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On weekends, the clubs draw hundreds of patrons for events such as drag bingo and La Bota Loca, a \u003cem>ranchera\u003c/em>– and \u003cem>banda\u003c/em>-themed party featuring DJs and internationally touring live acts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s nothing like it in Oakland,” Uribe said of La Bota Loca. “It’s a safe space for queer Latinx people centered on an aspect of Mexican culture that can be hyper-masculine.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13871729\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13871729\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/BnB-and-21-Exterior-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"Club BnB and Club 21, adjoining LGBTQ nightclubs near downtown Oakland, will shutter by Jan. 15, 2020.\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/BnB-and-21-Exterior-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/BnB-and-21-Exterior-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/BnB-and-21-Exterior-768x432.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/BnB-and-21-Exterior-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/BnB-and-21-Exterior-1200x675.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/BnB-and-21-Exterior.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Club BnB and Club 21, adjoining LGBTQ nightclubs near downtown Oakland, will shutter by Jan. 15, 2020. \u003ccite>(Sam Lefebvre/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The Broadway and Franklin Street clubs employ some 40 people, many of them for more than a decade, and the businesses have in recent months sought a new location without success.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The market is difficult,” Uribe said, noting the high-cost of commercial rent plus competition for suitable raw warehouse space from cannabis cultivators.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 2120 Broadway property was acquired in May of 2018 for approximately $8 million by a company tied to Ellis Partners, a San Francisco real-estate developer, county records show.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ellis proposed that the clubs either begin paying $45,040/month, more than twice their current rent, or leave the building by January, according to Uribe. The clubs are on a month-to-month lease.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13871730\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13871730\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/2121-Franklin-Realty-Brochure-800x450.jpg\" alt='A realty brochure advertises the building as \"creative office space.\"' width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/2121-Franklin-Realty-Brochure-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/2121-Franklin-Realty-Brochure-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/2121-Franklin-Realty-Brochure-768x432.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/2121-Franklin-Realty-Brochure-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/2121-Franklin-Realty-Brochure-1200x675.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/2121-Franklin-Realty-Brochure.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A realty brochure advertises the building as “creative office space.”\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Ellis Partners did not respond to a request for comment Tuesday. In Oakland, the firm is known for developing an incoming 18-story office building at 1100 Broadway marketed as \u003ca href=\"https://www.thekeyoakland.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Key\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A realty brochure acquired by KQED advertises the 23,000 square-foot Club BnB and Club 21 building as “creative office space” available in the third quarter of 2020. A rendering shows the exterior with an abstract design in place of the current water justice-themed mural from 2011.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nancypili Hernandez, coordinator of the \u003cem>Water Writes\u003c/em> mural, which shows young people of color as environmental stewards, reached out to Ellis Partners after seeing the rendering published by KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The mock-up shows a white-washed wall with random abstract patterns where our mural lives,” Hernandez said. “This image holds value now more than ever, and we hope to work with the new owners to preserve it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 6,000-square-foot piece features the work of artists including Vogue, Bounce, DIME, Agana, Cece Carpio and Josue Rojas, and is part of a multi-city series sponsored by environmentalist group the Estria Foundation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Club BnB has existed in different locations in Oakland under the name Bench and Bar since 1976, Uribe said. It operated in the current building 2004-2010 before moving to 17th Street. Club 21 took its place in 2010, and then both clubs reopened in the current building in 2015.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Uribe said the clubs’ parent company is owned by Frank Ciglar, a board member of the Oakland Pride organization, who bought out his former business partner Charles Bisbee in 2016.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The market is difficult,” Uribe said, noting the high-cost of commercial rent plus competition for suitable raw warehouse space from cannabis cultivators.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 2120 Broadway property was acquired in May of 2018 for approximately $8 million by a company tied to Ellis Partners, a San Francisco real-estate developer, county records show.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ellis proposed that the clubs either begin paying $45,040/month, more than twice their current rent, or leave the building by January, according to Uribe. The clubs are on a month-to-month lease.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13871730\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13871730\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/2121-Franklin-Realty-Brochure-800x450.jpg\" alt='A realty brochure advertises the building as \"creative office space.\"' width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/2121-Franklin-Realty-Brochure-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/2121-Franklin-Realty-Brochure-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/2121-Franklin-Realty-Brochure-768x432.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/2121-Franklin-Realty-Brochure-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/2121-Franklin-Realty-Brochure-1200x675.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/2121-Franklin-Realty-Brochure.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A realty brochure advertises the building as “creative office space.”\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Ellis Partners did not respond to a request for comment Tuesday. In Oakland, the firm is known for developing an incoming 18-story office building at 1100 Broadway marketed as \u003ca href=\"https://www.thekeyoakland.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Key\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A realty brochure acquired by KQED advertises the 23,000 square-foot Club BnB and Club 21 building as “creative office space” available in the third quarter of 2020. A rendering shows the exterior with an abstract design in place of the current water justice-themed mural from 2011.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nancypili Hernandez, coordinator of the \u003cem>Water Writes\u003c/em> mural, which shows young people of color as environmental stewards, reached out to Ellis Partners after seeing the rendering published by KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The mock-up shows a white-washed wall with random abstract patterns where our mural lives,” Hernandez said. “This image holds value now more than ever, and we hope to work with the new owners to preserve it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 6,000-square-foot piece features the work of artists including Vogue, Bounce, DIME, Agana, Cece Carpio and Josue Rojas, and is part of a multi-city series sponsored by environmentalist group the Estria Foundation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Club BnB has existed in different locations in Oakland under the name Bench and Bar since 1976, Uribe said. It operated in the current building 2004-2010 before moving to 17th Street. Club 21 took its place in 2010, and then both clubs reopened in the current building in 2015.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Uribe said the clubs’ parent company is owned by Frank Ciglar, a board member of the Oakland Pride organization, who bought out his former business partner Charles Bisbee in 2016.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">I\u003c/span>’ve got some strong words for Mark Davis’ haircut and the thinking that goes on under it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-13833985\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/OGPenn.Cap_-160x184.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"160\" height=\"184\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/OGPenn.Cap_-160x184.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/OGPenn.Cap_.jpg 180w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 160px) 100vw, 160px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of course, I’m more concerned about his thinking than I am the haircut. (I’ve already \u003ca href=\"https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/13735322/are-mark-davis-raiders-leaving-oakland\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">read\u003c/a> about him driving his minivan hundreds of miles to a barber in Palm Springs so he can get… whatever he calls that thing on his head.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I get that moving the Raiders to Las Vegas is a money move. Nevada offered a stadium that’ll be paid for by tax revenue. The City of Oakland didn’t, and rightfully so. With thousands of people sleeping on the streets, paying to build a sports franchise’s new stadium would’ve been the ultimate example of helping the rich get richer. Plus, the City of Oakland is \u003ca href=\"https://www.newsweek.com/raiders-leave-vegas-oakland-owes-stadium-debt-1995-574930\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">still in debt\u003c/a> after enticing the Raiders to move back from Los Angeles in 1995.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So now that the final Raiders game has been played at the Coliseum, it’s become a reality: they’re throwing a hail mary across the state line. And I can’t be mad, because at the end of the day, it’s a business. And you know how \u003cem>we\u003c/em> do business in America—with an all-encompassing phrase that I’m surprised isn’t a Fortune 500 company’s slogan:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>To hell with your feelings. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13871653\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13871653\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/raiders-tailgate-0189-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Raiders fans tailgate for the final Raiders home game at the Oakland Coliseum.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/raiders-tailgate-0189-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/raiders-tailgate-0189-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/raiders-tailgate-0189-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/raiders-tailgate-0189-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/raiders-tailgate-0189-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/raiders-tailgate-0189.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Raiders fans tailgate for the final Raiders home game at the Oakland Coliseum. \u003ccite>(Amir Aziz)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">B\u003c/span>ut football, the most brutal of major American sports, is a game largely built on feelings. The players emote like thespians. The coaches yell like drunk stepfathers. And the owners are often shown in their box seats, hands folded over their mouths, like a member of the choir praying during the sermon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the greatest feelings come from the fans. They show up on Sundays and paint their faces, get inebriated and scream their hearts out. It’s like going to church, the bar and to war at the same time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Every stadium is a bit different, from what I hear. I’ve only been to Raiders games. But I can guarantee you that Oakland’s tailgate scene is unlike any other.