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I want to reaffirm my presence, especially as a Black woman.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13899296\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/02/stone_balcony_srgb_custom-48a4eb4736746b8725854fa6125e9f50500bb360-800x1115.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"1115\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13899296\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/02/stone_balcony_srgb_custom-48a4eb4736746b8725854fa6125e9f50500bb360-800x1115.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/02/stone_balcony_srgb_custom-48a4eb4736746b8725854fa6125e9f50500bb360-1020x1421.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/02/stone_balcony_srgb_custom-48a4eb4736746b8725854fa6125e9f50500bb360-160x223.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/02/stone_balcony_srgb_custom-48a4eb4736746b8725854fa6125e9f50500bb360-768x1070.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/02/stone_balcony_srgb_custom-48a4eb4736746b8725854fa6125e9f50500bb360-1102x1536.jpg 1102w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/02/stone_balcony_srgb_custom-48a4eb4736746b8725854fa6125e9f50500bb360-1470x2048.jpg 1470w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/02/stone_balcony_srgb_custom-48a4eb4736746b8725854fa6125e9f50500bb360-1920x2675.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/02/stone_balcony_srgb_custom-48a4eb4736746b8725854fa6125e9f50500bb360-scaled.jpg 1837w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">“It’s important to see the beauty in the most overlooked and mundane urban environments,” says Stone. Above, “Balcony Year,” 2019, Oakland. \u003ccite>(Chanell Stone)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The images are all part of Stone’s series, “\u003ca href=\"https://www.chanellstone.com/natura-negra\">Natura Negra\u003c/a>,” which she describes as an act of reclamation. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Growing up, I only understood Black people’s relationship to nature through slavery. My textbook had two pages of Black history: slavery, the Emancipation Proclamation, and MLK. That’s it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stone says she wants to correct this reductionist history, and show that Black people have a relationship with the land beyond one of terror and oppression. 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She is shirtless, staring directly at the camera. She explained that it is a place where she feels safe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I want Black people to be able to move within these spaces without worrying about their life being taken,” she says. \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13899298\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/02/stone_pottedearth_custom-a083f121599437df1eae8fa9a867ae04278bb78c-800x1005.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"1005\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13899298\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/02/stone_pottedearth_custom-a083f121599437df1eae8fa9a867ae04278bb78c-800x1005.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/02/stone_pottedearth_custom-a083f121599437df1eae8fa9a867ae04278bb78c-1020x1281.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/02/stone_pottedearth_custom-a083f121599437df1eae8fa9a867ae04278bb78c-160x201.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/02/stone_pottedearth_custom-a083f121599437df1eae8fa9a867ae04278bb78c-768x965.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/02/stone_pottedearth_custom-a083f121599437df1eae8fa9a867ae04278bb78c-1223x1536.jpg 1223w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/02/stone_pottedearth_custom-a083f121599437df1eae8fa9a867ae04278bb78c-1630x2048.jpg 1630w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/02/stone_pottedearth_custom-a083f121599437df1eae8fa9a867ae04278bb78c-1920x2412.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/02/stone_pottedearth_custom-a083f121599437df1eae8fa9a867ae04278bb78c-scaled.jpg 2038w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">In “Potted Earth,” a 2019 portrait in Los Angeles, Stone poses in her grandmother’s backyard.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>That feeling of safety, she says, starts with reinforcing a sense of closeness to the land. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I want Black people to understand our connections to nature, both urban and rural,” says Stone. “I want to destroy the notion that it isn’t for us.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">\u003cem>Copyright 2021 NPR. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>When most people think about traditional nature photography, black and white images of towering mountains and rushing rivers in the American West are often what comes to mind. It’s a genre that was made popular by men like Ansel Adams and Edward Weston, whose work in the early 1900s often positioned the natural world as something that is remote, wild and untouched.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But missing from this tradition is another kind of landscape — the natural beauty found within cities. \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13899294\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/02/stone_imperialcourts_custom-9f62e1bbdcdf72c92768fcc64cf17d2662d8bf58-800x559.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"559\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13899294\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/02/stone_imperialcourts_custom-9f62e1bbdcdf72c92768fcc64cf17d2662d8bf58-800x559.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/02/stone_imperialcourts_custom-9f62e1bbdcdf72c92768fcc64cf17d2662d8bf58-1020x713.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/02/stone_imperialcourts_custom-9f62e1bbdcdf72c92768fcc64cf17d2662d8bf58-160x112.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/02/stone_imperialcourts_custom-9f62e1bbdcdf72c92768fcc64cf17d2662d8bf58-768x537.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/02/stone_imperialcourts_custom-9f62e1bbdcdf72c92768fcc64cf17d2662d8bf58-1536x1073.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/02/stone_imperialcourts_custom-9f62e1bbdcdf72c92768fcc64cf17d2662d8bf58-2048x1431.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/02/stone_imperialcourts_custom-9f62e1bbdcdf72c92768fcc64cf17d2662d8bf58-1920x1341.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">“For many Black people, rural nature, places like national parks, aren’t very accessible,” says Chanell Stone. Above, “Imperial Courts,” 2018, Los Angeles. \u003ccite>(Chanell Stone)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>It’s in these settings that the California-based photographer Chanell Stone, 29, challenges this genre of photography. Working within predominantly Black neighborhoods in Brooklyn, Los Angeles and her home city of Oakland, Stone photographs locations like overgrown lots and green spaces at public housing projects, often including herself in the frame. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For many Black people, rural nature, places like national parks, aren’t very accessible,” says Stone. “Sometimes it’s the cost, but more often the issue is societal. As Black people, it feels like these rural spaces aren’t for us. I want to turn that idea on its head.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13899293\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/02/stone_intheovergrowth_custom-d2dc666709304fc875d0417eab17a2830d601fdb-800x1087.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"1087\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13899293\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/02/stone_intheovergrowth_custom-d2dc666709304fc875d0417eab17a2830d601fdb-800x1087.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/02/stone_intheovergrowth_custom-d2dc666709304fc875d0417eab17a2830d601fdb-1020x1386.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/02/stone_intheovergrowth_custom-d2dc666709304fc875d0417eab17a2830d601fdb-160x217.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/02/stone_intheovergrowth_custom-d2dc666709304fc875d0417eab17a2830d601fdb-768x1043.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/02/stone_intheovergrowth_custom-d2dc666709304fc875d0417eab17a2830d601fdb-1130x1536.jpg 1130w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/02/stone_intheovergrowth_custom-d2dc666709304fc875d0417eab17a2830d601fdb-1507x2048.jpg 1507w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/02/stone_intheovergrowth_custom-d2dc666709304fc875d0417eab17a2830d601fdb-1920x2609.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/02/stone_intheovergrowth_custom-d2dc666709304fc875d0417eab17a2830d601fdb-scaled.jpg 1884w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">“In the Overgrowth,” 2019, Los Angeles. \u003ccite>(Chanell Stone)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The data seems to back this up. Black Americans account for less than 2% of national park visitors, according to a \u003ca href=\"http://www.georgewright.org/351scott.pdf\">2018 report\u003c/a> published by the George Wright Society.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Stone says the answers to these questions have almost always been seen through a very specific lens — one that is white, male and rooted in a narrative of westward expansion that largely erases Native communities from the landscape. When Stone photographs herself in the middle of a patch of plants at a public housing complex in Brooklyn, she makes these implicit biases clear for the viewer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Early landscape photography perpetuates a cultural amnesia. There is another kind of forgetting and erasure happening now with gentrification in these Black communities where I am making pictures. That is why I put myself in these places and photos,” she says. “It is important to see a Black body in this space before gentrification erases the history and aesthetics of these neighborhoods. I want to reaffirm my presence, especially as a Black woman.