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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">[dropcap]E[/dropcap]very weekday, Jonathan Davis wakes up at 6am and heads into the yawn of morning light in his construction boots. As a full-time employee of WBE Traffic Control, he operates all over the East Bay, establishing safe zones for workers to repair power lines. It’s a systematized job, filled with rigid procedures, rules, and protocols that he and his coworkers abide by to maintain public safety.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Around 5pm he returns home to a three-year-old daughter who recently started preschool. He prepares dinner, watches \u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Boys\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, then repeats his regiment the following day. It’s a churning livelihood that he embraces—even on Saturdays—in order to make ends meet, a prototypically American dedication to a grind that usually denies any form of extracurricular joy. The job isn’t glamorous, he tells me, but he’s grateful for it.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">That’s because working in construction provides the backbone of income that allows Davis to do what he actually loves the most: cooking for others. On Sundays, he busts out his favorite recipes and vends food from his home, using social media and word-of-mouth to feed his community, friends and neighbors around Oakland and beyond.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“Cooking is like an artistic outlet for me,” says Davis, age 41. “I get to create things and I get to share that with my friends and family. When something doesn’t taste right, I get to improve it and make it better.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">For years, Davis has been perfecting his favorite dishes. A proud Oaklander, he says he grew up with a deep appreciation of the Bay Area’s tapestry of Asian and Latinx flavors—a cultural richness that gave him the confidence to experiment with the soul food ingredients he and his family grew up eating, including shrimp and grits, salmon and fried chicken.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">But he’s most known for his sandwiches—chopped cheese like you’d find in a Harlem bodega and whimsical creations like the “MacArthur Rib,” a play on the McDonald’s classic. The sandos have earned him a reputation around The Town and helped fuel a burgeoning catering business. They also inspired the chef’s nickname: \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/jdthesandman/\">JD the Sandman\u003c/a>.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Yet, it wasn’t a culinary institute where Davis got his game from. And it wasn’t a Michelin-star restaurant that taught him the importance of fresh, diverse ingredients and food’s ability to connect people. It was elsewhere: behind the walls of the Federal Correctional Institution in Sheridan, Oregon.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Cooking from Scratch Inside a Federal Correctional Institution\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Prison is a reality that many Californians know very little about. For those who haven’t had first-hand experience, it’s often a figment of imagination largely based on movies and television shows, where violence is typically the primary focus. Most people know even less about what happens when a person re-enters society after serving their time. Occasionally, an investigative project like “\u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.facing.life/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Facing Life\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">” (which KQED staff writer Pendarvis Harshaw co-authored) can illuminate the complexities of life after incarceration. Otherwise, it’s a taboo, and usually avoided, subject.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Davis was no different in the way he saw prison as something intangible in his own day-to-day life. A middle-class son of college graduates, he says his own incarceration is something he felt ashamed of, particularly as a Black man.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“I invalidated my parent’s efforts, especially knowing the narratives of Black families,” Davis admits. “They were involved in our lives. My parents did all this work for us, and I still ended up in prison.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13918519\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13918519\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/09/RS57647_016_KQEDArts_FoodJonathanDavis_08082022-qut.jpg\" alt=\"Jonathan Davis looks out from the balcony of his apartment next to the freeway\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/09/RS57647_016_KQEDArts_FoodJonathanDavis_08082022-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/09/RS57647_016_KQEDArts_FoodJonathanDavis_08082022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/09/RS57647_016_KQEDArts_FoodJonathanDavis_08082022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/09/RS57647_016_KQEDArts_FoodJonathanDavis_08082022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/09/RS57647_016_KQEDArts_FoodJonathanDavis_08082022-qut-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/09/RS57647_016_KQEDArts_FoodJonathanDavis_08082022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jonathan Davis stands on the deck at his apartment. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">A former educational nonprofit employee in Oakland, Davis never thought he’d end up behind bars. In late 2010, he lost his job due to a disagreement with the principal after a student was expelled. In Davis’s telling of it, the incident had to do with race—he was pushing back in defense of Black students. After losing his job, Davis started to hang out with a crowd of people who introduced him to “scamming.” In that moment of financial need, he saw it as a quick way to turn a profit. In his eyes, he was hustling a governmental system rather than taking from individuals. But the scheme came crashing down in 2013 when the IRS raided his home, guns drawn.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“I was a halfway criminal and didn’t cross my t’s or dot my i’s,” he says. “At that point in life, my faith in myself was weaker.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Davis faced up to 20 years in prison, but was ultimately sentenced to 30 months. He wound up serving 18 of those months at federal institutions in Nevada and Oregon. As soon as he was convicted, he accepted his role in his wrongdoing and decided to move forward with his life by facing the consequences of his actions.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">[pullquote size=\"large\" align=\"right\"]“It wasn’t a Michelin-star restaurant that taught [Davis] the importance of fresh, diverse ingredients and food’s ability to connect people. It was elsewhere: behind the walls of the Federal Correctional Institution.”[/pullquote]While imprisoned from 2014 to 2016, Davis’s good behavior landed him in a low-security environment, where he was given certain privileges. He joined a gardening program, frequently read about cooking and met people like \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/leasdef?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Kasey Anderson, a Portland-based songwriter\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Despite a largely solitary prison experience, Davis discovered that food was a way for him to relate with others and represent his heritage. He began to cook for himself and his blockmates, including Anderson, who recognized his skills.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“It’s tough to know who’s a good cook when you’re inside,” Anderson says. “Everyone’s all working with the same ingredients from commissary. You can see who is innovative and using flavors in ways others aren’t. JD would get creative with his food, and when he had a chance to work with [more ingredients], he could really express himself creatively through food. It’s cool to me that it became something for him that can exist outside. A lot of people do things inside to get by, but then go out and do what they need to go paycheck to paycheck. He isn’t limiting himself in that sense.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Davis explains how, at times, he had to get extra creative with the limited ingredients and lack of traditional cooking equipment available to him in prison.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“There was a sweat lodge, and we cooked a piece of pork in there [one time],” he recalls. “[Another time] we made pizzas with tortillas and barbecue sauce. That was my idea. During my time, I just made friends with the kitchen guys, and that helped to keep my sanity.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Peanut butter was one of the most popular, versatile ingredients in prison—Davis recalls drawing inspiration from a peanut butter stew he’d once seen a Cameroonian immigrant whip up in his neighborhood, years prior. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Despite having almost no experience working inside a formal restaurant—though he’d once bartended at Kincaid’s in Jack London Square—Davis was naturally drawn to the freedom the kitchen provided. In an environment where authority and separation is enforced by armed guards and selfhood is under vigilant regulation, cooking for himself and his peers became a source of restorative connection. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13918521\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13918521\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/09/RS57636_005_KQEDArts_FoodJonathanDavis_08082022-qut.jpg\" alt=\"two guests holding plates of shrimps and grits in an apartment kitchen\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/09/RS57636_005_KQEDArts_FoodJonathanDavis_08082022-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/09/RS57636_005_KQEDArts_FoodJonathanDavis_08082022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/09/RS57636_005_KQEDArts_FoodJonathanDavis_08082022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/09/RS57636_005_KQEDArts_FoodJonathanDavis_08082022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/09/RS57636_005_KQEDArts_FoodJonathanDavis_08082022-qut-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/09/RS57636_005_KQEDArts_FoodJonathanDavis_08082022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Two guests enjoying grits and shrimp prepared by Davis in his home. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">After being released, Davis was unable to get hired back into the nonprofit world. That’s when he started working in construction—since, as Davis puts it, nonprofits “prefer to hire non convicts.” He maintained his obsession with cooking, though, and applied a sense of redemption towards his Sunday cooking routine.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“Food for me became about honoring my family,” he says. “About giving back whatever I could.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">In 2020, when the pandemic hit, Davis joined Instagram and noticed an opportunity to share his food with a wider audience. He started by cooking dinner for family, friends and neighbors, who encouraged him to expand his menu and sell his dishes. Inspired by their suggestions and \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13907726/e-40-goon-with-the-spoon-bay-area-rappers-food-entrepreneurs-hustle\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">the success of other homegrown, independent food entrepreneurs\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> in the Bay Area, Davis rolled up his sleeves and began to mess around more seriously with his side hustle. With each praised meal, he gained confidence, eventually introducing his first certified hit: the MacArthur Rib Sandwich.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">A play on McDonald’s famously elusive McRib, Davis added his own touches by roasting “real meat” and incorporating better ingredients to deliver what would become a banger for his growing base of returning customers. He followed that up with an array of other in-demand sandwiches, including a cast-iron seared and baked salmon (Cajun spices, arugula, dill relish, mayo) and New York bodega-style chopped cheese (\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">ground beef, American deli cheese, chopped tomatoes, mayo and ketchup mix, sweet jalapeño)\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Davis says the pandemic’s slowdown gave him an opportunity to reconnect with how much food means to him. Since then, he’s been sharing edible comfort with his folks.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“The way I’m doing this now, I can be independent,” he says. “This cooking allows me to do something I want and I’m grateful for that. It’s a release.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Catering for the Public\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Markesha Brooks is a lifelong Oakland resident who works as the head chef at Grand Lake Gardens. In her spare time, she runs her catering business, MB Soul, serving up fire plates of soul food at softball games, Southland Mall and Lake Merritt.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">After meeting Davis over a decade ago, the two friends remained in touch. When he returned to Oakland on probation and eventually started his series of informal food events, he and Brooks decided to work together to leverage their mutual interest in cooking. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“He’s a foodie, I’m a foodie. We’ve actually grown really close around food,” says Brooks. “He likes to pick restaurants in different cities. We go have specific dishes that those restaurants are known for. He’s eager to learn.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">With 18 years of experience, Brooks has been an ideal “coach” for Davis, critiquing his methods and offering advice on how to make adjustments. Currently, she assists Davis as a de facto sous chef whenever Davis is hired for large functions. Though he started out selling sandwiches exclusively out of his Lower Dimond apartment off MacArthur Boulevard, Davis’s business has since expanded—occasionally taking him out to Fairfield, Vallejo and even Sacramento. Bringing Brooks into the mix has allowed him to offer a more robust range of services. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">In the past six months, he has been hired to privately cater multiple events, including weddings and large birthday parties of more than 60 people. Brooks helps him steer the high pace of food service by handling meal prep, frying and plating, while Davis does the cooking and managing.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“He takes direction extremely well, and he knows how to take constructive criticism from me,” Brooks says about working with “Chef Jonathan,” as she calls him. “He’s creative and he has his vision. Lots of times in the kitchen, people think they can cook at home for a few people, but it’s different when you cook for the public. He’s really good at it though. He wants to get to that next level. I’m proud of his growth. I see it.” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13918520\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13918520\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/09/RS57640_007_KQEDArts_FoodJonathanDavis_08082022-qut.jpg\" alt=\"a rib sandwich cut into fourths on a cutting board\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/09/RS57640_007_KQEDArts_FoodJonathanDavis_08082022-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/09/RS57640_007_KQEDArts_FoodJonathanDavis_08082022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/09/RS57640_007_KQEDArts_FoodJonathanDavis_08082022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/09/RS57640_007_KQEDArts_FoodJonathanDavis_08082022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/09/RS57640_007_KQEDArts_FoodJonathanDavis_08082022-qut-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/09/RS57640_007_KQEDArts_FoodJonathanDavis_08082022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The MacArthur Rib sandwich is an ode to MacArthur Boulevard, where Davis lives. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Together, the Oakland duo is serving their community while having fun and playing to their strengths. Crowd favorites like Davis’s panko-and-eggs battered grits—which are deep fried for a crispy golden outer layer, doused in a spicy tomato-based sauce then topped off with shrimp—have resulted in them getting hired for Mardi Gras-themed parties and Southern-style cookouts all over the Bay.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Navigating Forward, New Recipes\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">According to recent \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://bjs.ojp.gov/content/pub/pdf/eprfp10.pdf\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">research conducted by the Bureau of Justice Statistics\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, around 60% of formerly incarcerated Americans are unemployed. And even for those who have secured jobs, the data shows higher rates of turnover and rehiring. These trends reveal \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.prisonpolicy.org/blog/2022/02/08/employment/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">a “labor market injustice”\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> and point to a harsh truth: Once you’ve been marked by the carceral system, it’s hard to get back on your feet. \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://prospect.org/special-report/new-jim-crow/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Discarding former inmates as “second-class citizens” when they re-enter society\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, the ravages of the prison industrial complex are undeniable. This is especially true for Black Americans, who—due to a variety of systemic, historical factors—make up a disproportionate amount of the incarcerated population in this country.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“The probation shit is rough, and filling out forms for jobs as a felon is rough,” says Davis. “It’s not only related to Blackness, but also class and not having enough money for legal help.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">[aside postID='arts_13915489,arts_13916965,arts_13916044']The barriers preventing Davis—and many other formerly incarcerated folks—from being hired to work desirable positions are numerously stacked. The stigma around incarceration can be debilitating, offering no room for mistakes or missteps. In the Bay Area food scene, specifically, there are a handful of organizations that support aspiring foodmakers who were once incarcerated—such as \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13916965/farming-hope-food-justice-non-profit-coffee-pop-up-guest-chef-mannys-sf\">Farming Hope\u003c/a> in San Francisco—but these are few and far between. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Rather than trying to navigate these difficult institutional pathways, Davis recognized the most direct road to success in the kitchen was to take initiative and do it for himself.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“I want to express what I want in the kitchen,” says Davis. “I’ve bartended at Kincaid’s. The guys back there are cooking, but their dream isn’t to make 57 crab dips per day. It’s conformity. You don’t have much control and there’s a lot of monetary pressure. The guy who makes turkey legs might not want to make turkey legs. This way, I can at least have my independence.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">For now, food is a side gig for Davis, but eventually, if an opportunity presents itself, he would love to do it full-time. Until then, customers can reach him via text or DM. He’s always ready to slang a batch of sandwiches or pull up for an event.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13918528\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13918528\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/09/RS57645_013_KQEDArts_FoodJonathanDavis_08082022-qut.jpg\" alt=\"Jonathan Davis holds a freshly prepared fried chicken sandwich in his hands\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/09/RS57645_013_KQEDArts_FoodJonathanDavis_08082022-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/09/RS57645_013_KQEDArts_FoodJonathanDavis_08082022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/09/RS57645_013_KQEDArts_FoodJonathanDavis_08082022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/09/RS57645_013_KQEDArts_FoodJonathanDavis_08082022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/09/RS57645_013_KQEDArts_FoodJonathanDavis_08082022-qut-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/09/RS57645_013_KQEDArts_FoodJonathanDavis_08082022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Davis offers his fried chicken sandwich. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">When I visited him with a small group of friends at his Oakland apartment, he hosted us with a sense of visible pride and passion for his cooking. We were in his living room, seated at his table, eating his homemade food. It’s unlike any experience I’ve had with a chef—an intimate level of trust and connection, built on the freedom of being able to move around someone’s space once invited. It became evident that his gratitude for ordinary decision making and simplicity are essential ingredients in his life.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">From a rotating panoply of freshly-made sandwiches, homestyle french fries, and of course, his famous grits and shrimp, we were fed like Bay Area royalty. The fried chicken sandwich, which was accompanied by \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">arugula, tomatoes and jalapeños on a sweet brioche bun, had a beautiful, understated crispness that exemplifies Davis’s well-executed takes on simple favorites. His love for local references—like the notorious MacArthur Rib, which uses country pork rib, Everett and Jones BBQ sauce, onions and pickles—also speak to Davis’s playfulness, adding a layer of appreciation to each flavorful bite.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">It reminds me how my favorite chefs don’t measure their worth with abstract fine dining concepts or stylized presentations. Instead, they are focused on plating nourishment in the form of self care and community preservation. And sometimes, that’s shaped like a sandwich.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12904247 aligncenter\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"39\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39-160x16.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39-240x23.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39-375x37.jpg 375w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/jdthesandman/\">JD the Sandman\u003c/a> is available for private orders and limited catering services via \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/jdthesandman/\">Instagram\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">But he’s most known for his sandwiches—chopped cheese like you’d find in a Harlem bodega and whimsical creations like the “MacArthur Rib,” a play on the McDonald’s classic. The sandos have earned him a reputation around The Town and helped fuel a burgeoning catering business. They also inspired the chef’s nickname: \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/jdthesandman/\">JD the Sandman\u003c/a>.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Yet, it wasn’t a culinary institute where Davis got his game from. And it wasn’t a Michelin-star restaurant that taught him the importance of fresh, diverse ingredients and food’s ability to connect people. It was elsewhere: behind the walls of the Federal Correctional Institution in Sheridan, Oregon.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Cooking from Scratch Inside a Federal Correctional Institution\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Prison is a reality that many Californians know very little about. For those who haven’t had first-hand experience, it’s often a figment of imagination largely based on movies and television shows, where violence is typically the primary focus. Most people know even less about what happens when a person re-enters society after serving their time. Occasionally, an investigative project like “\u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.facing.life/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Facing Life\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">” (which KQED staff writer Pendarvis Harshaw co-authored) can illuminate the complexities of life after incarceration. Otherwise, it’s a taboo, and usually avoided, subject.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Davis was no different in the way he saw prison as something intangible in his own day-to-day life. A middle-class son of college graduates, he says his own incarceration is something he felt ashamed of, particularly as a Black man.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“I invalidated my parent’s efforts, especially knowing the narratives of Black families,” Davis admits. “They were involved in our lives. My parents did all this work for us, and I still ended up in prison.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13918519\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13918519\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/09/RS57647_016_KQEDArts_FoodJonathanDavis_08082022-qut.jpg\" alt=\"Jonathan Davis looks out from the balcony of his apartment next to the freeway\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/09/RS57647_016_KQEDArts_FoodJonathanDavis_08082022-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/09/RS57647_016_KQEDArts_FoodJonathanDavis_08082022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/09/RS57647_016_KQEDArts_FoodJonathanDavis_08082022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/09/RS57647_016_KQEDArts_FoodJonathanDavis_08082022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/09/RS57647_016_KQEDArts_FoodJonathanDavis_08082022-qut-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/09/RS57647_016_KQEDArts_FoodJonathanDavis_08082022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jonathan Davis stands on the deck at his apartment. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">A former educational nonprofit employee in Oakland, Davis never thought he’d end up behind bars. In late 2010, he lost his job due to a disagreement with the principal after a student was expelled. In Davis’s telling of it, the incident had to do with race—he was pushing back in defense of Black students. After losing his job, Davis started to hang out with a crowd of people who introduced him to “scamming.” In that moment of financial need, he saw it as a quick way to turn a profit. In his eyes, he was hustling a governmental system rather than taking from individuals. But the scheme came crashing down in 2013 when the IRS raided his home, guns drawn.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“I was a halfway criminal and didn’t cross my t’s or dot my i’s,” he says. “At that point in life, my faith in myself was weaker.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Davis faced up to 20 years in prison, but was ultimately sentenced to 30 months. He wound up serving 18 of those months at federal institutions in Nevada and Oregon. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>While imprisoned from 2014 to 2016, Davis’s good behavior landed him in a low-security environment, where he was given certain privileges. He joined a gardening program, frequently read about cooking and met people like \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/leasdef?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Kasey Anderson, a Portland-based songwriter\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Despite a largely solitary prison experience, Davis discovered that food was a way for him to relate with others and represent his heritage. He began to cook for himself and his blockmates, including Anderson, who recognized his skills.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“It’s tough to know who’s a good cook when you’re inside,” Anderson says. “Everyone’s all working with the same ingredients from commissary. You can see who is innovative and using flavors in ways others aren’t. JD would get creative with his food, and when he had a chance to work with [more ingredients], he could really express himself creatively through food. It’s cool to me that it became something for him that can exist outside. A lot of people do things inside to get by, but then go out and do what they need to go paycheck to paycheck. He isn’t limiting himself in that sense.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Davis explains how, at times, he had to get extra creative with the limited ingredients and lack of traditional cooking equipment available to him in prison.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“There was a sweat lodge, and we cooked a piece of pork in there [one time],” he recalls. “[Another time] we made pizzas with tortillas and barbecue sauce. That was my idea. During my time, I just made friends with the kitchen guys, and that helped to keep my sanity.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Peanut butter was one of the most popular, versatile ingredients in prison—Davis recalls drawing inspiration from a peanut butter stew he’d once seen a Cameroonian immigrant whip up in his neighborhood, years prior. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Despite having almost no experience working inside a formal restaurant—though he’d once bartended at Kincaid’s in Jack London Square—Davis was naturally drawn to the freedom the kitchen provided. In an environment where authority and separation is enforced by armed guards and selfhood is under vigilant regulation, cooking for himself and his peers became a source of restorative connection. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13918521\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13918521\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/09/RS57636_005_KQEDArts_FoodJonathanDavis_08082022-qut.jpg\" alt=\"two guests holding plates of shrimps and grits in an apartment kitchen\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/09/RS57636_005_KQEDArts_FoodJonathanDavis_08082022-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/09/RS57636_005_KQEDArts_FoodJonathanDavis_08082022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/09/RS57636_005_KQEDArts_FoodJonathanDavis_08082022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/09/RS57636_005_KQEDArts_FoodJonathanDavis_08082022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/09/RS57636_005_KQEDArts_FoodJonathanDavis_08082022-qut-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/09/RS57636_005_KQEDArts_FoodJonathanDavis_08082022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Two guests enjoying grits and shrimp prepared by Davis in his home. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">After being released, Davis was unable to get hired back into the nonprofit world. That’s when he started working in construction—since, as Davis puts it, nonprofits “prefer to hire non convicts.” He maintained his obsession with cooking, though, and applied a sense of redemption towards his Sunday cooking routine.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“Food for me became about honoring my family,” he says. “About giving back whatever I could.