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"content": "\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.[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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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. 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"content": "\u003cp>An episode of \u003ca href=\"https://variety.com/2021/music/news/hip-hop-uncovered-fx-hulu-series-1234919918/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>Hip-Hop Uncovered\u003c/em>\u003c/a> about Nipsey Hussle plays in \u003ca href=\"https://complexoakland.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Complex\u003c/a>’s \u003ca href=\"http://www.trapkitchenoakland.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Trap Kitchen\u003c/a> restaurant on a recent Tuesday afternoon while owner Oscar Edwards meets downstairs with a worker-owner of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.mandelagrocery.coop/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Mandela Grocery Cooperative\u003c/a>. Edwards is getting ready to open a small market in the space next door to his downtown Oakland nightclub, partly inspired by Mandela and its introduction of healthy, affordable options to its West Oakland neighborhood. Instead of treating each other as competitors, the small business owners recognize that now is the time for Black entrepreneurs to lift each other up—much like the community-focused strategy that Hussle describes on the TV screen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Most grocery stores are not owned by people of color. We frequent them a lot and spend our dollars there, but it’s not owned by us,” Edwards says. “So my whole thing is to bring that ownership back around so that the dollar circulates and we keep investing into our community.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Edwards’ new \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/fourteenthstreetmarket/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">14th Street Market\u003c/a> promises to bring some life back to a city center that has been devastated by the pandemic, with numerous bars, restaurants and music venues either permanently closed or sitting empty until it’s safe to reopen. 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Edwards also plans a mixture of grab-and-go meals and pantry items to please workers on lunch breaks and grocery shoppers alike.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to catering to the people living in the new apartment tower down the street, “I also wanted to make sure we help the low-income community down here—to have the stuff they need, plus give them healthy options they may have not thought of,” Edwards explains, adding that the store will accept EBT and SNAP cards.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“With all this homelessness, and the pandemic and a lot of people losing their jobs, you have a lot of people on government assistance,” he adds. “So you have to be able to reach out and help those people too, but also give them all those options. Take some of this healthy stuff and get your body right.” [aside postid='arts_13883580']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Important to Edwards, too, is a focus on local Black vendors, whose products 14th Street Market will showcase in special displays. The city has designated 14th Street as the \u003ca href=\"http://www.bambdcdc.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Black Arts Movement Business District\u003c/a>, and Edwards says he wants to do his part in fostering that support system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you’re a Black purveyor and you’re just trying to get your stuff out there, I’m all about networking with people,” Edwards says. “So if you have that, come see me, let me know, and I’d love to see your product and get it on my shelf—and if it’s not my shelf, somebody else’s shelf.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fard Bey co-owns \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/peachandpastryyourfamilybakery\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Peach and Pastry Your Family Bakery\u003c/a> in Pinole and helps his mom run the \u003ca href=\"https://www.waytolifefoods.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Way to Life\u003c/a> granola company. He says Edwards has been a longtime supporter of his booth at the Old Oakland farmers market. They share a vision of making healthy eating accessible; soon, Bey will stock the 14th Street Market shelves with his vegan and gluten-free sweets. “When I started doing farmers markets, my idea was making cupcakes and all the pretty treats,” Bey says. “But I saw how rare it was to … create products that were good and healthy, especially to give children those options.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.instagram.com/p/CJ4q0-ajY2U/\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Starting a new venture during the pandemic isn’t easy, and Edwards says he’s grateful to his supportive landlord, who has worked with him to make his plans financially feasible. He hopes 14th Street Market, along with his restaurant Trap Kitchen, will help keep Complex afloat until shows can resume again. Prior to the pandemic, the club was a hub for local rap pillars like Keak da Sneak and Kamaiyah, and also booked other genres and big-name touring acts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13890679/save-our-stages-act-included-in-stimulus-package-promises-relief-for-venues\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Save Our Stages Act\u003c/a> passed in the December federal stimulus package, Edwards still hasn’t seen any of the promised grant funding for independent music venues, and he isn’t holding out for it either. “The problem with that is they said it passed … but other than one Zoom call, we have no other details, and it’s March,” Edwards says.[aside postid='arts_13892809']\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",
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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=\"auto, (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=\"auto, (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=\"auto, (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=\"auto, (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=\"auto, (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=\"auto, (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=\"auto, (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=\"auto, (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=\"auto, (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=\"auto, (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>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=\"auto, (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=\"auto, (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=\"auto, (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=\"auto, (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.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\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=\"auto, (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>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003ci>It’s Tuesday morning and my phone is ringing. Before even looking at the screen, I know it’s my sister, Erikka. Every week for the past six months or so, my sister has spent 10 minutes telling me about her weekend escapades. The accounts are adventurous, liberating, and oddly enough, about love.\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>My sister, a mother of two, has been through some harrowing experiences. Just about all of the foul things a young woman can be involved in while growing up in the inner city—from selling sex to selling crack—she’s done it. And she’s open about how those experiences have left marks on her, physically, mentally, and emotionally.\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>Now recently married, my sister’s phone calls aren’t about the pain she’s experienced, and really aren’t about the romantic relationship she and her partner share. They’re more about her discovery of a loving community. And most importantly, her stories are about an East Oakland girl finding self-love near the Santa Cruz Mountains.\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>Because it’s her story, I figured she’d be the best person to tell it.\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>—Pendarvis Harshaw\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13892748\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13892748\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/02/Erikka.Lake_-800x555.jpg\" alt=\"Erikka Ransom and husband Dom at Lake Merritt in Oakland.\" width=\"800\" height=\"555\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/02/Erikka.Lake_-800x555.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/02/Erikka.Lake_-1020x708.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/02/Erikka.Lake_-160x111.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/02/Erikka.Lake_-768x533.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/02/Erikka.Lake_-1536x1066.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/02/Erikka.Lake_.jpg 1556w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Erikka Ransom and husband Dom at Lake Merritt in Oakland. \u003ccite>(Pendarvis Harshaw)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Love… We tend to throw the word around like confetti, \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">but it means more and comes with so much responsibility. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">I found my love when I was only 15. He was my neighbor, my friend, and the love of my life, even though he didn’t know it yet. We grew up together and separated when both our families moved from the Skyline Hills Apartment complex in the East Oakland hills. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">We individually went through a great deal of hurt during our lives. Hard times financially, run-ins with the law, and relationships that scarred us for life.