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She used to drive a purple car, and now owns a purple cane.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On March 28, 2021, Marcella Hubbard wore all purple as she celebrated her 100th birthday. \u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-13833985\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/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>To help celebrate the occasion, I rode with my family as my mother (a neighbor of Mrs. Hubbard’s) drove in a procession of cars decorated in plum, grape, and fig colored streamers. Our parade began at Mosswood Park and ended in the parking lot of the New Hope Baptist Church in West Oakland—people honking and waving banners the whole way. Upon arrival, violet ‘Happy Birthday’ balloons were sent sunward, and lavender butterfly-shaped confetti fell to ground.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13894891\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13894891\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/03/Screen-Shot-2021-03-31-at-10.00.49-AM-800x510.png\" alt=\"A purple "Happy 100th Birthday" banner mounted on the front of Mrs. Hubbard's house \" width=\"800\" height=\"510\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/03/Screen-Shot-2021-03-31-at-10.00.49-AM-800x510.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/03/Screen-Shot-2021-03-31-at-10.00.49-AM-1020x650.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/03/Screen-Shot-2021-03-31-at-10.00.49-AM-160x102.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/03/Screen-Shot-2021-03-31-at-10.00.49-AM-768x489.png 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/03/Screen-Shot-2021-03-31-at-10.00.49-AM-1536x979.png 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/03/Screen-Shot-2021-03-31-at-10.00.49-AM.png 1802w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A purple “Happy 100th Birthday” banner mounted on the front of Mrs. Hubbard’s house \u003ccite>(Pendarvis Harshaw)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Mrs. Hubbard, dressed in the most royal shade of purple you’ve ever seen with a fly hat to boot, stood on the far end of the parking lot waving at people. Around her, family members dressed in periwinkle tutus and pastel shirts passed out cake and packaged lunches to cars passing by.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some folks, like ourselves, stopped to get a few photos and soak in the moment. When face-to-face with the lady of honor, it hit: what do you tell someone who is turning 100?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Happy birthday!” I said, before proceeding to to hide behind my camera and document the occasion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Family members assembled around her. Five generations fluidly moving. No easy feat to get them organized. But in the scope of all that a matriarch and the five generations of her African American family have faced, getting together for a group photo was cake.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13894895\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13894895\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/03/DSC00086-800x535.jpg\" alt=\"Mrs. Hubbard sits in the center as family members gather around her for a photograph. Almost everyone is wearing purple. \" width=\"800\" height=\"535\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/03/DSC00086-800x535.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/03/DSC00086-1020x682.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/03/DSC00086-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/03/DSC00086-768x513.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/03/DSC00086-1536x1027.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/03/DSC00086.jpg 1616w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mrs. Hubbard sits in the center as family members gather around her for a photograph. Almost everyone is wearing purple. \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\">M\u003c/span>rs. Hubbard was born in Louisville, Mississippi, on March 28, 1921, the second oldest of a family that would eventually grow to 22 children. Her father, William James Eichelberger, and her mother, Sarah Coleman Eichelberger, had 10 children together before Sarah passed. After her father remarried, he had another dozen children.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mrs. Hubbard worked on the farm, picking cotton as well as flowers—the latter of which planted a seed that’s still yielding fruit to this day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I just loved to pick violets,” Mrs. Hubbard tells me during a phone call earlier this week. “I just loved the color purple; it comes from the flowers that bloomed in the yard.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13894888\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13894888\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/03/DSC00096-800x535.jpg\" alt='Marcella Hubbard, wearing all purple and a COVID-19 safe protective face shield, sits in front of a huge \"100\" sign as she celebrates her 100th birthday.' width=\"800\" height=\"535\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/03/DSC00096-800x535.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/03/DSC00096-1020x682.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/03/DSC00096-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/03/DSC00096-768x513.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/03/DSC00096-1536x1027.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/03/DSC00096.jpg 1616w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Marcella Hubbard, wearing all purple and a COVID-19 safe protective face shield, sits in front of a huge “100” sign as she celebrates her 100th birthday. \u003ccite>(Pendarvis Harshaw)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In 1943, Mrs. Hubbard came to the Bay Area for the first time, landing a job in a factory in Sausalito during World War II; in 2014 she was honored for her work there as a \u003ca href=\"http://www.winwebnews.com/2018/03/louisville-native-received-rosie.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Rosie The Riveter\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the mid-1900s, she traveled back and forth between the Bay Area and the south, eventually graduating from Mississippi Valley State University with a degree in education. In 1946, she married Rev. B.C. Turnipseed. The two oversaw a church in Mississippi, where equity was preached and voters were registered.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 1963, after her husband died, Marcella and her only child, Angeline Eichelberger West, moved to the Bay Area permanently. First living with family on 60th Street in North Oakland, she eventually bought a home on 63rd Street, where the family has lived since the 1970s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Marcella got re-married, this time to a man by the name of M. L. Hubbard. She worked a number of different jobs: in addition to being an educator, she was a seamstress, a social security administrator, and a longtime employee at a local office for the Internal Revenue Service. Active in her \u003ca href=\"http://www2.oaklandnet.com/oakca1/groups/dhs/documents/marketingmaterial/oak069507.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">North Oakland community\u003c/a>, she was an early pioneer in urban gardening through her involvement with the Golden Gate Community Garden on 62nd Street.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13894893\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13894893\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/03/DSC00042-800x535.jpg\" alt=\"A pickup truck full of family members drives in the parade to celebrate Marcella Hubbard's 100th birthday. \" width=\"800\" height=\"535\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/03/DSC00042-800x535.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/03/DSC00042-1020x682.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/03/DSC00042-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/03/DSC00042-768x513.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/03/DSC00042-1536x1027.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/03/DSC00042.jpg 1616w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A pickup truck full of family members drives in the parade to celebrate Marcella Hubbard’s 100th birthday. \u003ccite>(Pendarvis Harshaw)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>She joined the New Hope Baptist Church in 1964, and through that institution has worked with young folks who were incarcerated at Juvenile Hall, off 150th Avenue in East Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A lot of time they would bring the boys to the church with them, they’d give them gifts and bibles, and talk to them,” says LaTasha Mitchum, Mrs. Hubbard’s oldest grandchild. “A lot of the boys, once they got out of trouble, they’d come looking for her.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Marcella Hubbard’s life has been so storied that at her 70th birthday party, family members chose parts of her life to depict in theatrical form, according to her youngest grandchild, Rasheeda West-Johnson.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She is walking history,” says Rasheeda during a phone call on Monday. Rasheeda says in her grandmother’s older years, she’s been more transparent about her life’s experiences—especially as they pertain to racism.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13894898\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13894898\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/03/DSC00053-800x535.jpg\" alt=\"A car celebrating Marcella Hubbard's 100th birthday crosses Martin Luther King Jr. Way in Oakland.\" width=\"800\" height=\"535\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/03/DSC00053-800x535.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/03/DSC00053-1020x682.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/03/DSC00053-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/03/DSC00053-768x513.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/03/DSC00053-1536x1027.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/03/DSC00053.jpg 1616w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A car celebrating Marcella Hubbard’s 100th birthday crosses Martin Luther King Jr. Way in Oakland. \u003ccite>(Pendarvis Harshaw/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I didn’t know that her first husband who was a preacher had to move out of Mississippi where they were because of Jim Crow, and that they were trying to lynch him because the church that they oversaw was trying to preach and teach equal rights,” says Rasheeda.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Because her children like to be in “grown folks’ business\u003cem>,” \u003c/em>Rasheeda has been very intentional to have the young ones present when her grandmother feels like talking.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I make sure that the boys are around so that they can get firsthand knowledge of what’s going on,” says Rasheeda, questioning how much society has progressed in the decades since her grandmother was her children’s age. “I don’t even know if you’d call it an evolution… We’re still experiencing a lot of the same things. But for my children, it’s just acknowledging who she is and what she’s gone through. And having the utmost respect for her, because she’s lived a life that’s been extremely full.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13894897\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13894897\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/03/DSC00106-800x535.jpg\" alt='A \"Happy Birthday Marcella\" sign mounted in the window of an automobile. ' width=\"800\" height=\"535\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/03/DSC00106-800x535.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/03/DSC00106-1020x682.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/03/DSC00106-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/03/DSC00106-768x513.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/03/DSC00106-1536x1027.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/03/DSC00106.jpg 1616w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A ‘Happy Birthday Marcella’ sign mounted in the window of an automobile. \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\">W\u003c/span>ith COVID-19, the family was concerned that Mrs. Hubbard wasn’t going to be able to have the type of party that she envisioned, as she’s grown accustomed to having sizable celebrations at the end of each decade. But they managed to bring everyone together in the safest fashion possible.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Samauri Ware, Mrs. Hubbard’s middle grandchild, says that when they pulled up to the church last Saturday, Mrs. Hubbard kind of “bounced” out of the car. Samauri says, “It was just shocking to me. I was like, ‘She’s excited!'”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Up and active is how I’ve usually seen Mrs. Hubbard. Over the years I’ve talked to her through my mom’s backyard fence, as she’s often gardening, growing purple peas, purple greens and, of course, purple flowers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When we last spoke, she told me she feels great being 100. The key to success? Mrs. Hubbard says, “Well, I try to be an honest person, and I like to work and help others. And I love God.”\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">M\u003c/span>arcella Hubbard has a purple house with purple flowers. A purple wardrobe and purple bedding. She used to drive a purple car, and now owns a purple cane.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On March 28, 2021, Marcella Hubbard wore all purple as she celebrated her 100th birthday. \u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-13833985\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/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>To help celebrate the occasion, I rode with my family as my mother (a neighbor of Mrs. Hubbard’s) drove in a procession of cars decorated in plum, grape, and fig colored streamers. Our parade began at Mosswood Park and ended in the parking lot of the New Hope Baptist Church in West Oakland—people honking and waving banners the whole way. Upon arrival, violet ‘Happy Birthday’ balloons were sent sunward, and lavender butterfly-shaped confetti fell to ground.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13894891\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13894891\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/03/Screen-Shot-2021-03-31-at-10.00.49-AM-800x510.png\" alt=\"A purple "Happy 100th Birthday" banner mounted on the front of Mrs. Hubbard's house \" width=\"800\" height=\"510\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/03/Screen-Shot-2021-03-31-at-10.00.49-AM-800x510.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/03/Screen-Shot-2021-03-31-at-10.00.49-AM-1020x650.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/03/Screen-Shot-2021-03-31-at-10.00.49-AM-160x102.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/03/Screen-Shot-2021-03-31-at-10.00.49-AM-768x489.png 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/03/Screen-Shot-2021-03-31-at-10.00.49-AM-1536x979.png 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/03/Screen-Shot-2021-03-31-at-10.00.49-AM.png 1802w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A purple “Happy 100th Birthday” banner mounted on the front of Mrs. Hubbard’s house \u003ccite>(Pendarvis Harshaw)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Mrs. Hubbard, dressed in the most royal shade of purple you’ve ever seen with a fly hat to boot, stood on the far end of the parking lot waving at people. Around her, family members dressed in periwinkle tutus and pastel shirts passed out cake and packaged lunches to cars passing by.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some folks, like ourselves, stopped to get a few photos and soak in the moment. When face-to-face with the lady of honor, it hit: what do you tell someone who is turning 100?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Happy birthday!” I said, before proceeding to to hide behind my camera and document the occasion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Family members assembled around her. Five generations fluidly moving. No easy feat to get them organized. But in the scope of all that a matriarch and the five generations of her African American family have faced, getting together for a group photo was cake.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13894895\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13894895\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/03/DSC00086-800x535.jpg\" alt=\"Mrs. Hubbard sits in the center as family members gather around her for a photograph. Almost everyone is wearing purple. \" width=\"800\" height=\"535\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/03/DSC00086-800x535.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/03/DSC00086-1020x682.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/03/DSC00086-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/03/DSC00086-768x513.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/03/DSC00086-1536x1027.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/03/DSC00086.jpg 1616w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mrs. Hubbard sits in the center as family members gather around her for a photograph. Almost everyone is wearing purple. \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\">M\u003c/span>rs. Hubbard was born in Louisville, Mississippi, on March 28, 1921, the second oldest of a family that would eventually grow to 22 children. Her father, William James Eichelberger, and her mother, Sarah Coleman Eichelberger, had 10 children together before Sarah passed. After her father remarried, he had another dozen children.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mrs. Hubbard worked on the farm, picking cotton as well as flowers—the latter of which planted a seed that’s still yielding fruit to this day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I just loved to pick violets,” Mrs. Hubbard tells me during a phone call earlier this week. “I just loved the color purple; it comes from the flowers that bloomed in the yard.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13894888\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13894888\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/03/DSC00096-800x535.jpg\" alt='Marcella Hubbard, wearing all purple and a COVID-19 safe protective face shield, sits in front of a huge \"100\" sign as she celebrates her 100th birthday.' width=\"800\" height=\"535\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/03/DSC00096-800x535.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/03/DSC00096-1020x682.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/03/DSC00096-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/03/DSC00096-768x513.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/03/DSC00096-1536x1027.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/03/DSC00096.jpg 1616w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Marcella Hubbard, wearing all purple and a COVID-19 safe protective face shield, sits in front of a huge “100” sign as she celebrates her 100th birthday. \u003ccite>(Pendarvis Harshaw)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In 1943, Mrs. Hubbard came to the Bay Area for the first time, landing a job in a factory in Sausalito during World War II; in 2014 she was honored for her work there as a \u003ca href=\"http://www.winwebnews.com/2018/03/louisville-native-received-rosie.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Rosie The Riveter\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the mid-1900s, she traveled back and forth between the Bay Area and the south, eventually graduating from Mississippi Valley State University with a degree in education. In 1946, she married Rev. B.C. Turnipseed. The two oversaw a church in Mississippi, where equity was preached and voters were registered.