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">In 2020, when the pandemic hit, Davis joined Instagram and noticed an opportunity to share his food with a wider audience. He started by cooking dinner for family, friends and neighbors, who encouraged him to expand his menu and sell his dishes. Inspired by their suggestions and \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13907726/e-40-goon-with-the-spoon-bay-area-rappers-food-entrepreneurs-hustle\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">the success of other homegrown, independent food entrepreneurs\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> in the Bay Area, Davis rolled up his sleeves and began to mess around more seriously with his side hustle. With each praised meal, he gained confidence, eventually introducing his first certified hit: the MacArthur Rib Sandwich.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">A play on McDonald’s famously elusive McRib, Davis added his own touches by roasting “real meat” and incorporating better ingredients to deliver what would become a banger for his growing base of returning customers. He followed that up with an array of other in-demand sandwiches, including a cast-iron seared and baked salmon (Cajun spices, arugula, dill relish, mayo) and New York bodega-style chopped cheese (\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">ground beef, American deli cheese, chopped tomatoes, mayo and ketchup mix, sweet jalapeño)\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Davis says the pandemic’s slowdown gave him an opportunity to reconnect with how much food means to him. Since then, he’s been sharing edible comfort with his folks.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“The way I’m doing this now, I can be independent,” he says. “This cooking allows me to do something I want and I’m grateful for that. It’s a release.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Catering for the Public\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Markesha Brooks is a lifelong Oakland resident who works as the head chef at Grand Lake Gardens. In her spare time, she runs her catering business, MB Soul, serving up fire plates of soul food at softball games, Southland Mall and Lake Merritt.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">After meeting Davis over a decade ago, the two friends remained in touch. When he returned to Oakland on probation and eventually started his series of informal food events, he and Brooks decided to work together to leverage their mutual interest in cooking. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“He’s a foodie, I’m a foodie. We’ve actually grown really close around food,” says Brooks. “He likes to pick restaurants in different cities. We go have specific dishes that those restaurants are known for. He’s eager to learn.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">With 18 years of experience, Brooks has been an ideal “coach” for Davis, critiquing his methods and offering advice on how to make adjustments. Currently, she assists Davis as a de facto sous chef whenever Davis is hired for large functions. Though he started out selling sandwiches exclusively out of his Lower Dimond apartment off MacArthur Boulevard, Davis’s business has since expanded—occasionally taking him out to Fairfield, Vallejo and even Sacramento. Bringing Brooks into the mix has allowed him to offer a more robust range of services. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">In the past six months, he has been hired to privately cater multiple events, including weddings and large birthday parties of more than 60 people. Brooks helps him steer the high pace of food service by handling meal prep, frying and plating, while Davis does the cooking and managing.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“He takes direction extremely well, and he knows how to take constructive criticism from me,” Brooks says about working with “Chef Jonathan,” as she calls him. “He’s creative and he has his vision. Lots of times in the kitchen, people think they can cook at home for a few people, but it’s different when you cook for the public. He’s really good at it though. He wants to get to that next level. I’m proud of his growth. I see it.” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13918520\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13918520\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/09/RS57640_007_KQEDArts_FoodJonathanDavis_08082022-qut.jpg\" alt=\"a rib sandwich cut into fourths on a cutting board\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/09/RS57640_007_KQEDArts_FoodJonathanDavis_08082022-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/09/RS57640_007_KQEDArts_FoodJonathanDavis_08082022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/09/RS57640_007_KQEDArts_FoodJonathanDavis_08082022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/09/RS57640_007_KQEDArts_FoodJonathanDavis_08082022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/09/RS57640_007_KQEDArts_FoodJonathanDavis_08082022-qut-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/09/RS57640_007_KQEDArts_FoodJonathanDavis_08082022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The MacArthur Rib sandwich is an ode to MacArthur Boulevard, where Davis lives. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Together, the Oakland duo is serving their community while having fun and playing to their strengths. Crowd favorites like Davis’s panko-and-eggs battered grits—which are deep fried for a crispy golden outer layer, doused in a spicy tomato-based sauce then topped off with shrimp—have resulted in them getting hired for Mardi Gras-themed parties and Southern-style cookouts all over the Bay.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Navigating Forward, New Recipes\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">According to recent \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://bjs.ojp.gov/content/pub/pdf/eprfp10.pdf\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">research conducted by the Bureau of Justice Statistics\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, around 60% of formerly incarcerated Americans are unemployed. And even for those who have secured jobs, the data shows higher rates of turnover and rehiring. These trends reveal \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.prisonpolicy.org/blog/2022/02/08/employment/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">a “labor market injustice”\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> and point to a harsh truth: Once you’ve been marked by the carceral system, it’s hard to get back on your feet. \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://prospect.org/special-report/new-jim-crow/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Discarding former inmates as “second-class citizens” when they re-enter society\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, the ravages of the prison industrial complex are undeniable. This is especially true for Black Americans, who—due to a variety of systemic, historical factors—make up a disproportionate amount of the incarcerated population in this country.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“The probation shit is rough, and filling out forms for jobs as a felon is rough,” says Davis. “It’s not only related to Blackness, but also class and not having enough money for legal help.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>The barriers preventing Davis—and many other formerly incarcerated folks—from being hired to work desirable positions are numerously stacked. The stigma around incarceration can be debilitating, offering no room for mistakes or missteps. In the Bay Area food scene, specifically, there are a handful of organizations that support aspiring foodmakers who were once incarcerated—such as \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13916965/farming-hope-food-justice-non-profit-coffee-pop-up-guest-chef-mannys-sf\">Farming Hope\u003c/a> in San Francisco—but these are few and far between. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Rather than trying to navigate these difficult institutional pathways, Davis recognized the most direct road to success in the kitchen was to take initiative and do it for himself.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“I want to express what I want in the kitchen,” says Davis. “I’ve bartended at Kincaid’s. The guys back there are cooking, but their dream isn’t to make 57 crab dips per day. It’s conformity. You don’t have much control and there’s a lot of monetary pressure. The guy who makes turkey legs might not want to make turkey legs. This way, I can at least have my independence.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">For now, food is a side gig for Davis, but eventually, if an opportunity presents itself, he would love to do it full-time. Until then, customers can reach him via text or DM. He’s always ready to slang a batch of sandwiches or pull up for an event.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13918528\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13918528\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/09/RS57645_013_KQEDArts_FoodJonathanDavis_08082022-qut.jpg\" alt=\"Jonathan Davis holds a freshly prepared fried chicken sandwich in his hands\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/09/RS57645_013_KQEDArts_FoodJonathanDavis_08082022-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/09/RS57645_013_KQEDArts_FoodJonathanDavis_08082022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/09/RS57645_013_KQEDArts_FoodJonathanDavis_08082022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/09/RS57645_013_KQEDArts_FoodJonathanDavis_08082022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/09/RS57645_013_KQEDArts_FoodJonathanDavis_08082022-qut-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/09/RS57645_013_KQEDArts_FoodJonathanDavis_08082022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Davis offers his fried chicken sandwich. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">When I visited him with a small group of friends at his Oakland apartment, he hosted us with a sense of visible pride and passion for his cooking. We were in his living room, seated at his table, eating his homemade food. It’s unlike any experience I’ve had with a chef—an intimate level of trust and connection, built on the freedom of being able to move around someone’s space once invited. It became evident that his gratitude for ordinary decision making and simplicity are essential ingredients in his life.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">From a rotating panoply of freshly-made sandwiches, homestyle french fries, and of course, his famous grits and shrimp, we were fed like Bay Area royalty. The fried chicken sandwich, which was accompanied by \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">arugula, tomatoes and jalapeños on a sweet brioche bun, had a beautiful, understated crispness that exemplifies Davis’s well-executed takes on simple favorites. His love for local references—like the notorious MacArthur Rib, which uses country pork rib, Everett and Jones BBQ sauce, onions and pickles—also speak to Davis’s playfulness, adding a layer of appreciation to each flavorful bite.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">It reminds me how my favorite chefs don’t measure their worth with abstract fine dining concepts or stylized presentations. Instead, they are focused on plating nourishment in the form of self care and community preservation. And sometimes, that’s shaped like a sandwich.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12904247 aligncenter\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"39\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39-160x16.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39-240x23.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39-375x37.jpg 375w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/fallarts2022\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>\u003cstrong>Find more of KQED’s picks for the best Fall 2022 events here\u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gas prices. Sky-high inflation. The Millennial inability to stop buying lattes and avocado toast. (\u003cem>I kid!\u003c/em>)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The year 2022 has been rough on wallets across the country, and our wallets also happen to be sitting (half-empty) in one of its most expensive regions. (San Francisco, Oakland and San Jose all made the list of top-10 most expensive American cities.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What does that mean? It means we all need as much free stuff as possible. And luckily for us, there are a lot of great events coming up that won’t cost you a dime to attend. Movies, art, dance, live music, parties, theater—we’ve got you covered. Bay Area rents may break the bank, but there’s a wealth of fun things to do that won’t.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"mceTemp\">\u003c/div>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13917591\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13917591\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/Screen-Shot-2022-08-12-at-12.31.28-PM-800x530.png\" alt=\"A Black dancer in open black shirt and tight black shorts, lays on a wooden platform, arms outstretched dramatically, with one leg kicked upwards and pointed out. Crowds watch on from the sidelines.\" width=\"800\" height=\"530\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/Screen-Shot-2022-08-12-at-12.31.28-PM-800x530.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/Screen-Shot-2022-08-12-at-12.31.28-PM-1020x675.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/Screen-Shot-2022-08-12-at-12.31.28-PM-160x106.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/Screen-Shot-2022-08-12-at-12.31.28-PM-768x508.png 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/Screen-Shot-2022-08-12-at-12.31.28-PM-1536x1017.png 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/Screen-Shot-2022-08-12-at-12.31.28-PM.png 1592w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A performer strikes a pose at 2021’s Open To All Ball at Lake Merritt Amphitheater. \u003ccite>(Estefany Gonzalez)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/events/1198327271019474/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Hella Hyphy Ball\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Lake Merritt Amphitheater, Oakland\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Sept. 10, 1pm–7pm\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The follow-up to 2021’s dazzling \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13902915/photos-lgbtq-oakland-shows-out-at-the-open-to-all-vogue-ball\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Open to All Ball\u003c/a> is set to transform the shores of Lake Merritt once more into ballroom bliss. This year’s ball carries the same ethos as the last one: everyone—and they do mean absolutely everyone—is welcome. The 2022 theme, however, is brand new, and hella Oakland: hyphy. That will influence every category in this year’s contests, from performance soundtracks to the all-important runway fashions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As usual, there are big prizes to be won, including $1,000 cash awards for categories including Realness, Face and Runway, and a $4,000 prize for the Tag Team performance. This year’s grand finale promises to be next-level thanks to the caveat that teams must include at least one hyphy move in their presentation. So … serve and turf?\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13917640\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13917640\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/Screen-Shot-2022-08-15-at-2.29.48-PM-1-800x517.png\" alt=\"A Black woman in black and white striped dress, sits on a stool with her feet up, laughing as she holds an acoustic guitar on her lap.\" width=\"800\" height=\"517\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Meklit, an Ethiopia-born, Bay Area-dwelling singer, blends African and American blues, jazz and folk sounds with a constantly surprising level of grace and magnetism. And she’s on the Hardly Strictly lineup this year. \u003ccite>(NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca href=\"https://www.hardlystrictlybluegrass.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Hardly Strictly Bluegrass\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Golden Gate Park, San Francisco\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Sept. 30-Oct. 2\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After a two-year absence from Golden Gate Park, Hardly Strictly is set for a triumphant return this October with a lineup that offers something for nearly every mood and taste.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Festival veterans like Emmylou Harris (in her 22nd HSB appearance!) and Buddy Miller (in his 17th!) will be present, accounted for and offering warm fuzzy feelings to fend off the fog. Marcus Mumford and Talking Heads’ Jerry Harrison and Adrian Belew check the mainstream-appeal boxes. And local flavor comes in the form of Tré Burt (Sacramento), Meklit (San Francisco), Brothers Comatose (North Bay) and A.J. Lee and Blue Summit (South Bay).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But as usual, HSB will also be serving up fantastic artists from around the country. So far, this year’s must-not-miss list includes: the heart-wrenching but always uplifting Allison Russell, the retro-soul stylings of Lucius and the bluegrass-rooted Afrofuturism of Jake Blount. In a lineup that has long been proud to stray beyond the confines of traditional bluegrass, Blount is a one-man example of why it’s so exciting to do just that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13917608\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13917608\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/Screen-Shot-2022-08-12-at-3.08.11-PM-800x542.png\" alt=\"A father and son walk hand-in-hand towards a group of parents and children playing with bubbles. Behind them, various stalls can be seen lining the street.\" width=\"800\" height=\"542\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Noise Pop’s 20th Street Block Party will take place on Valencia St. this year. \u003ccite>(Instagram/ @noisepop)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca href=\"http://www.20thstreetblockparty.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Noise Pop’s 20th Street Block Party\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Valencia Street between 18th and 21st Streets, San Francisco\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Oct. 15, 12pm-6pm\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This family-friendly free-for-all will take over three whole blocks of Valencia Street to bring live music, food, local arts and crafts, and a whole lot of fun, to the Mission. The location may be slightly different in 2022, but the vibe will remain the same as the prior eight years: a love letter to the diversity and creativity of the Mission District.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Proceeds collected at this year’s community gathering will assist two great nonprofits in continuing their work in the neighborhood. \u003ca href=\"https://826valencia.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">826 Valencia\u003c/a> (a.k.a. the Pirate Supply Store) will use all donations to further their mission of making sure under-resourced kids get a tutoring boost so they can become great writers. And \u003ca href=\"https://lacocinasf.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">La Cocina\u003c/a> will keep working toward equity in business ownership, providing mentorship and affordable kitchen space to female and BIPOC entrepreneurs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13917609\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13917609\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/Screen-Shot-2022-08-12-at-3.37.26-PM-800x486.png\" alt=\"Three South Asian women sitting in a row laughing.\" width=\"800\" height=\"486\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Attendees taking in a show at Cupertino’s Diwali: Festival of Lights. \u003ccite>(Cupertino Chamber of Commerce)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/bayareadiwalifestival\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Diwali Festival of Lights\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Memorial Park, Cupertino\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Oct. 8, 11am-6pm\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sure, this festival is happening a full 15 days before Diwali’s five-day celebration even starts, but it’s never too soon to get excited about light triumphing over darkness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Beyond honoring the holiday itself, Cupertino’s Festival of Lights is a celebration of all things Desi. The plethora of colorful dance displays—a journey through classical \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bharatanatyam\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Bharatanatyam\u003c/a> to modern \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bhangra_(dance)#Bhangra_today\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Bhangra\u003c/a>—are worth the journey alone. But the spicy and aromatic street food on hand also satisfies rumbling stomachs, the stalls have plenty to keep dedicated shoppers busy and the \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rangoli\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Rangoli\u003c/a> art displays are just mesmerizing. Plus, there’s even a Kids Zone that usually includes some pretty ridiculous physical challenges. (If you’ve ever wanted to stick your child in a giant hamster ball, this is the place to do it.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To cap it all, there’s even free parking. Just head to De Anza College’s A and B lots.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13917731\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13917731\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/Screen-Shot-2022-08-16-at-2.07.55-PM-800x601.png\" alt=\"A grid of 12 squares showing different styles of paintings and crafts.\" width=\"800\" height=\"601\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A tiny portion of the artists showing at San Francisco Open Studios. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of SFOS)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca href=\"https://www.artspan.org/sfos-schedule\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">San Francisco\u003c/a> / \u003ca href=\"https://eastbayopenstudios.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">East Bay Open Studios\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Locations TBD. (Check \u003ca href=\"https://www.artspan.org/visit-sf-open-studios/navigating-sfos\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">SFOS\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://eastbayopenstudios.com/2022-event-schedule/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">EBOS\u003c/a> websites for directories.)\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>San Francisco: Oct. 23-Nov. 13\u003cbr>\nEast Bay: Nov. 5-13\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Whether you approach them as casual neighborhood strolls or regimented exercises complete with maps and schedules, the Open Studios events on both sides of the Bay are worthy of your attention. Taking place across four weekends in San Francisco and two in the East Bay, Open Studios is a chance to get to know the artists in your area, support them and see some truly great work. (There’s usually a surprising amount of free cookies involved too…)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wandering between home studios, artist collective spaces, back yards and garages doesn’t just feel like a treasure hunt—it also offers a glimpse into how Bay Area artists live and survive. It’s inspiring to witness not just the eclectic array of talent on display, but the resourcefulness of many of our local creators. And if you can’t make it out to meet them in person, the SFOS website offers \u003ca href=\"https://www.artspan.org/vast\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">virtual tours of selected artists’ studios\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the Open Studios events themselves are free, don’t expect to come home empty-handed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13917656\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13917656\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/Screen-Shot-2022-08-15-at-7.58.18-PM-800x557.png\" alt=\"A woman in her twenties with black hair, wearing midriff-baring punky clothes, throws her arms above her head and sticks her tongue out in a rebellious gesture.\" width=\"800\" height=\"557\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/Screen-Shot-2022-08-15-at-7.58.18-PM-800x557.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/Screen-Shot-2022-08-15-at-7.58.18-PM-1020x710.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/Screen-Shot-2022-08-15-at-7.58.18-PM-160x111.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/Screen-Shot-2022-08-15-at-7.58.18-PM-768x535.png 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/Screen-Shot-2022-08-15-at-7.58.18-PM-1536x1070.png 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/Screen-Shot-2022-08-15-at-7.58.18-PM.png 1700w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Livia Gomes Demarchi as Beatrice in San Francisco Shakespeare Festival’s 40th Anniversary production of ‘Much Ado About Nothing.’ \u003ccite>(Jay Yamada)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca href=\"https://www.sfshakes.org/?fbclid=IwAR3OD5c8Cx3CbwJ02gSUOBcfQYf8GDYCLFp5fKvmK-wulGkee84ucXcZF_c\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Shakespeare in the Park\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Jerry Garcia Amphitheater, MacLaren Park, San Francisco\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Sept. 3-11, 2pm\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Much Ado About Nothing\u003c/em> can be quite the challenging prospect for modern audiences—particularly the women watching. After all, it’s difficult to glean much enjoyment from watching female characters getting treated terribly by the men in their midst for 160 minutes, only to have everything wrapped up in a neat little bow in the end.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This year’s production by the San Francisco Shakespeare Festival however, promises to be a more palatable take on a dated classic. With a distinctly ’90s aesthetic, a run time of just 90 minutes (no intermission) and modernized versions of familiar characters, this \u003cem>Much Ado\u003c/em> promises something a little different from more traditional productions. Think: Beatrice in lip-liner and a dog collar, a grunge rendition of “Sigh No More” and Benedick out participating in protest marches. No, really.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you missed this \u003cem>Much Ado About Nothing\u003c/em> in Cupertino and Redwood City and can’t make it to McLaren Park either, don’t worry. A version of the production will be made \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cB1obsLLZe8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">available online\u003c/a> at a later date, complete with closed captions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13917732\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13917732\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/Screen-Shot-2022-08-16-at-2.12.16-PM-800x520.png\" alt=\"Dancers - three female, one male - wearing traditional Mexican clothes smile as they perform on a small stage.\" width=\"800\" height=\"520\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/Screen-Shot-2022-08-16-at-2.12.16-PM-800x520.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/Screen-Shot-2022-08-16-at-2.12.16-PM-1020x663.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/Screen-Shot-2022-08-16-at-2.12.16-PM-160x104.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/Screen-Shot-2022-08-16-at-2.12.16-PM-768x499.png 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/Screen-Shot-2022-08-16-at-2.12.16-PM.png 1458w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dancers performing the Jarabe Tapatío at the Solano Avenue Stroll. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Solano Avenue Stroll)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca href=\"https://www.solanoavenueassn.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Solano Avenue Stroll\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Solano Avenue, Albany and Berkeley\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Sept. 11, 10am-5pm\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Finally! The Stroll is back after a two-year absence, and it promises to be just as huge as it always was. It will still occupy an entire, fully pedestrianized mile of Solano Avenue in a colorful celebration of both Albany and Berkeley that starts with an opening ceremony and mini-parade. The day-long celebration fills the street with music, dancing and scores of local businesses, artists and makers selling their wares—including, of course, enough food booths to feed the thousands of people who usually attend.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Because of its scale, the Solano Avenue Stroll can be a little overwhelming at peak times, but it’s worth getting there early so you can take your time with it all. A free shuttle from North Berkeley BART will get you there without parking hassles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13917733\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13917733\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/Screen-Shot-2022-08-16-at-4.53.09-PM-800x512.png\" alt=\"Many people gather on the slanted lawn in front of a large screen surrounded on all sides with trees.\" width=\"800\" height=\"512\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/Screen-Shot-2022-08-16-at-4.53.09-PM-800x512.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/Screen-Shot-2022-08-16-at-4.53.09-PM-1020x653.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/Screen-Shot-2022-08-16-at-4.53.09-PM-160x102.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/Screen-Shot-2022-08-16-at-4.53.09-PM-768x492.png 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/Screen-Shot-2022-08-16-at-4.53.09-PM-1536x984.png 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/Screen-Shot-2022-08-16-at-4.53.09-PM.png 1568w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sundown Cinema at Jerry Garcia Amphitheater at McLaren Park. \u003ccite>(Instagram/ @dothebay)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca href=\"https://secure.sfparksalliance.org/event/sundown-cinema-member-seating-sister-act-2/e405348\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Sundown Cinema\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Alamo Square, Crane Cove, Jerry Garcia Amphitheater, San Francisco\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Sept. 9-Oct.21, 5pm\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Bay Area is awash with unique little movie theaters; we are truly blessed in this regard. But for a few weeks every fall, big screens pop up around San Francisco that give even our cutest theaters a run for their money. (If you’ve ever watched a movie in Alamo Square Park with the sun setting behind the Painted Ladies, you already know what’s up.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This rest of this season’s Sundown Cinema will feature \u003cem>Raiders of the Lost Ark\u003c/em> at Alamo Square (Sept. 9), \u003cem>Shang Chi & The Legend of the Ten Rings\u003c/em> at Crane Cove (Sept. 30) and \u003cem>Addams Family Values\u003c/em> at the Jerry Garcia Amphitheater (Oct. 21). Perfect for family picnics, date night and people who love wearing their Patagonias to chilly park excursions.