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Sunday, I saw social media updates of folks there at daybreak, with lit barbecue grills and liquor bottles bigger than the Lombardi trophy. As they rang in the final Raiders game in Oakland, many of the posts were emotional personal connections: the worker who’s losing their longtime job at the stadium, \u003ca href=\"https://abc7news.com/sports/raiders-fan-who-went-to-1st-coliseum-game-needs-ticket-for-oakland-finale/5756266/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the story\u003c/a> of the guy who went to the first game in Oakland and scored a last-minute ticket to this one, stories of friendships and connections made.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I wasn’t there on Sunday. Instead, I was down in Nickerson Gardens in Watts, where I gave a head-nod to a brother in a Los Angeles Raiders cap. That emotional connection reverberates throughout Raider Nation, and reaches all places the sun shines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13871656\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13871656\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/raiders-tailgate-0100-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Raiders fans tailgate for the final Raiders home game at the Oakland Coliseum.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/raiders-tailgate-0100-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/raiders-tailgate-0100-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/raiders-tailgate-0100-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/raiders-tailgate-0100-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/raiders-tailgate-0100-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/raiders-tailgate-0100.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Raiders fans tailgate for the final Raiders home game at the Oakland Coliseum. \u003ccite>(Amir Aziz)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Returning from my trip, I watched the game via livestream on my phone in the back of a Flixbus during a 10-hour ride. I don’t even like the NFL, but I watched.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I used to love football. I was a diehard Raiders fan. But then so many things happened that made me realize just how much of a business football is: Michael Vick’s treatment (to this day \u003ca href=\"https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/thousands-sign-petition-asking-nfl-to-remove-michael-vick-as-pro-bowl-captain-call-out-sponsors/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">he’s still catching flak\u003c/a> for his involvement in dog fighting, a crime he served time for). The fact that there are confirmed domestic abusers in the league, and Colin Kaepernick isn’t (and that the tryout a few weeks ago was \u003ca href=\"https://www.theroot.com/stephen-a-smith-s-ego-and-hairline-suffers-2-inch-setb-1840416456\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a sham\u003c/a>). Worst of all, the cover-up of concussions and other health issues players face during and after their time in the league.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A few weeks ago, former Raiders offensive lineman \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/26/sports/football/jets-osemele-injury.html\">Kelechi Osemele\u003c/a> was cut by the Jets after opting to have shoulder surgery in the middle of the season instead of taking painkillers and playing with a torn labrum. Before the surgery, as reported by the \u003cem>New York Times\u003c/em>, the Pro Bowl player told the team he was in intense pain, and they docked his pay for the time that he sat on the bench.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>How can you support a league that notoriously doesn’t support its players?\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13871651\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13871651\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/raiders-tailgate-0701-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Raiders fans tailgate for the final Raiders home game at the Oakland Coliseum.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/raiders-tailgate-0701-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/raiders-tailgate-0701-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/raiders-tailgate-0701-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/raiders-tailgate-0701-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/raiders-tailgate-0701-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/raiders-tailgate-0701.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Raiders fans tailgate for the final Raiders home game at the Oakland Coliseum. \u003ccite>(Amir Aziz)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Plus, it’s too much of an emotional investment. I spent chunks of my life yelling at the TV. If I told you how many times the Raiders let me down over the years, you’d either offer me a hug or a shot of tequila out of pity. Maybe both.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The list of instances would include the \u003ca href=\"https://bleacherreport.com/articles/2852540-antonio-brown-released-by-raiders-after-mike-mayock-incident-drama\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Antonio Brown\u003c/a> saga from this summer. Trading superstar \u003ca href=\"https://www.nbcsports.com/chicago/bears/bears-history-changed-forever-one-year-ago-today-khalil-mack-trade\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Khalil Mack\u003c/a> last year. Remember \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuck_Rule_Game\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the Tuck Rule game\u003c/a>? I don’t, only because I’ve successfully erased it from my memory.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There was, of course, the loss to Tampa Bay (coached by Jon Gruden the year after he left the Raiders) in Super Bowl XXXVII, and the backstory that Pro Bowl lineman \u003ca href=\"https://www.si.com/nfl/2015/12/15/untold-super-bowl-barret-robbins-raiders\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Barret Robbins\u003c/a> suffered a manic episode on the eve of the big game.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Derek Carr breaking his leg right before the playoffs in 2016. \u003ca href=\"https://bleacherreport.com/articles/1033798-10-worst-draft-flops-in-oakland-raiders-history#slide10\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Numerous draft busts\u003c/a>, like Robert Gallery and JaMarcus Russell—I still laugh at the story of Russell studying \u003ca href=\"https://bleacherreport.com/articles/2804453-david-diehl-raiders-gave-jamarcus-russell-blank-tapes-to-see-if-qb-watched-film\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">blank tapes\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And on a smaller, more game-to-game letdown, there’s the penalties. So many penalties. Oh, and Mark Davis’ haircut. Man, there are so many ways the Raiders have let us down over the years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But there had to be some highlight moments. Otherwise, people including myself wouldn’t care this much.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I loved seeing Rod Woodson, Randy Moss and Warren Sapp play in Oakland. Marshawn went dumb on the sidelines. Napoleon Kaufman, my favorite player, had a career full of highlights, and now is a pastor in Livermore.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And although he left for a few years to play with the Packers, Charles Woodson eventually came back to the town to work with the team; he was there to light the Davis torch on this final Sunday in Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s a reason people tossed litter on the field, started fights and booed as Sunday’s game ultimately ended in a 20-16 loss to the bottom-feeding Jacksonville Jaguars. The reason: people care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13871655\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13871655\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/raiders-tailgate-0817-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Raiders fans tailgate for the final Raiders home game at the Oakland Coliseum.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/raiders-tailgate-0817-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/raiders-tailgate-0817-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/raiders-tailgate-0817-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/raiders-tailgate-0817-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/raiders-tailgate-0817-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/raiders-tailgate-0817.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Raiders fans tailgate for the final Raiders home game at the Oakland Coliseum. \u003ccite>(Amir Aziz)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">T\u003c/span>he last game I went to was the one that Marshawn got kicked out of, against Kansas City. That’s how I’ll remember the Raiders. Fun. Exciting. Underdogs. But man, there’s a nation of people who love them with all of their hearts, and many of those are my loved ones. Be it Rita Cecaci, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13840416/the-first-of-the-oakland-raiders-cheerleaders\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">one of the first Raiderettes\u003c/a>, or Malcolm Turner, who \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13849783/buy-your-weed-from-black-owned-dispensaries\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">works at Blunts & Moore\u003c/a> across the street, they’re family.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Malcolm recently told me, “If \u003cem>you\u003c/em> moved to Las Vegas, I’d still love you.” But I know Sunday hurt him, as it did so many others. Even as one who doesn’t care about the NFL, it hurt me too, if only for knowing what the Raiders mean to this city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So when I see an interview \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/CamCleve2/status/1206420458486128640\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">like this one\u003c/a> with Mark Davis and his Moe-from-The-Three-Stooges haircut, and his lack of any real feelings for Oakland, I don’t think about the Raiderettes or the championships. I don’t think of Eldridge Dickey, the first African American to be drafted in the first round as a quarterback, or Fritz Pollard, the first African American coach in league history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13871654\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13871654\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/raiders-tailgate-0440-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Raiders fans tailgate for the final Raiders home game at the Oakland Coliseum.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/raiders-tailgate-0440-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/raiders-tailgate-0440-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/raiders-tailgate-0440-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/raiders-tailgate-0440-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/raiders-tailgate-0440-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/raiders-tailgate-0440.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Raiders fans tailgate for the final Raiders home game at the Oakland Coliseum. \u003ccite>(Amir Aziz)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>No, what I think about is the fact that Al Davis once acquired a 25% ownership of Oakland’s failing Eastmont Mall for $5,000, and he used it as a million-dollar tax haven, according to a \u003ca href=\"https://www.upi.com/Archives/1983/05/31/Raiders-owner-involved-in-lucrative-Teamsters-deal/7355423201600/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">1983 \u003cem>Chicago Tribune\u003c/em> article\u003c/a>. The deal was a part of a partnership with Allen Glick, a businessman who the Justice Department said was a frontman for an organized crime family—and of course, he owned casinos and hotels in Las Vegas, according to \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/1981/12/13/magazine/al-davis-tackles-pro-football.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the \u003cem>New York Times\u003c/em>\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fitting. Forty years later, and Davis’ son is still making money by sucking resources out of Oakland, and working with Vegas to do it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They should change their slogan from ‘Just Win Baby’, to ‘Just Biz, Baby.’\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>–\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">I\u003c/span>’ve got some strong words for Mark Davis’ haircut and the thinking that goes on under it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-13833985\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/OGPenn.Cap_-160x184.