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13899296\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/02/stone_balcony_srgb_custom-48a4eb4736746b8725854fa6125e9f50500bb360-800x1115.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"1115\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13899296\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/02/stone_balcony_srgb_custom-48a4eb4736746b8725854fa6125e9f50500bb360-800x1115.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/02/stone_balcony_srgb_custom-48a4eb4736746b8725854fa6125e9f50500bb360-1020x1421.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/02/stone_balcony_srgb_custom-48a4eb4736746b8725854fa6125e9f50500bb360-160x223.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/02/stone_balcony_srgb_custom-48a4eb4736746b8725854fa6125e9f50500bb360-768x1070.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/02/stone_balcony_srgb_custom-48a4eb4736746b8725854fa6125e9f50500bb360-1102x1536.jpg 1102w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/02/stone_balcony_srgb_custom-48a4eb4736746b8725854fa6125e9f50500bb360-1470x2048.jpg 1470w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/02/stone_balcony_srgb_custom-48a4eb4736746b8725854fa6125e9f50500bb360-1920x2675.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/02/stone_balcony_srgb_custom-48a4eb4736746b8725854fa6125e9f50500bb360-scaled.jpg 1837w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">“It’s important to see the beauty in the most overlooked and mundane urban environments,” says Stone. Above, “Balcony Year,” 2019, Oakland. \u003ccite>(Chanell Stone)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The images are all part of Stone’s series, “\u003ca href=\"https://www.chanellstone.com/natura-negra\">Natura Negra\u003c/a>,” which she describes as an act of reclamation. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Growing up, I only understood Black people’s relationship to nature through slavery. My textbook had two pages of Black history: slavery, the Emancipation Proclamation, and MLK. That’s it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stone says she wants to correct this reductionist history, and show that Black people have a relationship with the land beyond one of terror and oppression. In her own family’s photography archive, for example, she found pictures of her grandparents on camping trips.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13899297\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/02/stone_lorimercourt_custom-da6225a8736aaa15d25bfa9c437c3532e0a7b6dc-800x638.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"638\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13899297\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/02/stone_lorimercourt_custom-da6225a8736aaa15d25bfa9c437c3532e0a7b6dc-800x638.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/02/stone_lorimercourt_custom-da6225a8736aaa15d25bfa9c437c3532e0a7b6dc-1020x814.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/02/stone_lorimercourt_custom-da6225a8736aaa15d25bfa9c437c3532e0a7b6dc-160x128.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/02/stone_lorimercourt_custom-da6225a8736aaa15d25bfa9c437c3532e0a7b6dc-768x613.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/02/stone_lorimercourt_custom-da6225a8736aaa15d25bfa9c437c3532e0a7b6dc-1536x1226.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/02/stone_lorimercourt_custom-da6225a8736aaa15d25bfa9c437c3532e0a7b6dc-2048x1634.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/02/stone_lorimercourt_custom-da6225a8736aaa15d25bfa9c437c3532e0a7b6dc-1920x1532.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">“Lorimer Court,” 2019, Brooklyn. \u003ccite>(Chanell Stone)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In one photograph from the Natura Negra series, Stone poses in her grandmother’s backyard, a space filled with aloe and other succulents suited for the Los Angeles sun. She is shirtless, staring directly at the camera. She explained that it is a place where she feels safe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I want Black people to be able to move within these spaces without worrying about their life being taken,” she says. \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13899298\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/02/stone_pottedearth_custom-a083f121599437df1eae8fa9a867ae04278bb78c-800x1005.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"1005\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13899298\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/02/stone_pottedearth_custom-a083f121599437df1eae8fa9a867ae04278bb78c-800x1005.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/02/stone_pottedearth_custom-a083f121599437df1eae8fa9a867ae04278bb78c-1020x1281.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/02/stone_pottedearth_custom-a083f121599437df1eae8fa9a867ae04278bb78c-160x201.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/02/stone_pottedearth_custom-a083f121599437df1eae8fa9a867ae04278bb78c-768x965.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/02/stone_pottedearth_custom-a083f121599437df1eae8fa9a867ae04278bb78c-1223x1536.jpg 1223w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/02/stone_pottedearth_custom-a083f121599437df1eae8fa9a867ae04278bb78c-1630x2048.jpg 1630w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/02/stone_pottedearth_custom-a083f121599437df1eae8fa9a867ae04278bb78c-1920x2412.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/02/stone_pottedearth_custom-a083f121599437df1eae8fa9a867ae04278bb78c-scaled.jpg 2038w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">In “Potted Earth,” a 2019 portrait in Los Angeles, Stone poses in her grandmother’s backyard.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>That feeling of safety, she says, starts with reinforcing a sense of closeness to the land. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I want Black people to understand our connections to nature, both urban and rural,” says Stone. “I want to destroy the notion that it isn’t for us.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">\u003cem>Copyright 2021 NPR. To see more, visit \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">NPR\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=Housing+Projects+And+Empty+Lots.+How+Chanell+Stone+Is+Reframing+Nature+Photography&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/div>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"title": "No Graves, Only Gardens: On Juneteenth in Oakland",
"headTitle": "No Graves, Only Gardens: On Juneteenth in Oakland | KQED",
"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 wide spectrum of experiences that encompass being Black in America were centerstage this past Saturday, and I was there with my camera.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The god-like gorgeousness. The impressive use of innovation. The disgust of danger actualizing in the form of death. The different skin tones and distinct accents. The variation of clothing styles, representative of religious affiliations or neighborhood and individual claims.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-13833985\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/OGPenn.Cap_-160x184.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"160\" height=\"184\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/OGPenn.Cap_-160x184.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/OGPenn.Cap_.jpg 180w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 160px) 100vw, 160px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I saw so much Black life through my camera during the day, I’m lightweight embarrassed to say that I was oblivious to what I observed until later that night. That’s when a few choice words made it all click.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That evening, the Blk Girls Green House in West Oakland hosted their first Grooves From the Green House event, with performances by \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/msjanehandcock/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jane Handcock\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/vadiahub/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Vadia\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/rexxliferaj/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Rexx Life Raj\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/masego/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Masego\u003c/a>. The plant nursery had been converted into an intimate venue where potted pothos plants hung over the heads of 60 to 70 attendees vibing to the music in their seats.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13899119\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13899119\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/6C855327-CF65-4AC1-B3B0-819234905F1A-800x535.jpg\" alt=\"Masego plays the saxophone in front of a live audience at Blk Girls Green House in West Oakland \" width=\"800\" height=\"535\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/6C855327-CF65-4AC1-B3B0-819234905F1A-800x535.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/6C855327-CF65-4AC1-B3B0-819234905F1A-1020x682.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/6C855327-CF65-4AC1-B3B0-819234905F1A-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/6C855327-CF65-4AC1-B3B0-819234905F1A-768x513.