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 1963, after her husband died, Marcella and her only child, Angeline Eichelberger West, moved to the Bay Area permanently. First living with family on 60th Street in North Oakland, she eventually bought a home on 63rd Street, where the family has lived since the 1970s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Marcella got re-married, this time to a man by the name of M. L. Hubbard. She worked a number of different jobs: in addition to being an educator, she was a seamstress, a social security administrator, and a longtime employee at a local office for the Internal Revenue Service. Active in her \u003ca href=\"http://www2.oaklandnet.com/oakca1/groups/dhs/documents/marketingmaterial/oak069507.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">North Oakland community\u003c/a>, she was an early pioneer in urban gardening through her involvement with the Golden Gate Community Garden on 62nd Street.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13894893\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13894893\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/03/DSC00042-800x535.jpg\" alt=\"A pickup truck full of family members drives in the parade to celebrate Marcella Hubbard's 100th birthday. \" width=\"800\" height=\"535\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/03/DSC00042-800x535.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/03/DSC00042-1020x682.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/03/DSC00042-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/03/DSC00042-768x513.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/03/DSC00042-1536x1027.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/03/DSC00042.jpg 1616w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A pickup truck full of family members drives in the parade to celebrate Marcella Hubbard’s 100th birthday. \u003ccite>(Pendarvis Harshaw)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>She joined the New Hope Baptist Church in 1964, and through that institution has worked with young folks who were incarcerated at Juvenile Hall, off 150th Avenue in East Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A lot of time they would bring the boys to the church with them, they’d give them gifts and bibles, and talk to them,” says LaTasha Mitchum, Mrs. Hubbard’s oldest grandchild. “A lot of the boys, once they got out of trouble, they’d come looking for her.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Marcella Hubbard’s life has been so storied that at her 70th birthday party, family members chose parts of her life to depict in theatrical form, according to her youngest grandchild, Rasheeda West-Johnson.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She is walking history,” says Rasheeda during a phone call on Monday. Rasheeda says in her grandmother’s older years, she’s been more transparent about her life’s experiences—especially as they pertain to racism.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13894898\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13894898\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/03/DSC00053-800x535.jpg\" alt=\"A car celebrating Marcella Hubbard's 100th birthday crosses Martin Luther King Jr. Way in Oakland.\" width=\"800\" height=\"535\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/03/DSC00053-800x535.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/03/DSC00053-1020x682.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/03/DSC00053-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/03/DSC00053-768x513.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/03/DSC00053-1536x1027.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/03/DSC00053.jpg 1616w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A car celebrating Marcella Hubbard’s 100th birthday crosses Martin Luther King Jr. Way in Oakland. \u003ccite>(Pendarvis Harshaw/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I didn’t know that her first husband who was a preacher had to move out of Mississippi where they were because of Jim Crow, and that they were trying to lynch him because the church that they oversaw was trying to preach and teach equal rights,” says Rasheeda.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Because her children like to be in “grown folks’ business\u003cem>,” \u003c/em>Rasheeda has been very intentional to have the young ones present when her grandmother feels like talking.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I make sure that the boys are around so that they can get firsthand knowledge of what’s going on,” says Rasheeda, questioning how much society has progressed in the decades since her grandmother was her children’s age. “I don’t even know if you’d call it an evolution… We’re still experiencing a lot of the same things. But for my children, it’s just acknowledging who she is and what she’s gone through. And having the utmost respect for her, because she’s lived a life that’s been extremely full.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13894897\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13894897\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/03/DSC00106-800x535.jpg\" alt='A \"Happy Birthday Marcella\" sign mounted in the window of an automobile. ' width=\"800\" height=\"535\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/03/DSC00106-800x535.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/03/DSC00106-1020x682.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/03/DSC00106-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/03/DSC00106-768x513.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/03/DSC00106-1536x1027.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/03/DSC00106.jpg 1616w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A ‘Happy Birthday Marcella’ sign mounted in the window of an automobile. \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\">W\u003c/span>ith COVID-19, the family was concerned that Mrs. Hubbard wasn’t going to be able to have the type of party that she envisioned, as she’s grown accustomed to having sizable celebrations at the end of each decade. But they managed to bring everyone together in the safest fashion possible.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Samauri Ware, Mrs. Hubbard’s middle grandchild, says that when they pulled up to the church last Saturday, Mrs. Hubbard kind of “bounced” out of the car. Samauri says, “It was just shocking to me. I was like, ‘She’s excited!'”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Up and active is how I’ve usually seen Mrs. Hubbard. Over the years I’ve talked to her through my mom’s backyard fence, as she’s often gardening, growing purple peas, purple greens and, of course, purple flowers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">I belong to the class of people who will always order the garlickiest, most pungent item on any given restaurant menu—the truly cultured ones who’d double- or triple-dip their bread into the \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://eastbayexpress.com/italian-american-charm-and-garlicky-flavor-bombs-at-trattoria-la-siciliana-1/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">legendary olio de la mamma\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> at Berkeley’s Trattoria La Siciliana (\u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.berkeleyside.com/2020/09/01/trattoria-la-siciliana-to-leave-elmwood-after-23-years-and-join-agrodolce-in-north-berkeley\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">RIP\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">), or who lick up every last speck of garlic-butter sauce on a plate of roast crab at \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"http://www.ppqcrab.com/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">PPQ Dungeness Island\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">. When eating Korean barbecue, I’ve been known to monopolize an entire bowl of raw garlic, packing several slivers into every lettuce-wrapped bite. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Put it this way: If I can’t smell the food on my own breath a half an hour later, does it even count as having eaten? \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">It should come as no surprise, then, that I’ve fallen head over heels in love with toum, the intensely garlicky white sauce that comes slathered inside every shawarma wrap at \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.theshawarmaji.com/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Shawarmaji\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, chef Mohammed Abutaha’s downtown Oakland emporium of Jordanian spit-grilled chicken and lamb. \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/restaurants/article/In-Oakland-the-shawarma-of-a-homesick-15464635.php\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Shawarmaji’s shawarma is delicious\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">—juicy, tender, crisp at the edges, served inside comically oversized wraps that the chef \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.berkeleyside.com/2020/03/09/shawarmaji-wants-you-to-try-shawarma-and-falafel-as-the-jordanians-do\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">likens to a “missle\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">.”\u003c/span>\u003c/a> But the toum might have as large a following as the shawarma itself. I started buying an extra eight-ounce tub of the stuff every time I ordered shawarma—mostly, at first, so that I had enough to dip my french fries into. But the sauce is so good, so versatile, and so\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> wonderfully\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> garlicky that my habit has spiraled into a full-blown obsession.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13894690\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 600px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13894690\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/03/Toum.jpg\" alt=\"A tub of toum from Shawarmaji; the label lists the ingredients: garlic, canola oil, salt, lemon juice\" width=\"600\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/03/Toum.jpg 600w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/03/Toum-160x160.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Customers can purchase Shawarmaji’s toum by the eight-ounce tub. \u003ccite>(Rawan Elhalaby)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">In the past couple of weeks, I’ve used Shawarmaji’s toum as a potent dipping sauce for chicken wings, tater tots, and Detroit-style pizza. I have ladled dollops of it on top of late-night Tostino’s pizza rolls (don’t judge), and I’ve scraped the last dregs of the container into a bowl of eggs before I scrambled them. A little bit goes a long, long way. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Even within the garlicky landscape of my overall diet, Shawarmaji’s toum stands in a class of its own. Abutaha, who lived in Jordan for 20 years before moving to the Bay Area in 2011, explains that the version he makes is what people in Jordan would call “Syrian toum”—the most old-school, traditional version you can find, essentially. (Within the Arab world, the consensus is that toum originated in Syria, Abutaha says.) There are only four ingredients: garlic, canola oil, salt, and lemon juice. Abutaha puts everything in a giant pot and whirs it together with an immersion blender until it emulsifies into a sauce that’s roughly analogous to Spanish aioli. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The garlic, of course, is key. According to Abutaha, intense garlickiness is one of the hallmarks of Jordanian cooking, which often features garlic that’s smashed and added to a dish raw for a sharper, more pungent effect than in other garlic-heavy cuisines. For the toum, Abutaha uses a whopping \u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">18 pounds\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> of peeled garlic cloves to make a single (46-quart) batch. (By my calculations, that’s something like half a head of garlic you’re eating in every little eight-ounce tub.) And then he goes through multiple batches in the course of a week. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The end result is about as pure a distillation of garlic flavor as you can find—potent enough to make your eyes water and overwhelm your tastebuds. It’s not subtle. It’s not for everyone. Abutaha recalls that one early customer who wound up leaving a one-star Yelp review: Apparently, they were shocked that their shawarma wrap had any garlic at all.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13894688\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 600px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13894688\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/03/Toum.Dip_.jpg\" alt=\"A hand dipping a sliced shawarma wrap into white garlic sauce.\" width=\"600\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/03/Toum.Dip_.jpg 600w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/03/Toum.Dip_-160x213.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The toum is the ideal dip for shawarma and french fries—and any number of other foods. \u003ccite>(Rawan Elhalaby)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Mostly, though, customers have embraced the toum. Abutaha says he opened Shawarmaji because he wanted to help introduce Bay Area diners to traditional Jordanian foods and flavors. But he isn’t a purist. After all, the practice of putting toum on anything and everything is well established in Jordan, too, Abutaha says. Eating toum with french fries “has been a thing” for as long as he can remember; there are entire restaurants built around that theme. Most typically, the sauce is eaten with chicken—any preparation of chicken, well beyond shawarma and kebabs. In Jordan, Abutaha says, even the Popeyes and KFC outlets serve their fried chicken with a side of toum.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Here in the Bay Area, I’m not alone in exploring the versatility of toum. Abutaha says he’s had customers post pictures of tacos and burritos that they’ve spiked with toum. And he thinks the sauce is particularly delicious slathered on top of a burger patty—there’s a garlic mayo that comes by default on the burgers at Trueburger in Oakland, for instance, that Abutaha says “kind of gives [him] that toum feeling.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All I know is that I need to head back to Shawarmaji with the quickness: There’s a fried chicken dinner with my name on it this weekend, and I already know what condiment I can’t do without.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">I belong to the class of people who will always order the garlickiest, most pungent item on any given restaurant menu—the truly cultured ones who’d double- or triple-dip their bread into the \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://eastbayexpress.com/italian-american-charm-and-garlicky-flavor-bombs-at-trattoria-la-siciliana-1/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">legendary olio de la mamma\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> at Berkeley’s Trattoria La Siciliana (\u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.berkeleyside.com/2020/09/01/trattoria-la-siciliana-to-leave-elmwood-after-23-years-and-join-agrodolce-in-north-berkeley\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">RIP\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">), or who lick up every last speck of garlic-butter sauce on a plate of roast crab at \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"http://www.ppqcrab.com/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">PPQ Dungeness Island\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">. When eating Korean barbecue, I’ve been known to monopolize an entire bowl of raw garlic, packing several slivers into every lettuce-wrapped bite. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Put it this way: If I can’t smell the food on my own breath a half an hour later, does it even count as having eaten? \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">It should come as no surprise, then, that I’ve fallen head over heels in love with toum, the intensely garlicky white sauce that comes slathered inside every shawarma wrap at \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.theshawarmaji.com/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Shawarmaji\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, chef Mohammed Abutaha’s downtown Oakland emporium of Jordanian spit-grilled chicken and lamb. \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/restaurants/article/In-Oakland-the-shawarma-of-a-homesick-15464635.php\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Shawarmaji’s shawarma is delicious\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">—juicy, tender, crisp at the edges, served inside comically oversized wraps that the chef \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.berkeleyside.com/2020/03/09/shawarmaji-wants-you-to-try-shawarma-and-falafel-as-the-jordanians-do\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">likens to a “missle\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">.”\u003c/span>\u003c/a> But the toum might have as large a following as the shawarma itself. I started buying an extra eight-ounce tub of the stuff every time I ordered shawarma—mostly, at first, so that I had enough to dip my french fries into. But the sauce is so good, so versatile, and so\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> wonderfully\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> garlicky that my habit has spiraled into a full-blown obsession.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13894690\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 600px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13894690\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/03/Toum.jpg\" alt=\"A tub of toum from Shawarmaji; the label lists the ingredients: garlic, canola oil, salt, lemon juice\" width=\"600\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/03/Toum.jpg 600w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/03/Toum-160x160.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Customers can purchase Shawarmaji’s toum by the eight-ounce tub. \u003ccite>(Rawan Elhalaby)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">In the past couple of weeks, I’ve used Shawarmaji’s toum as a potent dipping sauce for chicken wings, tater tots, and Detroit-style pizza. I have ladled dollops of it on top of late-night Tostino’s pizza rolls (don’t judge), and I’ve scraped the last dregs of the container into a bowl of eggs before I scrambled them. A little bit goes a long, long way. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Even within the garlicky landscape of my overall diet, Shawarmaji’s toum stands in a class of its own. Abutaha, who lived in Jordan for 20 years before moving to the Bay Area in 2011, explains that the version he makes is what people in Jordan would call “Syrian toum”—the most old-school, traditional version you can find, essentially. (Within the Arab world, the consensus is that toum originated in Syria, Abutaha says.) There are only four ingredients: garlic, canola oil, salt, and lemon juice. Abutaha puts everything in a giant pot and whirs it together with an immersion blender until it emulsifies into a sauce that’s roughly analogous to Spanish aioli. \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 garlic, of course, is key. According to Abutaha, intense garlickiness is one of the hallmarks of Jordanian cooking, which often features garlic that’s smashed and added to a dish raw for a sharper, more pungent effect than in other garlic-heavy cuisines. For the toum, Abutaha uses a whopping \u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">18 pounds\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> of peeled garlic cloves to make a single (46-quart) batch. (By my calculations, that’s something like half a head of garlic you’re eating in every little eight-ounce tub.) And then he goes through multiple batches in the course of a week. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The end result is about as pure a distillation of garlic flavor as you can find—potent enough to make your eyes water and overwhelm your tastebuds. It’s not subtle. It’s not for everyone. Abutaha recalls that one early customer who wound up leaving a one-star Yelp review: Apparently, they were shocked that their shawarma wrap had any garlic at all.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13894688\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 600px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13894688\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/03/Toum.Dip_.jpg\" alt=\"A hand dipping a sliced shawarma wrap into white garlic sauce.