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He’d \u003ca href=\"https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/huey-newton-twenty-five-floors-from-the-street-176820/\">later tell \u003cem>Rolling Stone\u003c/em>\u003c/a> that taking off his prison-issue shirt wasn’t necessarily intended to be a symbolic gesture; it was just the consequence of it being a hot day in August. Nevertheless, Newton stood atop the automobile, shirtless, arm muscles big enough to lift the courthouse he just walked out of, as he addressed the crowd. News cameras rolled as he told those within earshot his soft-spoken words: “You have the power, and the power is with the people.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last month, on Sunday, July 26, I drove two circles around the Alameda County Courthouse to observe the damage from the night before. The windows were busted, the walls of the joint were tattooed with anti-police graffiti, and burn marks remained from a fire started just inside of the building’s main entry (it was extinguished before causing any major damage). The damage occurred after a protest spearheaded by a group of people said to be in solidarity with the Black Lives Matter protests in Portland, Oregon. The people who actually vandalized the courthouse, and those who did a number on the federal building and Oakland Police headquarters nearby, remain unidentified.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I took a picture of the courthouse that Sunday morning and posted it on social media. Many responses hypothesized about the people who did the damage, where they were from, and what their intentions were. Journalist Rasheed Shabazz responded by wondering: where’s the “Free Huey” message?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>50 years after Huey was freed, that same courthouse is one of the many battlegrounds in the current fight for liberation and justice—but is it the \u003cem>same \u003c/em>fight?\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13884382\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13884382\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/08/AlamedaCountyCourthouse-800x582.jpg\" alt=\"The Alameda County Courthouse on July 26, 2020, after being spray-painted and torched by protesters.\" width=\"800\" height=\"582\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/08/AlamedaCountyCourthouse-800x582.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/08/AlamedaCountyCourthouse-1020x742.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/08/AlamedaCountyCourthouse-160x116.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/08/AlamedaCountyCourthouse-768x559.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/08/AlamedaCountyCourthouse-1536x1117.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/08/AlamedaCountyCourthouse-1920x1397.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/08/AlamedaCountyCourthouse.jpg 2047w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Alameda County Courthouse on July 26, 2020, after being spray-painted and torched by protesters the night before. \u003ccite>(Pendarvis Harshaw/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">A\u003c/span>round 5am on Oct. 28, 1967, Huey P. Newton was driving a Volkswagen with passenger Gene McKinney when he hit the corner of 7th and Willow Street in West Oakland, \u003ca href=\"https://law.justia.com/cases/california/court-of-appeal/3d/8/359.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">according to court documents\u003c/a>. That’s where he was pulled over by Oakland Police Officer John Frey; the officer called for backup immediately, which brought Officer Herbert Heanes to the scene.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From there, the details get sketchy. There’s a story of Newton being asked to exit his car, and him doing so, law book in hand. There’s a report that Officer Frey might’ve called Newton a derogatory term after telling Newton where he could shove that law book. From all accounts I’ve read, commotion ensued from that point. Shots were fired and Newton was hit in the abdomen. Both officers were hit multiple times. Officer Frey died from his wounds. Officer Heanes survived.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The only fired rounds of ammunition retrieved from the scene were police-issued.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Huey, reportedly in and out of consciousness, ended up at Kaiser hospital, where he was simultaneously arrested and treated for his wounds. Photos show him \u003ca href=\"https://www.blackresearchcentral.com/uploads/4/1/3/7/4137870/733529614-huey-p-newton-handcuffed-to-hospital-bed-after-killing-cop_orig.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">handcuffed to a medical bed\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 1968, Newton went to trial and was found guilty of manslaughter. His attorney, Charles Garry, brought the case to the California Courts of Appeal. In May of 1970, it was found that the judge in the first trial held back relevant information to the jury—namely, that Newton’s contention that he was unconscious at the time Officer Frey was shot constituted a complete defense of manslaughter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Police brutality, shoddy evidence and a court system failing to do its job. Similar circumstances exist nowadays.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"630\" height=\"730\" src=\"https://diva.sfsu.edu/collections/sfbatv/bundles/189469\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\" frameborder=\"0\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The killing of George Floyd, during which multiple officers not only abused their power but also failed to check their coworker, showed that it’s not just about one bad cop. The death of Breonna Taylor, in which officers abused their power \u003cem>and\u003c/em> those in higher office have failed to bring justice, proves that the issues go beyond the officers patrolling the streets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And here in the Bay Area, there’s a long list of similar evidence: you can see recent examples in the California Highway Patrol withholding details in the killing of \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/DarwinBondGraha/status/1289363881836425217?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Erik Salgado\u003c/a> in East Oakland, and the Vallejo Police Department \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101878756/destruction-of-evidence-in-vallejo-police-shooting-spurs-calls-for-federal-investigation\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">destroying evidence\u003c/a> in the killing of Sean Monterrosa.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13884376\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 600px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13884376\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/08/FredHamptonGrave-800x1055.jpg\" alt=\"The tombstone of Black Panther Party Chairman Fred Hampton, Sr., which is shot up annually by officers in Haynesville, LA.\" width=\"600\" height=\"800\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The tombstone of Black Panther Party Chairman Fred Hampton, Sr., which is shot up annually by officers in Haynesville, LA. \u003ccite>(Courtesy \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/rasceylon/?hl=en\" target=\"_blank\">Ras Ceylon\u003c/a>)\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 larger context of Huey P. Newton’s arrest was an all-out war waged on the Black Panther Party, Black Nationalists and Communists, concentrated in the counterintelligence program (\u003ca href=\"https://vault.fbi.gov/cointel-pro\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">COINTELPRO\u003c/a>), which was spearheaded by former FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This led to the spread of misinformation and the insurgence of agent provocateurs in numerous groups. It also led to the incarceration of numerous Black Panther members and the killings of Black Panther leaders Mark Clark and Fred Hampton, Sr.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s a stretch to say that unmarked federal agents at protests in Portland and New York are any comparison to the FBI’s massive effort to stop the rise of a singular “Black Messiah,” one of the \u003ca href=\"https://herb.ashp.cuny.edu/items/show/814\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">goals of COINTELPRO\u003c/a>. But there’s something eerily similar about the federal government turning on its own people for the act of holding the government accountable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Footage of the federal troops in Portland shocked many, but realistically, it was a natural result of years of heightened state oppression. In 1970, when Newton was released after serving over two years at the California Men’s Colony in San Luis Obispo, California’s prison population was 25,033. It would decline to 16,970 in 1972 before skyrocketing over the next four decades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over-policing, over-sentencing, “three strikes” laws, the cocaine/crack disparity and mandatory minimums, combined with the demonization of African American youth in the media (see: “\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mZ4Z-803JZE\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">superpredators\u003c/a>“), all made for a prolonged prison boom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For years, the conditions of California’s jails, prisons, juvenile detention centers and ICE facilities have been somewhere between poor and uninhabitable. They have seen prison strikes, riots, and numerous deaths. In 2011, \u003ca href=\"https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/10pdf/09-1233.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the Supreme Court ruled\u003c/a> that the health conditions at California’s prisons constituted a violation of prisoners’ Eighth Amendment rights protecting them from cruel and unusual punishment. The state was ordered to cut its prison population down from a high of over 160,000 to 110,000, or 137.5% of its capacity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A decade later, after numerous legislative changes, a process called “\u003ca href=\"https://www.propublica.org/article/guide-to-california-prisons\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">realignment\u003c/a>,” and expedited releases in effort to stop the spread of COVID-19, just last month the overall prison population dropped below 100,000 for the first time in three decades. As of last week, \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdcr.ca.gov/research/wp-content/uploads/sites/174/2020/07/Tpop1d200729.pdf\">California’s prison population is at 114%\u003c/a> of its capacity—meaning that although it’s finally well below federal guidelines, there are still more people behind bars than they were designed to hold.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Because of that, this past weekend a group by the name \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/nojusticeundercapitalism/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">No Justice Under Capitalism\u003c/a> helped to organize protests at San Quentin, where inside the facility about 1/3 of the population has reportedly contracted COVID, and \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdcr.ca.gov/covid19/population-status-tracking/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">over 22 people have died\u003c/a> from the virus. Also, last week, demonstrators gathered in front of Governor Gavin Newsom’s house to protest conditions faced by people in California’s prisons and ICE custody. The 14 protestors \u003ca href=\"https://ciyja.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/FreeThemAll14.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">were then arrested\u003c/a>, and experienced the conditions firsthand.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13884375\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13884375\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/08/HueyNewton.BillyX-800x525.jpg\" alt=\"Huey P. Newton and Billy X, archivist for the Black Panther Party, together in the 1980s.\" width=\"800\" height=\"525\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/08/HueyNewton.BillyX-800x525.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/08/HueyNewton.BillyX-1020x669.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/08/HueyNewton.BillyX-160x105.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/08/HueyNewton.BillyX-768x504.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/08/HueyNewton.BillyX-1536x1007.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/08/HueyNewton.BillyX.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Huey P. Newton with Billy X, archivist for the Black Panther Party. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Billy X)\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 graffiti on the courthouse that Sunday morning in July was markedly different than everything else that’s adorned the walls of downtown Oakland over the past few months. Earlier this summer, in response to threats of vandalism, businesses covered their windows with plywood, providing the perfect canvas for artists to express themselves. In the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13881529/photos-black-lives-matter-murals-call-for-justice-on-oaklands-walls\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">open-air art gallery\u003c/a> were raised painted images of Black fists, the names of those slain by police officers, and a mural or two bearing the Black Panther logo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although Oakland has no permanent monument dedicated to the Black Panther Party, the ideals the party stood for are alive today. They’re shown through the city’s arts and culture, if nowhere else.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A plaque on 55th and Market, dedicated to the Black Panthers’ efforts to establish a crossing light for schoolchildren at the former site of Santa Fe Elementary School. A portion of DeFremery Park officially dedicated to Lil Bobby Hutton, the first and youngest Black Panther to be killed by the police.