me: you can tell a lot about our culture by simply looking at the freeways.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13952673\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13952673\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/Freeway_Grove-Shafter_2024-01-28_Amir-Aziz_001-1-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"An overhead shot of the MacArthur Maze, an interchange of freeways in Oakland. \" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/Freeway_Grove-Shafter_2024-01-28_Amir-Aziz_001-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/Freeway_Grove-Shafter_2024-01-28_Amir-Aziz_001-1-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/Freeway_Grove-Shafter_2024-01-28_Amir-Aziz_001-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/Freeway_Grove-Shafter_2024-01-28_Amir-Aziz_001-1-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/Freeway_Grove-Shafter_2024-01-28_Amir-Aziz_001-1-1536x1023.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/Freeway_Grove-Shafter_2024-01-28_Amir-Aziz_001-1-2048x1364.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/Freeway_Grove-Shafter_2024-01-28_Amir-Aziz_001-1-1920x1279.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An overhead shot of the MacArthur Maze, an interchange of freeways in Oakland. \u003ccite>(Amir Aziz)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Deep potholes turn into kiddie pools when it rains, and signs remind us to be mindful of freeway flooding, evidence of crumbling infrastructure and climate change. Self-automated tollbooths exemplify the post-pandemic changes to labor. No two drivers are alike, so Nissan Altimas travel at the speed of light, zooming past Prii that move as slow as molasses in the winter; it’s clear that this place is the epicenter of diversity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The development of cookie-cutter homes alongside the freeway in suburban areas display our continued sprawl. The rise in homelessness is evidenced by the number of people I see walking on the shoulder of freeways, pushing shopping carts and carrying large backpacks. The amount of shootings on freeways shows us that we do \u003cem>indeed\u003c/em> have a problem with guns in this country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The freeways are dangerous, and they’re beautiful. For some, they’re a quick way to get from point A to point B. For others, the freeway is the route to happiness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13952680\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13952680\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/Freeway_Grove-Shafter_2024-01-28_Amir-Aziz_019-1-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Light traffic on the move and Oakland in the background on an overcast day in the Bay. \" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/Freeway_Grove-Shafter_2024-01-28_Amir-Aziz_019-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/Freeway_Grove-Shafter_2024-01-28_Amir-Aziz_019-1-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/Freeway_Grove-Shafter_2024-01-28_Amir-Aziz_019-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/Freeway_Grove-Shafter_2024-01-28_Amir-Aziz_019-1-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/Freeway_Grove-Shafter_2024-01-28_Amir-Aziz_019-1-1536x1023.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/Freeway_Grove-Shafter_2024-01-28_Amir-Aziz_019-1-2048x1364.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/Freeway_Grove-Shafter_2024-01-28_Amir-Aziz_019-1-1920x1279.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Light traffic on the move and Oakland in the background on an overcast day in the Bay. \u003ccite>(Amir Aziz)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>I live on the freeway, bobbing to my music while crossing bridges, yelling at people who cut me off. I slow down for the California Highway Patrol (CHP), and speed up when the freeway is empty. And far too often I sit in places where traffic is notoriously snarled — near the Sunol Grade, on the Yolo Bypass, or passing through the MacArthur Maze — and I ask myself questions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What does the prevalence of futuristic charging stations and electric cars say about the South Bay? Who controls the cameras of the self-driving cars in San Francisco? Why are Vallejo’s onramps so abrupt? Why can’t people learn how to merge?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And most importantly, if we can readily see the issues that plague our society, why do we keep driving past them?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This week, as we celebrate Rightnowish’s 200th episode, I give you a glimpse into the things that I think about while I’m bending corners on Northern California’s highways and byways.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"200\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https://playlist.megaphone.fm/?e=KQINC8689330178\" width=\"100%\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Episode Transcript\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Pendarvis Harshaw, host:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Hey, what’s up y’all?! \u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">[sings]\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Do you know what today is? It’s our 200th episode. Two hundred. We bicentennial out here, man, yeah!\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Thank you to everyone, everyone who’s appeared on this podcast, tuned in, shared it with a friend. If you’ve attended an event, thank you. And of course, as always, big love to the home team! Thank you for helping me make this thing. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Two-hundo! Yeah, let’s do it!\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Okay look, today I’ve got a special, personal essay for you. Yes, just for you, from me. It’s about how I’m always driving all around Northern California constantly in pursuit of a deeper understanding of the culture of this region. And then one day, while sitting in traffic, it all clicked: \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">This\u003c/span> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">is the culture. Right here. On this freeway. Gridlocked, surrounded by hybrids and under buckets, with signs of the times all around us! I gotta let the people know! \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">So, Imma let y’all know… \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">[Radio tuning, static]\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">[Music]\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Pendarvis Harshaw:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> You can tell a lot about the state of society in this region by simply looking at California’s freeways. And because of that, the freeways both fascinate me and they frighten me. They’re the key to life out here, and they’re a death trap. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">On one hand, they allow folks quicker ways to get to work, home, the homie’s house or a happy place.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">A lot of us live on the freeways, myself included. The roads bend and curve around the foothills and valleys that make up this immaculate piece of land. If you take the right road, it’ll push you up to an elevation that’ll allow you to see the sun touching the earth in a whole new way. On a clear day, California’s freeways provide brief glimpses of heaven. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">[Traffic, street noise]\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Pendarvis Harshaw:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> And, at the same time, every single day these freeways produce the most hellacious traffic for no [car horn]-ing reason. At that one spot where multiple lanes converge– sending one group of drivers to San Francisco, and the others through Emeryville– it can take 15 minutes to drive a quarter mile. There’s aggressive honking, animated hand gestures and cold eye contact. Some cars are going too slow, others too fast. And then, when you finally get through it all, there’s inevitably two people at the front of the line who act as if they’ve never merged before. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">On top of the possibility of sitting in traffic so long that your soul rots inside of your living flesh, there’s a chance that being involved in an accident while driving on one of these freeways might actually take your life. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">In this state, around four-thousand drivers die in car accidents each year. State by state, adjusted for population, California’s rate of drivers killed in car accidents is lower than most. But out here, nasty weather and DUI’s, distracted driving and high-speed joyriding– those aren’t the only hazards to avoid on the highways and byways. \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Unfortunately, it can get even more dangerous to drive in the golden state. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">According to\u003c/span> \u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.ca.gov/2024/01/23/governor-newsom-announces-significant-reduction-in-freeway-shootings-across-california/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">state reports\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, l\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">ast year there were 274 shootings on California freeways, a drop from \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">349 the year prior. Shootings are attributed to a wide range of occurrences – from mistaken identity, to conflicts between rival factions to road rage. Sadly, shootings on freeways aren’t new, but during the height of the pandemic there was a spike in freeway shootings, and California wasn’t alone in that rise. Across the nation confirmed reports of shootings have gone up more than 50% since 2019. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">In Northern California, a number of the shootings have been concentrated in the East Bay and have resulted in bystanders caught in crossfire, including children. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">[Music]\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Pendarvis Harshaw: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">There’s a certain way you have to move while on the highways and freeways in California, it’s a culture unto itself.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">These roads don’t just connect locations, they merge people of different ethnicities, religions, races and economic backgrounds. Some folks drive wildly, covering both lanes. Some people drive conservatively, hands on 10 and 2, not going a single mile per hour over the speed limit. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Not everyone out here drives, and I know plenty of people who avoid the freeways. But if you’re looking for a place to take an interesting sample size of life out here, the freeway is a microcosm of everything that’s going on right now.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> \u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">[White noise of highway traffic]\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">[Music]\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Pendarvis Harshaw:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Last year I drove all around Northern California, putting over thirty-thousand miles on my lil Honda hybrid. I call her Hot Chocolate, after the popular 1970s and 80s British soul band, the one that made the song,“Sexy Thing,” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">[Sexy Thing by Hot Chocolate, playing through a car radio]\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“Where are you from? You sexy thing”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Pendarvis Harshaw:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">… amongst other notable tracks. All that mileage was in effort to gain an understanding of the culture of this region. Working as a journalist, I go from studios to schools, radio stations to live events, constantly in traffic. Somewhere along the way, between the Sunol Grade and the MacArthur Maze, I realized that I was looking past the greatest example of what’s going on in this part of the world: the freeway!\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">[Music]\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Pendarvis Harshaw: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">We can start by looking at the signs. We’ve got these digital billboards notifying drivers that ‘driving high is a DUI’\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">[Sounds of sizzling, long exhale]\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Pendarvis Harshaw:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> …because we’re clearly a state that enjoys its cannabis. All over this region there are signs telling folks that certain freeways and highways are subject to flooding. That’s the most modest way of saying, “Yo, we’ve got some archaic infrastructure, and climate change is kicking our ass!” On some freeways, there are signs asking drivers to be mindful of pedestrians. As the amount of unsheltered people living near underpasses increases, so do the amount of people I’ve seen walking on the shoulder or even across the freeway. Yeah, I’m very mindful.