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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\">R\u003c/span>ight before Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated in 1968, he worked for over a year on something called the Poor People’s Campaign. The plan, in short, was to organize economically disenfranchised folks of all races, from all across the nation, and have them set up camp on Washington DC’s National Mall. King’s hope was that the visible public encampment would show the need for “radical wealth redistribution,” since economic inequality in America was, and still is, a national emergency.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-13833985\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/OGPenn.Cap_-160x184.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"160\" height=\"184\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/OGPenn.Cap_-160x184.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/OGPenn.Cap_.jpg 180w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 160px) 100vw, 160px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There is nothing wrong with the traffic law which says you have to stop for the red light,” King said, during \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WWcD4xt7Mnk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a radio broadcast\u003c/a> prior to the launch of the campaign. However, King added, “when a fire is raging, the fire truck goes right through that red light, and normal traffic had better get out of its way.” He explained that oppressive conditions had created “a fire raging now for the Negroes and the poor of this society,” and subsequently, the country would “need brigades of ambulance drivers that will ignore the red lights of the present system, until the emergency is solved.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The current housing system in California, and especially the Bay Area, is a red light. Housing insecurity continues to spread like wildfire. It’s time to disregard the stop signs and send in all the fire trucks and ambulances we can muster.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13873362\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13873362\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/01/Resurrection_City-800x534.jpg\" alt=\"Resurrection City in 1968, on the National Mall in Washington D.C.\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/01/Resurrection_City-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/01/Resurrection_City-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/01/Resurrection_City-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/01/Resurrection_City-1020x681.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/01/Resurrection_City.jpg 1136w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Resurrection City in 1968, on the National Mall in Washington D.C. \u003ccite>(Henry Zbyszynski / CC 2.0)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">A\u003c/span>s we’ve seen in near-daily headlines, the alarms have been ringing for some time now. The sprawling tent cities alone are a wailing siren.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Oakland, Mayor Libby Schaaf responded by housing people in Tuff Sheds, small buildings originally designed for storage and garden tools. In September of last year, President Trump threatened sanctions by the Environmental Protection Agency against San Francisco, saying, “They have to clean it up. We can’t have our cities going to hell.” A year earlier, a similar sentiment was shared by an official from the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11700750/after-scathing-un-report-on-homelessness-advocates-demand-oakland-stop-sidewalk-sweeps\">United Nations\u003c/a>, calling conditions in the Bay Area “cruel and inhuman.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last month, \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/12/17/us/oakland-california-homeless-camp.html\">two New York Times\u003c/a> reporters compared and contrasted conditions in the Bay Area versus those of a slum in Central America. They found two advantages to living in a “shanty village” outside of Mexico City over being homeless on High Street in East Oakland: stability and running water.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As if those signs of distress aren’t loud enough, just last week Governor Gavin Newsom signed \u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.ca.gov/2020/01/08/governor-newsom-previews-1-billion-in-budget-proposal-to-jump-start-new-homeless-fund-and-provide-behavioral-health-services-signs-order-to-accelerate-state-action-to-fight-homelessness/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">an executive order\u003c/a> that “requires state agencies to take urgent and immediate action” to find space on state property where shelters can be built; the deadline is Jan. 31, and the order is supported by over $1 billion in funding. According to Governor Newsom, “the State of California is treating (homelessness) as a real emergency—because it is one.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13873365\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13873365\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/01/Moms4Housing-800x500.jpg\" alt=\"Members of the group Moms 4 Housing — Sharena Thomas, left, Carroll Fife, center, Dominique Walker, second from right, and Tolani KIng, right — outside a formerly vacant house on Magnolia Street in West Oakland, which they've occupied since November, despite an eviction order. \" width=\"800\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/01/Moms4Housing-800x500.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/01/Moms4Housing-160x100.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/01/Moms4Housing-768x480.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/01/Moms4Housing.jpg 1020w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Members of the group Moms 4 Housing — Sharena Thomas, left, Carroll Fife, center, Dominique Walker, second from right, and Tolani KIng, right — outside a formerly vacant house on Magnolia Street in West Oakland. \u003ccite>(Kate Wolffe/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\">S\u003c/span>o on Nov. 18, when Dominique Walker, Sameerah Karim and the Moms 4 Housing collective \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11793299/moms-4-housing-in-oakland-vow-to-fight-potential-eviction\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">took up residency in a vacant two-story house\u003c/a> on the 2900 block of Magnolia Street in West Oakland, they constituted, in essence, an emergency response vehicle racing toward a burning fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Their assertion that “\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11793704/west-oakland-housing-human-right-moms4housing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">housing is a human right\u003c/a>” was driven by morality, while their occupation of the house completely disregarded the red light of the legal housing system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They stayed in the house for nearly two months before being legally evicted last week and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11795944/moms-4-housing-members-evicted-from-oakland-home-4-arrested\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">forcibly removed\u003c/a> this week. Although it appears they’ve lost the battle to live in the home that’s legally owned by Wedgewood, the country’s biggest “\u003ca href=\"https://www.huffpost.com/entry/a-working-class-family-co_b_9551862?guccounter=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">fix and flip\u003c/a>” investment company, their action brought awareness to a major component of the housing emergency: the fact that it’s sometimes more profitable for property owners to keep a house empty than to rent it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As of last year, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11787750/two-homeless-moms-occupy-vacant-house-to-protest-oakland-housing-crisis\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">there were 4,071 unhoused people in Oakland, and 4,366 vacant homes\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Combine that with the fact that in 2019, the average rent for an apartment in Oakland rose to \u003ca href=\"https://www.rentcafe.com/average-rent-market-trends/us/ca/oakland/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">$2,905\u003c/a>, a 7% increase from the previous year. Meanwhile, on Jan. 1, 2020, Oakland’s minimum wage rose only slightly, from $13.80 to $14.14.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Add on the context that Oakland’s homeless population rose \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101872510/oakland-homelessness-increases-47-in-two-years\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">47%\u003c/a> between 2017 and 2019, just for flavor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And then add the not-so-secret ingredient: the fact that \u003ca href=\"https://www.oaklandhomelessresponse.com/the-problem\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">70%\u003c/a> of the unhoused population in Oakland is African American, while the city’s total population is around 25% African American, and declining.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You see why there’s a big-ass emergency cake in the oven. But Oakland isn’t the only bakery that’s on fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In California as a whole, black folks account for only \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/explainers/californias-homelessness-crisis-explained/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">6.5%\u003c/a> of the total population in this state, but roughly 30% of unhoused people. And nationally, African Americans account for only \u003ca href=\"https://endhomelessness.org/homelessness-in-america/what-causes-homelessness/inequality/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">13%\u003c/a> of the total population, but account for 40% of unhoused individuals in the United States.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I look at those numbers, and I think about the other stories I’ve read, like how the City of Detroit, America’s largest majority African American city, erroneously \u003ca href=\"https://www.revealnews.org/episodes/the-lost-homes-of-detroit/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">over-taxed its homeowners\u003c/a>. And the story of \u003ca href=\"https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2019/09/this-land-was-our-land/594742/\">black farmers in the Mississippi delta\u003c/a> being duped out of the deeds to their land. How “\u003ca href=\"https://features.propublica.org/black-land-loss/heirs-property-rights-why-black-families-lose-land-south/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">heirs property\u003c/a>” clauses conned folks of color in the Carolinas. The history of redlining and the subprime mortgage crisis. And how last July, \u003ca href=\"https://www.curbed.com/2018/3/13/17101142/black-homeownership-fair-housing-act\">home ownership among African Americans\u003c/a> fell to roughly the same rate it was when President Johnson signed the Fair Housing Act, not long after MLK’s assassination.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WWcD4xt7Mnk\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">D\u003c/span>r. King never got to see the Poor People’s Campaign come to fruition. But after his death, the action was carried out under the guidance of Southern Christian Leadership Conference’s new president, Ralph Abernathy. 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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\">R\u003c/span>ight before Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated in 1968, he worked for over a year on something called the Poor People’s Campaign. The plan, in short, was to organize economically disenfranchised folks of all races, from all across the nation, and have them set up camp on Washington DC’s National Mall. King’s hope was that the visible public encampment would show the need for “radical wealth redistribution,” since economic inequality in America was, and still is, a national emergency.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-13833985\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/OGPenn.Cap_-160x184.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"160\" height=\"184\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/OGPenn.Cap_-160x184.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/OGPenn.Cap_.jpg 180w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 160px) 100vw, 160px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There is nothing wrong with the traffic law which says you have to stop for the red light,” King said, during \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WWcD4xt7Mnk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a radio broadcast\u003c/a> prior to the launch of the campaign. However, King added, “when a fire is raging, the fire truck goes right through that red light, and normal traffic had better get out of its way.” He explained that oppressive conditions had created “a fire raging now for the Negroes and the poor of this society,” and subsequently, the country would “need brigades of ambulance drivers that will ignore the red lights of the present system, until the emergency is solved.