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">In adulthood, we talked periodically, remaining good friends. We’d often discuss our relationships, and how they were missing \u003cem>something\u003c/em>. We were both suffering, both missing love.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">My last relationship ended after 11 years—there was no love there for me. His 20-year relationship ended just before mine.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">About four years ago I saw the love of my life again. I was driving down the street near Foothill Square in East Oakland. I had just moved into an apartment in the neighborhood. About a block away from my new home, I saw him outside taking a break from work. I almost left the car in drive as I jumped out! Happiness rushed back into my heart as I remembered love again. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Despite the pandemic, we married on July 27, 2020. We wanted to be together forever, so much that we held a small ceremony in our backyard, over an iPad, with the Justice of Peace. It was beautiful. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13892739\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13892739\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/02/Erikka.jpg\" alt=\"Erikka Ransom and husband Dom, pictured together.\" width=\"800\" height=\"804\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/02/Erikka.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/02/Erikka-160x161.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/02/Erikka-768x772.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Erikka Ransom and husband Dom, pictured together. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Erikka Ransom)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">We’re both lovers of camping; time spent in nature actually helped solidify our relationship. We decided to find a place to enjoy the outdoors during the shelter-in-place orders. But most campsites were closed.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">And then we found a place that was unlike any other: \u003ca href=\"https://www.lupinlodge.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Lupin Lodge\u003c/a>. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is a community that welcomes newcomers with open arms. We started going in August and we’ve been back every weekend, just because of the love we feel. The first day we were there, people invited us to eat with them, and asked if we needed anything. They even recited poems just to help us relax in a new environment. It was amazing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I have to mention that Lupin is a “naturist community,” where people are free to be nude, so it was a little different than the camping experiences we’ve had in the past. During previous camping trips to places like Lake Camanche, I’d jump in the lake naked when no one was around. So once I found a place where I could walk around naked without having the police called on me, I was down!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s nothing sexual about it. It’s about being free. You feel the nature, and the love from everyone around you. And best of all: there’s no judgement. You could be fat, skinny or whatever, and people are just accepting. I’ve been self-conscious of my stretch marks for a long time, and I didn’t feel that when I was out there. 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We were both suffering, both missing love.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">My last relationship ended after 11 years—there was no love there for me. His 20-year relationship ended just before mine.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">About four years ago I saw the love of my life again. I was driving down the street near Foothill Square in East Oakland. I had just moved into an apartment in the neighborhood. About a block away from my new home, I saw him outside taking a break from work. I almost left the car in drive as I jumped out! Happiness rushed back into my heart as I remembered love again. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Despite the pandemic, we married on July 27, 2020. We wanted to be together forever, so much that we held a small ceremony in our backyard, over an iPad, with the Justice of Peace. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003ci data-stringify-type=\"italic\">Over 4 weeks, \u003c/i>\u003ci data-stringify-type=\"italic\">\u003ca class=\"c-link\" href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13891641/four-bay-area-musicians-to-know-right-nowish\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-stringify-link=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13891641/four-bay-area-musicians-to-know-right-nowish\" data-sk=\"tooltip_parent\">Rightnowish is featuring artists with local roots\u003c/a>\u003c/i>\u003ci data-stringify-type=\"italic\"> who are taking the sounds of the Bay to a national stage.\u003cbr>\n\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"200\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https://playlist.megaphone.fm?e=KQINC3715528401&light=true\" width=\"100%\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/champgreen/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Champ Green\u003c/a> is probably your favorite Bay Area rapper’s favorite rapper. He’s been putting in work for some time, and over the past calendar year he’s been on a music-making mission. And he’s not showing any signs of slowing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13892652\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-13892652 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/02/0-1-1-800x718.jpg\" alt='An illustration of Champ Green on the outside of a \"Hella Nuts\" Grounded Walnut Meat bag. You can see him smiling in the bottom right corner of the bag as he bites into a burger.' width=\"800\" height=\"718\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/02/0-1-1-800x718.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/02/0-1-1-1020x916.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/02/0-1-1-160x144.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/02/0-1-1-768x690.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/02/0-1-1.jpg 1439w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An illustration of Champ Green on the outside of “Hella Nuts” \u003ccite>(Mieko Scott)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>His clever wordplay and wisdom-filled rhymes can be found on a project \u003ca href=\"https://rootsandbranches.bandcamp.com/track/seed-15\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">with DJ Basta\u003c/a>, a recent single and video \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tdzxSP1RWjc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">with Mistah FAB\u003c/a>, and multiple tracks with \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/grandnationxl_/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the Grand Nationxl collective\u003c/a>. And next week he’s scheduled to release \u003cem>Pleasantly Plump 2\u003c/em> \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/CLFoxt8sgek/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">with DJ Twelvz\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While his wordplay is on tracks, his face is on food. You can find him smiling on the packaging of the local plant-based food company \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/hella_nuts/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Hella Nuts,\u003c/a> breaking stereotypes on what health looks like.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On top of all that, Champ, a friend of mine, is the walking embodiment of love. His latest project, \u003cem>Agape Elephant in The Room\u003c/em>, which dropped in December, is a testament to that love– and how it often gets overlooked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even with the competitive nature of the rap game, Champ says love has to be acknowledged. Today we talk about how Champ got love from his mother, game from the Town, and with each bar he spits he gives it all back.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13892632\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13892632\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/02/137117814_752315915397210_7949189052426708347_n-800x800.jpg\" alt=\"Champ Green, wearing a beanie cap and glasses, stands in a field with some small trees in the background.\" width=\"800\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/02/137117814_752315915397210_7949189052426708347_n-800x800.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/02/137117814_752315915397210_7949189052426708347_n-160x160.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/02/137117814_752315915397210_7949189052426708347_n-768x768.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/02/137117814_752315915397210_7949189052426708347_n.jpg 828w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Champ Green, wearing a beanie cap and glasses, stands in a field with some small trees in the background. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Champ Gree)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Below are lightly edited excerpts of my conversation with Champ Green.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Pen: Your most recent project was “Agape Elephant in the Room.” Why was that the title?\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Champ Green: It derived from the elephant in the room, so everybody says they don’t see the elephant, right? But it’s plain as day. So I’m the elephant with the big love in the room. Depending on the way you view it, either, I’m a problem or I’m the problem solver.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Pen: And for our folks who are unclear, what does agape mean?\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Champ Green: Unconditional love and the love of God, give you the unconditional love, that’s agape.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Pen: Looking at what you’re doing right now with Grand Nationxl collective, it seems like there’s a lot of love in that collective. You’re working with 10-dozen producers?