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/6C855327-CF65-4AC1-B3B0-819234905F1A.jpg 1079w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Masego plays the saxophone in front of a live audience at Blk Girls Green House in West Oakland. \u003ccite>(Pendarvis Harshaw)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>For many, the show was the first live performance “since the pandemic ended”—or rather, since Governor Newsom \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11868240/newsom-announces-plan-to-open-up-business-as-usual-in-california-by-june-15\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">lifted the requirement\u003c/a> for people to wear masks in public places. It was also just a few days after President Biden signed a bill to make Juneteenth a federal holiday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Recognized by the government or not, Juneteenth was being celebrated all over: inside of that greenhouse, in cities around the country, and on the eastern side of Lake Merritt—where I had been earlier in the day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13899121\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13899121\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/7153D232-9DF6-45DE-A467-431CC9F865FC-800x535.jpg\" alt=\"Zakiya smiles as she adorns a tree with sunflowers and a red, black and green cloth, as a part of a photo booth installation\" width=\"800\" height=\"535\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/7153D232-9DF6-45DE-A467-431CC9F865FC-800x535.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/7153D232-9DF6-45DE-A467-431CC9F865FC-1020x683.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/7153D232-9DF6-45DE-A467-431CC9F865FC-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/7153D232-9DF6-45DE-A467-431CC9F865FC-768x514.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/7153D232-9DF6-45DE-A467-431CC9F865FC.jpg 1082w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Zakiya smiles as she adorns a tree with sunflowers and a red, black and green cloth, as a part of a photo booth installation. \u003ccite>(Pendarvis Harshaw)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">I\u003c/span> got to the lake just before noon, dropping my stuff with some friends at the grassy area across from the Cleveland Cascade staircase. From there I walked south, down Lakeshore Avenue, stopping at the event at Pine Knoll Park on Hanover Avenue, before continuing to the amphitheater on the far southern end of the lake. And then I walked back.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I did that loop three times, and the whole time I was taking photos and giving hugs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I saw a newborn child in the arms of its parent, the hands of young a man holding a blunt and gigging, a woman with fingernail polish on her cuticles that perfectly coordinated with her outfit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tire smoke was being sent from dirt bikes to the clouds, and hands were holding red cups toward the heavens as if trying to cheers with angels.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And those are just the photo opportunities that I passed up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13899122\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13899122\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/52B9D433-7DB9-40FE-A7F5-04AA7A5E0C2B-800x535.jpg\" alt=\"A person in a mask hits a wheelie on an ATV near Lake Merritt over the weekend\" width=\"800\" height=\"535\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/52B9D433-7DB9-40FE-A7F5-04AA7A5E0C2B-800x535.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/52B9D433-7DB9-40FE-A7F5-04AA7A5E0C2B-1020x683.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/52B9D433-7DB9-40FE-A7F5-04AA7A5E0C2B-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/52B9D433-7DB9-40FE-A7F5-04AA7A5E0C2B-768x514.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/52B9D433-7DB9-40FE-A7F5-04AA7A5E0C2B.jpg 1082w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A person in a mask hits a wheelie on an ATV near Lake Merritt over the weekend. \u003ccite>(Pendarvis Harshaw)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>At one point, inside my head, I played a little game where I tried to see how many seconds I could go without seeing something beautiful. I never made it to double digits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A friend and I tried to estimate how many people were at the lake. We concluded that the official count was somewhere between 5,000 heads and “hella mutha-f…” (reports say 10,000 people were there).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s common to say it was a “sea of folks,” but to me it was more like a pasture full of people who were planted on this planet and all happened to be in one place. It was a Black garden.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>People were getting their sun and water, feet planted in healthy soil and exchanging loving communication. That’s how plants grow, right?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But despite the nurturing environment, spots of tension arose as the afternoon went on. A round of firecrackers made the crowd jump at one point. At another location, a little later, a fistfight was filmed. At a third spot, a phone call for someone to “air this shit out” was overheard.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As I walked back to the car, I heard the gunshots that left \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/crime/article/One-dead-three-injured-in-shooting-on-Lakeshore-16260117.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a reported\u003c/a> six people injured and one person dead.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13899123\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13899123\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/AB4B458E-4E7D-42F7-BAA9-A3FF66BEC3D3-800x535.jpg\" alt=\"Leila Williams, Calvin Williams and their son Malik stop for a photo while standing in front of a sign that reads, "we are each other's medicine."\" width=\"800\" height=\"535\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/AB4B458E-4E7D-42F7-BAA9-A3FF66BEC3D3-800x535.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/AB4B458E-4E7D-42F7-BAA9-A3FF66BEC3D3-1020x683.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/AB4B458E-4E7D-42F7-BAA9-A3FF66BEC3D3-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/AB4B458E-4E7D-42F7-BAA9-A3FF66BEC3D3-768x514.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/AB4B458E-4E7D-42F7-BAA9-A3FF66BEC3D3.jpg 1082w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Leila Williams, Calvin Williams and their son Malik stop for a photo. \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\">A\u003c/span>n hour or so later, I sat in the Blk Girls Green House, waiting for the R&B show to start, scrolling through my phone, reading social media posts and reports from news organizations about what happened by the lake.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I sent a text asking for updates from a close friend whose cousin was shot, but in stable condition. During a phone call a few minutes prior, when my friend told me the news, I told him to let me know if there was anything I could do—knowing damn well that there was nothing I could do.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13899118\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13899118\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/DSC01133-800x535.jpg\" alt=\"Jane Handcock raises her left arm as she vibes to her music while performing at Blk Girls Green House in West Oakland\" width=\"800\" height=\"535\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/DSC01133-800x535.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/DSC01133-1020x682.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/DSC01133-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/DSC01133-768x513.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/DSC01133-1536x1027.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/DSC01133.jpg 1616w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jane Handcock vibes to her music while performing at Blk Girls Green House in West Oakland. \u003ccite>(Pendarvis Harshaw)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>As I wiggled in my greenhouse seat to tuck my phone into my pocket, I grabbed my camera and focused on the first act, Jane Handcock. She performed a couple of songs, moving the crowd with her original songs, plus her track “Baby,” which is a remake of Alicia Keys’ “You Don’t Know My Name” and the Main Ingredient’s “Let Me Prove My Love to You.” Her cold vocals, fly hair and “don’t be shy, we came here to have a good time” attitude laid the foundation for the night of performances.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I turned back to my phone. No text back yet. Damn.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is what I’ve come to understand as the full spectrum of the Black experience in America. I’m used to going from celebrating to mourning, and back again. I know that high-powered love and high-powered weapons are both present in my community, and it’s almost a regular occurrence for life and death to simultaneously occupy the same space.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13899124\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13899124\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/DSC00992-800x535.jpg\" alt=\"A barbecue grill is engulfed in flames near Lake Merritt as people celebrate Juneteenth in Oakland\" width=\"800\" height=\"535\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/DSC00992-800x535.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/DSC00992-1020x682.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/DSC00992-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/DSC00992-768x513.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/DSC00992-1536x1027.