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The current housing system in California, and especially the Bay Area, is a red light. Housing insecurity continues to spread like wildfire. It’s time to disregard the stop signs and send in all the fire trucks and ambulances we can muster.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13873362\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13873362\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/01/Resurrection_City-800x534.jpg\" alt=\"Resurrection City in 1968, on the National Mall in Washington D.C.\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/01/Resurrection_City-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/01/Resurrection_City-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/01/Resurrection_City-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/01/Resurrection_City-1020x681.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/01/Resurrection_City.jpg 1136w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Resurrection City in 1968, on the National Mall in Washington D.C. \u003ccite>(Henry Zbyszynski / CC 2.0)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">A\u003c/span>s we’ve seen in near-daily headlines, the alarms have been ringing for some time now. The sprawling tent cities alone are a wailing siren.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Oakland, Mayor Libby Schaaf responded by housing people in Tuff Sheds, small buildings originally designed for storage and garden tools. In September of last year, President Trump threatened sanctions by the Environmental Protection Agency against San Francisco, saying, “They have to clean it up. We can’t have our cities going to hell.” A year earlier, a similar sentiment was shared by an official from the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11700750/after-scathing-un-report-on-homelessness-advocates-demand-oakland-stop-sidewalk-sweeps\">United Nations\u003c/a>, calling conditions in the Bay Area “cruel and inhuman.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last month, \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/12/17/us/oakland-california-homeless-camp.html\">two New York Times\u003c/a> reporters compared and contrasted conditions in the Bay Area versus those of a slum in Central America. They found two advantages to living in a “shanty village” outside of Mexico City over being homeless on High Street in East Oakland: stability and running water.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As if those signs of distress aren’t loud enough, just last week Governor Gavin Newsom signed \u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.ca.gov/2020/01/08/governor-newsom-previews-1-billion-in-budget-proposal-to-jump-start-new-homeless-fund-and-provide-behavioral-health-services-signs-order-to-accelerate-state-action-to-fight-homelessness/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">an executive order\u003c/a> that “requires state agencies to take urgent and immediate action” to find space on state property where shelters can be built; the deadline is Jan. 31, and the order is supported by over $1 billion in funding. According to Governor Newsom, “the State of California is treating (homelessness) as a real emergency—because it is one.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13873365\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13873365\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/01/Moms4Housing-800x500.jpg\" alt=\"Members of the group Moms 4 Housing — Sharena Thomas, left, Carroll Fife, center, Dominique Walker, second from right, and Tolani KIng, right — outside a formerly vacant house on Magnolia Street in West Oakland, which they've occupied since November, despite an eviction order. \" width=\"800\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/01/Moms4Housing-800x500.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/01/Moms4Housing-160x100.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/01/Moms4Housing-768x480.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/01/Moms4Housing.jpg 1020w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Members of the group Moms 4 Housing — Sharena Thomas, left, Carroll Fife, center, Dominique Walker, second from right, and Tolani KIng, right — outside a formerly vacant house on Magnolia Street in West Oakland. \u003ccite>(Kate Wolffe/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\">S\u003c/span>o on Nov. 18, when Dominique Walker, Sameerah Karim and the Moms 4 Housing collective \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11793299/moms-4-housing-in-oakland-vow-to-fight-potential-eviction\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">took up residency in a vacant two-story house\u003c/a> on the 2900 block of Magnolia Street in West Oakland, they constituted, in essence, an emergency response vehicle racing toward a burning fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Their assertion that “\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11793704/west-oakland-housing-human-right-moms4housing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">housing is a human right\u003c/a>” was driven by morality, while their occupation of the house completely disregarded the red light of the legal housing system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They stayed in the house for nearly two months before being legally evicted last week and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11795944/moms-4-housing-members-evicted-from-oakland-home-4-arrested\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">forcibly removed\u003c/a> this week. Although it appears they’ve lost the battle to live in the home that’s legally owned by Wedgewood, the country’s biggest “\u003ca href=\"https://www.huffpost.com/entry/a-working-class-family-co_b_9551862?guccounter=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">fix and flip\u003c/a>” investment company, their action brought awareness to a major component of the housing emergency: the fact that it’s sometimes more profitable for property owners to keep a house empty than to rent it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As of last year, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11787750/two-homeless-moms-occupy-vacant-house-to-protest-oakland-housing-crisis\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">there were 4,071 unhoused people in Oakland, and 4,366 vacant homes\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Combine that with the fact that in 2019, the average rent for an apartment in Oakland rose to \u003ca href=\"https://www.rentcafe.com/average-rent-market-trends/us/ca/oakland/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">$2,905\u003c/a>, a 7% increase from the previous year. Meanwhile, on Jan. 1, 2020, Oakland’s minimum wage rose only slightly, from $13.80 to $14.14.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Add on the context that Oakland’s homeless population rose \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101872510/oakland-homelessness-increases-47-in-two-years\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">47%\u003c/a> between 2017 and 2019, just for flavor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And then add the not-so-secret ingredient: the fact that \u003ca href=\"https://www.oaklandhomelessresponse.com/the-problem\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">70%\u003c/a> of the unhoused population in Oakland is African American, while the city’s total population is around 25% African American, and declining.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You see why there’s a big-ass emergency cake in the oven. But Oakland isn’t the only bakery that’s on fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In California as a whole, black folks account for only \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/explainers/californias-homelessness-crisis-explained/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">6.5%\u003c/a> of the total population in this state, but roughly 30% of unhoused people. And nationally, African Americans account for only \u003ca href=\"https://endhomelessness.org/homelessness-in-america/what-causes-homelessness/inequality/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">13%\u003c/a> of the total population, but account for 40% of unhoused individuals in the United States.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I look at those numbers, and I think about the other stories I’ve read, like how the City of Detroit, America’s largest majority African American city, erroneously \u003ca href=\"https://www.revealnews.org/episodes/the-lost-homes-of-detroit/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">over-taxed its homeowners\u003c/a>. And the story of \u003ca href=\"https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2019/09/this-land-was-our-land/594742/\">black farmers in the Mississippi delta\u003c/a> being duped out of the deeds to their land. How “\u003ca href=\"https://features.propublica.org/black-land-loss/heirs-property-rights-why-black-families-lose-land-south/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">heirs property\u003c/a>” clauses conned folks of color in the Carolinas. The history of redlining and the subprime mortgage crisis. And how last July, \u003ca href=\"https://www.curbed.com/2018/3/13/17101142/black-homeownership-fair-housing-act\">home ownership among African Americans\u003c/a> fell to roughly the same rate it was when President Johnson signed the Fair Housing Act, not long after MLK’s assassination.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/WWcD4xt7Mnk'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/WWcD4xt7Mnk'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\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\">D\u003c/span>r. King never got to see the Poor People’s Campaign come to fruition. But after his death, the action was carried out under the guidance of Southern Christian Leadership Conference’s new president, Ralph Abernathy. The first people to occupy the space known as Resurrection City were a caravan of women’s groups, \u003ca href=\"https://kinginstitute.stanford.edu/encyclopedia/poor-peoples-campaign\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">led by Coretta Scott King\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>King \u003ca href=\"https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2018/02/coretta-scott-king/552557/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">reportedly\u003c/a> started her trek to the capital after rallying people while standing on the very balcony where her husband was assassinated, telling the crowd that she wanted an America “where not some but all of God’s children have food, where not some but all of God’s children have decent housing, where not some but all of God’s children have a guaranteed annual income in keeping with the principles of liberty and grace.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That sure sounds like an obvious precursor to the moral argument presented by Moms 4 Housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the 50-plus years since Martin Luther King, Jr. made his ambulance analogy, homelessness, inequality and class division have proven to be, as they say, \u003cem>as American as apple pie.\u003c/em> Or rather, as American as the electric stoplight, which was actually invented here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Earlier this month, Oakland metalsmith \u003ca href=\"https://karensmithmetalartist.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Karen Smith\u003c/a> put the finishing touches on \u003cem>Mamedjarra the Sacred\u003c/em>, a sterling silver necklace. After nearly a year of work on the piece—a hammered crescent with dangling discs and frizzy strands—she shipped it to the Richmond Art Center, where it’s featured in a new group show, \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"http://richmondartcenter.org/exhibitions/art-of-the-african-diaspora-2020/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Art of the African Diaspora\u003c/a>\u003c/em>. And then she started to pack up her East Oakland workspace, where Smith is being displaced after falling behind on rent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align='right' size='small']By the numbers…\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>2019 income: <$10,000\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Home and studio rent: $800/month\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>2019 City of Oakland grant: $4,999\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Time spent waiting for grant check: 5 months and counting\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Silver: $18.09/ounce\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a huge transitional time for me,” says Smith, wearing hoops and a black apron, as she demonstrates an acetylene torch on solderite in the small studio. “But a good one.