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"160\" height=\"184\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/OGPenn.Cap_-160x184.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/OGPenn.Cap_.jpg 180w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 160px) 100vw, 160px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of course, I’m more concerned about his thinking than I am the haircut. (I’ve already \u003ca href=\"https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/13735322/are-mark-davis-raiders-leaving-oakland\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">read\u003c/a> about him driving his minivan hundreds of miles to a barber in Palm Springs so he can get… whatever he calls that thing on his head.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I get that moving the Raiders to Las Vegas is a money move. Nevada offered a stadium that’ll be paid for by tax revenue. The City of Oakland didn’t, and rightfully so. With thousands of people sleeping on the streets, paying to build a sports franchise’s new stadium would’ve been the ultimate example of helping the rich get richer. Plus, the City of Oakland is \u003ca href=\"https://www.newsweek.com/raiders-leave-vegas-oakland-owes-stadium-debt-1995-574930\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">still in debt\u003c/a> after enticing the Raiders to move back from Los Angeles in 1995.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So now that the final Raiders game has been played at the Coliseum, it’s become a reality: they’re throwing a hail mary across the state line. And I can’t be mad, because at the end of the day, it’s a business. And you know how \u003cem>we\u003c/em> do business in America—with an all-encompassing phrase that I’m surprised isn’t a Fortune 500 company’s slogan:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>To hell with your feelings. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13871653\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13871653\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/raiders-tailgate-0189-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Raiders fans tailgate for the final Raiders home game at the Oakland Coliseum.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/raiders-tailgate-0189-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/raiders-tailgate-0189-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/raiders-tailgate-0189-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/raiders-tailgate-0189-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/raiders-tailgate-0189-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/raiders-tailgate-0189.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Raiders fans tailgate for the final Raiders home game at the Oakland Coliseum. \u003ccite>(Amir Aziz)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">B\u003c/span>ut football, the most brutal of major American sports, is a game largely built on feelings. The players emote like thespians. The coaches yell like drunk stepfathers. And the owners are often shown in their box seats, hands folded over their mouths, like a member of the choir praying during the sermon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the greatest feelings come from the fans. They show up on Sundays and paint their faces, get inebriated and scream their hearts out. It’s like going to church, the bar and to war at the same time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Every stadium is a bit different, from what I hear. I’ve only been to Raiders games. But I can guarantee you that Oakland’s tailgate scene is unlike any other.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Sunday, I saw social media updates of folks there at daybreak, with lit barbecue grills and liquor bottles bigger than the Lombardi trophy. As they rang in the final Raiders game in Oakland, many of the posts were emotional personal connections: the worker who’s losing their longtime job at the stadium, \u003ca href=\"https://abc7news.com/sports/raiders-fan-who-went-to-1st-coliseum-game-needs-ticket-for-oakland-finale/5756266/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the story\u003c/a> of the guy who went to the first game in Oakland and scored a last-minute ticket to this one, stories of friendships and connections made.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I wasn’t there on Sunday. Instead, I was down in Nickerson Gardens in Watts, where I gave a head-nod to a brother in a Los Angeles Raiders cap. That emotional connection reverberates throughout Raider Nation, and reaches all places the sun shines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13871656\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13871656\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/raiders-tailgate-0100-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Raiders fans tailgate for the final Raiders home game at the Oakland Coliseum.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/raiders-tailgate-0100-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/raiders-tailgate-0100-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/raiders-tailgate-0100-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/raiders-tailgate-0100-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/raiders-tailgate-0100-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/raiders-tailgate-0100.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Raiders fans tailgate for the final Raiders home game at the Oakland Coliseum. \u003ccite>(Amir Aziz)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Returning from my trip, I watched the game via livestream on my phone in the back of a Flixbus during a 10-hour ride. I don’t even like the NFL, but I watched.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I used to love football. I was a diehard Raiders fan. But then so many things happened that made me realize just how much of a business football is: Michael Vick’s treatment (to this day \u003ca href=\"https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/thousands-sign-petition-asking-nfl-to-remove-michael-vick-as-pro-bowl-captain-call-out-sponsors/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">he’s still catching flak\u003c/a> for his involvement in dog fighting, a crime he served time for). The fact that there are confirmed domestic abusers in the league, and Colin Kaepernick isn’t (and that the tryout a few weeks ago was \u003ca href=\"https://www.theroot.com/stephen-a-smith-s-ego-and-hairline-suffers-2-inch-setb-1840416456\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a sham\u003c/a>). Worst of all, the cover-up of concussions and other health issues players face during and after their time in the league.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A few weeks ago, former Raiders offensive lineman \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/26/sports/football/jets-osemele-injury.html\">Kelechi Osemele\u003c/a> was cut by the Jets after opting to have shoulder surgery in the middle of the season instead of taking painkillers and playing with a torn labrum. Before the surgery, as reported by the \u003cem>New York Times\u003c/em>, the Pro Bowl player told the team he was in intense pain, and they docked his pay for the time that he sat on the bench.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>How can you support a league that notoriously doesn’t support its players?\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13871651\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13871651\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/raiders-tailgate-0701-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Raiders fans tailgate for the final Raiders home game at the Oakland Coliseum.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/raiders-tailgate-0701-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/raiders-tailgate-0701-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/raiders-tailgate-0701-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/raiders-tailgate-0701-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/raiders-tailgate-0701-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/raiders-tailgate-0701.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Raiders fans tailgate for the final Raiders home game at the Oakland Coliseum. \u003ccite>(Amir Aziz)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Plus, it’s too much of an emotional investment. I spent chunks of my life yelling at the TV. If I told you how many times the Raiders let me down over the years, you’d either offer me a hug or a shot of tequila out of pity. Maybe both.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The list of instances would include the \u003ca href=\"https://bleacherreport.com/articles/2852540-antonio-brown-released-by-raiders-after-mike-mayock-incident-drama\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Antonio Brown\u003c/a> saga from this summer. Trading superstar \u003ca href=\"https://www.nbcsports.com/chicago/bears/bears-history-changed-forever-one-year-ago-today-khalil-mack-trade\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Khalil Mack\u003c/a> last year. Remember \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuck_Rule_Game\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the Tuck Rule game\u003c/a>? I don’t, only because I’ve successfully erased it from my memory.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There was, of course, the loss to Tampa Bay (coached by Jon Gruden the year after he left the Raiders) in Super Bowl XXXVII, and the backstory that Pro Bowl lineman \u003ca href=\"https://www.si.com/nfl/2015/12/15/untold-super-bowl-barret-robbins-raiders\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Barret Robbins\u003c/a> suffered a manic episode on the eve of the big game.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Derek Carr breaking his leg right before the playoffs in 2016. \u003ca href=\"https://bleacherreport.com/articles/1033798-10-worst-draft-flops-in-oakland-raiders-history#slide10\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Numerous draft busts\u003c/a>, like Robert Gallery and JaMarcus Russell—I still laugh at the story of Russell studying \u003ca href=\"https://bleacherreport.com/articles/2804453-david-diehl-raiders-gave-jamarcus-russell-blank-tapes-to-see-if-qb-watched-film\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">blank tapes\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And on a smaller, more game-to-game letdown, there’s the penalties. So many penalties. Oh, and Mark Davis’ haircut. Man, there are so many ways the Raiders have let us down over the years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But there had to be some highlight moments. Otherwise, people including myself wouldn’t care this much.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I loved seeing Rod Woodson, Randy Moss and Warren Sapp play in Oakland. Marshawn went dumb on the sidelines. Napoleon Kaufman, my favorite player, had a career full of highlights, and now is a pastor in Livermore.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And although he left for a few years to play with the Packers, Charles Woodson eventually came back to the town to work with the team; he was there to light the Davis torch on this final Sunday in Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s a reason people tossed litter on the field, started fights and booed as Sunday’s game ultimately ended in a 20-16 loss to the bottom-feeding Jacksonville Jaguars. The reason: people care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13871655\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13871655\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/raiders-tailgate-0817-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Raiders fans tailgate for the final Raiders home game at the Oakland Coliseum.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/raiders-tailgate-0817-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/raiders-tailgate-0817-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/raiders-tailgate-0817-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/raiders-tailgate-0817-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/raiders-tailgate-0817-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/raiders-tailgate-0817.