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are multiple murals around the town honoring the Panthers’ legacy, many of them done by artist \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13851520/rightnowish-refa-one-spraypaint-in-hand-honors-west-oaklands-history\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Refa-1\u003c/a>. And with guidance from Black Panther leader Ericka Huggins, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/jilchristinavest/mural-the-women-of-the-black-panther-party\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jilchristina Vest\u003c/a> is developing a mural in West Oakland dedicated to the women of the party.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last month, council member Lynette McElhaney introduced a resolution to rename 9th Street between Center Street and Chester Street—the place where Newton was shot and killed in 1989—as “Dr. Huey P. Newton Way.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://hueypnewtonfoundation.org/about-the-foundation\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Dr. Huey P. Newton Foundation\u003c/a>, with the support of Huey’s widow Fredrika Newton, is currently pushing for a permanent monument honoring Huey in front of the courthouse, among other things.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And the Oakland Museum of California is currently remodeling its building and creating an entrance/exit not too far from the proposed monument site. The OMCA knows the impact of the Panthers’ legacy: their 50th anniversary exhibition dedicated to the Party attracted the highest number of attendees in the museum’s history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12278228\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-12278228\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2016/10/13th_01-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"Angela Davis speaks inside West Oakland's abandoned 16th Street train station, in a still from Ava DuVernay's '13th.'\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/10/13th_01-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/10/13th_01-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/10/13th_01-768x432.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/10/13th_01-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/10/13th_01.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/10/13th_01-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/10/13th_01-960x540.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/10/13th_01-240x135.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/10/13th_01-375x211.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/10/13th_01-520x293.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Angela Davis speaks inside West Oakland’s abandoned 16th Street train station, in a still from Ava DuVernay’s ’13th.’ \u003ccite>(Courtesy of SFFS)\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\">C\u003c/span>ertain things today are clear connections to the past. Dr. Angela Davis continues to appear at both \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/CalEndow/status/1276183690289258497\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">protests\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/ShelleDione/status/998622334717124609\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">gatherings of Black joy\u003c/a>. There are former Panthers, like \u003ca href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/jun/01/jalil-muntaqim-former-black-panther-covid-19-prison\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jalil Muntaqim\u003c/a>, who are still incarcerated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ericka Huggins is still active, working in education. Joan Tarika Lewis is using social media to remain engaged in arts, culture and politics. Fred Hampton Jr. is pushing to \u003ca href=\"https://southsideweekly.com/bigger-than-a-building-hampton-home/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">preserve his father’s childhood house\u003c/a> in Chicago. And Black Panther archivist Billy X Jennings tells me he would’ve helped organize a celebration in honor of Dr. Huey P. Newton today if it weren’t for precautions around large gatherings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.rickeyvincent.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Rickey Vincent\u003c/a>, radio host and author of \u003cem>Party Music\u003c/em>, a book about the Black Panther Party’s house band \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13851531/a-brief-history-of-the-lumpen-the-black-panthers-revolutionary-funk-band\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Lumpen\u003c/a>, told me he’s noticed a few drastic differences between the two eras of protest. For starters, there is no clear leader of this current movement, no “Black Messiah,” for better or for worse. And secondly, while Newton himself advocated for \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=5&v=W3ZV9ingN7g&feature=emb_logo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">freeing all political prisoners\u003c/a>, there is no clear end goal, as there was with the Free Huey movement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At this point, the phrase “Black Lives Matter” has lost whatever teeth it had to start with. Calls to defund the police, while attention-grabbing, remain a nuanced goal, with room for contention. Still, clear end goals exist with specific actionable demands that everyday people can understand, like instructions to \u003ca href=\"https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/breonna-taylor-demand-justice-1015060/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">call the District Attorney’s office and demand justice for Breonna Taylor\u003c/a>—that’s where actual change comes from.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What if we focused the next 50 years on specific actionable items to change the justice and prison systems? Now \u003cem>that’d\u003c/em> be a monumental change to the function of the Alameda County Courthouse. And it’d honor Huey P. Newton and the Black Panther Party in the best way possible—to truly bring the power to the people.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>50 years after Huey was freed, that same courthouse is one of the many battlegrounds in the current fight for liberation and justice—but is it the \u003cem>same \u003c/em>fight?\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13884382\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13884382\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/08/AlamedaCountyCourthouse-800x582.jpg\" alt=\"The Alameda County Courthouse on July 26, 2020, after being spray-painted and torched by protesters.\" width=\"800\" height=\"582\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/08/AlamedaCountyCourthouse-800x582.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/08/AlamedaCountyCourthouse-1020x742.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/08/AlamedaCountyCourthouse-160x116.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/08/AlamedaCountyCourthouse-768x559.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/08/AlamedaCountyCourthouse-1536x1117.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/08/AlamedaCountyCourthouse-1920x1397.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/08/AlamedaCountyCourthouse.jpg 2047w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Alameda County Courthouse on July 26, 2020, after being spray-painted and torched by protesters the night before. \u003ccite>(Pendarvis Harshaw/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">A\u003c/span>round 5am on Oct. 28, 1967, Huey P. Newton was driving a Volkswagen with passenger Gene McKinney when he hit the corner of 7th and Willow Street in West Oakland, \u003ca href=\"https://law.justia.com/cases/california/court-of-appeal/3d/8/359.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">according to court documents\u003c/a>. That’s where he was pulled over by Oakland Police Officer John Frey; the officer called for backup immediately, which brought Officer Herbert Heanes to the scene.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From there, the details get sketchy. There’s a story of Newton being asked to exit his car, and him doing so, law book in hand. There’s a report that Officer Frey might’ve called Newton a derogatory term after telling Newton where he could shove that law book. From all accounts I’ve read, commotion ensued from that point. Shots were fired and Newton was hit in the abdomen. Both officers were hit multiple times. Officer Frey died from his wounds. Officer Heanes survived.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The only fired rounds of ammunition retrieved from the scene were police-issued.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Huey, reportedly in and out of consciousness, ended up at Kaiser hospital, where he was simultaneously arrested and treated for his wounds. Photos show him \u003ca href=\"https://www.blackresearchcentral.com/uploads/4/1/3/7/4137870/733529614-huey-p-newton-handcuffed-to-hospital-bed-after-killing-cop_orig.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">handcuffed to a medical bed\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 1968, Newton went to trial and was found guilty of manslaughter. His attorney, Charles Garry, brought the case to the California Courts of Appeal. In May of 1970, it was found that the judge in the first trial held back relevant information to the jury—namely, that Newton’s contention that he was unconscious at the time Officer Frey was shot constituted a complete defense of manslaughter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Police brutality, shoddy evidence and a court system failing to do its job. Similar circumstances exist nowadays.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"630\" height=\"730\" src=\"https://diva.sfsu.edu/collections/sfbatv/bundles/189469\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\" frameborder=\"0\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The killing of George Floyd, during which multiple officers not only abused their power but also failed to check their coworker, showed that it’s not just about one bad cop. The death of Breonna Taylor, in which officers abused their power \u003cem>and\u003c/em> those in higher office have failed to bring justice, proves that the issues go beyond the officers patrolling the streets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And here in the Bay Area, there’s a long list of similar evidence: you can see recent examples in the California Highway Patrol withholding details in the killing of \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/DarwinBondGraha/status/1289363881836425217?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Erik Salgado\u003c/a> in East Oakland, and the Vallejo Police Department \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101878756/destruction-of-evidence-in-vallejo-police-shooting-spurs-calls-for-federal-investigation\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">destroying evidence\u003c/a> in the killing of Sean Monterrosa.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13884376\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 600px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13884376\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/08/FredHamptonGrave-800x1055.jpg\" alt=\"The tombstone of Black Panther Party Chairman Fred Hampton, Sr., which is shot up annually by officers in Haynesville, LA.\" width=\"600\" height=\"800\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The tombstone of Black Panther Party Chairman Fred Hampton, Sr., which is shot up annually by officers in Haynesville, LA. \u003ccite>(Courtesy \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/rasceylon/?hl=en\" target=\"_blank\">Ras Ceylon\u003c/a>)\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 larger context of Huey P. Newton’s arrest was an all-out war waged on the Black Panther Party, Black Nationalists and Communists, concentrated in the counterintelligence program (\u003ca href=\"https://vault.fbi.gov/cointel-pro\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">COINTELPRO\u003c/a>), which was spearheaded by former FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This led to the spread of misinformation and the insurgence of agent provocateurs in numerous groups. It also led to the incarceration of numerous Black Panther members and the killings of Black Panther leaders Mark Clark and Fred Hampton, Sr.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s a stretch to say that unmarked federal agents at protests in Portland and New York are any comparison to the FBI’s massive effort to stop the rise of a singular “Black Messiah,” one of the \u003ca href=\"https://herb.ashp.cuny.edu/items/show/814\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">goals of COINTELPRO\u003c/a>. But there’s something eerily similar about the federal government turning on its own people for the act of holding the government accountable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Footage of the federal troops in Portland shocked many, but realistically, it was a natural result of years of heightened state oppression. In 1970, when Newton was released after serving over two years at the California Men’s Colony in San Luis Obispo, California’s prison population was 25,033. It would decline to 16,970 in 1972 before skyrocketing over the next four decades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over-policing, over-sentencing, “three strikes” laws, the cocaine/crack disparity and mandatory minimums, combined with the demonization of African American youth in the media (see: “\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mZ4Z-803JZE\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">superpredators\u003c/a>“), all made for a prolonged prison boom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For years, the conditions of California’s jails, prisons, juvenile detention centers and ICE facilities have been somewhere between poor and uninhabitable. They have seen prison strikes, riots, and numerous deaths. In 2011, \u003ca href=\"https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/10pdf/09-1233.