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Smith, who moved to Oakland in 1995 (she refuses to share her age), is shifting her metalwork practice from jewelry to a fine arts context, and launching a new nonprofit, \u003ca href=\"https://wewieldthehammer.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">We Wield the Hammer\u003c/a>, to bring the craft to other black women and girls through free, intensive workshops. The transition follows an influential apprenticeship in Senegal that took her abroad for most of 2018. “That was the start of the snowballing debt,” she says. “The trip was also a catalyst.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Workspace and housing costs are the biggest challenges to artists in Oakland, according to a \u003ca href=\"http://www2.oaklandnet.com/oakca1/groups/ceda/documents/agenda/oak062138.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">city report\u003c/a> from 2016. What’s unique about Smith isn’t her financial struggles so much as her response: doubling down on as-yet-unprofitable projects. She’s loaning her equipment to a young metalsmith who’s teaching for We Wield the Hammer, which runs out of the Crucible in West Oakland, and foregoing a salary while fundraising for her fiscally-sponsored organization. She’s also speaking candidly about her experience, aiming to spur public investment in the arts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13873216\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13873216\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/01/Soldering-in-action-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"Smith demonstrates her acetylene torch on solderite.\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/01/Soldering-in-action-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/01/Soldering-in-action-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/01/Soldering-in-action-768x432.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/01/Soldering-in-action-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/01/Soldering-in-action-1200x675.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/01/Soldering-in-action.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Smith demonstrates her acetylene torch on solderite. \u003ccite>(Sam Lefebvre/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>At a November meeting of the advisory committee to Oakland’s Cultural Funding Program (CFP), which awarded her nonprofit $4,999 in both 2018 and 2019 (though the latter check is still in the mail), Smith shared that her car was repossessed while she poured her energy into We Wield the Hammer, and advocated boosting grant amounts in the individual artist category.[pullquote size='medium' citation='Karen Smith']‘The cost of everything has gone up exponentially except grants and salaries.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The cost of everything has gone up exponentially except grants and salaries,” she said during the public comment period. “The award is a pittance. I’m grateful—but it’s a pittance.” Smith continued, “I’m here because I want to put a face on what it means to be an artist in Oakland.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Smith, who grew up in Brooklyn, divorced her husband in 2010. “I promised not to do things I don’t want to do anymore,” she says. She started a business, New Spirit Designs, making objects such as malas, or prayer beads, related to her practice as a Buddhist, which started 20 years ago at a daylong meditation. “I hadn’t been quiet for a day, ever, and over the course of the day my life changed,” she says. “I could actually listen to what was happening in my body.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13873215\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13873215\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/01/Sizing-rings-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"Sizing rings in Smith's soon-to-be-empty workspace. She's being displaced after falling behind on rent.\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/01/Sizing-rings-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/01/Sizing-rings-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/01/Sizing-rings-768x432.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/01/Sizing-rings-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/01/Sizing-rings-1200x675.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/01/Sizing-rings.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sizing rings in Smith’s soon-to-be-empty workspace. She’s being displaced after falling behind on rent. \u003ccite>(Sam Lefebvre/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Working with beads, though, left Smith unfulfilled. Several years ago she commissioned a metal bracelet, providing drawings to a craftsperson. “It was beautiful but it wasn’t what I envisioned,” she recalls. “That’s what made me realize I need to work with metal.” Through library books and online forums, she learned wire-wrapping, and then to use a butane torch. “Because I had no background, no idea what I was doing, I started out with silver—great way to burn money.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Smith has made wedding bands, which run up to $2,000 for gold, and sold jewelry at farmers markets and craft fairs. “It’s a hardscrabble way to make a living,” she says, noting the physical toll and upfront costs. Now, though, Smith wants to make more work like her piece for \u003cem>Art of the African Diaspora\u003c/em>: sculpture, or “wearable art,” as she likes to say. She wants to use the metalsmithing techniques she learned through jewelry to create less everyday objects. As a former academic accustomed to valuing educational pedigree, being self-taught provokes some insecurity. “So I’m trying to position myself to consistently own the title ‘artist,’” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I mean, I’ll probably always make jewelry, like hoops—I’m a hoops whore,” she adds. “Every woman looks good in hoops. But hoops like these cost $40. I also make a pair that cost $340.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13873214\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13873214\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/01/Laughing-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"Smith is transitioning her metalwork from jewelry to a fine arts context.\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/01/Laughing-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/01/Laughing-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/01/Laughing-768x432.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/01/Laughing-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/01/Laughing-1200x675.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/01/Laughing.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Smith is transitioning her metalwork from jewelry to a fine arts context. \u003ccite>(Sam Lefebvre/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Smith describes her time in Senegal in 2018 as practically preordained, the result of one morning “hearing a voice.” She couldn’t find a formal apprenticeship program, but through academic contacts made some inroads with artisans in Dakar, the capital. “The first person who responded was a Senegalese man who said, ‘Does she know that women don’t wield the hammer? That we have that saying? That it’s transmitted father-to-son?’” she recalls. “I was like, sorry, no I don’t know about any of that. And he said, ‘Good, because it has to change.’”[aside label='Side Gigs and Successes' link1='https://www.kqed.org/arts/13827433/bay-area-artists-we-want-to-know-whats-your-hustle,Are you a Bay Area artist? Tell us about your hustle.' target=_blank]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She connected with a fifth-generation metalsmith named Ibrahim Sow and his apprentice son, Oumar Moida. “I think he thought initially that I was some young girl who wanted to make earrings on vacation for the ’gram,” she says. “When I got there he was amazed by my age, that I’m black—he was hella taken aback.” She learned to work from scratch: melting fine silver and copper to form sterling as well as making her own soldering alloy. She first stayed for two months and then, at Sow’s urging, returned for four-and-a-half more months later in 2018.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The patriarchal legacy of metalsmithing in Senegal created distance between Smith and the women around the artist village where she worked in Dakar. But she captured the interest of a young girl who’d stand silently in the studio doorway to watch. “I asked the teacher’s son about her and he said that she thought I was a ghost, that she’d never seen a woman doing what I was doing, so I had to be magic,” she says. “I thought, if she wants to learn, who will teach her?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13873213\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13873213\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/01/is-torch-off-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"Because she's being displaced from her workspace, Smith is loaning her equipment to Ale'ah Bashir Baaqee, a young metal artist from Oakland.\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/01/is-torch-off-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/01/is-torch-off-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/01/is-torch-off-768x432.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/01/is-torch-off-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/01/is-torch-off-1200x675.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/01/is-torch-off.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Because she’s being displaced from her workspace, Smith is loaning her equipment to Ale’ah Bashir Baaqee, a young metal artist from Oakland. \u003ccite>(Sam Lefebvre/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Smith returned from Dakar inspired but stressed; she’d spent most of 2018 without income, and started last year with an illness that prevented her from working for several weeks. “When you work for yourself there’s no unemployment, no sick pay,” she says. Still, Smith found some part-time work teaching at the Crucible (where co-teaching a two-day workshop pays approximately $300). The industrial arts center hosted the first We Wield the Hammer session last summer, and Smith secured the CFP grants to buy materials and pay a teacher, Ale’ah Bashir Baaqee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The second eight-week session of We Wield the Hammer, which Smith plans to expand to Senegal, starts this month with a cohort of six black women and girls between the ages of 14 and 24. Until she can draw a salary from the organization, she plans to use workspace at the Crucible for personal projects. Because she must vacate her studio by the end of January, Smith is loaning her equipment to Baaqee, a metal artist from Oakland. “I’m letting her borrow all of these hammers,” Smith says in the soon-to-be-empty studio. “This is my favorite hammer.”\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>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a huge transitional time for me,” says Smith, wearing hoops and a black apron, as she demonstrates an acetylene torch on solderite in the small studio. “But a good one.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Smith, who moved to Oakland in 1995 (she refuses to share her age), is shifting her metalwork practice from jewelry to a fine arts context, and launching a new nonprofit, \u003ca href=\"https://wewieldthehammer.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">We Wield the Hammer\u003c/a>, to bring the craft to other black women and girls through free, intensive workshops. The transition follows an influential apprenticeship in Senegal that took her abroad for most of 2018. “That was the start of the snowballing debt,” she says. “The trip was also a catalyst.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Workspace and housing costs are the biggest challenges to artists in Oakland, according to a \u003ca href=\"http://www2.oaklandnet.com/oakca1/groups/ceda/documents/agenda/oak062138.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">city report\u003c/a> from 2016. What’s unique about Smith isn’t her financial struggles so much as her response: doubling down on as-yet-unprofitable projects. She’s loaning her equipment to a young metalsmith who’s teaching for We Wield the Hammer, which runs out of the Crucible in West Oakland, and foregoing a salary while fundraising for her fiscally-sponsored organization. She’s also speaking candidly about her experience, aiming to spur public investment in the arts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13873216\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13873216\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/01/Soldering-in-action-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"Smith demonstrates her acetylene torch on solderite.