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/fallarts2022\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>\u003cstrong>Find more of KQED’s picks for the best Fall 2022 events here\u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gas prices. Sky-high inflation. The Millennial inability to stop buying lattes and avocado toast. (\u003cem>I kid!\u003c/em>)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The year 2022 has been rough on wallets across the country, and our wallets also happen to be sitting (half-empty) in one of its most expensive regions. (San Francisco, Oakland and San Jose all made the list of top-10 most expensive American cities.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What does that mean? It means we all need as much free stuff as possible. And luckily for us, there are a lot of great events coming up that won’t cost you a dime to attend. Movies, art, dance, live music, parties, theater—we’ve got you covered. Bay Area rents may break the bank, but there’s a wealth of fun things to do that won’t.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"mceTemp\">\u003c/div>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13917591\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13917591\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/Screen-Shot-2022-08-12-at-12.31.28-PM-800x530.png\" alt=\"A Black dancer in open black shirt and tight black shorts, lays on a wooden platform, arms outstretched dramatically, with one leg kicked upwards and pointed out. Crowds watch on from the sidelines.\" width=\"800\" height=\"530\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/Screen-Shot-2022-08-12-at-12.31.28-PM-800x530.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/Screen-Shot-2022-08-12-at-12.31.28-PM-1020x675.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/Screen-Shot-2022-08-12-at-12.31.28-PM-160x106.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/Screen-Shot-2022-08-12-at-12.31.28-PM-768x508.png 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/Screen-Shot-2022-08-12-at-12.31.28-PM-1536x1017.png 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/Screen-Shot-2022-08-12-at-12.31.28-PM.png 1592w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A performer strikes a pose at 2021’s Open To All Ball at Lake Merritt Amphitheater. \u003ccite>(Estefany Gonzalez)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/events/1198327271019474/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Hella Hyphy Ball\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Lake Merritt Amphitheater, Oakland\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Sept. 10, 1pm–7pm\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The follow-up to 2021’s dazzling \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13902915/photos-lgbtq-oakland-shows-out-at-the-open-to-all-vogue-ball\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Open to All Ball\u003c/a> is set to transform the shores of Lake Merritt once more into ballroom bliss. This year’s ball carries the same ethos as the last one: everyone—and they do mean absolutely everyone—is welcome. The 2022 theme, however, is brand new, and hella Oakland: hyphy. That will influence every category in this year’s contests, from performance soundtracks to the all-important runway fashions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As usual, there are big prizes to be won, including $1,000 cash awards for categories including Realness, Face and Runway, and a $4,000 prize for the Tag Team performance. This year’s grand finale promises to be next-level thanks to the caveat that teams must include at least one hyphy move in their presentation. So … serve and turf?\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13917640\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13917640\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/Screen-Shot-2022-08-15-at-2.29.48-PM-1-800x517.png\" alt=\"A Black woman in black and white striped dress, sits on a stool with her feet up, laughing as she holds an acoustic guitar on her lap.\" width=\"800\" height=\"517\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Meklit, an Ethiopia-born, Bay Area-dwelling singer, blends African and American blues, jazz and folk sounds with a constantly surprising level of grace and magnetism. And she’s on the Hardly Strictly lineup this year. \u003ccite>(NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca href=\"https://www.hardlystrictlybluegrass.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Hardly Strictly Bluegrass\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Golden Gate Park, San Francisco\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Sept. 30-Oct. 2\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After a two-year absence from Golden Gate Park, Hardly Strictly is set for a triumphant return this October with a lineup that offers something for nearly every mood and taste.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Festival veterans like Emmylou Harris (in her 22nd HSB appearance!) and Buddy Miller (in his 17th!) will be present, accounted for and offering warm fuzzy feelings to fend off the fog. Marcus Mumford and Talking Heads’ Jerry Harrison and Adrian Belew check the mainstream-appeal boxes. And local flavor comes in the form of Tré Burt (Sacramento), Meklit (San Francisco), Brothers Comatose (North Bay) and A.J. Lee and Blue Summit (South Bay).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But as usual, HSB will also be serving up fantastic artists from around the country. So far, this year’s must-not-miss list includes: the heart-wrenching but always uplifting Allison Russell, the retro-soul stylings of Lucius and the bluegrass-rooted Afrofuturism of Jake Blount. In a lineup that has long been proud to stray beyond the confines of traditional bluegrass, Blount is a one-man example of why it’s so exciting to do just that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13917608\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13917608\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/Screen-Shot-2022-08-12-at-3.08.11-PM-800x542.png\" alt=\"A father and son walk hand-in-hand towards a group of parents and children playing with bubbles. Behind them, various stalls can be seen lining the street.\" width=\"800\" height=\"542\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Noise Pop’s 20th Street Block Party will take place on Valencia St. this year. \u003ccite>(Instagram/ @noisepop)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca href=\"http://www.20thstreetblockparty.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Noise Pop’s 20th Street Block Party\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Valencia Street between 18th and 21st Streets, San Francisco\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Oct. 15, 12pm-6pm\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This family-friendly free-for-all will take over three whole blocks of Valencia Street to bring live music, food, local arts and crafts, and a whole lot of fun, to the Mission. The location may be slightly different in 2022, but the vibe will remain the same as the prior eight years: a love letter to the diversity and creativity of the Mission District.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Proceeds collected at this year’s community gathering will assist two great nonprofits in continuing their work in the neighborhood. \u003ca href=\"https://826valencia.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">826 Valencia\u003c/a> (a.k.a. the Pirate Supply Store) will use all donations to further their mission of making sure under-resourced kids get a tutoring boost so they can become great writers. And \u003ca href=\"https://lacocinasf.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">La Cocina\u003c/a> will keep working toward equity in business ownership, providing mentorship and affordable kitchen space to female and BIPOC entrepreneurs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13917609\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13917609\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/Screen-Shot-2022-08-12-at-3.37.26-PM-800x486.png\" alt=\"Three South Asian women sitting in a row laughing.\" width=\"800\" height=\"486\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Attendees taking in a show at Cupertino’s Diwali: Festival of Lights. \u003ccite>(Cupertino Chamber of Commerce)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/bayareadiwalifestival\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Diwali Festival of Lights\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Memorial Park, Cupertino\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Oct. 8, 11am-6pm\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sure, this festival is happening a full 15 days before Diwali’s five-day celebration even starts, but it’s never too soon to get excited about light triumphing over darkness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Beyond honoring the holiday itself, Cupertino’s Festival of Lights is a celebration of all things Desi. The plethora of colorful dance displays—a journey through classical \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bharatanatyam\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Bharatanatyam\u003c/a> to modern \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bhangra_(dance)#Bhangra_today\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Bhangra\u003c/a>—are worth the journey alone. But the spicy and aromatic street food on hand also satisfies rumbling stomachs, the stalls have plenty to keep dedicated shoppers busy and the \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rangoli\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Rangoli\u003c/a> art displays are just mesmerizing. Plus, there’s even a Kids Zone that usually includes some pretty ridiculous physical challenges. (If you’ve ever wanted to stick your child in a giant hamster ball, this is the place to do it.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To cap it all, there’s even free parking. Just head to De Anza College’s A and B lots.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13917731\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13917731\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/Screen-Shot-2022-08-16-at-2.07.55-PM-800x601.png\" alt=\"A grid of 12 squares showing different styles of paintings and crafts.\" width=\"800\" height=\"601\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A tiny portion of the artists showing at San Francisco Open Studios. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of SFOS)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca href=\"https://www.artspan.org/sfos-schedule\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">San Francisco\u003c/a> / \u003ca href=\"https://eastbayopenstudios.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">East Bay Open Studios\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Locations TBD. (Check \u003ca href=\"https://www.artspan.org/visit-sf-open-studios/navigating-sfos\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">SFOS\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://eastbayopenstudios.com/2022-event-schedule/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">EBOS\u003c/a> websites for directories.)\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>San Francisco: Oct. 23-Nov. 13\u003cbr>\nEast Bay: Nov. 5-13\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Whether you approach them as casual neighborhood strolls or regimented exercises complete with maps and schedules, the Open Studios events on both sides of the Bay are worthy of your attention. Taking place across four weekends in San Francisco and two in the East Bay, Open Studios is a chance to get to know the artists in your area, support them and see some truly great work. (There’s usually a surprising amount of free cookies involved too…)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wandering between home studios, artist collective spaces, back yards and garages doesn’t just feel like a treasure hunt—it also offers a glimpse into how Bay Area artists live and survive. It’s inspiring to witness not just the eclectic array of talent on display, but the resourcefulness of many of our local creators. And if you can’t make it out to meet them in person, the SFOS website offers \u003ca href=\"https://www.artspan.org/vast\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">virtual tours of selected artists’ studios\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the Open Studios events themselves are free, don’t expect to come home empty-handed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13917656\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13917656\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/Screen-Shot-2022-08-15-at-7.58.18-PM-800x557.png\" alt=\"A woman in her twenties with black hair, wearing midriff-baring punky clothes, throws her arms above her head and sticks her tongue out in a rebellious gesture.\" width=\"800\" height=\"557\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/Screen-Shot-2022-08-15-at-7.58.18-PM-800x557.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/Screen-Shot-2022-08-15-at-7.58.18-PM-1020x710.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/Screen-Shot-2022-08-15-at-7.58.18-PM-160x111.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/Screen-Shot-2022-08-15-at-7.58.18-PM-768x535.png 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/Screen-Shot-2022-08-15-at-7.58.18-PM-1536x1070.png 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/Screen-Shot-2022-08-15-at-7.58.18-PM.png 1700w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Livia Gomes Demarchi as Beatrice in San Francisco Shakespeare Festival’s 40th Anniversary production of ‘Much Ado About Nothing.’ \u003ccite>(Jay Yamada)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca href=\"https://www.sfshakes.org/?fbclid=IwAR3OD5c8Cx3CbwJ02gSUOBcfQYf8GDYCLFp5fKvmK-wulGkee84ucXcZF_c\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Shakespeare in the Park\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Jerry Garcia Amphitheater, MacLaren Park, San Francisco\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Sept. 3-11, 2pm\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Much Ado About Nothing\u003c/em> can be quite the challenging prospect for modern audiences—particularly the women watching. After all, it’s difficult to glean much enjoyment from watching female characters getting treated terribly by the men in their midst for 160 minutes, only to have everything wrapped up in a neat little bow in the end.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This year’s production by the San Francisco Shakespeare Festival however, promises to be a more palatable take on a dated classic. With a distinctly ’90s aesthetic, a run time of just 90 minutes (no intermission) and modernized versions of familiar characters, this \u003cem>Much Ado\u003c/em> promises something a little different from more traditional productions. Think: Beatrice in lip-liner and a dog collar, a grunge rendition of “Sigh No More” and Benedick out participating in protest marches. No, really.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you missed this \u003cem>Much Ado About Nothing\u003c/em> in Cupertino and Redwood City and can’t make it to McLaren Park either, don’t worry. A version of the production will be made \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cB1obsLLZe8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">available online\u003c/a> at a later date, complete with closed captions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13917732\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13917732\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/Screen-Shot-2022-08-16-at-2.12.16-PM-800x520.png\" alt=\"Dancers - three female, one male - wearing traditional Mexican clothes smile as they perform on a small stage.\" width=\"800\" height=\"520\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/Screen-Shot-2022-08-16-at-2.12.16-PM-800x520.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/Screen-Shot-2022-08-16-at-2.12.16-PM-1020x663.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/Screen-Shot-2022-08-16-at-2.12.16-PM-160x104.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/Screen-Shot-2022-08-16-at-2.12.16-PM-768x499.png 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/Screen-Shot-2022-08-16-at-2.12.16-PM.png 1458w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dancers performing the Jarabe Tapatío at the Solano Avenue Stroll. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Solano Avenue Stroll)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca href=\"https://www.solanoavenueassn.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Solano Avenue Stroll\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Solano Avenue, Albany and Berkeley\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Sept. 11, 10am-5pm\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Finally! The Stroll is back after a two-year absence, and it promises to be just as huge as it always was. It will still occupy an entire, fully pedestrianized mile of Solano Avenue in a colorful celebration of both Albany and Berkeley that starts with an opening ceremony and mini-parade. The day-long celebration fills the street with music, dancing and scores of local businesses, artists and makers selling their wares—including, of course, enough food booths to feed the thousands of people who usually attend.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Because of its scale, the Solano Avenue Stroll can be a little overwhelming at peak times, but it’s worth getting there early so you can take your time with it all. A free shuttle from North Berkeley BART will get you there without parking hassles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13917733\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13917733\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/Screen-Shot-2022-08-16-at-4.53.09-PM-800x512.png\" alt=\"Many people gather on the slanted lawn in front of a large screen surrounded on all sides with trees.\" width=\"800\" height=\"512\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/Screen-Shot-2022-08-16-at-4.53.09-PM-800x512.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/Screen-Shot-2022-08-16-at-4.53.09-PM-1020x653.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/Screen-Shot-2022-08-16-at-4.53.09-PM-160x102.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/Screen-Shot-2022-08-16-at-4.53.09-PM-768x492.png 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/Screen-Shot-2022-08-16-at-4.53.09-PM-1536x984.png 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/Screen-Shot-2022-08-16-at-4.53.09-PM.png 1568w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sundown Cinema at Jerry Garcia Amphitheater at McLaren Park. \u003ccite>(Instagram/ @dothebay)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca href=\"https://secure.sfparksalliance.org/event/sundown-cinema-member-seating-sister-act-2/e405348\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Sundown Cinema\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Alamo Square, Crane Cove, Jerry Garcia Amphitheater, San Francisco\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Sept. 9-Oct.21, 5pm\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Bay Area is awash with unique little movie theaters; we are truly blessed in this regard. But for a few weeks every fall, big screens pop up around San Francisco that give even our cutest theaters a run for their money. (If you’ve ever watched a movie in Alamo Square Park with the sun setting behind the Painted Ladies, you already know what’s up.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>The video for Jada Imani\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">’\u003c/span>s “\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EUXGDLZ5hF4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Rosa Parks\u003c/a>” features black-and-white footage of civil rights-era marches spliced with modern-day shots of Imani sitting at a bus stop in West Oakland. At times she\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">’\u003c/span>s joyously dancing. In another instance Imani stares deadpan into the camera, a look that conveys more emotion than words.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Rosa Parks Official Music Video\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https://www.youtube.com/embed/EUXGDLZ5hF4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen>\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“It’s very confrontational,” \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/jadaimani510/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jada Imani\u003c/a> tells me, noting the intended target of the glare are the folks who uphold the construct of white supremacy. Imani, who is originally from East St. Louis and raised in Oakland, says, “Black folks have been leading cultural and systemic revolutions for so long, and we’re still here and there’s still something to say. We’re not done.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The video, directed by \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/zoemountain/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Zoe Mountain\u003c/a> and shot by \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/doreanraye/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Dorean Raye,\u003c/a> combines the piercing gaze with Imani\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">’\u003c/span>s dancing jubilation, as well as archival footage of Black women smiling and putting their feet in the pool on the Washington Mall. It\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">’\u003c/span>s a complementary aesthetic for a track that has a classy, swing-jazz vibe with a modern, glossy R&B finish.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The song, which originally started off as a freestyle, features the guitar of \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/themisajames/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Misa James \u003c/a>and was produced by \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/willrandolphv/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Will Randolph V\u003c/a>. It\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">’\u003c/span>s featured on Imani\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">’\u003c/span>s latest EP\u003cem> \u003ca href=\"https://open.spotify.com/album/5cBKigC7xi5eqW8ME6ChFK\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">JUBILEE II\u003c/a>. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The entire project is both celebration and a call to action. This song in particular honors Rosa Parks by name, but Jada Imani says it\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">’\u003c/span>s an homage to numerous freedom fighters who came before us, including \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2009/03/15/101719889/before-rosa-parks-there-was-claudette-colvin\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Claudette Colvin\u003c/a>. [aside postid='arts_13917938']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“I think it’s really implant that we know about her because she sacrificed the same way Rosa Parks did, and a lot of people just don’t know her name,” says Imani, who made it a point to highlight Colvin’s story in \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/reel/ChSjWoPJsRp/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a recent Instagram post\u003c/a>. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On September 15, ten days after Colvin\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">’\u003c/span>s birthday and ten days before her own, Imani will bring her solemn stare, her joyful dancing and her catchy tunes into KQED\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">’\u003c/span>s headquarters for a performance alongside \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/salamirosejoelouis/?hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Salami Rose Joe Louis\u003c/a> and Imani\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">’\u003c/span>s \u003ca href=\"https://smartbomboakland.bandcamp.com/music\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">SMARTBOMB \u003c/a>comrade \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/spotebreeze/?hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Spote Breeze\u003c/a>. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/event/2387\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">More info here\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>The video for Jada Imani\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">’\u003c/span>s “\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EUXGDLZ5hF4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Rosa Parks\u003c/a>” features black-and-white footage of civil rights-era marches spliced with modern-day shots of Imani sitting at a bus stop in West Oakland. At times she\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">’\u003c/span>s joyously dancing. In another instance Imani stares deadpan into the camera, a look that conveys more emotion than words.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Rosa Parks Official Music Video\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https://www.youtube.com/embed/EUXGDLZ5hF4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen>\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“It’s very confrontational,” \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/jadaimani510/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jada Imani\u003c/a> tells me, noting the intended target of the glare are the folks who uphold the construct of white supremacy. Imani, who is originally from East St. Louis and raised in Oakland, says, “Black folks have been leading cultural and systemic revolutions for so long, and we’re still here and there’s still something to say. We’re not done.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The video, directed by \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/zoemountain/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Zoe Mountain\u003c/a> and shot by \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/doreanraye/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Dorean Raye,\u003c/a> combines the piercing gaze with Imani\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">’\u003c/span>s dancing jubilation, as well as archival footage of Black women smiling and putting their feet in the pool on the Washington Mall. It\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">’\u003c/span>s a complementary aesthetic for a track that has a classy, swing-jazz vibe with a modern, glossy R&B finish.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The song, which originally started off as a freestyle, features the guitar of \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/themisajames/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Misa James \u003c/a>and was produced by \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/willrandolphv/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Will Randolph V\u003c/a>. It\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">’\u003c/span>s featured on Imani\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">’\u003c/span>s latest EP\u003cem> \u003ca href=\"https://open.spotify.com/album/5cBKigC7xi5eqW8ME6ChFK\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">JUBILEE II\u003c/a>. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>[dropcap]I[/dropcap]n 1969, Rosalie Ritz’s frank take on Robert F. Kennedy’s assassin was controversial. Ritz, the sketch artist at \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sirhan_Sirhan\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Sirhan B. Sirhan\u003c/a>‘s trial, described him after the fact as “the only honest man” in the courtroom. “It was my first experience with a revolutionary,” she told the \u003cem>Oakland Tribune\u003c/em> shortly after the guilty verdict came down. “Of course it was pointless—all killing is pointless. You have to be nutty to do it. But Sirhan knew exactly what he wanted to do and he did it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Sirhan trial was not the only time Ritz came into close contact with a revolutionary. She spent the late-1960s and ’70s covering the trials of Black Panthers including \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13881407/huey-newton-h-rap-brown-stokely-carmichael-speech-1968\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Huey P. Newton\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13891079/the-archivist-and-the-activist-behind-a-new-book-about-angela-davis\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Angela Davis\u003c/a> and the \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soledad_Brothers\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Soledad Brothers\u003c/a>. She also documented the high profile prosecution of heiress-turned-“urban guerrilla” \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/pop/101956/patty-hearst-how-the-outlaw-heiress-became-a-chameleon\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Patricia Hearst\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In fact, Ritz was one of the most in-demand courtroom sketch artists of the era, providing illustrations for the Associated Press, CBS News, KPIX, KNXT and, yes, KQED. She was known to make up to 21 drawings a day in court and could sketch an entire jury in minutes. Ritz was also an accomplished writer who took readers behind the scenes. This article she wrote for the \u003cem>Los Angeles Free Press\u003c/em> used the Patricia Hearst trial to highlight the overzealous security Ritz had experienced at similarly high profile cases involving Black defendants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13917966\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13917966\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/Los-Angeles-Free-Press-10-75-RR-800x920.png\" alt=\"A newspaper article titled 'Near Mayhem—Tight Security.' '\" width=\"800\" height=\"920\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/Los-Angeles-Free-Press-10-75-RR-800x920.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/Los-Angeles-Free-Press-10-75-RR-1020x1173.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/Los-Angeles-Free-Press-10-75-RR-160x184.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/Los-Angeles-Free-Press-10-75-RR-768x883.png 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/Los-Angeles-Free-Press-10-75-RR.png 1148w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ritz wrote and illustrated several articles for the ‘Los Angeles Free Press’ during the high-profile trial of Patricia Hearst. \u003ccite>(Los Angeles Free Press, Oct. 1975)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Ritz didn’t just have a front-row seat to one of the most turbulent eras in Bay Area history—she had the talent and determination to share it with the rest of the world. “It’s never as tough as you think it is,” she once said, “if you act from strength, not from fear, and you speak the truth to power.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That Ritz wasn’t shy about offering her opinions about the events of the day made her work all the more compelling. When Sirhan was sentenced to death, she said, “I am unutterably opposed to the death penalty. It seems vengeful to me. I think anyone who attends a lot of trials would feel very strongly on this point.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of Huey P. Newton, she shared: “Huey Newton was a very attractive young man and most intelligent. I learned a lot about social conditions from that trial … It was really awakening. Everyone was impressed by him—you couldn’t help but be.