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the Supreme Court ruled\u003c/a> that the health conditions at California’s prisons constituted a violation of prisoners’ Eighth Amendment rights protecting them from cruel and unusual punishment. The state was ordered to cut its prison population down from a high of over 160,000 to 110,000, or 137.5% of its capacity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A decade later, after numerous legislative changes, a process called “\u003ca href=\"https://www.propublica.org/article/guide-to-california-prisons\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">realignment\u003c/a>,” and expedited releases in effort to stop the spread of COVID-19, just last month the overall prison population dropped below 100,000 for the first time in three decades. As of last week, \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdcr.ca.gov/research/wp-content/uploads/sites/174/2020/07/Tpop1d200729.pdf\">California’s prison population is at 114%\u003c/a> of its capacity—meaning that although it’s finally well below federal guidelines, there are still more people behind bars than they were designed to hold.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Because of that, this past weekend a group by the name \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/nojusticeundercapitalism/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">No Justice Under Capitalism\u003c/a> helped to organize protests at San Quentin, where inside the facility about 1/3 of the population has reportedly contracted COVID, and \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdcr.ca.gov/covid19/population-status-tracking/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">over 22 people have died\u003c/a> from the virus. Also, last week, demonstrators gathered in front of Governor Gavin Newsom’s house to protest conditions faced by people in California’s prisons and ICE custody. The 14 protestors \u003ca href=\"https://ciyja.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/FreeThemAll14.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">were then arrested\u003c/a>, and experienced the conditions firsthand.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13884375\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13884375\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/08/HueyNewton.BillyX-800x525.jpg\" alt=\"Huey P. Newton and Billy X, archivist for the Black Panther Party, together in the 1980s.\" width=\"800\" height=\"525\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/08/HueyNewton.BillyX-800x525.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/08/HueyNewton.BillyX-1020x669.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/08/HueyNewton.BillyX-160x105.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/08/HueyNewton.BillyX-768x504.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/08/HueyNewton.BillyX-1536x1007.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/08/HueyNewton.BillyX.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Huey P. Newton with Billy X, archivist for the Black Panther Party. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Billy X)\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 graffiti on the courthouse that Sunday morning in July was markedly different than everything else that’s adorned the walls of downtown Oakland over the past few months. Earlier this summer, in response to threats of vandalism, businesses covered their windows with plywood, providing the perfect canvas for artists to express themselves. In the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13881529/photos-black-lives-matter-murals-call-for-justice-on-oaklands-walls\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">open-air art gallery\u003c/a> were raised painted images of Black fists, the names of those slain by police officers, and a mural or two bearing the Black Panther logo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although Oakland has no permanent monument dedicated to the Black Panther Party, the ideals the party stood for are alive today. They’re shown through the city’s arts and culture, if nowhere else.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A plaque on 55th and Market, dedicated to the Black Panthers’ efforts to establish a crossing light for schoolchildren at the former site of Santa Fe Elementary School. A portion of DeFremery Park officially dedicated to Lil Bobby Hutton, the first and youngest Black Panther to be killed by the police.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are multiple murals around the town honoring the Panthers’ legacy, many of them done by artist \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13851520/rightnowish-refa-one-spraypaint-in-hand-honors-west-oaklands-history\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Refa-1\u003c/a>. And with guidance from Black Panther leader Ericka Huggins, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/jilchristinavest/mural-the-women-of-the-black-panther-party\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jilchristina Vest\u003c/a> is developing a mural in West Oakland dedicated to the women of the party.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last month, council member Lynette McElhaney introduced a resolution to rename 9th Street between Center Street and Chester Street—the place where Newton was shot and killed in 1989—as “Dr. Huey P. Newton Way.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://hueypnewtonfoundation.org/about-the-foundation\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Dr. Huey P. Newton Foundation\u003c/a>, with the support of Huey’s widow Fredrika Newton, is currently pushing for a permanent monument honoring Huey in front of the courthouse, among other things.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And the Oakland Museum of California is currently remodeling its building and creating an entrance/exit not too far from the proposed monument site. The OMCA knows the impact of the Panthers’ legacy: their 50th anniversary exhibition dedicated to the Party attracted the highest number of attendees in the museum’s history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12278228\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-12278228\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2016/10/13th_01-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"Angela Davis speaks inside West Oakland's abandoned 16th Street train station, in a still from Ava DuVernay's '13th.'\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/10/13th_01-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/10/13th_01-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/10/13th_01-768x432.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/10/13th_01-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/10/13th_01.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/10/13th_01-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/10/13th_01-960x540.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/10/13th_01-240x135.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/10/13th_01-375x211.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/10/13th_01-520x293.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Angela Davis speaks inside West Oakland’s abandoned 16th Street train station, in a still from Ava DuVernay’s ’13th.’ \u003ccite>(Courtesy of SFFS)\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\">C\u003c/span>ertain things today are clear connections to the past. Dr. Angela Davis continues to appear at both \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/CalEndow/status/1276183690289258497\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">protests\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/ShelleDione/status/998622334717124609\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">gatherings of Black joy\u003c/a>. There are former Panthers, like \u003ca href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/jun/01/jalil-muntaqim-former-black-panther-covid-19-prison\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jalil Muntaqim\u003c/a>, who are still incarcerated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ericka Huggins is still active, working in education. Joan Tarika Lewis is using social media to remain engaged in arts, culture and politics. Fred Hampton Jr. is pushing to \u003ca href=\"https://southsideweekly.com/bigger-than-a-building-hampton-home/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">preserve his father’s childhood house\u003c/a> in Chicago. And Black Panther archivist Billy X Jennings tells me he would’ve helped organize a celebration in honor of Dr. Huey P. Newton today if it weren’t for precautions around large gatherings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.rickeyvincent.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Rickey Vincent\u003c/a>, radio host and author of \u003cem>Party Music\u003c/em>, a book about the Black Panther Party’s house band \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13851531/a-brief-history-of-the-lumpen-the-black-panthers-revolutionary-funk-band\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Lumpen\u003c/a>, told me he’s noticed a few drastic differences between the two eras of protest. For starters, there is no clear leader of this current movement, no “Black Messiah,” for better or for worse. And secondly, while Newton himself advocated for \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=5&v=W3ZV9ingN7g&feature=emb_logo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">freeing all political prisoners\u003c/a>, there is no clear end goal, as there was with the Free Huey movement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At this point, the phrase “Black Lives Matter” has lost whatever teeth it had to start with. Calls to defund the police, while attention-grabbing, remain a nuanced goal, with room for contention. Still, clear end goals exist with specific actionable demands that everyday people can understand, like instructions to \u003ca href=\"https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/breonna-taylor-demand-justice-1015060/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">call the District Attorney’s office and demand justice for Breonna Taylor\u003c/a>—that’s where actual change comes from.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/ojodelasol/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Dania Cabello\u003c/a> is a former professional fútbol player, who now teaches the sport to young folks through the program \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/oaklandstreetstylers/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Oakland Street Stylers\u003c/a>. She was one of the main characters in the film \u003ca href=\"http://futbolistas4lifefilm.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Futbolistas 4 Life\u003c/a> and is a producer on the series, \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/thenorthpoleshow/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The North Pole\u003c/a>. But her most recent venture involves juicing marijuana leaves to make healing salves and bath salts; and her company is called \u003ca href=\"https://ojodelasol.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ojo De La Sol\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After mastering her medicine in her kitchen, Dania says she went through the long bureaucratic process of filing paperwork, getting her products tested and when she finally got access to a space where she could mass produce, that’s when the first shelter-in-place orders came down from Governor Newsom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since then, she’s struggled to get her products into stores, as meetings are hard to arrange while socially distancing. But nonetheless, she’s managed to set up her online shop and sell her her salves and bath salts through a digital storefront. After all, this is a time where masses could use medicine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"200\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https://playlist.megaphone.fm?e=KQINC2854946841&light=true\" width=\"100%\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cbr>\nBelow are lightly edited excerpts of my conversation with Dania Cabello.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dania: \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">About ten years ago, I had been working with a farmer, and it was this farmer who was my teacher and friend that introduced the idea of juicing cannabis leaves. It’s kind of like a wheat shot grass, like when Popeye takes his spinach. That was the effect that juicing fresh fan cannabis leaves had on my mental health, on my ability to take ownership of my own well-being. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Pen: That’s wild to me. So I’ve never heard of juicing cannabis like I’ve heard of weed, tea leaf, weed, balm, like weed, everything. I’ve had weed, ice cream before, juicing the actual leafs?\u003c/span>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Dania: And probably the reason you haven’t heard of it or seen it that much is that it requires so much fan leaf to make one tiny shot. So it’s just really expensive to make cannabis juice. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Pen: Gotcha. OK. OK. And so you’ve been exploring this and learning about it and practicing it and you were gearing up to launch and then Covid hit… \u003c/span>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Dania: I’m constantly re-figuring out how to even navigate this. The day that we went on lockdown for the pandemic was supposed to be my first day cooking in my new kitchen. It got put on pause for a moment until cannabis was deemed essential and I was allowed to return to my kitchen. And, you know, I had to look in the mirror quite a bit and look at my alter and ask myself, what would my ancestors do or think about this moment? And what I kept reverting back to was in a moment like this they would provide medicine for their people, and that kind of eased some of the discomfort because there’s nothing comfortable about this time for anybody, let alone to be launching something. While half the people I know are out of jobs, you know, can they even afford to buy cannabis in the regulated industry? I don’t know. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Pen: \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Well, be it that you’re swimming in uncertain waters, is there any philosophy that you rely on?\u003c/span>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Dania: \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">I think right now one of the things I’ve been relying on is my own self-awareness, in that I’m the daughter of political exiles who fled horrific persecution to arrive to a country as immigrants. At a place in Oakland, California, where they arrived just after the civil rights movement. And so when I say self-awareness, it’s a privilege and gift.\u003c/span> It’s my responsibility to use all of my gifts: education, sports, cannabis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12127869\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"78\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-768x75.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>Rightnowish is an arts and culture podcast produced at KQED. 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There’s also a police line’s yellow tape, an American flag, a Confederate flag, the 14th Amendment, a baby in the crosshairs of a rifle’s scope and JFK’s famous words: “We must never forget that art is not a form of propaganda, it is a form of truth.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Drake reveals the casket to the public on Saturday, July 18, as part of the pop-up art show \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/CCjeLLvMcD5/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">My Skin Is Not A Crime\u003c/a>\u003c/em> at the Joyce Gordon Gallery in Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Drake’s casket comes during an ongoing series of actions this summer in response to the issue of police brutality. I’ve seen people jogging in solidarity, sitting in honor of those killed and even skateboarding down Twin Peaks while toting signs that read “Black Lives Matter.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But this show of solidarity is a bit more morbid, and blunt. 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He once used an Indy car as a canvas for a paint job inspired by Pink Floyd’s \u003cem>The Wall\u003c/em>. In December of 2018, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13847457/the-delicate-art-of-adulting-during-the-holidays\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">I watched\u003c/a> as he and his daughter painted nude models at a warehouse in West Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So why suddenly make a political statement with a casket?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The most touching part of George Floyd’s story was the quote from his daughter,” says Drake over the phone. “’My daddy changed the world.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Drake wants his own daughter to be able to look at him and say the same words—not just because he painted a casket, but because he used his art to bring awareness. “It’s not guaranteed to change the world, but it’s my attempt,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And he’s not alone in his effort, the community has already shown support.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Drake says that after paying for the casket in full, he told the business, \u003ca href=\"https://titancasket.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Titan Casket\u003c/a>, about his plans. They immediately refunded him 25% of the total.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When he ran behind on finishing the project, he got backup from another artist, \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/richairbrush/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Rich Diltz\u003c/a>, who came down from the Sacramento area to support the endeavor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Joyce Gordon Gallery is hosting the casket and, on Saturday, holding a \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/CCjeLLvMcD5/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">memorial\u003c/a> dedicated to those who’ve lost their lives to police violence. Cephus X Johnson (aka “Uncle Bobby”), the uncle of Oscar Grant and a police accountability activist, is scheduled to speak.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And the casket itself will have a mock funeral procession, with a real hearse donated by Thompson Funeral home. 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The bikers are scheduled to meet up with the hearse at the \u003ca href=\"https://www.google.com/maps/place/Lucky/@37.7996682,-122.255534,17z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m12!1m6!3m5!1s0x808f8739eddd00d3:0x5dd486b4c19fb65c!2sLucky!8m2!3d37.799664!4d-122.25334!3m4!1s0x808f8739eddd00d3:0x5dd486b4c19fb65c!8m2!3d37.799664!4d-122.25334\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Lucky’s on E. 18th\u003c/a> around 2:15pm, and then ride the southern rim of Lake Merritt all the way to the Joyce Gordon Gallery on 14th Street.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The memorial event runs from 3pm to 7pm, and afterward, the casket will be on display in the gallery for a short period.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13883558\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-13883558\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/07/Airballin.Casket.Above_-1020x1360.jpg\" alt=\"Sandra Bland, the 14th Amendment, an enslaved young man, Trayvon Martin and Nia Wilson all grace the casket created by DeAndre Drake. \" width=\"640\" height=\"853\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/07/Airballin.Casket.Above_-1020x1360.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/07/Airballin.Casket.Above_-800x1067.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/07/Airballin.Casket.Above_-160x213.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/07/Airballin.Casket.Above_-768x1024.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/07/Airballin.Casket.Above_-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/07/Airballin.Casket.Above_-1536x2048.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/07/Airballin.Casket.Above_.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sandra Bland, the 14th Amendment, an enslaved young man, Trayvon Martin and Nia Wilson all grace the casket created by DeAndre Drake. \u003ccite>(Airballin)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Drake says there are three larger goals for his piece of art. First, he’d love for the casket to go on a tour of museums and galleries around the United States, once they’ve reopened to the public. He’d eventually like it to be at the Oakland Musuem of California for some time. And lastly, he wants to auction the casket and donate the money to local organizations who provide frontline services for the African American community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These are ambitious goals, but Drake isn’t easily intimidated—he’s already overcome a lot in his career as an artist.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This coming fall he’s set to release a documentary called \u003cem>Pen to Pencil\u003c/em>, which chronicles how he picked up the craft while incarcerated, and always saw his artwork as a way to make money.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve never done political work in my art career,” says Drake. “I’ve always done art as a business, from day one. 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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> can’t tell you if it’s music for the movement, music for “the moment,” or just music to make money. But I can tell you artists have been working. And I’ve been listening.\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>Between the COVID-19 pandemic, the nationwide protests and the push for defunding the police, a wave of songs has arrived, all of them documenting the beginning of summertime in 2020.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last week, Beyoncé released the track “\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EJT1m1ele00\">Black Parade\u003c/a>,” a lil’ southern flavor to accompany the Juneteenth holiday. Queen B doubled down on its message of Black empowerment by teaming up with stylist Zerina Akers, who runs the \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/CBn6B4iFkNr/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@black.owned.everything\u003c/a> page, to create a Black business directory called the \u003ca href=\"https://www.beyonce.com/black-parade-route/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Black Parade Route\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>J. Cole and Noname had a back-and-forth, during which Cole dropped “\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OZa3HyVLimQ\">Snow On The Bluff\u003c/a>,” a call for Noname to make her message accessible to the masses. Noname responded with “\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NFp1eW2bihg\">Song 33\u003c/a>,” a track that pretty much asked J. Cole why he was rapping about her, asking her to change her “tone,” when there are far more important issues to be addressed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the past month, \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_VDGysJGNoI\">Lil Baby\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z5HN-4396Jo\">Tee Grizzley\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DWZkjXCU-ds\">Trey Songz\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ramteyfi9bE\">YG\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JUnc3kl0DcA\">Meek Mill\u003c/a> all dropped songs about police brutality and systematic racism. Wale released a six-song EP, \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLHzeg4D5T9v4peshRjOitaZVT9N05Kt2f&src=Linkfire&lId=747b96e4-d374-4dd3-8990-9a4dcab5c737&cId=d3d58fd7-4c47-11e6-9fd0-066c3e7a8751\">The Imperfect Storm\u003c/a>\u003c/em>, which covers those issues and more. DaBaby released a “Black Lives Matter Remix” to his chart-topping song “\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Em5cZFocQ0&feature=emb_title\">Rockstar\u003c/a>” featuring Roddy Ricch.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And Anderson .Paak crossed off all the boxes on his “Summer Song 2020” bingo card—he put out a song called “\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TgItkJCm09c\">Lockdown\u003c/a>,” on Juneteenth, that managed to mention COVID, police brutality, looting, slavery, protests \u003cem>and\u003c/em> the unemployment rate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TgItkJCm09c\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\">U\u003c/span>p here in the Bay Area, one of the most politically engaged and artistically inclined regions in the country, you already know artists have been getting active.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>E-40’s new track “\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OT20KfhnQow\">Give Me 6\u003c/a>” is a musical request that suggests maintaining the proper physical distance for pandemic socializing. Oakland’s Damian Lillard dropped “\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J1wQ7_h824U\">Blacklist\u003c/a>,” a track about the racism he faces, even as a wealthy African American man. And Berkeley’s Rexx Life Raj released a single about police brutality simply called “\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VL4VLUSfwg8&feature=youtu.be\">War\u003c/a>”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it’s the artists who aren’t as popular who’ve really been talking that shit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I saw Oakland’s \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/STSpittin\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">ST Spittin’\u003c/a> in traffic recently, where he said he had something for me. His latest single “Huey P. Malcolm Martin” features a sample of Stevie Wonder’s “Visions”—and I was sold on it from the first note.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://youtu.be/2VM99IYLF-I\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Berkeley’s \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/NettaBrielle\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Netta Brielle\u003c/a> shifted the tempo with her new release, “\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AU-3Uea4PyI\">Get To You\u003c/a>,” a song that’s more about embracing love than protesting hate—a needed sentiment in these times. Another track using R&B to express emotion during tumult came from Oakland’s \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/TalyaPatrick\">Tai Marie\u003c/a>, who recently put out a soulful R&B single titled “\u003ca href=\"https://soundcloud.com/ttaimarie/war-zone\">Warzone\u003c/a>.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dipping her toes in the classical-piano realm is San Francisco’s \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/ImtheJournalist\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Angélica Ekeke\u003c/a>, who just put out the song “\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/CByayJUh8qs/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Modern War\u003c/a>.” She says the track is inspired by her upcoming film on African American contributions during WWII at one of the nation’s largest shipyards, right here in Marin. But the words she sings, in her trademark soprano tone, are eerily relevant to today.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From Sacramento, Rob Woods’ \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://soundcloud.com/therealrobwoods/sets/the-black-tape/s-7dyuknyLjtr\">The Black Tape\u003c/a>\u003c/em> mixes rap lyrics about hope and oppression over R&B vibes, and an undertone of that church feeling throughout the project. (He even incorporates a cold saxophone on the song “Stuck.”) And Pittsburg’s Hotboikal shot the video for “\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VO1dP7CMy78\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Hands Up, Man Down\u003c/a>” in the \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/gmeline/status/1269139427751673858\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">middle of a protest march\u003c/a> in Santa Rosa, with lyrics about racial profiling and police brutality.