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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\">L\u003c/span>ast week, Oakland-based rapper Clyde Carson dropped a music video for his new single “\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EdZhx_7H0-U&feature=youtu.be\">More of That\u003c/a>”—and at just the perfect time.\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>The uptempo track is another driving anthem from Carson, who you probably know from “Slow Down”—the Bay Area hit that went national and was featured in the video game \u003cem>Grand Theft Auto\u003c/em>. His latest track’s music video suggests how one might slide through, either on a Harley or squatting in a Maserati, knockin’ the DJ Chopp-a-lot produced song. Perfect for the sunny days ahead (well, if it weren’t for the cost of gas).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Clyde didn’t know it, but “More of That” spoke directly to my recent thinking about how sideshows—and many of Oakland’s issues, and the world’s issues, for that matter—fall under this concept people are calling “The Extractive Economy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The only problem is: I need more of that shit, more of that shit,” Clyde says on the hook of the song, the first single off his upcoming album \u003cem>Late Night Money High\u003c/em>. 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The large gatherings of drivers and bystanders who show off their cars and oftentimes burn rubber, do donuts or swing figure eights have even spread to L.A.—giving rise to \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/Sideshows-first-spun-in-Oakland-pose-unique-13781910.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a state assembly bill, AB410\u003c/a>, which would make repeat sideshow activity a felony offense. The entire Oakland City Council supports AB410, with at least one council member, Nikki Fortunato Bas, suggesting mitigation by using the Coliseum as a venue for legal sideshows.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While some folks are up in arms about it, like it’s something new, Carson would remind people that today’s sideshows aren’t too different from sideshows of the early to mid-2000s; he suggested watching the \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DdH6ewqqeTk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>Go Dumb USA\u003c/em>\u003c/a> documentary to those who think the activity is anything new.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When I brought up the possibility of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13824571/oakland-sideshows-legalize-macarthur\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">legalizing sideshows\u003c/a>, Carson said, “That’d be dope if they could. 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I admit it. I’m bringing an environmentalist’s term to solve an urban transportation and public safety issue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I first heard about the extractive economy through Patrick Reinsborough, who currently works with environmental nonprofit \u003ca href=\"https://350.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">350.org\u003c/a>. Patrick suggested I contact the Movement Generation Justice & Ecology Project, as they offer \u003ca href=\"http://movementgeneration.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/JT_booklet_English_SPREADs_web.pdf\">an entire booklet\u003c/a> that displays our current model of extractive thinking, and how we can make a just transition toward a regenerative economy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Quinton Sankofa, a buddy of mine, works for Movement Generation. When we met up in a backyard in Berkeley, even before I ran my recorder, Sankofa started explaining to me how greywater systems work, the importance of waterless toilets and the Mongolian origins of yurts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sankofa then began breaking down the issues within our economy as they stand today. “We say we got here not because we’re burning fossil fuels, but because we stole indigenous people’s land and stole people from Africa—those are the roots of the ecological crisis. Later on, people started burning fossil fuels, and now we have a climate crisis in the midst of an ecological crisis.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The underlying theory being: everything and everyone can be taken, exploited and thrown away. Sankofa says this is how we approach just about every resource on the planet—water, oil, plastic, human labor—and that’s an issue shown through just about every aspect of American culture.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What we have now is the extractive economy,” Sankofa told me. “Some people want to say capitalism, but the reason we say the ‘extractive economy’ is because we want to get at the fundamental idea that this economy is based on \u003cem>taking\u003c/em>: from the living world, from our bodies, from our culture.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He elaborated that three steps sum up the extraction process: “dig, burn, dump.” That’s what we do with our resources. “One of the reasons we don’t label it as just ‘capitalism’ is because it’s true: you can have a socialist economy and do the same shit (dig, burn & dump),” Sankofa said, mentioning Venezuela’s oil dependent economy as an example. “In theory, our system is made to provide jobs, freedom, resources. 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Unsheltered people, imprisoned people, people working for pennies in the gig economy—we could name examples all day. It’s all around us, from littering as we drive through the Town to burning fossil fuels and rubber from tires as we spin donuts in a 5.0 mustang: the urge is in us to dig, burn, and dump resources. And we’re all guilty of it, in varying degrees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We need a shift, that’s all I want, toward a regenerative economy. Last year, when I wrote about \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13824571/oakland-sideshows-legalize-macarthur\">the possibility of legalizing sideshows\u003c/a> to make them an opportunity instead of a problem, I simply wanted a change from our decades-old cat-and-mouse game that has done nothing but pad the pockets of officers working overtime and extracted people from our community for driving recklessly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Maybe legalizing sideshows isn’t the complete answer. I don’t think we could get people to start swinging cars that run on electricity and come equipped with \u003ca href=\"https://electrek.co/2018/04/24/regenerative-braking-how-it-works/\">regenerative braking systems\u003c/a> anytime soon, but man, the dig, burn and dump way we’re currently running sideshows isn’t working.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When I asked Clyde Carson about the extractive mindset, he got it instantly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We were kind of raised on that thinking, \u003cem>Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous\u003c/em> and stuff like that,” said Carson. “My mom would always come in with pyramid schemes. Lotto, running numbers and all that… I think that’s part of American culture; greed in a sense, and that’s dangerous as well.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The dangers of this mindset—thinking that anything and everything is expendable—aren’t just shown through the heinous news of a mother and her child being \u003ca href=\"https://www.kron4.com/news/bay-area/oakland-intersection-being-patrolled-after-hit-and-run-killed-mom-son/1934591069\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">killed by a reckless driver on Foothill Blvd.\u003c/a>, it’s shown through the way we constantly demolish the planet. We’ve got to shift away from that lack of consideration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s an opportunity here for Oakland stakeholders to recognize the will of the people in this region and do something constructive, create some sort of infrastructure that would create a safe space for this activity. We might even be able to restore resources to Oakland, instead of taking a ‘tough on crime’ stance and further criminalizing people of color without providing an alternative.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s a lot, I know. I don’t have all the answers. But I know one thing: global warming isn’t slowing down, and neither is the sideshow.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">L\u003c/span>ast week, Oakland-based rapper Clyde Carson dropped a music video for his new single “\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EdZhx_7H0-U&feature=youtu.be\">More of That\u003c/a>”—and at just the perfect time.\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>The uptempo track is another driving anthem from Carson, who you probably know from “Slow Down”—the Bay Area hit that went national and was featured in the video game \u003cem>Grand Theft Auto\u003c/em>. His latest track’s music video suggests how one might slide through, either on a Harley or squatting in a Maserati, knockin’ the DJ Chopp-a-lot produced song. Perfect for the sunny days ahead (well, if it weren’t for the cost of gas).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Clyde didn’t know it, but “More of That” spoke directly to my recent thinking about how sideshows—and many of Oakland’s issues, and the world’s issues, for that matter—fall under this concept people are calling “The Extractive Economy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The only problem is: I need more of that shit, more of that shit,” Clyde says on the hook of the song, the first single off his upcoming album \u003cem>Late Night Money High\u003c/em>. Asked why he had cars and motorcycles gracefully sliding through the scenes in the video, Carson told me, “That’s just the culture out here; they do it everywhere, but we put that real pride in it out here.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I brought up the topic of some recent weekend sideshows, one of which led to a shipping truck being ransacked and a bus being burned. Many folks vented on social media, while one woman who goes by \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/BwSdeorh14L/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">HellaCrafty\u003c/a> on Instagram teamed up with a few other folks, took to the streets and actually \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/BwSdeorh14L/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">cleaned up the mess\u003c/a>. Simultaneously, the Oakland police department announced a plan to work with law enforcement agencies from across the region in order to preemptively shut down the gatherings this past weekend.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13855773\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 750px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13855773\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/04/HellaCrafty.Sideshowcleanup.jpg\" alt=\"'Sideshows are part of our culture but trashing our city isn't!!' wrote user @HellaCrafty on Instagram, after cleaning up a sideshow intersection with friends.