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/DSC00992.jpg 1616w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A barbecue grill is engulfed in flames near Lake Merritt as people celebrate Juneteenth in Oakland. \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\">H\u003c/span>ow’d our community grow to be so rife with extreme examples of love and violence? There’s a lot of layers, but the seed was planted by the same heinous American institution that we abolished 150 years ago, and that we just made a holiday about, honoring the delayed message that it had ended.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To think: that institution left my great-great aunties and great-great uncles to feed on unwanted scraps. Scraps that they then turned into soul food, a cuisine that’s loved and served at celebrations, despite being tied to heart disease, the leading cause of death amongst Black folks. Violence and love, death and life, all in one meal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13899125\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13899125\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/A59DA034-1B8D-45C2-B11D-3195DB18710C-800x535.jpg\" alt=\"DJ Mujie on the 1s and 2s\" width=\"800\" height=\"535\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/A59DA034-1B8D-45C2-B11D-3195DB18710C-800x535.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/A59DA034-1B8D-45C2-B11D-3195DB18710C-1020x683.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/A59DA034-1B8D-45C2-B11D-3195DB18710C-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/A59DA034-1B8D-45C2-B11D-3195DB18710C-768x514.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/A59DA034-1B8D-45C2-B11D-3195DB18710C.jpg 1082w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">DJ Mujie on the ones and twos. \u003ccite>(Pendarvis Harshaw)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>At stage right in the greenhouse, \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/djmujie/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">DJ Mujie\u003c/a> stood behind a laptop and some digital turntables as she spun hits that got people up and dancing. I mingled a bit, cracked some jokes, and checked my phone again—no response.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The event continued.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Headliner Masego ended the show by singing, playing the keys, and blowing the saxophone; in addition to exercising his sense of humor. He roasted a member of his crew for wearing a durag, something the guy evidently never does. “A black one at that?” Masego asked. “Because it’s Juneteenth, huh?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID='arts_13832886']Prior to Masego’s music and comedy, Rexx Life Raj performed songs like “Handheld GPS” and “Tesla in a Pandemic,” and also shared some jokes with folks. An artist who was raised in Berkeley and has performed at huge venues around the world, Raj said that he almost “boo-boo’ed” on himself backstage when he realized how intimate the greenhouse venue was.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But of all of the words spoken that evening, nothing moved me like the lyrics to Vadia’s hymn-like song “\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lKmhEzpzgSs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">No Graves\u003c/a>.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Death does not become me / it don’t rest easy on me / it was never meant for me / it’s not my destiny / always overcoming / there will be no graves,” she sang as she donned black, brown and gold beaded braids as long as the roots of a South African wild fig tree. “No graves, only gardens,” said Vadia to the crowd.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13899126\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13899126\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/194FF7EF-E1CD-49DB-B9B2-1C9E74D33A51-800x535.jpg\" alt=\"Vadia sings in front of a live audience at Blk Girls Green House in West Oakland\" width=\"800\" height=\"535\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/194FF7EF-E1CD-49DB-B9B2-1C9E74D33A51-800x535.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/194FF7EF-E1CD-49DB-B9B2-1C9E74D33A51-1020x683.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/194FF7EF-E1CD-49DB-B9B2-1C9E74D33A51-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/194FF7EF-E1CD-49DB-B9B2-1C9E74D33A51-768x514.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/194FF7EF-E1CD-49DB-B9B2-1C9E74D33A51.jpg 1082w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Vadia sings in front of a live audience at Blk Girls Green House in West Oakland. \u003ccite>(Pendarvis)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">T\u003c/span>he juxtaposition of death and life, or love and violence, isn’t a new concept. But I’d never heard it referred to as graves and gardens. And to imagine a day where there are only gardens—places where people can grow, like plants in a greenhouse—that’s a fascinating idea.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I took my phone out and put those words in a digital note, and then checked my messages again for an update on the situation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The next morning my friend posted in an Instagram story that her cousin survived and was at home. The bullet was still in her body.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They were given another opportunity for growing in the garden, but it comes with a constant reminder of the grave.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\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\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 wide spectrum of experiences that encompass being Black in America were centerstage this past Saturday, and I was there with my camera.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The god-like gorgeousness. The impressive use of innovation. The disgust of danger actualizing in the form of death. The different skin tones and distinct accents. The variation of clothing styles, representative of religious affiliations or neighborhood and individual claims.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-13833985\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/OGPenn.Cap_-160x184.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"160\" height=\"184\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/OGPenn.Cap_-160x184.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/OGPenn.Cap_.jpg 180w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 160px) 100vw, 160px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I saw so much Black life through my camera during the day, I’m lightweight embarrassed to say that I was oblivious to what I observed until later that night. That’s when a few choice words made it all click.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That evening, the Blk Girls Green House in West Oakland hosted their first Grooves From the Green House event, with performances by \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/msjanehandcock/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jane Handcock\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/vadiahub/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Vadia\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/rexxliferaj/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Rexx Life Raj\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/masego/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Masego\u003c/a>. The plant nursery had been converted into an intimate venue where potted pothos plants hung over the heads of 60 to 70 attendees vibing to the music in their seats.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13899119\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13899119\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/6C855327-CF65-4AC1-B3B0-819234905F1A-800x535.jpg\" alt=\"Masego plays the saxophone in front of a live audience at Blk Girls Green House in West Oakland \" width=\"800\" height=\"535\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/6C855327-CF65-4AC1-B3B0-819234905F1A-800x535.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/6C855327-CF65-4AC1-B3B0-819234905F1A-1020x682.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/6C855327-CF65-4AC1-B3B0-819234905F1A-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/6C855327-CF65-4AC1-B3B0-819234905F1A-768x513.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/6C855327-CF65-4AC1-B3B0-819234905F1A.jpg 1079w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Masego plays the saxophone in front of a live audience at Blk Girls Green House in West Oakland. \u003ccite>(Pendarvis Harshaw)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>For many, the show was the first live performance “since the pandemic ended”—or rather, since Governor Newsom \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11868240/newsom-announces-plan-to-open-up-business-as-usual-in-california-by-june-15\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">lifted the requirement\u003c/a> for people to wear masks in public places. It was also just a few days after President Biden signed a bill to make Juneteenth a federal holiday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Recognized by the government or not, Juneteenth was being celebrated all over: inside of that greenhouse, in cities around the country, and on the eastern side of Lake Merritt—where I had been earlier in the day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13899121\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13899121\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/7153D232-9DF6-45DE-A467-431CC9F865FC-800x535.jpg\" alt=\"Zakiya smiles as she adorns a tree with sunflowers and a red, black and green cloth, as a part of a photo booth installation\" width=\"800\" height=\"535\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/7153D232-9DF6-45DE-A467-431CC9F865FC-800x535.