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Raiders fans tailgate for the final Raiders home game at the Oakland Coliseum. \u003ccite>(Amir Aziz)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">T\u003c/span>he last game I went to was the one that Marshawn got kicked out of, against Kansas City. That’s how I’ll remember the Raiders. Fun. Exciting. Underdogs. But man, there’s a nation of people who love them with all of their hearts, and many of those are my loved ones. Be it Rita Cecaci, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13840416/the-first-of-the-oakland-raiders-cheerleaders\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">one of the first Raiderettes\u003c/a>, or Malcolm Turner, who \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13849783/buy-your-weed-from-black-owned-dispensaries\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">works at Blunts & Moore\u003c/a> across the street, they’re family.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Malcolm recently told me, “If \u003cem>you\u003c/em> moved to Las Vegas, I’d still love you.” But I know Sunday hurt him, as it did so many others. Even as one who doesn’t care about the NFL, it hurt me too, if only for knowing what the Raiders mean to this city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So when I see an interview \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/CamCleve2/status/1206420458486128640\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">like this one\u003c/a> with Mark Davis and his Moe-from-The-Three-Stooges haircut, and his lack of any real feelings for Oakland, I don’t think about the Raiderettes or the championships. I don’t think of Eldridge Dickey, the first African American to be drafted in the first round as a quarterback, or Fritz Pollard, the first African American coach in league history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13871654\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13871654\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/raiders-tailgate-0440-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Raiders fans tailgate for the final Raiders home game at the Oakland Coliseum.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/raiders-tailgate-0440-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/raiders-tailgate-0440-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/raiders-tailgate-0440-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/raiders-tailgate-0440-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/raiders-tailgate-0440-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/raiders-tailgate-0440.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Raiders fans tailgate for the final Raiders home game at the Oakland Coliseum. \u003ccite>(Amir Aziz)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>No, what I think about is the fact that Al Davis once acquired a 25% ownership of Oakland’s failing Eastmont Mall for $5,000, and he used it as a million-dollar tax haven, according to a \u003ca href=\"https://www.upi.com/Archives/1983/05/31/Raiders-owner-involved-in-lucrative-Teamsters-deal/7355423201600/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">1983 \u003cem>Chicago Tribune\u003c/em> article\u003c/a>. The deal was a part of a partnership with Allen Glick, a businessman who the Justice Department said was a frontman for an organized crime family—and of course, he owned casinos and hotels in Las Vegas, according to \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/1981/12/13/magazine/al-davis-tackles-pro-football.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the \u003cem>New York Times\u003c/em>\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fitting. Forty years later, and Davis’ son is still making money by sucking resources out of Oakland, and working with Vegas to do it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They should change their slogan from ‘Just Win Baby’, to ‘Just Biz, Baby.’\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>–\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>It’s been two weeks since AfroTech has come and gone in Oakland, and I’m still hearing things about it—some good, and some not so good.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In fact, on \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/events/571621730266616/\">Thursday, Nov. 21\u003c/a>, The Town Experience hosts an open forum from 5:30pm–7:30pm at the Uptown in Oakland for people to share their experiences. Charlese Banks of The Town Experience is the lead organizer of the upcoming forum, which AfroTech management says they’ll use to inform next year’s conference.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The demand for something like this was high,” says Banks. “So we’re going to have a constructive feedback session.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s good, because for the past few days, the conversation has been living rent-free inside of my head.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The conference, which aims to connect the black community with the tech industry, was a beautiful gathering with thousands of people in attendance. \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/otisrtaylorjr/article/He-s-working-to-diversify-the-tech-industry-14833097.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Students from local schools\u003c/a> were represented, Congresswoman Barbara Lee was honored for her work and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101874437/bernard-tyson-ceo-of-kaiser-permanente-dies-at-60\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Bernard J. Tyson\u003c/a>, the first African American chief executive officer of Kaiser Permanente, spoke just hours before he passed in his sleep.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the streets just outside of the conference, brown-skinned women in yellow blazers with long curly locs walked past dark-skinned men in collard shirts with deep waves. I hadn’t seen that many black folks concentrated at one spot in Oakland since \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13832886/were-still-here-bbqn-while-black-draws-out-oaklanders-in-force\">BBQ’n While Black\u003c/a>. Walking around at night, I saw groups of black folks trickling into a private event at Plank in Jack London Square, packed house-party-style inside of Miss Ollies in Old Oakland and circled-up at the bar inside of 7th West.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13870003\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13870003\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2019/11/EI0N485U8AAf6cZ-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"At the West Oakland Youth Center, young people making video games with assistance from the Hidden Genius Project and The David Glover Digital Technology Center.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/11/EI0N485U8AAf6cZ-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/11/EI0N485U8AAf6cZ-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/11/EI0N485U8AAf6cZ-768x576.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/11/EI0N485U8AAf6cZ-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/11/EI0N485U8AAf6cZ.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">At the West Oakland Youth Center, young people making video games with assistance from the The Hidden Genius Project and The David Glover Digital Technology Center. \u003ccite>(Pendarvis Harshaw)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>On Thursday, before the official start of the conference, I stopped by the West Oakland Youth Center, where folks from the \u003ca href=\"https://www.degetc.org/\">David Glover Emerging Technology Center\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://www.hiddengeniusproject.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Hidden Genius Project\u003c/a> had teamed up with the\u003ca href=\"https://www.fam1stfamilyfoundation.org/\"> Fam1st Family Foundation\u003c/a> to hold a coding workshop for a bouncy group of preteen boys and girls, all of them African American.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re here doing this all the time,” said Akeem Brown, Program Director with The Hidden Genius Project. They meet there regularly, every Tuesday and Thursday, AfroTech or not.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was like a sitcom the way he finished his sentence and not even a minute later, a guy named Tony walked in the youth center—black luggage bag on wheels in tow—fresh off the airplane from Los Angeles. He said he was in town for the conference, and wanted to apply for a job with The Hidden Genius Project.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And so the conference was a job fair, technical workshop and family reunion all in one. As The Hidden Genius Project’s Executive Director Brandon Nicholson told me, “It’s just like Howard Homecoming.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I could see that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The black working class and middle class, coming together to strive for further upward mobility and simultaneously celebrate black excellence… all while some disenfranchised locals feel overlooked. That’s how it was when I was at Howard University. That’s how some felt about AfroTech.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite the free community stage and open workshops, it was the closed sessions, private clubs and $450 conference ticket price that left a number of people feeling like it wasn’t for them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A few people told me in person, while others left comments on chat boards. And then there was this thread attached to\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/OGpenn/status/1192926822771478528?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> a tweet\u003c/a> I posted during the conference.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Right before I left AfroTech in Old Oakland on Friday, I talked to a guy named Ron, an unsheltered guy who lives on the corner of Eighth & Clay Streets with his partner. I simply asked him if he’d seen any changes in the way he’s been treated this weekend, given there was a conference celebrating black excellence in the extremely lucrative field of technology, right there in his backyard. “Na, they step over me just like everyone else,” Ron told me.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I tweeted the interaction out. It ruffled a few feathers, for better or worse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13870017\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13870017\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2019/11/Screen-Shot-2019-11-18-at-12.58.43-PM-800x570.png\" alt=\"A sound response. \" width=\"800\" height=\"570\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/11/Screen-Shot-2019-11-18-at-12.58.43-PM-800x570.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/11/Screen-Shot-2019-11-18-at-12.58.43-PM-160x114.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/11/Screen-Shot-2019-11-18-at-12.58.43-PM-768x547.png 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/11/Screen-Shot-2019-11-18-at-12.58.43-PM-1020x726.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/11/Screen-Shot-2019-11-18-at-12.58.43-PM.png 1194w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A sound response.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>It wasn’t a shot at AfroTech, or even a commentary on the attendees. It was just an observation; a note about the conflicting juxtaposition I’d just witnessed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I mean, on one hand, you’ve got people talking about how \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/awholecatfish/status/1192915445801635840?s=20\">AfroTech had downtown Oakland looking like Wakanda\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And on the other hand, here’s Ron, a homeless African American man. In a place where \u003ca href=\"https://www.oaklandhomelessresponse.com/the-problem\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">70% of the unsheltered people are African American\u003c/a>. A place that’s currently going through a homeless crisis that the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11700750/after-scathing-un-report-on-homelessness-advocates-demand-oakland-stop-sidewalk-sweeps\">United Nations\u003c/a> has called “cruel and inhuman.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A place where, literally as AfroTech was going on, a group of unsheltered people were \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/otisrtaylorjr/article/Longtime-Oakland-residents-now-homeless-14815555.php\">evicted from an encampment\u003c/a>—many of them African American Oakland natives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And days later, as I type this, Dominique Walker and Sameerah Karim, two African American mothers associated with the group \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/moms4housing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Moms 4 Housing\u003c/a>, have commandeered a vacant house in West Oakland that was foreclosed on and then purchased by \u003ca href=\"https://protect-us.mimecast.com/s/qw-mCADmygF91V0nh8YBoy?domain=wedgewood-inc.