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On Tuesday, Nov. 16, as a part of the Berkeley Film Foundation’s documentary screening series, the film will be shown at Oakland’s \u003ca href=\"https://ticketing.uswest.veezi.com/purchase/10159?siteToken=P5WXdOEJ3Eq2eHbZHTAtbg%3D%3D\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">New Parkway Theatre\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13906006\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13906006\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/11/Alice-Street-1-800x532.jpeg\" alt=\"Artists marching to City Hall to make sure their voices are heard. \" width=\"800\" height=\"532\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/11/Alice-Street-1-800x532.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/11/Alice-Street-1-1020x678.jpeg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/11/Alice-Street-1-160x106.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/11/Alice-Street-1-768x511.jpeg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/11/Alice-Street-1-1536x1021.jpeg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/11/Alice-Street-1-2048x1362.jpeg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/11/Alice-Street-1-1920x1277.jpeg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Artists gathered and marched to City Hall to make sure their voices are heard. \u003ccite>(Pancho Pescador)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Lead artists \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/withoutmyego/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Desi Mundo\u003c/a> (founder of the \u003ca href=\"https://crpbayarea.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Community Rejuvenation Project\u003c/a>) and \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/panchopescador/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Pancho Pescador\u003c/a> began the project over a decade ago. The process was documented, from idea to outline. There were community conferences and government gatherings, as well as critiques and criticisms from neighbors who felt like the theme—people of color pushing for resistance against oppressive forces—didn’t represent their experience.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nearby cultural centers were also included. At 14th Street and Alice Street, right across the street from the mural, is the Malonga Casquelourd Center, a hub for African drumming and dance performances. On the other side sits Hotel Oakland, a residential and cultural space for older Asian folks. Elements from the two centers—both the physical design of the buildings and faces of the people who’ve graced those grounds—were incorporated into the artwork.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The artists eventually created a mural covering four large walls of a sizable parking lot. But as the paint dried and the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/10139706/oaklands-newest-mural\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">ribbon was cut in\u003c/a> August of 2014, a new development was being planned on that very spot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13906005\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13906005\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/11/Alice-Street-3-800x553.jpeg\" alt=\"Performers playing instruments inside of Hotel Oakland.\" width=\"800\" height=\"553\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/11/Alice-Street-3-800x553.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/11/Alice-Street-3-1020x705.jpeg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/11/Alice-Street-3-160x111.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/11/Alice-Street-3-768x531.jpeg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/11/Alice-Street-3-1536x1061.jpeg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/11/Alice-Street-3-2048x1415.jpeg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/11/Alice-Street-3-1920x1326.jpeg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Performers play instruments inside of Hotel Oakland. \u003ccite>(Spencer Wilkinson)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I’m excited to highlight the artists and what’s happened since the documentary took place,” says film producer \u003ca href=\"https://linktr.ee/spenceriwilkinson\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Spencer Wilkinson.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He says the two lead artists on the project will be present for a post-screening dialogue on Nov. 16. They’ll be joined by drummer \u003ca href=\"https://actaonline.org/profile/kiazi-malonga/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Kiazi Malonga\u003c/a>, son of the late world-renown artist Malonga Casquelourd and head of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.actaonline.org/profile/fua-dia-congo/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Fua Dia Congo\u003c/a> performance group, as well as musician and poet \u003ca href=\"https://destinymuhammad.net/home\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Destiny Muhammad,\u003c/a> who is featured in the film asking the poignant question: “Is what’s coming better than what’s here?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The film concludes with a note that individuals and community organizations such as the \u003ca href=\"https://www.ccedoakland.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Community Coalition For Equitable Development (CCED)\u003c/a> have pushed for and received a set of community benefit agreements, which have led to more low-income housing, more parking—and, in addition to other agreements, they’ve been financially supported in the painting of a new mural.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13906004\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13906004\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/11/DK6dODsQ-800x640.jpeg\" alt=\"Drummers gather at a celebration for the new mural on 14th Street in Oakland.\" width=\"800\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/11/DK6dODsQ-800x640.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/11/DK6dODsQ-1020x816.jpeg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/11/DK6dODsQ-160x128.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/11/DK6dODsQ-768x615.jpeg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/11/DK6dODsQ-1536x1229.jpeg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/11/DK6dODsQ-2048x1639.jpeg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/11/DK6dODsQ-1920x1537.jpeg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Drummers gather at a celebration for the new mural on 14th Street in Oakland. \u003ccite>(Rudi Tcruz and Galex Tcruz)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A couple blocks down from the location of the site of the previous mural, on the side of the \u003ca href=\"https://greenlining.org/?gclid=CjwKCAiA1aiMBhAUEiwACw25MbNayyyBrFf0DTmTvP6XMoVjjDk6eJKLCYNgCPH7y_LpXVuc66ElURoCvyEQAvD_BwE\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Greenlining Institute\u003c/a>, now stands a new painting featuring some of the same artists as the previous piece, as well as the themes of housing justice, diversity and cultural arts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As for the old mural, mummified by a new building? Maybe years, or decades from now it will see new light. But for now, all that’s visible are the names of the artists and the website where you can get more information about \u003ca href=\"https://www.alicestreetfilm.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the film\u003c/a>—and the ongoing conversation about the arts, community and urban development.\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>‘Alice Street’ screens Tuesday, Nov. 16, at the New Parkway in Oakland. \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1lJRPZLuY9c\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Trailer here\u003c/a>, and \u003ca href=\"https://ticketing.uswest.veezi.com/purchase/10159?siteToken=P5WXdOEJ3Eq2eHbZHTAtbg%3D%3D\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">details here\u003c/a>. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>A mural stands in downtown Oakland that honors the city’s culture and history. It’s a giant artwork birthed out of years and years of community conversations and the artists’ commitment to the concept.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The problem is that nobody can see the mural. Not anymore, at least. Except for a small patch of paint poking from behind a barrier, the mural depicting Oakland’s culture is now completely blocked by a new six-story luxury high-rise.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The story of the mural, and its disappearance, is shown in the full-length documentary \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/CV_mXnkP8fz/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>Alice Street\u003c/em>\u003c/a>. On Tuesday, Nov. 16, as a part of the Berkeley Film Foundation’s documentary screening series, the film will be shown at Oakland’s \u003ca href=\"https://ticketing.uswest.veezi.com/purchase/10159?siteToken=P5WXdOEJ3Eq2eHbZHTAtbg%3D%3D\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">New Parkway Theatre\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13906006\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13906006\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/11/Alice-Street-1-800x532.jpeg\" alt=\"Artists marching to City Hall to make sure their voices are heard. \" width=\"800\" height=\"532\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/11/Alice-Street-1-800x532.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/11/Alice-Street-1-1020x678.jpeg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/11/Alice-Street-1-160x106.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/11/Alice-Street-1-768x511.jpeg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/11/Alice-Street-1-1536x1021.jpeg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/11/Alice-Street-1-2048x1362.jpeg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/11/Alice-Street-1-1920x1277.jpeg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Artists gathered and marched to City Hall to make sure their voices are heard. \u003ccite>(Pancho Pescador)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Lead artists \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/withoutmyego/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Desi Mundo\u003c/a> (founder of the \u003ca href=\"https://crpbayarea.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Community Rejuvenation Project\u003c/a>) and \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/panchopescador/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Pancho Pescador\u003c/a> began the project over a decade ago. The process was documented, from idea to outline. There were community conferences and government gatherings, as well as critiques and criticisms from neighbors who felt like the theme—people of color pushing for resistance against oppressive forces—didn’t represent their experience.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nearby cultural centers were also included. At 14th Street and Alice Street, right across the street from the mural, is the Malonga Casquelourd Center, a hub for African drumming and dance performances. On the other side sits Hotel Oakland, a residential and cultural space for older Asian folks. Elements from the two centers—both the physical design of the buildings and faces of the people who’ve graced those grounds—were incorporated into the artwork.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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But as the paint dried and the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/10139706/oaklands-newest-mural\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">ribbon was cut in\u003c/a> August of 2014, a new development was being planned on that very spot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13906005\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13906005\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/11/Alice-Street-3-800x553.jpeg\" alt=\"Performers playing instruments inside of Hotel Oakland.\" width=\"800\" height=\"553\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/11/Alice-Street-3-800x553.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/11/Alice-Street-3-1020x705.jpeg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/11/Alice-Street-3-160x111.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/11/Alice-Street-3-768x531.jpeg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/11/Alice-Street-3-1536x1061.jpeg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/11/Alice-Street-3-2048x1415.jpeg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/11/Alice-Street-3-1920x1326.jpeg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Performers play instruments inside of Hotel Oakland. \u003ccite>(Spencer Wilkinson)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I’m excited to highlight the artists and what’s happened since the documentary took place,” says film producer \u003ca href=\"https://linktr.ee/spenceriwilkinson\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Spencer Wilkinson.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He says the two lead artists on the project will be present for a post-screening dialogue on Nov. 16. They’ll be joined by drummer \u003ca href=\"https://actaonline.org/profile/kiazi-malonga/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Kiazi Malonga\u003c/a>, son of the late world-renown artist Malonga Casquelourd and head of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.actaonline.org/profile/fua-dia-congo/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Fua Dia Congo\u003c/a> performance group, as well as musician and poet \u003ca href=\"https://destinymuhammad.net/home\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Destiny Muhammad,\u003c/a> who is featured in the film asking the poignant question: “Is what’s coming better than what’s here?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The film concludes with a note that individuals and community organizations such as the \u003ca href=\"https://www.ccedoakland.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Community Coalition For Equitable Development (CCED)\u003c/a> have pushed for and received a set of community benefit agreements, which have led to more low-income housing, more parking—and, in addition to other agreements, they’ve been financially supported in the painting of a new mural.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13906004\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13906004\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/11/DK6dODsQ-800x640.jpeg\" alt=\"Drummers gather at a celebration for the new mural on 14th Street in Oakland.\" width=\"800\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/11/DK6dODsQ-800x640.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/11/DK6dODsQ-1020x816.jpeg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/11/DK6dODsQ-160x128.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/11/DK6dODsQ-768x615.jpeg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/11/DK6dODsQ-1536x1229.jpeg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/11/DK6dODsQ-2048x1639.jpeg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/11/DK6dODsQ-1920x1537.jpeg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Drummers gather at a celebration for the new mural on 14th Street in Oakland. \u003ccite>(Rudi Tcruz and Galex Tcruz)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A couple blocks down from the location of the site of the previous mural, on the side of the \u003ca href=\"https://greenlining.org/?gclid=CjwKCAiA1aiMBhAUEiwACw25MbNayyyBrFf0DTmTvP6XMoVjjDk6eJKLCYNgCPH7y_LpXVuc66ElURoCvyEQAvD_BwE\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Greenlining Institute\u003c/a>, now stands a new painting featuring some of the same artists as the previous piece, as well as the themes of housing justice, diversity and cultural arts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As for the old mural, mummified by a new building? 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But for now, all that’s visible are the names of the artists and the website where you can get more information about \u003ca href=\"https://www.alicestreetfilm.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the film\u003c/a>—and the ongoing conversation about the arts, community and urban development.\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>‘Alice Street’ screens Tuesday, Nov. 16, at the New Parkway in Oakland. \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1lJRPZLuY9c\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Trailer here\u003c/a>, and \u003ca href=\"https://ticketing.uswest.veezi.com/purchase/10159?siteToken=P5WXdOEJ3Eq2eHbZHTAtbg%3D%3D\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">details here\u003c/a>. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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It’s an ambitious project that promises solar power and a permaculture garden, spaces for classes and events, affordable artist studios, dining, retail, below-market-rate co-living spaces and even a hotel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the blueprints for most of those features are still being drawn up, an art space called \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/agencyoakland/?hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Agency\u003c/a> has already moved into the bare bones of the cavernous, brick warehouse. Agency is a collaboration among Rosalyn Nash of \u003ca href=\"https://www.thepeoplesconservatory.