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The signs of the times don’t stop there. Look at the cars: the bumper stickers in Berkeley boasting leftist leaning political perspectives, trucks with the Trump flags can be spotted from Folsom to Fresno.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">There’s big cars with small ‘blue lives matter’ decals, SUVs with skis overhead, heading to Tahoe. There’s Pacific Islander biker crews with palm trees etched on their leather vests, lowrider squads in the slow lane, back to back to back to back, sun glistening off candy paint and gold thangs; cars with 49ers flags on both sides as they ride. Man, look, the first time I saw a “Las Vegas Raiders” license plate frame, I damn near lost my mind.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">All around the Bay Area there are cars with broken windows, covered in translucent plastic or taped pieces of cardboard because of break-ins. It’s heart shattering. And the sheer number of hybrids and electric vehicles in the South Bay is astounding. I often wonder who’s on the other side of the camera as I stare at the self-driving cars when I get off the freeway in Frisco. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Somewhere, right now in the East Bay there’s a 2004 Nissan Altima with no license plates breaking the sound barrier as they hit the HOV lane.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">[Engine rumbles, traffic noise]\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Pendarvis Harshaw: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The freeway shows us where our money goes. \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">18-wheelers drive in the second lane of 880. Big box trucks slow down traffic on the 5. I don’t drive behind lumber trucks coming down highway 50 because the movie \u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Final Destination 2\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> scarred me as a teen. Sweet childhood memories come to mind as I point to a caravan of vehicles carrying miscellaneous pieces of amusement rides – the carnival is in town!\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">There are constantly military vehicles headed to Travis Airforce Base, and a fleet of police officers in Vacaville, so you’ve got to be mindful of the CHP speed traps. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Tickets suck. The financial penalty for being in the carpool lane at the wrong time differs from county to county. And I still don’t understand how the express lane on 680 works, so I just stay out of it. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Between these tickets and tolls, how much money does the state make off of drivers? I wonder.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">As workers in orange vests and hard hats lay pavement and new lines on the road, the freeways are growing even wider. What do these freeways say about the future of our region?\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">I watch adjacent developments of cookie-cutter housing situations on land that was once a salt marsh, rolling hillsides, and grassy valleys. We’re sprawling further and further into the Delta and Central Valley. Who is this housing for? \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> \u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">[Music]\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Pendarvis Harshaw: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">I sit in traffic, listening to funk songs and podcasts, stand up comedy and early 90s southern gangsta rap, asking myself philosophical questions:\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">How much of the airborne pollution in this region comes from vehicles on the freeway? How many animals – turkeys, skunks, deer and other wildlife – are killed by cars every year? Is the love of my life in that Jetta that just cut me off? So many questions come from these freeways, and so do answers about the world right now.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The amount of shootings on freeways shows us that we do indeed have a serious problem with access to guns in this country. The amount of people walking on the side of the road, carrying backpacks or pushing shopping carts, that’s a clear sign that there are far too many unhoused people in this state. The biggest issues of our time, from class disparities to climate change, can be identified by simply looking at what’s happening on the freeway and it’s been that way. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">When they constructed the interstate highway system in this country, you know the one that decimated a number of working class majority African American communities, while building the infrastructure that supported the droves of middle class, mostly white communities being replanted in the suburbs of this country, what did that say about America in the 1950s? \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">[Music]\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Pendarvis Harshaw: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Go even further back, it’s not just freeways that show where our money is invested and where the culture is headed. How we move, why we move and the way we move has always been a clear window into our way of life. It not only shows the innovation and creativity, but the issues as well. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">So my question, as I sit in traffic in Emeryville, watching two people argue at that same old spot that pisses everyone off: if we can see the issues, why do we keep driving past them?\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">[Car honks three times, motorcycle engine rumbles]\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Pendarvis Harshaw: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">This episode was written and recited by me, Pendarvis Harshaw. It was produced by Marisol Medina Cadena. Chris Hambrick is our editor. Christopher Beale is our sound designer and engineer. Sheree Bishop is the Rightnowish production intern. 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"content": "\u003cp>This weekend’s Oakland Chinatown Lantern Festival celebration is decidedly new-school: Street food offerings will include Hong Kong curry fish balls, Malagasy hot pepper sauce and Oaxacan chocolate. In place of a traditional lion or dragon dance will be a performance by the Bay Area hip-hop dance crew \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/C3iugrJyww1/\">Tribe of the Dragon\u003c/a>. A lineup of globally-inspired DJs will close out the holiday with a full-on dance party.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If that doesn’t quite sound like your grandmother’s Lantern Festival, that’s very much intentional — although Diana Wu, executive director of the nonprofit kitchen incubator \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13903133/oakland-bloom-understory-primas-corner-asukar-cuban-palestinian-pop-up\">Oakland Bloom\u003c/a>, stresses that the event will still offer plenty to Chinatown’s longstanding communities of immigrant grandparents, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We do want to share the legacies, themes and spirit of the festival,” says Wu, whose organization is co-hosting the event at Chinatown’s Pacific Renaissance Plaza for the second year in a row. “But we also wanted to make it reflect Oakland — to serve the different diverse communities that make up Oakland.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13952750\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13952750\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/oakland-bloom-lantern-fest.jpg\" alt=\"Five people pose for a photo; the two on the edges form a heart shape with their arms. \" width=\"2000\" height=\"1500\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/oakland-bloom-lantern-fest.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/oakland-bloom-lantern-fest-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/oakland-bloom-lantern-fest-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/oakland-bloom-lantern-fest-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/oakland-bloom-lantern-fest-768x576.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/oakland-bloom-lantern-fest-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/oakland-bloom-lantern-fest-1920x1440.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Staff from the kitchen incubator Oakland Bloom at last year’s inaugural Lantern Festival event. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Oakland Bloom)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Co-organized with the \u003ca href=\"https://stickyriceclub.org/\">Sticky Rice Club\u003c/a> nonprofit community development corporation and \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/aapih4l/\">AAPI Healers for Liberation\u003c/a>, this year’s two-day Lantern Festival celebration will build on the themes of last year’s inaugural event, which was conceived in large part as a “healing space.” That focus on self-care and community healing felt especially pertinent in light of the violence that had impacted Asian American communities both within and outside of Chinatown around that time, including mass shootings in \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11938855/monterey-park-community-devastated-by-weekend-mass-shooting\">Monterey Park\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11973071/survivors-of-half-moon-bay-mass-shooting-struggle-to-rebuild-1-year-later\">Half Moon Bay\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Traditionally, the Lantern Festival — aka Yuanxiao Jie — takes place on the 15th day of the Lunar New Year, marking the end of holiday festivities with red paper lanterns symbolizing a prosperous new beginning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the Oakland Chinatown event, even the most seemingly “traditional” aspects of the celebration will have a modern, multicultural twist. As part of an altar-building activity to honor the ancestors, the chef behind the Palestinian-Cuban pop-up \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/palestinian_cuban_fusion/?hl=en\">Asúkar\u003c/a> will create an altar for Palestine. Even the guqin performance — featuring the traditional seven-string instrument with more than 3,000 years of history in China — will be slightly unorthodox: The performer, \u003ca href=\"https://www.gabriellawen.com/about\">Gabby Wen\u003c/a>, uses synthesizers and field recordings along with the guqin to make experimental electroacoustic music.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13952753\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13952753\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/MandD-2.jpg\" alt=\"An egg custard tart topped with a marshmallow\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1500\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/MandD-2.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/MandD-2-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/MandD-2-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/MandD-2-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/MandD-2-768x576.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/MandD-2-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/MandD-2-1920x1440.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A non-traditional egg custard tart, topped with a marshmallow, from Hong Kong-style food pop-up M and D. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Oakland Bloom)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The emerging immigrant food entrepreneurs in Oakland Bloom’s incubator program will supply the food for the event — and here, too, Wu says, the idea is to engage the multiple generations and diasporas that make up Oakland. So, even though it’s a Lunar New Year event, not all of the food will be Asian. Alongside, say, \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/C3dmGChyFRv/?img_index=1\">Tabachito’s\u003c/a> Filipino fusion offerings, there will also be \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/palestinian_cuban_fusion/?hl=en\">Palestinian-Cuban food\u003c/a>, and perhaps the only Bay Area food business that specializes in the \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/ResataurantFelana/\">cuisine of Madagascar\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID='arts_13903133,arts_13952052,arts_13924997']Wu says one Oakland Bloom vendor, \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/mandd_food/\">M and D Food\u003c/a>, is especially emblematic of the festival’s multigenerational approach. Known for its take on Hong Kong street foods like milk tea and curry fish balls, the business itself is a mother-and-daughter operation. Meanwhile, the chef’s father is visiting from Hong Kong, so he’ll be on hand to provide customers with auspicious, handwritten \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/C3mJFF_LXGh/?img_index=2\">Chinese calligraphy scrolls\u003c/a> — a traditional touch from the older generation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As for the actual lantern component of the festival, Wu concedes that there won’t be quite as magnificent a display as there was during last year’s inaugural event, when 88 red lanterns soared over the Pacific Renaissance Plaza. This year, a smaller number of lanterns will be integrated into the festival decor, and \u003ca href=\"https://www.friendsoflincolnsquarepark.org/\">Friends of Lincoln Square Park\u003c/a> will lead a hands-on activity that will give kids the opportunity to make small paper lanterns of their own.