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Wedgewood Properties.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s drastic times in the town right now when it comes to black folks and housing. And I can’t stop thinking about it. Reading about it. Researching.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A further illustration of the point about race and class: between 2008-2017, the median annual household income of black residents moving into the Bay Area was approximately 42% higher than that of black residents moving out of the Bay Area, according to Issi Romem, founder and director of \u003ca href=\"https://www.metrosight.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">MetroSight\u003c/a>, a consulting firm which provides research and analysis into city data.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, over that same 10-year period, the Bay Area had more black residents leave (about 149,000) than arrive (about 109,000).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In other words, there’s more black folks going than coming. And those who are coming to the Bay Area have deeper pockets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What can be done?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I in no way think homelessness is a byproduct of AfroTech. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>It’s been two weeks since AfroTech has come and gone in Oakland, and I’m still hearing things about it—some good, and some not so good.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In fact, on \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/events/571621730266616/\">Thursday, Nov. 21\u003c/a>, The Town Experience hosts an open forum from 5:30pm–7:30pm at the Uptown in Oakland for people to share their experiences. Charlese Banks of The Town Experience is the lead organizer of the upcoming forum, which AfroTech management says they’ll use to inform next year’s conference.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The demand for something like this was high,” says Banks. “So we’re going to have a constructive feedback session.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s good, because for the past few days, the conversation has been living rent-free inside of my head.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The conference, which aims to connect the black community with the tech industry, was a beautiful gathering with thousands of people in attendance. \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/otisrtaylorjr/article/He-s-working-to-diversify-the-tech-industry-14833097.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Students from local schools\u003c/a> were represented, Congresswoman Barbara Lee was honored for her work and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101874437/bernard-tyson-ceo-of-kaiser-permanente-dies-at-60\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Bernard J. Tyson\u003c/a>, the first African American chief executive officer of Kaiser Permanente, spoke just hours before he passed in his sleep.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the streets just outside of the conference, brown-skinned women in yellow blazers with long curly locs walked past dark-skinned men in collard shirts with deep waves. I hadn’t seen that many black folks concentrated at one spot in Oakland since \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13832886/were-still-here-bbqn-while-black-draws-out-oaklanders-in-force\">BBQ’n While Black\u003c/a>. Walking around at night, I saw groups of black folks trickling into a private event at Plank in Jack London Square, packed house-party-style inside of Miss Ollies in Old Oakland and circled-up at the bar inside of 7th West.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13870003\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13870003\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2019/11/EI0N485U8AAf6cZ-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"At the West Oakland Youth Center, young people making video games with assistance from the Hidden Genius Project and The David Glover Digital Technology Center.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/11/EI0N485U8AAf6cZ-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/11/EI0N485U8AAf6cZ-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/11/EI0N485U8AAf6cZ-768x576.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/11/EI0N485U8AAf6cZ-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/11/EI0N485U8AAf6cZ.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">At the West Oakland Youth Center, young people making video games with assistance from the The Hidden Genius Project and The David Glover Digital Technology Center. \u003ccite>(Pendarvis Harshaw)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>On Thursday, before the official start of the conference, I stopped by the West Oakland Youth Center, where folks from the \u003ca href=\"https://www.degetc.org/\">David Glover Emerging Technology Center\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://www.hiddengeniusproject.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Hidden Genius Project\u003c/a> had teamed up with the\u003ca href=\"https://www.fam1stfamilyfoundation.org/\"> Fam1st Family Foundation\u003c/a> to hold a coding workshop for a bouncy group of preteen boys and girls, all of them African American.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re here doing this all the time,” said Akeem Brown, Program Director with The Hidden Genius Project. They meet there regularly, every Tuesday and Thursday, AfroTech or not.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was like a sitcom the way he finished his sentence and not even a minute later, a guy named Tony walked in the youth center—black luggage bag on wheels in tow—fresh off the airplane from Los Angeles. He said he was in town for the conference, and wanted to apply for a job with The Hidden Genius Project.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And so the conference was a job fair, technical workshop and family reunion all in one. As The Hidden Genius Project’s Executive Director Brandon Nicholson told me, “It’s just like Howard Homecoming.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I could see that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The black working class and middle class, coming together to strive for further upward mobility and simultaneously celebrate black excellence… all while some disenfranchised locals feel overlooked. That’s how it was when I was at Howard University. That’s how some felt about AfroTech.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite the free community stage and open workshops, it was the closed sessions, private clubs and $450 conference ticket price that left a number of people feeling like it wasn’t for them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A few people told me in person, while others left comments on chat boards. And then there was this thread attached to\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/OGpenn/status/1192926822771478528?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> a tweet\u003c/a> I posted during the conference.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Right before I left AfroTech in Old Oakland on Friday, I talked to a guy named Ron, an unsheltered guy who lives on the corner of Eighth & Clay Streets with his partner. I simply asked him if he’d seen any changes in the way he’s been treated this weekend, given there was a conference celebrating black excellence in the extremely lucrative field of technology, right there in his backyard. “Na, they step over me just like everyone else,” Ron told me.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I tweeted the interaction out. It ruffled a few feathers, for better or worse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13870017\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13870017\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2019/11/Screen-Shot-2019-11-18-at-12.58.43-PM-800x570.png\" alt=\"A sound response. \" width=\"800\" height=\"570\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/11/Screen-Shot-2019-11-18-at-12.58.43-PM-800x570.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/11/Screen-Shot-2019-11-18-at-12.58.43-PM-160x114.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/11/Screen-Shot-2019-11-18-at-12.58.43-PM-768x547.png 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/11/Screen-Shot-2019-11-18-at-12.58.43-PM-1020x726.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/11/Screen-Shot-2019-11-18-at-12.58.43-PM.png 1194w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A sound response.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>It wasn’t a shot at AfroTech, or even a commentary on the attendees. 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A place that’s currently going through a homeless crisis that the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11700750/after-scathing-un-report-on-homelessness-advocates-demand-oakland-stop-sidewalk-sweeps\">United Nations\u003c/a> has called “cruel and inhuman.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A place where, literally as AfroTech was going on, a group of unsheltered people were \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/otisrtaylorjr/article/Longtime-Oakland-residents-now-homeless-14815555.php\">evicted from an encampment\u003c/a>—many of them African American Oakland natives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And days later, as I type this, Dominique Walker and Sameerah Karim, two African American mothers associated with the group \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/moms4housing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Moms 4 Housing\u003c/a>, have commandeered a vacant house in West Oakland that was foreclosed on and then purchased by \u003ca href=\"https://protect-us.mimecast.com/s/qw-mCADmygF91V0nh8YBoy?domain=wedgewood-inc.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Wedgewood Properties.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s drastic times in the town right now when it comes to black folks and housing. And I can’t stop thinking about it. Reading about it. Researching.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A further illustration of the point about race and class: between 2008-2017, the median annual household income of black residents moving into the Bay Area was approximately 42% higher than that of black residents moving out of the Bay Area, according to Issi Romem, founder and director of \u003ca href=\"https://www.metrosight.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">MetroSight\u003c/a>, a consulting firm which provides research and analysis into city data.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, over that same 10-year period, the Bay Area had more black residents leave (about 149,000) than arrive (about 109,000).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In other words, there’s more black folks going than coming. And those who are coming to the Bay Area have deeper pockets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What can be done?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I in no way think homelessness is a byproduct of AfroTech. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Ragged Wing Ensemble announced Tuesday that \u003ca href=\"http://www.theflightdeck.org/\">Flight Deck\u003c/a>, Oakland’s only shared black-box theater, will close early next year in a serious loss for the East Bay’s performing arts landscape. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Anna Shneiderman, co-founder and executive director of \u003ca href=\"https://www.raggedwing.org/\">Ragged Wing Ensemble\u003c/a>, stood in the 99-seat theater at 1540 Broadway in downtown Oakland, a venue used for performance, rehearsal and administration by 70 artists and organizations annually, and described the building seven years ago. “The roof was caving in,” she said. “You could see through this floor to the dirt underneath.” [aside postID=arts_13861153,arts_13866354,arts_13850988]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shneiderman, who’d run Ragged Wing as a nomadic theater troupe with artistic director Amy Sass since 2004, raised $300,000 to create a 4,000-square-foot performing-arts hub within the dilapidated warehouse, immediately attracting resident companies such as \u003ca href=\"http://www.lowerbottomplayaz.com/\">Lower Bottom Playaz\u003c/a>. “With no marketing, people were banging on the door,” she said. Flight Deck, which Ragged Wing operates, is now booked 50 weeks a year, and since 2014 has quintupled its budget to more than $500,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yet Flight Deck’s critical role in the East Bay theater community belies Ragged Wing’s financial insecurity. Facilities costs are double the rental revenue, Shneiderman said, and ticket prices similarly lag behind production expenses. Ragged Wing raises the shortfall, but even with key institutional support, its several part-time employees remain underpaid and without benefits. With its five-year lease set to lapse, Shneiderman sees little more room to grow.