\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Champ Green: I’ve been blessed to be a part of teams who kind of run ocean 12 or 13 or 11 game, which in order to get the job done, we have to be very, very good, or excellent. It’s like a real life Henry Ford machine. So the assembly line is heavy with a plethora of knowledge, a plethora of game and a potluck of camaraderie to the point where we get the job done and pull off the heist, respectfully.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Pen: Respectfully [[laughs]]… the Bay Area it breeds a lot of linguists, ya know obviously E40 is of it. But did the Bay influence [your wordplay ability] as well?\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Champ Green: Of course, most definitely. I think also, when we speak of hip hop, I’m damn, near just as old as hip hop. I think I’m forty two. So I have front row seats to the game. Right. And then I had three older siblings and I was just able to be saturated in it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Champ Green: And also growing up in Oakland, every turf got their own little slang… it could be a bunch of your partners, y’all say what your little slick word, and then it could spread like wildfire because one of your partners may stay in the West and the other partner me stay in a Deep East and the other partna stay in Richmond and it’ll become a thing. So, in the words of Mac Mall, “serving game is my occupation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Pen: But you individually have a lexicon that you go through that you pull from. And I just wanted to break down just a couple of terms that I want to hear you define them. 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Listen to it wherever you get your podcasts or click the play button at the top of this page and subscribe to the show on \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/podcasts/721590300/rightnowish\">NPR One\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://open.spotify.com/show/7kEJuafTzTVan7B78ttz1I\">Spotify\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/rightnowish/id1482187648\">Apple Podcasts\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://tunein.com/podcasts/Arts--Culture-Podcasts/Rightnowish-p1258245/\">TuneIn\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/kqed/rightnowish\">Stitcher\u003c/a> or wherever you get your podcasts. \u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003ci data-stringify-type=\"italic\">Over 4 weeks, \u003c/i>\u003ci data-stringify-type=\"italic\">\u003ca class=\"c-link\" href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13891641/four-bay-area-musicians-to-know-right-nowish\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-stringify-link=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13891641/four-bay-area-musicians-to-know-right-nowish\" data-sk=\"tooltip_parent\">Rightnowish is featuring artists with local roots\u003c/a>\u003c/i>\u003ci data-stringify-type=\"italic\"> who are taking the sounds of the Bay to a national stage.\u003cbr>\n\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"200\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https://playlist.megaphone.fm?e=KQINC3715528401&light=true\" width=\"100%\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/champgreen/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Champ Green\u003c/a> is probably your favorite Bay Area rapper’s favorite rapper. He’s been putting in work for some time, and over the past calendar year he’s been on a music-making mission. And he’s not showing any signs of slowing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13892652\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-13892652 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/02/0-1-1-800x718.jpg\" alt='An illustration of Champ Green on the outside of a \"Hella Nuts\" Grounded Walnut Meat bag. You can see him smiling in the bottom right corner of the bag as he bites into a burger.' width=\"800\" height=\"718\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/02/0-1-1-800x718.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/02/0-1-1-1020x916.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/02/0-1-1-160x144.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/02/0-1-1-768x690.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/02/0-1-1.jpg 1439w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An illustration of Champ Green on the outside of “Hella Nuts” \u003ccite>(Mieko Scott)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>His clever wordplay and wisdom-filled rhymes can be found on a project \u003ca href=\"https://rootsandbranches.bandcamp.com/track/seed-15\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">with DJ Basta\u003c/a>, a recent single and video \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tdzxSP1RWjc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">with Mistah FAB\u003c/a>, and multiple tracks with \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/grandnationxl_/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the Grand Nationxl collective\u003c/a>. And next week he’s scheduled to release \u003cem>Pleasantly Plump 2\u003c/em> \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/CLFoxt8sgek/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">with DJ Twelvz\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While his wordplay is on tracks, his face is on food. You can find him smiling on the packaging of the local plant-based food company \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/hella_nuts/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Hella Nuts,\u003c/a> breaking stereotypes on what health looks like.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On top of all that, Champ, a friend of mine, is the walking embodiment of love. His latest project, \u003cem>Agape Elephant in The Room\u003c/em>, which dropped in December, is a testament to that love– and how it often gets overlooked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even with the competitive nature of the rap game, Champ says love has to be acknowledged. Today we talk about how Champ got love from his mother, game from the Town, and with each bar he spits he gives it all back.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13892632\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13892632\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/02/137117814_752315915397210_7949189052426708347_n-800x800.jpg\" alt=\"Champ Green, wearing a beanie cap and glasses, stands in a field with some small trees in the background.\" width=\"800\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/02/137117814_752315915397210_7949189052426708347_n-800x800.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/02/137117814_752315915397210_7949189052426708347_n-160x160.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/02/137117814_752315915397210_7949189052426708347_n-768x768.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/02/137117814_752315915397210_7949189052426708347_n.jpg 828w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Champ Green, wearing a beanie cap and glasses, stands in a field with some small trees in the background. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Champ Gree)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Below are lightly edited excerpts of my conversation with Champ Green.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Pen: Your most recent project was “Agape Elephant in the Room.” Why was that the title?\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Champ Green: It derived from the elephant in the room, so everybody says they don’t see the elephant, right? 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So the assembly line is heavy with a plethora of knowledge, a plethora of game and a potluck of camaraderie to the point where we get the job done and pull off the heist, respectfully.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Pen: Respectfully [[laughs]]… the Bay Area it breeds a lot of linguists, ya know obviously E40 is of it. But did the Bay influence [your wordplay ability] as well?\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Champ Green: Of course, most definitely. I think also, when we speak of hip hop, I’m damn, near just as old as hip hop. I think I’m forty two. So I have front row seats to the game. Right. And then I had three older siblings and I was just able to be saturated in it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Champ Green: And also growing up in Oakland, every turf got their own little slang… it could be a bunch of your partners, y’all say what your little slick word, and then it could spread like wildfire because one of your partners may stay in the West and the other partner me stay in a Deep East and the other partna stay in Richmond and it’ll become a thing. So, in the words of Mac Mall, “serving game is my occupation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Pen: But you individually have a lexicon that you go through that you pull from. And I just wanted to break down just a couple of terms that I want to hear you define them. 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"content": "\u003cp>A disturbing video of a man shoving a 91-year-old elder to the ground in Oakland Chinatown made international headlines, and became a lightning rod in a heated debate about how to best combat anti-Asian racism and promote public safety.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Business leaders in Chinatown organized a press conference last Wednesday to put pressure on public officials to increase police foot patrols and surveillance cameras in the area. At the conference, Mayor Libby Schaaf pivoted from the tragedy to decry the movement to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11823958/defund-the-police-what-it-means-and-how-bay-area-cities-are-responding\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">defund the police\u003c/a>—a call that emanated from racial justice protests last summer in the wake of George Floyd’s killing and police abuses against Black Americans and other people of color.