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13952755\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13952755\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/Tabacito-pork-bbq.jpg\" alt=\"Filipino pork skewers on a metal tray.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1500\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/Tabacito-pork-bbq.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/Tabacito-pork-bbq-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/Tabacito-pork-bbq-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/Tabacito-pork-bbq-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/Tabacito-pork-bbq-768x576.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/Tabacito-pork-bbq-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/Tabacito-pork-bbq-1920x1440.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Filipino barbecue pork skewers by Tabachito. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Oakland Bloom)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>On both days of the event, the itinerary will extend after dark, until 8 p.m., when many of Oakland Chinatown’s businesses will have already closed. For a neighborhood still struggling to get on its feet in the wake of a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11851735/small-business-owners-struggle-to-stay-open-in-an-empty-oakland-chinatown\">devastating pandemic\u003c/a>, the hope is that events like the Lantern Festival — with those red lanterns shining bright in the sky — can help bring a lively sense of community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“One of the goals was to create moments of community coming together in publicly accessible spaces in Oakland Chinatown and to really support people coming out at night there,” Wu says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-12127869\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"78\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-768x75.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>The Oakland Chinatown Lantern Festival will take place in and around the Pacific Renaissance Plaza (388 9th St., Oakland) on Saturday, Feb. 24 and Sunday, Feb. 25, from 3–8 p.m. each day. Check the \u003c/i>\u003ca href=\"https://stickyriceclub.org/lanternfestival2024\">\u003ci>full event schedule\u003c/i>\u003c/a>\u003ci> for each day’s lineup of workshops, performances and food vendors, and follow \u003c/i>\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/oaklandbloom\">\u003ci>Oakland Bloom\u003c/i>\u003c/a>\u003ci> and \u003c/i>\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/aapih4l/\">\u003ci>AAPI Healers for Liberation\u003c/i>\u003c/a>\u003ci> on Instagram for updates. \u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the Oakland Chinatown event, even the most seemingly “traditional” aspects of the celebration will have a modern, multicultural twist. As part of an altar-building activity to honor the ancestors, the chef behind the Palestinian-Cuban pop-up \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/palestinian_cuban_fusion/?hl=en\">Asúkar\u003c/a> will create an altar for Palestine. Even the guqin performance — featuring the traditional seven-string instrument with more than 3,000 years of history in China — will be slightly unorthodox: The performer, \u003ca href=\"https://www.gabriellawen.com/about\">Gabby Wen\u003c/a>, uses synthesizers and field recordings along with the guqin to make experimental electroacoustic music.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13952753\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13952753\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/MandD-2.jpg\" alt=\"An egg custard tart topped with a marshmallow\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1500\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/MandD-2.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/MandD-2-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/MandD-2-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/MandD-2-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/MandD-2-768x576.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/MandD-2-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/MandD-2-1920x1440.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A non-traditional egg custard tart, topped with a marshmallow, from Hong Kong-style food pop-up M and D. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Oakland Bloom)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The emerging immigrant food entrepreneurs in Oakland Bloom’s incubator program will supply the food for the event — and here, too, Wu says, the idea is to engage the multiple generations and diasporas that make up Oakland. So, even though it’s a Lunar New Year event, not all of the food will be Asian. Alongside, say, \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/C3dmGChyFRv/?img_index=1\">Tabachito’s\u003c/a> Filipino fusion offerings, there will also be \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/palestinian_cuban_fusion/?hl=en\">Palestinian-Cuban food\u003c/a>, and perhaps the only Bay Area food business that specializes in the \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/ResataurantFelana/\">cuisine of Madagascar\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Wu says one Oakland Bloom vendor, \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/mandd_food/\">M and D Food\u003c/a>, is especially emblematic of the festival’s multigenerational approach. Known for its take on Hong Kong street foods like milk tea and curry fish balls, the business itself is a mother-and-daughter operation. Meanwhile, the chef’s father is visiting from Hong Kong, so he’ll be on hand to provide customers with auspicious, handwritten \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/C3mJFF_LXGh/?img_index=2\">Chinese calligraphy scrolls\u003c/a> — a traditional touch from the older generation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As for the actual lantern component of the festival, Wu concedes that there won’t be quite as magnificent a display as there was during last year’s inaugural event, when 88 red lanterns soared over the Pacific Renaissance Plaza. This year, a smaller number of lanterns will be integrated into the festival decor, and \u003ca href=\"https://www.friendsoflincolnsquarepark.org/\">Friends of Lincoln Square Park\u003c/a> will lead a hands-on activity that will give kids the opportunity to make small paper lanterns of their own.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13952755\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13952755\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/Tabacito-pork-bbq.jpg\" alt=\"Filipino pork skewers on a metal tray.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1500\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/Tabacito-pork-bbq.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/Tabacito-pork-bbq-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/Tabacito-pork-bbq-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/Tabacito-pork-bbq-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/Tabacito-pork-bbq-768x576.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/Tabacito-pork-bbq-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/Tabacito-pork-bbq-1920x1440.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Filipino barbecue pork skewers by Tabachito. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Oakland Bloom)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>On both days of the event, the itinerary will extend after dark, until 8 p.m., when many of Oakland Chinatown’s businesses will have already closed. For a neighborhood still struggling to get on its feet in the wake of a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11851735/small-business-owners-struggle-to-stay-open-in-an-empty-oakland-chinatown\">devastating pandemic\u003c/a>, the hope is that events like the Lantern Festival — with those red lanterns shining bright in the sky — can help bring a lively sense of community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“One of the goals was to create moments of community coming together in publicly accessible spaces in Oakland Chinatown and to really support people coming out at night there,” Wu says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-12127869\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"78\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-768x75.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>The Oakland Chinatown Lantern Festival will take place in and around the Pacific Renaissance Plaza (388 9th St., Oakland) on Saturday, Feb. 24 and Sunday, Feb. 25, from 3–8 p.m. each day. Check the \u003c/i>\u003ca href=\"https://stickyriceclub.org/lanternfestival2024\">\u003ci>full event schedule\u003c/i>\u003c/a>\u003ci> for each day’s lineup of workshops, performances and food vendors, and follow \u003c/i>\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/oaklandbloom\">\u003ci>Oakland Bloom\u003c/i>\u003c/a>\u003ci> and \u003c/i>\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/aapih4l/\">\u003ci>AAPI Healers for Liberation\u003c/i>\u003c/a>\u003ci> on Instagram for updates. \u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Betty Reid Soskin’s life story is a reminder that all of us are given just one life; and that, within it, there can be many lives lived. There’s now a film in production that’s set to drive that point home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003ca href=\"https://www.signmynametofreedom.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sign My Name To Freedom: The Lost Music of Betty Reid Soskin\u003c/a>\u003c/i>, directed by Bryan Gibel and co-directed by A.K. Sandhu, is a close look at how the Bay Area’s form of racism and redlining impacted Reid Soskin and her family, and how she used music to fight back.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Sign My Name to Freedom 4-Minute Work Sample\" src=\"https://player.vimeo.com/video/858289902?h=745443a01e&dnt=1&app_id=122963\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; web-share\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reid Soskin has a fascinating story. She’s famously known as the woman who became the oldest United States Park Ranger in history, at age 85. This accomplishment was \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/BarackObama/status/1510286021182771200\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">celebrated by President Obama\u003c/a> on multiple occasions, including a message he sent to her in 2022 after she announced her\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11910061/betty-reid-soskin-americas-oldest-park-ranger-retires-at-100\"> retirement at age 100\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reid Soskin, who has\u003ca href=\"https://www.wccusd.net/bettyreidsoskin\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> a middle school named in her honor\u003c/a>, was also once the owner of \u003ca href=\"https://www.berkeleyside.org/2019/02/05/reids-records-californias-oldest-record-shop-to-close-in-the-fall\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Reid’s Records\u003c/a> in Berkeley. A community hub and resource in the historically Black community of South Berkeley, the store operated for nearly 75 years. At the time of its closing, it was the oldest record store in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13952585\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2085px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13952585\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/BettyYoungWomanPortrait1-1-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"Betty Reid Soskin posing for a photo in the 1940s at Lake Merritt in Oakland.\" width=\"2085\" height=\"2560\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/BettyYoungWomanPortrait1-1-scaled.jpg 2085w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/BettyYoungWomanPortrait1-1-800x982.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/BettyYoungWomanPortrait1-1-1020x1252.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/BettyYoungWomanPortrait1-1-160x196.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/BettyYoungWomanPortrait1-1-768x943.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/BettyYoungWomanPortrait1-1-1251x1536.jpg 1251w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/BettyYoungWomanPortrait1-1-1668x2048.jpg 1668w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/BettyYoungWomanPortrait1-1-1920x2357.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2085px) 100vw, 2085px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Betty Reid Soskin, pictured in the 1940s. \u003ccite>(Via Betty Reid Soskin)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Gibel and Sandhu’s film goes even further back, picking up after Reid Soskin graduated from East Oakland’s Castlemont High School and started a family with her first husband, Mel Reid. After having children, Reid Soskin and her family moved to the other side of the Caldecott Tunnel, taking up residence in Walnut Creek, where they were one of the first African American families in town.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They were soon subject to racist harassment in their immediate community as well as at work, where Reid Soskin labored in the Boilermaker union during WWII.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These first-person experiences, coupled with reports of racist attacks across the country and war around the world, led to Reid Soskin writing songs to fight the powers that be.