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/7153D232-9DF6-45DE-A467-431CC9F865FC-1020x683.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/7153D232-9DF6-45DE-A467-431CC9F865FC-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/7153D232-9DF6-45DE-A467-431CC9F865FC-768x514.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/7153D232-9DF6-45DE-A467-431CC9F865FC.jpg 1082w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Zakiya smiles as she adorns a tree with sunflowers and a red, black and green cloth, as a part of a photo booth installation. \u003ccite>(Pendarvis Harshaw)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">I\u003c/span> got to the lake just before noon, dropping my stuff with some friends at the grassy area across from the Cleveland Cascade staircase. From there I walked south, down Lakeshore Avenue, stopping at the event at Pine Knoll Park on Hanover Avenue, before continuing to the amphitheater on the far southern end of the lake. And then I walked back.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I did that loop three times, and the whole time I was taking photos and giving hugs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I saw a newborn child in the arms of its parent, the hands of young a man holding a blunt and gigging, a woman with fingernail polish on her cuticles that perfectly coordinated with her outfit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tire smoke was being sent from dirt bikes to the clouds, and hands were holding red cups toward the heavens as if trying to cheers with angels.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And those are just the photo opportunities that I passed up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13899122\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13899122\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/52B9D433-7DB9-40FE-A7F5-04AA7A5E0C2B-800x535.jpg\" alt=\"A person in a mask hits a wheelie on an ATV near Lake Merritt over the weekend\" width=\"800\" height=\"535\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/52B9D433-7DB9-40FE-A7F5-04AA7A5E0C2B-800x535.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/52B9D433-7DB9-40FE-A7F5-04AA7A5E0C2B-1020x683.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/52B9D433-7DB9-40FE-A7F5-04AA7A5E0C2B-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/52B9D433-7DB9-40FE-A7F5-04AA7A5E0C2B-768x514.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/52B9D433-7DB9-40FE-A7F5-04AA7A5E0C2B.jpg 1082w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A person in a mask hits a wheelie on an ATV near Lake Merritt over the weekend. \u003ccite>(Pendarvis Harshaw)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>At one point, inside my head, I played a little game where I tried to see how many seconds I could go without seeing something beautiful. I never made it to double digits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A friend and I tried to estimate how many people were at the lake. We concluded that the official count was somewhere between 5,000 heads and “hella mutha-f…” (reports say 10,000 people were there).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s common to say it was a “sea of folks,” but to me it was more like a pasture full of people who were planted on this planet and all happened to be in one place. It was a Black garden.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>People were getting their sun and water, feet planted in healthy soil and exchanging loving communication. That’s how plants grow, right?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But despite the nurturing environment, spots of tension arose as the afternoon went on. A round of firecrackers made the crowd jump at one point. At another location, a little later, a fistfight was filmed. At a third spot, a phone call for someone to “air this shit out” was overheard.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As I walked back to the car, I heard the gunshots that left \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/crime/article/One-dead-three-injured-in-shooting-on-Lakeshore-16260117.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a reported\u003c/a> six people injured and one person dead.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13899123\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13899123\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/AB4B458E-4E7D-42F7-BAA9-A3FF66BEC3D3-800x535.jpg\" alt=\"Leila Williams, Calvin Williams and their son Malik stop for a photo while standing in front of a sign that reads, "we are each other's medicine."\" width=\"800\" height=\"535\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/AB4B458E-4E7D-42F7-BAA9-A3FF66BEC3D3-800x535.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/AB4B458E-4E7D-42F7-BAA9-A3FF66BEC3D3-1020x683.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/AB4B458E-4E7D-42F7-BAA9-A3FF66BEC3D3-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/AB4B458E-4E7D-42F7-BAA9-A3FF66BEC3D3-768x514.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/AB4B458E-4E7D-42F7-BAA9-A3FF66BEC3D3.jpg 1082w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Leila Williams, Calvin Williams and their son Malik stop for a photo. \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\">A\u003c/span>n hour or so later, I sat in the Blk Girls Green House, waiting for the R&B show to start, scrolling through my phone, reading social media posts and reports from news organizations about what happened by the lake.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I sent a text asking for updates from a close friend whose cousin was shot, but in stable condition. 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She performed a couple of songs, moving the crowd with her original songs, plus her track “Baby,” which is a remake of Alicia Keys’ “You Don’t Know My Name” and the Main Ingredient’s “Let Me Prove My Love to You.” Her cold vocals, fly hair and “don’t be shy, we came here to have a good time” attitude laid the foundation for the night of performances.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I turned back to my phone. No text back yet. Damn.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is what I’ve come to understand as the full spectrum of the Black experience in America. I’m used to going from celebrating to mourning, and back again. 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"content": "\u003cp>With most COVID-19 restrictions lifting on June 15, it’s an optimistic time in California. Performing artists who’ve been out of work for over a year are excited to return to the stage. And eager fans are buying up tickets to concerts, plays and festivals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yet as much as it may feel like things are back to normal, the pandemic still isn’t over. Nearly 80% of eligible San Franciscans have received at least one dose of the vaccine, but racial disparities remain. Only 56% of Black San Francisco residents have gotten at least one shot, compared to 68% of Latinos, 64% of whites and 75% of Asians. In Alameda County, where 78% of residents have at least one dose, it’s closer to 51% of Black residents and 53% of Latino residents. Experts have linked these lagging rates to difficulties getting time off work for vaccination (especially in working-class jobs), \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11874756/the-hard-work-to-get-more-people-in-vaccinated-in-south-hayward\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">lack of access to information\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11861810/no-the-tuskegee-study-is-not-the-top-reason-some-black-americans-question-the-covid-19-vaccine\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">mistrust in the medical system because of racism\u003c/a>. [aside postid='news_11877048']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These disparities in vaccine rates also extend to infections and deaths. One University of California study found that line cook was the \u003ca href=\"https://www.cnbc.com/2021/02/02/jobs-where-workers-have-the-highest-risk-of-dying-from-covid-study.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">deadliest occupation\u003c/a> during the pandemic, and \u003ca href=\"https://laborcenter.berkeley.edu/pdf/2015/racial-gender-occupational-segregation.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">other research\u003c/a> has shown that people of color make up the majority of back-of-house workers in restaurants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So even as California gears up for an arts and nightlife renaissance, some artists and service workers say it’s too soon to remove all COVID-19 precautions, especially requiring masks in indoor spaces. The state’s new rules stipulate that vaccinated people can go without masks in most settings. And although some businesses still require proof of vaccination for patrons, most aren’t checking people’s status. (\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11877530/in-another-reversal-california-regulators-withdraw-controversial-workplace-mask-rules\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Cal/OSHA\u003c/a>, the state’s workplace regulators, is set to announce new guidelines for workers on June 17.) [aside postid='news_11864473']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re vaccinated and we think it’s an important step, but we feel like there need to be multiple preventative measures continuing forward until there are no new cases of COVID whatsoever; until there are no deaths from COVID whatsoever; until we have an understanding and in-depth studies of the efficacy and duration of vaccines and if they’re able to actually prevent infection, versus just symptomatic illness,” says Catalina Xavlena, an artist, former food service worker and organizer with the mutual aid collective \u003ca href=\"https://www.oaklandworkersfund.