\" width=\"600\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/03/Toum.Dip_.jpg 600w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/03/Toum.Dip_-160x213.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The toum is the ideal dip for shawarma and french fries—and any number of other foods. \u003ccite>(Rawan Elhalaby)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Mostly, though, customers have embraced the toum. Abutaha says he opened Shawarmaji because he wanted to help introduce Bay Area diners to traditional Jordanian foods and flavors. But he isn’t a purist. After all, the practice of putting toum on anything and everything is well established in Jordan, too, Abutaha says. Eating toum with french fries “has been a thing” for as long as he can remember; there are entire restaurants built around that theme. Most typically, the sauce is eaten with chicken—any preparation of chicken, well beyond shawarma and kebabs. In Jordan, Abutaha says, even the Popeyes and KFC outlets serve their fried chicken with a side of toum.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Here in the Bay Area, I’m not alone in exploring the versatility of toum. Abutaha says he’s had customers post pictures of tacos and burritos that they’ve spiked with toum. And he thinks the sauce is particularly delicious slathered on top of a burger patty—there’s a garlic mayo that comes by default on the burgers at Trueburger in Oakland, for instance, that Abutaha says “kind of gives [him] that toum feeling.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All I know is that I need to head back to Shawarmaji with the quickness: There’s a fried chicken dinner with my name on it this weekend, and I already know what condiment I can’t do without.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>The network of punk houses that thrived in Oakland and Berkeley in the late ’90s and early 2000s was the result of a perfect storm. Large rentable homes in ungentrified neighborhoods. Gangs of scrappy, creative kids who didn’t mind sleeping three to a room. Plus, of course, a punk scene that was still dominating Bay Area music. The conditions were ripe to create a much-treasured moment in time for everyone who went through those houses. [aside postid='arts_13871151']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For many folks who lived in and frequented them, punk house memories now are nebulous—misty snapshots of sights, smells, fights and oh-so-many \u003cem>feelings\u003c/em>. The scraps likely piece together into a fairly short mental highlights reel. Because not only did everything happen pre-camera phone and before social media, punks on a budget just didn’t take many photos back then. (You had to pay to get them developed, after all.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But on March 6, that changed. After digging out old photos for a friend’s birthday, Elizabeth Whitney—herself an occupant of three different East Bay punk houses in the ’90s and 2000s—decided, on a whim, to throw some pics up online. “I just thought, ‘God,’” Whitney tells KQED Arts, “‘I get to look at all these awesome pictures all the time and the people that are in them don’t get to share them with me.’ So I went on a three-hour late-night bender of loading them all.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13895166 aligncenter\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/03/punk-house-indoors-800x800.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/03/punk-house-indoors-800x800.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/03/punk-house-indoors-1020x1020.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/03/punk-house-indoors-160x160.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/03/punk-house-indoors-768x768.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/03/punk-house-indoors-1536x1536.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/03/punk-house-indoors-2048x2048.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/03/punk-house-indoors-1920x1920.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Whitney started a brand new Instagram account she decided to call, simply, \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/punkhouseoakland/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@PunkHouseOakland\u003c/a>. Within a few hours and a handful of tags, the new account wasn’t just being warmly received, it was blowing up. Whitney was quickly bombarded with photos from other former punk house kids. Some were old friends, some were strangers. It didn’t matter. Despite the years since the punk house peak, and the dispersal (and many deaths) of people in the scene, the DIY collective mentality of old quickly sprang back to life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the weeks since, Whitney—who now owns and runs a pilates and yoga studio in Brooklyn—has received so many hundreds of photos to share, she’s currently struggling to clear the backlog of submissions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-13895167\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/03/punk-house-outdoors-800x800.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/03/punk-house-outdoors-800x800.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/03/punk-house-outdoors-1020x1020.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/03/punk-house-outdoors-160x160.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/03/punk-house-outdoors-768x768.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/03/punk-house-outdoors-1536x1536.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/03/punk-house-outdoors-2048x2048.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/03/punk-house-outdoors-1920x1920.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s been truly joyous and incredible to witness,” she says. “To have other people fill in the gaps of my memory, to have us celebrate and tell stories about each other—it’s been really reparative and healing. And so many people have reached out saying the same thing—that they’ve found people they thought they lost, or they healed some old wounds, or reconnected in some way.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Also,” Whitney continues, “in this time where physicality or intimacy with a large group of people is a really scary thing, there is, like, a deep yearning ache inside me when I look at how close we were. I can’t imagine I’m the only one. [We were all] just kissing, and on top of each other, and laying around holding each other, and dancing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13894328\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13894328\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/03/hugs-800x495.jpg\" alt=\"Three pairs of hugging friends. (L-R) Nipple and Hilary; Julie and Heiko; Marc and Forest.\" width=\"800\" height=\"495\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/03/hugs-800x495.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/03/hugs-1020x631.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/03/hugs-160x99.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/03/hugs-768x475.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/03/hugs-1536x951.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/03/hugs-2048x1267.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/03/hugs-1920x1188.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">(L-R) Nipple and Hilary; Julie and Heiko; Marc and Forest.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We were so deeply alive,” Whitney says. “In our suffering, in our love for each other, in the things we were creating, in the things we despised. Just so, so much passion. And basically just trying to live life like it was our last day on Earth, every single day.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In true punk rock fashion, Whitney doesn’t edit any of the content she receives. She just throws up the photos and asks followers to tag the people they recognize. Together for the first time, these photos act as a time machine for those who were there. And for those who weren’t, the collection offers a look inside punk houses—a lifestyle almost impossible to completely convey with just words.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For me, seeing a true punk house for the first time, it was just mayhem,” Whitney recalls. “People lived under stairs, in the laundry room, in shacks out back, in vans in the driveway, it was just jam-packed. So many people and constant rotation of out-of-town travelers. I cannot overstate how in love I was with the scariness, craziness and feral wildness that existed in everyday life. Just complete wide-eyed wonder and awe that you could live this way, with no rules.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13894317\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13894317\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/03/Sleeping-quarters-800x800.jpg\" alt=\"Some examples of punk house sleeping quarters. Top row: (L) Nate and Hilary, couch nappers. Bottom row: "Nobunny's room" and Seth.\" width=\"800\" height=\"800\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Some examples of punk house sleeping quarters. Top row: (L) Nate and Hilary, (R) couch nappers. Bottom row: (L) “Nobunny’s room” and (R) Seth. \u003ccite>(Instagram/@punkhouseoakland)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>As expected with a scene rooted in punk, music looms large across the pictures pouring in. Photos include \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/CMkdaj5hKo7/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">backyard\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/CMe37exhhkw/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">basement shows\u003c/a>, and a multitude of underground bands, local and otherwise. You can spot members of Green Day, AFI, Pinhead Gunpowder, Screw 32, Avail, Los Crudos, One Man Army, The PeeChees, Black Fork, Talk is Poison, The Criminals, El Dopa, Defiance, The Enemies, Behead the Prophet, The Shattered, Logical Nonsense and many more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sometimes, it’s the more obscure bands that are the most fun to look back on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13895162 aligncenter\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/03/Screen-Shot-2021-04-02-at-5.01.11-PM-800x352.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"352\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/03/Screen-Shot-2021-04-02-at-5.01.11-PM-800x352.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/03/Screen-Shot-2021-04-02-at-5.01.11-PM-1020x449.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/03/Screen-Shot-2021-04-02-at-5.01.11-PM-160x70.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/03/Screen-Shot-2021-04-02-at-5.01.11-PM-768x338.png 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/03/Screen-Shot-2021-04-02-at-5.01.11-PM-1536x676.png 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/03/Screen-Shot-2021-04-02-at-5.01.11-PM-2048x901.png 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/03/Screen-Shot-2021-04-02-at-5.01.11-PM-1920x845.png 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the account is just as likely to include photos of scene kids carving pumpkins, doing each other’s hair, chilling with \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/CMdZrqMhk_z/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pets\u003c/a> (including \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/CMdZmxYB83E/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">baby raccoons\u003c/a>!), hanging \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/CMgEFvehc10/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">on the front porch\u003c/a>, in the \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/CMfW1hUhIiO/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">backyard\u003c/a>, and also playing \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/CMf5HrRBu6M/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">dress up\u003c/a>. (There is \u003cem>a lot\u003c/em> of \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/CMf9x_eB_a7/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">dress up\u003c/a>.) One photo recently emerged of a bunch of \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/CMn4XRxBc-a/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">punks working in a call center\u003c/a>, all lined up in cubicles. (Whitney says “75% of all punks in the Bay” worked in telemarketing at the time.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s impossible to tell the story of Oakland punk houses, however, without including the fact that this was a scene in which a lot of people died way too young. Whitney handles this simply but effectively, by including an ‘RIP’ next to anyone in the photos who’s no longer alive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Maybe this was punk everywhere,” Whitney explains, “but Oakland punk houses were, for the most part, made up of people that maybe had experienced some not great things in our early lives. We were coming together in some sort of sleep-away camp orphanage to create our own families, with our own rules and morals and infrastructures. And within those structures, there was a sense of being allowed to be what you were.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“But in that scene,” she continues, “there just wasn’t an infrastructure for aging, or getting older in a tenable way that looked cool, where we could all stay together. No one knew how to do it. A lot of people partied too hard, and it was really intense. I think a lot of people didn’t know how to stay in the scene and not self-destruct.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13894333\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13894333\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/03/RIP-800x371.jpg\" alt=\"Elizabeth Whitney adds 'RIP' whenever captioning pictures of punk house regulars who are no longer alive. Like (L-R): Heiko Schrepel, Shelly Skelley, Freud Reia and 'Dead Boy'.\" width=\"800\" height=\"371\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/03/RIP-800x371.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/03/RIP-1020x473.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/03/RIP-160x74.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/03/RIP-768x356.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/03/RIP-1536x713.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/03/RIP-2048x951.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/03/RIP-1920x891.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Elizabeth Whitney adds ‘RIP’ whenever captioning pictures of punk house regulars who are no longer alive. Like (L-R): Heiko Schrepel, Shelly Skelley, Freud Reia and ‘Dead Boy’. \u003ccite>(Instagram/@punkhouseoakland)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The heightened sense of mortality also influenced Whitney’s desire to start the account. “I wanted us not just to celebrate and tell stories at funerals,” she says. “I want the people I love and admire, and the people that touched my life in some way—I want them to know it. And I’m watching that spread now in just the raddest way.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-12127869\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-800x78.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"78\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-768x75.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/punkhouseoakland/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Punk House Oakland\u003c/a> can be found on Instagram and is accepting photo submissions on an ongoing basis. It has already inspired a spin-off account—\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/punkhousechicago/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@punkhousechicago\u003c/a>—and Elizabeth Whitney hopes it will inspire more.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For many folks who lived in and frequented them, punk house memories now are nebulous—misty snapshots of sights, smells, fights and oh-so-many \u003cem>feelings\u003c/em>. The scraps likely piece together into a fairly short mental highlights reel. Because not only did everything happen pre-camera phone and before social media, punks on a budget just didn’t take many photos back then. (You had to pay to get them developed, after all.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But on March 6, that changed. After digging out old photos for a friend’s birthday, Elizabeth Whitney—herself an occupant of three different East Bay punk houses in the ’90s and 2000s—decided, on a whim, to throw some pics up online. “I just thought, ‘God,’” Whitney tells KQED Arts, “‘I get to look at all these awesome pictures all the time and the people that are in them don’t get to share them with me.’ So I went on a three-hour late-night bender of loading them all.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13895166 aligncenter\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/03/punk-house-indoors-800x800.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/03/punk-house-indoors-800x800.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/03/punk-house-indoors-1020x1020.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/03/punk-house-indoors-160x160.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/03/punk-house-indoors-768x768.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/03/punk-house-indoors-1536x1536.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/03/punk-house-indoors-2048x2048.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/03/punk-house-indoors-1920x1920.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Whitney started a brand new Instagram account she decided to call, simply, \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/punkhouseoakland/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@PunkHouseOakland\u003c/a>. Within a few hours and a handful of tags, the new account wasn’t just being warmly received, it was blowing up. Whitney was quickly bombarded with photos from other former punk house kids. Some were old friends, some were strangers. It didn’t matter. Despite the years since the punk house peak, and the dispersal (and many deaths) of people in the scene, the DIY collective mentality of old quickly sprang back to life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the weeks since, Whitney—who now owns and runs a pilates and yoga studio in Brooklyn—has received so many hundreds of photos to share, she’s currently struggling to clear the backlog of submissions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-13895167\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/03/punk-house-outdoors-800x800.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/03/punk-house-outdoors-800x800.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/03/punk-house-outdoors-1020x1020.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/03/punk-house-outdoors-160x160.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/03/punk-house-outdoors-768x768.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/03/punk-house-outdoors-1536x1536.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/03/punk-house-outdoors-2048x2048.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/03/punk-house-outdoors-1920x1920.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s been truly joyous and incredible to witness,” she says. “To have other people fill in the gaps of my memory, to have us celebrate and tell stories about each other—it’s been really reparative and healing. And so many people have reached out saying the same thing—that they’ve found people they thought they lost, or they healed some old wounds, or reconnected in some way.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Also,” Whitney continues, “in this time where physicality or intimacy with a large group of people is a really scary thing, there is, like, a deep yearning ache inside me when I look at how close we were. I can’t imagine I’m the only one. [We were all] just kissing, and on top of each other, and laying around holding each other, and dancing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13894328\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13894328\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/03/hugs-800x495.jpg\" alt=\"Three pairs of hugging friends. (L-R) Nipple and Hilary; Julie and Heiko; Marc and Forest.\" width=\"800\" height=\"495\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/03/hugs-800x495.