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The People’s Conservatory\u003c/a>, which provides arts education to underserved K-12 students; Assan Jethmal, an event producer with \u003ca href=\"https://www.endeavors-oakland.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Endeavors Oakland\u003c/a> and co-founder of Good Mother Gallery; and Natalia Ivanova of the nonprofit downtown art gallery \u003ca href=\"https://www.proartscommons.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">ProArts\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Each player brings with them a wide-ranging network of artists and activists, many of whom are people of color making forward-thinking work and in need of affordable places to create, gather and perform. And their goal isn’t just to get a symbolic nod to diversity and inclusion from the developer, but to give the community direct access and influence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What we’re bringing to the table is bringing folks who are boots on the ground, doing work with the community, creating the arts and culture of Oakland,” says Nash. “As the developers, they have the capital, they have the space. But we have the culture.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since moving in in August, Agency has already shown the potential of what an 8,500-square-foot space like this can offer. A textile art exhibit curated by Maymanah Farhat featured big, colorful, hand-sewn pieces. Some were whimsical and kitschy (like a \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/CT412Qmlobi/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">rug portrait of 2000s-era Soulja Boy\u003c/a> by Assan Jethmal’s brother Ian). And others used fabric for potent storytelling, like Daniel Drennan ElAwar’s “\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/CUh99T2lUyl/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">vigil knitting\u003c/a>,” made while waiting on news from Palestinian friends taking cover from Israeli bombings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Earlier this month, Agency hosted a musical healing circle by the \u003ca href=\"https://thesongremedy.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Song Remedy\u003c/a>, a project of SOL Development singer and community organizer Brittany Tanner. On a September night in the warehouse’s spacious courtyard, chart-topper and Oakland native G-Eazy rocked a crowd at his album release party for \u003cem>These Things Happen Too\u003c/em>. The People’s Conservatory students have been doing schoolwork at Agency (and soon, a music tech lab with free classes is coming thanks to a grant from Apple). An African diaspora dance festival, an NFT festival and a holiday artist market are also in the works.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.instagram.com/p/CT_Ro48Dyf9/\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As long as I’ve known Rozz and Assan, it’s all about sustaining the art,” says Karega Bailey of \u003ca href=\"https://soldevelopment.bandcamp.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">SOL Development\u003c/a>, who is slated to perform at \u003ca href=\"https://www.eventbrite.com/e/agency-oakland-inaugural-costume-gala-tickets-186221342047\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Agency’s costume gala and fundraiser\u003c/a> on Oct. 28 with Brittany Tanner and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13885918/grand-nationxl-a-wolf-pack-of-artists\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">rap supergroup Grand Nationxl\u003c/a>. “They understand art to be an integral part of society and any community. … I imagine [Agency] could be a new focal point of story and gathering and belongingness for artists in Oakland.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The idea for Agency began to germinate with Jethmal throwing COVID-safe artist markets and hip-hop shows in \u003ca href=\"https://www.endeavors-oakland.com/the-lot\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the parking lot outside of the Tribune Tower\u003c/a>. Eventually, he worked with the landlord and artist Rachel Wolfe-Goldsmith to turn the tower’s fifth floor into a blank canvas for muralists, including Bud Snow and Vogue TDK. (The murals were eventually \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13897823/nft-artists-bay-area\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">digitized and sold as an NFT\u003c/a>.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Jethmal wanted to find a permanent space, the owners of Tribune Tower, an investor group called Highbridge Equity Partners, pointed him to the larger and much more affordable property that would eventually become Agency and The Loom. [aside postid='arts_13901928']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead of waiting for the developer to take the lead, Jethmal pitched Highbridge: “Let’s all be at the table, ground-up, before you even start,” he said, arguing that his coalition of artists brings a cultural value greater than any monetary deposit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Aboudi Kabbani, senior vice president at Highbridge, listened. “We’re not a developer that’s just trying to build market-rate housing or a commercial building and make a lot of money,” Kabbani explains, adding that Highbridge specializes in historic sites. Its holdings also include the former \u003ca href=\"https://localwiki.org/oakland/Oakland_YWCA_Building\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">YWCA building\u003c/a> on 15th Street designed by renowned architect Julia Morgan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s only a couple of investors,” Kabbani says of The Loom. “Everyone’s in this for the long haul, not looking to flip or anything like that. 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The Seed Barn, a building adjacent to Agency, can hold performances, community fundraisers and meditation classes, which could be sustained by rentals for weddings and private events.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.instagram.com/p/CUYSakzhsbI/\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Highbridge has enlisted \u003ca href=\"https://www.dbarchitect.com/project_detail/306/The%20Loom.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">David Baker Architects\u003c/a>, a firm known for innovative affordable housing projects. \u003ca href=\"https://www.fletcher.studio/the-loom\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Fletcher Studios\u003c/a> has been charged with the landscape architecture, and has lofty goals of making The Loom a regenerative project that produces its own solar energy and minimizes water use and construction waste.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A new development that’s sustainable for culture and the environment? Given the ways the city has changed over the past 20 years, some Oakland residents might understandably raise their eyebrows at the idea. But if all goes according to plan, The Loom might become an important connecting thread in the local cultural fabric for years to come.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13904814\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13904814\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/10/DSC02551-800x535.jpg\" alt=\"Infamous TAZ is rockin' a yellow Spongebob hoody and some shorts as he's posted on a park bench at Pittsburg's City Park.\" width=\"800\" height=\"535\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/10/DSC02551-800x535.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/10/DSC02551-1020x682.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/10/DSC02551-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/10/DSC02551-768x513.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/10/DSC02551-1536x1027.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/10/DSC02551.jpg 1616w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Born in Oakland, Infamous TAZ and his family soon moved Pittsburg, part of a two-decade shift in Bay Area demographics. \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> was born up in Deep East Oakland / The world knows us for hyphy and ridin’ in scrapers, yokin,’” raps \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/infamoustaz_/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Infamous TAZ\u003c/a> on “Home Town,” the final song of a six-track EP he dropped last month, \u003ci>\u003ca href=\"https://open.spotify.com/album/09u6QRp5xy7a4kpIM8HS8K\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">A Negus In The Sun\u003c/a>.\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-13833985\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/OGPenn.Cap_-160x184.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"160\" height=\"184\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/OGPenn.Cap_-160x184.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/OGPenn.Cap_.jpg 180w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 160px) 100vw, 160px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Later in that same reflective verse, TAZ opens up about his father’s drug addiction and his mother’s decision to move the family out of the Town. “We moved in with my auntie, she stayed up in Pittsburg / It used to be a suburb where the rich folks stayed reserved / Just like our ancestors, we thought moving would make us better off/ Until we saw the suburbs transform like Decepticons.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He’s rapping about the changing demographics of the Bay Area. And he’s doing so from lived experience. TAZ is one of many, specifically working-class Black folks, who’ve relocated to the Delta, the Central Valley or out of state, but still call Oakland home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since 2000, Oakland’s overall population has grown by 33,000 people, but the percentage of African Americans has dropped from 35.7% to 23.8%. A smaller percentage of a larger number of people–something that often gets overlooked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the other side of the Caldecott Tunnel, just down Highway 4, is the city of Antioch, where two decades ago the population was just over 90,000 people, with Black folks making up 9.7%. According to the latest census, “the Yoc” now has a total population of more than 111,000, of which African Americans account for 21.5%.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2000, nearby Pittsburg had a total population of over 56,000 folks, of which nearly 19% were African American. Now Pittsburg has grown to over 72,000 residents, and 15.4% are African American.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>TAZ, a graduate of Pittsburg High School’s class of 2015, has seen it all unfold. So, a couple weeks ago, I pulled up to the far East Bay to see Pittsburg and Antioch through his eyes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13904815\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13904815\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/10/DSC02564-800x535.jpg\" alt=\"Infamous TAZ cracks a smile as he sits on the staircase in front of his old apartments in Pittsburg.\" width=\"800\" height=\"535\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/10/DSC02564-800x535.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/10/DSC02564-1020x682.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/10/DSC02564-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/10/DSC02564-768x513.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/10/DSC02564-1536x1027.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/10/DSC02564.jpg 1616w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Infamous TAZ on the staircase in front of his old apartments in Pittsburg. \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\">T\u003c/span>AZ points to the Riverstone Apartments on Sycamore Drive, his first home after moving from Oakland. A little further down, in the parking lot of a small shopping center, sits a makeshift memorial for a homicide victim. This area is where a lot of drama occurs, TAZ tells me, and \u003ca href=\"https://www.mercurynews.com/2021/06/18/the-highest-crime-area-of-antioch-feds-appear-to-be-focusing-on-antiochs-sycamore-corridor/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">news reports of federal agents\u003c/a> focusing on that area confirm it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The difference is,” TAZ says to me, “you gotta \u003cem>find\u003c/em> trouble out here. In Oakland, it’ll find you.” He and his family moved out here to escape it. But that didn’t exactly happen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Back in the day, his brother had long locs, was into turf dancing, and wore airbrushed T-shirts. “He had to fight his way home just off the strength that he was from Oakland,” TAZ tells me, as we bend corners through the neighborhood. The beef has since died down, but when he first moved here, TAZ says, “there was a war going on between Oakland and Pittsburg.”[aside postID='arts_13865533']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He adds that during those early years, people would do dirt in the Town or the City and then hide out in Pittsburg or Antioch—his brother included.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>TAZ, who has an older sister as well, is the youngest in the family. Because of that fact, he was often protected. But there’s only so much sheltering available when there’s drama inside the house too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We park inside of the Villa Serena apartments on E. Leland Road: “Apartment 209, that’s it,” TAZ says. This is where TAZ realized the economic situation that his family faced; a realization that catapulted him into adulthood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He paints a picture for me of what went on in the house—dice games with money on the floor, weed smoke in the air, ashes on the table, shotgun under the bed, glock under the couch. Essentially, it was a trap house, he says, except it wasn’t abandoned. His family lived there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was days when my mom was crying because she didn’t have rent money,” TAZ recalls. “My brother was selling drugs to make money to keep us in here.” The juxtaposition of activity inside the house versus what was going on outside messed with his teenaged head. “Outside, I was in Pittsburg. But inside I was in Oakland.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Music became an escape.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13904817\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13904817\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/10/DSC02547-800x535.jpg\" alt=\"Infamous TAZ takes a sip of a beverage as he posts in front of Angelo's, a store around the corner from his old high school. \" width=\"800\" height=\"535\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/10/DSC02547-800x535.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/10/DSC02547-1020x682.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/10/DSC02547-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/10/DSC02547-768x513.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/10/DSC02547-1536x1027.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/10/DSC02547.jpg 1616w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Infamous TAZ takes a sip of a beverage as he posts in front of Angelo’s, a store around the corner from his old high school. \u003ccite>(Pendarvis Harshaw)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>As a kid he was deeply into hip-hop, but not the hip-hop of the time. When Young Jeezy and Gucci Mane were hot in the early 2000s, he was listening to the Fat Boys and the Funky 4 + 1. Known for beatboxing, TAZ rocked Gazelle-styled shades and fat laces in his kicks. He even developed a New York accent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m out here,” TAZ says, pointing to the ground we’re standing on. “I’m telling you I’m from East Oakland. And I’m talking like I’m from New York.” He laughs at the confusion. “Na, B, I’m really from out here!”[aside postID='arts_13851806']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He got deeper into writing raps, publishing his first project while in high school. After class, he’d post up in front of Angelo’s Pizza & Wings & Mini Market to sell pot and freestyle with other students and folks from the neighborhood. And while he hung out with seedy crowds, he never got in trouble with the law—something he credits to his family, his own moral compass, and getting into theatre.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In his senior year he landed a role in a hip-hop musical, playing a gangsta. “It helped me reenact everything I had seen over the years, and it put me around positive people,” TAZ tells me, taking a swig of lemonade. Suddenly, he didn’t have to dumb himself down anymore. He could freely discuss poetry, spirituality and chakras. He also saw a lane to pursue his dream of being an entertainer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While at Los Medanos College in Pittsburg, he got deeper into acting, even doing out-of-state shows—including one at the Kennedy Center in Washington D.C.