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The looming lease renewal prompted some soul-searching,” she said. “Is this sustainable?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Flight Deck will close following a “\u003ca href=\"http://www.theflightdeck.org/the-art-of-leaving.html\">ceremonial exit\u003c/a>” program March 29, 2020 entitled \u003cem>The Art of Leaving\u003c/em>. Ragged Wing, like Ayodele Nzinga’s troupe Lower Bottom Playaz, will resume a nomadic existence; an Oakland beacon and resource to dozens of artists will go dark. Shneiderman wants another entity to take over the lease, but Flight Deck as it’s known is done.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Ragged Wing started Flight Deck because there was nowhere to stage a play in downtown Oakland,” she said. “Unless someone takes over our lease, it could be that way again.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In either case, Shneiderman now believes the nonprofit arts system is broken beyond repair.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13870008\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13870008\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2019/11/Ayodele-Nzinga-Alone-Seated-Frowning-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"Ayodele Nzinga, seated, is an artist and activist who runs Flight Deck resident company Lower Bottom Playaz.\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/11/Ayodele-Nzinga-Alone-Seated-Frowning-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/11/Ayodele-Nzinga-Alone-Seated-Frowning-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/11/Ayodele-Nzinga-Alone-Seated-Frowning-768x432.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/11/Ayodele-Nzinga-Alone-Seated-Frowning-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/11/Ayodele-Nzinga-Alone-Seated-Frowning-1200x675.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/11/Ayodele-Nzinga-Alone-Seated-Frowning.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ayodele Nzinga, seated, is an artist and activist who runs Flight Deck resident company Lower Bottom Playaz. \u003ccite>(Sam Lefebvre/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Nzinga founded Lower Bottom Playaz, an original Flight Deck resident, 20 years ago to produce original works and canonical black theater. It’s known for staging all of \u003cem>Century Cycle\u003c/em>, August Wilson’s epic exploration of the African-American experience, and in September premiered one-woman plays by Nzinga, Cat Brooks and Kharyshi Wiginton. Nzinga is also an activist who helps run a new \u003ca href=\"https://www.ccedoakland.org/\">anti-displacement fund\u003c/a>, and one day recently she sat in Flight Deck’s gallery distributing checks. “It feels fantastic,” she said, smiling to note the ironic timing and setting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Theater in Oakland faces challenges besides the lack of venues. San Francisco companies tend to charge more at the door, and city government exponentially outspends Oakland in art grants; in Oakland’s most recent budget process, arts funding \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13861153/its-criminal-cultural-funding-cuts-frustrate-oakland-artists\">even dipped\u003c/a>. Berkeley has several venues with resident companies supported by a wealthier, better-established audience. “We’re courting a different demographic,” Nzinga said. “We have a pricing scale, and we pass a hat at the end of each show—the joke is you have to pay at the door and then pay to leave.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Flight Deck’s monthly overhead, according to Shneiderman, is $20,000-$25,000. Rental rates, though subsidized by fundraising, make it difficult to fairly compensate performers while offering affordable tickets. TheatreFIRST, at Berkeley’s Live Oak Theater, this year replaced stipends with an hourly rate. Ragged Wing is instituting a similar policy in order to “prioritize people over space,” Shneiderman said. “Why commit all this money to rent and not pay our people right?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For companies such as Ragged Wing and Lower Bottom Playaz, reducing overhead is necessary to offer a living wage. Gritty City Repertory Youth Theatre, a former resident company at Flight Deck, earlier this year moved its office and rehearsal space to the Flax Building, where Ubuntu Theater Project also operates. 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Organizations compete against each other for grants, yielding programming tailored to the vision of a few private foundations. Nonprofits with too little or too much money alienate funders, discouraging growth. And few audience members realize this constant hustle effectively subsidizes the price of their tickets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Part of the problem is the city’s cost-of-living outpacing public and private arts funding. Another is development: Cranes and new luxury housing in downtown Oakland make the neighborhood’s art spaces look like placeholders. Highbridge Capital Management, a hedge fund subsidiary of JPMorgan Chase, bought the Flight Deck building two years ago as part of a rush on commercial real-estate in the area. 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Relying on wealthy individual donors bends programming to a narrow demographic. “It begs the question of who’s being served,” she said. The arts nonprofit system entrenches instead of disperses social and economic standing, and donors receive tax advantages and burnished names without “rebalancing wealth or power in any significant way,” Shneiderman said, calling the model a form of “extractive capitalism.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Shneiderman, this critique is the prelude to a pitch for what she’s calling the “Oakland Cultural Space Cooperative,” a network of extant spaces for rehearsal and performance with a centralized booking portal. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Ragged Wing Ensemble announced Tuesday that \u003ca href=\"http://www.theflightdeck.org/\">Flight Deck\u003c/a>, Oakland’s only shared black-box theater, will close early next year in a serious loss for the East Bay’s performing arts landscape. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Anna Shneiderman, co-founder and executive director of \u003ca href=\"https://www.raggedwing.org/\">Ragged Wing Ensemble\u003c/a>, stood in the 99-seat theater at 1540 Broadway in downtown Oakland, a venue used for performance, rehearsal and administration by 70 artists and organizations annually, and described the building seven years ago. “The roof was caving in,” she said. “You could see through this floor to the dirt underneath.” \u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shneiderman, who’d run Ragged Wing as a nomadic theater troupe with artistic director Amy Sass since 2004, raised $300,000 to create a 4,000-square-foot performing-arts hub within the dilapidated warehouse, immediately attracting resident companies such as \u003ca href=\"http://www.lowerbottomplayaz.com/\">Lower Bottom Playaz\u003c/a>. “With no marketing, people were banging on the door,” she said. Flight Deck, which Ragged Wing operates, is now booked 50 weeks a year, and since 2014 has quintupled its budget to more than $500,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yet Flight Deck’s critical role in the East Bay theater community belies Ragged Wing’s financial insecurity. Facilities costs are double the rental revenue, Shneiderman said, and ticket prices similarly lag behind production expenses. Ragged Wing raises the shortfall, but even with key institutional support, its several part-time employees remain underpaid and without benefits. With its five-year lease set to lapse, Shneiderman sees little more room to grow.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The looming lease renewal prompted some soul-searching,” she said. “Is this sustainable?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Flight Deck will close following a “\u003ca href=\"http://www.theflightdeck.org/the-art-of-leaving.html\">ceremonial exit\u003c/a>” program March 29, 2020 entitled \u003cem>The Art of Leaving\u003c/em>. Ragged Wing, like Ayodele Nzinga’s troupe Lower Bottom Playaz, will resume a nomadic existence; an Oakland beacon and resource to dozens of artists will go dark. Shneiderman wants another entity to take over the lease, but Flight Deck as it’s known is done.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Ragged Wing started Flight Deck because there was nowhere to stage a play in downtown Oakland,” she said. “Unless someone takes over our lease, it could be that way again.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In either case, Shneiderman now believes the nonprofit arts system is broken beyond repair.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13870008\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13870008\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2019/11/Ayodele-Nzinga-Alone-Seated-Frowning-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"Ayodele Nzinga, seated, is an artist and activist who runs Flight Deck resident company Lower Bottom Playaz.\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/11/Ayodele-Nzinga-Alone-Seated-Frowning-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/11/Ayodele-Nzinga-Alone-Seated-Frowning-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/11/Ayodele-Nzinga-Alone-Seated-Frowning-768x432.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/11/Ayodele-Nzinga-Alone-Seated-Frowning-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/11/Ayodele-Nzinga-Alone-Seated-Frowning-1200x675.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/11/Ayodele-Nzinga-Alone-Seated-Frowning.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ayodele Nzinga, seated, is an artist and activist who runs Flight Deck resident company Lower Bottom Playaz. \u003ccite>(Sam Lefebvre/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Nzinga founded Lower Bottom Playaz, an original Flight Deck resident, 20 years ago to produce original works and canonical black theater. It’s known for staging all of \u003cem>Century Cycle\u003c/em>, August Wilson’s epic exploration of the African-American experience, and in September premiered one-woman plays by Nzinga, Cat Brooks and Kharyshi Wiginton. Nzinga is also an activist who helps run a new \u003ca href=\"https://www.ccedoakland.org/\">anti-displacement fund\u003c/a>, and one day recently she sat in Flight Deck’s gallery distributing checks. “It feels fantastic,” she said, smiling to note the ironic timing and setting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Theater in Oakland faces challenges besides the lack of venues. San Francisco companies tend to charge more at the door, and city government exponentially outspends Oakland in art grants; in Oakland’s most recent budget process, arts funding \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13861153/its-criminal-cultural-funding-cuts-frustrate-oakland-artists\">even dipped\u003c/a>. Berkeley has several venues with resident companies supported by a wealthier, better-established audience. “We’re courting a different demographic,” Nzinga said. “We have a pricing scale, and we pass a hat at the end of each show—the joke is you have to pay at the door and then pay to leave.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Flight Deck’s monthly overhead, according to Shneiderman, is $20,000-$25,000. Rental rates, though subsidized by fundraising, make it difficult to fairly compensate performers while offering affordable tickets. TheatreFIRST, at Berkeley’s Live Oak Theater, this year replaced stipends with an hourly rate. Ragged Wing is instituting a similar policy in order to “prioritize people over space,” Shneiderman said. “Why commit all this money to rent and not pay our people right?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For companies such as Ragged Wing and Lower Bottom Playaz, reducing overhead is necessary to offer a living wage. Gritty City Repertory Youth Theatre, a former resident company at Flight Deck, earlier this year moved its office and rehearsal space to the Flax Building, where Ubuntu Theater Project also operates. Nzinga similarly foresees a roving future—anchored in Oakland, performing in surrounding cities—for Lower Bottom Playaz.