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VO1dP7CMy78\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sharing that sentiment is Richmond’s \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/WallahUmoja\">Wallah Umoja\u003c/a>, who dropped a new video for an older track, \u003ca href=\"https://open.spotify.com/album/7vbwGIkNzDs2PKryN9BFZ0?highlight=spotify:track:3ZPM9hdhw42oKotLM4Zc2N\">Senses\u003c/a>, delivered in a boom-bap cadence. Following that flow is Dom Shalom’s “\u003ca href=\"https://open.spotify.com/album/7HmoIXj4Z0GQhNXdqqrj19?si=FgqfUqSgRDiZnmo79Tx-FA\">The Next\u003c/a>,” a chill vibe that I’d also describe as boom-bap rap.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And if you like music that bends genres, Oakland’s Dom Jones came through with soulful jazz-rock for the spirit. Her latest track “\u003ca href=\"https://distrokid.com/hyperfollow/domjones/sayin-nothin\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Sayin’ Nothin’\u003c/a>” is the stuff movie soundtracks are made of.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Speaking of movies, the content in Nicholas Easter’s “\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fKDyDBIOjhs&feature=youtu.be&fbclid=IwAR1AhAh620HVoEkRP5kgQAgHRIl67PQlv0gQ-B_58KHGMhC-ZvWfjerpwog\">Native Tongue\u003c/a>” video isn’t a song as much as it is a compilation of speeches and interviews from the civil rights era to today’s Black Lives Matter movement—featuring the likes of Maya Angelou, Ryan Coogler and Tupac, all layered on top of modern-day footage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Want more spoken-word quotes? \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/ClifSoulo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Clif Soulo\u003c/a> offers a new release titled \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://soundcloud.com/clifsoulo/sets/bunchy-carter-grooves/s-YAJYJ0GJAOY\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Bunchy Carter Grooves\u003c/a> \u003c/em>that’s full of clips from interviews with former members of the Black Panther Party.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Want something more militant? Oakland’s \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/BeastellaAllDat\">Beastella\u003c/a> got a verse from Jay Jonah, and dropped “\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Snbr-qCpxjY&feature=youtu.be&fbclid=IwAR3PK1zW-v_0moh9V2MUE6rTuIIze6fyTQ15NGdcdCzHgb-QacprRGPR1gs\">1825\u003c/a>.” The track is up there with the most aggressive songs I’ve heard all month, and I’m here for it. As Jay Jonah says on the track: “She Harriet and I’m Nat,” comparing the duo to well-known abolitionist Harriet Tubman and rebellion leader Nat Turner.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://youtu.be/Snbr-qCpxjY\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">S\u003c/span>o yeah, I’ve been listening. I caught the a capella \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/caseycopesodope/status/1270886631994613762?s=20\">Twitter\u003c/a> post from San Leandro’s Casey Cope about being a Black man in these times, and I slapped Oaktownsoul’s trippy-hop bass-heavy joint “\u003ca href=\"https://soundcloud.com/oaktownsoul/maskup\">Mask Up\u003c/a>.” I soaked in Gina Madrid’s “\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=2&v=2NYtB9g8VrE&feature=emb_title\">Dame La Mano\u003c/a>” and was reminded the need for unity across different demographics. And through Coco Peila’s track “\u003ca href=\"https://soundcloud.com/cocopeilamusic/coco-peila-whose-world-greennewdeal-prod-hawk-beatz/s-N5s69FMW0Gj\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Whose World?\u003c/a>” I was reminded that in the midst of everything, global warming is still an issue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I listened to Redtone Records’ “\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8TQuiigys6I&feature=youtu.be&fbclid=IwAR0Gf4iyMU8EYVPksCnr7TP84x8d8WBh-MMVKR3AiiMe4a3mVaVg5QUoWIs\">Right Now\u003c/a>!,” a bouncy jazz track with some New Orleans flavor, out of East Palo Alto. Man, I even listened to \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6wGk8jZQfQ8&feature=youtu.be&fbclid=IwAR1EBRQ0yc2ZFzL-vonhWVVnsEaITwp8eQtrZ-pkDCnY0fKhu0w-Upn_ZlQ\">We Will Break Free, \u003c/a>written by Byron Au Yong and Aaron Jafferis and performed by an acoustic ensemble over videoconferencing:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>A body isn’t made for a jail, or a box.\u003cbr>\nA body will defy all the fences, all the locks.\u003cbr>\nWe will break the walls that lock us into cells.\u003cbr>\nWe will break the laws that keep us from ourselves.\u003cbr>\nWe will break free.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Taking in all these songs was like reading reports from a classroom full of students who all got the same assignment. There was no wrong answer. In fact, the only wrong would be \u003cem>not\u003c/em> saying something.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chances are, the real “song of the summer”—dubbed so by the music industry itself—will probably be a pop hit. 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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> can’t tell you if it’s music for the movement, music for “the moment,” or just music to make money. But I can tell you artists have been working. And I’ve been listening.\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>Between the COVID-19 pandemic, the nationwide protests and the push for defunding the police, a wave of songs has arrived, all of them documenting the beginning of summertime in 2020.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last week, Beyoncé released the track “\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EJT1m1ele00\">Black Parade\u003c/a>,” a lil’ southern flavor to accompany the Juneteenth holiday. Queen B doubled down on its message of Black empowerment by teaming up with stylist Zerina Akers, who runs the \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/CBn6B4iFkNr/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@black.owned.everything\u003c/a> page, to create a Black business directory called the \u003ca href=\"https://www.beyonce.com/black-parade-route/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Black Parade Route\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>J. Cole and Noname had a back-and-forth, during which Cole dropped “\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OZa3HyVLimQ\">Snow On The Bluff\u003c/a>,” a call for Noname to make her message accessible to the masses. Noname responded with “\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NFp1eW2bihg\">Song 33\u003c/a>,” a track that pretty much asked J. Cole why he was rapping about her, asking her to change her “tone,” when there are far more important issues to be addressed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the past month, \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_VDGysJGNoI\">Lil Baby\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z5HN-4396Jo\">Tee Grizzley\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DWZkjXCU-ds\">Trey Songz\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ramteyfi9bE\">YG\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JUnc3kl0DcA\">Meek Mill\u003c/a> all dropped songs about police brutality and systematic racism. Wale released a six-song EP, \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLHzeg4D5T9v4peshRjOitaZVT9N05Kt2f&src=Linkfire&lId=747b96e4-d374-4dd3-8990-9a4dcab5c737&cId=d3d58fd7-4c47-11e6-9fd0-066c3e7a8751\">The Imperfect Storm\u003c/a>\u003c/em>, which covers those issues and more. DaBaby released a “Black Lives Matter Remix” to his chart-topping song “\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Em5cZFocQ0&feature=emb_title\">Rockstar\u003c/a>” featuring Roddy Ricch.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And Anderson .Paak crossed off all the boxes on his “Summer Song 2020” bingo card—he put out a song called “\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TgItkJCm09c\">Lockdown\u003c/a>,” on Juneteenth, that managed to mention COVID, police brutality, looting, slavery, protests \u003cem>and\u003c/em> the unemployment rate.\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/TgItkJCm09c'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/TgItkJCm09c'\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\">U\u003c/span>p here in the Bay Area, one of the most politically engaged and artistically inclined regions in the country, you already know artists have been getting active.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>E-40’s new track “\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OT20KfhnQow\">Give Me 6\u003c/a>” is a musical request that suggests maintaining the proper physical distance for pandemic socializing. Oakland’s Damian Lillard dropped “\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J1wQ7_h824U\">Blacklist\u003c/a>,” a track about the racism he faces, even as a wealthy African American man. And Berkeley’s Rexx Life Raj released a single about police brutality simply called “\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VL4VLUSfwg8&feature=youtu.be\">War\u003c/a>”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it’s the artists who aren’t as popular who’ve really been talking that shit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I saw Oakland’s \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/STSpittin\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">ST Spittin’\u003c/a> in traffic recently, where he said he had something for me. His latest single “Huey P. 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"content": "\u003cp>Sometimes the energy of a movement looks like the \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/LinaBlanco/status/1274059418770927616\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">mass mobilization of people marching towards a common goal\u003c/a>, and sometimes it’s hundreds of square feet of painted plywood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In May, as protests in response to the killing of George Floyd by Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin began in downtown Oakland, businesses covered their storefronts with plywood, inadvertently creating surfaces primed for messages of liberation and solidarity. In the days that followed, artists and volunteers lined the sidewalks with buckets and spray cans of paint, putting up Cornel West quotes, Black Power imagery and, over and over again, the names of those killed by police.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Almost as soon as these large-scale murals went up, people \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/is_a_lau/status/1270374072166178817\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">began asking\u003c/a> how the ephemeral pieces of public art could be preserved.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/OGpenn/status/1270021040312221696\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The consensus is that this is an important time,” says Randolph Belle, spokesperson for the \u003ca href=\"https://www.blackculturalzone.org/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Black Cultural Zone\u003c/a>, a coalition of Black residents, leaders and organizers working to keep Black culture and people in East Oakland. “The movement is what we’re most concerned with. But the artwork is obviously a result of the protests, and the protests are a result of the historical injustices.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Black Cultural Zone, \u003ca href=\"https://bettiono.com/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Betti Ono Gallery\u003c/a>, and other Black-led arts organizations, with support from ally organizations like the Oakland Museum and Oakland Art Murmur, are now attempting to bring some order to the preservation of murals that emerged spontaneously and without centralized coordination. The Black Cultural Zone has launched an \u003ca href=\"https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScwvM8ZV7Ln2CwiPtCyywTaPzE0xwTw2jXDB9947Z1rbLj1lw/viewform\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">online form\u003c/a> to help identify artists and artworks, which business owners or landlords can use to let the group know if they’re planning to remove a mural.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>(Endeavors, a project affiliated with Oakland’s Good Mother Gallery, has simultaneously created \u003ca href=\"https://www.endeavors-oakland.com/home-copy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">an online gallery\u003c/a> of mural documentation, also hosts a form which promises to notify artists when their boards are removed.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13881569\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1200px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13881569\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/06/Photo-Jun-06-3-41-25-PM.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"900\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/06/Photo-Jun-06-3-41-25-PM.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/06/Photo-Jun-06-3-41-25-PM-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/06/Photo-Jun-06-3-41-25-PM-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/06/Photo-Jun-06-3-41-25-PM-768x576.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/06/Photo-Jun-06-3-41-25-PM-1020x765.jpg 1020w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Artist unknown. \u003ccite>(Cianni Jackson)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Still, certain questions linger: Should pieces go back to the artists, stay with the businesses, go into archival storage, or remain on view at another public location?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland Museum of California Director Lori Fogarty underscores Belle’s point about focusing on the movement, first and foremost, over the murals. Though the institution was on \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/Bethpikegirl/status/1270023479228686342\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">many minds\u003c/a> as a \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/OKcouncil/status/1270033041319026688\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">possible home\u003c/a> for the murals, Fogarty says the museum isn’t yet looking to accession artwork or schedule an exhibition. Instead, OMCA is providing logistical support to the preservation efforts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Black-led organizations and artists need to be at the forefront,” Fogarty says. “It is a paradigm shift we need to acknowledge and honor at every step.