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Sign My Name to Freedom \u003c/em>is the title of the film (as well as her memoir and \u003ca href=\"https://www.zspace.org/signmyname\">a stage play about her life which premieres March 28\u003c/a>); it’s also the name of her best-known song.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the documentary film, Reid Soskin (who’s now 102) listens to reel-to-reel tapes excavated from an old box that had been in her closet for nearly a half-century.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cameras roll as she time-travels by revisiting her old lyrics, prompting recollections about world events at the time. The film also features interviews with Reid Soskin and her family, plus beautiful archival photos and home videos.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13952587\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1170px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13952587\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/Betty-in-60s-Asilomar-in-music-circle-1.jpg\" alt=\"A candid shot of Betty Reid Soskin in the 1960's holding a guitar while sitting in a music circle in the Asilomar area of Monterey Bay.\" width=\"1170\" height=\"1416\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/Betty-in-60s-Asilomar-in-music-circle-1.jpg 1170w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/Betty-in-60s-Asilomar-in-music-circle-1-800x968.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/Betty-in-60s-Asilomar-in-music-circle-1-1020x1234.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/Betty-in-60s-Asilomar-in-music-circle-1-160x194.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/Betty-in-60s-Asilomar-in-music-circle-1-768x929.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1170px) 100vw, 1170px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Betty Reid Soskin, in the 1960s, in a music circle in the Asilomar area of Monterey Bay. \u003ccite>(Via Betty Reid Soskin)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In true Reid Soskin fashion, the film isn’t just about yesteryear, but what she’s doing now. It follows her to a 2018 performance at Oakland’s Paramount Theatre, where she, along with the Oakland Symphony and a 200-person choir, sang “Your Hand In Mine,” her tribute to the civil rights activist Fannie Lou Hamer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The film is still in production, and the team is throwing events \u003ca href=\"https://seedandspark.com/fund/sign-my-name-to-freedom?fbclid=IwAR1MtauBei87wdBoF18zwG8npB9z_1Bvp5ujLomq1h1nRVf2EEtP1QhRb1I#story\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">to raise funds\u003c/a> for it. 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"content": "\u003cp>A sports coup d’état is unfolding in the Bay Area right now, and the Oakland Coliseum’s drum-beating, flag-waving diehards are leading the charge. Once again, A’s fans are rewriting their own history after spearheading the “Summer of Sell” and organizing the largest-ever MLB boycott — all in response to the team’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11947286/devastated-oakland-as-fans-react-to-teams-vegas-move\">planned relocation to Las Vegas\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Their momentous energy will be on full display at \u003ca href=\"https://bloc15.com/\">Bloc15\u003c/a> in Jack London Square for this year’s guerilla-organized Fans Fest, an all-day event meant to honor Bay Area sports fans that will be unlike anything any other fanbase has ever felt compelled to independently assemble.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13952440\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 384px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13952440\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/img_2138.jpg\" alt='a black t-shirt that reads \"Fans Fest\" in white lettering' width=\"384\" height=\"512\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/img_2138.jpg 384w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/img_2138-160x213.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 384px) 100vw, 384px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fans Fest 2024 will take place in Oakland’s Jack London Square, and is 100% organized and funded by fans and local sponsorships. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Last Dive Bar)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>At Fans Fest, there will be Porta Potties labeled “the Johns,” with pictures of Oakland A’s owner John Fisher attached to them. Cult-favorite hot dog vendor, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13921216/hal-the-hot-dog-guy-oakland-coliseum-tribute-retiring\">Hal the Hot Dog Guy\u003c/a>, will be dressed as a rally possum while handing out Opening Day boycott stickers. Former A’s icons Coco Crisp and Ben Grieve will sign autographs. Custom-designed, one-off \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/33.customs/?hl=en\">bobbleheads made by Robb Roberts, an A’s superfan\u003c/a>, will be made available in a silent auction. Oakland baseball legends and youth teams will be on site, gassing up the city’s multi-generational love of America’s favorite pastime. And it’ll be free to attend.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Captained by four lifelong A’s fans — Jorge Leon and Todd Saran of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.oakland68s.org/\">Oakland 68s\u003c/a> (a nonprofit group of A’s fans that donates resources to Oakland-based charities), as well as Bryan Johansen and Paul Bailey of \u003ca href=\"https://lastdivebar.com/\">Last Dive Bar\u003c/a> (a local apparel brand that used to collaborate with the A’s on popular fan designs) — this community-geared festival isn’t \u003cem>just\u003c/em> about celebrating Oakland A’s fans and their history. It’s about highlighting small business owners, creating positive memories for families and celebrating the remaining East Bay sports fandoms, despite the somber reality of major teams jettisoning Oakland in recent years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Everyone is hurt by the actions of the A’s towards the community and fans, and it’s sad. Everyone is affected by it, and we wish it wasn’t the case,” Johansen says. “But this event isn’t about bashing the A’s; it’s about coming together and celebrating the fans and sports teams still here.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Having raised well over $15,000 for the event (a “conservative” estimate, according to the organizers), as well as garnering support and sponsorships from the region’s various teams — including the A’s minor-league affiliate Stockton Ports, the Oakland Roots, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13938668/meet-the-designer-for-the-bs-oaklands-new-homegrown-baseball-team\">Oakland Ballers\u003c/a> and the Marshawn Lynch co-owned Bay Area Panthers — the DIY Fans Fest has reached an epic, unprecedented scale that once again proves how committed Oakland’s sports fans are in the face of erasure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13952442\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 645px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13952442\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/img_5723.jpg\" alt=\"a woman and man plan a sports event inside a large building\" width=\"645\" height=\"833\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/img_5723.jpg 645w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/img_5723-160x207.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 645px) 100vw, 645px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A member of the Oakland 68s meets with a Bloc15 employee to discuss the indoor logistics of Fans Fest 2024. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Last Dive Bar )\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Amid the never-ending vortex of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11947286/devastated-oakland-as-fans-react-to-teams-vegas-move\">the Oakland Athletics’ relocation attempt \u003c/a>(which now appears to be stalled, with the team perhaps \u003ca href=\"https://www.mlb.com/news/athletics-potential-extension-of-lease-at-oakland-coliseum\">extending their lease at the Coliseum\u003c/a>), the community has decided to put the ball back into their own hands. And rightfully so, as John Fisher — \u003ca href=\"https://deadspin.com/oakland-athletics-las-vegas-mlb-john-fisher-california-1851085486\">the A’s notoriously frugal owner\u003c/a> — only continues to sabotage the baseball dreams of Oaklanders with a lack of commitment and vision to the team’s loyal supporters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s time to forget about all that, if just for an afternoon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Food, desserts and beverages will be available from Smoking J’s Barbecue, La Hacienda Real, De La Cruz Creamery, La Santa Torta, Tacos El Ultimo Baile, Forge Pizza, Drake’s [editorial update: \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/LastDiveBar/status/1760704608362713273\">Drake’s has since retracted their sponsorship\u003c/a>, and in their place, \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/LastDiveBar/status/1760851737316151684\">Berkeley’s Fieldwork Brewing has offered to join a day ahead of the event\u003c/a>], 21st Amendment, Oakland Beer Works and more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The event will effectively replace the traditional “A’s Fanfest,” which the A’s hosted prior to each season until 2020, when, as the event description on the Oakland tourism bureau’s official website puts it, \u003ca href=\"https://www.visitoakland.com/event/fans-fest-2024/32083/#:~:text=The%20Oakland%20A's%20used%20to,the%20fans%20by%20the%20fans.\">“they seemingly turned their back on the fanbase.”\u003c/a> Since then, the Oakland 68s have held a version of Fans Fest beginning in 2021. But never to this degree, nor with this much attention — and tension — surrounding the formerly beloved \u003ci>Moneyball\u003c/i> underdogs. Long gone are the days of embracing the inspirational “Rooted in Oakland” and “Green Collar Baseball” slogans of yesteryear — old tag lines that have since been stained with skepticism and distrust.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And yet, while fans have been left to fend for themselves against the wolves of capitalism — with \u003ca href=\"https://www.mlb.com/news/owners-approve-a-s-relocation-to-las-vegas#:~:text=ARLINGTON%20%E2%80%93%20Major%20League%20Baseball's%20owners,they%20concluded%20this%20week's%20meetings.\">the MLB’s other team owners seeming to act as co-conspirators to help bring the A’s to a supposedly more lucrative market in Nevada\u003c/a> — these homegrown bleacher-sitting loyalists aren’t afraid to throw a few curveballs of their own. Though they’ve maintained a good sense of humor about it all (see: John Fisher Porta Potties and an adult man dressed as a possum), they’re also coming from a place of unwavering commitment and life-hardened passion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13952482\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13952482\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/img_4254-scaled-crop.jpg\" alt=\"a group of men stand on a street corner in Oakland in preparation of a sports event\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1920\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/img_4254-scaled-crop.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/img_4254-scaled-crop-800x800.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/img_4254-scaled-crop-1020x1020.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/img_4254-scaled-crop-160x160.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/img_4254-scaled-crop-768x768.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/img_4254-scaled-crop-1536x1536.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A member of the Oakland 68s meets with security in preparation for Fans Fest 2024. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Last Dive Bar)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I played baseball since I was four, up until college. I had a scholarship, but addiction and alcohol abuse took me out,” Johansen says. “I couldn’t afford to go back to college after that, had to support myself. Now I don’t drink. No drugs. I’m sober. I’m in recovery and do a lot of outreach. My wife runs community events, and we got recognized by the City of San Jose.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID='arts_13914585,forum_2010101889374']“I have a son. What we’re trying to do is pass down good memories to future generations. What we do is a reflection of people’s experiences at the Coliseum and baseball in general. It represents our affinity towards family and community. I hope fans walk away from Fans Fest feeling like they were celebrated. That their love of sports and community was honored. I want everyone to have a ridiculously good time.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Early in the process, the organizers extended a formal invitation to the A’s. They declined. Once again, the A’s organization has struck out, while the team’s relentlessly creative and resilient fanbase launches another home run over the still-standing fence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-12127869\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"78\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-768x75.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>Fans Fest will take place at Bloc15 (252 2nd St., Oakland) on Saturday, Feb. 24 from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. On-site and nearby parking will be available. Free to attend.