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13904816\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13904816\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/10/DSC02542-800x535.jpg\" alt=\"Infamous TAZ and Angelo, owner of Angelo's Pizza and Wings, share a moment. \" width=\"800\" height=\"535\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/10/DSC02542-800x535.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/10/DSC02542-1020x682.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/10/DSC02542-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/10/DSC02542-768x513.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/10/DSC02542-1536x1027.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/10/DSC02542.jpg 1616w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Infamous TAZ and Angelo, owner of Angelo’s Pizza and Wings, share a moment. \u003ccite>(Pendarvis Harshaw)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Outside of school, he pushed his music, which led him back to Oakland. He got connected with United Roots and the Urban Peace Movement’s \u003ca href=\"https://urbanpeacemovement.org/programs/determination/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Determination Black male mentorship program\u003c/a>, where he met mentors Adimu Madyun (\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/wolfhawkjaguar/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">WolfHawkJaguar\u003c/a>) and the late Dr. Prince White.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>TAZ watched Dr. Prince White’s efforts to free \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfgate.com/crime/article/Supporters-of-ex-Oakland-football-star-want-11260039.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Dajon Ford\u003c/a> from Santa Rita Jail, where he had been sitting for four years awaiting trial. When Ford was released, TAZ says, it one of the most remarkable things he’s ever seen. “I never saw a group of brothers get a Black man out of jail,” says TAZ. “That made me believe in (Dr. Prince White) a whole ‘nother way.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Dr. Prince White \u003ca href=\"https://oaklandnorth.net/2018/09/04/remembering-the-social-justice-advocate-dr-prince-white/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">passed unexpectedly\u003c/a> in 2018 from a rare medical condition. “When he passed, it was deep for me. It felt like that moment when niggas lost prominent leaders in the ’60s,” TAZ laments. “That’s why I had to give him that shoutout on “\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_--5ZeZ-Raw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">No Peace\u003c/a>” … I felt like everyone who fights for peace ends up dying.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_%E2%80%935ZeZ-Raw\">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_–5ZeZ-Raw\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">A\u003c/span>round the same time, TAZ started running with a peer named \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13851806/sitting-at-the-right-hand-of-president-obama\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Leo Mercer\u003c/a>, who helped him reconnect with Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was away from Oakland for so many years that everyone I knew in Oakland was either dead, in jail, or they moved out,” TAZ says. “So he got me reacquainted with the Oakland scene as it is now.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Growing up in Pittsburg, TAZ looked at Oakland the same way some Black folks in America look at the continent of Africa. Constantly questioning how his life would’ve been if he’d been raised out there. “To me, Oakland was the motherland,” he says as he sits in the passenger seat. “Especially after I learned about the Panthers.”[aside label='Also See' link1='https://www.theroot.com/oakland-makes-everything-black-blacker-1832718298,Oakland Makes Everything Black, Blacker']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Once disconnected from the heartbeat of the Bay, TAZ now spends plenty of time in Oakland. He’s a regular at community events and underground shows. “Now that I’m acquainted with Oakland and Pittsburg, I get the same feeling,” TAZ says, letting out a laugh of frustration. “I gotta get out of the Bay!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s true. Like \u003ca href=\"https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/576496-more-than-half-of-bay-area-residents-plan-to-leave-permanently-poll\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">many Bay Area residents,\u003c/a> TAZ wants to leave his hometown—or hometowns—for a place where the cost of living isn’t as expensive and career opportunities are vast.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He’s working on it. He’s dropped two albums in the past 18 months, has done more shows out of state, and is doing weekly freestyles on Instagram, calling them #TazForceTuesdays. He’s pushing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And he says the glimmers of success he’s had so far are God’s way of showing him that he’s headed down the right path—wherever it might lead next.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the other side of the Caldecott Tunnel, just down Highway 4, is the city of Antioch, where two decades ago the population was just over 90,000 people, with Black folks making up 9.7%. According to the latest census, “the Yoc” now has a total population of more than 111,000, of which African Americans account for 21.5%.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2000, nearby Pittsburg had a total population of over 56,000 folks, of which nearly 19% were African American. Now Pittsburg has grown to over 72,000 residents, and 15.4% are African American.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>TAZ, a graduate of Pittsburg High School’s class of 2015, has seen it all unfold. So, a couple weeks ago, I pulled up to the far East Bay to see Pittsburg and Antioch through his eyes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13904815\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13904815\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/10/DSC02564-800x535.jpg\" alt=\"Infamous TAZ cracks a smile as he sits on the staircase in front of his old apartments in Pittsburg.\" width=\"800\" height=\"535\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/10/DSC02564-800x535.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/10/DSC02564-1020x682.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/10/DSC02564-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/10/DSC02564-768x513.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/10/DSC02564-1536x1027.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/10/DSC02564.jpg 1616w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Infamous TAZ on the staircase in front of his old apartments in Pittsburg. \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\">T\u003c/span>AZ points to the Riverstone Apartments on Sycamore Drive, his first home after moving from Oakland. A little further down, in the parking lot of a small shopping center, sits a makeshift memorial for a homicide victim. This area is where a lot of drama occurs, TAZ tells me, and \u003ca href=\"https://www.mercurynews.com/2021/06/18/the-highest-crime-area-of-antioch-feds-appear-to-be-focusing-on-antiochs-sycamore-corridor/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">news reports of federal agents\u003c/a> focusing on that area confirm it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The difference is,” TAZ says to me, “you gotta \u003cem>find\u003c/em> trouble out here. In Oakland, it’ll find you.” He and his family moved out here to escape it. But that didn’t exactly happen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Back in the day, his brother had long locs, was into turf dancing, and wore airbrushed T-shirts. “He had to fight his way home just off the strength that he was from Oakland,” TAZ tells me, as we bend corners through the neighborhood. The beef has since died down, but when he first moved here, TAZ says, “there was a war going on between Oakland and Pittsburg.”\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He got deeper into writing raps, publishing his first project while in high school. After class, he’d post up in front of Angelo’s Pizza & Wings & Mini Market to sell pot and freestyle with other students and folks from the neighborhood. And while he hung out with seedy crowds, he never got in trouble with the law—something he credits to his family, his own moral compass, and getting into theatre.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In his senior year he landed a role in a hip-hop musical, playing a gangsta. “It helped me reenact everything I had seen over the years, and it put me around positive people,” TAZ tells me, taking a swig of lemonade. Suddenly, he didn’t have to dumb himself down anymore. He could freely discuss poetry, spirituality and chakras. He also saw a lane to pursue his dream of being an entertainer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While at Los Medanos College in Pittsburg, he got deeper into acting, even doing out-of-state shows—including one at the Kennedy Center in Washington D.C.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13904816\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13904816\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/10/DSC02542-800x535.jpg\" alt=\"Infamous TAZ and Angelo, owner of Angelo's Pizza and Wings, share a moment. \" width=\"800\" height=\"535\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/10/DSC02542-800x535.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/10/DSC02542-1020x682.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/10/DSC02542-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/10/DSC02542-768x513.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/10/DSC02542-1536x1027.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/10/DSC02542.jpg 1616w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Infamous TAZ and Angelo, owner of Angelo’s Pizza and Wings, share a moment. \u003ccite>(Pendarvis Harshaw)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Outside of school, he pushed his music, which led him back to Oakland. He got connected with United Roots and the Urban Peace Movement’s \u003ca href=\"https://urbanpeacemovement.org/programs/determination/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Determination Black male mentorship program\u003c/a>, where he met mentors Adimu Madyun (\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/wolfhawkjaguar/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">WolfHawkJaguar\u003c/a>) and the late Dr. Prince White.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>TAZ watched Dr. Prince White’s efforts to free \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfgate.com/crime/article/Supporters-of-ex-Oakland-football-star-want-11260039.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Dajon Ford\u003c/a> from Santa Rita Jail, where he had been sitting for four years awaiting trial. When Ford was released, TAZ says, it one of the most remarkable things he’s ever seen. “I never saw a group of brothers get a Black man out of jail,” says TAZ. “That made me believe in (Dr. Prince White) a whole ‘nother way.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Dr. Prince White \u003ca href=\"https://oaklandnorth.net/2018/09/04/remembering-the-social-justice-advocate-dr-prince-white/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">passed unexpectedly\u003c/a> in 2018 from a rare medical condition. “When he passed, it was deep for me. It felt like that moment when niggas lost prominent leaders in the ’60s,” TAZ laments. “That’s why I had to give him that shoutout on “\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_--5ZeZ-Raw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">No Peace\u003c/a>” … I felt like everyone who fights for peace ends up dying.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_%E2%80%935ZeZ-Raw\">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_–5ZeZ-Raw\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">A\u003c/span>round the same time, TAZ started running with a peer named \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13851806/sitting-at-the-right-hand-of-president-obama\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Leo Mercer\u003c/a>, who helped him reconnect with Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was away from Oakland for so many years that everyone I knew in Oakland was either dead, in jail, or they moved out,” TAZ says. “So he got me reacquainted with the Oakland scene as it is now.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Growing up in Pittsburg, TAZ looked at Oakland the same way some Black folks in America look at the continent of Africa. Constantly questioning how his life would’ve been if he’d been raised out there. “To me, Oakland was the motherland,” he says as he sits in the passenger seat. “Especially after I learned about the Panthers.”\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">It has been a year and a half since pandemic shutdowns wreaked havoc on Bay Area restaurants—about a year since the restaurants in Old Oakland, specifically, parkleted up in the hopes that outdoor dining might keep their businesses afloat. It hasn’t been easy, but \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://eastbayexpress.com/the-year-of-the-food-court-2-1/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">the neighborhood’s much-vaunted food scene\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">—centered on the \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"http://swansmarket.com/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Swan’s Market\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> food hall—has largely survived. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">To commemorate this very coronavirus-era anniversary of sorts, Old Oakland’s restaurants, galleries and other businesses are throwing a big block party, dubbed “\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/CUqiwmWpfZZ/\">Old Oakland Celebrates,\u003c/a>” on Saturday, Oct. 9, from noon–6pm. Many of the neighborhood’s restaurants will set up sidewalk tables to show off a deliciously diverse mix of signature menu items and specials only available that day—everything from tamales and birria tacos to sashimi and omurice. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">According to Tommy Wong, co-founder of the Oakland nonprofit Good Good Eatz, which is helping to organize the event, the goal is to highlight the neighborhood’s international flavors. “Old Oakland is a cultural and creative hub,” he says. And a big part of that, Wong notes, is the global character of the local food scene. That has only become more apparent with the new crop of restaurants that have moved into the neighborhood during the pandemic, including handmade noodle specialist \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://sf.eater.com/2021/1/25/22245029/huangcheng-noodle-house-opening-photos-oakland-shanxi-knife-cut-noodles\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Huangcheng Noodle House\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">; worker-led \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13903133/oakland-bloom-understory-primas-corner-asukar-cuban-palestinian-pop-up\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Understory\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, with its focus on spotlighting immigrant and refugee chefs; and, opening soon, \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.laguerreraskitchen.com/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">La Guerrera’s Kitchen\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, which specializes in masa-based dishes.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Add those to the existing businesses at Swan’s Market—where you can eat excellent Afro-Caribbean, Indian, Japanese, Ethiopian and more—and Old Oakland is quickly becoming one of the East Bay’s most international food districts.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13904420\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13904420\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/10/SwansMarket_GGE-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"Exterior of the Swan's Market food hall with red tables set up outside for outdoor dining.\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1920\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/10/SwansMarket_GGE-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/10/SwansMarket_GGE-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/10/SwansMarket_GGE-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/10/SwansMarket_GGE-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/10/SwansMarket_GGE-768x576.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/10/SwansMarket_GGE-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/10/SwansMarket_GGE-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/10/SwansMarket_GGE-1920x1440.