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The racial dynamics of the situation are fraught. The Trump administration’s relentless scapegoating of Chinese people for the coronavirus has fueled hate and resentment, and anti-Asian hate crimes \u003ca href=\"https://www.thecut.com/2021/02/the-us-is-seeing-a-massive-spike-in-anti-asian-hate-crimes.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">spiked across the country\u003c/a> in 2020. Meanwhile, because the \u003ca href=\"https://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2021/02/09/update-suspect-arrested-in-oakland-chinatown-elderly-assaults/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">suspected attackers\u003c/a> in the Oakland Chinatown incident—and \u003ca href=\"https://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2021/02/08/vicha-ratanapakdee-elderly-fatal-assault-suspect-antoine-watson-held-without-bail/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">another in San Francisco\u003c/a> that left an 84-year-old Thai man dead—were Black, racists have flocked to \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/OakMorr/status/1357178316315185158?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">social media\u003c/a> to perpetuate a false narrative of Black criminality.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Oakland Police Department’s available data doesn’t conclusively point to a crime spike in Chinatown (according to data obtained by \u003ca href=\"https://oaklandside.org/2021/02/04/mayor-and-city-council-president-collide-over-policing-with-focus-on-crime-in-chinatown/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Oaklandside\u003c/a>, overall crime reports in OPD’s Patrol Area 1, which includes Chinatown, are down 60% from last January, and robberies are down 40%). 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It deploys staff to clean trash and graffiti, connects merchants and residents to services and aims to foster a community atmosphere.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s difficult to shove a senior citizen to the ground if you see yourself in them, if you have a relationship to them,” said Chiu. “It’s difficult to racially profile someone if you’re not afraid of them—if you’ve played together in our parks and recreation centers. But we need to invest in community safety and infrastructure and spaces and people who can bring those communities together and into relationship.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, other activists and artists around the Bay Area have spoken out in solidarity and created mutual aid campaigns and fundraisers to support Oakland Chinatown’s elders. 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Volunteers will clean up trash, pass out red envelopes for Lunar New Year and build long-term relationships with residents, businesses and visitors in the hopes of strengthening community ties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.instagram.com/p/CK8IYzShlSY/\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A group calling themselves \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/compassioninoakland/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Compassion in Oakland\u003c/a> is also \u003ca href=\"https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfe9ao3dUPelXmX-i26bxpsMKGGZl7RnC-yvkilaTTR3pf5lg/viewform\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">asking for volunteers\u003c/a> to escort Chinatown’s elders on walks and errands. There are two “Love Our People” rallies planned to condemn the violence in \u003ca href=\"https://actionnetwork.org/events/love-our-people-heal-our-communities\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Oakland on Feb. 13\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://actionnetwork.org/events/love-our-people-heal-our-communities-sf-hosted-by-ccsj\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">San Francisco on Feb. 14\u003c/a>. 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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13892201\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13892201\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/02/0-1-800x1199.jpg\" alt=\"Jada Imani sits in front of a couple of palm trees as she poses for a photo.\" width=\"800\" height=\"1199\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/02/0-1-800x1199.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/02/0-1-160x240.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/02/0-1-768x1151.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/02/0-1.jpg 862w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jada Imani sits in front of a couple of palm trees as she poses for a photo. \u003ccite>(13thElement)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003ci data-stringify-type=\"italic\">Over 4 weeks, \u003c/i>\u003ci data-stringify-type=\"italic\">\u003ca class=\"c-link\" href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13891641/four-bay-area-musicians-to-know-right-nowish\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-stringify-link=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13891641/four-bay-area-musicians-to-know-right-nowish\" data-sk=\"tooltip_parent\">Rightnowish is featuring artists with local roots\u003c/a>\u003c/i>\u003ci data-stringify-type=\"italic\"> who are taking the sounds of the Bay to a national stage.\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"200\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https://playlist.megaphone.fm?e=KQINC2592114794\" width=\"100%\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Neo-soul and hip-hop artist \u003ca href=\"https://www.jadaimani.info/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jada Imani\u003c/a> gets her inspiration from a range of lived experiences: parking tickets, lessons from her parents, and Mac Dre lyrics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite the pandemic, Jada has been dropping three-track EPs every first Friday since October, and plans to continue to do so until March. It’s a legacy of the collaborations and vibe she cultivated while organizing and hosting First Friday events at the \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/ABC4JUSTICE/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Alan Blueford Center\u003c/a> in Oakland for over 3 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While honoring her origins, she’s also incorporating inspiration from her new surroundings — like Hawaiian tree frogs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This week on Rightnowish we talk to Jada Imani about astrology, ‘high vibration clapbacks’ and how music was her access to culture when she was a small girl in a small town.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13892214\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13892214\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/02/0-2-800x1199.jpg\" alt=\"Jada Imani wears a mustard yellow jacket and poses holding a multicolored umbrella. \" width=\"800\" height=\"1199\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/02/0-2-800x1199.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/02/0-2-160x240.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/02/0-2-768x1151.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/02/0-2.jpg 862w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jada Imani wears a mustard yellow jacket and poses holding a multicolored umbrella. \u003ccite>(13thElement)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://open.spotify.com/embed/playlist/6ok3fmGwvwmuyGvuWxlv3Q\" width=\"100%\" height=\"380\" frameborder=\"0\" allowtransparency=\"true\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Below are lightly edited excerpts of my conversation with Jada Imani.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>PEN: Where did you start learning about hip hop culture?\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>JADA: I was born into it because my parents were both very young hip hop heads when they had us. And music was the only thing that we really had to grasp on to when it came to culture… We moved to the Bay when I was about 10 years old. But before that, we were in kind of the rural Midwest, in this little town called Belleville, right outside of east St. Louis. There wasn’t much happening, it was kind of desolate in a way. So it was hip hop and music that gave me life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>JADA: I think both of my parents have always been very conscious of the world they live in… And my dad especially was always very radical and very pro Black. And just like ‘you need to understand the world is not set up for us.’ And the music was the medium that he taught me through…\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>PEN: How has the Bay influenced your art?\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>JADA: Oh, my gosh, in so many ways! The Bay taught me how to dance! The Bay has also influenced a lot of my style and the ability to rock thrift shops, not because that’s all you can afford growing up, but because you can make that fly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>JADA: One thing that I really admire about the Bay is that there is a strong activist history and there’s also a strong hyphy history. And when we’re talking about bringing those sounds together, like, what does it mean to talk about identity and power over a Bay slap rap? But, yeah, it’s hard to say what the Bay hasn’t done for me. I owe so much to the Bay [laughs] Especially with the first project we sampled Mac Dre, and it was like an ode to the Bay and that was like part of the tone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>PEN: You mentioned the Mac Dre line… That’s what inspired me to ask that question. You sampled the line “sometimes I’m not myself, sometimes I’m another man.”\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>JADA: I really enjoyed that line in particular because he was like, you don’t know who I am. Or I can recreate who I am, or like, you might see me one way because of the body I live in, but, you know, what else is there? Also it’s just like some like sassy clapping back against misogyny. I was like sixteen feeling myself. Because so much of the reason why I feel like I couldn’t talk is because I was born into a girl’s body, and so much of what inspires me to write is clapping back at the patriarchy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>PEN: It’s a high vibration clapback, if you will.