\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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And rightfully so, as John Fisher — \u003ca href=\"https://deadspin.com/oakland-athletics-las-vegas-mlb-john-fisher-california-1851085486\">the A’s notoriously frugal owner\u003c/a> — only continues to sabotage the baseball dreams of Oaklanders with a lack of commitment and vision to the team’s loyal supporters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s time to forget about all that, if just for an afternoon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Food, desserts and beverages will be available from Smoking J’s Barbecue, La Hacienda Real, De La Cruz Creamery, La Santa Torta, Tacos El Ultimo Baile, Forge Pizza, Drake’s [editorial update: \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/LastDiveBar/status/1760704608362713273\">Drake’s has since retracted their sponsorship\u003c/a>, and in their place, \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/LastDiveBar/status/1760851737316151684\">Berkeley’s Fieldwork Brewing has offered to join a day ahead of the event\u003c/a>], 21st Amendment, Oakland Beer Works and more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The event will effectively replace the traditional “A’s Fanfest,” which the A’s hosted prior to each season until 2020, when, as the event description on the Oakland tourism bureau’s official website puts it, \u003ca href=\"https://www.visitoakland.com/event/fans-fest-2024/32083/#:~:text=The%20Oakland%20A's%20used%20to,the%20fans%20by%20the%20fans.\">“they seemingly turned their back on the fanbase.”\u003c/a> Since then, the Oakland 68s have held a version of Fans Fest beginning in 2021. But never to this degree, nor with this much attention — and tension — surrounding the formerly beloved \u003ci>Moneyball\u003c/i> underdogs. Long gone are the days of embracing the inspirational “Rooted in Oakland” and “Green Collar Baseball” slogans of yesteryear — old tag lines that have since been stained with skepticism and distrust.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And yet, while fans have been left to fend for themselves against the wolves of capitalism — with \u003ca href=\"https://www.mlb.com/news/owners-approve-a-s-relocation-to-las-vegas#:~:text=ARLINGTON%20%E2%80%93%20Major%20League%20Baseball's%20owners,they%20concluded%20this%20week's%20meetings.\">the MLB’s other team owners seeming to act as co-conspirators to help bring the A’s to a supposedly more lucrative market in Nevada\u003c/a> — these homegrown bleacher-sitting loyalists aren’t afraid to throw a few curveballs of their own. Though they’ve maintained a good sense of humor about it all (see: John Fisher Porta Potties and an adult man dressed as a possum), they’re also coming from a place of unwavering commitment and life-hardened passion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13952482\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13952482\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/img_4254-scaled-crop.jpg\" alt=\"a group of men stand on a street corner in Oakland in preparation of a sports event\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1920\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/img_4254-scaled-crop.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/img_4254-scaled-crop-800x800.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/img_4254-scaled-crop-1020x1020.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/img_4254-scaled-crop-160x160.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/img_4254-scaled-crop-768x768.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/img_4254-scaled-crop-1536x1536.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A member of the Oakland 68s meets with security in preparation for Fans Fest 2024. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Last Dive Bar)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I played baseball since I was four, up until college. 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"content": "\u003cp>[dropcap]I[/dropcap]n the late 1960s, an uncommonly energetic 43-year-old named Ruth Beckford was teaching an Afro-Haitian dance class in Oakland. A dancing pro since the age of eight, Beckford had a habit of taking a close personal interest in her students. She taught the youngest ones a combination of life skills and etiquette to set them up for bright futures. She encouraged teens and young women to love themselves and pursue their dreams. And when one of her students told Beckford about her involvement with the Black Panther Party, Beckford was keen to be of assistance with that, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The student in question was LaVerne Anderson, who happened to be the girlfriend of Huey P. Newton. Beckford began by accompanying Anderson to some of Newton’s 1968 trial dates. In September of that year, when the idea for the Panthers’ Free Breakfast for School Children Program first came up, it was Beckford who sprang into action and made it happen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13874853']Beckford had long been a parishioner at Oakland’s \u003ca href=\"https://staugepiscopal.org/\">St. Augustine’s Episcopal Church\u003c/a>, then situated at West and 27th Streets. Beckford approached her priest there, Father Earl A. Neil, to find out if St. Augustine’s was willing to host a daily program there to feed neighborhood kids. Father Neil agreed, and he and Beckford went about building a health code-safe kitchen and dining space, as well as a nutritionally balanced menu.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the first day — a Monday in January 1969 — 11 children came to eat. By Friday, that number had swelled to 135. Beckford and Father Neil made such a success of the free breakfasts, the program was soon mandatory in all Black Panther chapters nationwide. It was also a shining example of Beckford’s ability to turn ideas into action, and to plant seeds that would one day create mighty forests. That’s something she had already been doing in her dance classes for 22 years before she got involved with the Panthers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13952106\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13952106\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/GettyImages-939585344-scaled-e1707777665615.jpg\" alt=\"Several young Black boys, one of whom is wearing a suit, raise their hands to speak as they sit around a table, paper plates of food in front of them.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1298\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Black Panther Party’s Free Breakfast for Children program — like this one in New York City in 1969 — combined education and good nutrition. \u003ccite>(Bev Grant/ Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>[dropcap]B[/dropcap]eckford was born on Dec. 7, 1925 in Oakland’s \u003ca href=\"https://localwiki.org/oakland/Providence_Hospital\">Providence Hospital\u003c/a> to a Jamaican father and a mother from Los Angeles. Beckford was the youngest of four — she had a big sister and a pair of twin brothers — and was raised on 38th Avenue and MacArthur Boulevard. She grew up in a household so supportive that, when they saw her kicking along to music in her crib as a baby, her parents pledged to get her into dance class as soon as she was old enough.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At three years old, Beckford began training in “every kind of dance,” her dedicated mom sewing all her costumes. It was clear from the beginning that the young girl was naturally gifted, and that dance was indeed her calling. By eight, she was a vaudeville dancer. By 14, she was teaching other children. At 17, she toured with the prestigious \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13899186/if-cities-could-dance-east-st-louis\">Katherine Dunham\u003c/a> Company, where she fully embraced African and Caribbean dance for the first time. Beckford loved the work but declined a seven-year contract from Dunham so she could attend UC Berkeley instead. (Dunham remained a mentor and friend for life, and Beckford taught in her New York dance school in 1953.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID='arts_13926548,pop_102326,arts_13916612']During her studies, Beckford was the only Black dancer in UC Berkeley’s dance club, Orchesis. The experience prepared her for working in majority-white companies later on. In her 20s, as the only Black dancer with the \u003ca href=\"https://calisphere.org/item/8c65bcebbbc335b04faa0cd457e3ebd7/\">Anna Halprin and Welland Lathrop\u003c/a> modern dance company, Beckford said she could sometimes hear the audience gasp as she arrived on San Francisco’s Herbst Theatre stage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Once Beckford had graduated with a modern dance degree, she was keen to serve her community while doing what she loved most. First, she started an annual modern dance showcase that ran for over a decade. Then in 1947, aged just 21, Beckford started the Oakland Recreation Modern Dance Department — the first city-funded dance classes in the United States — and remained project director there for 20 years. Beckford insisted the classes be free so that anyone, no matter their means, would be able to attend. By the time she left in 1967, the department was running 34 modern dance classes for 700 students of all ages and abilities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of the importance of this program, Beckford later stated: “My philosophy for the young girls was, I would get them in through dance, but my whole goal was to make them be strong, free spirits. The girls got a lot of doses of self-empowerment training, self-esteem training,” she said. “Out of the thousands of girls that I taught, I knew a few would be dancers, but they all had to become women. I wanted them all to be strong young ladies — and it worked.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These relationships were so important to Beckford, she prioritized them over having children of her own. “I feel if I had had children,” she said in 2000, “I would not have been the mentor to the hundreds and hundreds of girls I mentored. I would give them all the attention. I would tell them they were special.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From 1954 on, Beckford was also running her own company, the Ruth Beckford African Haitian Dance Company. Her understanding of traditional styles was so exhaustive, she was invited to choreograph a folk festival in Haiti in 1958. At home, her company’s performances — comprised of six dancers accompanied by three drummers — were unlike anything most dance fans had seen in the Bay Area before. For a start, the company was comprised entirely of Black dancers — a refreshing contrast to the companies Beckford had grown up in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13951198\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-13951198 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/01/GettyImages-576842076-scaled-e1706578196329.jpg\" alt=\"A Black male dancer does the splits in mid-air, while two Black women dance either side of him.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1516\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Students and members of Ruth Beckford’s dance group rehearse a number in Oakland. \u003ccite>(Ted Streshinsky/ CORBIS/ Corbis via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>[dropcap]A[/dropcap]fter Beckford retired from teaching in 1975, there was still no stopping her. She became an author, writing an autobiography, two cookbooks and a \u003ca href=\"https://www.jstor.org/stable/2784188\">Katherine Dunham biography\u003c/a>. She also co-authored \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://www.everand.com/book/502678421/The-Picture-Man-From-the-Collection-of-Bay-Area-Photographer-E-F-Joseph-1927-1979\">The Picture Man\u003c/a>,\u003c/em> about Black Bay Area photographer E.F. Joseph. Her final work, \u003ca href=\"https://www.amazon.com/Still-Groovin-Affirmations-Women-Second/dp/0829813373\">\u003cem>Still Groovin’\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, was a book of spiritual advice and affirmations aimed squarely at mature women. “Women are sort of out there by themselves,” she said, “and women have to mentor each other. My book is a tool to help them become stronger.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Still Groovin’\u003c/em> wasn’t her only means of trying to empower her peers. Between 1984 and 1988, Beckford wrote a trilogy of plays titled \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">’\u003c/span>\u003cem>Tis the Morning of My Life\u003c/em>, about a woman named Roxie Youngblood who finds herself in a relationship with a much younger man. Beckford admitted the story was inspired by her own life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='pop_102855']“I have a different energy, I think, to most men my age,” she once explained. “As long as I have this energy, I’m going to use it and have fun with younger people. Younger men have the energy I have, and I feel mine is worthy of that.” On another occasion, she noted: “Older women are marrying younger men nowadays because they find they have much more in common.