\" width=\"750\" height=\"753\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/04/HellaCrafty.Sideshowcleanup.jpg 750w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/04/HellaCrafty.Sideshowcleanup-160x161.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">‘Sideshows are part of our culture but trashing our city isn’t!!’ wrote user @HellaCrafty on Instagram, after cleaning up a sideshow intersection with friends. \u003ccite>(via Instagram/@HellaCrafty)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The thing is, sideshows have been a happening in Oakland since the 1980s. The large gatherings of drivers and bystanders who show off their cars and oftentimes burn rubber, do donuts or swing figure eights have even spread to L.A.—giving rise to \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/Sideshows-first-spun-in-Oakland-pose-unique-13781910.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a state assembly bill, AB410\u003c/a>, which would make repeat sideshow activity a felony offense. The entire Oakland City Council supports AB410, with at least one council member, Nikki Fortunato Bas, suggesting mitigation by using the Coliseum as a venue for legal sideshows.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While some folks are up in arms about it, like it’s something new, Carson would remind people that today’s sideshows aren’t too different from sideshows of the early to mid-2000s; he suggested watching the \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DdH6ewqqeTk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>Go Dumb USA\u003c/em>\u003c/a> documentary to those who think the activity is anything new.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When I brought up the possibility of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13824571/oakland-sideshows-legalize-macarthur\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">legalizing sideshows\u003c/a>, Carson said, “That’d be dope if they could. If there was some kind of space where you could congregate and kick it, that’d be dope.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And then I asked him if he ever heard about the extractive economy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13855716\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13855716\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/04/42959058_1899746473443198_9002445318649806848_n-800x535.jpg\" alt=\"Quinton Sankofa\" width=\"800\" height=\"535\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/04/42959058_1899746473443198_9002445318649806848_n-800x535.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/04/42959058_1899746473443198_9002445318649806848_n-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/04/42959058_1899746473443198_9002445318649806848_n-768x514.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/04/42959058_1899746473443198_9002445318649806848_n.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Quinton Sankofa. \u003ccite>(Pendarvis Harshaw)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">I\u003c/span> didn’t tell Clyde this, but I’ll tell you: I learned the term from some environmentalist. I admit it. I’m bringing an environmentalist’s term to solve an urban transportation and public safety issue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I first heard about the extractive economy through Patrick Reinsborough, who currently works with environmental nonprofit \u003ca href=\"https://350.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">350.org\u003c/a>. Patrick suggested I contact the Movement Generation Justice & Ecology Project, as they offer \u003ca href=\"http://movementgeneration.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/JT_booklet_English_SPREADs_web.pdf\">an entire booklet\u003c/a> that displays our current model of extractive thinking, and how we can make a just transition toward a regenerative economy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Quinton Sankofa, a buddy of mine, works for Movement Generation. When we met up in a backyard in Berkeley, even before I ran my recorder, Sankofa started explaining to me how greywater systems work, the importance of waterless toilets and the Mongolian origins of yurts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sankofa then began breaking down the issues within our economy as they stand today. “We say we got here not because we’re burning fossil fuels, but because we stole indigenous people’s land and stole people from Africa—those are the roots of the ecological crisis. Later on, people started burning fossil fuels, and now we have a climate crisis in the midst of an ecological crisis.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The underlying theory being: everything and everyone can be taken, exploited and thrown away. Sankofa says this is how we approach just about every resource on the planet—water, oil, plastic, human labor—and that’s an issue shown through just about every aspect of American culture.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What we have now is the extractive economy,” Sankofa told me. “Some people want to say capitalism, but the reason we say the ‘extractive economy’ is because we want to get at the fundamental idea that this economy is based on \u003cem>taking\u003c/em>: from the living world, from our bodies, from our culture.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He elaborated that three steps sum up the extraction process: “dig, burn, dump.” That’s what we do with our resources. “One of the reasons we don’t label it as just ‘capitalism’ is because it’s true: you can have a socialist economy and do the same shit (dig, burn & dump),” Sankofa said, mentioning Venezuela’s oil dependent economy as an example. “In theory, our system is made to provide jobs, freedom, resources. But in reality, it produces income inequality, poverty, hardships and the concentration of wealth and power.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He drove the point home with a simple statement: “The purpose of a system can only be understood by what it actually produces.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In this country, he added, the product of the system is protected by militarism. “When you look at a city, like Oakland, the number one budget line item is police,” Sankofa said, noting how police departments inefficiently extract financial resources from the city. “And on the federal level, it’s the military.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I asked if he could name examples of the extractive economy around his house in East Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sankofa sighed, and said, “I see it in the faces of every black person who doesn’t have a home to live in.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13855717\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13855717\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/04/Screen-Shot-2019-04-24-at-12.54.00-AM-800x485.png\" alt=\"Movement Generation's Strategy Framework for Just Transition\" width=\"800\" height=\"485\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/04/Screen-Shot-2019-04-24-at-12.54.00-AM-800x485.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/04/Screen-Shot-2019-04-24-at-12.54.00-AM-160x97.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/04/Screen-Shot-2019-04-24-at-12.54.00-AM-768x465.png 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/04/Screen-Shot-2019-04-24-at-12.54.00-AM-1020x618.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/04/Screen-Shot-2019-04-24-at-12.54.00-AM-1200x727.png 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/04/Screen-Shot-2019-04-24-at-12.54.00-AM-1920x1163.png 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Movement Generation’s Strategy Framework for Just Transition. \u003ccite>(Movementgeneration.org)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">H\u003c/span>omelessness, of course, is an extractive process as well—homes are either taken away, or people are taken from their home. Unsheltered people, imprisoned people, people working for pennies in the gig economy—we could name examples all day. It’s all around us, from littering as we drive through the Town to burning fossil fuels and rubber from tires as we spin donuts in a 5.0 mustang: the urge is in us to dig, burn, and dump resources. And we’re all guilty of it, in varying degrees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We need a shift, that’s all I want, toward a regenerative economy. Last year, when I wrote about \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13824571/oakland-sideshows-legalize-macarthur\">the possibility of legalizing sideshows\u003c/a> to make them an opportunity instead of a problem, I simply wanted a change from our decades-old cat-and-mouse game that has done nothing but pad the pockets of officers working overtime and extracted people from our community for driving recklessly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Maybe legalizing sideshows isn’t the complete answer. I don’t think we could get people to start swinging cars that run on electricity and come equipped with \u003ca href=\"https://electrek.co/2018/04/24/regenerative-braking-how-it-works/\">regenerative braking systems\u003c/a> anytime soon, but man, the dig, burn and dump way we’re currently running sideshows isn’t working.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When I asked Clyde Carson about the extractive mindset, he got it instantly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We were kind of raised on that thinking, \u003cem>Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous\u003c/em> and stuff like that,” said Carson. “My mom would always come in with pyramid schemes. Lotto, running numbers and all that… I think that’s part of American culture; greed in a sense, and that’s dangerous as well.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The dangers of this mindset—thinking that anything and everything is expendable—aren’t just shown through the heinous news of a mother and her child being \u003ca href=\"https://www.kron4.com/news/bay-area/oakland-intersection-being-patrolled-after-hit-and-run-killed-mom-son/1934591069\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">killed by a reckless driver on Foothill Blvd.\u003c/a>, it’s shown through the way we constantly demolish the planet. We’ve got to shift away from that lack of consideration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s an opportunity here for Oakland stakeholders to recognize the will of the people in this region and do something constructive, create some sort of infrastructure that would create a safe space for this activity. We might even be able to restore resources to Oakland, instead of taking a ‘tough on crime’ stance and further criminalizing people of color without providing an alternative.