\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/01/Soldering-in-action-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/01/Soldering-in-action-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/01/Soldering-in-action-768x432.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/01/Soldering-in-action-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/01/Soldering-in-action-1200x675.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/01/Soldering-in-action.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Smith demonstrates her acetylene torch on solderite. \u003ccite>(Sam Lefebvre/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>At a November meeting of the advisory committee to Oakland’s Cultural Funding Program (CFP), which awarded her nonprofit $4,999 in both 2018 and 2019 (though the latter check is still in the mail), Smith shared that her car was repossessed while she poured her energy into We Wield the Hammer, and advocated boosting grant amounts in the individual artist category.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The cost of everything has gone up exponentially except grants and salaries,” she said during the public comment period. “The award is a pittance. I’m grateful—but it’s a pittance.” Smith continued, “I’m here because I want to put a face on what it means to be an artist in Oakland.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Smith, who grew up in Brooklyn, divorced her husband in 2010. “I promised not to do things I don’t want to do anymore,” she says. She started a business, New Spirit Designs, making objects such as malas, or prayer beads, related to her practice as a Buddhist, which started 20 years ago at a daylong meditation. “I hadn’t been quiet for a day, ever, and over the course of the day my life changed,” she says. “I could actually listen to what was happening in my body.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13873215\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13873215\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/01/Sizing-rings-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"Sizing rings in Smith's soon-to-be-empty workspace. She's being displaced after falling behind on rent.\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/01/Sizing-rings-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/01/Sizing-rings-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/01/Sizing-rings-768x432.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/01/Sizing-rings-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/01/Sizing-rings-1200x675.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/01/Sizing-rings.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sizing rings in Smith’s soon-to-be-empty workspace. She’s being displaced after falling behind on rent. \u003ccite>(Sam Lefebvre/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Working with beads, though, left Smith unfulfilled. Several years ago she commissioned a metal bracelet, providing drawings to a craftsperson. “It was beautiful but it wasn’t what I envisioned,” she recalls. “That’s what made me realize I need to work with metal.” Through library books and online forums, she learned wire-wrapping, and then to use a butane torch. “Because I had no background, no idea what I was doing, I started out with silver—great way to burn money.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Smith has made wedding bands, which run up to $2,000 for gold, and sold jewelry at farmers markets and craft fairs. “It’s a hardscrabble way to make a living,” she says, noting the physical toll and upfront costs. Now, though, Smith wants to make more work like her piece for \u003cem>Art of the African Diaspora\u003c/em>: sculpture, or “wearable art,” as she likes to say. She wants to use the metalsmithing techniques she learned through jewelry to create less everyday objects. As a former academic accustomed to valuing educational pedigree, being self-taught provokes some insecurity. “So I’m trying to position myself to consistently own the title ‘artist,’” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I mean, I’ll probably always make jewelry, like hoops—I’m a hoops whore,” she adds. “Every woman looks good in hoops. But hoops like these cost $40. I also make a pair that cost $340.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13873214\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13873214\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/01/Laughing-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"Smith is transitioning her metalwork from jewelry to a fine arts context.\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/01/Laughing-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/01/Laughing-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/01/Laughing-768x432.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/01/Laughing-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/01/Laughing-1200x675.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/01/Laughing.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Smith is transitioning her metalwork from jewelry to a fine arts context. \u003ccite>(Sam Lefebvre/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Smith describes her time in Senegal in 2018 as practically preordained, the result of one morning “hearing a voice.” She couldn’t find a formal apprenticeship program, but through academic contacts made some inroads with artisans in Dakar, the capital. “The first person who responded was a Senegalese man who said, ‘Does she know that women don’t wield the hammer? That we have that saying? That it’s transmitted father-to-son?’” she recalls. “I was like, sorry, no I don’t know about any of that. And he said, ‘Good, because it has to change.’”\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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[aside postID=arts_13843911,arts_13847078,arts_13870917]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The contemporary visual art gallery will take over the 23rd Street location occupied since 2018 by Ashara Ekundayo Gallery and, for 11 years prior, Chandra Cerrito Contemporary.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After considering other East Bay locations, Lee is relieved to return to the neighborhood and continue the 23rd St. storefront, including adjoining rooms once home to Krowswork gallery, as a key node of First Fridays street festival and related gallery network Art Murmur. “It feels good re-establish a home and say, ‘We’re still here,’” Lee said. “Only time can personify a space.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vessel reopens Saturday, Feb. 15 with a reception for \u003cem>Migration\u003c/em>, a group show featuring artists familiar from Lee’s curating—David Burke, Pamela Dernham, Gordon Glasgow, Todd Laby, Walter James Mansfield and Jos Sances—plus Cheryl Derricotte and Arleene Correa Valencia. \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13873079\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 669px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/01/individuals-1.jpg\" alt=\"'Individuals,' an installation by Vessel artist Cyrus Tilton.\" width=\"669\" height=\"446\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13873079\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/01/individuals-1.jpg 669w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/01/individuals-1-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 669px) 100vw, 669px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">‘Individuals,’ a 2016 installation by Vessel artist Cyrus Tilton. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Vessel Gallery)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>As KQED \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13843911/vessel-gallery-oakland-art-murmur-fixture-to-close-following-lease-termination\">previously reported\u003c/a>, Vessel was displaced from its home of eight years in November, 2018 after the landlord, Matthew Iglehart, declined to renew the lease. Iglehart’s explanation that he wanted to take his buildings in “another direction” worried his other gallery tenants nearby. Local Language, a commercial art fabrication studio next door, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13847078/local-language-art-fabrication-studio-to-replace-vessel-gallery-in-oakland\">then\u003c/a> struck a deal with Iglehart to expand into Vessel’s space days after Lee learned of her imminent displacement. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the year since, Lee struggled to find an affordable location comparable to her 5,000 square feet of exhibition space in the light-filled, renovated hayloft on 25th St. She was also skeptical of retail spaces below new housing developments, which city officials have promoted as options for displaced galleries, due to concerns over cost and aesthetics. 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Lee declined to share the details of her new lease but described the terms as “warm and affordable.” One afternoon recently, she eyed non-load bearing walls for potential removal, and described the back rooms as “flexible space” for events such as screenings and guest-curated exhibitions. \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13843961\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2018/10/Vessel.Lee_-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"Vessel curator and director Lonnie Lee sits in the gallery's previous location on 25th Street in Oakland.\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13843961\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/10/Vessel.Lee_-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/10/Vessel.Lee_-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/10/Vessel.Lee_-768x432.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/10/Vessel.Lee_-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/10/Vessel.Lee_-1200x675.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/10/Vessel.Lee_.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/10/Vessel.Lee_-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/10/Vessel.Lee_-960x540.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/10/Vessel.Lee_-240x135.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/10/Vessel.Lee_-375x211.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/10/Vessel.Lee_-520x293.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Vessel curator and director Lonnie Lee sits in the gallery’s previous location on 25th Street in Oakland. \u003ccite>(Sam Lefebvre/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Vessel opened in Oakland in 2010 around the same time as Chandra Cerrito and Johansson Projects, one of a new crop of contemporary galleries aiming to bring the attention of collectors and institutions to little-known or underground local artists. 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She’s calling it “\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/NonameBooks/status/1213503349280006144\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">National Fuck Amazon Day\u003c/a>.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-13833985\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/OGPenn.Cap_-160x184.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"160\" height=\"184\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/OGPenn.Cap_-160x184.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/OGPenn.Cap_.jpg 180w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 160px) 100vw, 160px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Noname isn’t just trying to discourage folks from supporting one of the wealthiest tax-avoiding corporations in the world. She’s also pushing people to read books, and creating community for readers of color. She even started a book club last summer, Noname’s Book Club, which quickly amassed 75,000 followers and was featured on \u003cem>The Daily Show\u003c/em> with Trevor Noah.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, the \u003ca href=\"http://oaklandlibrary.org/news/2020/01/nonames-book-club-selections-free-opl-0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Oakland Public Library\u003c/a> has announced a partnership with Noname’s Book Club, promoting and helping people find the selected readings each month. And the library is reportedly looking at scheduling in-person meet-ups to discuss the book club’s selections.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Honestly, I feel like her whole concept is made for Oakland,” says Ashley Robinson, the \u003ca href=\"http://fopl.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Friends of The Oakland Library\u003c/a> board member who made the connection happen. “We’re so community-centric, and I feel like these discussions already happen on a day-to-day basis.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Noname’s Book Club is already established in other cities, including Chicago, New York and Los Angeles. “I was surprised Oakland wasn’t already on the list,” says Robinson.