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When a New York theater asked permission to stage her first play, Beckford agreed only if the original Bay Area cast could perform it. “It’s time for New York to see what the West Coast can do,” she insisted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For a lot of people, co-founding the Black Panthers’ Free Breakfast program would have been the pinnacle achievement of a lifetime. That Beckford then went on to mentor generations of young Black women was a huge deal. And the sheer number of ways Beckford sought to be of service throughout her life is ultimately breathtaking.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She served on the Board of Oakland\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">’s\u003c/span> African American Museum and Library, where she also founded an oral history program. She counseled homeless people in Berkeley, and women in shelters and prisons around the state. She served on a dance panel at the National Endowment for the Arts and campaigned for better theater facilities in Oakland. She founded a women’s golf club. She even spent Thursday afternoons in the late 1990s volunteering in Jack London Square’s information booth so that she might pass on her passion for all things Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ruth Beckford remained indefatigable (despite surviving five back surgeries and a hip replacement) until her death at age 93. Shortly before her passing on May 8, 2019, Beckford reflected on a life thoroughly well lived.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I have a joyous life, I have a good time,” she said. “I choreographed my life. Step-by-step, year-by-year.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-12127869\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-800x78.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"78\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-768x75.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>To learn about other Rebel Girls from Bay Area History, visit the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/rebelgirls\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Rebel Girls homepage\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>A book celebrating women from the Rebel Girls series, \u003ca href=\"https://citylights.com/politics-current-events-history/unsung-heroines35-women-who-changed/\">‘Unsung Heroines: 35 Women Who Changed the Bay Area,’\u003c/a> is available now from City Lights.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Beckford had long been a parishioner at Oakland’s \u003ca href=\"https://staugepiscopal.org/\">St. Augustine’s Episcopal Church\u003c/a>, then situated at West and 27th Streets. Beckford approached her priest there, Father Earl A. Neil, to find out if St. Augustine’s was willing to host a daily program there to feed neighborhood kids. Father Neil agreed, and he and Beckford went about building a health code-safe kitchen and dining space, as well as a nutritionally balanced menu.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the first day — a Monday in January 1969 — 11 children came to eat. By Friday, that number had swelled to 135. Beckford and Father Neil made such a success of the free breakfasts, the program was soon mandatory in all Black Panther chapters nationwide. It was also a shining example of Beckford’s ability to turn ideas into action, and to plant seeds that would one day create mighty forests. That’s something she had already been doing in her dance classes for 22 years before she got involved with the Panthers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13952106\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13952106\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/GettyImages-939585344-scaled-e1707777665615.jpg\" alt=\"Several young Black boys, one of whom is wearing a suit, raise their hands to speak as they sit around a table, paper plates of food in front of them.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1298\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Black Panther Party’s Free Breakfast for Children program — like this one in New York City in 1969 — combined education and good nutrition. \u003ccite>(Bev Grant/ Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class=\"utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__dropcapShortcode__dropcap\">B\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>eckford was born on Dec. 7, 1925 in Oakland’s \u003ca href=\"https://localwiki.org/oakland/Providence_Hospital\">Providence Hospital\u003c/a> to a Jamaican father and a mother from Los Angeles. Beckford was the youngest of four — she had a big sister and a pair of twin brothers — and was raised on 38th Avenue and MacArthur Boulevard. She grew up in a household so supportive that, when they saw her kicking along to music in her crib as a baby, her parents pledged to get her into dance class as soon as she was old enough.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>During her studies, Beckford was the only Black dancer in UC Berkeley’s dance club, Orchesis. The experience prepared her for working in majority-white companies later on. In her 20s, as the only Black dancer with the \u003ca href=\"https://calisphere.org/item/8c65bcebbbc335b04faa0cd457e3ebd7/\">Anna Halprin and Welland Lathrop\u003c/a> modern dance company, Beckford said she could sometimes hear the audience gasp as she arrived on San Francisco’s Herbst Theatre stage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Once Beckford had graduated with a modern dance degree, she was keen to serve her community while doing what she loved most. First, she started an annual modern dance showcase that ran for over a decade. Then in 1947, aged just 21, Beckford started the Oakland Recreation Modern Dance Department — the first city-funded dance classes in the United States — and remained project director there for 20 years. Beckford insisted the classes be free so that anyone, no matter their means, would be able to attend. By the time she left in 1967, the department was running 34 modern dance classes for 700 students of all ages and abilities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of the importance of this program, Beckford later stated: “My philosophy for the young girls was, I would get them in through dance, but my whole goal was to make them be strong, free spirits. The girls got a lot of doses of self-empowerment training, self-esteem training,” she said. “Out of the thousands of girls that I taught, I knew a few would be dancers, but they all had to become women. I wanted them all to be strong young ladies — and it worked.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These relationships were so important to Beckford, she prioritized them over having children of her own. “I feel if I had had children,” she said in 2000, “I would not have been the mentor to the hundreds and hundreds of girls I mentored. I would give them all the attention. I would tell them they were special.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From 1954 on, Beckford was also running her own company, the Ruth Beckford African Haitian Dance Company. Her understanding of traditional styles was so exhaustive, she was invited to choreograph a folk festival in Haiti in 1958. At home, her company’s performances — comprised of six dancers accompanied by three drummers — were unlike anything most dance fans had seen in the Bay Area before. For a start, the company was comprised entirely of Black dancers — a refreshing contrast to the companies Beckford had grown up in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13951198\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-13951198 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/01/GettyImages-576842076-scaled-e1706578196329.jpg\" alt=\"A Black male dancer does the splits in mid-air, while two Black women dance either side of him.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1516\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Students and members of Ruth Beckford’s dance group rehearse a number in Oakland. \u003ccite>(Ted Streshinsky/ CORBIS/ Corbis via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class=\"utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__dropcapShortcode__dropcap\">A\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>fter Beckford retired from teaching in 1975, there was still no stopping her. She became an author, writing an autobiography, two cookbooks and a \u003ca href=\"https://www.jstor.org/stable/2784188\">Katherine Dunham biography\u003c/a>. She also co-authored \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://www.everand.com/book/502678421/The-Picture-Man-From-the-Collection-of-Bay-Area-Photographer-E-F-Joseph-1927-1979\">The Picture Man\u003c/a>,\u003c/em> about Black Bay Area photographer E.F. Joseph. Her final work, \u003ca href=\"https://www.amazon.com/Still-Groovin-Affirmations-Women-Second/dp/0829813373\">\u003cem>Still Groovin’\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, was a book of spiritual advice and affirmations aimed squarely at mature women. “Women are sort of out there by themselves,” she said, “and women have to mentor each other. My book is a tool to help them become stronger.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Still Groovin’\u003c/em> wasn’t her only means of trying to empower her peers. Between 1984 and 1988, Beckford wrote a trilogy of plays titled \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">’\u003c/span>\u003cem>Tis the Morning of My Life\u003c/em>, about a woman named Roxie Youngblood who finds herself in a relationship with a much younger man. Beckford admitted the story was inspired by her own life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“I have a different energy, I think, to most men my age,” she once explained. “As long as I have this energy, I’m going to use it and have fun with younger people. Younger men have the energy I have, and I feel mine is worthy of that.” On another occasion, she noted: “Older women are marrying younger men nowadays because they find they have much more in common.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When a New York theater asked permission to stage her first play, Beckford agreed only if the original Bay Area cast could perform it. “It’s time for New York to see what the West Coast can do,” she insisted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For a lot of people, co-founding the Black Panthers’ Free Breakfast program would have been the pinnacle achievement of a lifetime. That Beckford then went on to mentor generations of young Black women was a huge deal. And the sheer number of ways Beckford sought to be of service throughout her life is ultimately breathtaking.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She served on the Board of Oakland\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">’s\u003c/span> African American Museum and Library, where she also founded an oral history program. She counseled homeless people in Berkeley, and women in shelters and prisons around the state. She served on a dance panel at the National Endowment for the Arts and campaigned for better theater facilities in Oakland. She founded a women’s golf club. She even spent Thursday afternoons in the late 1990s volunteering in Jack London Square’s information booth so that she might pass on her passion for all things Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ruth Beckford remained indefatigable (despite surviving five back surgeries and a hip replacement) until her death at age 93. Shortly before her passing on May 8, 2019, Beckford reflected on a life thoroughly well lived.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I have a joyous life, I have a good time,” she said. “I choreographed my life. Step-by-step, year-by-year.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-12127869\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-800x78.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"78\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-768x75.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>To learn about other Rebel Girls from Bay Area History, visit the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/rebelgirls\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Rebel Girls homepage\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>[dropcap]O[/dropcap]n the sixth floor of the Wiley W. Manuel Courthouse, hard-bottom dress shoes and high heels echo down the hall. As I sit on a bench next to floor-to-ceiling windows, I can see downtown Oakland and the hills beyond. Dark clouds gather in the distance — another storm is rolling in. \u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-13833985\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/OGPenn.Cap_-160x184.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"160\" height=\"184\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/OGPenn.Cap_-160x184.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/OGPenn.Cap_.jpg 180w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 160px) 100vw, 160px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A tall, slender man in a suit identifies himself as a public defender. While shaking my hand, he tells me that the young man I’m here to support is facing a second-degree robbery charge for two or three incidents where he’s alleged to have used a BB gun to hold up pizza stores in Oakland. Aside from shaken emotions and money taken, no one was injured, and the public defender says he’s going to ask that he be released on his own recognizance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Inside the courtroom, the public defender lays out the argument just as he did to me in the hallway. But it doesn’t go as planned.