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/03/hugs-1020x631.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/03/hugs-160x99.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/03/hugs-768x475.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/03/hugs-1536x951.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/03/hugs-2048x1267.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/03/hugs-1920x1188.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">(L-R) Nipple and Hilary; Julie and Heiko; Marc and Forest.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We were so deeply alive,” Whitney says. “In our suffering, in our love for each other, in the things we were creating, in the things we despised. Just so, so much passion. And basically just trying to live life like it was our last day on Earth, every single day.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In true punk rock fashion, Whitney doesn’t edit any of the content she receives. She just throws up the photos and asks followers to tag the people they recognize. Together for the first time, these photos act as a time machine for those who were there. And for those who weren’t, the collection offers a look inside punk houses—a lifestyle almost impossible to completely convey with just words.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For me, seeing a true punk house for the first time, it was just mayhem,” Whitney recalls. “People lived under stairs, in the laundry room, in shacks out back, in vans in the driveway, it was just jam-packed. So many people and constant rotation of out-of-town travelers. I cannot overstate how in love I was with the scariness, craziness and feral wildness that existed in everyday life. Just complete wide-eyed wonder and awe that you could live this way, with no rules.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13894317\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13894317\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/03/Sleeping-quarters-800x800.jpg\" alt=\"Some examples of punk house sleeping quarters. Top row: (L) Nate and Hilary, couch nappers. Bottom row: "Nobunny's room" and Seth.\" width=\"800\" height=\"800\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Some examples of punk house sleeping quarters. Top row: (L) Nate and Hilary, (R) couch nappers. Bottom row: (L) “Nobunny’s room” and (R) Seth. \u003ccite>(Instagram/@punkhouseoakland)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>As expected with a scene rooted in punk, music looms large across the pictures pouring in. Photos include \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/CMkdaj5hKo7/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">backyard\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/CMe37exhhkw/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">basement shows\u003c/a>, and a multitude of underground bands, local and otherwise. You can spot members of Green Day, AFI, Pinhead Gunpowder, Screw 32, Avail, Los Crudos, One Man Army, The PeeChees, Black Fork, Talk is Poison, The Criminals, El Dopa, Defiance, The Enemies, Behead the Prophet, The Shattered, Logical Nonsense and many more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sometimes, it’s the more obscure bands that are the most fun to look back on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13895162 aligncenter\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/03/Screen-Shot-2021-04-02-at-5.01.11-PM-800x352.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"352\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/03/Screen-Shot-2021-04-02-at-5.01.11-PM-800x352.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/03/Screen-Shot-2021-04-02-at-5.01.11-PM-1020x449.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/03/Screen-Shot-2021-04-02-at-5.01.11-PM-160x70.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/03/Screen-Shot-2021-04-02-at-5.01.11-PM-768x338.png 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/03/Screen-Shot-2021-04-02-at-5.01.11-PM-1536x676.png 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/03/Screen-Shot-2021-04-02-at-5.01.11-PM-2048x901.png 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/03/Screen-Shot-2021-04-02-at-5.01.11-PM-1920x845.png 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the account is just as likely to include photos of scene kids carving pumpkins, doing each other’s hair, chilling with \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/CMdZrqMhk_z/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pets\u003c/a> (including \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/CMdZmxYB83E/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">baby raccoons\u003c/a>!), hanging \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/CMgEFvehc10/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">on the front porch\u003c/a>, in the \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/CMfW1hUhIiO/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">backyard\u003c/a>, and also playing \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/CMf5HrRBu6M/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">dress up\u003c/a>. (There is \u003cem>a lot\u003c/em> of \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/CMf9x_eB_a7/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">dress up\u003c/a>.) One photo recently emerged of a bunch of \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/CMn4XRxBc-a/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">punks working in a call center\u003c/a>, all lined up in cubicles. (Whitney says “75% of all punks in the Bay” worked in telemarketing at the time.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s impossible to tell the story of Oakland punk houses, however, without including the fact that this was a scene in which a lot of people died way too young. Whitney handles this simply but effectively, by including an ‘RIP’ next to anyone in the photos who’s no longer alive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Maybe this was punk everywhere,” Whitney explains, “but Oakland punk houses were, for the most part, made up of people that maybe had experienced some not great things in our early lives. We were coming together in some sort of sleep-away camp orphanage to create our own families, with our own rules and morals and infrastructures. And within those structures, there was a sense of being allowed to be what you were.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“But in that scene,” she continues, “there just wasn’t an infrastructure for aging, or getting older in a tenable way that looked cool, where we could all stay together. No one knew how to do it. A lot of people partied too hard, and it was really intense. I think a lot of people didn’t know how to stay in the scene and not self-destruct.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13894333\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13894333\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/03/RIP-800x371.jpg\" alt=\"Elizabeth Whitney adds 'RIP' whenever captioning pictures of punk house regulars who are no longer alive. Like (L-R): Heiko Schrepel, Shelly Skelley, Freud Reia and 'Dead Boy'.\" width=\"800\" height=\"371\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/03/RIP-800x371.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/03/RIP-1020x473.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/03/RIP-160x74.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/03/RIP-768x356.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/03/RIP-1536x713.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/03/RIP-2048x951.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/03/RIP-1920x891.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Elizabeth Whitney adds ‘RIP’ whenever captioning pictures of punk house regulars who are no longer alive. Like (L-R): Heiko Schrepel, Shelly Skelley, Freud Reia and ‘Dead Boy’. \u003ccite>(Instagram/@punkhouseoakland)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The heightened sense of mortality also influenced Whitney’s desire to start the account. “I wanted us not just to celebrate and tell stories at funerals,” she says. “I want the people I love and admire, and the people that touched my life in some way—I want them to know it. And I’m watching that spread now in just the raddest way.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-12127869\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-800x78.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"78\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-768x75.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\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\">D\u003c/span>anyel Smith, one of the premier writers on American culture over the past three decades, tells me the goal of her new podcast series \u003ca href=\"https://open.spotify.com/show/20Ifo2kqrmLweDY87KC0dr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>Black Girl Songbook\u003c/em>\u003c/a> is best exemplified by something that happened in a recent episode.\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-13833985\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/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>Last week’s chapter, “\u003ca href=\"https://open.spotify.com/show/20Ifo2kqrmLweDY87KC0dr?si=ya5JzRYZQk25gTBnXJULCg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Diss-Education of Lauryn Hill\u003c/a>,” took listeners into the world of diss tracks through Smith’s appreciation of Lauryn Hill’s classic “Lost Ones.” As a bit of an aside, Smith asks one of her guests, legendary lyricist MC Lyte, if her speaking voice is the same as her regular voice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>MC Lyte tells Smith no—that she only uses her real voice when she’s at home, in the company of family. Lyte, the voice of so many big-name events, commercials, and classic songs, says no one had ever asked her that before.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“No one ever asks Black women questions,” says Smith, who boasts a resume showing she knows a thing or two about asking questions. She’s served as editor-at-large at Time Inc., editor at Billboard, and twice as the editor-in-chief of Vibe, where she was both the first African-American and first woman to hold that position.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Smith has made a career out of asking athletes, entertainers and specifically Black women in hip-hop and R&B the questions no one else asks them. And with her latest endeavor, as well as her forthcoming book \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://www.amazon.com/Shine-Bright-Personal-History-Black/dp/0593132718\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Shine Bright: A Personal History of Black Women in Pop\u003c/a>,\u003c/em> she’s looking to ask more questions and share some of her own stories.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.instagram.com/p/BUErg6Shwrz/\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\">S\u003c/span>mith’s story, like most good stories, begins in Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Smith attended Bella Vista Elementary School, and took summer school classes at my own alma mater, Edna M. Brewer Middle School (formerly McChesney Junior High). And though she moved to Los Angeles for high school, she says, the lessons she learned in the Town stayed with her to this day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Growing up, Smith lived across the street from Highland Hospital, on Vallecito Place. Smith also spent time on 31st Street, 13th Avenue and East 24th Street in a neighborhood alternately known as the Twomps, Rollin’ Twenties or Murder Dubbs. That’s the same neighborhood that brought the world longtime journalist and MTV host \u003ca href=\"https://vimeo.com/193387173\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Sway Calloway\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“First of all,” Smith says to me in that tone that’s both joyous and serious, “Sway’s mom and my mom knew each other at Fremont High School.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Smith sincerely values her Oakland roots. On one episode of \u003cem>Black Girl Songbook\u003c/em> she mentions picking blackberries in her great-grandparents’ backyard on 83rd Avenue near East 14th Street. She remembers complaining, “But gram, there’s wasps!”—and getting the advice from her elder, “Well, move quickly.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.instagram.com/p/BCvWCrbyxzT/\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to family, she soaked up culture from the community. “\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13877570/a-tribute-to-soul-beat-tv-the-black-owned-network-of-east-oakland\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">SoulBeat\u003c/a> was a lifeline,” Smith says, audibly clapping against a hard surface in the background as she references the old music videos and small-business commercials the Black-owned television station used to air. “It was A. Life. Line.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A music fanatic since the time she saw the Jackson Five perform at the Circle Star Theatre in San Carlos as a kid, Smith eventually gravitated toward hip-hop, which was coming of age just as she was.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While San Francisco’s KMEL was pivoting from being an “album oriented rock” radio station to an “urban” station, Smith found culture in the margins: on late-night pirate radio stations and at clubs like the Stargaze in Fremont.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During her first stint in college at UC Berkeley, Smith tells me, she’d sweat out the entirety of her hairdo while dancing at parties where a guy named DJ Davey D was on the ones and twos. “All of (Davey D’s) community work over the years is legendary,” says Smith of KPFA’s \u003ca href=\"https://kpfa.org/program/hard-knock-radio/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Hard Knock Radio\u003c/a> host Davey D. “But let’s not forget that he really did have a reputation in the ’80s for DJing the best parties in all of the Bay Area.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Smith knows about partying. “Back then, I was running around with Digital Underground… I was in these streets,” says Smith, laughing after stressing \u003cem>streets\u003c/em> and bringing back that joyous-yet-serious tone. “People are always like, ‘You were friends with 2Pac?’ I’m like, ‘I was actually friends with \u003cem>Tupac Shakur\u003c/em>.'”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13894182\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 250px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13894182\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/03/download-1.jpg\" alt=\"Danyel Smith sits on a coastline, hair blowing in the wind, as she looks into the camera. 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But writing was calling her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I got into journalism because of the murder rate in Oakland,” says Smith, speaking candidly about what was happening around her in 1992—the drugs and violence—and how that year became known for the \u003ca href=\"https://crime-data-explorer.fr.cloud.gov/explorer/agency/CA0010900/crime\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">highest number of homicides\u003c/a> Oakland has ever tallied. “I was so tired of the local news counting murders like people were animals,” says Smith.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With the assistance of former \u003cem>San Francisco Bay Guardian\u003c/em> Arts Editor Tommy Tompkins and former \u003cem>SF Weekly\u003c/em> Music Editor \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/people/140955737/ann-powers\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ann K. Powers,\u003c/a> she got into the game. “This was when the alternative weeklies of the Bay Area were very helpful,” says Smith, also shouting out \u003cem>LA Weekly\u003c/em> and New York’s \u003cem>Village Voice\u003c/em>. “In many cases, they extended a hand to people of color to get them started writing. I miss those days.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Smith’s call up to the major leagues came through Bill Adler, founding member of Def Jam, longtime journalist and namesake of the \u003ca href=\"https://digital.library.cornell.edu/catalog?f%5Bcollection_tesim%5D%5B%5D=Adler+Hip+Hop+Archive\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Adler Hip-Hop Archive\u003c/a> at Cornell University. He informed Smith of an opening for the R&B Editor at \u003cem>Billboard\u003c/em>. Smith says she went to Oakland’s MacArthur-Broadway Mall (where Kaiser now stands) and got a suit that couldn’t have cost more than $40. “I made up my mind that I was going to get that job,” Smith recalls. “And that’s all she wrote.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In all actuality, she was just getting started writing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13894183\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13894183\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/03/download-2-800x951.jpg\" alt=\"Inside of the NYC Billboard offices in 1993 as Boyz II Men (and friends) pose with Billboard's R&B editor Danyel Smith (center) and R&B/Hip Hop Charts Director Terri Rossi.\" width=\"800\" height=\"951\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/03/download-2-800x951.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/03/download-2-1020x1212.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/03/download-2-160x190.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/03/download-2-768x913.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/03/download-2.jpg 1077w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Inside of the NYC Billboard offices in 1993 as Boyz II Men (and friends) pose with Billboard’s R&B editor Danyel Smith (center) and R&B/Hip Hop Charts Director Terri Rossi. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Danyel Smith)\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\">S\u003c/span>mith landed big-name interviews with figures like \u003ca href=\"https://books.google.com/books?id=QCgEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PT15&lpg=PT15&dq=danyel+smith+Wesley+Snipes+billboard&source=bl&ots=Cw7IY0bx88&sig=ACfU3U01hWwrbxfYqzB72IPogFG4ONajLw&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjeqY-6_LjvAhVFDDQIHRLrA0kQ6AEwEnoECAQQAw#v=onepage&q=danyel%20smith%20Wesley%20Snipes%20billboard&f=false\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Wesley Snipes,\u003c/a> and was one of the earliest reporters to investigate what eventually proved to be sex crimes committed by \u003ca href=\"https://books.google.com/books?id=dywEAAAAMBAJ&lpg=PA53&vq=kelly&pg=PA52#v=onepage&q&f=false\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">R. Kelly\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Smith held her own, she admits she was “unpolished.” She took notes on how other women carried themselves and dressed, while at the same time, “I brought Oakland with me to every meeting. Good, bad, or otherwise.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Smith tells me about a time an unnamed male boss told her he’d thought she was going to be too hood for the job. “But it seems like you’re doing OK,” Smith recalls him saying. It motivated Smith to dive deeper into her work. She credits a number of women, mentors, who took her under their wing and told her “not to drink out of the finger bowl at Mr. Chow’s.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Because I’m looking clueless while hearing the story, Smith tells me a “finger bowl” is a little fancy container full of warm water for washing your hands at the table. \u003ca href=\"https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2312380/bio\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Cassandra Mills\u003c/a>, the highly regarded manager, higher-up at Giant Records and force behind the success of the \u003cem>New Jack City\u003c/em> soundtrack, had to give Smith a gentle touch on the wrist to tell her not to drink it. “It had a lemon in it,” says Smith. “I was like, ‘Oh, lemon tea for me!’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Years later, she’s not embarrassed about the interaction. “There’s no shame in not coming up around stuff like that,” says Smith, who knows others who’ve had to acclimate to the different world of Manhattan. “I married a guy, Ell, he’s from the projects in Queens. We’ll get through this together.