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I agree. Especially because Noname’s push isn’t just about supporting libraries over Amazon, the “earth’s biggest bookstore.” It’s also about supporting locally owned bookstores, with a focus on the black-owned ones. And Oakland is home to the nation’s oldest continuously running black-owned bookstore, \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/marcus.books/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Marcus Books\u003c/a> (which Noname’s Bookclub gives a shout out to on \u003ca href=\"https://www.nonamebooks.com/bookstores\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">its website\u003c/a>).\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13805229\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13805229\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2017/08/MG_4447-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Noname performs at the Outside Lands music festival in San Francisco, Aug. 11, 2017.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/08/MG_4447-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/08/MG_4447-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/08/MG_4447-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/08/MG_4447-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/08/MG_4447.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/08/MG_4447-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/08/MG_4447-960x640.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/08/MG_4447-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/08/MG_4447-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/08/MG_4447-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Noname performs at the Outside Lands music festival in San Francisco, Aug. 11, 2017. \u003ccite>(Estefany Gonzalez)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Despite other book clubs geared towards African-American readers, like Oakland’s \u003ca href=\"http://www.booktini.com/#welcom-section\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Booktini Book Club\u003c/a> and the local chapter of the Nipsey Hussle-inspired \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-01-05/nipsey-hussle-marathon-book-club\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Marathon Book Club\u003c/a>, there’s still a need to push literacy in Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While public libraries have laudably created programs for kids, passed out hygiene kits to those in need and recently \u003ca href=\"http://oaklandlibrary.org/news/2019/05/opl-eliminates-overdue-fines-effective-july-1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">eliminated late fees\u003c/a>, public schools are having issues keeping their campus libraries open. As of 2018, nearly 30 percent of Oakland schools \u003ca href=\"https://postnewsgroup.com/2018/01/04/ron-bridgeforth-brotherhood-elders-network-people-behind-gem-library-frick-middle-school/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">didn’t have functional libraries\u003c/a> on campus, including six out of the city’s seven high schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s crazy to me: there’s a lack of funding when it comes to libraries, yet there are so many stories about tech companies, including \u003ca href=\"https://edsource.org/2016/oakland-unified-to-expand-computer-science-and-math-with-tech-company-grant/568846\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Salesforce\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://www.hp.com/hpinfo/socialinnovation/us/programs/tech_teaching/k12_recipients.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Hewlett-Packard\u003c/a>, donating to Oakland public schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The effects of these shortfalls become clear when you consider that, last year, \u003ca href=\"https://caaspp-elpac.cde.ca.gov/caaspp/ViewReport?ps=true&lstTestYear=2019&lstTestType=B&lstGroup=1&lstGrade=13&lstSchoolType=A&lstCounty=01&lstDistrict=61259-000&lstSchool=0000000\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the State of California reported\u003c/a> that nearly half of 11th graders in Oakland Unified School District fall below the standard English Language Literacy Achievement level.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Keep in mind that, despite the changing demographics of Oakland’s population, the city’s public school population is still nearly 75-percent African American and Latino \u003ca href=\"https://www.ousd.org/cms/lib/CA01001176/Centricity/Domain/105/Fast%20Facts%20-%202018-19%20-%20OUSD%20Districtwide.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">according to OUSD\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So a national bookclub, led by a rapper who is encouraging folks to read books that are largely critical of unjust elements of society, and empowering oppressed people—it’s kind of important.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Robinson believes so.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her day job is working for the photography app and social media platform VSCO, which is based in downtown Oakland. And that’s partially what inspired her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Honestly, it was all of the people talking about gentrification happening here in the Bay and in Oakland, and working in tech, and being a person of color, it made me want to get involved more,” says Robinson.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She quickly progressed from library volunteer to board member in 2018. Despite her position, she tells me, the connection with Noname’s Book Club wasn’t a direct part of her involvement with the board—just something she took the initiative to do herself. “It was one of those moments, like: if I don’t do this, no one else will,” says Robinson.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But before the application to the book club was officially sent, a photo of her half-finished slide deck for a partnership proposal was catching eyes on Twitter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I took a picture of the slides and I was like: ‘\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/12amsunshine/status/1202646312950190080?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">I’m going to put this on Twitter\u003c/a> and see what happens’,” says Robinson. “I was probably halfway through my proposal, and then it started picking up traction. And that’s when Noname’s Book Club account retweeted it,” says Robinson, adding they sent a direct message with an email as to where she send the finished proposal. “I finished the rest of the proposal in an hour.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, Oakland Public Library will have extra copies of the books suggested by the book club, which in the past has suggested books like Paulo Freire’s \u003cem>Pedagogy of the Oppressed\u003c/em> and \u003cem>Persepolis (The Story of a Childhood) \u003c/em>by Marjane Satrapi.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s even suggestions from other well-known artists and writers. Rapper Earl Sweatshirt’s October pick was Eduardo Galeano’s critical look at history in Northern America, \u003cem>Faces and Masks: Memory of Fire Volume 2.\u003c/em> Kehlani, the R&B singer raised in Oakland, picked a book in November: Octavia E. 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The other pick is the collection of Indigenous Latina tales \u003cem>Sabrina & Corina\u003c/em> by Kali Fajardo-Anstine—a 2019 National Book Award Finalist.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For more information on finding the book club’s suggested reading, keep an eye on the library’s \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/oaklibrary\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Twitter account\u003c/a>, or check the library’s online catalog by searching the keywords “\u003ca href=\"https://encore.oaklandlibrary.org/iii/encore/search/C__Snoname%20books__Orightresult?lang=eng&suite=cobalt\" rel=\"nofollow\">Noname books\u003c/a>.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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She’s calling it “\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/NonameBooks/status/1213503349280006144\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">National Fuck Amazon Day\u003c/a>.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-13833985\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/OGPenn.Cap_-160x184.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"160\" height=\"184\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/OGPenn.Cap_-160x184.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/OGPenn.Cap_.jpg 180w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 160px) 100vw, 160px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Noname isn’t just trying to discourage folks from supporting one of the wealthiest tax-avoiding corporations in the world. She’s also pushing people to read books, and creating community for readers of color. She even started a book club last summer, Noname’s Book Club, which quickly amassed 75,000 followers and was featured on \u003cem>The Daily Show\u003c/em> with Trevor Noah.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, the \u003ca href=\"http://oaklandlibrary.org/news/2020/01/nonames-book-club-selections-free-opl-0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Oakland Public Library\u003c/a> has announced a partnership with Noname’s Book Club, promoting and helping people find the selected readings each month. And the library is reportedly looking at scheduling in-person meet-ups to discuss the book club’s selections.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Honestly, I feel like her whole concept is made for Oakland,” says Ashley Robinson, the \u003ca href=\"http://fopl.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Friends of The Oakland Library\u003c/a> board member who made the connection happen. “We’re so community-centric, and I feel like these discussions already happen on a day-to-day basis.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Noname’s Book Club is already established in other cities, including Chicago, New York and Los Angeles. “I was surprised Oakland wasn’t already on the list,” says Robinson.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I agree. Especially because Noname’s push isn’t just about supporting libraries over Amazon, the “earth’s biggest bookstore.” It’s also about supporting locally owned bookstores, with a focus on the black-owned ones. And Oakland is home to the nation’s oldest continuously running black-owned bookstore, \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/marcus.books/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Marcus Books\u003c/a> (which Noname’s Bookclub gives a shout out to on \u003ca href=\"https://www.nonamebooks.com/bookstores\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">its website\u003c/a>).\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13805229\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13805229\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2017/08/MG_4447-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Noname performs at the Outside Lands music festival in San Francisco, Aug. 11, 2017.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/08/MG_4447-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/08/MG_4447-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/08/MG_4447-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/08/MG_4447-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/08/MG_4447.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/08/MG_4447-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/08/MG_4447-960x640.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/08/MG_4447-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/08/MG_4447-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/08/MG_4447-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Noname performs at the Outside Lands music festival in San Francisco, Aug. 11, 2017. \u003ccite>(Estefany Gonzalez)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Despite other book clubs geared towards African-American readers, like Oakland’s \u003ca href=\"http://www.booktini.com/#welcom-section\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Booktini Book Club\u003c/a> and the local chapter of the Nipsey Hussle-inspired \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-01-05/nipsey-hussle-marathon-book-club\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Marathon Book Club\u003c/a>, there’s still a need to push literacy in Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While public libraries have laudably created programs for kids, passed out hygiene kits to those in need and recently \u003ca href=\"http://oaklandlibrary.org/news/2019/05/opl-eliminates-overdue-fines-effective-july-1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">eliminated late fees\u003c/a>, public schools are having issues keeping their campus libraries open. As of 2018, nearly 30 percent of Oakland schools \u003ca href=\"https://postnewsgroup.com/2018/01/04/ron-bridgeforth-brotherhood-elders-network-people-behind-gem-library-frick-middle-school/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">didn’t have functional libraries\u003c/a> on campus, including six out of the city’s seven high schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s crazy to me: there’s a lack of funding when it comes to libraries, yet there are so many stories about tech companies, including \u003ca href=\"https://edsource.org/2016/oakland-unified-to-expand-computer-science-and-math-with-tech-company-grant/568846\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Salesforce\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://www.hp.com/hpinfo/socialinnovation/us/programs/tech_teaching/k12_recipients.