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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Or to put it in laymen’s terms: He’s basically a \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LrjNdFiL0hU\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">bootsy-ass dude from the Town\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I first heard of Belt when one of his videos was shared with me in a group chat. I laughed, hit the follow button and I’ve been seeing videos of his skits, and bits from appearances on MTV, ever sense. He’s got a large following, too—one of his most popular videos, “\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0p6VhmErME0\">Tip Toe\u003c/a>,” has half a million views.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But to understand the comedy behind SonnieBo, you’ve got to understand Belt’s upbringing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13854798\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13854798\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/04/LewisBelt.laughing-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"Lewis Belt, out of his SonnieBo character and still cracking up a crowd.\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/04/LewisBelt.laughing-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/04/LewisBelt.laughing-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/04/LewisBelt.laughing-768x432.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/04/LewisBelt.laughing-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/04/LewisBelt.laughing.jpg 1100w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lewis Belt, center, out of his SonnieBo character and still cracking up a crowd. \u003ccite>(via Lewis Belt/YouTube)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I’m originally from North Oakland,” Belt tells me over the phone. “Then I grew up in Antioch… By the time I was in Antioch, Antioch was kind of damn near like a hood. People came from Richmond, Oakland, San Francisco, everybody in one city.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now 24, Belt came of age during a major shift in the demographics of Antioch. In the first decade of the millennium, the African American population in the small suburban town by the Delta went from 8,551 (9.7%) to 17,045 (17.3%), according to the \u003ca href=\"http://www.bayareacensus.ca.gov/cities/Antioch.htm\">Bay Area Census\u003c/a>. In 2016, \u003ca href=\"http://www.city-data.com/city/Antioch-California.html\">city data\u003c/a> showed that African American residents accounted for 28,050 (25%) of the total population, and that’s increased since.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To put it in perspective, 60 years ago there were only 17,000 people in Antioch; and not too may of them looked like SonnieBo. But by the time Belt was in high school, the demographics in Antioch provided a chance to absorb aspects of all flavors from around the Bay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I kind of start taking pieces of everybody who I grew up with, and put it into one person. It ended being Sonnie, you know what I’m saying?” Belt says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13854800\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13854800\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/04/LewisBelt.ShoppingCart-800x450.jpg\" alt='Lewis Belt as SonnieBo in the video for \"She Look She Took.\"' width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/04/LewisBelt.ShoppingCart-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/04/LewisBelt.ShoppingCart-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/04/LewisBelt.ShoppingCart-768x432.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/04/LewisBelt.ShoppingCart-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/04/LewisBelt.ShoppingCart.jpg 1100w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lewis Belt as SonnieBo in the video for “She Look She Took.” \u003ccite>(via Lewis Belt/YouTube)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>SonnieBo is a live wire: a fake-dreadlocs-shaking, loud-talking, white-T-shirt-wearing, foul-mouthed dude. I find it comedic because I know \u003cem>exactly\u003c/em> the type of person Belt’s modeling the persona after.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was just always a class clown. I’d joke everywhere,” Belt explains, adding that he’d even crack jokes on the football field in high school. “That’s just who I really was. I never tried to be funny.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He got his feet wet on stage first in Antioch, then in Oakland. He had a few experiences that weren’t satisfactory—par for the course of learning the trade. “It’s hard to become a comedian, it’s like you gotta turn your funny on and off,” says Belt. As a way to navigate that, he says he’d basically just “go on stage and start talking shit. Like, ‘Boy, you hella ugly. Boy, you’re hella big.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But there was one problem with that: not everyone in the crowd likes being laughed at.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13854797\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13854797\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/04/LewisBelt.SonnieBoMistahFAB-800x488.jpg\" alt=\"Lewis Belt as SonnieBo, facing off in a freestyle battle with Mistah FAB.\" width=\"800\" height=\"488\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/04/LewisBelt.SonnieBoMistahFAB-800x488.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/04/LewisBelt.SonnieBoMistahFAB-160x98.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/04/LewisBelt.SonnieBoMistahFAB-768x468.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/04/LewisBelt.SonnieBoMistahFAB-1020x622.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/04/LewisBelt.SonnieBoMistahFAB.jpg 1100w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lewis Belt as SonnieBo, facing off in a freestyle battle with Mistah FAB. \u003ccite>(via Lewis Belt/YouTube)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>That’s one of the lessons he’s learned on his path—a path that’s led him down to Los Angeles for what’s going on four years now. Now living down there, Belt visits the East Bay often enough to film videos with other entertainers and athletes with Oakland roots, like \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-wU-0Larmm8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Marshawn Lynch\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s4YG2GIHs4A\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mistah FAB\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Belt is in the same quandary as so many other Bay Area artists right now. He loves the Bay, but after driving to L.A. and back every two weeks he had to move south to pursue his career seriously. And he’s also noticed another thing: the industry in L.A. eats up Oakland and Bay Area culture.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When I ask him about a recent debate about whether or not L.A. musicians, specifically rising rap artist Blueface, are capitalizing off of Bay Area culture, Belt says, “Yeah. I think Bay Area culture, people like it, but you know, when the Bay Area be doing it, there’s no structure behind it.” He names a few record companies that are based in L.A. as examples of platforms that support artists, and adds, “Blueface, he’s doing what he’s supposed to be doing. And then the OGs, the people in position that can help him, they’re helping him. Shit. I can’t get mad at him.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He concludes by saying, “I’m just like… the smartest thing for a Bay Area artist, instead of trying to beef with everybody from L.A., is probably try to get along with some of these guys.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13854799\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13854799\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/04/LewisBelt.Sweettalk-800x449.jpg\" alt='Lewis Belt as SonnieBo in the video for \"She Look She Took.\"' width=\"800\" height=\"449\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/04/LewisBelt.Sweettalk-800x449.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/04/LewisBelt.Sweettalk-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/04/LewisBelt.Sweettalk-768x431.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/04/LewisBelt.Sweettalk-1020x572.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/04/LewisBelt.Sweettalk-1200x673.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/04/LewisBelt.Sweettalk.jpg 1274w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lewis Belt as SonnieBo in the video for “She Look She Took.” \u003ccite>(via Lewis Belt/YouTube)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>He’s practicing his philosophy. One of his mentors, a major name in Hollywood and a legend in the comedy game who Belt met on a movie set, is Mike Epps. “Mike always brings you along,” says Belt. “Mike will tell me like, ‘Alright, I’m gonna give you some space. I’m gonna hook you up.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But over the past year or so, Belt has grown in the game. “I’ve done worked myself up to the pole to where Mike ain’t gotta look out for me on that level. He’s just like, ‘Lew already on the show?!’” he says, laughing. “Now we’re on the same shows. It’s like a big stepping stone for me.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And that’s part of what makes L.A. attractive: along with Jamie Foxx, Richard Pryor, Eddie Murphy and Corey Holcomb, Mike Epps is one of Belt’s favorite comedians of all time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s a list he wants to see himself on one day. “My goal,” he says, “is to be one of the greatest comedians of all time.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Yeah?” I replied—almost in the same way I replied when he named Corey Holcomb as a Top 5.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Just \u003cem>one\u003c/em> of them,” Belt says. “I don’t think I’m the greatest or no shit like that. Just seeing what’s possible. Just to be mentioned as one of the best comedians of all time. One of the best of my generations. That’s my goal. I just want to be respected. I don’t care about being the most famous, but you know, if I’m one of the most respected ones in the game, I’m gonna be happy.”\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>This Thursday, April 11, the Paramount Theatre in Oakland hosts the Golden State Warriors’ big man DeMarcus Cousins and his “\u003ca href=\"https://www1.ticketmaster.com/event/1C00565BBEF15C4C\">Boogie’s Comedy Slam\u003c/a>.” The lineup includes some heavy names in the comedy world, including Red Gant, Karlous Miller and Mike Epps. But another name on the bill caught my eye, one that’s gaining weight in the comedy world: Oakland’s own Lewis Belt.