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Maybe we need to be nimble enough again to perform in homeless shelters and halfway houses like when we started out, or outdoors in Frank Ogawa Plaza,” Nzinga said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13870009\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13870009\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2019/11/Workspace-in-Flight-Deck-office-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"Props and posters rest in Flight Deck's office mezzanine.\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/11/Workspace-in-Flight-Deck-office-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/11/Workspace-in-Flight-Deck-office-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/11/Workspace-in-Flight-Deck-office-768x432.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/11/Workspace-in-Flight-Deck-office-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/11/Workspace-in-Flight-Deck-office-1200x675.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/11/Workspace-in-Flight-Deck-office.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Props and posters rest in Flight Deck’s office mezzanine. \u003ccite>(Sam Lefebvre/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Earlier this month Shneiderman spoke at a “social impact” business conference in Berkeley about “endemic problems in the nonprofit arts sector,” describing the struggles of Flight Deck and Ragged Wing as systemic problems of an industry beholden to philanthropic largesse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Institutional funders want to support projects with marquee visibility instead of humdrum operating costs, and wages for staff suffer, she explained. Organizations compete against each other for grants, yielding programming tailored to the vision of a few private foundations. Nonprofits with too little or too much money alienate funders, discouraging growth. And few audience members realize this constant hustle effectively subsidizes the price of their tickets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Part of the problem is the city’s cost-of-living outpacing public and private arts funding. Another is development: Cranes and new luxury housing in downtown Oakland make the neighborhood’s art spaces look like placeholders. Highbridge Capital Management, a hedge fund subsidiary of JPMorgan Chase, bought the Flight Deck building two years ago as part of a rush on commercial real-estate in the area. It’s the only single-story structure on the block.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13870010\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13870010\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2019/11/Play-posters-in-hallway-flight-deck-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Posters for past productions hang framed in the Flight Deck hallway.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/11/Play-posters-in-hallway-flight-deck-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/11/Play-posters-in-hallway-flight-deck-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/11/Play-posters-in-hallway-flight-deck-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/11/Play-posters-in-hallway-flight-deck-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/11/Play-posters-in-hallway-flight-deck-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/11/Play-posters-in-hallway-flight-deck.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Posters for past productions hang framed in the Flight Deck hallway. \u003ccite>(Sam Lefebvre/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But even an abundance of grants and a longer-term lease on friendly terms wouldn’t address the underlying issue, Shneiderman believes. Relying on wealthy individual donors bends programming to a narrow demographic. “It begs the question of who’s being served,” she said. The arts nonprofit system entrenches instead of disperses social and economic standing, and donors receive tax advantages and burnished names without “rebalancing wealth or power in any significant way,” Shneiderman said, calling the model a form of “extractive capitalism.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Shneiderman, this critique is the prelude to a pitch for what she’s calling the “Oakland Cultural Space Cooperative,” a network of extant spaces for rehearsal and performance with a centralized booking portal. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Jamie Facciola is an avid documentarian of discarded furniture on the streets of Oakland. Lucky for her, there’s a lot to cover. According to a study on the City of Oakland’s website, \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"http://www2.oaklandnet.com/government/o/PWA/o/FE/s/IDR/index.htm\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">illegal dumping in Oakland increased by 100% from 2012–2017\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">I, like many people, walk past discarded furniture all the time and pay it no mind. But not Jamie. She walks her dog, Lucy, around their North Oakland neighborhood almost daily– taking pictures of discarded furniture and posting them to \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/jamifacci/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">her Instagram\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">When she initially told me about the project, I was like, “Meh… doesn’t seem too engaging.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">And then she noted the cycle of people moving in and out of the Bay Area, many of whom move in a haste and nonchalantly discard furniture, just to turn around and buy new furniture. She told me people not reusing perfectly good furniture is one of the many things contributing to deforestation, \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">and ultimately global warming. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Now that I know about her project, I can’t stop seeing old furniture and thinking about the environmental impact. After listening to her story, you’ll see it too. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13863536\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13863536\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/Jamie.Righnowish-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Jamie Facciola takes photos of discarded furniture on the streets of Oakland.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/Jamie.Righnowish-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/Jamie.Righnowish-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/Jamie.Righnowish-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/Jamie.Righnowish-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/Jamie.Righnowish-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/Jamie.Righnowish.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jamie Facciola takes photos of discarded furniture on the streets of Oakland. \u003ccite>(Pendarvis Harshaw/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>A shorter version of this episode was first broadcast on Aug 9, 2019.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Tourism in Oakland isn’t new. Hell, even in the 1800s, when colonizers settled in the Bay and built San Francisco into a world-class city, Oakland was the other coast—or “contra costa”—where wealthy folks would buy summer vacation homes to get away from the big city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nearly 200 years later, tourism in Oakland is still a thing. According to \u003ca href=\"https://assets.simpleviewinc.com/simpleview/image/upload/v1/clients/oakland/vo_annual_report_v14web_8c3853f1-5a7f-47d4-af9c-dce272897864.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Visit Oakland’s 2018 Annual Report\u003c/a>, an estimated 3.8 million people visited Oakland in 2017, bringing $668 million along with them (a 6.5% increase from the previous year). Oakland has been mentioned as a top tourism destination in the \u003cem>New York Times\u003c/em>, \u003cem>Essence\u003c/em> and, most recently, \u003ca href=\"https://travelnoire.com/48-hours-black-owned-oakland\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">this Travel Noire piece\u003c/a> about spending 48 hours in black-owned Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This Thursday through Saturday, when Oakland hosts this year’s AfroTech conference, thousands of new people will become part of that history of tourism in Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The conference is one of the biggest tech happenings in the United States. You might’ve heard of it—if for nothing else, its mention by Jay-Z in the song “Legacy”:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>We gon’ start a society within a society\u003cbr>\nThat’s major, just like the Negro League\u003cbr>\nThere was a time America wouldn’t let us ball\u003cbr>\nThose times are now back, just now called AfroTech\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>This event or, um, “society within a society,” started in 2014. This year will be the first of two scheduled years for it to take place in Oakland. And in 2019, it’s set to be one of the largest conferences to happen in the town.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Oakland is a natural choice—in the heart of Silicon Valley, but often overlooked,” says Morgan DeBaun, founder of Blavity Inc., which produces AfroTech.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The aim of the conference is twofold: one, to create opportunities for black folks in the tech industry. Secondly, DeBaun adds, to “create spaces for the tech industry to get access to black talent.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The conversation about diversity and the tech pipeline isn’t new. Just last month \u003ca href=\"https://www.wired.com/story/five-years-tech-diversity-reports-little-progress/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Wired\u003c/a> noted that while a few big-name tech companies—Facebook, Apple, Google, Amazon and Microsoft—have been transparent about their diversity numbers for the past five years, still, virtually nothing has changed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But folks like DeBaun believe that the narrative about a lack of access is inaccurate. “People aren’t looking in the right places,” she says. “AfroTech is breaking down those barriers.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the three-day span, events will take place all around Oakland’s downtown area, from the Marriott Convention Center to Jack London Square, and what some folks refer to as the Uptown neighborhood; \u003ca href=\"https://experience.afrotech.com/schedule/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here’s a full list of happenings\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One event this weekend that’s not on that list is \u003ca href=\"https://thetownexperience.com/product/game-fest-19/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Oakland Gameday ’19\u003c/a>, at the Esports Arena on Saturday night. It features a who’s-who of local stars—E-40, Mistah FAB, Ryan Nicole and more—not only speaking on panels, but squaring off against a bunch of young folks in a video game battle royale.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gameday ’19 isn’t an official AfroTech event, although it’s happening during AfroTech. Instead, it’s put on by \u003ca href=\"https://thetownexperience.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Town Experience\u003c/a>, a slate of events that include happy hours, speaker panels and more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13869422\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13869422\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/11/0-800x1080.jpg\" alt=\"Charlese Banks\" width=\"800\" height=\"1080\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/11/0-800x1080.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/11/0-160x216.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/11/0-768x1036.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/11/0-889x1200.jpg 889w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/11/0.jpg 987w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Charlese Banks (Photo: Jeff “Silence” Arthur) \u003ccite>(Jeff \"Silence\" Arthur )\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The Town Experience is founded and run by Charlese Banks, who wants to add some flavor to Oakland’s growing tourism industry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The idea was to give the conference-goers and travelers an authentic Oakland experience while they’re in town,” says Banks. (She was mindful to “do this in a way that’s not competing with each other,” scheduling events on the frontend and backend of AfroTech.