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Hewlett-Packard\u003c/a>, donating to Oakland public schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The effects of these shortfalls become clear when you consider that, last year, \u003ca href=\"https://caaspp-elpac.cde.ca.gov/caaspp/ViewReport?ps=true&lstTestYear=2019&lstTestType=B&lstGroup=1&lstGrade=13&lstSchoolType=A&lstCounty=01&lstDistrict=61259-000&lstSchool=0000000\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the State of California reported\u003c/a> that nearly half of 11th graders in Oakland Unified School District fall below the standard English Language Literacy Achievement level.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Keep in mind that, despite the changing demographics of Oakland’s population, the city’s public school population is still nearly 75-percent African American and Latino \u003ca href=\"https://www.ousd.org/cms/lib/CA01001176/Centricity/Domain/105/Fast%20Facts%20-%202018-19%20-%20OUSD%20Districtwide.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">according to OUSD\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So a national bookclub, led by a rapper who is encouraging folks to read books that are largely critical of unjust elements of society, and empowering oppressed people—it’s kind of important.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Robinson believes so.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her day job is working for the photography app and social media platform VSCO, which is based in downtown Oakland. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The market is difficult,” Uribe said, noting the high-cost of commercial rent plus competition for suitable raw warehouse space from cannabis cultivators.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 2120 Broadway property was acquired in May of 2018 for approximately $8 million by a company tied to Ellis Partners, a San Francisco real-estate developer, county records show.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ellis proposed that the clubs either begin paying $45,040/month, more than twice their current rent, or leave the building by January, according to Uribe. The clubs are on a month-to-month lease.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13871730\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13871730\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/2121-Franklin-Realty-Brochure-800x450.jpg\" alt='A realty brochure advertises the building as \"creative office space.\"' width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/2121-Franklin-Realty-Brochure-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/2121-Franklin-Realty-Brochure-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/2121-Franklin-Realty-Brochure-768x432.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/2121-Franklin-Realty-Brochure-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/2121-Franklin-Realty-Brochure-1200x675.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/2121-Franklin-Realty-Brochure.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A realty brochure advertises the building as “creative office space.”\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Ellis Partners did not respond to a request for comment Tuesday. In Oakland, the firm is known for developing an incoming 18-story office building at 1100 Broadway marketed as \u003ca href=\"https://www.thekeyoakland.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Key\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A realty brochure acquired by KQED advertises the 23,000 square-foot Club BnB and Club 21 building as “creative office space” available in the third quarter of 2020. A rendering shows the exterior with an abstract design in place of the current water justice-themed mural from 2011.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nancypili Hernandez, coordinator of the \u003cem>Water Writes\u003c/em> mural, which shows young people of color as environmental stewards, reached out to Ellis Partners after seeing the rendering published by KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The mock-up shows a white-washed wall with random abstract patterns where our mural lives,” Hernandez said. “This image holds value now more than ever, and we hope to work with the new owners to preserve it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 6,000-square-foot piece features the work of artists including Vogue, Bounce, DIME, Agana, Cece Carpio and Josue Rojas, and is part of a multi-city series sponsored by environmentalist group the Estria Foundation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Club BnB has existed in different locations in Oakland under the name Bench and Bar since 1976, Uribe said. It operated in the current building 2004-2010 before moving to 17th Street. Club 21 took its place in 2010, and then both clubs reopened in the current building in 2015.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Uribe said the clubs’ parent company is owned by Frank Ciglar, a board member of the Oakland Pride organization, who bought out his former business partner Charles Bisbee in 2016.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">I\u003c/span>’ve got some strong words for Mark Davis’ haircut and the thinking that goes on under it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-13833985\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/OGPenn.Cap_-160x184.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"160\" height=\"184\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/OGPenn.Cap_-160x184.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/OGPenn.Cap_.jpg 180w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 160px) 100vw, 160px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of course, I’m more concerned about his thinking than I am the haircut. (I’ve already \u003ca href=\"https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/13735322/are-mark-davis-raiders-leaving-oakland\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">read\u003c/a> about him driving his minivan hundreds of miles to a barber in Palm Springs so he can get… whatever he calls that thing on his head.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I get that moving the Raiders to Las Vegas is a money move. Nevada offered a stadium that’ll be paid for by tax revenue. The City of Oakland didn’t, and rightfully so. With thousands of people sleeping on the streets, paying to build a sports franchise’s new stadium would’ve been the ultimate example of helping the rich get richer. Plus, the City of Oakland is \u003ca href=\"https://www.newsweek.com/raiders-leave-vegas-oakland-owes-stadium-debt-1995-574930\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">still in debt\u003c/a> after enticing the Raiders to move back from Los Angeles in 1995.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So now that the final Raiders game has been played at the Coliseum, it’s become a reality: they’re throwing a hail mary across the state line. And I can’t be mad, because at the end of the day, it’s a business. And you know how \u003cem>we\u003c/em> do business in America—with an all-encompassing phrase that I’m surprised isn’t a Fortune 500 company’s slogan:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>To hell with your feelings. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13871653\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13871653\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/raiders-tailgate-0189-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Raiders fans tailgate for the final Raiders home game at the Oakland Coliseum.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/raiders-tailgate-0189-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/raiders-tailgate-0189-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/raiders-tailgate-0189-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/raiders-tailgate-0189-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/raiders-tailgate-0189-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/raiders-tailgate-0189.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Raiders fans tailgate for the final Raiders home game at the Oakland Coliseum. \u003ccite>(Amir Aziz)\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\">B\u003c/span>ut football, the most brutal of major American sports, is a game largely built on feelings. The players emote like thespians. The coaches yell like drunk stepfathers. And the owners are often shown in their box seats, hands folded over their mouths, like a member of the choir praying during the sermon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the greatest feelings come from the fans. They show up on Sundays and paint their faces, get inebriated and scream their hearts out. It’s like going to church, the bar and to war at the same time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Every stadium is a bit different, from what I hear. I’ve only been to Raiders games. But I can guarantee you that Oakland’s tailgate scene is unlike any other.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Sunday, I saw social media updates of folks there at daybreak, with lit barbecue grills and liquor bottles bigger than the Lombardi trophy. As they rang in the final Raiders game in Oakland, many of the posts were emotional personal connections: the worker who’s losing their longtime job at the stadium, \u003ca href=\"https://abc7news.com/sports/raiders-fan-who-went-to-1st-coliseum-game-needs-ticket-for-oakland-finale/5756266/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the story\u003c/a> of the guy who went to the first game in Oakland and scored a last-minute ticket to this one, stories of friendships and connections made.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I wasn’t there on Sunday. Instead, I was down in Nickerson Gardens in Watts, where I gave a head-nod to a brother in a Los Angeles Raiders cap. That emotional connection reverberates throughout Raider Nation, and reaches all places the sun shines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13871656\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13871656\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/raiders-tailgate-0100-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Raiders fans tailgate for the final Raiders home game at the Oakland Coliseum.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/raiders-tailgate-0100-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/raiders-tailgate-0100-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/raiders-tailgate-0100-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/raiders-tailgate-0100-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/raiders-tailgate-0100-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/raiders-tailgate-0100.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Raiders fans tailgate for the final Raiders home game at the Oakland Coliseum. \u003ccite>(Amir Aziz)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Returning from my trip, I watched the game via livestream on my phone in the back of a Flixbus during a 10-hour ride. I don’t even like the NFL, but I watched.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I used to love football. I was a diehard Raiders fan. But then so many things happened that made me realize just how much of a business football is: Michael Vick’s treatment (to this day \u003ca href=\"https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/thousands-sign-petition-asking-nfl-to-remove-michael-vick-as-pro-bowl-captain-call-out-sponsors/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">he’s still catching flak\u003c/a> for his involvement in dog fighting, a crime he served time for). The fact that there are confirmed domestic abusers in the league, and Colin Kaepernick isn’t (and that the tryout a few weeks ago was \u003ca href=\"https://www.theroot.com/stephen-a-smith-s-ego-and-hairline-suffers-2-inch-setb-1840416456\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a sham\u003c/a>). Worst of all, the cover-up of concussions and other health issues players face during and after their time in the league.