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ahead of the show, I had a quick convo with Belt about a couple of things—including his mentorship by Mike Epps, if Los Angeles is stealing Bay Area culture and how his experience in Antioch led to the development of his popular character \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0p6VhmErME0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">SonnieBo\u003c/a>—who, by all metrics, is an amalgamation of a post-hyphy Bay Area archetype. Or to put it in laymen’s terms: He’s basically a \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LrjNdFiL0hU\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">bootsy-ass dude from the Town\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I first heard of Belt when one of his videos was shared with me in a group chat. I laughed, hit the follow button and I’ve been seeing videos of his skits, and bits from appearances on MTV, ever sense. He’s got a large following, too—one of his most popular videos, “\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0p6VhmErME0\">Tip Toe\u003c/a>,” has half a million views.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But to understand the comedy behind SonnieBo, you’ve got to understand Belt’s upbringing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13854798\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13854798\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/04/LewisBelt.laughing-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"Lewis Belt, out of his SonnieBo character and still cracking up a crowd.\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/04/LewisBelt.laughing-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/04/LewisBelt.laughing-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/04/LewisBelt.laughing-768x432.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/04/LewisBelt.laughing-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/04/LewisBelt.laughing.jpg 1100w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lewis Belt, center, out of his SonnieBo character and still cracking up a crowd. \u003ccite>(via Lewis Belt/YouTube)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I’m originally from North Oakland,” Belt tells me over the phone. “Then I grew up in Antioch… By the time I was in Antioch, Antioch was kind of damn near like a hood. People came from Richmond, Oakland, San Francisco, everybody in one city.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now 24, Belt came of age during a major shift in the demographics of Antioch. In the first decade of the millennium, the African American population in the small suburban town by the Delta went from 8,551 (9.7%) to 17,045 (17.3%), according to the \u003ca href=\"http://www.bayareacensus.ca.gov/cities/Antioch.htm\">Bay Area Census\u003c/a>. In 2016, \u003ca href=\"http://www.city-data.com/city/Antioch-California.html\">city data\u003c/a> showed that African American residents accounted for 28,050 (25%) of the total population, and that’s increased since.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To put it in perspective, 60 years ago there were only 17,000 people in Antioch; and not too may of them looked like SonnieBo. But by the time Belt was in high school, the demographics in Antioch provided a chance to absorb aspects of all flavors from around the Bay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I kind of start taking pieces of everybody who I grew up with, and put it into one person. It ended being Sonnie, you know what I’m saying?” Belt says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13854800\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13854800\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/04/LewisBelt.ShoppingCart-800x450.jpg\" alt='Lewis Belt as SonnieBo in the video for \"She Look She Took.\"' width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/04/LewisBelt.ShoppingCart-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/04/LewisBelt.ShoppingCart-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/04/LewisBelt.ShoppingCart-768x432.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/04/LewisBelt.ShoppingCart-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/04/LewisBelt.ShoppingCart.jpg 1100w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lewis Belt as SonnieBo in the video for “She Look She Took.” \u003ccite>(via Lewis Belt/YouTube)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>SonnieBo is a live wire: a fake-dreadlocs-shaking, loud-talking, white-T-shirt-wearing, foul-mouthed dude. I find it comedic because I know \u003cem>exactly\u003c/em> the type of person Belt’s modeling the persona after.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was just always a class clown. I’d joke everywhere,” Belt explains, adding that he’d even crack jokes on the football field in high school. “That’s just who I really was. I never tried to be funny.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He got his feet wet on stage first in Antioch, then in Oakland. He had a few experiences that weren’t satisfactory—par for the course of learning the trade. “It’s hard to become a comedian, it’s like you gotta turn your funny on and off,” says Belt. As a way to navigate that, he says he’d basically just “go on stage and start talking shit. Like, ‘Boy, you hella ugly. Boy, you’re hella big.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But there was one problem with that: not everyone in the crowd likes being laughed at.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13854797\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13854797\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/04/LewisBelt.SonnieBoMistahFAB-800x488.jpg\" alt=\"Lewis Belt as SonnieBo, facing off in a freestyle battle with Mistah FAB.\" width=\"800\" height=\"488\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/04/LewisBelt.SonnieBoMistahFAB-800x488.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/04/LewisBelt.SonnieBoMistahFAB-160x98.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/04/LewisBelt.SonnieBoMistahFAB-768x468.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/04/LewisBelt.SonnieBoMistahFAB-1020x622.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/04/LewisBelt.SonnieBoMistahFAB.jpg 1100w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lewis Belt as SonnieBo, facing off in a freestyle battle with Mistah FAB. \u003ccite>(via Lewis Belt/YouTube)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>That’s one of the lessons he’s learned on his path—a path that’s led him down to Los Angeles for what’s going on four years now. Now living down there, Belt visits the East Bay often enough to film videos with other entertainers and athletes with Oakland roots, like \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-wU-0Larmm8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Marshawn Lynch\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s4YG2GIHs4A\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mistah FAB\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Belt is in the same quandary as so many other Bay Area artists right now. He loves the Bay, but after driving to L.A. and back every two weeks he had to move south to pursue his career seriously. And he’s also noticed another thing: the industry in L.A. eats up Oakland and Bay Area culture.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When I ask him about a recent debate about whether or not L.A. musicians, specifically rising rap artist Blueface, are capitalizing off of Bay Area culture, Belt says, “Yeah. I think Bay Area culture, people like it, but you know, when the Bay Area be doing it, there’s no structure behind it.” He names a few record companies that are based in L.A. as examples of platforms that support artists, and adds, “Blueface, he’s doing what he’s supposed to be doing. And then the OGs, the people in position that can help him, they’re helping him. Shit. I can’t get mad at him.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He concludes by saying, “I’m just like… the smartest thing for a Bay Area artist, instead of trying to beef with everybody from L.A., is probably try to get along with some of these guys.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13854799\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13854799\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/04/LewisBelt.Sweettalk-800x449.jpg\" alt='Lewis Belt as SonnieBo in the video for \"She Look She Took.\"' width=\"800\" height=\"449\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/04/LewisBelt.Sweettalk-800x449.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/04/LewisBelt.Sweettalk-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/04/LewisBelt.Sweettalk-768x431.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/04/LewisBelt.Sweettalk-1020x572.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/04/LewisBelt.Sweettalk-1200x673.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/04/LewisBelt.Sweettalk.jpg 1274w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lewis Belt as SonnieBo in the video for “She Look She Took.” \u003ccite>(via Lewis Belt/YouTube)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>He’s practicing his philosophy. One of his mentors, a major name in Hollywood and a legend in the comedy game who Belt met on a movie set, is Mike Epps. “Mike always brings you along,” says Belt. “Mike will tell me like, ‘Alright, I’m gonna give you some space. I’m gonna hook you up.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But over the past year or so, Belt has grown in the game. “I’ve done worked myself up to the pole to where Mike ain’t gotta look out for me on that level. He’s just like, ‘Lew already on the show?!’” he says, laughing. “Now we’re on the same shows. It’s like a big stepping stone for me.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And that’s part of what makes L.A. attractive: along with Jamie Foxx, Richard Pryor, Eddie Murphy and Corey Holcomb, Mike Epps is one of Belt’s favorite comedians of all time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s a list he wants to see himself on one day. “My goal,” he says, “is to be one of the greatest comedians of all time.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Yeah?” I replied—almost in the same way I replied when he named Corey Holcomb as a Top 5.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Farmworkers harvesting onions. Picketing Teamsters rejecting student sympathizers. Oakland high-schoolers protesting the police shooting their peer. Black Panthers serving breakfast.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They’re just a few scenes from a newly digitized \u003ca href=\"http://www.oaklandlibrary.org/locations/african-american-museum-library-oakland\">African American Museum & Library Oakland\u003c/a> collection of scarcely if ever seen footage documenting California activism and organized labor in the 1960s and 1970s. AAMLO, a reference library and exhibition space, last year received a grant to catalog and transfer the films. Now nearly seven hours of footage is freely available \u003ca href=\"https://archive.org/search.php?query=subject%3A%22Henry+Williams+Jr.