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">For the past year, outdoor dining has been the dominant feature at Swan’s Market. \u003ccite>(Good Good Eatz)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">For food lovers who aren’t familiar with the neighborhood, the block party will be a great opportunity to try several of the area’s most exciting restaurants at once. La Guerrera’s Kitchen, which is \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://oaklandside.org/2021/07/12/oaklands-beloved-la-guerreras-kitchen-is-moving-to-swans-market/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">moving into the former Cosecha space\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> inside Swan’s, will be on hand not only to sell its signature tamales but also several new specials, including a torta de chicharron en salsa verde and a torta de chilaquiles roja (yes, a chilaquiles \u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">sandwich\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">). Dela Curo, another relative newcomer, will be selling its signature omucurry—Japanese black curry and rice cradled inside an airy omelet—for a discounted price. Meanwhile, neighborhood staples like Annapurna, Sincere Seafood and Yammy’s Cafe will be out on the street slinging Kashmiri lamb rogan josh, sashimi and Ethiopian chicken doro tibs, respectively.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">[aside postID='arts_1390171,arts_13903133']The celebration won’t only\u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> \u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">be about food, either. As Wong notes, another thing that’s happened over the past few years is that Old Oakland now has a burgeoning art scene, which will be on full display on Saturday, with augmented-reality murals, gallery exhibits and about 20 different vendors selling their art. In fact, the block party is simply building onto an existing artists’ market that \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.e14gallery.com/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">E14 Gallery\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">—another of the event’s co-organizers—puts on the second Saturday of every month. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">If all goes well, then, there’s potential for the block party to turn into a semi-regular event that happens a few times a year. “This is a kickstarter to just get the recognition out about this, and then we’ll see what the merchants want to do beyond that,” Wong says.\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\">Old Oakland Celebrates takes place on Saturday, Oct. 9, from noon–6pm throughout Old Oakland (from Broadway to Clay Street between 10th and 7th avenues), with many of the outdoor food options concentrated in the area around Swan’s Market (538 9th St.).\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>This October marks 55 years since Dr. Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale co-founded the revolutionary organization known as the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In honor of the organization’s contributions to societal change through community activism, \u003ca href=\"https://www.bpp55thyearcelebration.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">multiple events\u003c/a> are scheduled throughout the month. The itinerary includes visual arts, social gatherings, live performances and the unveiling of a Dr. Huey P. Newtown bust.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The first event, on Friday, Oct. 1, at Oakland’s Joyce Gordon Art Gallery, is the \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/JoyceGordonGallery/posts/4846888492008400\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">opening of a visual art exhibition\u003c/a> featuring the works of Emory Douglas, M. Gayle “Asali” Dickson, Malik Edwards and REFA 1. 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Jennings says attendees can expect to see “historical artwork, as well as artwork from artists who did work in the ’70s, and what they’ve done since that time.” Jennings adds: “Keep in mind a lot of them were artists when they were 18 to 20 years old. This exhibition will show how they’ve grown since then.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The growth of the members of the Party, as well as the evolution of the Party’s principles showing up in popular culture and politics, is a theme in many of the events scheduled throughout Panther History Month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Thursday, Oct. 21, the New Parkway Theatre will host a Black Panther Party-centric film festival. 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Replacing an earlier sign, the new plaque will have a virtual reality component allowing viewers to become more deeply immersed in the story of the Black Panther Party.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID='arts_13884294,arts_13902383']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Saturday, Oct. 23, Black Panther Party alumni and community members will gather at Bobby Hutton Park (also known as DeFremery Park) for the month’s centerpiece celebration. Starting the day’s events will be Black Panther leader and co-founder of Tanzania’s United African Alliance Community Center, Charlotte Hill O’Neal, who will preside over a healing circle where the names of ancestors and the stories of fallen comrades will be acknowledged.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The healing circle will be followed by a series of speakers, including former head of the Black Panther Party’s school Ericka Huggins and radio host and author Rickey Vincent. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Wanda Kruda had been selling plantains and rice from her driveway for about a year when she decided that it was time to take her Oakland-based vegan Cuban food business, \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/primascorner/\">Prima’s Corner\u003c/a> (aka Rincón de la Prima), to the next level. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Kruda had been cooking almost all her life, including a stint at \u003ca href=\"https://www.reemscalifornia.com/\">Reem’s\u003c/a>, the popular Arab bakery, in 2016. Her driveway pop-ups were ambitious affairs, often featuring live cumbia or hip-hop and even vegan cooking classes for kids. But she’d reached the limit of how far she could carry the business on her own. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13903140\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13903140\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/09/oaklandbloom_wanda-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"A Black woman wearing a face mask and black apron cuts up orange and red peppers on a small kitchen prep counter.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"2560\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/09/oaklandbloom_wanda-scaled.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/09/oaklandbloom_wanda-800x1067.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/09/oaklandbloom_wanda-1020x1360.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/09/oaklandbloom_wanda-160x213.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/09/oaklandbloom_wanda-768x1024.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/09/oaklandbloom_wanda-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/09/oaklandbloom_wanda-1536x2048.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Wanda Kruda preps vegetables in preparation for an Oakland Bloom pop-up. \u003ccite>(Oakland Bloom)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“I tried to do it myself, but it’s a little hard,” Kruda says. “I need to build my relationship with the kitchen.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">So, Kruda enrolled in the kitchen incubator program run by the nonprofit \u003ca href=\"https://oaklandbloom.org/\">Oakland Bloom\u003c/a>, where she’ll spend the next several months learning about “finances, marketing, cash flow—everything” while also building up her repertoire of recipes. She’ll be one of two Oakland Bloom chefs featured at a pop-up at \u003ca href=\"https://understoryoakland.com/\">Understory\u003c/a>, the incubator program’s partner restaurant, on Wednesday, Sept. 15, serving up a feast of cumin-dusted fried cauliflower “wings,” sweet plantains and lasagna-like Cuban pastelón. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The pop-up is part of a new beginning for Oakland Bloom, which has taken various forms since the immigrant- and refugee-focused kitchen incubator was founded in 2015, most prominently as a series of \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/bayareabites/116328/oakland-bloom-nurtures-refugee-chefs-at-night-market-pop-ups\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">night market–style pop-ups\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> in 2017. The program was always limited by the fact that it never had a commercial kitchen space of its own, but when the pandemic derailed the restaurant originally slated to open at 528 8th Street in downtown Oakland, one of its majority investors offered to turn the space over to Oakland Bloom. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The result has been a dream project of sorts for social justice–minded food lovers: There’s Understory, which \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/food/restaurants/article/Oakland-has-a-tropical-new-restaurant-where-16048131.php\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">opened in the space\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> as a worker-led restaurant, with a menu that rotates between the cuisines of its four founding “worker-leaders”—\u003ca href=\"https://www.berkeleyside.org/2021/06/15/understory-oakland-review\">Filipino, Mexican, Moroccan\u003c/a>. Meanwhile, as board member Diana Wu explains, Oakland Bloom now has a permanent home for its Open Test Kitchen incubator program, whose participants have consistent access to the kitchen and can host pop-ups at the restaurant several times a month.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13903137\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2216px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-13903137 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/09/Understory_interior.jpg\" alt=\"Interior of a restaurant with bright, tropical color, including a pink bar counter.\" width=\"2216\" height=\"1246\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/09/Understory_interior.jpg 2216w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/09/Understory_interior-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/09/Understory_interior-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/09/Understory_interior-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/09/Understory_interior-768x432.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/09/Understory_interior-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/09/Understory_interior-2048x1152.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/09/Understory_interior-1920x1080.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2216px) 100vw, 2216px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The interior of Understory, which serves Filipino, Moroccan and Mexican food on days when it isn’t hosting pop-ups. \u003ccite>(Understory)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Jenabi Pareja, one of Understory’s worker-leaders, says the incubator program takes roughly nine months to complete, as Oakland Bloom and Understory staff walk the trainees through every aspect of running a food business—recipe development, business plan formation, marketing, logo design and so on. Pop-ups like the one this Wednesday—and every Wednesday and Sunday for at least the next couple of weeks—provide hands-on experience for the chefs to see “the full fledge of what it’s like to run a restaurant,” Pareja says.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The incubator’s first Understory-era graduating class, which included Hong Kong, Bosnian and Burmese chefs, completed the program earlier this summer, clearing the way for a new cohort of trainees, which includes the two chefs featured in Wednesday’s pop-up: Kruda (the vegan Cuban chef) and Nikki Garcia, who runs a Palestinian-Cuban fusion food business called \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/palestinian_cuban_fusion/\">Asúkar\u003c/a>.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Garcia says she started out just serving her food to co-workers at Rainbow Grocery in San Francisco, fusing together flavors and ingredients from from her own Palestinian background and her husband’s Cuban heritage. The response was so enthusiastic that she decided to turn it into a business. She initially reached out to Oakland Bloom just to inquire about kitchen space; when they contacted her earlier this summer, it was to offer her a spot in the incubator program.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">For Garcia, the hands-on training that Oakland Bloom has provided has been a game-changer. “I never worked in a kitchen or sold food in this quantity,” she says. “There were just a lot of things I wasn’t aware of.” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13903141\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13903141\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/09/oaklandbloom_wings-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"Close-up of a tray of red, spice-stained chicken wings with a hint of charring.\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1920\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/09/oaklandbloom_wings-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/09/oaklandbloom_wings-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/09/oaklandbloom_wings-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/09/oaklandbloom_wings-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/09/oaklandbloom_wings-768x576.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/09/oaklandbloom_wings-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/09/oaklandbloom_wings-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/09/oaklandbloom_wings-1920x1440.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Asúkar’s harissa chicken wings. \u003ccite>(Asúkar)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">For \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/CTzq15lpy3w/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Wednesday’s pop-up\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, Garcia will be selling several of Asúkar’s greatest Halal-friendly hits, including her harissa chicken wings, falafel salad and Palestinian samboosas filled with Cuban-style beef picadillio. Those offerings join Prima’s Corner’s, which in addition to appetizers like the plantains and the cauliflower wings will also include a full dinner plate featuring a dish that Kruda calls “moros y no cristianos”—her take on the classic black-bean-and-rice dish moros y cristianos, but made with brown rice instead of white.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">One benefit of the regular pop-ups is that they give the chefs a chance to get immediate feedback on any recipe tweaks. At her first pop-up, Kruda says, customers went wild for her pastélon, in which strips of plantain are layered with vegan cheese and plant-based meat. But each time she makes it, it gets better and better. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">[aside postID='arts_13895067,bayareabites_116328']Ultimately, Oakland Bloom’s goal is to help chefs build sustainable businesses for themselves. In fact, Pareja says, one option is for chefs who graduate from the incubator program to have a pathway toward an ownership stake in Understory if they’re interested. At the moment the restaurant is still working out those details and formalizing the business’s status as a cooperative. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Kruda, for her part, has dreams of starting a Prima’s Corner vegan Cuban food truck. But she says she would also love to have some role at Understory after she completes the training, perhaps as a mentor to a future group of aspiring chefs. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“It’s awesome to have this kind of program for immigrants, for people who have an idea about their business but don’t know how to start,” Kruda says. “I think I can help other people like me.”\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>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Oakland Bloom and Understory collaborative pop-up will take place at Understory (528 8th Street, Oakland) on Wednesday, Sept. 15, from 4–9pm. Customers can \u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003ca href=\"https://understoryoakland.square.site/\">\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">pre-order online\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/a>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> or walk up to order at the restaurant. Follow \u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/CTzq15lpy3w/\">\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Oakland Bloom\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/a>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> on Instagram for updates on future pop-ups.\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Wanda Kruda had been selling plantains and rice from her driveway for about a year when she decided that it was time to take her Oakland-based vegan Cuban food business, \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/primascorner/\">Prima’s Corner\u003c/a> (aka Rincón de la Prima), to the next level. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Kruda had been cooking almost all her life, including a stint at \u003ca href=\"https://www.reemscalifornia.com/\">Reem’s\u003c/a>, the popular Arab bakery, in 2016. Her driveway pop-ups were ambitious affairs, often featuring live cumbia or hip-hop and even vegan cooking classes for kids. But she’d reached the limit of how far she could carry the business on her own. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13903140\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13903140\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/09/oaklandbloom_wanda-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"A Black woman wearing a face mask and black apron cuts up orange and red peppers on a small kitchen prep counter.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"2560\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/09/oaklandbloom_wanda-scaled.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/09/oaklandbloom_wanda-800x1067.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/09/oaklandbloom_wanda-1020x1360.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/09/oaklandbloom_wanda-160x213.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/09/oaklandbloom_wanda-768x1024.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/09/oaklandbloom_wanda-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/09/oaklandbloom_wanda-1536x2048.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Wanda Kruda preps vegetables in preparation for an Oakland Bloom pop-up. \u003ccite>(Oakland Bloom)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“I tried to do it myself, but it’s a little hard,” Kruda says. “I need to build my relationship with the kitchen.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">So, Kruda enrolled in the kitchen incubator program run by the nonprofit \u003ca href=\"https://oaklandbloom.org/\">Oakland Bloom\u003c/a>, where she’ll spend the next several months learning about “finances, marketing, cash flow—everything” while also building up her repertoire of recipes. She’ll be one of two Oakland Bloom chefs featured at a pop-up at \u003ca href=\"https://understoryoakland.com/\">Understory\u003c/a>, the incubator program’s partner restaurant, on Wednesday, Sept. 15, serving up a feast of cumin-dusted fried cauliflower “wings,” sweet plantains and lasagna-like Cuban pastelón. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The pop-up is part of a new beginning for Oakland Bloom, which has taken various forms since the immigrant- and refugee-focused kitchen incubator was founded in 2015, most prominently as a series of \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/bayareabites/116328/oakland-bloom-nurtures-refugee-chefs-at-night-market-pop-ups\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">night market–style pop-ups\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> in 2017. The program was always limited by the fact that it never had a commercial kitchen space of its own, but when the pandemic derailed the restaurant originally slated to open at 528 8th Street in downtown Oakland, one of its majority investors offered to turn the space over to Oakland Bloom. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The result has been a dream project of sorts for social justice–minded food lovers: There’s Understory, which \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/food/restaurants/article/Oakland-has-a-tropical-new-restaurant-where-16048131.php\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">opened in the space\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> as a worker-led restaurant, with a menu that rotates between the cuisines of its four founding “worker-leaders”—\u003ca href=\"https://www.berkeleyside.org/2021/06/15/understory-oakland-review\">Filipino, Mexican, Moroccan\u003c/a>. Meanwhile, as board member Diana Wu explains, Oakland Bloom now has a permanent home for its Open Test Kitchen incubator program, whose participants have consistent access to the kitchen and can host pop-ups at the restaurant several times a month.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13903137\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2216px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-13903137 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/09/Understory_interior.jpg\" alt=\"Interior of a restaurant with bright, tropical color, including a pink bar counter.\" width=\"2216\" height=\"1246\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/09/Understory_interior.jpg 2216w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/09/Understory_interior-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/09/Understory_interior-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/09/Understory_interior-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/09/Understory_interior-768x432.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/09/Understory_interior-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/09/Understory_interior-2048x1152.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/09/Understory_interior-1920x1080.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2216px) 100vw, 2216px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The interior of Understory, which serves Filipino, Moroccan and Mexican food on days when it isn’t hosting pop-ups. \u003ccite>(Understory)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Jenabi Pareja, one of Understory’s worker-leaders, says the incubator program takes roughly nine months to complete, as Oakland Bloom and Understory staff walk the trainees through every aspect of running a food business—recipe development, business plan formation, marketing, logo design and so on. Pop-ups like the one this Wednesday—and every Wednesday and Sunday for at least the next couple of weeks—provide hands-on experience for the chefs to see “the full fledge of what it’s like to run a restaurant,” Pareja says.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The incubator’s first Understory-era graduating class, which included Hong Kong, Bosnian and Burmese chefs, completed the program earlier this summer, clearing the way for a new cohort of trainees, which includes the two chefs featured in Wednesday’s pop-up: Kruda (the vegan Cuban chef) and Nikki Garcia, who runs a Palestinian-Cuban fusion food business called \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/palestinian_cuban_fusion/\">Asúkar\u003c/a>.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Garcia says she started out just serving her food to co-workers at Rainbow Grocery in San Francisco, fusing together flavors and ingredients from from her own Palestinian background and her husband’s Cuban heritage. The response was so enthusiastic that she decided to turn it into a business. She initially reached out to Oakland Bloom just to inquire about kitchen space; when they contacted her earlier this summer, it was to offer her a spot in the incubator program.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">For Garcia, the hands-on training that Oakland Bloom has provided has been a game-changer. “I never worked in a kitchen or sold food in this quantity,” she says. “There were just a lot of things I wasn’t aware of.” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13903141\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13903141\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/09/oaklandbloom_wings-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"Close-up of a tray of red, spice-stained chicken wings with a hint of charring.\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1920\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/09/oaklandbloom_wings-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/09/oaklandbloom_wings-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/09/oaklandbloom_wings-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/09/oaklandbloom_wings-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/09/oaklandbloom_wings-768x576.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/09/oaklandbloom_wings-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/09/oaklandbloom_wings-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/09/oaklandbloom_wings-1920x1440.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Asúkar’s harissa chicken wings. \u003ccite>(Asúkar)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">For \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/CTzq15lpy3w/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Wednesday’s pop-up\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, Garcia will be selling several of Asúkar’s greatest Halal-friendly hits, including her harissa chicken wings, falafel salad and Palestinian samboosas filled with Cuban-style beef picadillio. Those offerings join Prima’s Corner’s, which in addition to appetizers like the plantains and the cauliflower wings will also include a full dinner plate featuring a dish that Kruda calls “moros y no cristianos”—her take on the classic black-bean-and-rice dish moros y cristianos, but made with brown rice instead of white.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">One benefit of the regular pop-ups is that they give the chefs a chance to get immediate feedback on any recipe tweaks. At her first pop-up, Kruda says, customers went wild for her pastélon, in which strips of plantain are layered with vegan cheese and plant-based meat. But each time she makes it, it gets better and better. \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>Ultimately, Oakland Bloom’s goal is to help chefs build sustainable businesses for themselves. In fact, Pareja says, one option is for chefs who graduate from the incubator program to have a pathway toward an ownership stake in Understory if they’re interested. At the moment the restaurant is still working out those details and formalizing the business’s status as a cooperative. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Kruda, for her part, has dreams of starting a Prima’s Corner vegan Cuban food truck. But she says she would also love to have some role at Understory after she completes the training, perhaps as a mentor to a future group of aspiring chefs. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“It’s awesome to have this kind of program for immigrants, for people who have an idea about their business but don’t know how to start,” Kruda says. “I think I can help other people like me.”\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>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">A\u003c/span> Los Rakas banner hung above the crowd last Friday night as the Grammy-nominated duo took the stage at the New Parish. It had been two years since Raka Dun and Raka Rich last performed in Oakland, and they were ready for the hometown love.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The show celebrated the 10-year anniversary of the release of Los Rakas’ first project, \u003ca href=\"https://losrakas.bandcamp.com/album/chancletas-y-camisetas-bordada\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003ci>Chancletas Y Camisetas Bordada\u003c/i>\u003c/a>, which features the anthem “\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iHsncI2j2fk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Soy Raka\u003c/a>.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13902918\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13902918\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/09/DSC02432-800x535.jpg\" alt=\"Raka Rich wears a turquoise jogging suit and a hat as he performs in front of a crowd at New Parish in Oakland.\" width=\"800\" height=\"535\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/09/DSC02432-800x535.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/09/DSC02432-1020x682.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/09/DSC02432-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/09/DSC02432-768x513.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/09/DSC02432-1536x1027.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/09/DSC02432.jpg 1616w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Raka Rich performs at the New Parish in Oakland. \u003ccite>(Pendarvis Harshaw)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Los Rakas were joined onstage with performances from \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/babygas/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Baby Gas,\u003c/a> who celebrated a birthday over the weekend; \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/cocopeila/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Coco Peila\u003c/a>, who recently “\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uIx_7KJV_1Y\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Pretty Girls\u003c/a>“; and \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/allhailtheqing/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Qing Qi\u003c/a>, who was joined by members of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/putangclanofficial/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Pu-Tang Clan\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There were also a bunch of folks in the crowd who’ve followed \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/losrakas/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Los Rakas\u003c/a> since before their debut EP. I’m one of them. After meeting Dun and Rico in 2004 through the nonprofit Youth Movement Records, I’ve followed their career, captured photos of them, and watched them grow.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The two hungry young creatives I met almost two decades ago, who stood out as Oakland-based Afro-Latino hip-hop artists, have grown to leverage their identity and become widely accepted and appreciated in the Bay Area and beyond. Now in their mid-30s, the hip-hop veterans are even seeing their influence on a new generation coming up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13902919\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13902919\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/09/IMG_4114-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Raka Dun and Do D.A.T. pose for a photo during a performance at SF State (circa 2005). \" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/09/IMG_4114-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/09/IMG_4114-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/09/IMG_4114-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/09/IMG_4114-768x576.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/09/IMG_4114-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/09/IMG_4114-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/09/IMG_4114-1920x1440.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Raka Dun and Do D.A.T. pose for a photo during a performance at SF State, circa 2005. \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\">L\u003c/span>os Rakas’ story goes further back than the early 2000s. It starts with their family’s roots in Panama, and involves the support of the artistic community of the greater Oakland-Bay Area. Along the way, they’ve been featured on the soundtrack to \u003ca href=\"https://www.ea.com/games/fifa/news/fifa-14-soundtrack\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">FIFA 14\u003c/a>, appeared on the popular podcast \u003ci>Loud\u003c/i>, had multiple songs reach the top iTunes charts, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/11546388/culture-cue-los-rakas-what-does-it-mean-to-bring-the-raka-party-to-the-white-house\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">performed at the White House\u003c/a>, and met Mýa on the red carpet for the Grammys—a career highlight for Rico, who watched her videos on the California Music Channel as a kid. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before traveling the world and letting audiences know “Soy Raka,” they got their start in music working under the tutelage of two late Bay Area luminaries. \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13902920\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13902920\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/09/DSC04535-800x532.jpg\" alt=\"Raka Rich performing at the Life is Living festival in West Oakland (circa 2013). \" width=\"800\" height=\"532\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/09/DSC04535-800x532.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/09/DSC04535-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/09/DSC04535-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/09/DSC04535-768x511.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/09/DSC04535-1536x1022.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/09/DSC04535-2048x1363.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/09/DSC04535-1920x1278.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Raka Rich performs at the Life is Living festival in West Oakland, circa 2013. \u003ccite>(Pendarvis Harshaw)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“You remember who was the first artist who gave us a chance in the Bay Area?” Dun asks Rico during a three-way phone call a few weeks ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The Jacka,” says Rico, citing a studio session which led to the track “\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ldBrEyTn9M\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Gangsta\u003c/a>.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Raka Dun says to think back a little further. “It was Zion-I.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A lot of artists embraced Los Rakas in their early days, despite being somewhat of an anomaly—Black men who speak Spanish as their first language. But it was Zion-I, Dun says, who put them front and center. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Every time Zion-I would perform,” says Raka Dun, “they’d throw us on the stage at the end to freestyle. A lot of people were recognizing us because of that. Zion-I, Steve, Zumbi was our first big collaboration.