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ell—or \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/ElliottWilson?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Elliott Wilson\u003c/a>, often referred to as the “GOAT” of hip-hop journalism—is the founder of Rap Radar and Chief Content Officer at Tidal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Smith is transparent about their relationship: Wilson is her second husband, and their bond is a product of her taking time to heal from past relationships, Smith says, as well her being intentional about the things she truly wanted in life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In her mid-30s, Smith took time away from work, went back to school and earned her undergraduate and masters degrees and also published a novel, \u003ca href=\"https://www.amazon.com/More-Like-Wrestling-Danyel-Smith/dp/0609809938\">\u003ci>More Like Wrestling,\u003c/i>\u003c/a> which is set in Oakland. She says one day she was at a friend’s birthday party and saw someone she’d known for a while, but had never looked at in \u003cem>that way\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Smith and Wilson have now been married for 16 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>http://www.instagram.com/p/3xkmu4Sx53/\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\">T\u003c/span>hrough my conversation with Smith, and in listening to her podcast, it’s become pretty clear just how important relationships are to the stories she tells.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So far this season, she’s covered her relationship to Whitney Houston as a fan, Whitney’s romantic relationship with Bobby Brown, the sisterhood-esque relationship between Natalie Cole and Whitney Houston, and the familial relationship of Natalie Cole and her father, Nat King Cole.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Looking back at her work, it’s a mechanism Smith has used in multiple ways. In retelling the story of a \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M7r8T0e5icU\">confrontation with Foxy Brown,\u003c/a> she focused on a friendship that shouldn’t have been. \u003ca href=\"https://theundefeated.com/features/simone-biles-most-dominant-athlete-of-2018/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">In writing about Simone Biles\u003c/a>, she focused on the gymnast’s relationship to her sport, as well as other elite athletes. And in one of her more moving pieces, Smith writes candidly about her relationship with herself, as she juxtaposes \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2020/11/11/933080759/sade-saves-lovers-rock-20th-career-retrospective\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">her own growth with Sade’s musical catalog\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The definition of love in a relationship,” Smith says, “is contributing to the other person’s growth.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of course, she says, taking care of the other person and staying romantic are in the mix, but “if you’re going to be with a person a long time, you have to be into that person growing into who they’re going to be,” says Smith, “and they have to be into you growing into who you are going to be.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The same philosophy on relationships continually shows up in her work: as the culture has grown, so has she.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve always felt that hip-hop, when I got into it, it was still a subculture,” Smith says. “It wasn’t getting the credit that it deserved for changing culture and changing the world.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And as hip-hop, and for that matter Black American entertainment as a whole, continues to get its due credit for changing the world, so too should its key purveyors.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>In addition to family, she soaked up culture from the community. “\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13877570/a-tribute-to-soul-beat-tv-the-black-owned-network-of-east-oakland\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">SoulBeat\u003c/a> was a lifeline,” Smith says, audibly clapping against a hard surface in the background as she references the old music videos and small-business commercials the Black-owned television station used to air. “It was A. Life. Line.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A music fanatic since the time she saw the Jackson Five perform at the Circle Star Theatre in San Carlos as a kid, Smith eventually gravitated toward hip-hop, which was coming of age just as she was.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While San Francisco’s KMEL was pivoting from being an “album oriented rock” radio station to an “urban” station, Smith found culture in the margins: on late-night pirate radio stations and at clubs like the Stargaze in Fremont.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During her first stint in college at UC Berkeley, Smith tells me, she’d sweat out the entirety of her hairdo while dancing at parties where a guy named DJ Davey D was on the ones and twos. “All of (Davey D’s) community work over the years is legendary,” says Smith of KPFA’s \u003ca href=\"https://kpfa.org/program/hard-knock-radio/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Hard Knock Radio\u003c/a> host Davey D. “But let’s not forget that he really did have a reputation in the ’80s for DJing the best parties in all of the Bay Area.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Smith knows about partying. “Back then, I was running around with Digital Underground… I was in these streets,” says Smith, laughing after stressing \u003cem>streets\u003c/em> and bringing back that joyous-yet-serious tone. “People are always like, ‘You were friends with 2Pac?’ I’m like, ‘I was actually friends with \u003cem>Tupac Shakur\u003c/em>.'”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13894182\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 250px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13894182\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/03/download-1.jpg\" alt=\"Danyel Smith sits on a coastline, hair blowing in the wind, as she looks into the camera. 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But writing was calling her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I got into journalism because of the murder rate in Oakland,” says Smith, speaking candidly about what was happening around her in 1992—the drugs and violence—and how that year became known for the \u003ca href=\"https://crime-data-explorer.fr.cloud.gov/explorer/agency/CA0010900/crime\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">highest number of homicides\u003c/a> Oakland has ever tallied. “I was so tired of the local news counting murders like people were animals,” says Smith.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With the assistance of former \u003cem>San Francisco Bay Guardian\u003c/em> Arts Editor Tommy Tompkins and former \u003cem>SF Weekly\u003c/em> Music Editor \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/people/140955737/ann-powers\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ann K. 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Smith says she went to Oakland’s MacArthur-Broadway Mall (where Kaiser now stands) and got a suit that couldn’t have cost more than $40. “I made up my mind that I was going to get that job,” Smith recalls. “And that’s all she wrote.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In all actuality, she was just getting started writing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13894183\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13894183\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/03/download-2-800x951.jpg\" alt=\"Inside of the NYC Billboard offices in 1993 as Boyz II Men (and friends) pose with Billboard's R&B editor Danyel Smith (center) and R&B/Hip Hop Charts Director Terri Rossi.\" width=\"800\" height=\"951\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/03/download-2-800x951.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/03/download-2-1020x1212.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/03/download-2-160x190.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/03/download-2-768x913.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/03/download-2.jpg 1077w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Inside of the NYC Billboard offices in 1993 as Boyz II Men (and friends) pose with Billboard’s R&B editor Danyel Smith (center) and R&B/Hip Hop Charts Director Terri Rossi. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Danyel Smith)\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\">S\u003c/span>mith landed big-name interviews with figures like \u003ca href=\"https://books.google.com/books?id=QCgEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PT15&lpg=PT15&dq=danyel+smith+Wesley+Snipes+billboard&source=bl&ots=Cw7IY0bx88&sig=ACfU3U01hWwrbxfYqzB72IPogFG4ONajLw&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjeqY-6_LjvAhVFDDQIHRLrA0kQ6AEwEnoECAQQAw#v=onepage&q=danyel%20smith%20Wesley%20Snipes%20billboard&f=false\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Wesley Snipes,\u003c/a> and was one of the earliest reporters to investigate what eventually proved to be sex crimes committed by \u003ca href=\"https://books.google.com/books?id=dywEAAAAMBAJ&lpg=PA53&vq=kelly&pg=PA52#v=onepage&q&f=false\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">R. 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She credits a number of women, mentors, who took her under their wing and told her “not to drink out of the finger bowl at Mr. Chow’s.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Because I’m looking clueless while hearing the story, Smith tells me a “finger bowl” is a little fancy container full of warm water for washing your hands at the table. \u003ca href=\"https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2312380/bio\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Cassandra Mills\u003c/a>, the highly regarded manager, higher-up at Giant Records and force behind the success of the \u003cem>New Jack City\u003c/em> soundtrack, had to give Smith a gentle touch on the wrist to tell her not to drink it. “It had a lemon in it,” says Smith. “I was like, ‘Oh, lemon tea for me!’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Years later, she’s not embarrassed about the interaction. “There’s no shame in not coming up around stuff like that,” says Smith, who knows others who’ve had to acclimate to the different world of Manhattan. “I married a guy, Ell, he’s from the projects in Queens. We’ll get through this together.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ell—or \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/ElliottWilson?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Elliott Wilson\u003c/a>, often referred to as the “GOAT” of hip-hop journalism—is the founder of Rap Radar and Chief Content Officer at Tidal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Smith is transparent about their relationship: Wilson is her second husband, and their bond is a product of her taking time to heal from past relationships, Smith says, as well her being intentional about the things she truly wanted in life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In her mid-30s, Smith took time away from work, went back to school and earned her undergraduate and masters degrees and also published a novel, \u003ca href=\"https://www.amazon.com/More-Like-Wrestling-Danyel-Smith/dp/0609809938\">\u003ci>More Like Wrestling,\u003c/i>\u003c/a> which is set in Oakland. 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Last month, Los Angeles student activists and community members emerged victorious as the Board of Education voted to cut a third of Los Angeles School Police Department’s officers, ban the use of pepper spray on students, and reinvest some of the department’s funding to improve the education of Black students. Seattle, Denver, Minneapolis and Portland have all taken \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/17/us/los-angeles-school-police.html\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">steps to redirect school police funding\u003c/a> as well.[aside postID='news_11823700']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yet even as organizers in Oakland celebrate, they do so with the knowledge that this is not a conclusive triumph but rather the start of a new and long undertaking. BOP communications director Jasmine Williams says the group foresees the implementation of the George Floyd Resolution being a two- to three-year process. “But also noting that this has been hundreds of years of systemic oppression and very apparent anti-Blackness within school spaces,” she adds. “We know that beyond three years there’s going to be work that needs to be done.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And therein lies the largest disconnect between sensational headlines about major structural changes and the real work that goes into implementing them. The Minneapolis City Council attracted viral attention last summer when they pledged to dismantle the police department that killed George Floyd—a \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/26/us/politics/minneapolis-defund-police.html\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">commitment that fell flat just months later\u003c/a>. But the BOP is in this for the long haul, and Oakland schools are serving as a case study for how defunding and abolition efforts can actually achieve their goals. \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13893870\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/03/GettyImages-1258685113-800x534.jpg\" alt=\"Protesters hold signs in support of defunding the police on July 25, 2020 in Oakland, California. \" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13893870\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/03/GettyImages-1258685113-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/03/GettyImages-1258685113-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/03/GettyImages-1258685113-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/03/GettyImages-1258685113-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/03/GettyImages-1258685113.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Protesters hold signs in support of defunding the police on July 25, 2020 in Oakland, California. \u003ccite>(Natasha Moustache/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>What Will Replace School Police?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The first and latest phase of the new safety plan to replace the OSPD was approved in December, with six of seven board members voting in favor and outgoing District 3 Director Jumoke Hinton Hodge abstaining. Key to the new plan is a policy for responding to mental health emergencies, in which social workers or psychologists will work with a student experiencing a mental health crisis rather than an OSPD officer. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new plan also calls for the establishment of a Culture and Climate Department, which will transition school security officers who are currently employed by the department but are not sworn police officers. School security officers will be retrained to mediate conflicts using restorative justice practices and to build relationships with students. (As of 2020, the Oakland School Police Department employed a police chief, seven officers and two sergeants, as well as 47 unarmed school security officers.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under the new plan, Oakland Police Department officers would still be called in certain situations, including bomb threats, active shooters, physical and sexual assaults, and medical emergencies. Those officers are employed by the city and not the district—a caveat that raised many concerns from school officials, educators, and school board members, particularly Director Hinton Hodge. \u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Lingering Differences\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Last March, a group of 28 school staff and board members wrote a letter in opposition to the BOP’s proposals. “Unlike OPD officers, who come with guns, OUSD police officers come trained with de-escalation and restorative practices. They know our schools, leaders and families and treat our students with the respect and empathy that they deserve,” \u003ca href=\"https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/6956646/Principals-Oppose-to-Eliminating-Police.pdf\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">they wrote\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The BOP is more than aware of these concerns. “In 2017, we had data that showed school police being called on students over 6,000 times by administrators. And so in response to that, we created the Black Sanctuary Pledge that we administered to teachers and school site staff that said, ‘I pledge not to call police, ICE, or Homeland Security on Black and brown students for nonviolent issues,’” says BOP Communications Director Jasmine Williams. “Through this strategy that we primarily spearheaded with the Oakland Education Association, we were able to struggle through authentic conversations.” [aside PostID='news_11826192']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We know that teachers are coming into this space ultimately wanting to support students and families… But unintentionally or intentionally, they can also be complicit in the school-to-prison pipeline, if they continue to call police on students,” she adds. “What we found from those conversations was that teachers were struggling with that too. They don’t really want to call the police, but they don’t have anyone else to call. They had no teacher’s aide for support, or there were barely any counselors on campus.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On June 10, a different group of 45 school administrators released their own letter, in support of the efforts to eliminate the OSPD. “We seek to provide young people with access and opportunity; the OUSD Police Department offers neither, and its continued existence is funded at the expense of programs far better suited to attending to the academic, social, and health-related needs of our young people,” reads the \u003ca href=\"https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/6956650/Defund-OUSD-PD-Principals-Letter.pdf\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">second letter\u003c/a>. “Some will say that the OUSD Police Department is necessary because it is used. When school leaders are given only a hammer, they will treat every problem like a nail.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The group addressed concerns brought up by the first letter, which were similar to those of Director Hinton Hodge. “If, as has been asserted elsewhere, OPD is unable to provide adequate service to our schools, then this represents a further call for action and change. We should not subsidize these perceived shortcomings at the expense of our school communities,” they wrote. “Allyship requires commitment. Values, like dreams, must be upheld lest they be deferred.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Director Gary Yee is one of three remaining members on an otherwise entirely newly elected school board who was part of the unanimous vote to eliminate the OSPD, and is one of the four board members who had voted against such proposals last March. He says his reservations came from a lack of a safety plan to replace the department at the time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There may have been some cases in which it may have been unnecessary to call the school police, but it was probably easier than to find the appropriate department or staff member to respond quickly to an emergency,” Yee said, echoing the sentiments of the second letter. To abolish the department would “require a retraining of the school site administration who didn’t know who to refer different kinds of incidents to. And we have that plan developed now.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In the arguments in favor of disbanding the school police department, I did not hear any kind of direct descriptions of incompetence or hostility or anything by our police force. I just want to underscore that I think our Oakland school police actually performed very professionally,” Yee adds. “This is not a criticism of them as people. But it’s more the system-wide resetting of the means by which we intervene in situations where in the past we’ve called the police.