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Curator and arts organizer \u003ca href=\"https://artistasfirstrespondercom.godaddysites.com/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Ashara Ekundayo\u003c/a> watched the murals go up, visiting the downtown gallery every day. She says early on her conversations with artists raised red flags about the challenges of documenting and preserving the murals. “What alarmed me was that very few of the artists had thought about the importance and value of their work, and what could happen to it without them knowing and being credited or compensated,” she says. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She also noticed racial and cultural dynamics playing out in the murals: white artists were being commissioned to write “Black Lives Matter” on boarded-up storefronts and Black artists were not being paid for their work. Not acknowledging the artwork as valuable, particularly the work of Black artists, Ekundayo says, “will continue to perpetuate this idea that artists will make art for free and that we can disrespect them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.instagram.com/p/CBygQVZhC1v/\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“From the Black Cultural Zone specifically, we really wanted to be documenters of the documentation,” Belle says. “We don’t want to own a movement, but it is important that a Black voice holds this conversation. As people are saying that this feels different, we’ve got to make sure it \u003ci>is\u003c/i> different.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID='arts_13881529']In this vein, Betti Ono Gallery is hosting a conversation on Thursday, June 25, for Black artists and community members to collectively decide how to honor, preserve and protect the art. Possible outcomes Belle lists off include reinstallation of the murals in a lot in East Oakland, a spot the Black Cultural Zone currently uses as a distribution point for hot meals, produce and other supplies. Or, he says, “Some of the panels could be used to build something semi-permanent.” An in-depth immersive exhibition incorporating video footage of the murals, or something similar, could take place several years down the road.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have no interest in nor would we support privatizing this art other than in the hands of the artists and support of our Black community,” the Black Cultural Zone writes in the description for Thursday’s event.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But as discussions about how to collect and preserve the murals continue, many of the artworks are already coming down—and only some of their destinations are known.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13868732/cece-carpio\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Cece Carpio\u003c/a> and the \u003ca href=\"http://www.trustyourstruggle.com/a/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Trust Your Struggle Collective\u003c/a> painted three murals in downtown Oakland. “We just went forward and protested the way we knew how, which is to paint up the streets,” she says. They weren’t thinking, at the time, about the future of their work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.instagram.com/p/CBCYs9fhTF0/\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of those murals—featuring five raised hands and fists and the text “We Got Us” over the boarded-up doors of a Chase bank—became the backdrop for an altar to those killed by police violence. When workers later arrived with the task of removing the plywood to create an entrance to the building, they refused to dismantle the altar.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They saw our crew name and made the call to make sure this is preserved,” Carpio says. “It was very lucky and fortunate that it was within the community of folks.” Carpio was able to call her friends to move the altar, and the workers delivered the plywood boards directly to her own Oakland backyard.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other muralists say they too thought only passingly about the future of their murals as they worked to get them up. Estella Tse and Sofia Sharpe, who both grew up in Oakland, painted a mural in honor of Breonna Taylor on June 5—what would have been her 27th birthday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Her name was kind of getting swept in between larger events happening around her, and she wasn’t getting a lot of the recognition for the justice she deserved,” Sharpe says of the impulse behind their painting. Only one of the three officers who shot Taylor has been fired; the other two have been placed on administrative reassignment, and none have been charged.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13881568\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1200px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13881568\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/06/Photo-Jun-06-3-39-53-PM.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"900\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/06/Photo-Jun-06-3-39-53-PM.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/06/Photo-Jun-06-3-39-53-PM-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/06/Photo-Jun-06-3-39-53-PM-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/06/Photo-Jun-06-3-39-53-PM-768x576.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/06/Photo-Jun-06-3-39-53-PM-1020x765.jpg 1020w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The mural in honor of Breonna Taylor’s 27th birthday, painted by Sofia Sharpe and Estella Tse. \u003ccite>(Cianni Jackson)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Sharpe echoes the Black Cultural Zone’s desire to place the murals within the context of the movement for racial justice. “It’s not just about murals, but about everything that is happening and has led up to it and where it’s going from there,” Sharpe says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Objects can tell powerful stories, which is why conversations about how to preserve and honor items related to the Black Lives Matter movement and the latest uprisings are happening at both the grassroots community level and in national organizations. Coalition building and the centering of Black voices is key: The National Museum of African American History and Culture, the National Museum of American History and the Anacostia Community Museum \u003ca href=\"https://nmaahc.si.edu/about/news/statement-efforts-collect-objects-lafayette-square\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">recently announced\u003c/a> a collective effort to document and preserve “expressions of protest and hope” from Lafayette Square in Washington, D.C. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You never know what stories artifacts and objects will tell,” Fogarty says, pointing to architectural fragments exhibited in OMCA’s \u003ci>\u003ca href=\"https://museumca.org/exhibit/all-power-people-black-panthers-50\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">All Power to the People: Black Panthers at 50\u003c/a>\u003c/i>, testaments to the physical destruction of the Black community. While it’s difficult to know exactly which objects will speak most loudly a half century from now, the mistakes of the past can be illuminating. “We’re very mindful of what the museum was not collecting in 1968,” Fogarty says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Tse and Sharpe, whether or not their own work is preserved is less important to them than the messages the murals contain, and how the desire to document those messages illustrates art’s place in social movements.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We can see from this how art heals, there is an impact, there is a purpose for art,” Tse says. Citing the difficult and long process of going through official channels to create public art, she adds, “I just hope there’s more opportunities for artists to make art like this in very challenging times.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Carpio agrees: “I feel like this is one way to mark this moment and is also another way of really showing that what artists can contribute to a movement, and how we can envision a different future than what we normally have lived, prior to the pandemic and prior to the uprising.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp>“The consensus is that this is an important time,” says Randolph Belle, spokesperson for the \u003ca href=\"https://www.blackculturalzone.org/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Black Cultural Zone\u003c/a>, a coalition of Black residents, leaders and organizers working to keep Black culture and people in East Oakland. “The movement is what we’re most concerned with. But the artwork is obviously a result of the protests, and the protests are a result of the historical injustices.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Black Cultural Zone, \u003ca href=\"https://bettiono.com/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Betti Ono Gallery\u003c/a>, and other Black-led arts organizations, with support from ally organizations like the Oakland Museum and Oakland Art Murmur, are now attempting to bring some order to the preservation of murals that emerged spontaneously and without centralized coordination. The Black Cultural Zone has launched an \u003ca href=\"https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScwvM8ZV7Ln2CwiPtCyywTaPzE0xwTw2jXDB9947Z1rbLj1lw/viewform\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">online form\u003c/a> to help identify artists and artworks, which business owners or landlords can use to let the group know if they’re planning to remove a mural.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>(Endeavors, a project affiliated with Oakland’s Good Mother Gallery, has simultaneously created \u003ca href=\"https://www.endeavors-oakland.com/home-copy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">an online gallery\u003c/a> of mural documentation, also hosts a form which promises to notify artists when their boards are removed.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13881569\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1200px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13881569\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/06/Photo-Jun-06-3-41-25-PM.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"900\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/06/Photo-Jun-06-3-41-25-PM.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/06/Photo-Jun-06-3-41-25-PM-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/06/Photo-Jun-06-3-41-25-PM-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/06/Photo-Jun-06-3-41-25-PM-768x576.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/06/Photo-Jun-06-3-41-25-PM-1020x765.jpg 1020w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Artist unknown. \u003ccite>(Cianni Jackson)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Still, certain questions linger: Should pieces go back to the artists, stay with the businesses, go into archival storage, or remain on view at another public location?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland Museum of California Director Lori Fogarty underscores Belle’s point about focusing on the movement, first and foremost, over the murals. Though the institution was on \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/Bethpikegirl/status/1270023479228686342\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">many minds\u003c/a> as a \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/OKcouncil/status/1270033041319026688\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">possible home\u003c/a> for the murals, Fogarty says the museum isn’t yet looking to accession artwork or schedule an exhibition. Instead, OMCA is providing logistical support to the preservation efforts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Black-led organizations and artists need to be at the forefront,” Fogarty says. “It is a paradigm shift we need to acknowledge and honor at every step.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Curator and arts organizer \u003ca href=\"https://artistasfirstrespondercom.godaddysites.com/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Ashara Ekundayo\u003c/a> watched the murals go up, visiting the downtown gallery every day. She says early on her conversations with artists raised red flags about the challenges of documenting and preserving the murals. “What alarmed me was that very few of the artists had thought about the importance and value of their work, and what could happen to it without them knowing and being credited or compensated,” she says. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She also noticed racial and cultural dynamics playing out in the murals: white artists were being commissioned to write “Black Lives Matter” on boarded-up storefronts and Black artists were not being paid for their work. Not acknowledging the artwork as valuable, particularly the work of Black artists, Ekundayo says, “will continue to perpetuate this idea that artists will make art for free and that we can disrespect them.”\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>“From the Black Cultural Zone specifically, we really wanted to be documenters of the documentation,” Belle says. “We don’t want to own a movement, but it is important that a Black voice holds this conversation. As people are saying that this feels different, we’ve got to make sure it \u003ci>is\u003c/i> different.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>In this vein, Betti Ono Gallery is hosting a conversation on Thursday, June 25, for Black artists and community members to collectively decide how to honor, preserve and protect the art. Possible outcomes Belle lists off include reinstallation of the murals in a lot in East Oakland, a spot the Black Cultural Zone currently uses as a distribution point for hot meals, produce and other supplies. Or, he says, “Some of the panels could be used to build something semi-permanent.” An in-depth immersive exhibition incorporating video footage of the murals, or something similar, could take place several years down the road.