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13902921\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13902921\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/09/DSC01816-800x532.jpg\" alt=\"The late Baba Zumbi of Zion-I with Raka Rich and Raka Dun at a video shoot for 'Human Being,' in 2012. \" width=\"800\" height=\"532\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/09/DSC01816-800x532.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/09/DSC01816-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/09/DSC01816-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/09/DSC01816-768x511.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/09/DSC01816-1536x1022.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/09/DSC01816-2048x1363.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/09/DSC01816-1920x1278.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The late Baba Zumbi of Zion-I with Raka Rich and Raka Dun at a video shoot for ‘Human Being’ in 2012. \u003ccite>(Pendarvis Harshaw)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Los Rakas’ first tour was with \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/thegrouch/\">The Grouch\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/brotheraliisblind/\">Brother Ali\u003c/a>, and \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/therealeligh/?hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Eligh\u003c/a>. They soon learned that tour time wasn’t a party—it was work. And their job wasn’t just performing, it was getting to know people and selling merchandise.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, their logo is arguably more popular than their music. “Sometimes people would miss our shows because we were the opener,” says Raka Dun. “But they’d buy the merch.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The duo’s logo was partially inspired by the \u003ca href=\"https://uproxx.com/music/hieroglyphics-logo-underground-hip-hop/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Hiero logo\u003c/a>, which they saw everywhere. To develop it, they met with a guy named Daniel Walker at \u003ca href=\"http://filthydripped.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Filthy Dripped\u003c/a> in Berkeley and worked through various iterations, ultimately incorporating Oakland, Panama and a little bit of Mexico. \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13902922\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13902922\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/09/DSC02374-800x535.jpg\" alt=\"A fan flicks a lighter during Raka Dun's performance at the New Parish on Friday evening. \" width=\"800\" height=\"535\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/09/DSC02374-800x535.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/09/DSC02374-1020x682.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/09/DSC02374-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/09/DSC02374-768x513.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/09/DSC02374-1536x1027.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/09/DSC02374.jpg 1616w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A fan flicks a lighter during Raka Dun’s performance at the New Parish on Sept. 10, 2021. \u003ccite>(Pendarvis Harshaw)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Rico suggested adding the smile to cancel the stereotype about Rakas being from the hood and being angry,” says Dun. Just like their name reclaims the term “Raka” (short for “\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/11546388/culture-cue-los-rakas-what-does-it-mean-to-bring-the-raka-party-to-the-white-house\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Rakataka\u003c/a>,” a derogatory term for someone from the ghetto), the duo wanted to work the same energy into their logo. “Just because you’re from the ghetto doesn’t mean that you’re always angry,” says Rico. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Inside the character’s huge smile is one tiny gold tooth that symbolizes a gigantic cultural connection. \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13902975\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 160px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/09/losrakaslogo-160x141.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"160\" height=\"141\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-13902975\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/09/losrakaslogo-160x141.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/09/losrakaslogo.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 160px) 100vw, 160px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Los Rakas’ logo.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“It’s a Panamanian thing,” says Dun of the singular gold tooth. “My mom had one, my dad had one, Rico’s mom… Rico’s dad had eight!” he says with a laugh, before Rico picks up where Dun left off. “My grandpa had one, my grandma had one, my great grandmother had two, like Turk, from Cash Money.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When the duo met Tupac’s brother, Mopreme Shakur, he told them that he got his singular gold tooth in Panama. As West Coast American rap fans from the Latin American country, their minds were blown. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reflecting life in the Bay Area during the early years of the 21st century, the group added glasses without the lenses as a nod to Mac Dre. And the final addition: a hat with the ear flaps. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We chose that because it was this Mexican program called \u003ca href=\"https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0229889/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">El Chavo Del Ocho\u003c/a>,” says Rico, noting how the main character would don similar headwear. “So when I came out here to the states and I saw those hats, I’d cop them every time.” When Rico and Dun went back to Panama to promote their single “Mi Barrio,” everyone asked him about the hat, so it was looped in the image of Los Rakas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13902923\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13902923\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/09/IMG_4115-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Raka Rich (center in the grey hoodie) stands with a number of young artists outside of East Oakland's Youth Uprising (circa 2005). \" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/09/IMG_4115-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/09/IMG_4115-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/09/IMG_4115-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/09/IMG_4115-768x576.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/09/IMG_4115-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/09/IMG_4115-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/09/IMG_4115-1920x1440.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Raka Rich (at center, in the grey hoodie) stands with a number of young artists outside of East Oakland’s Youth Uprising, circa 2005. \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>n many ways the logo speaks to Los Rakas’ balanced identity while beating the pavement and hitting stages with bilingual lyrics about both politics and partying—and performing in front of crowds who largely only speak English. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On a recent episode of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101885060/loud-podcast-highlights-the-history-of-reggaeton\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">KQED Forum\u003c/a>, the duo discussed the popularity of reggaeton and its origins rooted in the children of Jamaican laborers working on the Panama Canal. They also mentioned that English speaking crowds in the states take to their music despite the language barrier, with the prevailing sentiment being “I don’t know what they’re saying, but it sounds good.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rico tells me that he’s proud of that. After all, he and Dun, blood cousins born in Panama who moved to the states separately during their adolescence, grew up listening to all kinds of music in languages they didn’t speak, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13902924\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 160px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/09/DSC04508-scaled-e1631554228389-160x249.jpg\" alt=\"The Los Rakas medallion sits on Raka Duns white shirt as he performs at the Life Is Living Festival in West Oakland circa 2013)\" width=\"160\" height=\"249\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-13902924\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/09/DSC04508-scaled-e1631554228389-160x249.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/09/DSC04508-scaled-e1631554228389-800x1247.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/09/DSC04508-scaled-e1631554228389-1020x1590.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/09/DSC04508-scaled-e1631554228389-768x1197.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/09/DSC04508-scaled-e1631554228389-986x1536.jpg 986w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/09/DSC04508-scaled-e1631554228389-1314x2048.jpg 1314w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/09/DSC04508-scaled-e1631554228389.jpg 1388w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 160px) 100vw, 160px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Raka Dun performs at the Life Is Living Festival in West Oakland, circa 2013. \u003ccite>(Pendarvis Harshaw)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>When they started on this musical journey, Rico says Oakland’s hip-hop community wasn’t feeling Spanish music. Raka Dun says they had to adapt, especially because they were working with the likes of The Jacka, J. Stalin, and Zumbi from Zion-I.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Plus, being in the Bay, they weren’t getting too many reggaeton beats; this, again, was in the thick of the Hyphy era. “We had to hop on whatever we could hop on,” says Rico. “That’s how we became \u003ci>Los Rakas\u003c/i>.” The combination of Panamanian influence and Bay Area energy made them unique. And it resonated with people. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’d have people that’d come up to us, rap the whole verse, and be like, ‘I don’t even speak Spanish. I’m learning Spanish through your music,’” says Rico.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A few weeks ago the group got \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/LosRakas/status/1423347834133237762/photo/1\">a message\u003c/a> from a fan who said he used to watch YouTube videos of them as a kid. Over a decade later he was rejoicing in the fact that they’re still rocking. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The tweet, it makes me feel good, man,” says Dun. “That’s what we do it for. That’s the type of message that keeps us motivated. This dude saying that we changed his life, he’s giving us the flowers. We do this first of all because we love it. And then it’s for the people, we want to make sure we give the people good music just like our favorite artists gave us timeless music. And sometimes this shit gets hard. We’re artists who don’t have the numbers, we got the respect, we’ve influenced lots of artists, but we don’t have millions of streams on our music, so stuff like that keeps us really motivated. We’re getting to the people.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rico adds that they see the success of similar music today, and they know they played a significant part in pioneering the sound that’s popular right now. “To see how far it’s gotten, it’s bittersweet,” says Rico, thinking about how the pioneers of rap aren’t living how they should be living, given what they’ve done for the culture. “We been out here for 16 years. Grinding.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And the grind doesn’t stop. Now it’s time to cultivate the next generation. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VxXSOxEV49s\">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VxXSOxEV49s\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">I\u003c/span>n the time since their 2019 album, \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://soundcloud.com/losrakas/sets/manes-de-negocio-1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Manes De Negocio\u003c/a>, \u003c/em>the duo have released a series of solo tracks. The list includes Raka Dun’s “\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WbtnB57D5Lg&feature=emb_title\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Como Yo\u003c/a>” and Raka Rich’s “Comuna 13,” which features an 18 year-old emcee named \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/el_jonky_/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">El Jonky\u003c/a>, who Rico met during a recent trip to Colombia. “I went out there on a two-week trip, and ended up staying three months,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rico says he was hooked by the food and the vibes, and wasn’t looking to do any music. But after meeting El Jonky and his crew, he saw something familiar in the young artist.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He was hungry. He reminded me of a lil Dun-Dun back when he was with the Black Lion Crew,” he says, referencing Raka Dun’s early days as an artist. After hearing El Jonky rap, Rico followed him on social media and eventually hit him up to stop by the studio. It was a big move for both parties—as Rico points out, studio time in the poverty-stricken community is a rarity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And in a way, after 17 years, working with El Jonky proved to be a full-circle moment. To be able to make that happen for a younger version of themselves shows Los Rakas’ status as young OGs in the game—giving back to the African diaspora, like Panama and Oakland gave to them.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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It had been two years since Raka Dun and Raka Rich last performed in Oakland, and they were ready for the hometown love.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The show celebrated the 10-year anniversary of the release of Los Rakas’ first project, \u003ca href=\"https://losrakas.bandcamp.com/album/chancletas-y-camisetas-bordada\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003ci>Chancletas Y Camisetas Bordada\u003c/i>\u003c/a>, which features the anthem “\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iHsncI2j2fk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Soy Raka\u003c/a>.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13902918\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13902918\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/09/DSC02432-800x535.jpg\" alt=\"Raka Rich wears a turquoise jogging suit and a hat as he performs in front of a crowd at New Parish in Oakland.\" width=\"800\" height=\"535\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/09/DSC02432-800x535.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/09/DSC02432-1020x682.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/09/DSC02432-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/09/DSC02432-768x513.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/09/DSC02432-1536x1027.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/09/DSC02432.jpg 1616w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Raka Rich performs at the New Parish in Oakland. \u003ccite>(Pendarvis Harshaw)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Los Rakas were joined onstage with performances from \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/babygas/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Baby Gas,\u003c/a> who celebrated a birthday over the weekend; \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/cocopeila/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Coco Peila\u003c/a>, who recently “\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uIx_7KJV_1Y\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Pretty Girls\u003c/a>“; and \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/allhailtheqing/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Qing Qi\u003c/a>, who was joined by members of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/putangclanofficial/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Pu-Tang Clan\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There were also a bunch of folks in the crowd who’ve followed \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/losrakas/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Los Rakas\u003c/a> since before their debut EP. I’m one of them. After meeting Dun and Rico in 2004 through the nonprofit Youth Movement Records, I’ve followed their career, captured photos of them, and watched them grow.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The two hungry young creatives I met almost two decades ago, who stood out as Oakland-based Afro-Latino hip-hop artists, have grown to leverage their identity and become widely accepted and appreciated in the Bay Area and beyond. Now in their mid-30s, the hip-hop veterans are even seeing their influence on a new generation coming up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13902919\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13902919\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/09/IMG_4114-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Raka Dun and Do D.A.T. pose for a photo during a performance at SF State (circa 2005). \" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/09/IMG_4114-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/09/IMG_4114-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/09/IMG_4114-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/09/IMG_4114-768x576.