+Film+Collection%22\">online\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unearthed footage includes outtakes from documentaries by the radical Newsreel film collective focused on the Black Panther Party, showing figures such as Kathleen Cleaver and Bobby Seale speaking at Oakland Auditorium and DeFremery Park. According to AAMLO, the hours of b-roll from these films—\u003cem>Off the Pig\u003c/em>, \u003cem>MayDay\u003c/em> and \u003cem>Repression\u003c/em>—were previously unknown.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13854713\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/04/A-farmworker-depicted-in-a-film-from-the-newly-digitized-Henry-J.-Williams-Jr.-Film-Collection.-Courtesy-African-American-Museum-Library-800x575.png\" alt=\"A farmworker depicted in a film from the newly digitized Henry J. 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Williams Jr. Film Collection. \u003ccite>(Courtesy African American Museum & Library, Oakland Public Library)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Newsreel, known for forerunning citizen journalism and its rapport with Black Panther leadership, worked in a montage style, and much of the footage is brief clips of rallies and street clashes, some set to pop music. Other clips document labor struggles and a 1970 anti-Vietnam march in Los Angeles organized by the National Chicano Moratorium Committee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://archive.org/embed/MS1950076H264\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" frameborder=\"0\" webkitallowfullscreen=\"true\" mozallowfullscreen=\"true\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Footage from the late 1970s anticipates contemporary struggles against displacement and police shootings: Protesters confronting San Francisco Mayor George Moscone over the mass eviction of the International Hotel, considered the last outpost of Filipino Manilatown; and Oakland High School students marching after Oakland police killed 14-year-old Melvin Black.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>AAMLO last year received $19,590 from the Council on Library and Information Resources for “recordings at risk” to preserve and share the collection (many of the acetate reels were deteriorating), aiming to the surface material relevant to the Black Panthers’ 50-year anniversary as well as contemporary social-justice movements.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13854714\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/04/Kathleen-Cleaver-shown-in-a-film-from-the-Henry-J.-Williams-Jr.-Film-Collection.-Courtesy-African-American-Museum-Library-800x597.png\" alt=\"Kathleen Cleaver shown in a film from the Henry J. 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AAMLO, housed in a striking 1902 Carnegie building, has an upstairs exhibition and event space that will host a public screening-and-talks series drawing on the film collection and its modern-day resonance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dickerson also hopes to spur interest in AAMLO’s 163 processed collections; recent acquisitions include the archives of storied KPFA gospel director Emitt Powell and television host Jay Payton, whose 1970s \u003cem>Jay Payton Show\u003c/em> has been likened to an Oakland \u003cem>Soul Train\u003c/em>. “The best thing to come out of this is not only increased awareness of collections of national interest, but also showing the Oakland community what we’re here to preserve,” Dickerson said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By posting the collection \u003ca href=\"https://archive.org/search.php?query=subject%3A%22Henry+Williams+Jr.+Film+Collection%22&page=2\">online\u003c/a>, AAMLO is also trying to learn from the public. 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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>f Theresa Fortune’s story were a Hollywood film, the trailer would start with a scene of her laying on the floor, in her house. As dramatic music swelled, the camera’s focus would go from Theresa’s face, distraught and in the foreground, to a knife not too far in the distance.\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>Suddenly, the music would drop out, and the trailer would cut to her birthday party earlier this month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Held a day before her birthday on March 2, Theresa’s party wasn’t your usual birthday celebration. Instead of having drinks at a bar or cutting it up on the dance floor, Rese, as friends call her, hosted an artist talk at a gallery on 15th and Webster in downtown Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The subject of the discussion: mental health and motherhood, from a firsthand account.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As people gathered inside, some talked about the rainstorm outside, while others discussed the dark cloud over the Oakland Unified School District, as its teachers had just spent most of the week on strike.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On one side of the gallery, a video of Rese walking barefoot in the wilderness, made by \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/musiquitomedia/\">Jeremy Allens\u003c/a>, played on a large screen. On the opposite side, photos of Rese were framed and mounted on exposed concrete.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The photos, by \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/_sjwphotography/\">Stephanie Warner\u003c/a>, depicted a range of Rese’s emotions, reenacting of all the things she’s been through—from being depressed in the shower to feeling delighted while in the presence of her child.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They showed a window into a world I had never experienced firsthand, and, as a man, I never will. But I was familiar with the elements. Be it my mom, my sister, my lady—hell, just about every mother I know—they’ve all been through some aspect of what Rese has started talking openly about.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13853625\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13853625\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/03/LRG__DSC3463-800x535.jpg\" alt=\"Theresa Fortune in conversation with Jeannine Hooks-Allen\" width=\"800\" height=\"535\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/03/LRG__DSC3463-800x535.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/03/LRG__DSC3463-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/03/LRG__DSC3463-768x513.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/03/LRG__DSC3463-1020x682.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/03/LRG__DSC3463-1200x802.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/03/LRG__DSC3463.jpg 1616w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Theresa Fortune in conversation with Jeannine Hooks-Allen. \u003ccite>(Pendarvis Harshaw)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">I\u003c/span>nside the gallery that night, Rese told the story of how she and her former partner came to have their daughter. 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Maybe next, they’ll see how big the issue is for African American women, especially.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Case in point: in Los Angeles, the journalist Priska Neely covers just about all aspects of maternal health, from the \u003ca href=\"https://laist.com/2018/08/28/a_message_for_black_moms_keep_calm_and_carry_on_breastfeeding.php?_ga=2.164235771.53458115.1553487726-91259826.1553487726\">importance of breastfeeding\u003c/a> to \u003ca href=\"https://laist.com/2018/06/29/keeping_black_babies_alive_is_a_priority_for_las_top_health_officials.php?_ga=2.126158153.53458115.1553487726-91259826.1553487726\">city-backed solutions\u003c/a> addressing birth-related deaths for black women and black babies. According to \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2017/12/07/568948782/black-mothers-keep-dying-after-giving-birth-shalon-irvings-story-explains-why\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">an NPR story\u003c/a> by Renee Montagne, black mothers and children are two to three times more likely to die during the birthing process than any other racial demographic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Essentially, Rese is doing similar work as Priska by tackling multiple aspects of a monumental issue—maternal health. It’s just that Rese does so using her own story and her own art, and asking for the input of others.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m creating a platform,” Rese, who has created a company called \u003ca href=\"https://www.cwtc.events/\">Communion with the Community\u003c/a>, tells me. “Using theatre as a space for transparency, and to engage in a dialogue that most people aren’t ready to have out loud.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those taboo subjects include infidelity, healing from trauma, as well as being unemployed and receiving welfare, which Rese addresses openly in her regular schedule of performances. She acknowledges that she’s not in the same financial predicament she once was, and that she’s pursuing a career in the arts in order to get off of government assistance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And through her art, she helps others recognize that they aren’t alone in their experience. She does that by telling her story. Even the tough part, when she was on the floor, looking at the knife.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13853626\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13853626\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/03/LRG__DSC3452-800x535.jpg\" alt=\"Theresa Fortune, reliving her experience, on camera\" width=\"800\" height=\"535\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/03/LRG__DSC3452-800x535.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/03/LRG__DSC3452-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/03/LRG__DSC3452-768x513.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/03/LRG__DSC3452-1020x682.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/03/LRG__DSC3452-1200x802.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/03/LRG__DSC3452.jpg 1616w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Theresa Fortune relived her experience of postpartum depression for a series of photos by Stephanie Warner. \u003ccite>(Pendarvis Harshaw)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">A\u003c/span>t one point in the conversation on her birthday, Rese got quiet. She held one hand over her pursed lips, starring blankly past the 30 or so people in the audience. “You can tell me,” said the host, Jeannine Hooks-Allen. Rese dropped her hand, giving her mouth space to move, and said, “I’m going to tell everyone.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I put my head down and took shorthand notes on my phone as Rese explained how she chose not to take her own life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>“I just wanted to smell daughter’s clothes.”\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>“I made a conscious decision to stay. I challenged God.”\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>“If there’s no one to call when you’re drowning in your darkness, it’s OK to talk to yourself.”