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13904183']When \u003ca href=\"http://peter-barnes.org/article/the-presidio-mutiny/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">14 soldiers were tried for mutiny\u003c/a> after participating in a peaceful demonstration against the Vietnam War, Ritz was clear about whose side she was on. “I feel very sorry for those 14 young men,” she told the \u003cem>Oakland Tribune\u003c/em>. “They all have low IQs, they are very young and vulnerable and not one of them, in my opinion, would be capable of initiating anything like a mutiny. The fact that [the Army] would even take such young men into the service strikes you.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[dropcap]R[/dropcap]itz was brave, willful and outspoken from a very young age—possibly the result of being the seventh of 10 children, all of whom lost their father at an early age. (Ritz was just 9.) At 14, Ritz’s prodigious artistic skills allowed her to attend art college in Milwaukee. At 16, she hit the road with her big sister’s ID, alongside four other young women, and earned money for her family making portraits of people at circuses, fairs and other community events across the midwest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After graduating from Layton Art College, Ritz married a Navy officer (and future accountant) named Erwin in 1946, and had four daughters, Sandy, Barbara, Terry and Janet. The family’s home life was a happy one, full of painting, laughter and dance. (“She and my dad were like Fred and Ginger,” Sandy tells KQED Arts today.) The couple, together for more than 60 years, was also athletic—Ritz was an excellent golfer who competed in amateur championships.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was in 1966 that the Ritz family relocated to Walnut Creek from Washington D.C. Ritz was already established as a courtroom artist with a vibrant, vigorous style, having landed her first job at the Army-McCarthy hearings of 1954. Speaking to the \u003cem>Oakland Tribune\u003c/em> 15 years after the fact, Ritz recalled: “Somebody I knew there knew Joe McCarthy, so I went to his office and asked if I could attend his closed Senate hearings. I just started sketching while I was there and when I came out of the room, [a TV station] offered to buy the sketches. That started it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What kept it going was Ritz’s tenacity and people skills. On the first day of Huey P. Newton’s trial, Ritz successfully talked her way into the courtroom, despite the fact that she’d not yet been issued a press pass. That there were also 3,000 protesters outside made her entrance all the more miraculous. Later, she was permitted to visit Newton in a holding cell to draw him—a privilege not afforded to any other court reporters. It probably helped that she understood fundamentally what the Black Panthers were trying to do. “These were people who really believed in doing the right thing,” she later said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13881675']Despite Ritz’s commitment to covering the toughest, most high-profile cases of her day, the trials sometimes took their toll. Ritz’s daughter Sandy describes her mom’s days in court as “often stressful to her psyche. The mass murderers, violent outbreaks, the injustices, the racism. The work was challenging.” But, Sandy continues, “She always knew the historical significance of what she was doing, and was passionate about it. She knew that she was the eyes for the world. She knew that her work was the only pictorial record of history occurring in California at that time, and she was often the first and only reporter in the courtroom for some trials.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was this knowledge that impacted Ritz’s decision to retain ownership of all of her own artwork. Though it would have earned her a better living, she never sold her courtroom sketches—only the use of them. After her death from lung cancer in 2008, Ritz donated more than \u003ca href=\"https://oac.cdlib.org/view?docId=kt8g50226j&doc.view=items&style=oac4&item.position=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">1,800 of her courtroom drawings\u003c/a> to the Bancroft Library at U.C. Berkeley. Sandy and her sisters worked on cataloging and digitizing the collection so the drawings could stand as a public record of some of the most important moments in California history. “Justice was one of her strongest forces,” Sandy recalls.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[dropcap]A[/dropcap]way from the courtroom, Ritz was passionate about making large-scale oil paintings and sculptures, and she always had one eye on the wider Bay Area art community. In 1974, she opened the Upstairs Art Gallery at 927 Broadway alongside fellow artists, Thomas Bray and Edy Keeler. Opening a gallery in Oakland was extremely important to Ritz. She recognized that the Bay Area arts scene—including the organizations responsible for handing out grants and funding—was focused almost exclusively on San Francisco. And she desperately wanted to change that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My opinion of Oakland is that it is a very beautiful city,” Ritz told the \u003cem>Oakland Tribune\u003c/em> in 1974. “[Its neglect] is due to snobbery of people around Oakland, and we let them get away with it. What we’re going to do is start saying ‘The Oakland San Francisco Bay Area’ and they’ll complement one another.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ritz was also determined that the Upstairs Gallery should be warm and welcoming for all people. She believed that the large art institutions in the Bay could be off-putting for everybody but the elite. “People don’t relate to it because it’s for people dressed in fancy clothes,” she once said of the \u003ca href=\"https://museumca.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Oakland Museum\u003c/a>. With that in mind, Ritz and her friends lovingly restored the Upstairs Gallery space, including a 100-year-old fireplace. (“These buildings are museum pieces and I think they should be saved,” she said at the time.) The \u003ca href=\"https://www.betheden.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Beth Eden Baptist Church\u003c/a> choir performed at the gallery opening.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13916612']Though the Upstairs Gallery was a scrappy endeavor once described by the \u003cem>Tribune\u003c/em> as a “struggling, always dollar-short art colony above a pawn shop,” Ritz successfully made the impact on the arts scene that she had hoped for. In 1979, when the City of Oakland and the Labor Department awarded federal unemployment seed money to the Oakland art community for the first time, it went to Ritz and the Upstairs Gallery. She used the $100,000 check to hire staff artists at $700 a month. (That’s about $4,200 in 2022 money.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When the gallery was inundated with applicants, Ritz told the \u003cem>Tribune\u003c/em>: “It was shocking, and a good indication this city has deeper problems than it realizes. It’s not only the tradesmen, the unskilled, the young people, minorities, or the ex-felons who can’t find jobs. It’s right here in our cultural midst.” Ritz pledged to help as many of the non-successful candidates as she could, seeking out other outlets that might offer art-related jobs in Oakland. “Oakland can’t afford to lose them to other cities,” she said of the artists.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the end, Rosalie Ritz approached everything she did with a full-hearted determination that enabled her to live life on her own terms \u003cem>and\u003c/em> in a way that sought to benefit others. Her uncompromising vision—for both her art and her Bay Area communities—drove her to leave her mark on the world. And at the end of her life, she knew that she had.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I just had a wonderful life,” Ritz said. “It was a great ride. I always had a smile because I did what I wanted to do. I interpreted the world in drawings, in writing. I had a good time.”\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>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class=\"utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__dropcapShortcode__dropcap\">I\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>n 1969, Rosalie Ritz’s frank take on Robert F. Kennedy’s assassin was controversial. Ritz, the sketch artist at \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sirhan_Sirhan\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Sirhan B. Sirhan\u003c/a>‘s trial, described him after the fact as “the only honest man” in the courtroom. “It was my first experience with a revolutionary,” she told the \u003cem>Oakland Tribune\u003c/em> shortly after the guilty verdict came down. “Of course it was pointless—all killing is pointless. You have to be nutty to do it. But Sirhan knew exactly what he wanted to do and he did it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Sirhan trial was not the only time Ritz came into close contact with a revolutionary. She spent the late-1960s and ’70s covering the trials of Black Panthers including \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13881407/huey-newton-h-rap-brown-stokely-carmichael-speech-1968\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Huey P. Newton\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13891079/the-archivist-and-the-activist-behind-a-new-book-about-angela-davis\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Angela Davis\u003c/a> and the \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soledad_Brothers\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Soledad Brothers\u003c/a>. She also documented the high profile prosecution of heiress-turned-“urban guerrilla” \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/pop/101956/patty-hearst-how-the-outlaw-heiress-became-a-chameleon\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Patricia Hearst\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In fact, Ritz was one of the most in-demand courtroom sketch artists of the era, providing illustrations for the Associated Press, CBS News, KPIX, KNXT and, yes, KQED. She was known to make up to 21 drawings a day in court and could sketch an entire jury in minutes. Ritz was also an accomplished writer who took readers behind the scenes. This article she wrote for the \u003cem>Los Angeles Free Press\u003c/em> used the Patricia Hearst trial to highlight the overzealous security Ritz had experienced at similarly high profile cases involving Black defendants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13917966\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13917966\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/Los-Angeles-Free-Press-10-75-RR-800x920.png\" alt=\"A newspaper article titled 'Near Mayhem—Tight Security.' '\" width=\"800\" height=\"920\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/Los-Angeles-Free-Press-10-75-RR-800x920.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/Los-Angeles-Free-Press-10-75-RR-1020x1173.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/Los-Angeles-Free-Press-10-75-RR-160x184.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/Los-Angeles-Free-Press-10-75-RR-768x883.png 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/Los-Angeles-Free-Press-10-75-RR.png 1148w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ritz wrote and illustrated several articles for the ‘Los Angeles Free Press’ during the high-profile trial of Patricia Hearst. \u003ccite>(Los Angeles Free Press, Oct. 1975)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Ritz didn’t just have a front-row seat to one of the most turbulent eras in Bay Area history—she had the talent and determination to share it with the rest of the world. “It’s never as tough as you think it is,” she once said, “if you act from strength, not from fear, and you speak the truth to power.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That Ritz wasn’t shy about offering her opinions about the events of the day made her work all the more compelling. When Sirhan was sentenced to death, she said, “I am unutterably opposed to the death penalty. It seems vengeful to me. I think anyone who attends a lot of trials would feel very strongly on this point.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of Huey P. Newton, she shared: “Huey Newton was a very attractive young man and most intelligent. I learned a lot about social conditions from that trial … It was really awakening. Everyone was impressed by him—you couldn’t help but be.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>When \u003ca href=\"http://peter-barnes.org/article/the-presidio-mutiny/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">14 soldiers were tried for mutiny\u003c/a> after participating in a peaceful demonstration against the Vietnam War, Ritz was clear about whose side she was on. “I feel very sorry for those 14 young men,” she told the \u003cem>Oakland Tribune\u003c/em>. “They all have low IQs, they are very young and vulnerable and not one of them, in my opinion, would be capable of initiating anything like a mutiny. The fact that [the Army] would even take such young men into the service strikes you.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class=\"utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__dropcapShortcode__dropcap\">R\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>itz was brave, willful and outspoken from a very young age—possibly the result of being the seventh of 10 children, all of whom lost their father at an early age. (Ritz was just 9.) At 14, Ritz’s prodigious artistic skills allowed her to attend art college in Milwaukee. At 16, she hit the road with her big sister’s ID, alongside four other young women, and earned money for her family making portraits of people at circuses, fairs and other community events across the midwest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After graduating from Layton Art College, Ritz married a Navy officer (and future accountant) named Erwin in 1946, and had four daughters, Sandy, Barbara, Terry and Janet. The family’s home life was a happy one, full of painting, laughter and dance. (“She and my dad were like Fred and Ginger,” Sandy tells KQED Arts today.) The couple, together for more than 60 years, was also athletic—Ritz was an excellent golfer who competed in amateur championships.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was in 1966 that the Ritz family relocated to Walnut Creek from Washington D.C. Ritz was already established as a courtroom artist with a vibrant, vigorous style, having landed her first job at the Army-McCarthy hearings of 1954. Speaking to the \u003cem>Oakland Tribune\u003c/em> 15 years after the fact, Ritz recalled: “Somebody I knew there knew Joe McCarthy, so I went to his office and asked if I could attend his closed Senate hearings. I just started sketching while I was there and when I came out of the room, [a TV station] offered to buy the sketches. That started it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What kept it going was Ritz’s tenacity and people skills. On the first day of Huey P. Newton’s trial, Ritz successfully talked her way into the courtroom, despite the fact that she’d not yet been issued a press pass. That there were also 3,000 protesters outside made her entrance all the more miraculous. Later, she was permitted to visit Newton in a holding cell to draw him—a privilege not afforded to any other court reporters. It probably helped that she understood fundamentally what the Black Panthers were trying to do. “These were people who really believed in doing the right thing,” she later said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Despite Ritz’s commitment to covering the toughest, most high-profile cases of her day, the trials sometimes took their toll. Ritz’s daughter Sandy describes her mom’s days in court as “often stressful to her psyche. The mass murderers, violent outbreaks, the injustices, the racism. The work was challenging.” But, Sandy continues, “She always knew the historical significance of what she was doing, and was passionate about it. She knew that she was the eyes for the world. She knew that her work was the only pictorial record of history occurring in California at that time, and she was often the first and only reporter in the courtroom for some trials.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was this knowledge that impacted Ritz’s decision to retain ownership of all of her own artwork. Though it would have earned her a better living, she never sold her courtroom sketches—only the use of them. After her death from lung cancer in 2008, Ritz donated more than \u003ca href=\"https://oac.cdlib.org/view?docId=kt8g50226j&doc.view=items&style=oac4&item.position=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">1,800 of her courtroom drawings\u003c/a> to the Bancroft Library at U.C. Berkeley. Sandy and her sisters worked on cataloging and digitizing the collection so the drawings could stand as a public record of some of the most important moments in California history. “Justice was one of her strongest forces,” Sandy recalls.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class=\"utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__dropcapShortcode__dropcap\">A\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>way from the courtroom, Ritz was passionate about making large-scale oil paintings and sculptures, and she always had one eye on the wider Bay Area art community. In 1974, she opened the Upstairs Art Gallery at 927 Broadway alongside fellow artists, Thomas Bray and Edy Keeler. Opening a gallery in Oakland was extremely important to Ritz. She recognized that the Bay Area arts scene—including the organizations responsible for handing out grants and funding—was focused almost exclusively on San Francisco. And she desperately wanted to change that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My opinion of Oakland is that it is a very beautiful city,” Ritz told the \u003cem>Oakland Tribune\u003c/em> in 1974. “[Its neglect] is due to snobbery of people around Oakland, and we let them get away with it. What we’re going to do is start saying ‘The Oakland San Francisco Bay Area’ and they’ll complement one another.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ritz was also determined that the Upstairs Gallery should be warm and welcoming for all people. She believed that the large art institutions in the Bay could be off-putting for everybody but the elite. “People don’t relate to it because it’s for people dressed in fancy clothes,” she once said of the \u003ca href=\"https://museumca.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Oakland Museum\u003c/a>. With that in mind, Ritz and her friends lovingly restored the Upstairs Gallery space, including a 100-year-old fireplace. (“These buildings are museum pieces and I think they should be saved,” she said at the time.) The \u003ca href=\"https://www.betheden.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Beth Eden Baptist Church\u003c/a> choir performed at the gallery opening.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Though the Upstairs Gallery was a scrappy endeavor once described by the \u003cem>Tribune\u003c/em> as a “struggling, always dollar-short art colony above a pawn shop,” Ritz successfully made the impact on the arts scene that she had hoped for. In 1979, when the City of Oakland and the Labor Department awarded federal unemployment seed money to the Oakland art community for the first time, it went to Ritz and the Upstairs Gallery. She used the $100,000 check to hire staff artists at $700 a month. (That’s about $4,200 in 2022 money.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When the gallery was inundated with applicants, Ritz told the \u003cem>Tribune\u003c/em>: “It was shocking, and a good indication this city has deeper problems than it realizes. It’s not only the tradesmen, the unskilled, the young people, minorities, or the ex-felons who can’t find jobs. It’s right here in our cultural midst.” Ritz pledged to help as many of the non-successful candidates as she could, seeking out other outlets that might offer art-related jobs in Oakland. “Oakland can’t afford to lose them to other cities,” she said of the artists.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the end, Rosalie Ritz approached everything she did with a full-hearted determination that enabled her to live life on her own terms \u003cem>and\u003c/em> in a way that sought to benefit others. Her uncompromising vision—for both her art and her Bay Area communities—drove her to leave her mark on the world. And at the end of her life, she knew that she had.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I just had a wonderful life,” Ritz said. “It was a great ride. I always had a smile because I did what I wanted to do. I interpreted the world in drawings, in writing. I had a good time.”\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>Mentally I’m somewhere between a Lil Kayla show and the San Jose Jazz Summer Festival. Yup, that’s where I’m at in this stage in life. It clicked this weekend after attending both.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I’m an old head at the Lil Kayla show, and a youngsta at the jazz fest. A position that grants me a unique view on the culture around me. I had a moment of gratitude this weekend for being where I am; I like this stage, the in-between stage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13917669\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-13917669 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/DSC04034-e1660629307215-800x617.jpg\" alt=\"Fans capture footage as Lil Kayla performs at The Chapel in San Francisco on Friday August 12, 2022.\" width=\"800\" height=\"617\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/DSC04034-e1660629307215-800x617.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/DSC04034-e1660629307215-1020x786.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/DSC04034-e1660629307215-160x123.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/DSC04034-e1660629307215-768x592.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/DSC04034-e1660629307215.jpg 1288w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fans capture footage as Lil Kayla performs at The Chapel in San Francisco on Friday, Aug. 12, 2022. \u003ccite>(Pendarvis Harshaw)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/thereal_lilkayla/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Lil Kayla\u003c/a>, a young lyricist with a big personality and a larger following, is the pride of San Francisco’s Sunnydale projects.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Friday night she brought out the neighborhood, devoted fans and her grandmother. A large portion of the audience inside The Chapel were young women with Xs marked on their hands, a sign of being under the legal drinking age.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Girls with big eyelashes passed Backwoods back and forth, others revealed braces on their teeth as they smiled. I saw a person with a ring light attached to the back of their phone—a handheld personal stage, ready for her to show out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13917676\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13917676\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/6DDFD960-B179-4C3C-A6AE-00090D35D650-800x535.jpg\" alt=\"A portion of the crowd at the Lil Kayla show at The Chapel in San Francisco on August 12, 2022. \" width=\"800\" height=\"535\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/6DDFD960-B179-4C3C-A6AE-00090D35D650-800x535.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/6DDFD960-B179-4C3C-A6AE-00090D35D650-1020x683.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/6DDFD960-B179-4C3C-A6AE-00090D35D650-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/6DDFD960-B179-4C3C-A6AE-00090D35D650-768x514.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/6DDFD960-B179-4C3C-A6AE-00090D35D650.jpg 1082w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A portion of the crowd at the Lil Kayla show at The Chapel in San Francisco on Aug. 12, 2022. \u003ccite>(Pendarvis Harshaw)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Opening acts from San Francisco’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/loafyprincesss/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Mya’Mya\u003c/a> and East Oakland’s “hyphy princess” \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/princessjourney_/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Journey B. The Reason\u003c/a> were interspersed with sets from \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/djshellheart/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">DJ ShellHeart\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/drewwwbanga/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Drew Banga\u003c/a>. The crowd was already going when event host \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/troyllf/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Troy LLF \u003c/a>announced Lil Kayla was up next.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID='arts_13910972']Phones came out, camera lights came on, arms went skyward, and the from the moment she walked on the stage the crowd recited Lil Kayla’s lyrics bar for bar.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About two-thirds of the way into her set, Lil Kayla invited a few audience members to come on stage and spit her rhymes without skipping a word. Three out of four of the women who participated did so without an issue. Crowd participation on another level. Everyone was Lil Kayla that night.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Lil Kayla - One More Chance (OFFICIAL MUSIC VIDEO) dir. by KIING FILMZ\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https://www.youtube.com/embed/7ngL8H5yRQw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen>\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While standing directly next to the stage taking photos of Lil Kayla, I got a tap on my shoulder. It was a younger brother who was wearing a ski mask, despite the Tucson-like temperatures. Before asking if he could get past me to get on stage, he said, “Excuse me, sir.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s where I’m at in life!? “Sir,” in the middle of a Bay Area hip-hop function? Well I’ll be damned. Let me take my geriatric ass to a jazz festival.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13917662\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13917662\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/6A7B1855-B118-4476-9279-C911868C6F05-800x535.jpg\" alt=\"Radio host Greg Bridges and photographer Robert Birnbach engage in a conversation about jazz, photography and more during the 2022 San Jose Jazz Summer Fest on Saturday August 13, 2022. \" width=\"800\" height=\"535\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/6A7B1855-B118-4476-9279-C911868C6F05-800x535.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/6A7B1855-B118-4476-9279-C911868C6F05-1020x683.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/6A7B1855-B118-4476-9279-C911868C6F05-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/6A7B1855-B118-4476-9279-C911868C6F05-768x514.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/6A7B1855-B118-4476-9279-C911868C6F05.jpg 1082w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Radio host Greg Bridges and photographer Robert Birnbach engage in a conversation about jazz, photography and more during the 2022 San Jose Jazz Summer Fest on Saturday, Aug. 13, 2022. \u003ccite>(Pendarvis Harshaw)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The next morning I drove to the San Jose Jazz Summer Fest, and posted in the back of the Tech Interactive’s New Venture Hall. On stage sat jazz scholar and radio show host \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/g1rhythm/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Greg Bridges\u003c/a> and photographer \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/rbsphoto/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Robert Birnbach\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Photographers have a way of adding to the story that the music is telling,” Bridges said at the onset of the conversation. Birnbach discussed best practices for photographing musicians and their instruments from different angles on stage, among other topics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jumping around from photographic example to photographic example as he talked, Birnbach told the audience his preselected collection of images had gotten out of order. As Birnbach fished for a specific picture, Bridges reminded the audience, “This is jazz, we improvise.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13917674\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13917674\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/DSC04134-1-800x535.jpg\" alt=\"Alabama Mike poses for a photo after performing at the at the 2022 San José Jazz Summer Festival.\" width=\"800\" height=\"535\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/DSC04134-1-800x535.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/DSC04134-1-1020x682.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/DSC04134-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/DSC04134-1-768x513.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/DSC04134-1-1536x1027.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/DSC04134-1.jpg 1616w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Alabama Mike poses for a photo after performing at the 2022 San Jose Jazz Summer Fest. \u003ccite>(Pendarvis Harshaw)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>I went into the jazz fest not knowing what to expect. Improvisation was my entire game plan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the August sun bounced off of \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/alabama_mike_blues/?hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Alabama Mike\u003c/a>‘s gold teeth as he ran through his set, next up was \u003ca href=\"https://diunna.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Diunna Greenleaf\u003c/a>. As she settled into a chair on stage, she said that sitting on stage isn’t her normal forte, but if she were to fall no one in the audience would be strong enough to pick her up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A big woman with an even larger voice, she held the crowd down from her perch. That is, until she deemed that the crowd wasn’t giving back what she was putting out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During Greenleaf’s rendition of Ray Charles’ “Hard Times,” she got out of the chair and slowly walked down the stage’s steps to join the crowd. The grass where people were sprawled on blankets chillin’ became an impromptu stage. With no microphone, standing in the middle of the crowd and nearly wailing, Greenleaf pushed audience members’ emotional buttons. One person in a white dress was in tears. Another in an orange shirt clasped their hands together, as if in prayer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13917663\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13917663\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/DSC04162-e1660627054394-800x561.jpg\" alt='Diunna Greenleaf performs \"Hard Times\" in front of a captive audience at the 2022 San José Jazz Summer Festival.' width=\"800\" height=\"561\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/DSC04162-e1660627054394-800x561.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/DSC04162-e1660627054394-1020x715.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/DSC04162-e1660627054394-160x112.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/DSC04162-e1660627054394-768x538.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/DSC04162-e1660627054394.jpg 1422w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Diunna Greenleaf performs “Hard Times” in front of a captive audience at the 2022 San Jose Jazz Summer Fest. \u003ccite>(Pendarvis Harshaw)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>What stage of grief produces this kind of art?