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/09/IMG_4114-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/09/IMG_4114-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/09/IMG_4114-1920x1440.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Raka Dun and Do D.A.T. pose for a photo during a performance at SF State, circa 2005. \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\">L\u003c/span>os Rakas’ story goes further back than the early 2000s. It starts with their family’s roots in Panama, and involves the support of the artistic community of the greater Oakland-Bay Area. Along the way, they’ve been featured on the soundtrack to \u003ca href=\"https://www.ea.com/games/fifa/news/fifa-14-soundtrack\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">FIFA 14\u003c/a>, appeared on the popular podcast \u003ci>Loud\u003c/i>, had multiple songs reach the top iTunes charts, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/11546388/culture-cue-los-rakas-what-does-it-mean-to-bring-the-raka-party-to-the-white-house\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">performed at the White House\u003c/a>, and met Mýa on the red carpet for the Grammys—a career highlight for Rico, who watched her videos on the California Music Channel as a kid. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before traveling the world and letting audiences know “Soy Raka,” they got their start in music working under the tutelage of two late Bay Area luminaries. \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13902920\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13902920\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/09/DSC04535-800x532.jpg\" alt=\"Raka Rich performing at the Life is Living festival in West Oakland (circa 2013). \" width=\"800\" height=\"532\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/09/DSC04535-800x532.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/09/DSC04535-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/09/DSC04535-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/09/DSC04535-768x511.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/09/DSC04535-1536x1022.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/09/DSC04535-2048x1363.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/09/DSC04535-1920x1278.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Raka Rich performs at the Life is Living festival in West Oakland, circa 2013. \u003ccite>(Pendarvis Harshaw)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“You remember who was the first artist who gave us a chance in the Bay Area?” Dun asks Rico during a three-way phone call a few weeks ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The Jacka,” says Rico, citing a studio session which led to the track “\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ldBrEyTn9M\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Gangsta\u003c/a>.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Raka Dun says to think back a little further. “It was Zion-I.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A lot of artists embraced Los Rakas in their early days, despite being somewhat of an anomaly—Black men who speak Spanish as their first language. But it was Zion-I, Dun says, who put them front and center. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Every time Zion-I would perform,” says Raka Dun, “they’d throw us on the stage at the end to freestyle. A lot of people were recognizing us because of that. Zion-I, Steve, Zumbi was our first big collaboration.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13902921\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13902921\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/09/DSC01816-800x532.jpg\" alt=\"The late Baba Zumbi of Zion-I with Raka Rich and Raka Dun at a video shoot for 'Human Being,' in 2012. \" width=\"800\" height=\"532\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/09/DSC01816-800x532.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/09/DSC01816-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/09/DSC01816-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/09/DSC01816-768x511.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/09/DSC01816-1536x1022.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/09/DSC01816-2048x1363.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/09/DSC01816-1920x1278.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The late Baba Zumbi of Zion-I with Raka Rich and Raka Dun at a video shoot for ‘Human Being’ in 2012. \u003ccite>(Pendarvis Harshaw)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Los Rakas’ first tour was with \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/thegrouch/\">The Grouch\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/brotheraliisblind/\">Brother Ali\u003c/a>, and \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/therealeligh/?hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Eligh\u003c/a>. They soon learned that tour time wasn’t a party—it was work. And their job wasn’t just performing, it was getting to know people and selling merchandise.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, their logo is arguably more popular than their music. “Sometimes people would miss our shows because we were the opener,” says Raka Dun. “But they’d buy the merch.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The duo’s logo was partially inspired by the \u003ca href=\"https://uproxx.com/music/hieroglyphics-logo-underground-hip-hop/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Hiero logo\u003c/a>, which they saw everywhere. To develop it, they met with a guy named Daniel Walker at \u003ca href=\"http://filthydripped.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Filthy Dripped\u003c/a> in Berkeley and worked through various iterations, ultimately incorporating Oakland, Panama and a little bit of Mexico. \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13902922\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13902922\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/09/DSC02374-800x535.jpg\" alt=\"A fan flicks a lighter during Raka Dun's performance at the New Parish on Friday evening. \" width=\"800\" height=\"535\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/09/DSC02374-800x535.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/09/DSC02374-1020x682.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/09/DSC02374-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/09/DSC02374-768x513.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/09/DSC02374-1536x1027.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/09/DSC02374.jpg 1616w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A fan flicks a lighter during Raka Dun’s performance at the New Parish on Sept. 10, 2021. \u003ccite>(Pendarvis Harshaw)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Rico suggested adding the smile to cancel the stereotype about Rakas being from the hood and being angry,” says Dun. Just like their name reclaims the term “Raka” (short for “\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/11546388/culture-cue-los-rakas-what-does-it-mean-to-bring-the-raka-party-to-the-white-house\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Rakataka\u003c/a>,” a derogatory term for someone from the ghetto), the duo wanted to work the same energy into their logo. “Just because you’re from the ghetto doesn’t mean that you’re always angry,” says Rico. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Inside the character’s huge smile is one tiny gold tooth that symbolizes a gigantic cultural connection. \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13902975\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 160px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/09/losrakaslogo-160x141.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"160\" height=\"141\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-13902975\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/09/losrakaslogo-160x141.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/09/losrakaslogo.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 160px) 100vw, 160px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Los Rakas’ logo.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“It’s a Panamanian thing,” says Dun of the singular gold tooth. “My mom had one, my dad had one, Rico’s mom… Rico’s dad had eight!” he says with a laugh, before Rico picks up where Dun left off. “My grandpa had one, my grandma had one, my great grandmother had two, like Turk, from Cash Money.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When the duo met Tupac’s brother, Mopreme Shakur, he told them that he got his singular gold tooth in Panama. As West Coast American rap fans from the Latin American country, their minds were blown. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reflecting life in the Bay Area during the early years of the 21st century, the group added glasses without the lenses as a nod to Mac Dre. And the final addition: a hat with the ear flaps. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We chose that because it was this Mexican program called \u003ca href=\"https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0229889/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">El Chavo Del Ocho\u003c/a>,” says Rico, noting how the main character would don similar headwear. “So when I came out here to the states and I saw those hats, I’d cop them every time.” When Rico and Dun went back to Panama to promote their single “Mi Barrio,” everyone asked him about the hat, so it was looped in the image of Los Rakas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13902923\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13902923\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/09/IMG_4115-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Raka Rich (center in the grey hoodie) stands with a number of young artists outside of East Oakland's Youth Uprising (circa 2005). \" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/09/IMG_4115-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/09/IMG_4115-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/09/IMG_4115-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/09/IMG_4115-768x576.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/09/IMG_4115-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/09/IMG_4115-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/09/IMG_4115-1920x1440.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Raka Rich (at center, in the grey hoodie) stands with a number of young artists outside of East Oakland’s Youth Uprising, circa 2005. \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>n many ways the logo speaks to Los Rakas’ balanced identity while beating the pavement and hitting stages with bilingual lyrics about both politics and partying—and performing in front of crowds who largely only speak English. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On a recent episode of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101885060/loud-podcast-highlights-the-history-of-reggaeton\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">KQED Forum\u003c/a>, the duo discussed the popularity of reggaeton and its origins rooted in the children of Jamaican laborers working on the Panama Canal. They also mentioned that English speaking crowds in the states take to their music despite the language barrier, with the prevailing sentiment being “I don’t know what they’re saying, but it sounds good.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rico tells me that he’s proud of that. After all, he and Dun, blood cousins born in Panama who moved to the states separately during their adolescence, grew up listening to all kinds of music in languages they didn’t speak, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13902924\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 160px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/09/DSC04508-scaled-e1631554228389-160x249.jpg\" alt=\"The Los Rakas medallion sits on Raka Duns white shirt as he performs at the Life Is Living Festival in West Oakland circa 2013)\" width=\"160\" height=\"249\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-13902924\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/09/DSC04508-scaled-e1631554228389-160x249.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/09/DSC04508-scaled-e1631554228389-800x1247.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/09/DSC04508-scaled-e1631554228389-1020x1590.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/09/DSC04508-scaled-e1631554228389-768x1197.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/09/DSC04508-scaled-e1631554228389-986x1536.jpg 986w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/09/DSC04508-scaled-e1631554228389-1314x2048.jpg 1314w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/09/DSC04508-scaled-e1631554228389.jpg 1388w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 160px) 100vw, 160px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Raka Dun performs at the Life Is Living Festival in West Oakland, circa 2013. \u003ccite>(Pendarvis Harshaw)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>When they started on this musical journey, Rico says Oakland’s hip-hop community wasn’t feeling Spanish music. Raka Dun says they had to adapt, especially because they were working with the likes of The Jacka, J. Stalin, and Zumbi from Zion-I.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Plus, being in the Bay, they weren’t getting too many reggaeton beats; this, again, was in the thick of the Hyphy era. “We had to hop on whatever we could hop on,” says Rico. “That’s how we became \u003ci>Los Rakas\u003c/i>.” The combination of Panamanian influence and Bay Area energy made them unique. And it resonated with people. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’d have people that’d come up to us, rap the whole verse, and be like, ‘I don’t even speak Spanish. I’m learning Spanish through your music,’” says Rico.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A few weeks ago the group got \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/LosRakas/status/1423347834133237762/photo/1\">a message\u003c/a> from a fan who said he used to watch YouTube videos of them as a kid. Over a decade later he was rejoicing in the fact that they’re still rocking. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The tweet, it makes me feel good, man,” says Dun. “That’s what we do it for. That’s the type of message that keeps us motivated. This dude saying that we changed his life, he’s giving us the flowers. We do this first of all because we love it. And then it’s for the people, we want to make sure we give the people good music just like our favorite artists gave us timeless music. And sometimes this shit gets hard. We’re artists who don’t have the numbers, we got the respect, we’ve influenced lots of artists, but we don’t have millions of streams on our music, so stuff like that keeps us really motivated. We’re getting to the people.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rico adds that they see the success of similar music today, and they know they played a significant part in pioneering the sound that’s popular right now. “To see how far it’s gotten, it’s bittersweet,” says Rico, thinking about how the pioneers of rap aren’t living how they should be living, given what they’ve done for the culture. “We been out here for 16 years. Grinding.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And the grind doesn’t stop. Now it’s time to cultivate the next generation. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VxXSOxEV49s\">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VxXSOxEV49s\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">I\u003c/span>n the time since their 2019 album, \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://soundcloud.com/losrakas/sets/manes-de-negocio-1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Manes De Negocio\u003c/a>, \u003c/em>the duo have released a series of solo tracks. The list includes Raka Dun’s “\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WbtnB57D5Lg&feature=emb_title\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Como Yo\u003c/a>” and Raka Rich’s “Comuna 13,” which features an 18 year-old emcee named \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/el_jonky_/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">El Jonky\u003c/a>, who Rico met during a recent trip to Colombia. “I went out there on a two-week trip, and ended up staying three months,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rico says he was hooked by the food and the vibes, and wasn’t looking to do any music. But after meeting El Jonky and his crew, he saw something familiar in the young artist.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He was hungry. He reminded me of a lil Dun-Dun back when he was with the Black Lion Crew,” he says, referencing Raka Dun’s early days as an artist. After hearing El Jonky rap, Rico followed him on social media and eventually hit him up to stop by the studio. It was a big move for both parties—as Rico points out, studio time in the poverty-stricken community is a rarity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">[dropcap]E[/dropcap]ver seen a scraper bike mob pull up to a brewery in Jack London to get a taste of the latest saison? Up until recently, I hadn’t either. But with the arrival of \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/hellacoastal/?hl=en\">Hella Coastal\u003c/a>, Oakland’s only Black-owned brewing company, functions like this are bridging over into the region’s beer culture.