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>JADA: HA! Let’s go! High vibration clap back. I love it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>PEN: But another line that stands out to me correct me if I butcher it… “reading looks reading books, reading minds, reading charts.” Did I say that right?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>JADA: “Reading books, reading charts, read myself, it’s a work of art, way more work than to fall apart…”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>JADA: I was really– and I still am– an astrology nerd. So reading birth charts was part of my hustle when I didn’t want to get a nine to five and I wanted to only do things I genuinely enjoyed. I read birth charts for people. And then reading myself, you know, introspection is hard work, but you can’t let yourself fall apart. You got to keep reading into it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>PEN: … So, you’re calling us from Hawaii right now, where you’ve been for months, is it influencing the music that you’re producing?\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>JADA: That’s such a big question because I’m constantly processing it… how few black folks are here. I see more white folks than brown folks, indigenous folks out here. And I’m like, who gets to be here, who doesn’t and why? I’m really grateful to have the access to the kind of retreat that I need to grow and heal from my own, like, hurts and things. And I’m hella grateful for that… And in terms of the overarching narrative that’s going on here with the history of colonization and how it shows up in the present day. I think about it all the time. There’s colonization all over, in the Bay, like there’s gentrification, all these things. But it hits different here. You know, it really does.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>JADA: … The coqui frogs are really loud at night. They sound like birds. And so when I’m recording at night, they get into the recordings of the songs. And so it ended up being the whole soundscape of an EP… Literally sounds of rainforest entering the music now [laughs]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>PEN: So being that your parents put a seed in you in terms of like hip hop history, culture, the importance of the art. 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So reading birth charts was part of my hustle when I didn’t want to get a nine to five and I wanted to only do things I genuinely enjoyed. I read birth charts for people. And then reading myself, you know, introspection is hard work, but you can’t let yourself fall apart. You got to keep reading into it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>PEN: … So, you’re calling us from Hawaii right now, where you’ve been for months, is it influencing the music that you’re producing?\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>JADA: That’s such a big question because I’m constantly processing it… how few black folks are here. I see more white folks than brown folks, indigenous folks out here. And I’m like, who gets to be here, who doesn’t and why? I’m really grateful to have the access to the kind of retreat that I need to grow and heal from my own, like, hurts and things. 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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13892039\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13892039\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/02/0-4-800x660.jpg\" alt=\"Queen Iminah's new EP is a love letter from—and to—the African diaspora.\" width=\"800\" height=\"660\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/02/0-4-800x660.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/02/0-4-1020x841.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/02/0-4-160x132.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/02/0-4-768x633.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/02/0-4-1536x1267.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/02/0-4.jpg 1734w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Queen Iminah’s new EP is a love letter from—and to—the African diaspora. \u003ccite>(GLM Studios)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Let’s start Black History Month with a dose of something to dance to, coming directly from the African Diaspora.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Saturday, Feb. 6, Oakland’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/queen_iminah/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Queen Iminah\u003c/a> will perform music from her debut project \u003cem>From Ghetto 2 Goddess\u003c/em> via livestream from \u003ca href=\"https://www.eventbrite.com/e/queen-iminah-tickets-136717590995\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">San Francisco’s Great American Music Hall\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The six-track EP is a blend of what some might call hip-hop, reggae, Afrobeat and R&B. Queen Iminah simply calls it “\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">melanated music.” Or better yet, “born-again African soul.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Just by looking at the EP’s featured artists—Ghana’s \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/ponobiom\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Yaa Pono\u003c/a>, Brooklyn’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.blakkamoore.com/\">Jahdan Blakkamoore\u003c/a> (originally from Guyana), and Oakland’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/dwaynewigginsofficial/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">D’wayne Wiggins\u003c/a>—a common thread emerges of the African diaspora. That theme carries over to the recording process, which occurred in studios in Ghana, Nigeria, Brooklyn and Oakland.[aside postID='bayareabites_139725']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It all represents my lineage,” says Queen Iminah, who is African American and Jamaican, and became an ordained priestess in the Yoruba tradition after traveling to Nigeria.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Along with her bloodline and culture, the artist brings her passion as an academic to her craft as well. “People are educated through their art,” says Queen Iminah, who is the head of Oakland Unified School District’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.ousd.org/Page/15707\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">African American Female Excellence program\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>True to form, her music is both spiritually enlightening and intellectually inspiring.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The song “Osun” comes on like a jam session, heavy on the percussion; Queen Iminah’s repetitive praise of the deity’s name makes me wonder if there’s even a difference between prayer and song. It helps that the track-ending guitar solo sounds like the strings were plucked from the heavens.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a song more grounded in worldly ills, “Ife Me” is an uptempo reminder of the need for consensual respect, communication, and understanding in any relationship. “Yes means yes, and no means no / respect is key for us to grow,” sings Queen Iminah. And if you’re looking for a song to use as curriculum this month—or any month—I suggest “Warrior Queen.” It’s another uptempo recording, full of lyrics honoring women who lived as warriors, in many forms of the word.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13892042\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-13892042\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/02/0-5-1020x1212.jpg\" alt=\"Queen Iminah plays the drums while wearing a guitar over her shoulder.\" width=\"640\" height=\"760\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/02/0-5-1020x1212.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/02/0-5-800x951.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/02/0-5-160x190.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/02/0-5-768x913.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/02/0-5.jpg 1203w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Queen Iminah. \u003ccite>(Carol Dutra)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>African American luminaries\u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/1997/06/24/nyregion/betty-shabazz-a-rights-voice-dies-of-burns.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> Betty Shabazz\u003c/a>,\u003ca href=\"https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/freedomsummer-hamer/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> Fannie Lou Hamer\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/president-biden-takes-office/2021/01/25/960417969/biden-administration-will-speed-up-efforts-to-put-harriet-tubman-on-20-bill\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Harriet Tubman\u003c/a> are mentioned on the same four-and-a-half-minute track as the \u003ca href=\"https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-queen-who-would-be-king-130328511/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Egyptian pharaoh Hatshepsut\u003c/a>; \u003ca href=\"https://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/pwmn_2/hd_pwmn_2.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> Queen Nzinga\u003c/a>, who once ruled the Kingdoms of Ndongo and Matamba (modern day Angola); and \u003ca href=\"https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-africa-44772345\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Yaa Asantewaa\u003c/a>, the Ghanaian warrior queen who fought against British colonizers in the 1800s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>From Ghetto 2 Goddess\u003c/em>, which officially drops in March, is named for what Queen Iminah describes as her “personal journey of ascension.” She says the term isn’t about being better than anyone—it just reflects her own experience in going from “hanging out in strip clubs and throwing my life away” to traveling the world, developing educational workshops and focusing on her art.