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13893866\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/03/GettyImages-919093364-1-1020x568-1-800x445.jpg\" alt=\"Oakland School Police chief Jeff Godown (R) talks with Oakland Unified School District staff during an active shooter training in 2018. \" width=\"800\" height=\"445\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13893866\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/03/GettyImages-919093364-1-1020x568-1-800x445.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/03/GettyImages-919093364-1-1020x568-1-160x89.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/03/GettyImages-919093364-1-1020x568-1-768x428.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/03/GettyImages-919093364-1-1020x568-1.jpg 1020w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Oakland School Police chief Jeff Godown (R) talks with Oakland Unified School District staff during an active shooter training in 2018. \u003ccite>(Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>No Official Layoff Date Given for School Officers\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Despite the deadline set forth by the George Floyd Resolution to eliminate the department by Jan. 1, 2021, district officers remained employed by OUSD. As of last December, $2.8 million of the former OSPD budget was to be invested in the new programs set out by the safety plan, including trainings and the new culture and climate positions. The remaining $3.4 million of the \u003ca href=\"https://oaklandside.org/2020/12/10/new-safety-plan-maps-the-future-of-oakland-schools-without-a-police-department/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">approximately $6.2 million OSPD budget\u003c/a> was expected to be paid out in salaries and other compensation to officers, according to \u003ca href=\"https://oaklandside.org/2020/12/10/new-safety-plan-maps-the-future-of-oakland-schools-without-a-police-department/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">a report\u003c/a> in Oaklandside.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>OUSD officials declined to give KQED an official layoff date or confirm updated salary figures as of March, making for an unusual situation where school police are being paid for not working in schools without official explanation. However, police union disputes have disrupted district decisions before. A 2002 decision to eliminate the department and reassign its responsibilities to OPD, due to budget cuts, was reversed in a 2005 court ruling which determined that the union representing OSPD officers was not given sufficient opportunity to negotiate the terms of that transition. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Former OSPD chief Jeff Godown, who declined KQED’s request for comment, was supportive of the efforts to eliminate the department last summer. He has now been tasked with dismantling the department and getting rid of its cars, weapons, and equipment. \u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Even in Distance Learning, School Police Intervene\n\u003ch2>\n\u003c/h2>\u003c/h2>\u003cp>Despite OUSD and many other districts across the nation projecting the continuation of distanced learning for the remainder of this school year, the issues of policing in schools haven’t disappeared with online class. During the pandemic, students in states like \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/09/08/black-student-suspended-police-toy-gun/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Colorado\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.northjersey.com/story/news/bergen/edgewater/2020/09/11/edgewater-nj-police-called-after-student-had-nerf-gun-during-zoom-class/3468499001/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">New Jersey\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://foxbaltimore.com/news/project-baltimore/police-search-baltimore-county-house-over-bb-gun-in-virtual-class\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Maryland\u003c/a> have seen police show up at their doors because of toy guns seen by their teachers in Zoom class, and a 15-year-old girl was \u003ca href=\"https://www.propublica.org/article/a-teenager-didnt-do-her-online-schoolwork-so-a-judge-sent-her-to-juvenile-detention\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">sent back to juvenile detention\u003c/a> for missing online assignments in Michigan last July.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They’re not on campus, but the policing of students and of Black and brown students in particular still happens. We still see cases over 2020 of students being detained for not turning in assignments or getting policed for not attending their virtual class,” says Williams. “Our fight has always been against the policing and surveillance and criminalization culture that contributes to this toxicity in school environments.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The George Floyd Resolution is the genesis of the latest chapter of that fight in Oakland, and now time will tell if the district can live up to its commitments. If they do, their success may serve as a nationwide example for what it truly means to reimagine safety and take real steps towards dismantling structures that criminalize students across the country.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Amidst last year’s nationwide protests against police brutality and systemic racism, all eyes turned to Oakland as the Black Organizing Project (BOP) won a battle almost a decade in the making.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Passing the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11826192/after-abolishing-school-police-oakland-wants-to-reimagine-safety-in-education\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">George Floyd Resolution\u003c/a> unanimously on June 24, the Oakland School Board committed to entirely eliminating the Oakland School Police Department (OSPD) and reinvesting its $6 million budget into a new safety plan focused on supporting students and fighting the school-to-prison pipeline.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nine months later, Oakland is at the forefront of a nationwide movement as an ever-increasing number of jurisdictions are similarly deciding to decrease or eliminate school police, \u003ca href=\"https://public.tableau.com/profile/jeremy.kittredge#!/vizhome/SROUpdate/Sheet2\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">according to the Justice Policy Institute\u003c/a>. Last month, Los Angeles student activists and community members emerged victorious as the Board of Education voted to cut a third of Los Angeles School Police Department’s officers, ban the use of pepper spray on students, and reinvest some of the department’s funding to improve the education of Black students. Seattle, Denver, Minneapolis and Portland have all taken \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/17/us/los-angeles-school-police.html\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">steps to redirect school police funding\u003c/a> as well.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yet even as organizers in Oakland celebrate, they do so with the knowledge that this is not a conclusive triumph but rather the start of a new and long undertaking. BOP communications director Jasmine Williams says the group foresees the implementation of the George Floyd Resolution being a two- to three-year process. “But also noting that this has been hundreds of years of systemic oppression and very apparent anti-Blackness within school spaces,” she adds. “We know that beyond three years there’s going to be work that needs to be done.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And therein lies the largest disconnect between sensational headlines about major structural changes and the real work that goes into implementing them. The Minneapolis City Council attracted viral attention last summer when they pledged to dismantle the police department that killed George Floyd—a \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/26/us/politics/minneapolis-defund-police.html\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">commitment that fell flat just months later\u003c/a>. But the BOP is in this for the long haul, and Oakland schools are serving as a case study for how defunding and abolition efforts can actually achieve their goals. \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13893870\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/03/GettyImages-1258685113-800x534.jpg\" alt=\"Protesters hold signs in support of defunding the police on July 25, 2020 in Oakland, California. \" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13893870\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/03/GettyImages-1258685113-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/03/GettyImages-1258685113-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/03/GettyImages-1258685113-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/03/GettyImages-1258685113-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/03/GettyImages-1258685113.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Protesters hold signs in support of defunding the police on July 25, 2020 in Oakland, California. \u003ccite>(Natasha Moustache/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>What Will Replace School Police?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The first and latest phase of the new safety plan to replace the OSPD was approved in December, with six of seven board members voting in favor and outgoing District 3 Director Jumoke Hinton Hodge abstaining. Key to the new plan is a policy for responding to mental health emergencies, in which social workers or psychologists will work with a student experiencing a mental health crisis rather than an OSPD officer. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new plan also calls for the establishment of a Culture and Climate Department, which will transition school security officers who are currently employed by the department but are not sworn police officers. School security officers will be retrained to mediate conflicts using restorative justice practices and to build relationships with students. (As of 2020, the Oakland School Police Department employed a police chief, seven officers and two sergeants, as well as 47 unarmed school security officers.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under the new plan, Oakland Police Department officers would still be called in certain situations, including bomb threats, active shooters, physical and sexual assaults, and medical emergencies. Those officers are employed by the city and not the district—a caveat that raised many concerns from school officials, educators, and school board members, particularly Director Hinton Hodge. \u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Lingering Differences\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Last March, a group of 28 school staff and board members wrote a letter in opposition to the BOP’s proposals. “Unlike OPD officers, who come with guns, OUSD police officers come trained with de-escalation and restorative practices. They know our schools, leaders and families and treat our students with the respect and empathy that they deserve,” \u003ca href=\"https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/6956646/Principals-Oppose-to-Eliminating-Police.pdf\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">they wrote\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The BOP is more than aware of these concerns. “In 2017, we had data that showed school police being called on students over 6,000 times by administrators. And so in response to that, we created the Black Sanctuary Pledge that we administered to teachers and school site staff that said, ‘I pledge not to call police, ICE, or Homeland Security on Black and brown students for nonviolent issues,’” says BOP Communications Director Jasmine Williams. “Through this strategy that we primarily spearheaded with the Oakland Education Association, we were able to struggle through authentic conversations.” \u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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They had no teacher’s aide for support, or there were barely any counselors on campus.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On June 10, a different group of 45 school administrators released their own letter, in support of the efforts to eliminate the OSPD. “We seek to provide young people with access and opportunity; the OUSD Police Department offers neither, and its continued existence is funded at the expense of programs far better suited to attending to the academic, social, and health-related needs of our young people,” reads the \u003ca href=\"https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/6956650/Defund-OUSD-PD-Principals-Letter.pdf\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">second letter\u003c/a>. “Some will say that the OUSD Police Department is necessary because it is used. When school leaders are given only a hammer, they will treat every problem like a nail.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The group addressed concerns brought up by the first letter, which were similar to those of Director Hinton Hodge. “If, as has been asserted elsewhere, OPD is unable to provide adequate service to our schools, then this represents a further call for action and change. We should not subsidize these perceived shortcomings at the expense of our school communities,” they wrote. “Allyship requires commitment. Values, like dreams, must be upheld lest they be deferred.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Director Gary Yee is one of three remaining members on an otherwise entirely newly elected school board who was part of the unanimous vote to eliminate the OSPD, and is one of the four board members who had voted against such proposals last March. He says his reservations came from a lack of a safety plan to replace the department at the time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There may have been some cases in which it may have been unnecessary to call the school police, but it was probably easier than to find the appropriate department or staff member to respond quickly to an emergency,” Yee said, echoing the sentiments of the second letter. To abolish the department would “require a retraining of the school site administration who didn’t know who to refer different kinds of incidents to. And we have that plan developed now.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In the arguments in favor of disbanding the school police department, I did not hear any kind of direct descriptions of incompetence or hostility or anything by our police force. I just want to underscore that I think our Oakland school police actually performed very professionally,” Yee adds. “This is not a criticism of them as people. But it’s more the system-wide resetting of the means by which we intervene in situations where in the past we’ve called the police.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13893866\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/03/GettyImages-919093364-1-1020x568-1-800x445.jpg\" alt=\"Oakland School Police chief Jeff Godown (R) talks with Oakland Unified School District staff during an active shooter training in 2018. \" width=\"800\" height=\"445\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13893866\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/03/GettyImages-919093364-1-1020x568-1-800x445.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/03/GettyImages-919093364-1-1020x568-1-160x89.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/03/GettyImages-919093364-1-1020x568-1-768x428.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/03/GettyImages-919093364-1-1020x568-1.jpg 1020w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Oakland School Police chief Jeff Godown (R) talks with Oakland Unified School District staff during an active shooter training in 2018. \u003ccite>(Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>No Official Layoff Date Given for School Officers\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Despite the deadline set forth by the George Floyd Resolution to eliminate the department by Jan. 1, 2021, district officers remained employed by OUSD. As of last December, $2.8 million of the former OSPD budget was to be invested in the new programs set out by the safety plan, including trainings and the new culture and climate positions. The remaining $3.4 million of the \u003ca href=\"https://oaklandside.org/2020/12/10/new-safety-plan-maps-the-future-of-oakland-schools-without-a-police-department/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">approximately $6.2 million OSPD budget\u003c/a> was expected to be paid out in salaries and other compensation to officers, according to \u003ca href=\"https://oaklandside.org/2020/12/10/new-safety-plan-maps-the-future-of-oakland-schools-without-a-police-department/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">a report\u003c/a> in Oaklandside.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>OUSD officials declined to give KQED an official layoff date or confirm updated salary figures as of March, making for an unusual situation where school police are being paid for not working in schools without official explanation. However, police union disputes have disrupted district decisions before. A 2002 decision to eliminate the department and reassign its responsibilities to OPD, due to budget cuts, was reversed in a 2005 court ruling which determined that the union representing OSPD officers was not given sufficient opportunity to negotiate the terms of that transition. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Former OSPD chief Jeff Godown, who declined KQED’s request for comment, was supportive of the efforts to eliminate the department last summer. He has now been tasked with dismantling the department and getting rid of its cars, weapons, and equipment. \u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Even in Distance Learning, School Police Intervene\n\u003ch2>\n\u003c/h2>\u003c/h2>\u003cp>Despite OUSD and many other districts across the nation projecting the continuation of distanced learning for the remainder of this school year, the issues of policing in schools haven’t disappeared with online class. During the pandemic, students in states like \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/09/08/black-student-suspended-police-toy-gun/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Colorado\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.northjersey.com/story/news/bergen/edgewater/2020/09/11/edgewater-nj-police-called-after-student-had-nerf-gun-during-zoom-class/3468499001/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">New Jersey\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://foxbaltimore.com/news/project-baltimore/police-search-baltimore-county-house-over-bb-gun-in-virtual-class\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Maryland\u003c/a> have seen police show up at their doors because of toy guns seen by their teachers in Zoom class, and a 15-year-old girl was \u003ca href=\"https://www.propublica.org/article/a-teenager-didnt-do-her-online-schoolwork-so-a-judge-sent-her-to-juvenile-detention\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">sent back to juvenile detention\u003c/a> for missing online assignments in Michigan last July.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They’re not on campus, but the policing of students and of Black and brown students in particular still happens. We still see cases over 2020 of students being detained for not turning in assignments or getting policed for not attending their virtual class,” says Williams. “Our fight has always been against the policing and surveillance and criminalization culture that contributes to this toxicity in school environments.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Edwards is part of the advocacy group \u003ca href=\"http://eastbayvenuecoalition.