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“The whole idea stemmed from what we thought was missing in the community that could bring us all together,” says Mario Benjamin, co-founder of Hella Coastal. “We already enjoy making beer, so we might as well do something bigger than ourselves with it.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Benjamin and his homie, Chaz Hubbard, started out brewing in their backyards as young fathers whose sons now attend the same school in Oakland. As the friends started brewing more often, they realized something was missing in the beer industry: Black folks. So, in December 2020, they decided to turn their years-long work into a legitimate brewing company, with the goal of emphasizing their local authenticity as an essential ingredient in their beer-making process.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">And that’s exactly what they’ve done from the jump. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">I discovered Hella Coastal at the start of this summer when they teamed up with Federation Brewing and \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://scraperbiketeam.com/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Original Scraper Bike Team\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> to launch their Scraper Season Saison. The craft brew, which is made with fresh chamomile flowers to highlight summery notes of peach, citrus and peppercorn, is an ode to East Oakland’s iconic scraper bikes—those colorful and vibrant street bicycles that any true Baydestrian would recognize from the Hyphy Movement. For the first time ever, I felt like a beer was being made for those of us who grew up in Bay Area subcultures as people of color. I was hooked before I even took my first sip.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.instagram.com/p/CO3GYLSM9O8/\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The release party featured a live DJ slapping “Blow the Whistle” and “I Got 5 On It” while Baybe Champ—who started the scraper bike movement—and his crew hung around Federation’s outdoor patio in Jack London with their wheels on display, as the buzzed crowd rapped along. Because Hella Coastal doesn’t yet have a brick-and-mortar location of its own, the business has been collaborating with nearby breweries to produce its beers—and to offer events like this one, all themed to promote diversity and cultural accessibility within the majority-white mainstream beer world here in the Bay Area.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">If you’ve spent time in the craft brewery scene, you know there is a glaring absence of Black visibility. In fact, \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.gearpatrol.com/food/drinks/a35562233/black-owned-breweries/#:~:text=Less%20than%201%25%20of%20the,That%20needs%20to%20change.&text=In%20the%20Brewers%20Association's%202019,of%20brewery%20owners%20were%20white.\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">less than 1% of breweries in the U.S. are Black-owned and operated\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">. Despite the Town’s much-vaunted diversity—and despite it being home to one of the nation’s first Black-owned beer companies, \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/stories/1999/08/02/editorial1.html\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Brother’s Brewing Co.\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, which had a short run during the late ’90s—Oakland is surprisingly no different. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">[pullquote size=\"large\" align=\"right\"]“For the first time ever, I felt like a beer was being made for those of us who grew up in Bay Area subcultures as people of color.”[/pullquote]Historically, craft beer hasn’t been inviting for Black Americans, the owners of Hella Coastal say. Years of systemic racial segregation, economic displacement and practices such as redlining and blockbusting have made it so that white-owned businesses can succeed without even having to consider Black clientele. This feels especially true in the beer industry, which has long been dominated by big corporate names like Budweiser and Miller that have done very little to reach out to non-white beer drinkers. If anything, the artisanal craft beer scene of the past couple of decades has felt even less viable for those who don’t fit the stereotypical image of a European-heritage, flannel wearing, bearded fellow sipping on a pale ale. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Generally speaking, craft beer just isn’t being made or marketed with Black or brown customers in mind. Today, that might translate into someone from a historically Black West Oakland neighborhood going to the corner store to buy an affordably priced commercial malt liquor rather than driving to an upscale area to purchase a $9 pint of oatmeal stout—especially since those smaller, higher-end craft joints aren’t typically opening in Black neighborhoods. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">This is the blindspot that Hella Coastal is putting into view. And with carefully thought out collaborations, they are addressing this disconnect in creative ways.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Part of that has to do with their choice of ingredients and niche themes for the beers they produce. But both Benjamin and Hubbard also hold strong convictions about giving back to their community in real ways, especially in light of the social injustices that have long prevented Black families like theirs from pursuing certain business opportunities.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“As Black men, going to the banks and knowing the history of what our grandparents went through, we have to go all gas and no brakes,” says Benjamin. “We’re not doing this for no trend. We’re coming from a place where a lot of options aren’t guaranteed. We want to change that narrative. We’re building this for our kids, to create generational wealth. And we’re very grateful to be in this position right now.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Their gratitude transcends rhetoric and slogans. A portion of the proceeds from Scraper Season Saison, for example, went to the Original Scraper Team’s nonprofit, which “empowers urban youth living in underserved communities through self-expression and creativity” by providing a space for teens and adolescents to build and customize their own scrapers. In addition, the art for the can was designed by a local artist, who was commissioned to paint her rendition of young Oaklanders popping wheelies on rainbow-rimmed bikes around Lake Merritt.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Despite being around for less than a year, Hella Coastal has already gotten its name out, collaborating with respected local brewers such as Drake’s, Oak Park (a Black-owned brewery in Sacramento), and Hunters Point Brewery (which is the Bay Area’s only other Black-owned brewery at the moment, located in the HP district of San Francisco). 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In this case, the Rare Barrel took it one step further by offering to donate $10,000 to an organization of Hella Coastal’s choice: Youth Spirit Artworks, a nonprofit that builds tiny homes for unhoused youth in East Oakland. Benjamin and Hubbard say they were happily surprised by the size of the check, and that they’ve been thankful for the support from these larger, more established (and usually white-owned) breweries who appear to be genuinely invested in creating more equity within the beer-making community.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">[pullquote size=\"large\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Mario Benjamin, co-founder Hella Coastal\"]“As Black men, going to the banks and knowing the history of what our grandparents went through, we have to go all gas and no brakes.”[/pullquote]At the moment, Hella Coastal does not have a physical brewery of its own, though they say they’re “one step away” in their licensing process from being able to open one. Once that becomes a reality, Benjamin and Hubbard plan to offer workshops and guest lectures, inspired by the work of Oakland-born groups like the Black Panther Party.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">In the meantime, they’re teaming up with breweries like Federation to help conceptualize, produce and distribute their thoughtful releases. This includes everything from their first-ever beer, “Bomba Nights”—a cinnamony coconut stout inspired by Benjamin’s Puerto Rican abuelita’s holiday coquitos—to their recent drop, “Shock G Forever Golden Ale”—which honored the passing of golden era hip hop legend, Gregory Jacobs, with ingredients that were selected by his Digital Underground partner, Money B. My personal favorite is the Fresh Pils—a smooth pilsner whose label design was inspired by the ’90s staple \u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Fresh Prince of Bel Air. \u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">With each release, the intention is clear: to promote the visibility of Black and brown experiences with a California lens, and to give back to marginalized populations. “Bomba Nights” raised money for victims of Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico, while another collaboration of theirs, “Black is Beautiful,” contributed funds to \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.campaignzero.org/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Campaign Zero\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">—a movement that aims to end police violence by supporting policy change. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">For Hella Coastal, being socially involved isn’t just about pouring good beers; it’s about pouring resources into positive community actions, and demanding more in an industry with tremendous potential to bring people together.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“There’s a little over 60 Black-owned breweries out of over 8,500 in the country. 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Hella Coastal’s involvement with the \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://drinkbaybeer.com/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Bay Area Brewers Guild\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, for instance, helped local brewers envision the \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://inclusionbeerproject.com/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Inclusion Beer project\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, in which participating breweries “are required to create a DE&I committee within their brewery regardless of size.” Hella Coastal’s work and advocacy with partner breweries has also created a blueprint for new pipelines into the industry. Most notably, they are currently raising funds with the Bay Area Brewers Guild to provide stipends for POC, nonbinary and women brewers to attend UC Davis’s brewing program, in hopes of further diversifying the field. In a profession that has been \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.forbes.com/sites/hudsonlindenberger/2021/02/22/a-new-program-aims-to-improve-diversity-in-the-craft-beer-industry/?sh=224957313a8c\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">disproportionately and overwhelmingly white\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, Hella Coastal is making waves—especially here in the Bay. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">There is much work to be done, but still, this gives hope. Hope that more brewers like Hella Coastal are able to change the beer industry. Hope that more hops will be brewed for various forms of cultural consumption—from \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/CQRK1wKr-I6/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Juneteenth\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> to Puerto Rican Christmas. Hope that Hennessey and craft beer—a combination that Hella Coastal has already experimented with—are indeed mixable.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Here’s to raising a glass (and a fist) to more independent craft beers (and revolutionary traditions) in hand.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\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\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The release party featured a live DJ slapping “Blow the Whistle” and “I Got 5 On It” while Baybe Champ—who started the scraper bike movement—and his crew hung around Federation’s outdoor patio in Jack London with their wheels on display, as the buzzed crowd rapped along. Because Hella Coastal doesn’t yet have a brick-and-mortar location of its own, the business has been collaborating with nearby breweries to produce its beers—and to offer events like this one, all themed to promote diversity and cultural accessibility within the majority-white mainstream beer world here in the Bay Area.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">If you’ve spent time in the craft brewery scene, you know there is a glaring absence of Black visibility. In fact, \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.gearpatrol.com/food/drinks/a35562233/black-owned-breweries/#:~:text=Less%20than%201%25%20of%20the,That%20needs%20to%20change.&text=In%20the%20Brewers%20Association's%202019,of%20brewery%20owners%20were%20white.\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">less than 1% of breweries in the U.S. are Black-owned and operated\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">. Despite the Town’s much-vaunted diversity—and despite it being home to one of the nation’s first Black-owned beer companies, \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/stories/1999/08/02/editorial1.html\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Brother’s Brewing Co.\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, which had a short run during the late ’90s—Oakland is surprisingly no different. \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>Historically, craft beer hasn’t been inviting for Black Americans, the owners of Hella Coastal say. Years of systemic racial segregation, economic displacement and practices such as redlining and blockbusting have made it so that white-owned businesses can succeed without even having to consider Black clientele. This feels especially true in the beer industry, which has long been dominated by big corporate names like Budweiser and Miller that have done very little to reach out to non-white beer drinkers. If anything, the artisanal craft beer scene of the past couple of decades has felt even less viable for those who don’t fit the stereotypical image of a European-heritage, flannel wearing, bearded fellow sipping on a pale ale. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Generally speaking, craft beer just isn’t being made or marketed with Black or brown customers in mind. Today, that might translate into someone from a historically Black West Oakland neighborhood going to the corner store to buy an affordably priced commercial malt liquor rather than driving to an upscale area to purchase a $9 pint of oatmeal stout—especially since those smaller, higher-end craft joints aren’t typically opening in Black neighborhoods. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">This is the blindspot that Hella Coastal is putting into view. And with carefully thought out collaborations, they are addressing this disconnect in creative ways.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Part of that has to do with their choice of ingredients and niche themes for the beers they produce. But both Benjamin and Hubbard also hold strong convictions about giving back to their community in real ways, especially in light of the social injustices that have long prevented Black families like theirs from pursuing certain business opportunities.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“As Black men, going to the banks and knowing the history of what our grandparents went through, we have to go all gas and no brakes,” says Benjamin. “We’re not doing this for no trend. We’re coming from a place where a lot of options aren’t guaranteed. We want to change that narrative. We’re building this for our kids, to create generational wealth. And we’re very grateful to be in this position right now.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Their gratitude transcends rhetoric and slogans. A portion of the proceeds from Scraper Season Saison, for example, went to the Original Scraper Team’s nonprofit, which “empowers urban youth living in underserved communities through self-expression and creativity” by providing a space for teens and adolescents to build and customize their own scrapers. In addition, the art for the can was designed by a local artist, who was commissioned to paint her rendition of young Oaklanders popping wheelies on rainbow-rimmed bikes around Lake Merritt.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Despite being around for less than a year, Hella Coastal has already gotten its name out, collaborating with respected local brewers such as Drake’s, Oak Park (a Black-owned brewery in Sacramento), and Hunters Point Brewery (which is the Bay Area’s only other Black-owned brewery at the moment, located in the HP district of San Francisco). 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