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She’s been \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/CD-wudQsK4Q/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">open about her experiences\u003c/a> in the past, and hopes to continue to discuss her philosophy with the young women she works with, as well as anyone looking to better themselves and their community—especially people of the African Diaspora.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s about breaking out of temporary oppression,” says Queen Iminah. “And embracing the multifaceted origins of humanity; all of the spectrums we come from.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12127869\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"78\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-768x75.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Queen Iminah is joined by Jahi of Public Enemy’s PE 2.0 for a livestream on Saturday, Feb. 6, live from the Great American Music Hall. \u003ca href=\"https://www.slimspresents.com/e/queen-iminah-136717590995/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Details here\u003c/a>. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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It helps that the track-ending guitar solo sounds like the strings were plucked from the heavens.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a song more grounded in worldly ills, “Ife Me” is an uptempo reminder of the need for consensual respect, communication, and understanding in any relationship. “Yes means yes, and no means no / respect is key for us to grow,” sings Queen Iminah. And if you’re looking for a song to use as curriculum this month—or any month—I suggest “Warrior Queen.” It’s another uptempo recording, full of lyrics honoring women who lived as warriors, in many forms of the word.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13892042\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-13892042\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/02/0-5-1020x1212.jpg\" alt=\"Queen Iminah plays the drums while wearing a guitar over her shoulder.\" width=\"640\" height=\"760\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/02/0-5-1020x1212.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/02/0-5-800x951.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/02/0-5-160x190.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/02/0-5-768x913.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/02/0-5.jpg 1203w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Queen Iminah. \u003ccite>(Carol Dutra)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>African American luminaries\u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/1997/06/24/nyregion/betty-shabazz-a-rights-voice-dies-of-burns.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> Betty Shabazz\u003c/a>,\u003ca href=\"https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/freedomsummer-hamer/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> Fannie Lou Hamer\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/president-biden-takes-office/2021/01/25/960417969/biden-administration-will-speed-up-efforts-to-put-harriet-tubman-on-20-bill\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Harriet Tubman\u003c/a> are mentioned on the same four-and-a-half-minute track as the \u003ca href=\"https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-queen-who-would-be-king-130328511/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Egyptian pharaoh Hatshepsut\u003c/a>; \u003ca href=\"https://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/pwmn_2/hd_pwmn_2.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> Queen Nzinga\u003c/a>, who once ruled the Kingdoms of Ndongo and Matamba (modern day Angola); and \u003ca href=\"https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-africa-44772345\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Yaa Asantewaa\u003c/a>, the Ghanaian warrior queen who fought against British colonizers in the 1800s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>From Ghetto 2 Goddess\u003c/em>, which officially drops in March, is named for what Queen Iminah describes as her “personal journey of ascension.” She says the term isn’t about being better than anyone—it just reflects her own experience in going from “hanging out in strip clubs and throwing my life away” to traveling the world, developing educational workshops and focusing on her art.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She’s been \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/CD-wudQsK4Q/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">open about her experiences\u003c/a> in the past, and hopes to continue to discuss her philosophy with the young women she works with, as well as anyone looking to better themselves and their community—especially people of the African Diaspora.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s about breaking out of temporary oppression,” says Queen Iminah. “And embracing the multifaceted origins of humanity; all of the spectrums we come from.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12127869\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"78\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-768x75.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Queen Iminah is joined by Jahi of Public Enemy’s PE 2.0 for a livestream on Saturday, Feb. 6, live from the Great American Music Hall. \u003ca href=\"https://www.slimspresents.com/e/queen-iminah-136717590995/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Details here\u003c/a>. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cem>For the next month, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13891641/four-bay-area-musicians-to-know-right-nowish\">Rightnowish will be featuring artists with local roots\u003c/a> who are taking the sounds of the Bay to a national stage. \u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n\u003c/span>\u003cbr>\n\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/nappy_nina/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Nappy Nina \u003c/a>is a lyricist with a smooth-sultry delivery that’s almost jazz-like, especially when coupled with some signature Boom-Bap production. In her songs, she raps about breakups, missing Oakland, the disappointing produce in Brooklyn, and navigating rough financial waters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She’s gotten mentions from the \u003ca href=\"https://www.grammy.com/grammys/news/mexican-summer-continues-looking-glass-series-latest-nappy-nina-weight-release\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Grammys\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://daily.bandcamp.com/features/nappy-nina-feature\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Bandcamp.\u003c/a> And she’s been working on a streak of exciting projects. For the educational organization, Flocabulary, Nina was commissioned to pen a rhyme that tells the story of \u003ca href=\"https://www.flocabulary.com/unit/toni-morrison/\">Toni Morrison\u003c/a>. A few weeks ago, she dropped a new single, “\u003ca href=\"https://lucidhaus.bandcamp.com/album/pandemy-stimmy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Pandemy Stimmy\u003c/a>,” which features Stas THEE Boss. Soon, she’ll release a new EP, Double Down, in collaboration with New Jersey-based producer, \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/_jwords/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">J Words\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13891535\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13891535\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/01/1Beat_2019_Nina-4-800x534.jpg\" alt=\"Nappy Nina looks off to her left as she poses for a photo.\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/01/1Beat_2019_Nina-4-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/01/1Beat_2019_Nina-4-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/01/1Beat_2019_Nina-4-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/01/1Beat_2019_Nina-4-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/01/1Beat_2019_Nina-4.jpg 1450w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nappy Nina looks off to her left as she poses for a photo. \u003ccite>(Alexia Webster)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>This week on Rightnowish, we talk to Nappy Nina about her disdain for the term \u003cem>femcee\u003c/em>, how her Bay Area upbringing influences her craft and how some of my favorite songs came together.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"200\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https://playlist.megaphone.fm?e=KQINC6743777419&light=true\" width=\"100%\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Below are lightly edited excerpts of my conversation with Nappy Nina.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>PEN: …OK, so for folks who’ve never been to East Oakland… how did it influence you? What did you see out there that made you grow into the artist that you are today?\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>NINA: One of the main influences that I had growing up in East Oakland… just spending a lot of time with my pops, who’s really a community man. He has a couple of radio shows and he’s just really connected to a lot of folks in Oakland. A\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">nd I think seeing that has made me wanna carry on that tradition within my own work.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>PEN: Shout out to Pops. Greg Bridges deep into the jazz game. Did he put you in any jazz artists that stuck with you?\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>NINA: He tried to put me on so much jazz when I was younger and I was so reluctant. [laughs] I kicked and screamed about it often, like I was in the jazz band in middle school. I play upright bass, I didn’t really appreciate it and hated it at the time. And now I’m just like, yo, why didn’t I just stick with it? That would have been ill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>PEN: I could see a middle school upright bass… like the bass is probably as big as you, right?