\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>“Pain is a process, with a purpose.”\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>“Life’s greatest challenge is how to successfully deal with pain.”\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And the last words I have in my notes from that night is a name:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>“Mamma Flo.”\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Florence McCrary, or Mamma Flo as she’s known to many, was in the building that night. She’s the mother of one of Rese’s childhood friends, Erika McCrary, as well as Terrence McCrary.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Terrence “T-Mack” McCrary was killed in 2016, on the same corner where Rese’s performance was.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When I met Mamma Flo before the event started, she told me that she wasn’t avoiding this block: “it’s going to be there.” And then she looked me in my eyes and said, “but if I find the men who did it… well, that’s another story.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To Rese, Mamma Flo embodies everything that she aspires to as a mother. “Her ability to show up to this show, and having to walk the same street her son was killed on, spoke volumes to me. She is the essence of strength, grace, purpose and love,” Rese told me afterward.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mamma Flo being there also underscored the event’s purpose: to provide a platform of mutual support. “As mothers, oftentimes we’re not allowed to take our capes off and be vulnerable within our moments of pain,” Rese said. “That day, she took her cape off, and still had the ability to flow through her pain.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-12127869\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-800x78.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"78\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-768x75.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Theresa Fortune hosts a performance with Jason Jasper about health, relationships and family on Sunday, March 31, at the Copper Spoon in Oakland. \u003ca href=\"https://www.cwtc.events/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Details here\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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Be it my mom, my sister, my lady—hell, just about every mother I know—they’ve all been through some aspect of what Rese has started talking openly about.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13853625\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13853625\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/03/LRG__DSC3463-800x535.jpg\" alt=\"Theresa Fortune in conversation with Jeannine Hooks-Allen\" width=\"800\" height=\"535\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/03/LRG__DSC3463-800x535.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/03/LRG__DSC3463-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/03/LRG__DSC3463-768x513.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/03/LRG__DSC3463-1020x682.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/03/LRG__DSC3463-1200x802.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/03/LRG__DSC3463.jpg 1616w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Theresa Fortune in conversation with Jeannine Hooks-Allen. \u003ccite>(Pendarvis Harshaw)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">I\u003c/span>nside the gallery that night, Rese told the story of how she and her former partner came to have their daughter. After the child’s birth, the couple hit hard times financially. That, coupled with a number of other circumstances, caused the two to break up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rese, learning how to navigate single motherhood and overcome financial woes by becoming a culinary artist, was also dealing with postpartum depression. And in the United States, that’s not uncommon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/19/health/postpartum-depression-drug.html\">a \u003cem>New York Times\u003c/em> article\u003c/a> published last week, one in seven mothers in the United States deals with postpartum depression. The FDA recently approved new medication to treat postpartum depression, a big move toward recognition of the seriousness of the issue. Maybe next, they’ll see how big the issue is for African American women, especially.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Case in point: in Los Angeles, the journalist Priska Neely covers just about all aspects of maternal health, from the \u003ca href=\"https://laist.com/2018/08/28/a_message_for_black_moms_keep_calm_and_carry_on_breastfeeding.php?_ga=2.164235771.53458115.1553487726-91259826.1553487726\">importance of breastfeeding\u003c/a> to \u003ca href=\"https://laist.com/2018/06/29/keeping_black_babies_alive_is_a_priority_for_las_top_health_officials.php?_ga=2.126158153.53458115.1553487726-91259826.1553487726\">city-backed solutions\u003c/a> addressing birth-related deaths for black women and black babies. According to \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2017/12/07/568948782/black-mothers-keep-dying-after-giving-birth-shalon-irvings-story-explains-why\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">an NPR story\u003c/a> by Renee Montagne, black mothers and children are two to three times more likely to die during the birthing process than any other racial demographic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Essentially, Rese is doing similar work as Priska by tackling multiple aspects of a monumental issue—maternal health. It’s just that Rese does so using her own story and her own art, and asking for the input of others.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m creating a platform,” Rese, who has created a company called \u003ca href=\"https://www.cwtc.events/\">Communion with the Community\u003c/a>, tells me. “Using theatre as a space for transparency, and to engage in a dialogue that most people aren’t ready to have out loud.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those taboo subjects include infidelity, healing from trauma, as well as being unemployed and receiving welfare, which Rese addresses openly in her regular schedule of performances. She acknowledges that she’s not in the same financial predicament she once was, and that she’s pursuing a career in the arts in order to get off of government assistance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And through her art, she helps others recognize that they aren’t alone in their experience. She does that by telling her story. Even the tough part, when she was on the floor, looking at the knife.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13853626\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13853626\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/03/LRG__DSC3452-800x535.jpg\" alt=\"Theresa Fortune, reliving her experience, on camera\" width=\"800\" height=\"535\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/03/LRG__DSC3452-800x535.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/03/LRG__DSC3452-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/03/LRG__DSC3452-768x513.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/03/LRG__DSC3452-1020x682.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/03/LRG__DSC3452-1200x802.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/03/LRG__DSC3452.jpg 1616w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Theresa Fortune relived her experience of postpartum depression for a series of photos by Stephanie Warner. \u003ccite>(Pendarvis Harshaw)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">A\u003c/span>t one point in the conversation on her birthday, Rese got quiet. She held one hand over her pursed lips, starring blankly past the 30 or so people in the audience. “You can tell me,” said the host, Jeannine Hooks-Allen. Rese dropped her hand, giving her mouth space to move, and said, “I’m going to tell everyone.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I put my head down and took shorthand notes on my phone as Rese explained how she chose not to take her own life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>“I just wanted to smell daughter’s clothes.”\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>“I made a conscious decision to stay. I challenged God.”\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>“If there’s no one to call when you’re drowning in your darkness, it’s OK to talk to yourself.”\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>“Pain is a process, with a purpose.”\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>“Life’s greatest challenge is how to successfully deal with pain.”\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And the last words I have in my notes from that night is a name:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>“Mamma Flo.”\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Florence McCrary, or Mamma Flo as she’s known to many, was in the building that night. She’s the mother of one of Rese’s childhood friends, Erika McCrary, as well as Terrence McCrary.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Terrence “T-Mack” McCrary was killed in 2016, on the same corner where Rese’s performance was.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When I met Mamma Flo before the event started, she told me that she wasn’t avoiding this block: “it’s going to be there.” And then she looked me in my eyes and said, “but if I find the men who did it… well, that’s another story.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To Rese, Mamma Flo embodies everything that she aspires to as a mother. “Her ability to show up to this show, and having to walk the same street her son was killed on, spoke volumes to me. She is the essence of strength, grace, purpose and love,” Rese told me afterward.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mamma Flo being there also underscored the event’s purpose: to provide a platform of mutual support. “As mothers, oftentimes we’re not allowed to take our capes off and be vulnerable within our moments of pain,” Rese said. “That day, she took her cape off, and still had the ability to flow through her pain.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-12127869\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-800x78.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"78\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-768x75.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>The City of Oakland has revoked a popular nightclub’s after-hours permit at the urging of the Oakland Police Department, citing crime near the club and the wider “downtown area.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Richard Ali, owner of Webster Street hip-hop club New Karibbean City, was notified Thursday of the permit revocation, which he said is tantamount to shuttering his business. “My model is people coming in after 1 o’clock,” he said. “We make most of our money during that time.