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Oakland Workers Fund\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Indeed, the CDC says it’s unknown how long \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/vaccines/faq.html?s_cid=10493:vaccine%20recent%20news:sem.ga:p:RG:GM:gen:PTN:FY21\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">protection from the COVID-19 vaccine lasts\u003c/a>. And although vaccines are effective in preventing illness and hospitalization, the CDC is \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/vaccines/effectiveness/why-measure-effectiveness/breakthrough-cases.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">still monitoring\u003c/a> breakthrough cases and asymptomatic infections.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13898859\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13898859\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/Oakland-Workers-Fund-Core-Organizer-Group-Portrait-800x464.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"464\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/Oakland-Workers-Fund-Core-Organizer-Group-Portrait-800x464.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/Oakland-Workers-Fund-Core-Organizer-Group-Portrait-1020x592.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/Oakland-Workers-Fund-Core-Organizer-Group-Portrait-160x93.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/Oakland-Workers-Fund-Core-Organizer-Group-Portrait-768x446.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/Oakland-Workers-Fund-Core-Organizer-Group-Portrait.jpg 1132w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Oakland Workers Fund’s four founding core organizers are Mercedes Burke, Catalina Xavlena, Samantha Espinoza and Sophia Rocha (clockwise from top left). With the help of a small network of volunteers, they’ve distributed nearly $170,000 in aid to service workers impacted by the pandemic. \u003ccite>(Oakland Workers Fund)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Since the start of the pandemic, Oakland Workers Fund volunteers have distributed nearly $170,000 in donations to struggling service workers. Their focus is on helping people hit hardest by the pandemic, including undocumented people ineligible for government aid, people who’ve contracted COVID-19 on the job, people who’ve been hospitalized or lost family members, and caretakers with dependents. With the help of volunteers, Xavlena and fellow organizers Sophia Rocha, Samantha Espinoza and Mercedes Burke are \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/CQG-1--BnsD/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">running a campaign\u003c/a> encouraging people to call elected officials to demand that masks still be required indoors. Their other demands include personal protective equipment for workers, a living wage, hazard pay and reparations for those that got sick at work or lost a family member to COVID.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Union of Musicians and Allied Workers, a national group, has a \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/CP3ScB0DCea/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">similar campaign targeted at music venue owners\u003c/a>. They advocate for continued masking, paid sick leave for workers, reduced capacities at shows and upgrading ventilation systems for indoor spaces, a measure the \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/community/ventilation.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">CDC also recommends\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We should have learned some things throughout this time as to who our most vulnerable communities are and how to protect them,” says Espinoza, who is also an artist and has spent much of her career working in food service. “What does it say about changing mask mandates and lifting protections for our most vulnerable communities if [they] do not even have the similar protections as white people or people of a more privileged economic status?”\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Indeed, the CDC says it’s unknown how long \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/vaccines/faq.html?s_cid=10493:vaccine%20recent%20news:sem.ga:p:RG:GM:gen:PTN:FY21\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">protection from the COVID-19 vaccine lasts\u003c/a>. And although vaccines are effective in preventing illness and hospitalization, the CDC is \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/vaccines/effectiveness/why-measure-effectiveness/breakthrough-cases.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">still monitoring\u003c/a> breakthrough cases and asymptomatic infections.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13898859\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13898859\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/Oakland-Workers-Fund-Core-Organizer-Group-Portrait-800x464.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"464\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/Oakland-Workers-Fund-Core-Organizer-Group-Portrait-800x464.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/Oakland-Workers-Fund-Core-Organizer-Group-Portrait-1020x592.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/Oakland-Workers-Fund-Core-Organizer-Group-Portrait-160x93.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/Oakland-Workers-Fund-Core-Organizer-Group-Portrait-768x446.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/Oakland-Workers-Fund-Core-Organizer-Group-Portrait.jpg 1132w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Oakland Workers Fund’s four founding core organizers are Mercedes Burke, Catalina Xavlena, Samantha Espinoza and Sophia Rocha (clockwise from top left). With the help of a small network of volunteers, they’ve distributed nearly $170,000 in aid to service workers impacted by the pandemic. \u003ccite>(Oakland Workers Fund)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Since the start of the pandemic, Oakland Workers Fund volunteers have distributed nearly $170,000 in donations to struggling service workers. Their focus is on helping people hit hardest by the pandemic, including undocumented people ineligible for government aid, people who’ve contracted COVID-19 on the job, people who’ve been hospitalized or lost family members, and caretakers with dependents. With the help of volunteers, Xavlena and fellow organizers Sophia Rocha, Samantha Espinoza and Mercedes Burke are \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/CQG-1--BnsD/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">running a campaign\u003c/a> encouraging people to call elected officials to demand that masks still be required indoors. Their other demands include personal protective equipment for workers, a living wage, hazard pay and reparations for those that got sick at work or lost a family member to COVID.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Union of Musicians and Allied Workers, a national group, has a \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/CP3ScB0DCea/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">similar campaign targeted at music venue owners\u003c/a>. They advocate for continued masking, paid sick leave for workers, reduced capacities at shows and upgrading ventilation systems for indoor spaces, a measure the \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/community/ventilation.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">CDC also recommends\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We should have learned some things throughout this time as to who our most vulnerable communities are and how to protect them,” says Espinoza, who is also an artist and has spent much of her career working in food service. “What does it say about changing mask mandates and lifting protections for our most vulnerable communities if [they] do not even have the similar protections as white people or people of a more privileged economic status?”\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Oakland’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/blkgirls_greenhouse/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Blk Girls Green House\u003c/a> is putting on its first live performance since the plant nursery and event space opened its doors in \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13885663/blk-girls-green-house-cultivates-a-plant-sanctuary-in-west-oakland\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">August 2020\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“\u003ca href=\"https://www.eventbrite.com/e/grooves-from-the-greenhouse-tickets-158321234073\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Grooves From The Green House\u003c/a>,” a series where talented musicians perform in front of an intimate gathering of folks, is scheduled to start promptly at 8pm on June 19.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The first show in this series features a lineup of forward-thinking hip-hop and R&B artists with thoughtful lyrics and a soulful vibe: \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/msjanehandcock/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jane Handcock\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/vadiahub/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Vadia\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/rexxliferaj/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Rexx Life Raj\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/masego/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Masego\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/djmujie/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">DJ Mujie\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The evening honors Juneteenth—Freedom Day, which marks the anniversary of enslaved Africans in Texas receiving notification that slavery had been abolished two and a half years earlier.