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">East Bay Venue Coalition\u003c/a>, which includes a variety of nightlife destinations, from prestigious concert halls like the Fox Theater to eclectic dive bar \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13892809/after-five-decades-of-shows-elis-mile-high-club-keeps-the-party-going-on-patreon\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Eli’s Mile High Club\u003c/a>. Now that the Biden administration has announced sufficient vaccine supply to inoculate most American adults against COVID-19 by May, the East Bay Venue Coalition’s focus has been making sure small businesses are ready to meet demand once it’s safe to go out again.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hopefully soon, 14th Street will come alive with the return of concert-goers and office workers, as well as people looking for jobs after a long period of unemployment. Complex and 14th Street Market want to be ready for them. As Edwards puts it, “The more people we can help, the better.”\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">T\u003c/span>he sun shined down on West Oakland last Wednesday as I was greeted with a warm, welcoming, COVID-cautious elbow bump from Ericka Huggins.\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-13833985\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/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>Huggins, the former director of the Black Panther Party’s Oakland Community School, stood masked among a scattered crowd of people on the 1.3-mile stretch of greenway that bisects Mandela Parkway in West Oakland. It’s here that the Cypress Structure collapsed in the ’89 quake—and also where two months prior in that same year, Black Panther Party cofounder Dr. Huey P. Newton was shot and killed just a few blocks away.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And yet—as I overheard one person say during Wednesday’s gathering—“this isn’t where he died, this is where he \u003cem>lived\u003c/em>.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last Wednesday, Feb. 17, would’ve been Dr. Newton’s 79th birthday. To help celebrate were newly minted street signs on a three-block section of 9th Street, now officially rechristened Dr. Huey P. Newton Way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After Fredrika Newton, Dr. Newton’s widow and president of the \u003ca href=\"https://hueypnewtonfoundation.org/\">Dr. Huey P. Newton Foundation\u003c/a>, ceremoniously removed the cloth that covered the new street sign on 9th Street and Mandela Parkway, the crowd made its way to the intersection of 9th and Center Streets. That’s where a freshly painted mural dedicated to the women of the Black Panther Party now radiates from the broad side of a two-story Victorian home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13893058\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13893058\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/02/IMG_3053-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"A two-story home on Center street and 9th street in West Oakland is now home to a mural dedicated to the women of the Black Panther Party. Artwork by Rachel Wolfe-Goldsmith. \" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/02/IMG_3053-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/02/IMG_3053-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/02/IMG_3053-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/02/IMG_3053-768x576.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/02/IMG_3053.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A two-story home on Center street and 9th Street in West Oakland is now home to a mural dedicated to the women of the Black Panther Party. Artwork by Rachel Wolfe-Goldsmith. \u003ccite>(Pendarvis Harshaw)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Lead artist \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/wolfe_.pack/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Rachel Wolfe-Goldsmith\u003c/a> worked with other artists and community members on \u003ca href=\"https://linktr.ee/westoaklandmuralproject\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the #SayHerName: Women of the Black Panther Party Mural Project\u003c/a>, an initiative spearheaded by homeowner \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/missjilie/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">JiLchristina Vest\u003c/a> that honors the names of the largely overlooked women of the Black Panther Party. Towering images of women supplying groceries and carrying guns, drawn from photos taken by \u003ca href=\"https://stephenshames.com/projects/black-panther-party/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Stephen Shames\u003c/a>, are accompanied by the written names of over 250 women—all former Panthers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There aren’t that many public displays honoring the Black Panthers in Oakland. The new mural and street signs join a meager collection: a \u003ca href=\"https://localwiki.org/oakland/Black_Panther_Party\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">small sign\u003c/a> on the corner of 55th and Market Streets, a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13851520/rightnowish-refa-one-spraypaint-in-hand-honors-west-oaklands-history\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">mural\u003c/a> on 14th and Peralta Streets, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.merritt.edu/student-life/hue-p-newton-lounge/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Huey P. Newton Lounge\u003c/a> at Merritt College and \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2018/04/06/600055767/bobby-hutton-the-killing-that-catapulted-the-black-panthers-to-fame\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Lil Bobby Hutton Grove\u003c/a> in DeFremery Park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But countless Panther flags, shirts, and tattoos on the skin of the people in this community all stand as evidence of a widely-known fact: this is Panther territory.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13893145\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13893145\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/02/FreeHuey.Black_.Panthers-800x524.jpg\" alt=\"Two men hold a 'Free Huey' banner at the newly christened Huey P. Newton Way in West Oakland, Feb. 17, 2021. \" width=\"800\" height=\"524\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/02/FreeHuey.Black_.Panthers-800x524.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/02/FreeHuey.Black_.Panthers-1020x668.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/02/FreeHuey.Black_.Panthers-160x105.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/02/FreeHuey.Black_.Panthers-768x503.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/02/FreeHuey.Black_.Panthers-1536x1006.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/02/FreeHuey.Black_.Panthers.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Two men hold a ‘Free Huey’ banner at the newly christened Huey P. Newton Way in West Oakland, Feb. 17, 2021. \u003ccite>(Pendarvis Harshaw/KQED)\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\">E\u003c/span>ven beyond Oakland’s city limits, the Black Panther Party is once again in the larger public consciousness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shaka King’s recently released film \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13892640/director-shaka-kings-long-journey-to-judas-and-the-black-messiah\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003ci>Judas and the Black Messiah\u003c/i>\u003c/a> has reinvigorated people’s interest in the life, politics, and assassination of the Illinois Black Panther Party chapter’s chairman, Fred Hampton. (The film is told from the perspective of William O’Neal, the informant who assisted the FBI in bringing Hampton down.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But well before \u003cem>Judas and the Black Messiah\u003c/em>, and the murals and new signage in Oakland, the legacy of the Party and the individuals involved has long been a personal interest of mine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I once held back childlike excitement when Ericka Huggins and archivist Lisbet Tellefsen allowed me to look through the \u003ca href=\"https://archive.curbed.com/2016/6/29/12010106/black-panther-school-mova-oakland\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">old photos of the Black Panther’s Oakland Community School\u003c/a>. And I defeated pterodactyl-sized stomach butterflies of nervousness before asking Fredrika Newton \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13874735/fredrika-newton-huey-p-revolutionary-love\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">intimate questions about her relationship with Dr. Newton\u003c/a>.[aside postID='arts_13874735']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I’ve talked to educational counselor and former Panther\u003ca href=\"https://ogtoldme.tumblr.com/post/68941837393/sometimes-we-devalue-ourselves-we-dont-really\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> Massai Minters\u003c/a> at UCLA’s Campbell Hall where Bunchy Carter and John Huggins were assassinated, attended an event at Merritt College where famed Black Panther Party illustrator \u003ca href=\"https://ogtoldme.tumblr.com/post/77494359367/culture-is-a-weapon-emory-douglas-emory\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Emory Douglas\u003c/a> spoke about his book \u003cem>Black Panther: The Revolutionary Art of Emory Douglas\u003c/em>, and even sat in a small apartment with a sick \u003ca href=\"https://ogtoldme.tumblr.com/post/49263235572/when-asked-what-guidance-he-would-give-to-a-young\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ronald “Elder” Freeman\u003c/a>, discussing how to address the ills of society while simultaneously looking for his medicine. Elder has since passed, but his words linger.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Through these interactions, as well as reading books and watching documentaries, I’ve gained a certain understanding about the Panthers: terrorized by the government, stigmatized by the media, and loved by the people (well, \u003cem>some\u003c/em> of the people). The Panthers fought to save their community from the failures of a capitalist system, while simultaneously dealing with their own personal issues—issues that were largely the byproducts of a capitalist system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Beyond the legacy of the Black Panther Party as a whole, I often think about the stories of the individual people involved. People whose stories haven’t been fully told. People like the Rev. Cheryl Dawson.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13893142\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13893142\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/02/CherylDawson.2021-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Rev. Cheryl Dawson.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/02/CherylDawson.2021-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/02/CherylDawson.2021-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/02/CherylDawson.2021-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/02/CherylDawson.2021-768x576.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/02/CherylDawson.2021.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Rev. Cheryl Dawson. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Cheryl Dawson.)\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> took the political structure that I learned in the Party, and combined it with the information that I had about womanist theory and I took that work to the Congo—the Democratic Republic of the Congo—did I tell you about that?” Dawson asks me over the phone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I tell her that during our two previous conversations she hadn’t mentioned that, so I’m glad she called back.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She tells me that about a decade ago she led empowerment workshops with women in Uganda and Haiti as well, using principles she developed when she was selling copies of the Black Panther Party newspaper on the corner of Alcatraz Avenue and Adeline Street in Berkeley back in the day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an earlier conversation, she mentions another chapter in her life that was also heavily influenced by her time with the Party.[aside postID='arts_13884294']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Starting in the early ’80s Dawson worked in and out of prisons, developing programs for women who are incarcerated. She spent the final decade of her career working as the Rehabilitation Services Coordinator in the San Francisco County Sheriff Office’s Women’s Resource Center. That’s where she implemented a curriculum to empower women through lectures, through the use of popular media to inspire critical thinking, and by asking class attendees to reflect on “\u003ca href=\"http://ww.sfsheriff.com/newsletter_june2017.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">their own cultural experiences and injustices\u003c/a>”. Upon leaving her position last year, the San Francisco Sheriff’s Department honored her commitment to the work by naming Dec. 20 “Rev. Cheryl Dawson Day.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I couldn’t help but wonder: \u003ci>How do you pivot from working for a revolutionary liberation organization to working for the very institution that incarcerates people?\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was working in the same sacred spaces,” explains Dawson. “The same tight corners, the same buried holes in the ground that I had tested, and walked in, and helped raise people up from when I was working in the Party … The pain that women wore in the prison is the same pain that I saw in the community from which they had come.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Simply put, Dawson saw the position as an opportunity to get deeper into the system and make a change from within.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13893149\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 600px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13893149\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/02/CherylDawson.1970s.jpg\" alt=\"Cheryl Dawson in the 1970s. \" width=\"600\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/02/CherylDawson.1970s.jpg 600w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/02/CherylDawson.1970s-160x213.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cheryl Dawson in the 1980s. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Rev. Cheryl Dawson)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>As a consultant at the federal prison in Dublin, she recalls sitting outside of solitary confinement, kneeling down on the cement floor, and talking through the slit in the steel door where the food was passed through. “I was trying to get a glimpse of the woman I was talking to,” says Dawson. “To just hold her gaze for a moment and try to give her hope for tomorrow.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She did this work while continuing to face “that same deep intimate pain” that she experienced as a young girl; the pain that pushed her to join the Party in the first place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a child, Dawson lived in \u003ca href=\"https://universityvillage.berkeley.edu/about/village-history\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Codornices Village\u003c/a>, a housing project on land leased from UC Berkeley to house wartime workers and their families in the 40s, many of them African American. It’s no coincidence that in the 1960s, when the housing projects were closed and the property was returned to UC Berkeley, \u003ca href=\"http://www.bayareacensus.ca.gov/cities/Albany50.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the “Negro” population\u003c/a> of Albany went from 1,778 people in 1950 down to just 75 people in 1960.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Afterward, Dawson spent some time in Oakland, but Berkeley was her home. She lived one block to the white side of the city’s racial housing dividing line, formerly known as Grove street (now Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At Berkeley’s Longfellow Elementary School, despite being in the Black neighborhood of South Berkeley, she saw racism firsthand. In class, Dawson says, she and the other Black kids were routinely overlooked when they raised their hands and over-punished when they got in trouble.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13893150\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 600px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13893150\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/02/CherylDawson.Wicker.jpg\" alt=\"Cheryl Dawson in the 1970s.\" width=\"600\" height=\"832\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/02/CherylDawson.Wicker.jpg 600w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/02/CherylDawson.Wicker-160x222.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cheryl Dawson in the 1970s. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Rev. Cheryl Dawson)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>She says a brother as dark as she was once got in trouble, and a white teacher grabbed him by the scruff of his neck and put him under one of those old-fashioned wooden desks. The teacher then sat down and scooted her chair in. “She pinned him in like he was a dog or cat or something,” says Dawson. “The only thing he could do is look out from under the desk.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The memory of the disobedient boy and the heavy-handed punishment stuck with her. Shortly afterward she learned about social workers, and how they helped people; especially people who looked like her. “At a very young age,” says Dawson, “I had a desire to do that, it was stamped in my heart. Unbeknownst to me, it would continue to manifest for the remainder of my life.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She went on to attend Willard Junior High, which was much whiter, and well above the racial dividing line. After attending Berkeley High for the majority of her high school years, she graduated from Oakland Tech and went on to Cal State East Bay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While she was in college, Dawson was invited to an event at Oakland City College where Black Panther Party for Self-Defense co-founder Bobby Seale was speaking. And the rest was history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13893143\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13893143\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/02/CherylDawson-800x532.jpg\" alt=\"Cheryl Dawson, seen here with her family.\" width=\"800\" height=\"532\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/02/CherylDawson-800x532.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/02/CherylDawson-1020x678.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/02/CherylDawson-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/02/CherylDawson-768x510.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/02/CherylDawson-1536x1021.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/02/CherylDawson.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cheryl Dawson, seen here with her children. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Cheryl Dawson)\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\">R\u003c/span>ev. Dawson has no issue discussing details of her time in the Party, like bundling up her infant daughter at the early hour of “can’t see in the morning” so they could get to the Panther headquarters, serve the people and take political classes, only to return home at “can’t see at night.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But what stands out from our conversation is Dawson periodically pausing to ask her grandchildren to “be careful while you’re doing that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Community service starts at home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dawson tells me she’s inspired by her great uncle, who left the south on a flatbed truck after being chased by the Klan. Once he settled in California, he sent for his sister, Dawson’s grandmother. Not too long after arriving in the Bay Area, Dawson’s grandmother and grandfather were wed through a marriage broker in West Oakland.[aside postID='arts_13825847']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Speaking highly of her four children, Dawson proudly mentions that two of her sons chose to change their names upon adulthood in an effort to shed their slave names.