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A few weeks ago, former Raiders offensive lineman \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/26/sports/football/jets-osemele-injury.html\">Kelechi Osemele\u003c/a> was cut by the Jets after opting to have shoulder surgery in the middle of the season instead of taking painkillers and playing with a torn labrum. Before the surgery, as reported by the \u003cem>New York Times\u003c/em>, the Pro Bowl player told the team he was in intense pain, and they docked his pay for the time that he sat on the bench.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>How can you support a league that notoriously doesn’t support its players?\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13871651\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13871651\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/raiders-tailgate-0701-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Raiders fans tailgate for the final Raiders home game at the Oakland Coliseum.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/raiders-tailgate-0701-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/raiders-tailgate-0701-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/raiders-tailgate-0701-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/raiders-tailgate-0701-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/raiders-tailgate-0701-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/raiders-tailgate-0701.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Raiders fans tailgate for the final Raiders home game at the Oakland Coliseum. \u003ccite>(Amir Aziz)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Plus, it’s too much of an emotional investment. I spent chunks of my life yelling at the TV. If I told you how many times the Raiders let me down over the years, you’d either offer me a hug or a shot of tequila out of pity. Maybe both.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The list of instances would include the \u003ca href=\"https://bleacherreport.com/articles/2852540-antonio-brown-released-by-raiders-after-mike-mayock-incident-drama\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Antonio Brown\u003c/a> saga from this summer. Trading superstar \u003ca href=\"https://www.nbcsports.com/chicago/bears/bears-history-changed-forever-one-year-ago-today-khalil-mack-trade\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Khalil Mack\u003c/a> last year. Remember \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuck_Rule_Game\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the Tuck Rule game\u003c/a>? I don’t, only because I’ve successfully erased it from my memory.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There was, of course, the loss to Tampa Bay (coached by Jon Gruden the year after he left the Raiders) in Super Bowl XXXVII, and the backstory that Pro Bowl lineman \u003ca href=\"https://www.si.com/nfl/2015/12/15/untold-super-bowl-barret-robbins-raiders\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Barret Robbins\u003c/a> suffered a manic episode on the eve of the big game.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Derek Carr breaking his leg right before the playoffs in 2016. \u003ca href=\"https://bleacherreport.com/articles/1033798-10-worst-draft-flops-in-oakland-raiders-history#slide10\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Numerous draft busts\u003c/a>, like Robert Gallery and JaMarcus Russell—I still laugh at the story of Russell studying \u003ca href=\"https://bleacherreport.com/articles/2804453-david-diehl-raiders-gave-jamarcus-russell-blank-tapes-to-see-if-qb-watched-film\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">blank tapes\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And on a smaller, more game-to-game letdown, there’s the penalties. So many penalties. Oh, and Mark Davis’ haircut. Man, there are so many ways the Raiders have let us down over the years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But there had to be some highlight moments. Otherwise, people including myself wouldn’t care this much.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I loved seeing Rod Woodson, Randy Moss and Warren Sapp play in Oakland. Marshawn went dumb on the sidelines. Napoleon Kaufman, my favorite player, had a career full of highlights, and now is a pastor in Livermore.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And although he left for a few years to play with the Packers, Charles Woodson eventually came back to the town to work with the team; he was there to light the Davis torch on this final Sunday in Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s a reason people tossed litter on the field, started fights and booed as Sunday’s game ultimately ended in a 20-16 loss to the bottom-feeding Jacksonville Jaguars. The reason: people care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13871655\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13871655\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/raiders-tailgate-0817-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Raiders fans tailgate for the final Raiders home game at the Oakland Coliseum.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/raiders-tailgate-0817-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/raiders-tailgate-0817-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/raiders-tailgate-0817-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/raiders-tailgate-0817-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/raiders-tailgate-0817-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/raiders-tailgate-0817.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Raiders fans tailgate for the final Raiders home game at the Oakland Coliseum. \u003ccite>(Amir Aziz)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">T\u003c/span>he last game I went to was the one that Marshawn got kicked out of, against Kansas City. That’s how I’ll remember the Raiders. Fun. Exciting. Underdogs. But man, there’s a nation of people who love them with all of their hearts, and many of those are my loved ones. Be it Rita Cecaci, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13840416/the-first-of-the-oakland-raiders-cheerleaders\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">one of the first Raiderettes\u003c/a>, or Malcolm Turner, who \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13849783/buy-your-weed-from-black-owned-dispensaries\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">works at Blunts & Moore\u003c/a> across the street, they’re family.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Malcolm recently told me, “If \u003cem>you\u003c/em> moved to Las Vegas, I’d still love you.” But I know Sunday hurt him, as it did so many others. Even as one who doesn’t care about the NFL, it hurt me too, if only for knowing what the Raiders mean to this city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So when I see an interview \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/CamCleve2/status/1206420458486128640\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">like this one\u003c/a> with Mark Davis and his Moe-from-The-Three-Stooges haircut, and his lack of any real feelings for Oakland, I don’t think about the Raiderettes or the championships. I don’t think of Eldridge Dickey, the first African American to be drafted in the first round as a quarterback, or Fritz Pollard, the first African American coach in league history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13871654\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13871654\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/raiders-tailgate-0440-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Raiders fans tailgate for the final Raiders home game at the Oakland Coliseum.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/raiders-tailgate-0440-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/raiders-tailgate-0440-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/raiders-tailgate-0440-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/raiders-tailgate-0440-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/raiders-tailgate-0440-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/raiders-tailgate-0440.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Raiders fans tailgate for the final Raiders home game at the Oakland Coliseum. \u003ccite>(Amir Aziz)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>No, what I think about is the fact that Al Davis once acquired a 25% ownership of Oakland’s failing Eastmont Mall for $5,000, and he used it as a million-dollar tax haven, according to a \u003ca href=\"https://www.upi.com/Archives/1983/05/31/Raiders-owner-involved-in-lucrative-Teamsters-deal/7355423201600/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">1983 \u003cem>Chicago Tribune\u003c/em> article\u003c/a>. The deal was a part of a partnership with Allen Glick, a businessman who the Justice Department said was a frontman for an organized crime family—and of course, he owned casinos and hotels in Las Vegas, according to \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/1981/12/13/magazine/al-davis-tackles-pro-football.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the \u003cem>New York Times\u003c/em>\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fitting. Forty years later, and Davis’ son is still making money by sucking resources out of Oakland, and working with Vegas to do it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They should change their slogan from ‘Just Win Baby’, to ‘Just Biz, Baby.’\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>–\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\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\">I\u003c/span>’ve got some strong words for Mark Davis’ haircut and the thinking that goes on under it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-13833985\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/OGPenn.Cap_-160x184.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"160\" height=\"184\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/OGPenn.Cap_-160x184.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/OGPenn.Cap_.jpg 180w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 160px) 100vw, 160px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of course, I’m more concerned about his thinking than I am the haircut. (I’ve already \u003ca href=\"https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/13735322/are-mark-davis-raiders-leaving-oakland\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">read\u003c/a> about him driving his minivan hundreds of miles to a barber in Palm Springs so he can get… whatever he calls that thing on his head.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I get that moving the Raiders to Las Vegas is a money move. Nevada offered a stadium that’ll be paid for by tax revenue. The City of Oakland didn’t, and rightfully so. With thousands of people sleeping on the streets, paying to build a sports franchise’s new stadium would’ve been the ultimate example of helping the rich get richer. Plus, the City of Oakland is \u003ca href=\"https://www.newsweek.com/raiders-leave-vegas-oakland-owes-stadium-debt-1995-574930\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">still in debt\u003c/a> after enticing the Raiders to move back from Los Angeles in 1995.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So now that the final Raiders game has been played at the Coliseum, it’s become a reality: they’re throwing a hail mary across the state line. And I can’t be mad, because at the end of the day, it’s a business. And you know how \u003cem>we\u003c/em> do business in America—with an all-encompassing phrase that I’m surprised isn’t a Fortune 500 company’s slogan:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>To hell with your feelings. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13871653\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13871653\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/raiders-tailgate-0189-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Raiders fans tailgate for the final Raiders home game at the Oakland Coliseum.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/raiders-tailgate-0189-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/raiders-tailgate-0189-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/raiders-tailgate-0189-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/raiders-tailgate-0189-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/raiders-tailgate-0189-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/raiders-tailgate-0189.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Raiders fans tailgate for the final Raiders home game at the Oakland Coliseum. \u003ccite>(Amir Aziz)\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\">B\u003c/span>ut football, the most brutal of major American sports, is a game largely built on feelings. The players emote like thespians. The coaches yell like drunk stepfathers. And the owners are often shown in their box seats, hands folded over their mouths, like a member of the choir praying during the sermon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the greatest feelings come from the fans. They show up on Sundays and paint their faces, get inebriated and scream their hearts out. It’s like going to church, the bar and to war at the same time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Every stadium is a bit different, from what I hear. I’ve only been to Raiders games. But I can guarantee you that Oakland’s tailgate scene is unlike any other.