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13898604\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13898604\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/IMG_6909-800x1200.jpg\" alt='Co-founders of Blk Gilrs Green House, Kalkidan (\"Kalu\") Gebreyohannes and J’Maica Roxanne, stand next to each other as they pose for a photo.' width=\"800\" height=\"1200\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/IMG_6909-800x1200.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/IMG_6909-1020x1530.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/IMG_6909-160x240.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/IMG_6909-768x1152.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/IMG_6909-1024x1536.jpg 1024w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/IMG_6909-1365x2048.jpg 1365w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/IMG_6909-1920x2880.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/IMG_6909-scaled.jpg 1707w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Co-founders of Blk Gilrs Green House, Kalkidan (“Kalu”) Gebreyohannes and J’Maica Roxanne, stand next to each other as they pose for a photo. \u003ccite>(Samantha Tyler)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The owners of Blk Girls Green House see significance in hosting their first concert on Juneteenth. \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/by_kalu/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Kalkidan “Kalu” Gebreyohannes\u003c/a>, who co-owns the shop with \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/jmaicaroxanne/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">J’Maica Roxanne\u003c/a>, says, “It honors our ancestors who fought and endured suffering, it honors our community who yearn for healing, joy and celebration, and most importantly it unifies all those who stand for equality and justice and continue to fight for freedom.” [aside postid='arts_13885663']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the concert inside the shop is already sold out, there’ll be a simultaneous community screening at Oakland’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.7thwest.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">7th West\u003c/a>, where a $20 ticket will give attendees room to groove with their friends and a live set from \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/sake1derful/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">DJ Sake1\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The show will also be streamed online for those who want to watch from the comfort of their homes, a link will be sent via email to people who \u003ca href=\"https://www.eventbrite.com/e/grooves-from-the-greenhouse-tickets-158321234073\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">register on the waitlist ahead of time\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13898603\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13898603\" 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"content": "\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13898688\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-13898688 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/photo-4-800x1200.jpeg\" alt=\"Omar "Meez" Jones and Pershanté Hill standing on 7th Street in West Oakland, talking to each other in front of a billboard that features Jones' image.\" width=\"800\" height=\"1200\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/photo-4-800x1200.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/photo-4-1020x1530.jpeg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/photo-4-160x240.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/photo-4-768x1152.jpeg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/photo-4-1024x1536.jpeg 1024w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/photo-4-1365x2048.jpeg 1365w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/photo-4-1920x2880.jpeg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/photo-4-scaled.jpeg 1707w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Omar “Meez” Jones and Pershanté Hill standing on 7th Street in West Oakland, talking to each other in front of a billboard that features Jones’ image. \u003ccite>( Dev P. / @Creatvedev)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"200\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https://playlist.megaphone.fm?e=KQINC9664600248\" width=\"100%\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/iamomeez/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Berkeley’s Omar “Meez” Jones\u003c/a> is a biker, photographer, graphic designer and entrepreneur. One of his top talents is his ability to take his lifestyle and make a living off of it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Earlier this year, a series of Apple billboards promoting their “Hometown” campaign sprung up all around the Bay Area, featuring the silhouetted images of two bikers hitting wheelies. 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And it just grew, 10 people at first, riding through COVID… Now we have like 150 to 200 riders, 250 riders. It pretty much grew into a big community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Pen: What’s it like riding with that pack?\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Omar: It’s cool. A lot of people that we’re riding with, we know how to ride with each other. So that’s cool. But, the newer [riders], it’s kind of harder because they don’t really know how we ride. It’s not like they get in a way, but you gotta be cautious of your area because sometimes people crash. I mean, that’s going to happen with a big crowd of people moving through the streets. But we usually keep it very safe and super fun. 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That’s been a huge impact because it’s kids ages 12 to 18. I’ve just been kind of like impacting their lives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Omar: For them to be able to tag along with me and just see how I move… I didn’t have a person like me at that age, so I know it’s an important time for them… I tell them all the time too, ‘I’m not going to always be here. I’m not going to always be able to be around you… That’s why I built this for you, you guys gotta support each other as a team.’\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Omar: Whatever money comes to them is 100% theirs. I just have the resources to be able to put them in those positions, like having a photographer friend that happened to be doing an Apple campaign.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Pen: How does it feel to be a mentor?\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Omar: I’ve never been called a mentor. It’s like a Big Brother thing. I don’t see it like anything other than that…\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Pen: So you’re deeply immersed in the culture of wheels and biking… And i’m wondering what are some of the other positive effects of biking culture?\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Omar: It’s just amazing to see all these kids riding these bikes, it’s good to see them off their phones, outside enjoying the weather because if they didn’t have the bikes, the streets is going to eat them up alive. I can’t even lie about that. I grew up around all that… This summer is gonna be why the murder rate is not as big, because kids are going to be out on their bikes, that’s how I feel…\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Pen: Woah, you look at biking as a deterrent to violence?\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Omar: It’s worked in the past, ya know. I’ve seen Scraper Bikes, what they’ve done. It keeps me out of the street. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>As Oakland’s cultural affairs manager, Bedoya unveiled a cultural plan titled “\u003ca href=\"https://cao-94612.s3.amazonaws.com/documents/Cultural-Plan-9.24-online.pdf\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Belonging in Oakland\u003c/a>” in the spring of 2018—the city’s first cultural plan in 30 years. Prior to this role, Bedoya was the executive director of the Tucson Pima Arts Council, where he developed an initiative called P.L.A.C.E (People, Land, Arts, Culture and Engagement), a project rooted in art-based civic engagement. From 1996 to 2001, he was executive director of the National Association of Artists’ Organizations, which supported artist-run alternative art spaces and initiatives. He is also a poet; Chax Press published his chapbook \u003ci>The Ballad of Cholo Dandy\u003c/i> in 2014.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Guiding all his work, he says, is the idea of empowering artists and communities. “The beauty of Oakland is that it’s alive—it really is. There’s so much going on,” he says. While the Bay Area’s largest and wealthiest arts institutions may be in San Francisco, Bedoya says, “Oakland has always been the home of social activists in the arts and individual artists.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In my policy work over the years, it’s how do we validate the importance of arts and culture to build social networks that animate our lives—that’s my homework assignment,” he says. “It’s nice that someone gave me a grade and they liked it.”\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>“Have you ever received a warning or intimation of approaching good or ill while wrapt in dreamy slumber? Have you ever been the victim of baffling situations, mysterious penalties, grotesque associations, or weird inconsistencies, because all the while you were enchanted in the stable fetters of sleep?