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dawson holds a master’s degree in womanist theology from the American Baptist Seminary at UC Berkeley’s Graduate Theological Union, as well as an M.A. in women’s spirituality from San Francisco’s California Institute of Integral Studies. She was ordained as a reverend about five years ago, at the same place she served: the historic Beth Eden Baptist Church in West Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She tells me she just recently returned to the church, as nowadays spends most of her time with the grandchildren I heard in the background on our calls. And of course, she plans to take them to see the new mural featuring images of her comrades in West Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The mural brings us from the margins to the center,” says Dawson of the artwork’s significance. “To turn the light on and say: I see you. And to further extend my view of connectivity and say, ‘I see you, because you are me.’ Just that alone is life-saving. And that’s what we were about in the Party: \u003cem>saving the lives of our people.\u003c/em>”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-12127869\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-800x78.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"78\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-768x75.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>The Rev. Cheryl Dawson recently spoke about her experiences with the Black Panther Party on the KQED podcast The Bay. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11858928/west-oakland-mural-honors-women-of-black-panther-party\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Hear it here\u003c/a>. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>As part of ‘The Black Panther Party Celebration of Activism,’ Pendarvis Harshaw interviews Ryan Coogler, Marshawn Lynch, Marcus Roberts, Charles D. King and Josh Johnson, to be broadcast on Facebook Live and YouTube on Wednesday, Feb. 24, at noon PST. \u003ca href=\"https://www.oaklandrootssc.com/news_article/show/1146959\" 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>\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>he sun shined down on West Oakland last Wednesday as I was greeted with a warm, welcoming, COVID-cautious elbow bump from Ericka Huggins.\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-13833985\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/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>Huggins, the former director of the Black Panther Party’s Oakland Community School, stood masked among a scattered crowd of people on the 1.3-mile stretch of greenway that bisects Mandela Parkway in West Oakland. It’s here that the Cypress Structure collapsed in the ’89 quake—and also where two months prior in that same year, Black Panther Party cofounder Dr. Huey P. Newton was shot and killed just a few blocks away.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And yet—as I overheard one person say during Wednesday’s gathering—“this isn’t where he died, this is where he \u003cem>lived\u003c/em>.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last Wednesday, Feb. 17, would’ve been Dr. Newton’s 79th birthday. To help celebrate were newly minted street signs on a three-block section of 9th Street, now officially rechristened Dr. Huey P. Newton Way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After Fredrika Newton, Dr. Newton’s widow and president of the \u003ca href=\"https://hueypnewtonfoundation.org/\">Dr. Huey P. Newton Foundation\u003c/a>, ceremoniously removed the cloth that covered the new street sign on 9th Street and Mandela Parkway, the crowd made its way to the intersection of 9th and Center Streets. That’s where a freshly painted mural dedicated to the women of the Black Panther Party now radiates from the broad side of a two-story Victorian home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13893058\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13893058\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/02/IMG_3053-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"A two-story home on Center street and 9th street in West Oakland is now home to a mural dedicated to the women of the Black Panther Party. Artwork by Rachel Wolfe-Goldsmith. \" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/02/IMG_3053-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/02/IMG_3053-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/02/IMG_3053-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/02/IMG_3053-768x576.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/02/IMG_3053.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A two-story home on Center street and 9th Street in West Oakland is now home to a mural dedicated to the women of the Black Panther Party. Artwork by Rachel Wolfe-Goldsmith. \u003ccite>(Pendarvis Harshaw)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Lead artist \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/wolfe_.pack/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Rachel Wolfe-Goldsmith\u003c/a> worked with other artists and community members on \u003ca href=\"https://linktr.ee/westoaklandmuralproject\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the #SayHerName: Women of the Black Panther Party Mural Project\u003c/a>, an initiative spearheaded by homeowner \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/missjilie/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">JiLchristina Vest\u003c/a> that honors the names of the largely overlooked women of the Black Panther Party. Towering images of women supplying groceries and carrying guns, drawn from photos taken by \u003ca href=\"https://stephenshames.com/projects/black-panther-party/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Stephen Shames\u003c/a>, are accompanied by the written names of over 250 women—all former Panthers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There aren’t that many public displays honoring the Black Panthers in Oakland. The new mural and street signs join a meager collection: a \u003ca href=\"https://localwiki.org/oakland/Black_Panther_Party\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">small sign\u003c/a> on the corner of 55th and Market Streets, a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13851520/rightnowish-refa-one-spraypaint-in-hand-honors-west-oaklands-history\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">mural\u003c/a> on 14th and Peralta Streets, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.merritt.edu/student-life/hue-p-newton-lounge/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Huey P. Newton Lounge\u003c/a> at Merritt College and \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2018/04/06/600055767/bobby-hutton-the-killing-that-catapulted-the-black-panthers-to-fame\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Lil Bobby Hutton Grove\u003c/a> in DeFremery Park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But countless Panther flags, shirts, and tattoos on the skin of the people in this community all stand as evidence of a widely-known fact: this is Panther territory.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13893145\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13893145\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/02/FreeHuey.Black_.Panthers-800x524.jpg\" alt=\"Two men hold a 'Free Huey' banner at the newly christened Huey P. Newton Way in West Oakland, Feb. 17, 2021. \" width=\"800\" height=\"524\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/02/FreeHuey.Black_.Panthers-800x524.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/02/FreeHuey.Black_.Panthers-1020x668.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/02/FreeHuey.Black_.Panthers-160x105.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/02/FreeHuey.Black_.Panthers-768x503.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/02/FreeHuey.Black_.Panthers-1536x1006.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/02/FreeHuey.Black_.Panthers.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Two men hold a ‘Free Huey’ banner at the newly christened Huey P. Newton Way in West Oakland, Feb. 17, 2021. \u003ccite>(Pendarvis Harshaw/KQED)\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\">E\u003c/span>ven beyond Oakland’s city limits, the Black Panther Party is once again in the larger public consciousness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shaka King’s recently released film \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13892640/director-shaka-kings-long-journey-to-judas-and-the-black-messiah\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003ci>Judas and the Black Messiah\u003c/i>\u003c/a> has reinvigorated people’s interest in the life, politics, and assassination of the Illinois Black Panther Party chapter’s chairman, Fred Hampton. (The film is told from the perspective of William O’Neal, the informant who assisted the FBI in bringing Hampton down.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But well before \u003cem>Judas and the Black Messiah\u003c/em>, and the murals and new signage in Oakland, the legacy of the Party and the individuals involved has long been a personal interest of mine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I once held back childlike excitement when Ericka Huggins and archivist Lisbet Tellefsen allowed me to look through the \u003ca href=\"https://archive.curbed.com/2016/6/29/12010106/black-panther-school-mova-oakland\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">old photos of the Black Panther’s Oakland Community School\u003c/a>. And I defeated pterodactyl-sized stomach butterflies of nervousness before asking Fredrika Newton \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13874735/fredrika-newton-huey-p-revolutionary-love\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">intimate questions about her relationship with Dr. Newton\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I’ve talked to educational counselor and former Panther\u003ca href=\"https://ogtoldme.tumblr.com/post/68941837393/sometimes-we-devalue-ourselves-we-dont-really\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> Massai Minters\u003c/a> at UCLA’s Campbell Hall where Bunchy Carter and John Huggins were assassinated, attended an event at Merritt College where famed Black Panther Party illustrator \u003ca href=\"https://ogtoldme.tumblr.com/post/77494359367/culture-is-a-weapon-emory-douglas-emory\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Emory Douglas\u003c/a> spoke about his book \u003cem>Black Panther: The Revolutionary Art of Emory Douglas\u003c/em>, and even sat in a small apartment with a sick \u003ca href=\"https://ogtoldme.tumblr.com/post/49263235572/when-asked-what-guidance-he-would-give-to-a-young\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ronald “Elder” Freeman\u003c/a>, discussing how to address the ills of society while simultaneously looking for his medicine. Elder has since passed, but his words linger.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Through these interactions, as well as reading books and watching documentaries, I’ve gained a certain understanding about the Panthers: terrorized by the government, stigmatized by the media, and loved by the people (well, \u003cem>some\u003c/em> of the people). The Panthers fought to save their community from the failures of a capitalist system, while simultaneously dealing with their own personal issues—issues that were largely the byproducts of a capitalist system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Beyond the legacy of the Black Panther Party as a whole, I often think about the stories of the individual people involved. People whose stories haven’t been fully told. People like the Rev. Cheryl Dawson.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13893142\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13893142\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/02/CherylDawson.2021-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Rev. Cheryl Dawson.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/02/CherylDawson.2021-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/02/CherylDawson.2021-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/02/CherylDawson.2021-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/02/CherylDawson.2021-768x576.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/02/CherylDawson.2021.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Rev. Cheryl Dawson. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Cheryl Dawson.)\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> took the political structure that I learned in the Party, and combined it with the information that I had about womanist theory and I took that work to the Congo—the Democratic Republic of the Congo—did I tell you about that?” Dawson asks me over the phone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I tell her that during our two previous conversations she hadn’t mentioned that, so I’m glad she called back.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She tells me that about a decade ago she led empowerment workshops with women in Uganda and Haiti as well, using principles she developed when she was selling copies of the Black Panther Party newspaper on the corner of Alcatraz Avenue and Adeline Street in Berkeley back in the day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an earlier conversation, she mentions another chapter in her life that was also heavily influenced by her time with the Party.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Starting in the early ’80s Dawson worked in and out of prisons, developing programs for women who are incarcerated. She spent the final decade of her career working as the Rehabilitation Services Coordinator in the San Francisco County Sheriff Office’s Women’s Resource Center. That’s where she implemented a curriculum to empower women through lectures, through the use of popular media to inspire critical thinking, and by asking class attendees to reflect on “\u003ca href=\"http://ww.sfsheriff.com/newsletter_june2017.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">their own cultural experiences and injustices\u003c/a>”. Upon leaving her position last year, the San Francisco Sheriff’s Department honored her commitment to the work by naming Dec. 20 “Rev. Cheryl Dawson Day.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I couldn’t help but wonder: \u003ci>How do you pivot from working for a revolutionary liberation organization to working for the very institution that incarcerates people?\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was working in the same sacred spaces,” explains Dawson. “The same tight corners, the same buried holes in the ground that I had tested, and walked in, and helped raise people up from when I was working in the Party … The pain that women wore in the prison is the same pain that I saw in the community from which they had come.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Simply put, Dawson saw the position as an opportunity to get deeper into the system and make a change from within.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13893149\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 600px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13893149\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/02/CherylDawson.1970s.jpg\" alt=\"Cheryl Dawson in the 1970s. \" width=\"600\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/02/CherylDawson.1970s.jpg 600w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/02/CherylDawson.1970s-160x213.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cheryl Dawson in the 1980s. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Rev. Cheryl Dawson)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>As a consultant at the federal prison in Dublin, she recalls sitting outside of solitary confinement, kneeling down on the cement floor, and talking through the slit in the steel door where the food was passed through. “I was trying to get a glimpse of the woman I was talking to,” says Dawson. “To just hold her gaze for a moment and try to give her hope for tomorrow.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She did this work while continuing to face “that same deep intimate pain” that she experienced as a young girl; the pain that pushed her to join the Party in the first place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a child, Dawson lived in \u003ca href=\"https://universityvillage.berkeley.edu/about/village-history\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Codornices Village\u003c/a>, a housing project on land leased from UC Berkeley to house wartime workers and their families in the 40s, many of them African American. It’s no coincidence that in the 1960s, when the housing projects were closed and the property was returned to UC Berkeley, \u003ca href=\"http://www.bayareacensus.ca.gov/cities/Albany50.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the “Negro” population\u003c/a> of Albany went from 1,778 people in 1950 down to just 75 people in 1960.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Afterward, Dawson spent some time in Oakland, but Berkeley was her home. She lived one block to the white side of the city’s racial housing dividing line, formerly known as Grove street (now Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At Berkeley’s Longfellow Elementary School, despite being in the Black neighborhood of South Berkeley, she saw racism firsthand. In class, Dawson says, she and the other Black kids were routinely overlooked when they raised their hands and over-punished when they got in trouble.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13893150\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 600px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13893150\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/02/CherylDawson.Wicker.jpg\" alt=\"Cheryl Dawson in the 1970s.\" width=\"600\" height=\"832\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/02/CherylDawson.Wicker.jpg 600w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/02/CherylDawson.Wicker-160x222.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cheryl Dawson in the 1970s. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Rev. Cheryl Dawson)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>She says a brother as dark as she was once got in trouble, and a white teacher grabbed him by the scruff of his neck and put him under one of those old-fashioned wooden desks. The teacher then sat down and scooted her chair in. “She pinned him in like he was a dog or cat or something,” says Dawson. “The only thing he could do is look out from under the desk.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The memory of the disobedient boy and the heavy-handed punishment stuck with her. Shortly afterward she learned about social workers, and how they helped people; especially people who looked like her. “At a very young age,” says Dawson, “I had a desire to do that, it was stamped in my heart. Unbeknownst to me, it would continue to manifest for the remainder of my life.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She went on to attend Willard Junior High, which was much whiter, and well above the racial dividing line. After attending Berkeley High for the majority of her high school years, she graduated from Oakland Tech and went on to Cal State East Bay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While she was in college, Dawson was invited to an event at Oakland City College where Black Panther Party for Self-Defense co-founder Bobby Seale was speaking. And the rest was history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13893143\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13893143\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/02/CherylDawson-800x532.jpg\" alt=\"Cheryl Dawson, seen here with her family.\" width=\"800\" height=\"532\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/02/CherylDawson-800x532.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/02/CherylDawson-1020x678.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/02/CherylDawson-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/02/CherylDawson-768x510.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/02/CherylDawson-1536x1021.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/02/CherylDawson.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cheryl Dawson, seen here with her children. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Cheryl Dawson)\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\">R\u003c/span>ev. 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