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Sunday, I saw social media updates of folks there at daybreak, with lit barbecue grills and liquor bottles bigger than the Lombardi trophy. As they rang in the final Raiders game in Oakland, many of the posts were emotional personal connections: the worker who’s losing their longtime job at the stadium, \u003ca href=\"https://abc7news.com/sports/raiders-fan-who-went-to-1st-coliseum-game-needs-ticket-for-oakland-finale/5756266/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the story\u003c/a> of the guy who went to the first game in Oakland and scored a last-minute ticket to this one, stories of friendships and connections made.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I wasn’t there on Sunday. Instead, I was down in Nickerson Gardens in Watts, where I gave a head-nod to a brother in a Los Angeles Raiders cap. That emotional connection reverberates throughout Raider Nation, and reaches all places the sun shines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13871656\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13871656\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/raiders-tailgate-0100-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Raiders fans tailgate for the final Raiders home game at the Oakland Coliseum.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/raiders-tailgate-0100-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/raiders-tailgate-0100-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/raiders-tailgate-0100-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/raiders-tailgate-0100-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/raiders-tailgate-0100-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/raiders-tailgate-0100.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Raiders fans tailgate for the final Raiders home game at the Oakland Coliseum. \u003ccite>(Amir Aziz)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Returning from my trip, I watched the game via livestream on my phone in the back of a Flixbus during a 10-hour ride. I don’t even like the NFL, but I watched.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I used to love football. I was a diehard Raiders fan. But then so many things happened that made me realize just how much of a business football is: Michael Vick’s treatment (to this day \u003ca href=\"https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/thousands-sign-petition-asking-nfl-to-remove-michael-vick-as-pro-bowl-captain-call-out-sponsors/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">he’s still catching flak\u003c/a> for his involvement in dog fighting, a crime he served time for). The fact that there are confirmed domestic abusers in the league, and Colin Kaepernick isn’t (and that the tryout a few weeks ago was \u003ca href=\"https://www.theroot.com/stephen-a-smith-s-ego-and-hairline-suffers-2-inch-setb-1840416456\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a sham\u003c/a>). Worst of all, the cover-up of concussions and other health issues players face during and after their time in the league.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A few weeks ago, former Raiders offensive lineman \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/26/sports/football/jets-osemele-injury.html\">Kelechi Osemele\u003c/a> was cut by the Jets after opting to have shoulder surgery in the middle of the season instead of taking painkillers and playing with a torn labrum. Before the surgery, as reported by the \u003cem>New York Times\u003c/em>, the Pro Bowl player told the team he was in intense pain, and they docked his pay for the time that he sat on the bench.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>How can you support a league that notoriously doesn’t support its players?\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13871651\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13871651\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/raiders-tailgate-0701-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Raiders fans tailgate for the final Raiders home game at the Oakland Coliseum.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/raiders-tailgate-0701-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/raiders-tailgate-0701-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/raiders-tailgate-0701-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/raiders-tailgate-0701-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/raiders-tailgate-0701-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/raiders-tailgate-0701.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Raiders fans tailgate for the final Raiders home game at the Oakland Coliseum. \u003ccite>(Amir Aziz)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Plus, it’s too much of an emotional investment. I spent chunks of my life yelling at the TV. If I told you how many times the Raiders let me down over the years, you’d either offer me a hug or a shot of tequila out of pity. Maybe both.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The list of instances would include the \u003ca href=\"https://bleacherreport.com/articles/2852540-antonio-brown-released-by-raiders-after-mike-mayock-incident-drama\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Antonio Brown\u003c/a> saga from this summer. Trading superstar \u003ca href=\"https://www.nbcsports.com/chicago/bears/bears-history-changed-forever-one-year-ago-today-khalil-mack-trade\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Khalil Mack\u003c/a> last year. Remember \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuck_Rule_Game\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the Tuck Rule game\u003c/a>? I don’t, only because I’ve successfully erased it from my memory.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There was, of course, the loss to Tampa Bay (coached by Jon Gruden the year after he left the Raiders) in Super Bowl XXXVII, and the backstory that Pro Bowl lineman \u003ca href=\"https://www.si.com/nfl/2015/12/15/untold-super-bowl-barret-robbins-raiders\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Barret Robbins\u003c/a> suffered a manic episode on the eve of the big game.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Derek Carr breaking his leg right before the playoffs in 2016. \u003ca href=\"https://bleacherreport.com/articles/1033798-10-worst-draft-flops-in-oakland-raiders-history#slide10\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Numerous draft busts\u003c/a>, like Robert Gallery and JaMarcus Russell—I still laugh at the story of Russell studying \u003ca href=\"https://bleacherreport.com/articles/2804453-david-diehl-raiders-gave-jamarcus-russell-blank-tapes-to-see-if-qb-watched-film\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">blank tapes\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And on a smaller, more game-to-game letdown, there’s the penalties. So many penalties. Oh, and Mark Davis’ haircut. Man, there are so many ways the Raiders have let us down over the years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But there had to be some highlight moments. Otherwise, people including myself wouldn’t care this much.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I loved seeing Rod Woodson, Randy Moss and Warren Sapp play in Oakland. Marshawn went dumb on the sidelines. Napoleon Kaufman, my favorite player, had a career full of highlights, and now is a pastor in Livermore.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And although he left for a few years to play with the Packers, Charles Woodson eventually came back to the town to work with the team; he was there to light the Davis torch on this final Sunday in Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s a reason people tossed litter on the field, started fights and booed as Sunday’s game ultimately ended in a 20-16 loss to the bottom-feeding Jacksonville Jaguars. The reason: people care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13871655\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13871655\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/raiders-tailgate-0817-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Raiders fans tailgate for the final Raiders home game at the Oakland Coliseum.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/raiders-tailgate-0817-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/raiders-tailgate-0817-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/raiders-tailgate-0817-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/raiders-tailgate-0817-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/raiders-tailgate-0817-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/raiders-tailgate-0817.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Raiders fans tailgate for the final Raiders home game at the Oakland Coliseum. \u003ccite>(Amir Aziz)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">T\u003c/span>he last game I went to was the one that Marshawn got kicked out of, against Kansas City. That’s how I’ll remember the Raiders. Fun. Exciting. Underdogs. But man, there’s a nation of people who love them with all of their hearts, and many of those are my loved ones. Be it Rita Cecaci, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13840416/the-first-of-the-oakland-raiders-cheerleaders\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">one of the first Raiderettes\u003c/a>, or Malcolm Turner, who \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13849783/buy-your-weed-from-black-owned-dispensaries\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">works at Blunts & Moore\u003c/a> across the street, they’re family.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Malcolm recently told me, “If \u003cem>you\u003c/em> moved to Las Vegas, I’d still love you.” But I know Sunday hurt him, as it did so many others. Even as one who doesn’t care about the NFL, it hurt me too, if only for knowing what the Raiders mean to this city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So when I see an interview \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/CamCleve2/status/1206420458486128640\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">like this one\u003c/a> with Mark Davis and his Moe-from-The-Three-Stooges haircut, and his lack of any real feelings for Oakland, I don’t think about the Raiderettes or the championships. I don’t think of Eldridge Dickey, the first African American to be drafted in the first round as a quarterback, or Fritz Pollard, the first African American coach in league history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13871654\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13871654\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/raiders-tailgate-0440-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Raiders fans tailgate for the final Raiders home game at the Oakland Coliseum.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/raiders-tailgate-0440-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/raiders-tailgate-0440-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/raiders-tailgate-0440-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/raiders-tailgate-0440-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/raiders-tailgate-0440-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/raiders-tailgate-0440.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Raiders fans tailgate for the final Raiders home game at the Oakland Coliseum. \u003ccite>(Amir Aziz)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>No, what I think about is the fact that Al Davis once acquired a 25% ownership of Oakland’s failing Eastmont Mall for $5,000, and he used it as a million-dollar tax haven, according to a \u003ca href=\"https://www.upi.com/Archives/1983/05/31/Raiders-owner-involved-in-lucrative-Teamsters-deal/7355423201600/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">1983 \u003cem>Chicago Tribune\u003c/em> article\u003c/a>. The deal was a part of a partnership with Allen Glick, a businessman who the Justice Department said was a frontman for an organized crime family—and of course, he owned casinos and hotels in Las Vegas, according to \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/1981/12/13/magazine/al-davis-tackles-pro-football.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the \u003cem>New York Times\u003c/em>\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fitting. Forty years later, and Davis’ son is still making money by sucking resources out of Oakland, and working with Vegas to do it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They should change their slogan from ‘Just Win Baby’, to ‘Just Biz, Baby.’\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>–\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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