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After Greenleaf’s performance, came \u003ca href=\"https://ragman.org/tribal-gold\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Tribal Gold\u003c/a>, a combination of the New Orleans Suspects and Big Chief Juan Pardo & the Golden Comanche. They hit the stage and it was instantly Mardi Gras, with the area in front of the stage becoming a dance floor—a sub-stage, if you will.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13917668\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13917668\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/DSC04203-800x535.jpg\" alt=\"Big Chief Juan Pardo & the Golden Comanche of Tribal Gold perform at the San José Jazz Summer Festival on Saturday August 13, 2022.\" width=\"800\" height=\"535\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/DSC04203-800x535.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/DSC04203-1020x682.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/DSC04203-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/DSC04203-768x513.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/DSC04203-1536x1027.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/DSC04203.jpg 1616w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Big Chief Juan Pardo & the Golden Comanche of Tribal Gold perform at the San Jose Jazz Summer Fest on Saturday, Aug. 13, 2022. \u003ccite>(Pendarvis Harshaw)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A toddler dancing to the the jazz and blues got me thinking about the stages of life: how it’s less about age, and more about where your spirit is at that place and time. I’m clearly at that stage between hyphy and swinging jazz. But I still have questions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>How much say do we have in choosing what stage we’re on? Is the stage between stages a stage in itself? What differentiates those who love the limelight from those disabled by stage fright? If life is a series of stages, is it real or is it… staged?\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13917665\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13917665\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/044A8378-0B30-4725-B697-E7F08469AFF4-800x535.jpg\" alt=\"Rapper Pallaví aka Fijiana watching friend and fellow rapper Stoni perform in the Regulars Only backyard on Saturday August 13, 2022.\" width=\"800\" height=\"535\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/044A8378-0B30-4725-B697-E7F08469AFF4-800x535.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/044A8378-0B30-4725-B697-E7F08469AFF4-1020x683.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/044A8378-0B30-4725-B697-E7F08469AFF4-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/044A8378-0B30-4725-B697-E7F08469AFF4-768x514.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/044A8378-0B30-4725-B697-E7F08469AFF4.jpg 1082w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rapper Pallaví aka Fijiana watching friend and fellow rapper Stoni perform in the Regulars Only backyard on Saturday, Aug. 13, 2022. \u003ccite>(Pendarvis Harshaw)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>These thoughts ran through my head as I pushed north, up 880 to the final event of the evening: a backyard bonfire and performance at the Regulars Only house.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A long list of artists, including \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/pass510/?hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Passwurdz\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/iamfijiana/?hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Fijiana\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/mksmth_/?hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Mksmth\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/thedakotawytefoxx/?hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Dakota Wytefoxx\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/popit4gee/?hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Gee Pop\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/wantmoren8/?hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">WantMoren8\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/tia.nomore/?hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Tia Nomore\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/poosie_apex/?hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Poo$ie,\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/princessjourney_/?hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">JourneyB tha Reason\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/kvnalln/?hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Kevin Allen\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/callherstoni/?hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Stoni\u003c/a> and more graced the stage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The audience itself was full of talented individuals who could’ve easily rocked the mic with the scheduled performers. Folks like \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/mad.lines/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">MADlines\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/firstnameian/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ian Kelly\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/kingtahoe/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">King Tahoe \u003c/a>and \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/guapdad4000/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Guapdad 4000\u003c/a>. \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/champgreen/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Champ Green\u003c/a> held down the grill, while \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/rexxliferaj/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Rexx Life Raj\u003c/a> was in full photographer mode.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13917666\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13917666\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/5491A041-12A5-452B-9767-0DA68D518390-800x535.jpg\" alt=\"Wantmoren8 spitting rhymes during a performance in the Regulars Only backyard on Saturday August 13, 2022.\" width=\"800\" height=\"535\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/5491A041-12A5-452B-9767-0DA68D518390-800x535.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/5491A041-12A5-452B-9767-0DA68D518390-1020x682.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/5491A041-12A5-452B-9767-0DA68D518390-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/5491A041-12A5-452B-9767-0DA68D518390-768x513.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/5491A041-12A5-452B-9767-0DA68D518390.jpg 1079w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Wantmoren8 spitting rhymes during a performance in the Regulars Only backyard on Saturday, Aug. 13, 2022. \u003ccite>(Pendarvis Harshaw)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>At one point Raj hit the stage and grabbed the mic, just to take an orchestrated photo of the crowd. A sea of who’s-who. Smiles and peace signs. Only a portion of the full list of attendees that evening, but it captured the sentiment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The view from the stage shows people at the function, and it shows a house in the background, one that’s being remodeled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.instagram.com/p/ChTIrgOvexd/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This weekend was a reminder that it’s not always about reaching a new level or getting to that next platform, it’s more about appreciating the stage you’re on—even if you’re in between stages.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Mentally I’m somewhere between a Lil Kayla show and the San Jose Jazz Summer Festival. Yup, that’s where I’m at in this stage in life. It clicked this weekend after attending both.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I’m an old head at the Lil Kayla show, and a youngsta at the jazz fest. A position that grants me a unique view on the culture around me. I had a moment of gratitude this weekend for being where I am; I like this stage, the in-between stage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13917669\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-13917669 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/DSC04034-e1660629307215-800x617.jpg\" alt=\"Fans capture footage as Lil Kayla performs at The Chapel in San Francisco on Friday August 12, 2022.\" width=\"800\" height=\"617\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/DSC04034-e1660629307215-800x617.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/DSC04034-e1660629307215-1020x786.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/DSC04034-e1660629307215-160x123.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/DSC04034-e1660629307215-768x592.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/DSC04034-e1660629307215.jpg 1288w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fans capture footage as Lil Kayla performs at The Chapel in San Francisco on Friday, Aug. 12, 2022. \u003ccite>(Pendarvis Harshaw)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/thereal_lilkayla/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Lil Kayla\u003c/a>, a young lyricist with a big personality and a larger following, is the pride of San Francisco’s Sunnydale projects.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Friday night she brought out the neighborhood, devoted fans and her grandmother. A large portion of the audience inside The Chapel were young women with Xs marked on their hands, a sign of being under the legal drinking age.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Girls with big eyelashes passed Backwoods back and forth, others revealed braces on their teeth as they smiled. I saw a person with a ring light attached to the back of their phone—a handheld personal stage, ready for her to show out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13917676\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13917676\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/6DDFD960-B179-4C3C-A6AE-00090D35D650-800x535.jpg\" alt=\"A portion of the crowd at the Lil Kayla show at The Chapel in San Francisco on August 12, 2022. \" width=\"800\" height=\"535\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/6DDFD960-B179-4C3C-A6AE-00090D35D650-800x535.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/6DDFD960-B179-4C3C-A6AE-00090D35D650-1020x683.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/6DDFD960-B179-4C3C-A6AE-00090D35D650-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/6DDFD960-B179-4C3C-A6AE-00090D35D650-768x514.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/6DDFD960-B179-4C3C-A6AE-00090D35D650.jpg 1082w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A portion of the crowd at the Lil Kayla show at The Chapel in San Francisco on Aug. 12, 2022. \u003ccite>(Pendarvis Harshaw)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Opening acts from San Francisco’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/loafyprincesss/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Mya’Mya\u003c/a> and East Oakland’s “hyphy princess” \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/princessjourney_/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Journey B. The Reason\u003c/a> were interspersed with sets from \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/djshellheart/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">DJ ShellHeart\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/drewwwbanga/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Drew Banga\u003c/a>. The crowd was already going when event host \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/troyllf/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Troy LLF \u003c/a>announced Lil Kayla was up next.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Phones came out, camera lights came on, arms went skyward, and the from the moment she walked on the stage the crowd recited Lil Kayla’s lyrics bar for bar.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About two-thirds of the way into her set, Lil Kayla invited a few audience members to come on stage and spit her rhymes without skipping a word. Three out of four of the women who participated did so without an issue. Crowd participation on another level. Everyone was Lil Kayla that night.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Lil Kayla - One More Chance (OFFICIAL MUSIC VIDEO) dir. by KIING FILMZ\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https://www.youtube.com/embed/7ngL8H5yRQw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen>\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While standing directly next to the stage taking photos of Lil Kayla, I got a tap on my shoulder. It was a younger brother who was wearing a ski mask, despite the Tucson-like temperatures. Before asking if he could get past me to get on stage, he said, “Excuse me, sir.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s where I’m at in life!? “Sir,” in the middle of a Bay Area hip-hop function? Well I’ll be damned. Let me take my geriatric ass to a jazz festival.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13917662\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13917662\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/6A7B1855-B118-4476-9279-C911868C6F05-800x535.jpg\" alt=\"Radio host Greg Bridges and photographer Robert Birnbach engage in a conversation about jazz, photography and more during the 2022 San Jose Jazz Summer Fest on Saturday August 13, 2022. \" width=\"800\" height=\"535\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/6A7B1855-B118-4476-9279-C911868C6F05-800x535.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/6A7B1855-B118-4476-9279-C911868C6F05-1020x683.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/6A7B1855-B118-4476-9279-C911868C6F05-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/6A7B1855-B118-4476-9279-C911868C6F05-768x514.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/6A7B1855-B118-4476-9279-C911868C6F05.jpg 1082w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Radio host Greg Bridges and photographer Robert Birnbach engage in a conversation about jazz, photography and more during the 2022 San Jose Jazz Summer Fest on Saturday, Aug. 13, 2022. \u003ccite>(Pendarvis Harshaw)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The next morning I drove to the San Jose Jazz Summer Fest, and posted in the back of the Tech Interactive’s New Venture Hall. On stage sat jazz scholar and radio show host \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/g1rhythm/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Greg Bridges\u003c/a> and photographer \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/rbsphoto/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Robert Birnbach\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Photographers have a way of adding to the story that the music is telling,” Bridges said at the onset of the conversation. Birnbach discussed best practices for photographing musicians and their instruments from different angles on stage, among other topics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jumping around from photographic example to photographic example as he talked, Birnbach told the audience his preselected collection of images had gotten out of order. As Birnbach fished for a specific picture, Bridges reminded the audience, “This is jazz, we improvise.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13917674\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13917674\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/DSC04134-1-800x535.jpg\" alt=\"Alabama Mike poses for a photo after performing at the at the 2022 San José Jazz Summer Festival.\" width=\"800\" height=\"535\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/DSC04134-1-800x535.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/DSC04134-1-1020x682.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/DSC04134-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/DSC04134-1-768x513.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/DSC04134-1-1536x1027.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/DSC04134-1.jpg 1616w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Alabama Mike poses for a photo after performing at the 2022 San Jose Jazz Summer Fest. \u003ccite>(Pendarvis Harshaw)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>I went into the jazz fest not knowing what to expect. Improvisation was my entire game plan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the August sun bounced off of \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/alabama_mike_blues/?hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Alabama Mike\u003c/a>‘s gold teeth as he ran through his set, next up was \u003ca href=\"https://diunna.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Diunna Greenleaf\u003c/a>. As she settled into a chair on stage, she said that sitting on stage isn’t her normal forte, but if she were to fall no one in the audience would be strong enough to pick her up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A big woman with an even larger voice, she held the crowd down from her perch. That is, until she deemed that the crowd wasn’t giving back what she was putting out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During Greenleaf’s rendition of Ray Charles’ “Hard Times,” she got out of the chair and slowly walked down the stage’s steps to join the crowd. The grass where people were sprawled on blankets chillin’ became an impromptu stage. With no microphone, standing in the middle of the crowd and nearly wailing, Greenleaf pushed audience members’ emotional buttons. One person in a white dress was in tears. Another in an orange shirt clasped their hands together, as if in prayer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13917663\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13917663\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/DSC04162-e1660627054394-800x561.jpg\" alt='Diunna Greenleaf performs \"Hard Times\" in front of a captive audience at the 2022 San José Jazz Summer Festival.' width=\"800\" height=\"561\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/DSC04162-e1660627054394-800x561.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/DSC04162-e1660627054394-1020x715.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/DSC04162-e1660627054394-160x112.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/DSC04162-e1660627054394-768x538.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/DSC04162-e1660627054394.jpg 1422w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Diunna Greenleaf performs “Hard Times” in front of a captive audience at the 2022 San Jose Jazz Summer Fest. \u003ccite>(Pendarvis Harshaw)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>What stage of grief produces this kind of art?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After Greenleaf’s performance, came \u003ca href=\"https://ragman.org/tribal-gold\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Tribal Gold\u003c/a>, a combination of the New Orleans Suspects and Big Chief Juan Pardo & the Golden Comanche. They hit the stage and it was instantly Mardi Gras, with the area in front of the stage becoming a dance floor—a sub-stage, if you will.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13917668\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13917668\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/DSC04203-800x535.jpg\" alt=\"Big Chief Juan Pardo & the Golden Comanche of Tribal Gold perform at the San José Jazz Summer Festival on Saturday August 13, 2022.\" width=\"800\" height=\"535\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/DSC04203-800x535.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/DSC04203-1020x682.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/DSC04203-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/DSC04203-768x513.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/DSC04203-1536x1027.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/DSC04203.jpg 1616w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Big Chief Juan Pardo & the Golden Comanche of Tribal Gold perform at the San Jose Jazz Summer Fest on Saturday, Aug. 13, 2022. \u003ccite>(Pendarvis Harshaw)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A toddler dancing to the the jazz and blues got me thinking about the stages of life: how it’s less about age, and more about where your spirit is at that place and time. I’m clearly at that stage between hyphy and swinging jazz. But I still have questions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>How much say do we have in choosing what stage we’re on? Is the stage between stages a stage in itself? What differentiates those who love the limelight from those disabled by stage fright? 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Folks like \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/mad.lines/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">MADlines\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/firstnameian/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ian Kelly\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/kingtahoe/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">King Tahoe \u003c/a>and \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/guapdad4000/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Guapdad 4000\u003c/a>. \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/champgreen/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Champ Green\u003c/a> held down the grill, while \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/rexxliferaj/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Rexx Life Raj\u003c/a> was in full photographer mode.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13917666\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13917666\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/5491A041-12A5-452B-9767-0DA68D518390-800x535.jpg\" alt=\"Wantmoren8 spitting rhymes during a performance in the Regulars Only backyard on Saturday August 13, 2022.\" width=\"800\" height=\"535\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/5491A041-12A5-452B-9767-0DA68D518390-800x535.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/5491A041-12A5-452B-9767-0DA68D518390-1020x682.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/5491A041-12A5-452B-9767-0DA68D518390-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/5491A041-12A5-452B-9767-0DA68D518390-768x513.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/5491A041-12A5-452B-9767-0DA68D518390.jpg 1079w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Wantmoren8 spitting rhymes during a performance in the Regulars Only backyard on Saturday, Aug. 13, 2022. \u003ccite>(Pendarvis Harshaw)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>At one point Raj hit the stage and grabbed the mic, just to take an orchestrated photo of the crowd. 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"content": "\u003cp id=\"embed-code\" class=\"inconsolata\">\u003cem>\u003cstrong>Hey Rightnowish listeners, you can help shape the future of the podcast! \u003cb data-stringify-type=\"bold\">\u003ci data-stringify-type=\"italic\">Just \u003c/i>\u003c/b>\u003cb data-stringify-type=\"bold\">\u003ci data-stringify-type=\"italic\">\u003ca class=\"c-link\" href=\"https://survey.alchemer.com/s3/6838454/2e522245cbb6\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-stringify-link=\"https://survey.alchemer.com/s3/6838454/2e522245cbb6\" data-sk=\"tooltip_parent\" data-remove-tab-index=\"true\">fill out a short survey\u003c/a>\u003c/i>\u003c/b>\u003cb data-stringify-type=\"bold\">\u003ci data-stringify-type=\"italic\">.\u003c/i>\u003c/b>\u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"inconsolata\">\n\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=KQINC6941179634&light=true\" width=\"100%\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\n\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"inconsolata\">Last year, renowned writer and San Francisco Poet Laureate, \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/_tongogara_/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Tongo Eisen-Martin\u003c/a>, told us that it’s not enough to simply be a poet. “The poet needs to just come on down to the trenches,” he said, explaining that quality writing comes from the lived experience of participating in community activism.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In direct application of his own philosophy, Tongo has been involved with the occupation of Parker Elementary School, where organizers are fighting against the latest round of school closures in Oakland Unified School District — schools that are located in communities that are largely populated by Black and brown students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tongo has been a part of the group’s Freedom Friday events, where artists of all sorts are invited to show up and perform.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>“We have poets and (an) open mic,” Tongo says during a recent phone call. “We also intersperse political dialogue in between the poets, making sure that everyone knows what we doing here.”\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13916674/tongo-eisen-martin-poet-laureate-parker-occupied-school-city-lights\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The ongoing fight against school closures\u003c/a> has resulted in physical altercations, as well as legal actions. KQED will continue to share updates as the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11921807/parker-elementary-activists-demand-investigation-after-clash-with-ousd-security\">story progresses\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the meantime, we’re going into the archives this week to share Tongo’s poem, “A Sketch of Genocide.” The piece was included in his book, \u003cspan id=\"productTitle\" class=\"a-size-extra-large\">\u003cem>Heaven Is All Goodbyes\u003c/em>, which won a 2018 American Book Award. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12127869\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"78\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-768x75.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>Rightnowish is an arts and culture podcast produced at KQED. Listen to it wherever you get your podcasts or click the play button at the top of this page and subscribe to the show on \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/podcasts/721590300/rightnowish\">NPR One\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://open.spotify.com/show/7kEJuafTzTVan7B78ttz1I\">Spotify\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/rightnowish/id1482187648\">Apple Podcasts\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://tunein.com/podcasts/Arts--Culture-Podcasts/Rightnowish-p1258245/\">TuneIn\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/kqed/rightnowish\">Stitcher\u003c/a> or wherever you get your podcasts. \u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">It was like a jazz funeral on the last day of regular lunch service at Anula’s, the little Sri Lankan-Jamaican lunch spot that provided a home away from home for Downtown Oakland’s beleaguered office workers for the past 13 years. A line of megafans spilled outside, the kind of line that makes passersby stop and ask, “What’s going on?” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The atmosphere was chatty and warm—the first time the cafe felt like this since COVID drained away most of the regulars. Ken, a longtime customer who lined up early this Thursday, known among the faithful as lamb curry/Brussels sprouts day, put his affection like this: “Anula is like the Sri Lankan auntie that you never had.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">He’s referring, of course, to Anula Edirisinghe, the one-woman force behind the cafe who is retiring at the end of the week. Even as the line spilled out into Franklin St., Edirisinghe took time to speak with her customers, reminiscing about the past and asking everybody about their children, school life or work, age depending. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Edirisinghe’s daughter, Maya Rapier, and ex-husband, Phil Rapier, showed up to join the throng. “I’ve never seen a crowd like this,” says Maya, who would know: In typical family restaurant fashion, she helped her mother run the cafe all throughout high school. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">This crowd may have been Rapier’s accidental doing—her Twitter thread celebrating her mom’s legacy went \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/raindropx510/status/1554325213038292992?s=20&t=McpYnxbWNZLdQklE8gmNIQ\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">locally viral\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> earlier in the week. ”Even if all you buy is a smoothie or a hot chai, it would mean so much. She’s given her life to her cafe,” Rapier wrote. “She loves feeding people and she loves making people happy. 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Much feted is \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://eastbayexpress.com/a-destination-deli-1/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Anula’s jerk chicken\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, which bathes moist drumsticks in a herby sauce with a strong hit of bitter smokiness, served over a bed of rice and beans. The chicken is a Tuesday item: At Anula’s, every workday has its own menu of one vegetarian and one non-veg dish, which repeat in a cycle basically unchanged since the cafe’s beginnings. Today’s specials, brussel sprouts or lamb curry served over fragrant turmeric rice, were so popular that they sold out mid-lunch, and Edirisinghe had to turn dozens of customers away.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“I only use good ingredients in my food, you know,” Edirisinghe says when asked what her secret sauce was, “lots of organic.” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“She was spending good money to buy quality ingredients,” says Rapier, recounting her weekly shopping trips to the Berkeley Bowl with her mom to source fresh vegetables. “I always encouraged her to raise the price,” which is currently $13.50 for a generous combo plate, “but she just didn’t have the heart to do it.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.instagram.com/p/B7tucLNB_fJ/\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Anula’s Cafe opened up in 2009, after Edirisinghe found a cheap storefront through Craigslist on the bottom floor of the Financial Center Building, across from the Tribune Tower. She had no experience with the food service industry before her impulse buy: She ran a flower shop two blocks down the street for fifteen years until her friends, impressed by her home cooking, encouraged her to make it a business. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Though Edirisinghe herself is Sri Lankan, born a little outside of the island’s capital of Colombo, she put many Jamaican staples on the menu of her new cafe: jerk chicken, patties, rice and peas.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“My mother-in-law taught me,” Edirisinghe says, referring to the mother of her ex-husband, Phil, who is Caribbean-Canadian. “I like Jamaican food—Sri Lankan food is too hard to cook!” Still, she has some Sri Lankan favorites up on the chalkboard: veggie roti, chana masala and, once a month, the elaborate preparation of jackfruit, coconut sambol and rice wrapped in a banana leaf known as lamprais. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.instagram.com/p/B71fZiBhjWb/\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">That menu has basically stayed the same since the cafe first opened. “She was just so stubborn about changing the menu, because she just didn’t want to disappoint her long term customers,” Rapier says. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">She always thought of the community first when she made business decisions, and not just when it came to the menus and prices. For example, Edirisinghe, for many years, would hire refugee women from the nearby International Rescue Committee offices to provide them stable employment in their new city.\u003c/span>\u003cb> \u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Repaying the favor, the community gave back. Business was brisk, by all accounts, until the pandemic hit. The cafe shuttered for two years, until February 2022, when Edirisinghe felt that it was safe to reopen. But without office workers she struggled to turn a profit. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">[aside postID='arts_13916312,arts_13910410,bayareabites_136429']The cafe has no kitchen, so Edirisinghe leases space at a commissary kitchen a few blocks away, below the Ramada hotel, to cook in the mornings. When that kitchen’s rent spiked, she felt she had no option but to throw in the towel and take an early retirement. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“I’m sad, but I’m looking forward to a break,” Edirisinghe says. “I want to go on a trip back to Sri Lanka with my daughter.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Edirisinghe is keeping her catering business, and some of her faithful regulars have already commissioned her for birthday parties, office functions and formal events. They’re worried for her—ever since Edirisinghe went behind on her mortgage payments in 2018 and lost her house, her toehold on the city has weakened. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">But Edirisinghe herself isn’t planning on leaving the community she has formed around her restaurant anytime soon. “I’m Oakland,” she said to a customer who asked about her future plans. “I’m staying here only.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12904247\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"39\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39-160x16.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39-240x23.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39-375x37.jpg 375w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Anula’s Cafe (1319 Franklin St) is throwing a farewell party on Saturday, Aug. 6, from noon–3pm. \u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">W\u003c/span>hen I met the late Bill Russell in 2012, I knew all about the awards and championships. I read articles on the racism he faced on and off the court, as well as his civil rights work. And of course, I knew about his upbringing in Oakland. But I didn’t know about his sense of humor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13916848\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13916848\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/07/DSC07541-800x532.jpg\" alt=\"Mr. Bill Russell with a student and staff at McClymonds High School. \" width=\"800\" height=\"532\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/07/DSC07541-800x532.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/07/DSC07541-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/07/DSC07541-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/07/DSC07541-768x511.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/07/DSC07541-1536x1022.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/07/DSC07541-2048x1363.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/07/DSC07541-1920x1278.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bill Russell with a student and staff at McClymonds High School in 2012. \u003ccite>(Pendarvis Harshaw)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Hello Mr. Russell, my name is Pen,” I respectfully introduced myself, in the parking lot of his alma mater. He instantly questioned me.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Pen, did you catch him?” he asked in a serious tone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Caught off-guard, I responded, “Uhhhh, catch who?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pointing at my long beard, he says, “The gentleman who stole your razor!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Roasted. He got me.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The interaction made for a perfect entry in my \u003ca href=\"https://ogtoldme.tumblr.com/post/18941506501/i-went-to-introduce-myself-to-bill-russell-og\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">OG Told Me\u003c/a> series, a photoessay dedicated to documenting the wisdom of older Black men in my community. It wasn’t that he’d said anything profound, necessarily. It was what he’d showed me: that simply comical interaction from a person who has so many badges of honor is a mark of humility (served to me with a small side of humiliation).\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13916846\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-13916846\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/07/DSC07528-scaled-e1659335117752-1020x1532.jpg\" alt=\"A school security guard and Mr. Bill Russell share a laugh.\" width=\"640\" height=\"961\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/07/DSC07528-scaled-e1659335117752-1020x1532.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/07/DSC07528-scaled-e1659335117752-800x1202.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/07/DSC07528-scaled-e1659335117752-160x240.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/07/DSC07528-scaled-e1659335117752-768x1154.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/07/DSC07528-scaled-e1659335117752-1022x1536.jpg 1022w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/07/DSC07528-scaled-e1659335117752-1363x2048.jpg 1363w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/07/DSC07528-scaled-e1659335117752.jpg 1704w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A school security guard and Bill Russell share a laugh. \u003ccite>(Pendarvis Harshaw)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">D\u003c/span>uring that stop at McClymonds High School, he visited classrooms, media production spaces and athletic facilities. I followed as the campus security guards turned into little boys in his presence. School administrators giggled. The loud students got shy. Russell interacted with them all.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With the assistance of a student, a teacher and artist named Rose Marr had just completed a portrait of Russell. She was noticeably excited as she showed it to him. He smiled and laughed, asked her about another artist, and then mentioned that he was that artist’s first teacher.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13916851\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-13916851\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/07/DSC07575-scaled-e1659336394235-1020x1532.jpg\" alt=\"Artist and educator Rose Marr meeting Mr. Bill Russell for the first time.\" width=\"640\" height=\"961\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/07/DSC07575-scaled-e1659336394235-1020x1532.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/07/DSC07575-scaled-e1659336394235-800x1202.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/07/DSC07575-scaled-e1659336394235-160x240.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/07/DSC07575-scaled-e1659336394235-768x1154.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/07/DSC07575-scaled-e1659336394235-1022x1536.jpg 1022w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/07/DSC07575-scaled-e1659336394235-1363x2048.jpg 1363w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/07/DSC07575-scaled-e1659336394235.jpg 1704w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Artist and educator Rose Marr meeting Bill Russell for the first time. \u003ccite>(Pendarvis Harshaw)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Most memorable was Russell’s reaction to the wall inside the center used for after school programs. That’s where I led a class. A list of agreements for students who occupied that space included things like, “Step Up, Step Back” and “Clean Up After Yourself.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You ever laugh because you hear someone’s else’s laugh? That’s what happened when I heard the laugh that erupted from Russell as he read the rule of “No Booty on Duty.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13916847\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-13916847\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/07/DSC07539-scaled-e1659335231599-1020x1532.jpg\" alt='Agreements set by students in the after school space, including \"no booty on duty.\"' width=\"640\" height=\"961\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/07/DSC07539-scaled-e1659335231599-1020x1532.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/07/DSC07539-scaled-e1659335231599-800x1202.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/07/DSC07539-scaled-e1659335231599-160x240.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/07/DSC07539-scaled-e1659335231599-768x1154.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/07/DSC07539-scaled-e1659335231599-1022x1536.jpg 1022w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/07/DSC07539-scaled-e1659335231599-1363x2048.jpg 1363w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/07/DSC07539-scaled-e1659335231599.jpg 1704w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Agreements set by students in the after school space, including “No Booty on Duty.” \u003ccite>(Pendarvis Harshaw)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>That’s what I kept thinking about when I read the news that Bill Russell passed at the age of 88 yesterday morning, a sad day for sports fans, social justice advocates and Bay Area folks alike. I just keep smiling and laughing, thinking about the run-in we had in West Oakland. It’s often mentioned, but they don’t talk \u003cem>enough\u003c/em> about Bill Russell’s sense of humor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Russell’s greatness is well documented. A graduate of Oakland’s McClymonds High School, who won two NCAA national championships as a USF Don and a 1956 Olympic Gold with team USA. He’d go on to win 11 NBA championships, become the first African American coach in pro sports and a receive a Presidential Medal of Freedom from President Barack Obama.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13916852\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-13916852\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/07/DSC07525-scaled-e1659336825152-1020x1532.jpg\" alt=\"Rapper, producer and educator Azure meets with Mr. Bill Russell in the McClymonds audio program's studio.\" width=\"640\" height=\"961\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/07/DSC07525-scaled-e1659336825152-1020x1532.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/07/DSC07525-scaled-e1659336825152-800x1202.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/07/DSC07525-scaled-e1659336825152-160x240.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/07/DSC07525-scaled-e1659336825152-768x1154.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/07/DSC07525-scaled-e1659336825152-1022x1536.jpg 1022w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/07/DSC07525-scaled-e1659336825152-1363x2048.jpg 1363w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/07/DSC07525-scaled-e1659336825152.jpg 1704w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rapper, producer and educator Azure meets with Bill Russell in the McClymonds audio program’s studio. \u003ccite>(Pendarvis Harshaw)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Russell’s efforts to fight racism in America are widely known. He was present at Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have A Dream” speech. He led a basketball camp in Mississippi after the assassination of Medgar Evers. An outspoken supporter of \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/RealBillRussell/status/1101090173222154240?s=20&t=sCjVcOsN-HGXoK1v2JS0YA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Colin Kaepernick\u003c/a> and a critic of American policing, in the wake of George Floyd’s murder \u003ca href=\"https://www.slamonline.com/the-magazine/bill-russells-lifelong-fight-against-racism/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Russell penned an essay\u003c/a> about his lifelong battle with racism.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The photo from the meeting known as the \u003ca href=\"https://andscape.com/features/the-cleveland-summit-muhammad-ali/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Muhammad Ali Summit or the Cleveland Summit\u003c/a>—a conference of famed professional athletes including Muhammad Ali, Jim Brown and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar—is one of the most iconic images in sports history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the image of Russell \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WH4Z8kddGe4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">flipping the bird at Charles Barkley\u003c/a> during an NBA award show in 2018 gives you a glance at the guy I followed around with a camera for a few minutes in 2012.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13916850\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-13916850\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/07/DSC07560-scaled-e1659336213637-1020x1532.jpg\" alt=\"Inside of an elevator with a school security guard and Mr. Bill Russell at McClymonds High School.\" width=\"640\" height=\"961\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/07/DSC07560-scaled-e1659336213637-1020x1532.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/07/DSC07560-scaled-e1659336213637-800x1202.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/07/DSC07560-scaled-e1659336213637-160x240.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/07/DSC07560-scaled-e1659336213637-768x1154.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/07/DSC07560-scaled-e1659336213637-1022x1536.jpg 1022w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/07/DSC07560-scaled-e1659336213637-1363x2048.jpg 1363w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/07/DSC07560-scaled-e1659336213637.jpg 1704w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Inside of an elevator with a school security guard and Bill Russell at McClymonds High School. \u003ccite>(Pendarvis Harshaw)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">I\u003c/span> got to ride on an elevator with a human who represents American history. Before being part of one of the greatest professional sports dynasties ever, he was part of the Great Migration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After a childhood in West Monroe, Louisiana, he moved with his family to West Oakland, and to a high school environment that produced athletes like Vada Pinson Jr. (former MLB player), Curt Flood (former MLB player and free agency advocate) and Frank Robinson (MLB superstar and the first African American MLB manager).\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13916849\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13916849\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/07/DSC07533-800x532.jpg\" alt=\"Bill Russell getting a student-led tour of McClymonds High School. \" width=\"800\" height=\"532\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/07/DSC07533-800x532.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/07/DSC07533-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/07/DSC07533-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/07/DSC07533-768x511.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/07/DSC07533-1536x1022.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/07/DSC07533-2048x1363.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/07/DSC07533-1920x1278.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bill Russell getting a student-led tour of McClymonds High School. \u003ccite>(Pendarvis Harshaw)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Names like those used to be listed on a Distinguished McClymonds Graduates wall that wasn’t too far from where the “No Booty on Duty” agreements were listed. What’s funny is I don’t recall Russell’s reaction to seeing the names on that wall—not even his own. But I’ll never forget how the entire school responded to seeing one of the names on that wall in real life.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Roasted. He got me.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The interaction made for a perfect entry in my \u003ca href=\"https://ogtoldme.tumblr.com/post/18941506501/i-went-to-introduce-myself-to-bill-russell-og\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">OG Told Me\u003c/a> series, a photoessay dedicated to documenting the wisdom of older Black men in my community. It wasn’t that he’d said anything profound, necessarily. It was what he’d showed me: that simply comical interaction from a person who has so many badges of honor is a mark of humility (served to me with a small side of humiliation).\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13916846\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-13916846\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/07/DSC07528-scaled-e1659335117752-1020x1532.jpg\" alt=\"A school security guard and Mr. Bill Russell share a laugh.\" width=\"640\" height=\"961\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/07/DSC07528-scaled-e1659335117752-1020x1532.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/07/DSC07528-scaled-e1659335117752-800x1202.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/07/DSC07528-scaled-e1659335117752-160x240.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/07/DSC07528-scaled-e1659335117752-768x1154.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/07/DSC07528-scaled-e1659335117752-1022x1536.jpg 1022w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/07/DSC07528-scaled-e1659335117752-1363x2048.jpg 1363w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/07/DSC07528-scaled-e1659335117752.jpg 1704w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A school security guard and Bill Russell share a laugh. \u003ccite>(Pendarvis Harshaw)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">D\u003c/span>uring that stop at McClymonds High School, he visited classrooms, media production spaces and athletic facilities. I followed as the campus security guards turned into little boys in his presence. School administrators giggled. The loud students got shy. Russell interacted with them all.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With the assistance of a student, a teacher and artist named Rose Marr had just completed a portrait of Russell. She was noticeably excited as she showed it to him. He smiled and laughed, asked her about another artist, and then mentioned that he was that artist’s first teacher.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13916851\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-13916851\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/07/DSC07575-scaled-e1659336394235-1020x1532.jpg\" alt=\"Artist and educator Rose Marr meeting Mr. Bill Russell for the first time.\" width=\"640\" height=\"961\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/07/DSC07575-scaled-e1659336394235-1020x1532.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/07/DSC07575-scaled-e1659336394235-800x1202.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/07/DSC07575-scaled-e1659336394235-160x240.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/07/DSC07575-scaled-e1659336394235-768x1154.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/07/DSC07575-scaled-e1659336394235-1022x1536.jpg 1022w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/07/DSC07575-scaled-e1659336394235-1363x2048.jpg 1363w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/07/DSC07575-scaled-e1659336394235.jpg 1704w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Artist and educator Rose Marr meeting Bill Russell for the first time. \u003ccite>(Pendarvis Harshaw)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Most memorable was Russell’s reaction to the wall inside the center used for after school programs. That’s where I led a class. A list of agreements for students who occupied that space included things like, “Step Up, Step Back” and “Clean Up After Yourself.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You ever laugh because you hear someone’s else’s laugh? That’s what happened when I heard the laugh that erupted from Russell as he read the rule of “No Booty on Duty.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13916847\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-13916847\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/07/DSC07539-scaled-e1659335231599-1020x1532.jpg\" alt='Agreements set by students in the after school space, including \"no booty on duty.\"' width=\"640\" height=\"961\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/07/DSC07539-scaled-e1659335231599-1020x1532.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/07/DSC07539-scaled-e1659335231599-800x1202.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/07/DSC07539-scaled-e1659335231599-160x240.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/07/DSC07539-scaled-e1659335231599-768x1154.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/07/DSC07539-scaled-e1659335231599-1022x1536.jpg 1022w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/07/DSC07539-scaled-e1659335231599-1363x2048.jpg 1363w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/07/DSC07539-scaled-e1659335231599.jpg 1704w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Agreements set by students in the after school space, including “No Booty on Duty.” \u003ccite>(Pendarvis Harshaw)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>That’s what I kept thinking about when I read the news that Bill Russell passed at the age of 88 yesterday morning, a sad day for sports fans, social justice advocates and Bay Area folks alike. I just keep smiling and laughing, thinking about the run-in we had in West Oakland. It’s often mentioned, but they don’t talk \u003cem>enough\u003c/em> about Bill Russell’s sense of humor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Russell’s greatness is well documented. A graduate of Oakland’s McClymonds High School, who won two NCAA national championships as a USF Don and a 1956 Olympic Gold with team USA. He’d go on to win 11 NBA championships, become the first African American coach in pro sports and a receive a Presidential Medal of Freedom from President Barack Obama.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13916852\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-13916852\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/07/DSC07525-scaled-e1659336825152-1020x1532.jpg\" alt=\"Rapper, producer and educator Azure meets with Mr. Bill Russell in the McClymonds audio program's studio.\" width=\"640\" height=\"961\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/07/DSC07525-scaled-e1659336825152-1020x1532.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/07/DSC07525-scaled-e1659336825152-800x1202.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/07/DSC07525-scaled-e1659336825152-160x240.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/07/DSC07525-scaled-e1659336825152-768x1154.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/07/DSC07525-scaled-e1659336825152-1022x1536.jpg 1022w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/07/DSC07525-scaled-e1659336825152-1363x2048.jpg 1363w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/07/DSC07525-scaled-e1659336825152.jpg 1704w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rapper, producer and educator Azure meets with Bill Russell in the McClymonds audio program’s studio. \u003ccite>(Pendarvis Harshaw)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Russell’s efforts to fight racism in America are widely known. He was present at Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have A Dream” speech. He led a basketball camp in Mississippi after the assassination of Medgar Evers. An outspoken supporter of \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/RealBillRussell/status/1101090173222154240?s=20&t=sCjVcOsN-HGXoK1v2JS0YA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Colin Kaepernick\u003c/a> and a critic of American policing, in the wake of George Floyd’s murder \u003ca href=\"https://www.slamonline.com/the-magazine/bill-russells-lifelong-fight-against-racism/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Russell penned an essay\u003c/a> about his lifelong battle with racism.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The photo from the meeting known as the \u003ca href=\"https://andscape.com/features/the-cleveland-summit-muhammad-ali/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Muhammad Ali Summit or the Cleveland Summit\u003c/a>—a conference of famed professional athletes including Muhammad Ali, Jim Brown and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar—is one of the most iconic images in sports history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the image of Russell \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WH4Z8kddGe4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">flipping the bird at Charles Barkley\u003c/a> during an NBA award show in 2018 gives you a glance at the guy I followed around with a camera for a few minutes in 2012.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13916850\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-13916850\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/07/DSC07560-scaled-e1659336213637-1020x1532.jpg\" alt=\"Inside of an elevator with a school security guard and Mr. Bill Russell at McClymonds High School.\" width=\"640\" height=\"961\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/07/DSC07560-scaled-e1659336213637-1020x1532.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/07/DSC07560-scaled-e1659336213637-800x1202.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/07/DSC07560-scaled-e1659336213637-160x240.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/07/DSC07560-scaled-e1659336213637-768x1154.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/07/DSC07560-scaled-e1659336213637-1022x1536.jpg 1022w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/07/DSC07560-scaled-e1659336213637-1363x2048.jpg 1363w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/07/DSC07560-scaled-e1659336213637.jpg 1704w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Inside of an elevator with a school security guard and Bill Russell at McClymonds High School. \u003ccite>(Pendarvis Harshaw)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">I\u003c/span> got to ride on an elevator with a human who represents American history. Before being part of one of the greatest professional sports dynasties ever, he was part of the Great Migration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After a childhood in West Monroe, Louisiana, he moved with his family to West Oakland, and to a high school environment that produced athletes like Vada Pinson Jr. (former MLB player), Curt Flood (former MLB player and free agency advocate) and Frank Robinson (MLB superstar and the first African American MLB manager).\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13916849\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13916849\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/07/DSC07533-800x532.jpg\" alt=\"Bill Russell getting a student-led tour of McClymonds High School. \" width=\"800\" height=\"532\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/07/DSC07533-800x532.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/07/DSC07533-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/07/DSC07533-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/07/DSC07533-768x511.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/07/DSC07533-1536x1022.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/07/DSC07533-2048x1363.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/07/DSC07533-1920x1278.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bill Russell getting a student-led tour of McClymonds High School. \u003ccite>(Pendarvis Harshaw)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Names like those used to be listed on a Distinguished McClymonds Graduates wall that wasn’t too far from where the “No Booty on Duty” agreements were listed. What’s funny is I don’t recall Russell’s reaction to seeing the names on that wall—not even his own. But I’ll never forget how the entire school responded to seeing one of the names on that wall in real life.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Bill Russell, the NBA great who began his career in Oakland, anchored a Boston Celtics dynasty that won 11 championships in 13 years—the last two as the first Black head coach in any major U.S. sport—and marched for civil rights with Martin Luther King Jr., died Sunday. He was 88.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His family \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/RealBillRussell/status/1553790050839588865\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">posted the news on social media\u003c/a>, saying Russell died with his wife, Jeannine, by his side. The statement did not give the cause of death.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Bill’s wife, Jeannine, and his many friends and family thank you for keeping Bill in your prayers. Perhaps you’ll relive one or two of the golden moments he gave us, or recall his trademark laugh as he delighted in explaining the real story behind how those moments unfolded,” the family statement said. “And we hope each of us can find a new way to act or speak up with Bill’s uncompromising, dignified and always constructive commitment to principle. That would be one last, and lasting, win for our beloved #6.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>NBA Commissioner Adam Silver said in a statement that Russell was “the greatest champion in all of team sports.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Bill stood for something much bigger than sports: the values of equality, respect and inclusion that he stamped into the DNA of our league. At the height of his athletic career, Bill advocated vigorously for civil rights and social justice, a legacy he passed down to generations of NBA players who followed in his footsteps,” Silver said. “Through the taunts, threats and unthinkable adversity, Bill rose above it all and remained true to his belief that everyone deserves to be treated with dignity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-13916830\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/07/BillRussell.ObamaWH-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A tall Black man in a blue suit stands in a wing of the White House with the President and First Lady.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/07/BillRussell.ObamaWH-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/07/BillRussell.ObamaWH-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/07/BillRussell.ObamaWH-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/07/BillRussell.ObamaWH-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/07/BillRussell.ObamaWH.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A Hall of Famer, five-time Most Valuable Player and 12-time All-Star, Russell in 1980 was voted the greatest player in the NBA history by basketball writers. He remains the sport’s most prolific winner and an archetype of selflessness who won with defense and rebounding while leaving the scoring to others. Often, that meant Wilt Chamberlain, the only player of the era who was a worthy rival for Russell.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Russell dominated in the only stat he cared about: 11 championships to two.