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is how, on Nov. 16, 1925, the \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/OakTribNews\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>Oakland Tribune\u003c/em>\u003c/a> launched the most surreal competition in its history: The Tribune-American Theater Dream Contest. Readers were asked to send in detailed descriptions of strange dreams they’d had, for the chance to win $25 and a movie role. “The winning dream,” the \u003cem>Tribune\u003c/em> explained, “will be made with local backgrounds and with the dreamers themselves re-enacting their slumber visions.” The film would then be shown at the American Theatre—then located on San Pablo Avenue near the corner of 17th Street.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13898285\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13898285\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/Screen-Shot-2021-06-03-at-3.25.58-PM-800x289.png\" alt=\"The dream contest form, as seen in 'The Oakland Tribune' throughout November and December 1925.\" width=\"800\" height=\"289\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/Screen-Shot-2021-06-03-at-3.25.58-PM-800x289.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/Screen-Shot-2021-06-03-at-3.25.58-PM-1020x369.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/Screen-Shot-2021-06-03-at-3.25.58-PM-160x58.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/Screen-Shot-2021-06-03-at-3.25.58-PM-768x278.png 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/Screen-Shot-2021-06-03-at-3.25.58-PM.png 1350w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The dream contest form, as seen in ‘The Oakland Tribune’ throughout November and December 1925. \u003ccite>(The Oakland Tribune)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Within days, the newspaper was bombarded with entries from all over the Bay Area. “The chance to ‘see yourself in the movies’ has appealed to many aspirants who have long desired a screen test of themselves,” the \u003cem>Tribune\u003c/em> reported, “and numerous replies have been received from kiddies ambitious to make their screen debut.” In addition to entries from Oakland, Alameda and Berkeley, one story proudly stated, the paper also received dream summaries from “Stege, Avon, Glen Ellen, Hayward, Niles, Pinole, Watsonville and San Jose.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13884403']Readers told of dreams in which they died, became British royalty, received “nocturnal warnings,” and rode whales to France. The Nov. 19 \u003cem>Tribune\u003c/em> listed highlights from the “Dream Editor’s mail.” These included tales about “the Prince of Wales in a 1913 aeroplane, golden winged birds in fairy castles, a pedestrian jaunt across San Francisco Bay, a wicked hermit having a bodyguard of fierce lions, a midnight sky full of waving American flags,” and many more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some lucky entries were even given the dream analysis treatment in the \u003cem>Tribune\u003c/em>—a practice that had grown increasingly fashionable since Sigmund Freud published \u003cem>The Interpretation of Dreams\u003c/em> in 1900. (“To see one’s self beheaded is a sign that loyal friends are near you,” a \u003cem>Tribune\u003c/em> interpreter advised one reader.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then on Nov. 23, the \u003cem>Tribune\u003c/em> finally announced its winner: a Mrs. L. L. Nicholson of 3812 San Juan St., Oakland, who dreamed her baby stole the family car and got a speeding ticket. Nicholson, her husband, and their baby boy, Bobby, made a special appearance in the newspaper, photographed while receiving their $25 check.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13898264\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13898264\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/Screen-Shot-2021-06-02-at-5.18.31-PM-800x717.png\" alt=\"The Nicholson family, as seen in the 'Oakland Tribune' on Nov. 28, 1925.\" width=\"800\" height=\"717\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/Screen-Shot-2021-06-02-at-5.18.31-PM-800x717.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/Screen-Shot-2021-06-02-at-5.18.31-PM-1020x914.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/Screen-Shot-2021-06-02-at-5.18.31-PM-160x143.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/Screen-Shot-2021-06-02-at-5.18.31-PM-768x688.png 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/Screen-Shot-2021-06-02-at-5.18.31-PM.png 1216w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Nicholson family, as seen in the ‘Oakland Tribune’ on Nov. 28, 1925. \u003ccite>(The Oakland Tribune)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Five days before they appeared, the \u003cem>Tribune\u003c/em> had excitedly announced, “OAKLAND BOY, 11 MONTHS, TO STAR IN DREAM MOVIE.” The resulting seven-and-a-half-minute silent film starts at the family’s home in Oakland, travels to the ferry building in San Francisco, then back to the East Bay in a row boat. 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The granddaughter of the founder of \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/flintsbarbecue/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Flint’s Barbecue\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, an \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13894423/flints-an-icon-of-oakland-barbecue-plots-return-to-original-location\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">iconic restaurant in the annals of Oakland barbecue\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, had been working to resurrect the family business—in one of the original Flint’s locations, on San Pablo Avenue in West Oakland, no less.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Now, Martin says she’s one step closer to achieving her goal, though perhaps not in the way she expected: This summer, Martin will open Flint’s as a takeout- and delivery-only restaurant that will be part of a new \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.cloudkitchens.com/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">CloudKitchens\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> ghost kitchen facility located in a big warehouse at \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.loopnet.com/portfolio-property/5325-5333-Adeline-St-Emeryville-CA/5971289/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">5325 Adeline Street\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, at the border of North Oakland and Emeryville. 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There won’t be any seating for customers; there won’t even be any signage for Flint’s outside of the building—the number of other restaurants sharing the space makes that unfeasible. Customers will be able to order takeout in person, but a lot of the business will be filtered through delivery apps like DoorDash and Uber Eats. 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It has yet to formally announce the North Oakland/Emeryville project, though Martin says her understanding is that construction is well under way. (KQED reached out to CloudKitchens to confirm the details of the new ghost kitchen, but had not received a response at time of publication.)\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Nevertheless, Martin is excited about the prospect of being able to finally turn the new Flint’s into a full-fledged business after spending the past year only selling her barbecue once every few months. 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It has yet to formally announce the North Oakland/Emeryville project, though Martin says her understanding is that construction is well under way. (KQED reached out to CloudKitchens to confirm the details of the new ghost kitchen, but had not received a response at time of publication.)\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Nevertheless, Martin is excited about the prospect of being able to finally turn the new Flint’s into a full-fledged business after spending the past year only selling her barbecue once every few months. 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Hasta Muerte also received a letter from the president of the Oakland Police Association saying the policy was “a matter of concern for all Oakland Police Officers.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The story was covered locally and nationally; it grew to the point that they even mentioned it on \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4MXO7WrhiO8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The View\u003c/a>. But Hasta Muerte hasn’t officially talked to any publications about what happened until now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This week on Rightnowish, we discuss this East Oakland cafe’s community-based approach to safety, cops and the media.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Below are lightly edited excerpts of my conversation with Matt Gereghty.\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Matt: We certainly didn’t think that it would go from local nightly news, which is where it started, to Fox & Friends and making national news…. We were just like, this is blown out of proportion, this happens in cities everywhere all the time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Matt: There’s plenty of people doing work around this. We’re just doing what we do from where we’re at. And so we agreed we’re not going to talk to media at all about this, ‘cuz we know that there’s a whole PR machine that’s mostly built for these institutions and promotes the work of the police.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Pen: How did it feel when it hit the news?\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Matt: It was definitely a mix of feelings because we had already begun to receive some flack. We had started to receive Facebook messages saying, ‘…this is a shameful thing’ and like, ‘This is a Latino officer. 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