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the prosecutor from the district attorney’s office responds, the judge nods repeatedly. Though the young man has no prior record, and could clearly use more guidance and less penalizing, the prosecutor pointedly reminds the courtroom of “everything going on in Oakland.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The judge continues to nod throughout the prosecutor’s statement, which ends with his recommendation to keep the young man in jail and leave his bail at an astronomical $400,000. If the young person and his family were in a financial bind before, getting him released by paying 10% of the bail — $40,000 — is far from feasible.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They schedule a follow-up court date, and the meeting is adjourned. I walk out the courtroom and back into the hallway near the big windows, trying to make sense of it all. \u003cem>Did I just watch Oakland itself go on trial, with this young man taking the blame?\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13952170\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13952170\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/20230909-DAProtest-37-JY-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"A person in red glasses sits at a table in an indoor setting.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/20230909-DAProtest-37-JY-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/20230909-DAProtest-37-JY-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/20230909-DAProtest-37-JY-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/20230909-DAProtest-37-JY-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/20230909-DAProtest-37-JY-KQED-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/20230909-DAProtest-37-JY-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/20230909-DAProtest-37-JY-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Alameda County District Attorney Pamela Price speaks at a public safety town hall at Genesis Worship Center in Oakland, Calif., on Saturday, Sept. 9, 2023. \u003ccite>(Juliana Yamada/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>[dropcap]T[/dropcap]he prosecution used “everything going on in Oakland” as a way to connect one individual to the larger issues this city faces, pointing to a prevalent mindset in the community: on edge and weary of crime.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Town is in the midst of another perfect storm, where the decades-old image of Oakland as a violent city is augmented by an uptick in non-violent crime. When this problem becomes politicized, elected officials return to the old “tough on crime” ideology. Inevitably, this results in a flood of folks serving time in state prisons, breathing more life into the beast known as mass incarceration. [aside postid='news_11975692']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Making it worse is that the concern isn’t completely unfounded. We’re in the United States, where every major city, especially since the pandemic, has issues with crime.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Oakland, motor vehicle theft has been on an increase since 2020, according to city records. Last year, robberies and burglaries, along with car theft, all reportedly increased by double-digit percentages from the year prior.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The numbers show that after a dip in homicides through the 2010s, the pandemic-plagued year of 2020 brought Oakland its first year with more than 100 homicides in nearly a decade. The homicide count has been over 100 every year since. Oakland’s overall crime index, a calculation used to assess the volume of violent crimes in a specific place, has increased in four of the past five years. [aside postid='arts_13918908']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Beyond the numbers, viral videos of crimes in progress have fueled fear and panic. This fear seeps into our social interactions — at the bar, the barbershop or in neighborhood cafes, people all over are conversing about broken car windows and stolen catalytic converters, home break-ins and homicides.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To somebody with all this on their mind, having a BB gun pointed at them essentially constitutes an attempt on their life. That’s essentially what I heard the prosecutor saying. But when the prosecutor brings this into court, he’s leaving out the city, state and federal government’s complicity in creating this environment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That young man on trial is another person trying to make ends meet in a region where the living wage is $10 more than the minimum wage. He’s one of the many people bouncing from couch to couch — functionally unhoused — in a state that’s host to half of this country’s unhoused population. Last year, his home county, Alameda County, declared a state of emergency due to the amount of people living without homes. And over the past five years, Oakland has seen an astronomical rise in homelessness, one that’s left a disproportionate amount of African American people, like him, without a home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He isn’t to blame for the state of society — he’s a victim of it as well.\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=\"(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>[dropcap]W[/dropcap]hen the state of the Town is mentioned, there’s no discussion about a public school system that had a 72% graduation rate during the 2020-2021 school year, the year this young man was supposed to graduate. And while that rate is an improvement from past years, only 40% of those graduates have A-G requirements, which are needed to qualify for the UC and CSU systems. In short, you can graduate without qualifying for the state’s higher education system, which in turn means you’ve got a longshot at entering fields like nursing, tech or any other industry that pays enough to stay afloat in one of the most expensive regions in this country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nonprofits and social programs such as Oakland’s Department of Violence Prevention and MACRO struggle for funding, while this city’s top investment — the Oakland Police Department — has been riddled with scandals and constant turnover in the position of chief. The organization has received billions of dollars while literally being under federal monitor since 2003, the same year that the young defendant in the courtroom was born.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to a \u003ca href=\"https://data.oaklandca.gov/stories/s/Employment/f9u6-zi33/\">report from the the City of Oakland,\u003c/a> just over 10% of people aged 16–24 qualify as “disconnected youth,” which means they’re neither working nor in school. For African Americans, that number is just shy of 15%. The 20-year-old African American man at the center of this trial is one of those disconnected youth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13952167\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13952167\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/IMG_7890-scaled-1.jpg\" alt='A woman stands outside a building with her fist up. A sign next to her says \"stop the war on public education.\"' width=\"2560\" height=\"1920\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/IMG_7890-scaled-1.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/IMG_7890-scaled-1-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/IMG_7890-scaled-1-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/IMG_7890-scaled-1-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/IMG_7890-scaled-1-768x576.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/IMG_7890-scaled-1-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/IMG_7890-scaled-1-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/IMG_7890-scaled-1-1920x1440.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A demonstrator protests Oakland school closures on May 26, 2022. \u003ccite>(Julia McEvoy/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Given all these mitigating factors, is it still wrong to commit a crime? Yes. Should one individual have to pay not only for their alleged crime but for decades of civic neglect that have gotten us to this point? No.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After all, the narrative of “everything that’s going on in Oakland” works to fit any agenda you so wish.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[dropcap]Y[/dropcap]ou’ve seen the reports of chain restaurants like Denny’s and In-N-Out citing “everything that’s going on in Oakland” as the reason why they’re shuttering their storefronts. The media only adds to the fire by parroting business owners’ reasons for closing, whether or not it’s accurate. Supported by major outlets, news reporters tell story after story about crime without providing context or suggestions for change. Social media accounts upload video after video of negative depictions of the Town — again, without context.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When this media-backed narrative gets mixed in with politics and leaks into courtrooms, we end up right back in the early 1990s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID='arts_13950363']The notion of the “superpredator,” as defined by the person who coined the term, \u003ca href=\"https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/article/they-were-sentenced-as-superpredators-who-were-they-really/\">John DiIulio\u003c/a>, is “a young juvenile criminal who is so impulsive, so remorseless, that he can kill, rape, maim, without giving it a second thought.” The term was employed by media outlets across the nation, pinned on people fighting court cases and tossed around by elected officials.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Around this time, politicians on both sides of the aisle discussed how to be tougher on crime. It resulted in the passing of numerous local and state bills, as well as the \u003ca href=\"https://www.congress.gov/bill/103rd-congress/house-bill/3355/text\">Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act\u003c/a> of 1994, a federal crime bill that at the time was touted as the largest crime bill in the nation’s history. Significant portions of the bill were written by the former Senate Judiciary chairman from Delaware — you know him as President Joe Biden.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13952174\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13952174\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/GettyImages-1258830044.jpg\" alt=\"Two politicians greet each other warmly.\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/GettyImages-1258830044.jpg 1024w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/GettyImages-1258830044-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/GettyImages-1258830044-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/GettyImages-1258830044-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/GettyImages-1258830044-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">U.S. President Joe Biden is greeted by California Governor Gavin Newsom upon arrival at Moffett Federal airfield in Mountain View, California, on June 19, 2023. \u003ccite>(Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>This crime bill wasn’t about the prevalence of drugs, police brutality or the over-policing of addiction in working-class Black and Brown communities. Nor was it about the closure of numerous factories and the lack of job opportunities. Nope, it was just as simple as being “tough on crime.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unfortunately, the ’90s was far from the first time this narrative was used. In the late ’80s, an extremely wealthy real estate mogul by the name of Donald Trump spent \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/1989/05/01/nyregion/angered-by-attack-trump-urges-return-of-the-death-penalty.html\">$85,000 to take out a full page advertisement\u003c/a> in four New York newspapers wishing death on the now-exonerated “Central Park 5.” [aside postid='forum_2010101904609']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This country has a history of attributing the ills of society to Black and Brown working class individuals put in compromising positions due to lack of education and sufficient finances. Whether or not they’ve ever committed a crime, they’re often charged for the crimes plaguing the larger society.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s an election year, one that leaves us once again to choose between Biden and Trump for the highest office in the land. Two politicians who see no issue with further investment in the penal system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And in Alameda county, where District Attorney Pamela Price faces a recall effort for being too soft on crime, the pendulum is already swinging back toward more investment in law enforcement. Last week, California Governor Gavin Newsom announced the “Surge Operation,” which will deploy \u003ca href=\"https://oaklandside.org/2024/02/06/governor-newsom-deploys-chp-officers-alarming-crime-increase-oakland/\">120 CHP officers to Oakland\u003c/a> and the surrounding area — “a nearly 900% increase in CHP personnel” to target different forms of theft and violent crime. That was followed by an announcement that the operation will be supported by attorneys from the California National Guard and Deputy attorneys general from the California Department of Justice. “An arrest isn’t enough,” said Governor Newsom. “Justice demands that suspects are appropriately prosecuted.