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The native of Louisiana also left a lasting mark as a Black athlete in a city—and country—where race is often a flash point. He was at the March on Washington in 1963, when Martin Luther King Jr. gave his “I Have a Dream” speech, and he backed Muhammad Ali when the boxer was pilloried for refusing induction into the military draft.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2011, President Barack Obama awarded Russell the Medal of Freedom alongside Congressman John Lewis, billionaire investor Warren Buffett, German Chancellor Angela Merkel and baseball great Stan Musial.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Bill Russell, the man, is someone who stood up for the rights and dignity of all men,” Obama said at the ceremony. “He marched with King; he stood by Ali. When a restaurant refused to serve the Black Celtics, he refused to play in the scheduled game. He endured insults and vandalism, but he kept on focusing on making the teammates who he loved better players and made possible the success of so many who would follow.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID='news_11725053']Russell said that when he was growing up in the segregated South and later California his parents instilled in him the calm confidence that allowed him to brush off \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/austin_walker/status/1553795496002682884\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">racist taunts and abuse\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Years later, people asked me what I had to go through,” Russell said in 2008. “Unfortunately, or fortunately, I’ve never been through anything. From my first moment of being alive was the notion that my mother and father loved me.” It was Russell’s mother who would tell him to disregard comments from those who might see him playing in the yard.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Whatever they say, good or bad, they don’t know you,” he recalled her saying. “They’re wrestling with their own demons.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it was Jackie Robinson who gave Russell a road map for dealing with racism in his sport: “Jackie was a hero to us. He always conducted himself as a man. He showed me the way to be a man in professional sports.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The feeling was mutual, Russell learned, when Robinson’s widow, Rachel, called and asked him to be a pallbearer at her husband’s funeral in 1972.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She hung the phone up and I asked myself, ‘How do you get to be a hero to Jackie Robinson?’” Russell said. “I was so flattered.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13916829\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13916829\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/07/BillRussell.USF_.HighJump-800x598.jpg\" alt=\"A young Black athlete barely clears a high-jump car against a white background\" width=\"800\" height=\"598\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/07/BillRussell.USF_.HighJump-800x598.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/07/BillRussell.USF_.HighJump-1020x762.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/07/BillRussell.USF_.HighJump-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/07/BillRussell.USF_.HighJump-768x574.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/07/BillRussell.USF_.HighJump.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bill Russell clears a high jump bar at six feet, eight inches in a University of San Francisco-College of the Pacific track meet in the early 1950s. \u003ccite>(Bettmann Collection/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>William Felton Russell was born on Feb. 12, 1934, in Monroe, Louisiana. He was a child when his family moved to the West Coast, and he went to McClymonds High School in Oakland, California, where Russell’s basketball career got off to an uneven start. He was cut from the team at Herbert Hoover Junior High School, and later, at McClymonds, played as an extra during his senior year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, Russell often spoke highly of McClymonds’ coach, George Powles, as an inspiration, and made appearances in Oakland regularly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After graduating early from McClymonds, Russell attended the University of San Francisco. He led the Dons to NCAA championships in 1955 and 1956 and won a gold medal in 1956 at the Melbourne Olympics in Australia.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Celtics coach and general manager Red Auerbach so coveted Russell that he worked out a trade with the St. Louis Hawks for the second pick in the draft. He promised the Rochester Royals, who owned the No. 1 pick, a lucrative visit by the Ice Capades, which were also run by Celtics owner Walter Brown. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, Russell arrived in Boston to complaints that he wasn’t that good. “People said it was a wasted draft choice, wasted money,” he recalled. “They said, ‘He’s no good. All he can do is block shots and rebound.’ And Red said, ‘That’s enough.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Celtics also picked up Tommy Heinsohn and K.C. Jones, Russell’s college teammate, in the same draft. Although Russell joined the team late because he was leading the U.S. to the Olympic gold, Boston finished the regular season with the league’s best record.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Celtics won the NBA championship—their first of 17—in a double-overtime seventh game against Bob Pettit’s St. Louis Hawks. Russell won his first MVP award the next season, but the Hawks won the title in a finals rematch. The Celtics won it all again in 1959, starting an unprecedented string of eight consecutive NBA crowns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A 6-foot-10 center, Russell never averaged more than 18.9 points during his 13 seasons, each year averaging more rebounds per game than points. For 10 seasons he averaged more than 20 rebounds. 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From my first moment of being alive was the notion that my mother and father loved me.” It was Russell’s mother who would tell him to disregard comments from those who might see him playing in the yard.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Whatever they say, good or bad, they don’t know you,” he recalled her saying. “They’re wrestling with their own demons.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it was Jackie Robinson who gave Russell a road map for dealing with racism in his sport: “Jackie was a hero to us. He always conducted himself as a man. 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He was a child when his family moved to the West Coast, and he went to McClymonds High School in Oakland, California, where Russell’s basketball career got off to an uneven start. He was cut from the team at Herbert Hoover Junior High School, and later, at McClymonds, played as an extra during his senior year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, Russell often spoke highly of McClymonds’ coach, George Powles, as an inspiration, and made appearances in Oakland regularly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After graduating early from McClymonds, Russell attended the University of San Francisco. He led the Dons to NCAA championships in 1955 and 1956 and won a gold medal in 1956 at the Melbourne Olympics in Australia.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Celtics coach and general manager Red Auerbach so coveted Russell that he worked out a trade with the St. Louis Hawks for the second pick in the draft. He promised the Rochester Royals, who owned the No. 1 pick, a lucrative visit by the Ice Capades, which were also run by Celtics owner Walter Brown. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, Russell arrived in Boston to complaints that he wasn’t that good. “People said it was a wasted draft choice, wasted money,” he recalled. “They said, ‘He’s no good. All he can do is block shots and rebound.’ And Red said, ‘That’s enough.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Celtics also picked up Tommy Heinsohn and K.C. Jones, Russell’s college teammate, in the same draft. Although Russell joined the team late because he was leading the U.S. to the Olympic gold, Boston finished the regular season with the league’s best record.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Celtics won the NBA championship—their first of 17—in a double-overtime seventh game against Bob Pettit’s St. Louis Hawks. Russell won his first MVP award the next season, but the Hawks won the title in a finals rematch. The Celtics won it all again in 1959, starting an unprecedented string of eight consecutive NBA crowns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A 6-foot-10 center, Russell never averaged more than 18.9 points during his 13 seasons, each year averaging more rebounds per game than points. For 10 seasons he averaged more than 20 rebounds. 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Boston finished with the best regular-season record in the NBA, but its title streak ended with a loss to Chamberlain and the Philadelphia 76ers in the Eastern Division finals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Russell led the Celtics back to titles in 1968 and ’69, each time winning seven-game playoff series against Chamberlain. Russell retired after the ’69 finals, returning for a relatively successful—but unfulfilling—four-year stint as coach and GM of the Seattle SuperSonics and a less fruitful half season as coach of the Sacramento Kings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Russell’s No. 6 jersey was retired by the Celtics in 1972. He earned spots on the NBA’s 25th anniversary all-time team in 1970, 35th anniversary team in 1980 and 75th anniversary team. In 1996, he was hailed as one of the NBA’s 50 greatest players. 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"content": "\u003cp>These days you can find Tongo Eisen-Martin, San Francisco’s Eighth Poet Laureate, spending much of his time not in the city but over in East Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He hasn’t abandoned his post. In fact, volunteering at Parker Community School, a self-governed space occupied by local activists, is exactly in line with his priorities as poet laureate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In February, the Oakland Unified School District (OUSD) Board of Education \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11915396/we-have-power-oakland-activists-camp-out-in-school-to-stop-its-closure\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">voted to close, merge or reduce eleven schools\u003c/a> over the next two years, including what was then known as Parker K-8 School. The school district said insufficient enrollment made the changes necessary, but the plan met intense opposition from local families, who pointed out that many of the schools slated for closure disproportionately served high numbers of Black and Brown students, often in neighborhoods that had already become victim to disinvestment by the City of Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align='right' size='medium' citation='Tongo Eisen-Martin']‘By the time you pick up the pen, it’s sort of too late. So much of craft begins with the life you live before you pick up the pen.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of the eleven schools, Parker K-8 was one set to close before the start of the 2022-2023 school year. But the community wasn’t having it. The occupation began on May 25, the last day of instruction. That’s when, at least in the occupiers’ eyes, Parker K-8 became the Parker Community School. The movement is now entering its third month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since then, Eisen-Martin has spent much of his time behind a folding table and a laptop with posters that say “Don’t Talk To The Police” and “Community not Closures” behind him. He checks students and visitors in, helps out with programming and keeps an eye on the door.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is still an occupied school, and people could be removed at any time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In a society like this, I think about police at the door all the time,” Eisen-Martin says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eisen-Martin is both an activist fighting against structural racism in America and a poet. In one of his poems he writes, “I’m not creative, I’m just the silliest of the revolutionaries.” Participating in a grassroots movement like this is actually part of his creative process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“By the time you pick up the pen, it’s sort of too late. So much of craft begins with the life you live before you pick up the pen,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That mindset also informs the kind of curriculum that’s being taught at Parker K-8 now.[aside postid='news_11915396']“Before we even get to the classroom, we start with the energy of resistance and in that way, a poem or any type of writing takes care of itself,” Eisen-Martin says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In his poetry, Eisen-Martin writes about “the neo-confederate tendency that’s been sweeping the nation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For him and his fellow activists, this occupation represents an important stand for the right of Black and Brown people to exist and thrive in rapidly gentrifying Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The moves they’re making to close these schools is really part of a plan of ethnic cleansing of Oakland,” he says. “If you take a neighborhood and you take out all of its centers of gathering, we’re easier to move to the next reservation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A Summer School for the Community, by the Community\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The schedule for students on Wednesday, July 6, included breakfast, community circle, jewelry, reading, P.E., political education, lunch, math/STEM, free time and history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Political education is one of the main things that sets occupied Parker and OUSD Parker apart for 13-year-old Jasionna Landry, one of the students at the school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“[Before], they would only teach us about simple Black history,” she says. “They didn’t really teach us about anything beyond that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another student, 15-year-old Jayvien Bolden, says he is working on a play—admittedly, it’s a little autobiographical—about “a kid whose childhood school is getting shut down and he’s not gonna let it go so easily,” he says. “He’s gonna do everything he can to try to save it. And it’s about him bringing the community together.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13916724\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13916724\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/07/ROCHELLE.jpeg\" alt=\"A Woman stands with her son and two daughters outside of Parker Elementary\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/07/ROCHELLE.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/07/ROCHELLE-160x120.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/07/ROCHELLE-768x576.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rochelle Jenkins (right); her son Jayvien Bolden, 15, a graduate of Parker; her daughter Zariah, 12; and another Parker student pose outside the school, May 26, 2022. \u003ccite>(Julia McEvoy/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Although Eisen-Martin is one of the more high-profile activists in the occupation, “I’m not the main protagonist here,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That credit goes to Rochelle Jenkins, who began protesting with her four children, including Bolden and her two younger daughters who were still enrolled at the school. That was back in February, when Parker K-8 families found out about the proposed shutdown.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They was like, ‘Well, mom, we need to go protest.’ And I was like, ‘You guys are absolutely right,’” Jenkins says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So Jenkins, her kids and a few friends walked down to the corner of MacArthur Boulevard and Ritchie Street with homemade signs and started raising awareness. That snowballed into the current occupation, which Jenkins says can host around 25 to 30 students, teachers and volunteers on any given day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Christina Beach co-taught a Black history lesson on the day that KQED visited. A former activist, she began to cry when she discussed her reasons for volunteering at Parker.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The best thing you can do as an activist is create future leaders, and develop them and give them the confidence, skills, knowledge, to carry it on to future generations,” she says. “I feel like I’m part of it, and that’s exciting.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s a lot going on at Parker among the volunteers, the teachers, the students and the spontaneous roller skate parties in the wood-floored gymnasium. But Jenkins says Eisen-Martin is “the glue that holds this whole thing together.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We actually all share a similar passion, and that’s a passion for people in the community,” she explains.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He is truly a revolutionary poet in the sense that his words and his art are revolutionary, and his actions are also revolutionary,” says Anthony Walters, another school volunteer. “He has integrity as a Black man standing up for his community, and that is the strongest message that he can convey.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13916734\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13916734\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/07/oea-e1651267429722-800x600.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/07/oea-e1651267429722-800x600.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/07/oea-e1651267429722-1020x765.jpeg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/07/oea-e1651267429722-160x120.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/07/oea-e1651267429722-768x576.jpeg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/07/oea-e1651267429722-1536x1152.jpeg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/07/oea-e1651267429722.jpeg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Oakland teachers march on the picket line on April 29, 2022, outside Parker K-8 in East Oakland. The Oakland Unified School District closed the school on May 25, 2022. \u003ccite>(Julia McEvoy/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>‘A Fly In The Ointment for the Powers That Be’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>With all the talk of revolution and the fight against fascism, things feel pretty mellow at Parker Community School on a recent Wednesday afternoon. A group of about eight children play piano and run around in a large gymnasium. About four volunteers filter in and out. An older man comes in to get some free food and coffee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This leaves Eisen-Martin some time to focus on his other projects. His publishing company, \u003ca href=\"https://www.blackfreighterpress.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Black Freighter Press\u003c/a>, put out two new poetry books this month and has one more slated for August. Eisen-Martin’s duties as Poet Laureate include authoring a new collection of poetry for San Francisco’s iconic \u003ca href=\"https://citylights.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">City Lights Booksellers & Publishers\u003c/a>, co-founded in 1953 by beat poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti. It’s “a beautiful obligation” that’s “coming along,” Eisen-Martin says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13916737\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13916737\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/07/IMG_1442-800x1067.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"1067\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/07/IMG_1442-800x1067.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/07/IMG_1442-1020x1360.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/07/IMG_1442-160x213.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/07/IMG_1442-768x1024.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/07/IMG_1442-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/07/IMG_1442-1536x2048.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/07/IMG_1442-scaled.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Elaine Katzenberger, publisher and executive director of City Lights Books in her office. \u003ccite>(Azul Dahlstrom-Eckman/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>[\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/07/Blood-on-the-Fog-excerpt.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read an excerpt from the poem “Third in the World”\u003c/a> from Eisen-Martin’s collection \u003cem>Blood on the Fog\u003c/em> (City Lights, 2021), published with permission from City Lights Booksellers & Publishers.\u003c/em>]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Poetry is not going to change the world by itself, but poetry changes people,” says Elaine Katzenberger, publisher and executive director of City Lights. “Poetry opens people’s minds and their hearts and stimulates their brains. All of that is what stimulates social change and a sense of community. So poetry used for that purpose is ultimately more powerful than reading some revolutionary tract.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Katzenberger says that previous San Francisco Poet Laureates have also used their role for activism. “You’re supposed to be in the community stimulating minds and bringing poetry to the people somehow, and different laureates have done that in different ways.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But at 42 years old, “Tongo is a great deal younger than previous laureates, and he’s also more politically active than I think anyone has been so far,” she explains.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Katzenberger says that Eisen-Martin is a perfect representation of the idea that a poet should be a “fly in the ointment for the powers that be.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She first heard Eisen-Martin at a poetry reading in 2019, and thought hearing him perform was more like listening to a musician.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It sounds improvisatory. He’s not reading, he’s actually reciting,” says Katzenberger. “Each time there is a performance it’s a little bit different from whatever else you might have experienced.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eisen-Martin’s 6-foot-8 frame commands its own gravity. His voice rumbles, at times lethargic, offering his deliberate, pensive view of the world. [aside postid='arts_13900077']That all changes when he gets on the stage. His pacing can vary between sedated and frenetic, humorous and chaotic, morose and furious. He enters a sort of trance, bobbing his head, in the same poem he can sound like a rapper freestyling and a grandfather recalling a fading memory.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘The Steph Curry of Poetry’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>That style was on display at the June 18 record release party for Eisen-Martin’s debut album at the Great American Music Hall in San Francisco. The album is a collection of his poems read aloud, with no musical accompaniment. It’s called \u003ca href=\"https://tongoeisen-martin.bandcamp.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>I follow the railroad tracks to the station of my enemies\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, put out by local record label Rocks In Your Head Records. The record’s title is the first line of one of the poems featured in the collection, called “I do not know the spelling of money.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think the idea was a kind of a throwback effort as far as, you know, a nod to a Langston Hughes recording, or an Audre Lorde recording that you would come across,” says Eisen-Martin. “Rocks In Your Head wanted to do something like that for the contemporary era.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13916739\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13916739\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/07/IMG_5697-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/07/IMG_5697-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/07/IMG_5697-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/07/IMG_5697-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/07/IMG_5697-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/07/IMG_5697-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/07/IMG_5697-1920x1280.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/07/IMG_5697.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tongo Eisen-Martin recites his poetry at Great American Music Hall on June 18, 2022. \u003ccite>(Cecile Morgan)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The performance at Great American Music Hall featured Eisen-Martin reciting the collection of poems with the backing of a jazz band and vocalist. A fog machine diffused light behind Eisen-Martin as his words tip-toed and danced over stanzas. The mostly full crowd either sat or stood, making the scene feel like a cross between an old-school North Beach poetry reading and a modern-day poetry slam.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Seated among the audience was a longtime San Francisco poet, Mike the Monolyth Stewart. He says watching Eisen-Martin perform is like watching “the Steph Curry of poetry.” Like Eisen-Martin, Stewart spends his time both writing his own poetry and working with youth to help them write their own.[pullquote align='right' size='medium' citation='Tongo Eisen-Martin']‘The moves they’re making to close these schools is really part of a plan of ethnic cleansing of Oakland. If you take a neighborhood and you take out all of its centers of gathering, we’re easier to move to the next reservation.’[/pullquote]“As a counselor with kids for 20-plus years, I see how all that artistry gleans into the kids. When you bring artistry to them and help them recognize a better life, that’s where the revolution is,” says Stewart.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eisen-Martin himself credits his artistic awakening to the experiences he had as a youth. “I learned poetry all over the village that raised me,” Eisen-Martin says. “I got lucky that way, being born to a more radical family, both immediate and cosmically constructed.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His upbringing was kind of like a community school.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The Occupation Continues\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>On the day that KQED visited Parker Community School, the occupation was celebrating its 50th day. But the future of it is tenuous at best. While the atmosphere is relaxed, it has to be occupied 24/7, and volunteers regularly patrol the premises. It seems that there is an expectation that it could be shut down at any moment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rochelle Jenkins, the main organizer behind the occupation, said she and another activist have been meeting with OUSD Board leadership, but said she couldn’t disclose what’s been discussed. Jenkins and others fear OUSD will sell the school to the highest bidder, possibly turning it into a housing development or a charter school. Whatever happens, Jenkins says her priority is to make sure any replacement of Parker will serve the community that lives in the neighborhood now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you don’t want to keep it open as a school, can you at least keep it open as a community recreation center or something that’s going to continue to educate the kids in this community?” says Jenkins.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13916729\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-13916729 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/07/RS57404_005_KQED_TongoEisenMartin_07272022-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/07/RS57404_005_KQED_TongoEisenMartin_07272022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/07/RS57404_005_KQED_TongoEisenMartin_07272022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/07/RS57404_005_KQED_TongoEisenMartin_07272022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/07/RS57404_005_KQED_TongoEisenMartin_07272022-qut-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/07/RS57404_005_KQED_TongoEisenMartin_07272022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/07/RS57404_005_KQED_TongoEisenMartin_07272022-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tongo Eisen-Martin sits in a classroom at Parker Elementary School in Oakland on July 27, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Proposals to the OUSD school board to either delay or stop the closure of Parker have so far been denied. In a statement, the district said that Parker was now closed and the individuals who remained there were trespassing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At its May 25 board meeting, the OUSD superintendent proposed to open an Adult Education Community Service Center that would “serve adults in East Oakland and provide a variety of services based on the needs of that specific community,” an OUSD spokesperson told KQED via email. A board vote on the future use of Parker is expected by the end of September 2022.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That doesn’t seem to satisfy the occupiers. “The deeper declaration is that none of you matter and all of you will be gone soon,” says Eisen-Martin. “It really doesn’t make any sense for the school board to deny the will of the people.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s a sense among Parker activists that this summer is a sort of calm before the storm. As the beginning of a new school year looms, OUSD may try to escalate their tactics to end the occupation, they fear. But among the volunteers, teachers and students, there is a dogged sense of optimism.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It feels like this is a little bit of history in the making and that’s exciting,” says volunteer teacher Christina Beach.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jenkins says whatever OUSD has in store, they’re ready. “I’m so thankful for the team that we have built here, because we’re able to just roll with the punches and take it on. Whatever it is that y’all have up y’all’s sleeve, believe me, we have a response for it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13916719\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13916719\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/07/RS57403_002_KQED_TongoEisenMartin_07272022-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt='Tongo Eisen-Martin stands outside Parker Elementary on a sunny day. He is wearing a blue peacoat and green pants. The wall behind him says \"Parker Pride\"' width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/07/RS57403_002_KQED_TongoEisenMartin_07272022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/07/RS57403_002_KQED_TongoEisenMartin_07272022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/07/RS57403_002_KQED_TongoEisenMartin_07272022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/07/RS57403_002_KQED_TongoEisenMartin_07272022-qut-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/07/RS57403_002_KQED_TongoEisenMartin_07272022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/07/RS57403_002_KQED_TongoEisenMartin_07272022-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tongo Eisen-Martin stands outside of Parker Elementary School in Oakland on July 27, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In the meantime, the school will continue with its educational programs but also with grocery giveaways to the community, poetry nights led by Eisen-Martin and community events on weekends.