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have no interest in nor would we support privatizing this art other than in the hands of the artists and support of our Black community,” the Black Cultural Zone writes in the description for Thursday’s event.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But as discussions about how to collect and preserve the murals continue, many of the artworks are already coming down—and only some of their destinations are known.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13868732/cece-carpio\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Cece Carpio\u003c/a> and the \u003ca href=\"http://www.trustyourstruggle.com/a/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Trust Your Struggle Collective\u003c/a> painted three murals in downtown Oakland. “We just went forward and protested the way we knew how, which is to paint up the streets,” she says. They weren’t thinking, at the time, about the future of their work.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>One of those murals—featuring five raised hands and fists and the text “We Got Us” over the boarded-up doors of a Chase bank—became the backdrop for an altar to those killed by police violence. When workers later arrived with the task of removing the plywood to create an entrance to the building, they refused to dismantle the altar.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They saw our crew name and made the call to make sure this is preserved,” Carpio says. “It was very lucky and fortunate that it was within the community of folks.” Carpio was able to call her friends to move the altar, and the workers delivered the plywood boards directly to her own Oakland backyard.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other muralists say they too thought only passingly about the future of their murals as they worked to get them up. Estella Tse and Sofia Sharpe, who both grew up in Oakland, painted a mural in honor of Breonna Taylor on June 5—what would have been her 27th birthday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Her name was kind of getting swept in between larger events happening around her, and she wasn’t getting a lot of the recognition for the justice she deserved,” Sharpe says of the impulse behind their painting. Only one of the three officers who shot Taylor has been fired; the other two have been placed on administrative reassignment, and none have been charged.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13881568\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1200px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13881568\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/06/Photo-Jun-06-3-39-53-PM.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"900\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/06/Photo-Jun-06-3-39-53-PM.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/06/Photo-Jun-06-3-39-53-PM-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/06/Photo-Jun-06-3-39-53-PM-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/06/Photo-Jun-06-3-39-53-PM-768x576.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/06/Photo-Jun-06-3-39-53-PM-1020x765.jpg 1020w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The mural in honor of Breonna Taylor’s 27th birthday, painted by Sofia Sharpe and Estella Tse. \u003ccite>(Cianni Jackson)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Sharpe echoes the Black Cultural Zone’s desire to place the murals within the context of the movement for racial justice. “It’s not just about murals, but about everything that is happening and has led up to it and where it’s going from there,” Sharpe says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Objects can tell powerful stories, which is why conversations about how to preserve and honor items related to the Black Lives Matter movement and the latest uprisings are happening at both the grassroots community level and in national organizations. Coalition building and the centering of Black voices is key: The National Museum of African American History and Culture, the National Museum of American History and the Anacostia Community Museum \u003ca href=\"https://nmaahc.si.edu/about/news/statement-efforts-collect-objects-lafayette-square\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">recently announced\u003c/a> a collective effort to document and preserve “expressions of protest and hope” from Lafayette Square in Washington, D.C. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>June 16 would have been Tupac Shakur’s 49th birthday. This year a number of big name celebrities are slated to come together a livestreamed fundraiser and celebration called the \u003ca href=\"https://www.igot5onit.live/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">I Got 5 On It! Unite and Rebuild Session\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tupac, who once successfully \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/11696060/its-tupac-day-in-oakland-where-he-once-sued-the-police-for-10-million\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">sued the Oakland Police Department\u003c/a> after being accosted and slammed to the ground by officers in October of 1991, would undoubtedly have something to say about this moment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In his honor, the fundraiser will feature artists and entertainers who actually knew and worked with Pac, like Houston rapper turned political candidate Brad “Scarface” Jordan and famed boxer Mike Tyson. And there will be a number of talented local artists, including Sistah Iminah, SOBxRBE and Yukmouth of Luniz—the East Oakland-based duo who popularized the term, “I got 5 on it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These performers and entertainers are raising money for two important causes: the \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/mvmnt4blklives/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Movement For Black Lives\u003c/a>, and Bay Area cannabis clubs damaged and during the recent uprisings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.leafly.com/news/politics/43-west-coast-cannabis-dispensaries-report-looting-in-weekend-rioting\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Over 40 cannabis clubs\u003c/a> in California and Oregon reported break-ins and burglaries earlier this month. Many of the incidents were not in direct connection with protests, but crimes of opportunity while police were occupied with crowd-control efforts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13881982\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 756px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13881982\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/06/5Onit.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"756\" height=\"663\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/06/5Onit.jpg 756w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/06/5Onit-160x140.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 756px) 100vw, 756px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tucky in Blunts + Moore.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In Oakland, a number of spots were hit. On West Grand Avenue, the plywood that covers the windows at Blüm reads, “Empty No Weed.” At West Oakland’s Magnolia Wellness, not only did the main business suffer loses, but so did the startup it was incubating. Ron Leggett, an Indigenous person who was working to launch his cannabis company “Chiefing” this month, told \u003ca href=\"https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/weed-dispensaries-destroyed-robbed-california-washington-1011013/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>Rolling Stone\u003c/em>,\u003c/a> “They didn’t just steal … they destroyed everything. It looked like a hurricane went through the building.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I Got 5 On It! is organized by \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/tuckyblunt80/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Alphonso “Tucky” Blunt\u003c/a>, who co-founded \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/bluntsandmoore/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Blunts + Moore\u003c/a> dispensary in East Oakland, along with Bri Moore. Their company was was also \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/CA4ftRIgr6n/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">hit hard earlier this month\u003c/a> by burglars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The event is free to watch, it streams live online starting at 5pm on Tuesday, June 16. There is a \u003ca href=\"https://www.gofundme.com/f/6bwjky-i-got-5-on-it?utm_source=widget&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=p_cp+share-sheet\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">GoFundMe\u003c/a> for people looking to contribute to the fundraising efforts, and Tucky is asking for a suggested donation of … wait for it … $5. \u003ca href=\"https://www.igot5onit.live/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Details here\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">T\u003c/span>he United States is a machine fueled by energy extracted from African Americans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Police brutality is the most visceral example of the state taking our life force. Cellphone footage of this country’s first line of defense, its imperial team of overseers, taking the life from black folks works twofold: it not only documents the victim’s life being ended, but it deducts from the value of life of African American viewers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/OGPenn.Cap_.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"180\" height=\"207\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-13833985\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/OGPenn.Cap_.jpg 180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/OGPenn.Cap_-160x184.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 180px) 100vw, 180px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What started the confrontation that led to an officer taking George Floyd’s life? Floyd’s attempt to exchange a counterfeit bill. A minor crime that ended in horrific fashion, and gives further evidence that capitalism and racism are a married couple of mosquitoes, pulling blood from black folks, everyday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And this is only the most newsworthy and sensational of the long list of more covert extractions that happen to black folks everyday in America. Look at data around health disparities, incarceration rates, wealth, child mortality, education levels and life expectancy. These numbers show that life is pulled from us from the cradle to the grave.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Want qualitative evidence? Let’s talk about how passive comments in the classroom plant seeds of self-destruction in little boys and girls, which manifest for the rest of our lives. Let’s discuss how microagressions in the workplace chip away from the souls of black folks. Let’s focus on the stories of the overwhelming amount of unhoused African American people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13881305\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/06/Bike.BrandonRuffin-1020x1530.jpg\" alt=\"A cyclist amidst a protest in downtown Oakland during the final weekend of May 2020. Photographer Brandon Ruffin says he was hit with rubber bullets and subject to tear gas while taking these photos. \" width=\"640\" height=\"960\" class=\"size-large wp-image-13881305\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/06/Bike.BrandonRuffin-1020x1530.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/06/Bike.BrandonRuffin-160x240.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/06/Bike.BrandonRuffin-800x1200.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/06/Bike.BrandonRuffin-768x1152.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/06/Bike.BrandonRuffin.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A cyclist amidst a protest in downtown Oakland during the final weekend of May 2020. Photographer Brandon Ruffin says he was hit with rubber bullets and subject to tear gas while taking these photos. \u003ccite>(Brandon Ruffin)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Unless you’re talking about changing the way America has had its knee on our neck in just about every facet of life, I don’t want to hear it this week. I don’t have the energy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s why I’m not out protesting. I’m not social media posting. I’m not making guest appearances on public radio specials about how the black community is feeling right now. I’m not staying up at 2am sending emails for nonprofits who want to save “at-risk youth,” or whatever term they use for black folks, but don’t have an exit strategy for when black folks are “saved.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Appreciate the gesture, but I don’t really care for the “how are you feeling” texts. I’ll respond when the spirits moves me.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Otherwise, I’m not doing a damn thing that would take energy from me. America has taken enough.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I’m drawing a line in this stolen soil, because I know: If the system doesn’t kill you, you’ll die fighting it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13881338\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 600px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/06/HowardYearbook-800x1002.jpg\" alt=\"Dr. Leon A. Ransom (center) in the 1942 Howard University yearbook.