\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>NINA: Exactly. I had to carry it all around, like, it was just hella inconvenient.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>PEN:… there’s this thing that you do of calling out “Mencees.”\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>NINA: Yeah. (laughs)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>PEN: What’s that all about?\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>NINA: Man. One day I was just talking to my manager like I’m so frustrated with the “female emcee” lists… And I’ve been on this rampage for a long time. Like nobody is like, ‘Yo. So I know they’re a rapper, but they’re a man. So like just, you know, give them a break.’ There’s no qualifiers for dudes like that. And it’s fucking ridiculous that eight out of ten times somebody wants to give me props it’s on some, “Yeah. But like she’s a ill Femcee, ya mean,”… I hate it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>PEN: …I saw something you did recently. It’s an illustrated piece where you laid down some bars in recognition of Toni Morrison, is it called Flocabulary?\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>NINA: Yeah. Flocabulary. Yeah. That was dope…So Flocabulary is like a dope app and tool for teachers to teach students, like about all types of different subjects through hip hop. And they reached out to me and they had this Toni Morrison piece in mind. And so I wrote first two verses and a hook. Last I heard, the program was sold to like all of L.A. public schools. So to think that a lot of young Cali kids are learning about Toni Morrison through me… just like makes me smile to the end, I was like, wait, I get to be like the rap Bill Nye. And they were like, yeah (laughs).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>PEN: … Do you use your music as a catharsis?\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>NINA : Yeah, always. Always. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>Editor’s note: This episode was filmed under strict guidelines due to the coronavirus pandemic. Safety parameters were followed to protect the health of the dancers and video production team.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLeGdTT0--8Kh9ohLGAYIVzVb-TKwEAxER\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>If Cities Could Dance\u003c/em>\u003c/a> \u003cem>is KQED Arts’ award-winning video series featuring dancers across the country who represent their city’s signature moves. \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/01/ICCD401_Oakland_Captions.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Download English Transcript.\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Will Randolph was just eight years old when he witnessed something that would change his life forever.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The young East Oakland resident was at a New Years’ Eve party thrown by the Pointer Sisters, his neighbors at the time, marveling at two teenagers moving in an animated fashion, craning their necks and striking poses. Randolph remembers thinking to himself: “What in the world is that?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That night launched a six decade-long love affair with boogaloo, a dance form invented by African American youth in Oakland. Taking inspiration from James Brown, the Temptations, Charlie Chaplin, cartoon characters, and sci-fi robots, boogaloo innovators created a repertoire of original moves like the “Dime Stop,” the “Hit,” the “Mack Pose,” and the “Ditallion.” San Francisco and Richmond soon developed variants of boogaloo, respectively known as strutting and robottin’.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13891301\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/01/BRS_Posters_Jay_Payton-scaled-e1610693156140.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-13891301 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/01/BRS_Posters_Jay_Payton-scaled-e1610693156140-800x949.jpg\" alt=\"The Black Resurgents form a semi circle around TV host Jay Patton and post for a photo\" width=\"800\" height=\"949\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/01/BRS_Posters_Jay_Payton-scaled-e1610693156140-800x949.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/01/BRS_Posters_Jay_Payton-scaled-e1610693156140-1020x1210.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/01/BRS_Posters_Jay_Payton-scaled-e1610693156140-160x190.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/01/BRS_Posters_Jay_Payton-scaled-e1610693156140-768x911.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/01/BRS_Posters_Jay_Payton-scaled-e1610693156140-1295x1536.jpg 1295w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/01/BRS_Posters_Jay_Payton-scaled-e1610693156140-1726x2048.jpg 1726w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/01/BRS_Posters_Jay_Payton-scaled-e1610693156140.jpg 1888w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Black Resurgents back stage on the Jay Payton Show, a music and dance variety \u003ccite>(Courtesy William Randolph, The Black Resurgents)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Today, these techniques are collectively known in the world of hip-hop dance as “the funk styles,” owing to their development during the funk era. As dance historian Traci Bartlow notes, boogaloo preceded the emergence of hip-hop culture, whose name “was not even thought of for another 10 years.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But despite its pioneering status, boogaloo’s cultural contributions are little-known outside of Bay Area dance circles. That’s why, for the past 20 years, Randolph and other veteran boogaloos have spread the word in an attempt to revive boogaloo, maintain its cultural traditions, and pass them on to a new generation–bridging the gap between boogaloo, pop-locking and contemporary dance forms like turf dancing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Turfing in the millennium,” Randolph says, “is what boogaloo was in the ’70s.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Randolph’s stories of boogaloo’s evolution and development have a folkloric, even legendary, quality. In 1971, while urban renewal and white flight were underway and East Oakland’s population rapidly became predominantly African American, he and a handful of his classmates at Elmhurst Junior High began entering talent show competitions. Inspired by the Black Panthers and the social justice movements of the post-civil rights era, they named themselves the Black Resurgents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://open.spotify.com/embed/playlist/3KXUkne9GxQi43KSpN3Lo5\" width=\"100%\" height=\"380\" frameborder=\"0\" allowtransparency=\"true\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Throughout the 1970s, boogaloo became the preeminent form of African American youth culture in Oakland. Numerous boogaloo groups formed in the East, including the Black Resurgents and their chief rivals, the Black Messengers. Castlemont High School and Arroyo Park became centers for group competitions. Boogaloo culture also spread to West Oakland, where groups like S.S. Enterprise and Derrick and Company held forth at McClymonds High School and Mosswood Park. (Talent shows at the Oakland Auditorium, centrally situated near Lake Merritt, became a place where dancers from both East and West Oakland converged.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bartlow, Randolph’s former neighbor, recalls watching the Black Resurgents practice at his home on 96th Ave. and Sunnyside—a formative experience which inspired her to become a dance student and cultural historian. Boogaloo’s concurrent evolution with funk music, she says, resulted in an explosion of youthful expression that reverberated across the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13891302\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/01/Screen-Shot-2021-01-12-at-12.58.40-PM-2-scaled.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13891302\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/01/Screen-Shot-2021-01-12-at-12.58.40-PM-2-800x449.jpg\" alt=\"Traci Bartlow, wearing a beaded tank with the words "Boogaloo, Robbottin', Struttin'," poses for the camera. 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Talent shows with dances were common all over San Francisco, Oakland and of course, the legendary Richmond Auditorium.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Boogaloo, she says, was seemingly everywhere: “On the blocks, in the recreation centers, the courtyard at public schools. Or even in living rooms with the furniture pushed back. Dancers were blasting funk music and working out free-form body movements that had complex rhythms, visual illusions and robotic moves.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We were just a bunch of poor kids that didn’t have a lot of money but had massive imaginations,” explains William “Boogaloo Bill” Bilal, a founding member of S.S. Enterprise and a practitioner of the West Oakland style of boogaloo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Boogaloo’s popularity declined in the mid-’80s, when hip-hop emerged and breakdancing briefly became a national trend. The Bay Area’s boogaloo dancers had begun to age out, and with limited career opportunities compared to their counterparts in New York and Los Angeles, the artform became obscured. “It was all but left for dead on the road,” says Bilal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13891344\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/01/BoogalooBill_McClymonds2.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-13891344 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/01/BoogalooBill_McClymonds2-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"William Bilal, a.k.a. 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Boogaloo Bill, dances outside McClymonds High School in West Oakland \u003ccite>(Spencer Wilkinson)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But boogaloo never truly died. Its movement vocabulary was adopted—some say appropriated—into the Southern California dance known as locking, eventually widely recognized as pop-locking, which itself became part of hip-hop dance’s canon. Then, in the late ’90s and early 2000s, turf dancing emerged from the same Oakland streets which had birthed the funk boogaloo 30 years earlier.