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the closure of Parker has caused pain for its community, the ensuing occupation has spawned something meaningful, life-changing and, yes, maybe even revolutionary, in a way that harkens back to Oakland’s activist roots. That’s a piece of this story that Eisen-Martin can take solace in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think it’s an inevitability that at a certain point, the system’s aggression is going to lead to a little piece of its downfall, right?” he muses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s an ending that some might even call poetic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“Before we even get to the classroom, we start with the energy of resistance and in that way, a poem or any type of writing takes care of itself,” Eisen-Martin says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In his poetry, Eisen-Martin writes about “the neo-confederate tendency that’s been sweeping the nation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For him and his fellow activists, this occupation represents an important stand for the right of Black and Brown people to exist and thrive in rapidly gentrifying Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The moves they’re making to close these schools is really part of a plan of ethnic cleansing of Oakland,” he says. “If you take a neighborhood and you take out all of its centers of gathering, we’re easier to move to the next reservation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A Summer School for the Community, by the Community\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The schedule for students on Wednesday, July 6, included breakfast, community circle, jewelry, reading, P.E., political education, lunch, math/STEM, free time and history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Political education is one of the main things that sets occupied Parker and OUSD Parker apart for 13-year-old Jasionna Landry, one of the students at the school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“[Before], they would only teach us about simple Black history,” she says. “They didn’t really teach us about anything beyond that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another student, 15-year-old Jayvien Bolden, says he is working on a play—admittedly, it’s a little autobiographical—about “a kid whose childhood school is getting shut down and he’s not gonna let it go so easily,” he says. “He’s gonna do everything he can to try to save it. And it’s about him bringing the community together.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13916724\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13916724\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/07/ROCHELLE.jpeg\" alt=\"A Woman stands with her son and two daughters outside of Parker Elementary\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/07/ROCHELLE.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/07/ROCHELLE-160x120.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/07/ROCHELLE-768x576.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rochelle Jenkins (right); her son Jayvien Bolden, 15, a graduate of Parker; her daughter Zariah, 12; and another Parker student pose outside the school, May 26, 2022. \u003ccite>(Julia McEvoy/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Although Eisen-Martin is one of the more high-profile activists in the occupation, “I’m not the main protagonist here,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That credit goes to Rochelle Jenkins, who began protesting with her four children, including Bolden and her two younger daughters who were still enrolled at the school. That was back in February, when Parker K-8 families found out about the proposed shutdown.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They was like, ‘Well, mom, we need to go protest.’ And I was like, ‘You guys are absolutely right,’” Jenkins says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So Jenkins, her kids and a few friends walked down to the corner of MacArthur Boulevard and Ritchie Street with homemade signs and started raising awareness. That snowballed into the current occupation, which Jenkins says can host around 25 to 30 students, teachers and volunteers on any given day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Christina Beach co-taught a Black history lesson on the day that KQED visited. A former activist, she began to cry when she discussed her reasons for volunteering at Parker.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The best thing you can do as an activist is create future leaders, and develop them and give them the confidence, skills, knowledge, to carry it on to future generations,” she says. “I feel like I’m part of it, and that’s exciting.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s a lot going on at Parker among the volunteers, the teachers, the students and the spontaneous roller skate parties in the wood-floored gymnasium. But Jenkins says Eisen-Martin is “the glue that holds this whole thing together.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We actually all share a similar passion, and that’s a passion for people in the community,” she explains.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He is truly a revolutionary poet in the sense that his words and his art are revolutionary, and his actions are also revolutionary,” says Anthony Walters, another school volunteer. “He has integrity as a Black man standing up for his community, and that is the strongest message that he can convey.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13916734\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13916734\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/07/oea-e1651267429722-800x600.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/07/oea-e1651267429722-800x600.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/07/oea-e1651267429722-1020x765.jpeg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/07/oea-e1651267429722-160x120.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/07/oea-e1651267429722-768x576.jpeg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/07/oea-e1651267429722-1536x1152.jpeg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/07/oea-e1651267429722.jpeg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Oakland teachers march on the picket line on April 29, 2022, outside Parker K-8 in East Oakland. The Oakland Unified School District closed the school on May 25, 2022. \u003ccite>(Julia McEvoy/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>‘A Fly In The Ointment for the Powers That Be’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>With all the talk of revolution and the fight against fascism, things feel pretty mellow at Parker Community School on a recent Wednesday afternoon. A group of about eight children play piano and run around in a large gymnasium. About four volunteers filter in and out. An older man comes in to get some free food and coffee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This leaves Eisen-Martin some time to focus on his other projects. His publishing company, \u003ca href=\"https://www.blackfreighterpress.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Black Freighter Press\u003c/a>, put out two new poetry books this month and has one more slated for August. Eisen-Martin’s duties as Poet Laureate include authoring a new collection of poetry for San Francisco’s iconic \u003ca href=\"https://citylights.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">City Lights Booksellers & Publishers\u003c/a>, co-founded in 1953 by beat poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti. It’s “a beautiful obligation” that’s “coming along,” Eisen-Martin says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13916737\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13916737\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/07/IMG_1442-800x1067.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"1067\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/07/IMG_1442-800x1067.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/07/IMG_1442-1020x1360.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/07/IMG_1442-160x213.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/07/IMG_1442-768x1024.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/07/IMG_1442-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/07/IMG_1442-1536x2048.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/07/IMG_1442-scaled.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Elaine Katzenberger, publisher and executive director of City Lights Books in her office. \u003ccite>(Azul Dahlstrom-Eckman/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>[\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/07/Blood-on-the-Fog-excerpt.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read an excerpt from the poem “Third in the World”\u003c/a> from Eisen-Martin’s collection \u003cem>Blood on the Fog\u003c/em> (City Lights, 2021), published with permission from City Lights Booksellers & Publishers.\u003c/em>]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Poetry is not going to change the world by itself, but poetry changes people,” says Elaine Katzenberger, publisher and executive director of City Lights. “Poetry opens people’s minds and their hearts and stimulates their brains. All of that is what stimulates social change and a sense of community. So poetry used for that purpose is ultimately more powerful than reading some revolutionary tract.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Katzenberger says that previous San Francisco Poet Laureates have also used their role for activism. “You’re supposed to be in the community stimulating minds and bringing poetry to the people somehow, and different laureates have done that in different ways.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But at 42 years old, “Tongo is a great deal younger than previous laureates, and he’s also more politically active than I think anyone has been so far,” she explains.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Katzenberger says that Eisen-Martin is a perfect representation of the idea that a poet should be a “fly in the ointment for the powers that be.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She first heard Eisen-Martin at a poetry reading in 2019, and thought hearing him perform was more like listening to a musician.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It sounds improvisatory. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>That all changes when he gets on the stage. His pacing can vary between sedated and frenetic, humorous and chaotic, morose and furious. He enters a sort of trance, bobbing his head, in the same poem he can sound like a rapper freestyling and a grandfather recalling a fading memory.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘The Steph Curry of Poetry’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>That style was on display at the June 18 record release party for Eisen-Martin’s debut album at the Great American Music Hall in San Francisco. The album is a collection of his poems read aloud, with no musical accompaniment. It’s called \u003ca href=\"https://tongoeisen-martin.bandcamp.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>I follow the railroad tracks to the station of my enemies\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, put out by local record label Rocks In Your Head Records. The record’s title is the first line of one of the poems featured in the collection, called “I do not know the spelling of money.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think the idea was a kind of a throwback effort as far as, you know, a nod to a Langston Hughes recording, or an Audre Lorde recording that you would come across,” says Eisen-Martin. “Rocks In Your Head wanted to do something like that for the contemporary era.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13916739\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13916739\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/07/IMG_5697-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/07/IMG_5697-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/07/IMG_5697-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/07/IMG_5697-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/07/IMG_5697-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/07/IMG_5697-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/07/IMG_5697-1920x1280.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/07/IMG_5697.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tongo Eisen-Martin recites his poetry at Great American Music Hall on June 18, 2022. \u003ccite>(Cecile Morgan)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The performance at Great American Music Hall featured Eisen-Martin reciting the collection of poems with the backing of a jazz band and vocalist. A fog machine diffused light behind Eisen-Martin as his words tip-toed and danced over stanzas. The mostly full crowd either sat or stood, making the scene feel like a cross between an old-school North Beach poetry reading and a modern-day poetry slam.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Seated among the audience was a longtime San Francisco poet, Mike the Monolyth Stewart. He says watching Eisen-Martin perform is like watching “the Steph Curry of poetry.” Like Eisen-Martin, Stewart spends his time both writing his own poetry and working with youth to help them write their own.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“As a counselor with kids for 20-plus years, I see how all that artistry gleans into the kids. When you bring artistry to them and help them recognize a better life, that’s where the revolution is,” says Stewart.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eisen-Martin himself credits his artistic awakening to the experiences he had as a youth. “I learned poetry all over the village that raised me,” Eisen-Martin says. “I got lucky that way, being born to a more radical family, both immediate and cosmically constructed.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His upbringing was kind of like a community school.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The Occupation Continues\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>On the day that KQED visited Parker Community School, the occupation was celebrating its 50th day. But the future of it is tenuous at best. While the atmosphere is relaxed, it has to be occupied 24/7, and volunteers regularly patrol the premises. It seems that there is an expectation that it could be shut down at any moment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rochelle Jenkins, the main organizer behind the occupation, said she and another activist have been meeting with OUSD Board leadership, but said she couldn’t disclose what’s been discussed. Jenkins and others fear OUSD will sell the school to the highest bidder, possibly turning it into a housing development or a charter school. Whatever happens, Jenkins says her priority is to make sure any replacement of Parker will serve the community that lives in the neighborhood now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you don’t want to keep it open as a school, can you at least keep it open as a community recreation center or something that’s going to continue to educate the kids in this community?” says Jenkins.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13916729\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-13916729 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/07/RS57404_005_KQED_TongoEisenMartin_07272022-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/07/RS57404_005_KQED_TongoEisenMartin_07272022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/07/RS57404_005_KQED_TongoEisenMartin_07272022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/07/RS57404_005_KQED_TongoEisenMartin_07272022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/07/RS57404_005_KQED_TongoEisenMartin_07272022-qut-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/07/RS57404_005_KQED_TongoEisenMartin_07272022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/07/RS57404_005_KQED_TongoEisenMartin_07272022-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tongo Eisen-Martin sits in a classroom at Parker Elementary School in Oakland on July 27, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Proposals to the OUSD school board to either delay or stop the closure of Parker have so far been denied. In a statement, the district said that Parker was now closed and the individuals who remained there were trespassing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At its May 25 board meeting, the OUSD superintendent proposed to open an Adult Education Community Service Center that would “serve adults in East Oakland and provide a variety of services based on the needs of that specific community,” an OUSD spokesperson told KQED via email. A board vote on the future use of Parker is expected by the end of September 2022.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That doesn’t seem to satisfy the occupiers. “The deeper declaration is that none of you matter and all of you will be gone soon,” says Eisen-Martin. “It really doesn’t make any sense for the school board to deny the will of the people.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s a sense among Parker activists that this summer is a sort of calm before the storm. As the beginning of a new school year looms, OUSD may try to escalate their tactics to end the occupation, they fear. But among the volunteers, teachers and students, there is a dogged sense of optimism.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It feels like this is a little bit of history in the making and that’s exciting,” says volunteer teacher Christina Beach.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jenkins says whatever OUSD has in store, they’re ready. “I’m so thankful for the team that we have built here, because we’re able to just roll with the punches and take it on. Whatever it is that y’all have up y’all’s sleeve, believe me, we have a response for it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13916719\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13916719\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/07/RS57403_002_KQED_TongoEisenMartin_07272022-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt='Tongo Eisen-Martin stands outside Parker Elementary on a sunny day. He is wearing a blue peacoat and green pants. The wall behind him says \"Parker Pride\"' width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/07/RS57403_002_KQED_TongoEisenMartin_07272022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/07/RS57403_002_KQED_TongoEisenMartin_07272022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/07/RS57403_002_KQED_TongoEisenMartin_07272022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/07/RS57403_002_KQED_TongoEisenMartin_07272022-qut-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/07/RS57403_002_KQED_TongoEisenMartin_07272022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/07/RS57403_002_KQED_TongoEisenMartin_07272022-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tongo Eisen-Martin stands outside of Parker Elementary School in Oakland on July 27, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In the meantime, the school will continue with its educational programs but also with grocery giveaways to the community, poetry nights led by Eisen-Martin and community events on weekends.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the closure of Parker has caused pain for its community, the ensuing occupation has spawned something meaningful, life-changing and, yes, maybe even revolutionary, in a way that harkens back to Oakland’s activist roots. That’s a piece of this story that Eisen-Martin can take solace in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think it’s an inevitability that at a certain point, the system’s aggression is going to lead to a little piece of its downfall, right?” he muses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s an ending that some might even call poetic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>If you lived in Oakland in the ’80s and ’90s, chances are you turned on your television and witnessed history in the making—even if it was 3am and you’d just switched the channel to a call-in show involving jokes and insults from a man called Night Doggie.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The channel was called \u003ca href=\"https://soulbeatnetwork.com/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Soul Beat\u003c/a>, and it’s recognized as \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13877570/a-tribute-to-soul-beat-tv-the-black-owned-network-of-east-oakland\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">the first Black-owned TV network\u003c/a>. It was started in 1978 by a former Marine named Chuck Johnson, who understood the East Oakland community in ways the cable TV giants never could. Comedy shows, homemade commercials and rap videos made Soul Beat a hub for the newest sounds and fashions, and the latest Oakland news, until it folded in 2003.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ySQmXtwz-AI\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today, the memory of Soul Beat is kept alive \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/soulbeattv/?hl=en\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">on Instagram\u003c/a>, on T-shirts and at events by a Soul Beat personality who happens to also be named Chuck Johnson (no relation). \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“One thing that will never go away is the conversation about Soul Beat,” Johnson says. “I can be in a different world, doing something totally different, and someone who’s older, younger, in the music industry, working at city hall, on the street—they’ll bring up Soul Beat! It’s almost like Soul Beat represents the soundtrack of people’s lives.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The younger Chuck hosted the Rap Show on Soul Beat, where he interviewed artists like Jay-Z and the Fugees early in their careers. So it’s only natural that for Soul Beat Day, a celebration of the network in Oakland on July 30, he’s convened three legends of ’90s Oakland rap to perform.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID='arts_13877570']The biggest news is a special reunion of 3x Krazy, the group that included Keak da Sneak before he struck out on his own, and who hasn’t performed together in over 10 years. “Everybody’s lives have been going in different directions, in different time zones, so even to get them together is a big thing,” Johnson says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Just as notable is a reunion of the Luniz, the group behind the Bay Area anthem “I Got 5 On It.” (Members Yukmouth and Numskull hadn’t talked in about a year, but Johnson got them on the phone together at 1am one night, and by the end of the conversation, they’d agreed to perform.) The lineup also has Dru Down, sure to perform his hit song “Pimp of the Year,” a number of guest DJs and hosts. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The good news is you won’t have to stay up until 3am to celebrate Soul Beat. This is a daytime event, from 2-7pm, on Saturday, July 30, and it all goes down at the New Parish in Oakland. \u003ca href=\"https://www.ticketweb.com/event/soul-beat-day-w-luniz-the-new-parish-tickets/12286725#:~:text=to%207%20p.m.-,Oakland%2C%20CA%20%E2%80%93%20(June%2030%2C%202022)%20%E2%80%93%20The,The%20Luniz%20and%203x%20Krazy!\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Details here\u003c/a>. \u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>Not only are there Black folks in the future—they’re fly, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the \u003ca href=\"https://www.eventbrite.com/e/eoydc-fundraiser-the-black-futures-ball-tickets-350040379197\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Black Futures Ball\u003c/a> at the Bridge Yard on Aug. 6, you’ll see a blend of Comic-Con with a traditional gala and Town culture, says Selena Wilson, CEO of the East Oakland Youth Development Center (\u003ca href=\"https://eoydc.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">EOYDC\u003c/a>), which is hosting the event.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Folks can expect to see people in straight-up cosplay. They can expect to see people in grills and Jordans. They’ll see folks in heels and cocktail dresses, in gowns, and in beautiful traditional African clothing mixed with futuristic pieces,” Wilson tells me. “There will be something for everybody.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both celebration and fundraiser, attendees of the Black Futures Ball are invited to contribute to EOYDC’s annual college fund. A staple for over two decades, the Deep East Oakland-based center’s fund donated $150,000 to Black and brown Bay Area students last year alone. Wilson hopes to keep that momentum: “We’re celebrating the theme of Afrofuturism,” she says. “We’re also legit investing in Black futures.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That investment is more important than ever. When Black students take out student loans to attend college, a recent Brookings Institute report concluded, they \u003ca href=\"https://www.brookings.edu/research/student-loans-the-racial-wealth-divide-and-why-we-need-full-student-debt-cancellation/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">borrow more on average\u003c/a> than their white classmates. What’s more, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.brookings.edu/research/black-white-disparity-in-student-loan-debt-more-than-triples-after-graduation/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">debt disparity between Black graduates and white graduates more than triples\u003c/a> after graduation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13916573\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13916573\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/07/College-Tour-2-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"EOYDC students on a college tour at Rice University.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/07/College-Tour-2-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/07/College-Tour-2-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/07/College-Tour-2-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/07/College-Tour-2-768x576.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/07/College-Tour-2.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">EOYDC students on a college tour at Rice University. \u003ccite>(Via EOYDC)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Backed by \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/thetownexperience/?hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Town Experience\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://instagram.com/marketing_kings?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Marketing Kings\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.thesubversal.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Subversal\u003c/a> group, the event will be filled with visual arts, music and food. Performances include renowned Oakland vocalist \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/goapele/?hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Goapele\u003c/a> and emerging lyricist \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/official.jwalt/?hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">J-Walt\u003c/a>. Installations of visual art will come from \u003ca href=\"http://www.aerosoulart.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Aerosoul\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.blackterminus.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Black Terminus\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://afrocomiccon.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">AfroComicCon\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.runtheworldclothing.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Run The World Clothing\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.darkstaruniverse.com/about.html#/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Dark Star Universe\u003c/a>, as well as an Afrofuturism-themed exhibit hosted by the \u003ca href=\"https://www.mocha.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Oakland’s Museum of Children’s Art\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Music from all throughout the diaspora will be spun by \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/dcischillin/?hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">DC is Chillin\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/mrdaveyd/?hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Davey D\u003c/a>, and the \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/theturffeinz/?hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Turffeinz\u003c/a> will deliver a dance performance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hosted by Oakland’s own multitalented Grammy-nominated artist \u003ca href=\"https://www.msryannicole.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">RyanNicole\u003c/a>, there will be a formal segment of the evening where Champion for Youth Awards will be given to entertainer and community advocate Mistah F.A.B., activist and BART Board Director Lateefah Simon, organizer and educator Nehanda Imara, and the South Bay’s André Chapman, founder of Unity Care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This all-star lineup comes together for a good cause in the face of the ever-increasing challenges in our world—a global pandemic, rising gun violence and more, says Wilson. “To solve the problems of today, it’s going to take radical imagination,” Wilson tells me. “And when I think about Afrofuturism, it inspires radical imagination for me.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Motivated by the idea of the fictional utopia of Wakanda from the movie \u003cem>Black Panther\u003c/em>—and in the wake of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RlOB3UALvrQ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">recently dropped trailed for \u003cem>Wakanda Forever\u003c/em>\u003c/a>—this year’s theme is “Oakanda.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wilson asks rhetorically, “What if we could build the Oakanda of our dreams? What if we did engage in that radical imagination?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wilson, a firm believer that the key to liberation is joy, adds, “That’s why we wanted to make sure that we have so many different elements of joy in this event, so many things that are celebrating \u003cem>the culture\u003c/em>.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12904247\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"39\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39-160x16.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39-240x23.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39-375x37.jpg 375w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>The Black Futures Ball gets underway on Saturday, Aug. 6, at the Bridge Yard in Oakland. \u003ca href=\"https://www.eventbrite.com/e/eoydc-fundraiser-the-black-futures-ball-tickets-350040379197\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Details here\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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