\" width=\"600\" height=\"800\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13881338\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dr. Leon A. Ransom (center) in the 1942 Howard University yearbook. \u003ccite>(Howard University)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">I\u003c/span> spent a large part of this past weekend talking with my great-grandfather. He died over 60 years ago, but we still had a conversation that was right on time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He called on me last week, when I learned that digital versions of \u003ca href=\"https://dh.howard.edu/bison_yearbooks/\">Howard University\u003c/a>’s yearbooks were made public. There he was, on page 27 of the 1942 edition, my mother’s paternal grandfather. Front, center and dapper—check out the kicks. He shares space on the page with the famous philosopher and theologian Howard Thurman. And he’s surrounded by images of Lewis K. Downing, E. Franklin Frazier and A.J. Blackburn—all of whom have buildings or centers named in their honor at the Mecca.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>My great-grandfather, Dr. Leon A. Ransom, was a high-ranking graduate of Ohio State’s law school. He also earned a post-grad degree from Harvard. He went on to be a member of Howard University faculty for over a decade, serving as the acting dean of its law school from 1941 to 1946, during the war years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13881335\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/06/IMG_0297-1020x1360.jpg\" alt=\"Dr. Leon A. Ransom discussing how he deals with stress: 'I work.'\" width=\"640\" height=\"853\" class=\"size-large wp-image-13881335\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/06/IMG_0297-1020x1360.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/06/IMG_0297-160x213.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/06/IMG_0297-800x1067.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/06/IMG_0297-768x1024.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/06/IMG_0297-1920x2560.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dr. Leon A. Ransom discussing how he deals with stress: ‘I work.’ \u003ccite>(Dr. Leon A. Ransom Archives)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Outside of academia, he was a part of the NAACP Legal Defense team; he worked closely with a number of top African American lawyers of the time, including Thurgood Marshall. My great-grandfather’s work focused on “educational and salary discrimination, jury exclusion, and race riots,” according to \u003ca href=\"https://dh.howard.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1162&context=finaid_manu\">Howard’s records\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the more notable cases he worked was the 1946 “\u003ca href=\"https://tennesseeencyclopedia.net/entries/columbia-race-riot-1946/\">Columbia Race Riots\u003c/a>.” He helped clear the names of 23 of the 25 African American men who were charged with attempted murder after multiple officers were shot during a riot in which a white mob ravaged and fired guns throughout Mink Slide, the black business district in Columbia, Tennessee. During the case, Dr. Ransom spoke in front of known Ku Klux Klansmen, and was threatened by the opposing legal team; the defense attorney at one point told him that if he kept talking he’d “wrap this chair around his goddamn head.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the book \u003cem>Making Civil Rights Law: Thurgood Marshall and the Supreme Court, 1936-1961\u003c/em>, it’s noted that during the Columbia Race Riot case, my great-grandfather’s “mental conditions began to deteriorate.” He had recently survived a physical attack by a former police officer after one of his court cases in Nashville. Prior to that, he’d endured written threats from a white woman who wanted to keep schools segregated. He even disappeared for a short spell, causing a stir—family rumor has it that he skipped town to attend a baseball game, in order to take a mental break from his work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I have a folder of clippings about my great-grandfather’s work that I keep near my bed. One article asks a handful of well-known figures of the era how they deal with stress. My great-grandfather said, “I work.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dr. Leon A. Ransom died at age 55 of a stroke, according to his \u003ca href=\"https://www.newspapers.com/clip/13361137/leon-a-ransom-obituary/\">obituary\u003c/a>. He wasn’t killed by police during a protest or traffic stop. But his effort to combat America’s racist system obviously impacted his health.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He was a black man fighting against injustice during his life, and it’s clear that the fight for freedom hastened his death.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13881304\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/06/Embrace.BrandonRuffin-1020x1530.jpg\" alt=\"An embrace in the midst of chaos in downtown Oakland during protests in late May 2020.\" width=\"640\" height=\"960\" class=\"size-large wp-image-13881304\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/06/Embrace.BrandonRuffin-1020x1530.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/06/Embrace.BrandonRuffin-160x240.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/06/Embrace.BrandonRuffin-800x1200.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/06/Embrace.BrandonRuffin-768x1152.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/06/Embrace.BrandonRuffin.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An embrace in the midst of chaos in downtown Oakland during protests in late May 2020. \u003ccite>(Brandon Ruffin)\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>his system is tricky. It’ll either squash you for existing, or let you get close enough to think you’re doing something to change it—just to kill you.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In knowing that, it’s on me to prioritize my physical and mental health in a country that’s inherently unhealthy for me and my people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Do I not combat oppression? You’re a damn fool if you think I’d be passive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Do I turn into a martyr for the cause, or some sort of kamikaze fighter for black liberation? No. Because my death won’t change anything.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I’ll take a bit of my great-grandfather’s advice for navigating times of stress, and I’ll continue to work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And at the same time, I’ll be mindful that many of the frontline protesters in Ferguson have \u003ca href=\"https://www.chicagotribune.com/nation-world/ct-ferguson-activist-deaths-black-lives-matter-20190317-story.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">mysteriously died\u003c/a>. And police brutality, as seen in the past week’s nationwide protests, is still an issue. And the Fair Housing Act of 1968 (also known as the Civil Rights Act) was signed just after Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was killed, yet we’re \u003ca href=\"https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/the-unfulfilled-promise-of-the-fair-housing-act\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">just as divided today\u003c/a>. And, I’ll keep in mind that my great-grandfather died a young age, largely due to stress caused by the hard work he did as a lawyer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So, I’ll draw the line on how much I work. I’ll fulfill my personal responsibilities, and do my 40 hours each week—I have to work, my daughter’s tummy demands it—but not a minute more. It’s the only action that’s within my power to ensure that the capitalist system driving this racist country doesn’t take any more of my life.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Want qualitative evidence? Let’s talk about how passive comments in the classroom plant seeds of self-destruction in little boys and girls, which manifest for the rest of our lives. Let’s discuss how microagressions in the workplace chip away from the souls of black folks. Let’s focus on the stories of the overwhelming amount of unhoused African American people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13881305\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/06/Bike.BrandonRuffin-1020x1530.jpg\" alt=\"A cyclist amidst a protest in downtown Oakland during the final weekend of May 2020. Photographer Brandon Ruffin says he was hit with rubber bullets and subject to tear gas while taking these photos. \" width=\"640\" height=\"960\" class=\"size-large wp-image-13881305\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/06/Bike.BrandonRuffin-1020x1530.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/06/Bike.BrandonRuffin-160x240.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/06/Bike.BrandonRuffin-800x1200.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/06/Bike.BrandonRuffin-768x1152.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/06/Bike.BrandonRuffin.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A cyclist amidst a protest in downtown Oakland during the final weekend of May 2020. Photographer Brandon Ruffin says he was hit with rubber bullets and subject to tear gas while taking these photos. \u003ccite>(Brandon Ruffin)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Unless you’re talking about changing the way America has had its knee on our neck in just about every facet of life, I don’t want to hear it this week. I don’t have the energy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s why I’m not out protesting. I’m not social media posting. I’m not making guest appearances on public radio specials about how the black community is feeling right now. I’m not staying up at 2am sending emails for nonprofits who want to save “at-risk youth,” or whatever term they use for black folks, but don’t have an exit strategy for when black folks are “saved.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Appreciate the gesture, but I don’t really care for the “how are you feeling” texts. I’ll respond when the spirits moves me.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Otherwise, I’m not doing a damn thing that would take energy from me. America has taken enough.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I’m drawing a line in this stolen soil, because I know: If the system doesn’t kill you, you’ll die fighting it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13881338\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 600px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/06/HowardYearbook-800x1002.jpg\" alt=\"Dr. Leon A. Ransom (center) in the 1942 Howard University yearbook.\" width=\"600\" height=\"800\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13881338\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dr. Leon A. Ransom (center) in the 1942 Howard University yearbook. \u003ccite>(Howard University)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">I\u003c/span> spent a large part of this past weekend talking with my great-grandfather. He died over 60 years ago, but we still had a conversation that was right on time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He called on me last week, when I learned that digital versions of \u003ca href=\"https://dh.howard.edu/bison_yearbooks/\">Howard University\u003c/a>’s yearbooks were made public. There he was, on page 27 of the 1942 edition, my mother’s paternal grandfather. Front, center and dapper—check out the kicks. He shares space on the page with the famous philosopher and theologian Howard Thurman. And he’s surrounded by images of Lewis K. Downing, E. Franklin Frazier and A.J. Blackburn—all of whom have buildings or centers named in their honor at the Mecca.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>My great-grandfather, Dr. Leon A. Ransom, was a high-ranking graduate of Ohio State’s law school. He also earned a post-grad degree from Harvard. 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During the case, Dr. Ransom spoke in front of known Ku Klux Klansmen, and was threatened by the opposing legal team; the defense attorney at one point told him that if he kept talking he’d “wrap this chair around his goddamn head.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the book \u003cem>Making Civil Rights Law: Thurgood Marshall and the Supreme Court, 1936-1961\u003c/em>, it’s noted that during the Columbia Race Riot case, my great-grandfather’s “mental conditions began to deteriorate.” He had recently survived a physical attack by a former police officer after one of his court cases in Nashville. Prior to that, he’d endured written threats from a white woman who wanted to keep schools segregated. He even disappeared for a short spell, causing a stir—family rumor has it that he skipped town to attend a baseball game, in order to take a mental break from his work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I have a folder of clippings about my great-grandfather’s work that I keep near my bed. One article asks a handful of well-known figures of the era how they deal with stress. My great-grandfather said, “I work.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dr. Leon A. Ransom died at age 55 of a stroke, according to his \u003ca href=\"https://www.newspapers.com/clip/13361137/leon-a-ransom-obituary/\">obituary\u003c/a>. He wasn’t killed by police during a protest or traffic stop. But his effort to combat America’s racist system obviously impacted his health.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He was a black man fighting against injustice during his life, and it’s clear that the fight for freedom hastened his death.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13881304\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/06/Embrace.BrandonRuffin-1020x1530.jpg\" alt=\"An embrace in the midst of chaos in downtown Oakland during protests in late May 2020.\" width=\"640\" height=\"960\" class=\"size-large wp-image-13881304\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/06/Embrace.BrandonRuffin-1020x1530.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/06/Embrace.BrandonRuffin-160x240.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/06/Embrace.BrandonRuffin-800x1200.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/06/Embrace.BrandonRuffin-768x1152.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/06/Embrace.BrandonRuffin.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An embrace in the midst of chaos in downtown Oakland during protests in late May 2020. \u003ccite>(Brandon Ruffin)\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>his system is tricky. 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