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More cops, tough on crime stances and the “everything going on in Oakland” narrative are a recipe for mass incarceration. Mind you, this state was sued by the federal government for its overcrowded prisons two decades ago, and it wasn’t until the pandemic that the prison population dipped down to non-overcrowded levels. As of last week, California’s prisons were at 117% capacity, and a continued increase is expected.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13881491\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13881491\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/06/GettyImages-1218023784-1-e1591601310455.jpg\" alt=\"Protesters pose with Black Lives Matter signs on the Golden Gate Bridge during a demonstration against racism and police brutality in San Francisco, California, on June 6, 2020.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Protesters pose with Black Lives Matter signs on the Golden Gate Bridge during a demonstration against racism and police brutality in San Francisco, California, on June 6, 2020. \u003ccite>(VIVIAN LIN/AFP via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>[dropcap]W[/dropcap]hat can be done? Crime is up. People are on edge. Neighbors are wary of delivery drivers and any other unidentified car on the street; the narrative of “everything that’s going on in Oakland” is on a lot of people’s minds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it’s exactly because of everything going on in Oakland that it’s a good time to be cautious. Decisions made today will dictate not only where individuals being sentenced will end up in 20 years, but what the state of the Town — and this country — will be in two decades and beyond. The “tough on crime” era resulted in a lot of lives wasted away in overcrowded prisons.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Leaving the courthouse, I walk through the hallway, sneaking one last look through the translucent wall of windows while I wait on the elevator. The wind is blowing. One of the people who walked past me earlier in hard bottom shoes is out on the street running toward their car. Looks like the storm is getting closer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12127869\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"78\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-768x75.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class=\"utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__dropcapShortcode__dropcap\">O\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>n the sixth floor of the Wiley W. Manuel Courthouse, hard-bottom dress shoes and high heels echo down the hall. As I sit on a bench next to floor-to-ceiling windows, I can see downtown Oakland and the hills beyond. Dark clouds gather in the distance — another storm is rolling in. \u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-13833985\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/OGPenn.Cap_-160x184.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"160\" height=\"184\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/OGPenn.Cap_-160x184.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/OGPenn.Cap_.jpg 180w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 160px) 100vw, 160px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A tall, slender man in a suit identifies himself as a public defender. While shaking my hand, he tells me that the young man I’m here to support is facing a second-degree robbery charge for two or three incidents where he’s alleged to have used a BB gun to hold up pizza stores in Oakland. Aside from shaken emotions and money taken, no one was injured, and the public defender says he’s going to ask that he be released on his own recognizance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Inside the courtroom, the public defender lays out the argument just as he did to me in the hallway. But it doesn’t go as planned.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the prosecutor from the district attorney’s office responds, the judge nods repeatedly. Though the young man has no prior record, and could clearly use more guidance and less penalizing, the prosecutor pointedly reminds the courtroom of “everything going on in Oakland.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The judge continues to nod throughout the prosecutor’s statement, which ends with his recommendation to keep the young man in jail and leave his bail at an astronomical $400,000. If the young person and his family were in a financial bind before, getting him released by paying 10% of the bail — $40,000 — is far from feasible.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They schedule a follow-up court date, and the meeting is adjourned. I walk out the courtroom and back into the hallway near the big windows, trying to make sense of it all. \u003cem>Did I just watch Oakland itself go on trial, with this young man taking the blame?\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13952170\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13952170\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/20230909-DAProtest-37-JY-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"A person in red glasses sits at a table in an indoor setting.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/20230909-DAProtest-37-JY-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/20230909-DAProtest-37-JY-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/20230909-DAProtest-37-JY-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/20230909-DAProtest-37-JY-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/20230909-DAProtest-37-JY-KQED-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/20230909-DAProtest-37-JY-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/20230909-DAProtest-37-JY-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Alameda County District Attorney Pamela Price speaks at a public safety town hall at Genesis Worship Center in Oakland, Calif., on Saturday, Sept. 9, 2023. \u003ccite>(Juliana Yamada/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class=\"utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__dropcapShortcode__dropcap\">T\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>he prosecution used “everything going on in Oakland” as a way to connect one individual to the larger issues this city faces, pointing to a prevalent mindset in the community: on edge and weary of crime.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Town is in the midst of another perfect storm, where the decades-old image of Oakland as a violent city is augmented by an uptick in non-violent crime. When this problem becomes politicized, elected officials return to the old “tough on crime” ideology. Inevitably, this results in a flood of folks serving time in state prisons, breathing more life into the beast known as mass incarceration. \u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Making it worse is that the concern isn’t completely unfounded. We’re in the United States, where every major city, especially since the pandemic, has issues with crime.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Oakland, motor vehicle theft has been on an increase since 2020, according to city records. Last year, robberies and burglaries, along with car theft, all reportedly increased by double-digit percentages from the year prior.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The numbers show that after a dip in homicides through the 2010s, the pandemic-plagued year of 2020 brought Oakland its first year with more than 100 homicides in nearly a decade. The homicide count has been over 100 every year since. Oakland’s overall crime index, a calculation used to assess the volume of violent crimes in a specific place, has increased in four of the past five years. \u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Beyond the numbers, viral videos of crimes in progress have fueled fear and panic. This fear seeps into our social interactions — at the bar, the barbershop or in neighborhood cafes, people all over are conversing about broken car windows and stolen catalytic converters, home break-ins and homicides.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To somebody with all this on their mind, having a BB gun pointed at them essentially constitutes an attempt on their life. That’s essentially what I heard the prosecutor saying. But when the prosecutor brings this into court, he’s leaving out the city, state and federal government’s complicity in creating this environment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That young man on trial is another person trying to make ends meet in a region where the living wage is $10 more than the minimum wage. He’s one of the many people bouncing from couch to couch — functionally unhoused — in a state that’s host to half of this country’s unhoused population. Last year, his home county, Alameda County, declared a state of emergency due to the amount of people living without homes. And over the past five years, Oakland has seen an astronomical rise in homelessness, one that’s left a disproportionate amount of African American people, like him, without a home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He isn’t to blame for the state of society — he’s a victim of it as well.\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=\"(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>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class=\"utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__dropcapShortcode__dropcap\">W\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>hen the state of the Town is mentioned, there’s no discussion about a public school system that had a 72% graduation rate during the 2020-2021 school year, the year this young man was supposed to graduate. And while that rate is an improvement from past years, only 40% of those graduates have A-G requirements, which are needed to qualify for the UC and CSU systems. In short, you can graduate without qualifying for the state’s higher education system, which in turn means you’ve got a longshot at entering fields like nursing, tech or any other industry that pays enough to stay afloat in one of the most expensive regions in this country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nonprofits and social programs such as Oakland’s Department of Violence Prevention and MACRO struggle for funding, while this city’s top investment — the Oakland Police Department — has been riddled with scandals and constant turnover in the position of chief. The organization has received billions of dollars while literally being under federal monitor since 2003, the same year that the young defendant in the courtroom was born.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to a \u003ca href=\"https://data.oaklandca.gov/stories/s/Employment/f9u6-zi33/\">report from the the City of Oakland,\u003c/a> just over 10% of people aged 16–24 qualify as “disconnected youth,” which means they’re neither working nor in school. For African Americans, that number is just shy of 15%. The 20-year-old African American man at the center of this trial is one of those disconnected youth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13952167\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13952167\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/IMG_7890-scaled-1.jpg\" alt='A woman stands outside a building with her fist up. A sign next to her says \"stop the war on public education.\"' width=\"2560\" height=\"1920\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/IMG_7890-scaled-1.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/IMG_7890-scaled-1-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/IMG_7890-scaled-1-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/IMG_7890-scaled-1-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/IMG_7890-scaled-1-768x576.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/IMG_7890-scaled-1-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/IMG_7890-scaled-1-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/IMG_7890-scaled-1-1920x1440.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A demonstrator protests Oakland school closures on May 26, 2022. \u003ccite>(Julia McEvoy/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Given all these mitigating factors, is it still wrong to commit a crime? Yes. Should one individual have to pay not only for their alleged crime but for decades of civic neglect that have gotten us to this point? No.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After all, the narrative of “everything that’s going on in Oakland” works to fit any agenda you so wish.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class=\"utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__dropcapShortcode__dropcap\">Y\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>ou’ve seen the reports of chain restaurants like Denny’s and In-N-Out citing “everything that’s going on in Oakland” as the reason why they’re shuttering their storefronts. The media only adds to the fire by parroting business owners’ reasons for closing, whether or not it’s accurate. Supported by major outlets, news reporters tell story after story about crime without providing context or suggestions for change. Social media accounts upload video after video of negative depictions of the Town — again, without context.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When this media-backed narrative gets mixed in with politics and leaks into courtrooms, we end up right back in the early 1990s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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