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Turfing shares much in common with boogaloo: it’s highly interpretive and improvisational, and varies stylistically from neighborhood to neighborhood. Unknowingly, turfers adapted many boogaloo movements without being aware of their origin.\u003cbr>\n“People need to know where the foundation comes from,” says Johnny “Johnny 5” Lopez, founder of TURFinc. “I just feel like boogaloo started almost everything there is about dancing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In recent years, turfing and boogaloo have occasionally shared the same stage at TURFinc’s “all styles” events (which have also incorporated breaking and freestyle dance) and at the Oakland Museum of California. Randolph and fellow veterans like “OG Mike” Predovic of the Boogaloo Conservatory have become mentors to turfers like Lopez and Levi “iDummy” Allen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2000, Randolph founded the BRS Alliance (the acronym stands for Boogaloo, Robottin’, Strutting) with Richmond’s Ralph “Plik Plok” Montejo and San Francisco’s Lonnie “Pop Tart” Green. Together with Bilal’s Original Boogaloo Movement and numerous Facebook groups, they’ve created a growing online presence and produce an annual “Original Boogaloo Reunion Barbeque” at Oakland’s Shoreline Middle Harbor Park since 2011.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13891315\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/01/harrybarry.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-13891315 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/01/harrybarry-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"Harry Berry, a.k.a. 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Although 2020’s event was cancelled due to COVID, prior years have been graced by legendary boogaloos like Larry Thompson of Pirate and the Easy Walkers; Fayzo and Boogaloo Dana of Demons of the Mind; Darrin “Dub” Hodges of Gentlemen of Production; Kerney Myers, John Murphy, and Chuck Powell of the Black Messengers; and Money B of Playboyz Inc.—along with dance enthusiasts like Agatha “Agatron” Rupniewski of Mix’d Elements.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For his part, Randolph is hoping that the upcoming 50th anniversary of the Black Resurgents in November 2021 will be a flashpoint for the culture.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the pandemic and painful loss have thrown the future of live events into question, and the culture is beginning to lose many of its OGs. Randolph’s brother, E. Vic Randolph “The Crowd Pleaser,” passed away not long after he was filmed for this \u003cem>If Cities Could Dance\u003c/em> episode, and other recent deaths of veteran dancers “Boogaloo Dan” Hodges, Harry Berry, and Dan “Reo Robot” Moore have shaken the boogaloo community to its core.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even more chillingly, the name boogaloo has been co-opted by a violent extremist group called the “Boogaloo Bois” who have been linked to murders in Oakland and Santa Cruz and riots in Minneapolis. “We all started hearing about the so-called boogaloo bois creating chaos right here in the Town,” says the Resurgents’ Ricky Wilson Gantt. “I had a gamut of emotions when I heard that,” says Bilal, adding “if [the boogaloo bois] really and truly understood what the definition of boogaloo is, they never would have chosen it as a name in the first place.” He notes that the word ‘boogaloo’ has been part of the African American vernacular for decades, and traces its roots back to slavery.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though national media has overlooked the boogaloo dancers and their history, the true boogaloo believers remain committed to their cause.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>”There is a notion in our community,” Randolph concludes,” that we have to protect the art form’s name, that we have to protect the culture. This culture did not destroy lives. It saves lives.” \u003cem>— Text by Eric Arnold\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://uploads.knightlab.com/storymapjs/4d72621d07063db4c4778f6461829723/if-cities-could-dance-oakland/index.html\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"100%\" height=\"500\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>In a previous post we incorrectly introduced E. Vic Randolph “The Crowd Pleaser.” His family informed us that Vic passed away due to heart failure caused by hypertension, not COVID-19 as previously stated.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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Inspired by the Black Panthers and the social justice movements of the post-civil rights era, they named themselves the Black Resurgents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://open.spotify.com/embed/playlist/3KXUkne9GxQi43KSpN3Lo5\" width=\"100%\" height=\"380\" frameborder=\"0\" allowtransparency=\"true\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Throughout the 1970s, boogaloo became the preeminent form of African American youth culture in Oakland. Numerous boogaloo groups formed in the East, including the Black Resurgents and their chief rivals, the Black Messengers. Castlemont High School and Arroyo Park became centers for group competitions. Boogaloo culture also spread to West Oakland, where groups like S.S. Enterprise and Derrick and Company held forth at McClymonds High School and Mosswood Park. (Talent shows at the Oakland Auditorium, centrally situated near Lake Merritt, became a place where dancers from both East and West Oakland converged.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bartlow, Randolph’s former neighbor, recalls watching the Black Resurgents practice at his home on 96th Ave. and Sunnyside—a formative experience which inspired her to become a dance student and cultural historian. 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Talent shows with dances were common all over San Francisco, Oakland and of course, the legendary Richmond Auditorium.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Boogaloo, she says, was seemingly everywhere: “On the blocks, in the recreation centers, the courtyard at public schools. Or even in living rooms with the furniture pushed back. Dancers were blasting funk music and working out free-form body movements that had complex rhythms, visual illusions and robotic moves.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We were just a bunch of poor kids that didn’t have a lot of money but had massive imaginations,” explains William “Boogaloo Bill” Bilal, a founding member of S.S. Enterprise and a practitioner of the West Oakland style of boogaloo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Boogaloo’s popularity declined in the mid-’80s, when hip-hop emerged and breakdancing briefly became a national trend. The Bay Area’s boogaloo dancers had begun to age out, and with limited career opportunities compared to their counterparts in New York and Los Angeles, the artform became obscured. “It was all but left for dead on the road,” says Bilal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13891344\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/01/BoogalooBill_McClymonds2.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-13891344 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/01/BoogalooBill_McClymonds2-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"William Bilal, a.k.a. 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Boogaloo Bill, dances outside McClymonds High School in West Oakland \u003ccite>(Spencer Wilkinson)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But boogaloo never truly died. Its movement vocabulary was adopted—some say appropriated—into the Southern California dance known as locking, eventually widely recognized as pop-locking, which itself became part of hip-hop dance’s canon. Then, in the late ’90s and early 2000s, turf dancing emerged from the same Oakland streets which had birthed the funk boogaloo 30 years earlier.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Turfing shares much in common with boogaloo: it’s highly interpretive and improvisational, and varies stylistically from neighborhood to neighborhood. Unknowingly, turfers adapted many boogaloo movements without being aware of their origin.\u003cbr>\n“People need to know where the foundation comes from,” says Johnny “Johnny 5” Lopez, founder of TURFinc. “I just feel like boogaloo started almost everything there is about dancing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In recent years, turfing and boogaloo have occasionally shared the same stage at TURFinc’s “all styles” events (which have also incorporated breaking and freestyle dance) and at the Oakland Museum of California. Randolph and fellow veterans like “OG Mike” Predovic of the Boogaloo Conservatory have become mentors to turfers like Lopez and Levi “iDummy” Allen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2000, Randolph founded the BRS Alliance (the acronym stands for Boogaloo, Robottin’, Strutting) with Richmond’s Ralph “Plik Plok” Montejo and San Francisco’s Lonnie “Pop Tart” Green. 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Although 2020’s event was cancelled due to COVID, prior years have been graced by legendary boogaloos like Larry Thompson of Pirate and the Easy Walkers; Fayzo and Boogaloo Dana of Demons of the Mind; Darrin “Dub” Hodges of Gentlemen of Production; Kerney Myers, John Murphy, and Chuck Powell of the Black Messengers; and Money B of Playboyz Inc.—along with dance enthusiasts like Agatha “Agatron” Rupniewski of Mix’d Elements.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For his part, Randolph is hoping that the upcoming 50th anniversary of the Black Resurgents in November 2021 will be a flashpoint for the culture.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the pandemic and painful loss have thrown the future of live events into question, and the culture is beginning to lose many of its OGs. Randolph’s brother, E. 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