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In theory, Banks’ idea is a way of combating the gentrifying force that’s inherently intertwined with the tourism industry. People want to visit Oakland? Ok, well, they can spend their dollars in businesses owned and operated by folks actually from the community, and who are invested in the future of the town. Part of that means putting special decals in the windows of businesses like Spice Monkey and Dope Era to give shine to locally owned and operated shops.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was inspired by the fact that [AfroTech] announced they were coming to Oakland, and figured that as a community, we should have some say on what that looks like,” says Banks. “AfroTech is a predominantly black event, and they’re coming to a city that is in line with that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Banks, a San Jose native who’s called Oakland home for over six years, tells me this is a model for things to come. “The idea was inspired by this weekend, but I spoke to the tourism department and realized it’s something bigger. Seems like the time is right,” Banks says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The time \u003cem>is\u003c/em> right: last year in the United States, \u003ca href=\"https://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2018/12/20/1670310/0/en/African-American-Travel-Represents-63-Billion-Opportunity.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">African Americans reportedly spent $63 billion on tourism\u003c/a>. And in Oakland, where black businesses are going the way of its rapidly depleting black population, it’s now or never when it comes to putting the black dollar where it’s needed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re an event space and tourism guide for black and brown folks in Oakland,” says Banks. “Think: how would people use \u003ca href=\"https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/true-story-green-book-movie-180970728/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the Green Book\u003c/a> as a tool in Oakland?”\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>A proposed Museum of Jazz and Art for the current site of a historic, city-owned building near downtown Oakland and Lake Merritt proceeded Tuesday over objections from parklands and public library advocates, indicating more private development of public land around Lake Merritt.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland City Council on Tuesday voted to waive a competitive process generally required for leasing or selling city-owned property and begin negotiating with the \u003ca href=\"https://www.moja-us.org/\">Museum of Jazz and Art\u003c/a> (MOJA) team to develop the parcel at 1310 Oak Street, currently the site of a parking lot and the Fire Alarm Building completed in 1911. The design proposal calls for building a three-story education and exhibition center in what’s now the parking lot, and preserving the historic structure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=arts_13865204,arts_13861121]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The proposed 70,000-square-foot facility including a 400-capacity venue—still in its development infancy—is the longtime dream of Oakland architectural engineer David Allen, but he told KQED it’s too early to detail financing for the estimated $90 million project.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Museum of Jazz and Art previously vied unsuccessfully for sites in downtown Oakland and Jack London Square. The nonprofit organization has reported $170,000 in revenue since 2013, and lists on its board of directors former Pandora Media executive Joe Kennedy. Allen provided letters of support for MOJA from congressperson Barbara Lee and the Tomkat Foundation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>MOJA has provided little information about the proposed museum’s collection and programming. Its website promises musician grants and low-interest loans, tutoring and mentorship, support for existing Oakland youth jazz programs, and a national jazz hall of fame. “The most important thing is the public benefit component,” Allen said, adding that if the Oak Street site falls through he intends to shop the museum in Los Angeles or San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supporters say MOJA will provide creative and economic benefits that realize the city’s cultural equity goals, plus anchor the Black Arts Movement and Business District (BAMBD), which has sought greater public investment for years. Councilmember Nikki Fortunato-Bas, who introduced the resolution with colleague Lynette Gibson-McElhaney, called it an opportunity to preserve Oakland’s cultural heritage, and noted her experience mediating tense public benefits negotiations for the Henry J. Kaiser Convention Center development.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What we’re moving forward is the very beginning of a process,” said Fortunato-Bas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>BAMBD spokesperson Eric Arnold and several local activists and arts figures including Carroll Fife of Alliance of Californians for Community Empowerment and Leah King of Youth Speaks commented in favor of the project. They said it would redress the injustices of urban renewal, mentioning BART construction destroying West Oakland’s black nightlife corridor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This would be a giant step, to paraphrase John Coltrane, in implementing the cultural equity called for in the cultural plan,” Arnold said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Where public land cannot be used for housing, it’s important to use it for cultural preservation,” Fife said. “Preserve the property for the public good.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13869361\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13869361\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/11/IMG_3844-800x450.gif\" alt=\"The Fire Alarm Building at 1310 Oak Street is currently used by city employees.\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/11/IMG_3844-800x450.gif 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/11/IMG_3844-160x90.gif 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/11/IMG_3844-768x432.gif 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/11/IMG_3844-1020x574.gif 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/11/IMG_3844-1200x675.gif 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/11/IMG_3844-1920x1080.gif 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Fire Alarm Building at 1310 Oak Street is currently used by city employees.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The property consists of approximately one acre in the shadow of the Alameda County Superior Courthouse and the Oakland Public Library Main Branch, with the single-story, 4,500 square foot Fire Alarm Building surrounded by trees, parking and, lately, tents. The structure is used by city employees in various departments, and Lake Chalet restaurant leases some of the parking.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Members of the Coalition of Advocates for Lake Merritt (CALM) and supporters of the Oakland Public Library said Tuesday and at an earlier committee hearing that councilmembers are advancing the MOJA proposal prematurely. The Fire Alarm Building has been identified in planning documents as an ideal expansion site for the library’s main branch, and they believe the MOJA negotiations should pause pending the library’s planned feasibility study of the site.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The library could do more, but its main branch is too small and outdated to meet the needs of Oakland’s population,” said retired Oakland librarian Helen Bloch at an Oct. 22 committee hearing. “I ask that, because this is public land, the site be studied for uses that benefit all Oaklanders.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13869363\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13869363\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/11/IMG_3850-800x450.gif\" alt=\"The Fire Alarm Building is surrounded by a parking lot, trees and, lately, tents.\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/11/IMG_3850-800x450.gif 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/11/IMG_3850-160x90.gif 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/11/IMG_3850-768x432.gif 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/11/IMG_3850-1020x574.gif 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/11/IMG_3850-1200x675.gif 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/11/IMG_3850-1920x1080.gif 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Fire Alarm Building is surrounded by a parking lot, trees and, lately, tents. \u003ccite>(Sam Lefebvre/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>CALM member John Klein said the organization previously opposed development on the Oak Street parcel, and suggested other sites for MOJA. The land around the Fire Alarm Building should remain open space, he said, and be better incorporated into the greenbelt surrounding Lake Merritt. “18 years we’ve been looking out for this property,” Klein said. “Here we are again.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>James Vann of CALM also argued Tuesday that councilmembers are violating California’s Surplus Land Act, which requires government agencies to prioritize affordable housing when leasing or selling public land, and urged them not to \u003ca href=\"https://www.eastbayexpress.com/SevenDays/archives/2015/07/06/breaking-news-oakland-city-attorney-said-luxury-tower-deal-is-illegal\">repeat\u003c/a> the mistake. Underlying the tension is the city’s delay in creating a promised policy for the disposition of public properties that could be used as emergency homeless shelters or affordable housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Naomi Schiff of the Oakland Heritage Alliance, a preservationist group, shared concern at the Oct. 22 hearing that the project continues a trend of privatizing historic civic structures, a common criticism of the recent Kaiser Convention Center development deal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I like jazz, I like museums,” she said. “I’m also extremely concerned about nibbling away at the public realm.”\u003c/p>\n\n",
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Councilmember Nikki Fortunato-Bas, who introduced the resolution with colleague Lynette Gibson-McElhaney, called it an opportunity to preserve Oakland’s cultural heritage, and noted her experience mediating tense public benefits negotiations for the Henry J. Kaiser Convention Center development.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What we’re moving forward is the very beginning of a process,” said Fortunato-Bas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>BAMBD spokesperson Eric Arnold and several local activists and arts figures including Carroll Fife of Alliance of Californians for Community Empowerment and Leah King of Youth Speaks commented in favor of the project. They said it would redress the injustices of urban renewal, mentioning BART construction destroying West Oakland’s black nightlife corridor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This would be a giant step, to paraphrase John Coltrane, in implementing the cultural equity called for in the cultural plan,” Arnold said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Where public land cannot be used for housing, it’s important to use it for cultural preservation,” Fife said. “Preserve the property for the public good.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13869361\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13869361\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/11/IMG_3844-800x450.gif\" alt=\"The Fire Alarm Building at 1310 Oak Street is currently used by city employees.\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/11/IMG_3844-800x450.gif 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/11/IMG_3844-160x90.gif 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/11/IMG_3844-768x432.gif 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/11/IMG_3844-1020x574.gif 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/11/IMG_3844-1200x675.gif 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/11/IMG_3844-1920x1080.gif 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Fire Alarm Building at 1310 Oak Street is currently used by city employees.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The property consists of approximately one acre in the shadow of the Alameda County Superior Courthouse and the Oakland Public Library Main Branch, with the single-story, 4,500 square foot Fire Alarm Building surrounded by trees, parking and, lately, tents. 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