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland police, in a letter acquired by KQED, called New Karibbean City a “nuisance” and a “drain on resources,” citing four reports of felonies “in and around” the club in the past six months. “So far this year, the Oakland Police Department has recovered 11 illegally possessed firearms in the immediate downtown area,” the police captain’s letter reads. “This trend cannot continue.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ali said it’s unfair to blame his club for 11 guns recovered in an area teeming with bars and venues. Of the three shootings cited in the letter, the original police reports show one stemmed from an argument in a different bar, and another occurred in a shared parking lot. Overall, Oakland police data show crime has actually dropped in the area including downtown. \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13853568\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/03/Richard.Ali_.MAIN_-800x500.jpg\" alt=\"New Karibbean City proprietor Richard Ali said his club has been targeted for selective enforcement by the Oakland Police Department.\" width=\"800\" height=\"500\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13853568\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/03/Richard.Ali_.MAIN_-800x500.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/03/Richard.Ali_.MAIN_-160x100.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/03/Richard.Ali_.MAIN_-768x480.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/03/Richard.Ali_.MAIN_-1020x638.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/03/Richard.Ali_.MAIN_-1200x750.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/03/Richard.Ali_.MAIN_.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">New Karibbean City proprietor Richard Ali said his club has been targeted for selective enforcement by the Oakland Police Department. \u003ccite>(Stephanie Lister/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Regulars celebrate New Karibbean City, a 752-capacity club that Ali has owned since 2008, as a vestige of old Oakland, and it attracts a predominantly black clientele. (He has also owned nearby Level 13 since 2007.) Ali said his club’s demographic is the real problem for police, calling the revocation the latest example of Oakland police’s double standards and onerous restrictions for hip-hop nightlife. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ali spoke Friday as he prepared to file an appeal, which costs $763. He pointed out that his after-hours permit has long carried a condition stating, “No Hip-Hop events will be planned for the extended hour days,” to support his argument that New Karibbean City is treated differently because of its audience. “I’ve been reasonable, and this is discrimination,” he said. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>DC is Chillin, the KMEL host and New Karibbean City DJ, described the nightclub as a cultural fixture popular among Oakland natives, noting that his mom partied there in its earlier incarnation. “It’s the last club,” he said. “A lot of new places are lounge-based, and a lot of East and West Oakland people I know aren’t comfortable with the new places.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>DC added, “At NKC you can play a new record and the crowd’s real with you.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He pointed out, for example, that fellow DJ Big Von played Ella Mai’s single “Boo’d Up” at New Karibbean City in late 2017. Inspired by the audience response, he brought it to KMEL, and radio nationally followed suit. Von’s selection that night was noted in \u003cem>Rolling Stone\u003c/em> as a \u003ca href=\"https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/bood-up-how-ella-mai-is-leading-female-rb-singers-back-onto-the-charts-628233/\">turning point\u003c/a> for the now-smash single. \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13853569\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/03/RichardALID8A4025-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"New Karibbean City proprietor Richard Ali is appealing the City of Oakland's decision to revoke his club's after-hours permit.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13853569\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/03/RichardALID8A4025-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/03/RichardALID8A4025-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/03/RichardALID8A4025-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/03/RichardALID8A4025-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/03/RichardALID8A4025-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/03/RichardALID8A4025.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">New Karibbean City proprietor Richard Ali is appealing the City of Oakland’s decision to revoke his club’s after-hours permit. \u003ccite>(Stephanie Lister/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Ali was \u003ca href=\"https://www.eastbayexpress.com/oakland/blacklisted-how-the-oakland-police-department-discriminates-against-rappers-and-music-venues/Content?oid=6482231\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">interviewed by this writer for a 2017 feature\u003c/a> about Oakland police and live hip-hop, describing how city cops, particularly in the Special Events Unit, pressured promoters to drop certain rappers from lineups. Some local artists felt they were effectively blacklisted; in one incident, Ali said an officer insisted he drop a rapper because of the artist’s lyrics about police harassment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Previous reporting has shown that hip-hop venue owners in Oakland, including Ali, are required to seek special-event permits entailing thousands of dollars in police fees. Meanwhile, clubs associated with other styles of music are spared the expense under otherwise identical circumstances. The costs have led Ali and other promoters to pass on booking prominent touring artists in Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The latest conflicts are part of a long history. Oakland police and the local hip-hop community have been at odds practically since the inception of hip-hop. The city imposed a year-long moratorium on live rap in 1989, right at the time local artists such as Too $hort and MC Hammer were building national profiles. Geoffrey’s Inner Circle owner Geoffrey Pete blamed police overtime costs for temporarily closing his storied club in 2009, and filed an unsuccessful civil-rights lawsuit against the department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>KQED has requested comment from the Oakland Police Department. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This post has been updated with comments from DC is Chillin. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ali spoke Friday as he prepared to file an appeal, which costs $763. He pointed out that his after-hours permit has long carried a condition stating, “No Hip-Hop events will be planned for the extended hour days,” to support his argument that New Karibbean City is treated differently because of its audience. “I’ve been reasonable, and this is discrimination,” he said. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>DC is Chillin, the KMEL host and New Karibbean City DJ, described the nightclub as a cultural fixture popular among Oakland natives, noting that his mom partied there in its earlier incarnation. “It’s the last club,” he said. “A lot of new places are lounge-based, and a lot of East and West Oakland people I know aren’t comfortable with the new places.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>DC added, “At NKC you can play a new record and the crowd’s real with you.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He pointed out, for example, that fellow DJ Big Von played Ella Mai’s single “Boo’d Up” at New Karibbean City in late 2017. Inspired by the audience response, he brought it to KMEL, and radio nationally followed suit. Von’s selection that night was noted in \u003cem>Rolling Stone\u003c/em> as a \u003ca href=\"https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/bood-up-how-ella-mai-is-leading-female-rb-singers-back-onto-the-charts-628233/\">turning point\u003c/a> for the now-smash single. \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13853569\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/03/RichardALID8A4025-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"New Karibbean City proprietor Richard Ali is appealing the City of Oakland's decision to revoke his club's after-hours permit.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13853569\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/03/RichardALID8A4025-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/03/RichardALID8A4025-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/03/RichardALID8A4025-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/03/RichardALID8A4025-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/03/RichardALID8A4025-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/03/RichardALID8A4025.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">New Karibbean City proprietor Richard Ali is appealing the City of Oakland’s decision to revoke his club’s after-hours permit. \u003ccite>(Stephanie Lister/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Ali was \u003ca href=\"https://www.eastbayexpress.com/oakland/blacklisted-how-the-oakland-police-department-discriminates-against-rappers-and-music-venues/Content?oid=6482231\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">interviewed by this writer for a 2017 feature\u003c/a> about Oakland police and live hip-hop, describing how city cops, particularly in the Special Events Unit, pressured promoters to drop certain rappers from lineups. Some local artists felt they were effectively blacklisted; in one incident, Ali said an officer insisted he drop a rapper because of the artist’s lyrics about police harassment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Previous reporting has shown that hip-hop venue owners in Oakland, including Ali, are required to seek special-event permits entailing thousands of dollars in police fees. Meanwhile, clubs associated with other styles of music are spared the expense under otherwise identical circumstances. The costs have led Ali and other promoters to pass on booking prominent touring artists in Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The latest conflicts are part of a long history. Oakland police and the local hip-hop community have been at odds practically since the inception of hip-hop. The city imposed a year-long moratorium on live rap in 1989, right at the time local artists such as Too $hort and MC Hammer were building national profiles. Geoffrey’s Inner Circle owner Geoffrey Pete blamed police overtime costs for temporarily closing his storied club in 2009, and filed an unsuccessful civil-rights lawsuit against the department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>KQED has requested comment from the Oakland Police Department. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This post has been updated with comments from DC is Chillin. \u003c/em>\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\">M\u003c/span>y cousin \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/rescataaa/\">Taevon Ransom\u003c/a> landed in Oakland around midnight a few Saturdays ago and told me he was hungry. I asked if he likes sushi. He told me that he’d never had it before.\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>Trying new things is the reason why a 20 year-old college student from Columbus, Ohio would visit California for his spring break.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Minutes later, we were at Kansai in North Oakland, where before long, he gave up on using chopsticks and began bare-handing a Lion King Roll. Taevon—my college-aged comrade with a passion for rapping and singing—didn’t know it at that moment, but that was the entry point for his tour of arts and culture in the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As I sat next to him, using my chopsticks to fish noodles out of a bowl, I had no idea Taevon’s trip would allow me to re-see this place I call home, and appreciate it all over again. Through my young cousin’s eyes, I got a quick refresher on the amount of traffic we navigate here; the sunshine glowing off the East Oakland hillside; the drastic income inequality manifested through latent racism, as well as a further appreciation of how superstars—world-renown talents—are just normal people walking the streets of the Bay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The next morning we stood on Faro Point, that little weird peninsula that juts out into the San Leandro Marina, and I gave him the lay of the land: Facebook is that way. E-40 is from up there. And the Pacific Ocean is beyond those funny-shaped buildings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I wiped my hands. Geography was cake. This arts and culture thing is a bit more complex.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13853048\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13853048\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/03/IMG_3778-1-800x600.jpeg\" alt=\"Taevon Ransom at San Leandro Marina\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/03/IMG_3778-1-800x600.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/03/IMG_3778-1-160x120.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/03/IMG_3778-1-768x576.jpeg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/03/IMG_3778-1-1020x765.jpeg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/03/IMG_3778-1-1200x900.jpeg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/03/IMG_3778-1-1920x1440.jpeg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/03/IMG_3778-1.jpeg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Taevon Ransom at San Leandro Marina’s Faro Point. // Photo credit Pendarvis Harshaw \u003ccite>(Pendarvis Harshaw)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">T\u003c/span>hat evening we slid into West Oakland’s \u003ca href=\"https://alenamuseum.com/\">Alena Museum and Art Gallery\u003c/a> for a working session with artists of all sorts. I’m talking someone painting on a wall over here, someone hemming jeans over there, someone else drawing on paper in such detail that it looked like a printed photo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And there was incense burning… And someone brought chili.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a back studio, \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/omiiroo/?hl=en\">Githinji Mbire\u003c/a> (you might recognize his work from the scene in \u003cem>Sorry To Bother You\u003c/em>, where Tessa Thompson’s character holds an art opening) was laying out a bunch of art pieces shaped like the continent of Africa—his staple. He’d constructed them from all sorts of pieces of wood, smaller than his other renditions of this design. He told me he plans to sell the small pieces on a sliding scale during the closing event at Alena at the end of this month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wait, Alena is closing? Seven Styles, the space’s manager, confirmed that after a long back-and-forth with the property owner, Alena Musuem will close at the end of the month. And on March 30, \u003ca href=\"https://www.eventbrite.com/e/reclaim-our-city-community-art-and-cultural-festival-tickets-58396770312\">they’re hosting one last party\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I gave my cousin some context about Oakland’s recent history with warehouse spaces used for art and music, and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/ghost-ship-fire\">the story of the Ghost Ship fire\u003c/a>. I told him how that led to stricter regulations of warehouses where artists work, and simultaneously made places for artists of color harder to secure than ever.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>My old man river tale was interrupted by this kid with glasses named \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/jacobdeloakland/\">Jacob Del Oakland\u003c/a>, asking if anyone in the room rapped. The universe knew to connect Jacob—an MC from Oakland who’s currently a senior at Kenyon College in Ohio—to Taevon, who’s currently a sophomore at Ohio University. The duo instantly clicked, grabbed a mic and went to work. They were later joined by \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/ashiakarana/\">Aishia Karana\u003c/a>, who played the guitar and sang a rendition of Andre 3000’s “Prototype,” as \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/cadencemylesmusic/?hl=en\">Cadence Myles\u003c/a> held down the drums.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I laughed as Taevon and Jacob fell the hell back and watched Aishia and Cadence do their thing. So often I’ve seen guys hog the mic in the cipher, but this time the young men just stood back, near the chili that Aishia had brought, and watched in awe for a few.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Taevon and I left with Andre 3000’s words stuck in our heads, and we bent a corner or two before we pulled up to my block. Across the street from my apartment, three candles lit the porch of Councilmember Lynette Gibson McElhaney’s residence. I told Taevon how the family is mourning \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-victor-mcelhaney-usc-student-killed-oakland-son-20190311-story.html\">the recent murder of her son, Victor McElhaney\u003c/a>. Victor, a drummer who was well-known in artists’ circles around Oakland, had been shot and killed in a reported botched robbery on USC’s campus in Los Angeles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With heavy hearts, we called it a night and prepared for the morning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13853050\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13853050\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/03/IMG_3788-800x600.jpeg\" alt=\"Githinji Mbire at Alena Musuem and Art Gallery in West Oakland\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/03/IMG_3788-800x600.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/03/IMG_3788-160x120.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/03/IMG_3788-768x576.jpeg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/03/IMG_3788-1020x765.jpeg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/03/IMG_3788-1200x900.jpeg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/03/IMG_3788-1920x1440.jpeg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/03/IMG_3788.jpeg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Githinji Mbire at Alena Musuem and Art Gallery in West Oakland. // Photo credit Pendarvis Harshaw \u003ccite>(Pendarvis Harshaw)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Monday allowed my cousin to see the other side of Bay Area culture: working… all the time. He buried his head in his psychology notebook while I read, wrote and took phone calls in a café.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That evening my cousin attended \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/second_mondays/\">Second Mondays\u003c/a>, an open mic series hosted in \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/afropics1/\">Tayleur Crenshaw\u003c/a>‘s living room. I’d gone to last month’s event, and although I was few years older than most folks in the room, I was there for the vibe. The 25–30 poets, comedians and artists gathered there on a Monday evening were further evidence that there’s a need for safe spaces for artists of color to simply come together and \u003cem>be\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Taevon was starting to see that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He was also starting to see that women in the Bay Area are uniquely beautiful. When I picked him up from the open mic, he told me he met a girl. I asked what she looked like. He said he couldn’t tell what race she was. I said, yup, that’s the Bay Area for ya.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tuesday was the business side of the arts world. He met my KQED family, and got to attend a pitch meeting. He saw the life-sized Big Bird cutout in the green room, and got a peek at Michael Krasny hosting \u003cem>Forum\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And then we ran downtown to have lunch with my friend Teresa Johns at Twitter. Along the way, I asked him to be mindful as to where he sees African American folks in the city. A lot of people who are homeless or in service positions, he observed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Teresa, a white woman with a heart of gold, showed Taevon around Twitter headquarters while I sat in the lobby and took more phone calls. While my cousin didn’t like the jackfruit tacos from Twitter’s lunchroom, he appreciated seeing the inner workings of the tech business.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We ran from there to Bandcamp’s new office in downtown Oakland. When we parked, Taevon said he had some quarters for the meter—and as he put them into the machine, he was shocked to see how little value each coin had. “Damn, it’s expensive here!” he exclaimed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before we dipped into Bandcamp headquarters, I ran across the street to take a photo of some graffiti: the words “RIP King Victor” painted on a wall at Broadway and 19th, further homage to the life of Victor McElhaney.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/dispomax/\">Max Gibson\u003c/a> gave us a quick tour of Bandcamp and a breakdown on how their music streaming business works, we stopped by Youth Radio—just so lil cuz could see where I came from.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13853053\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13853053\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/03/53607267_10102279978037620_2716052307702710272_n-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"A dedication to Victor McElhaney on Broadway in Oakland\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/03/53607267_10102279978037620_2716052307702710272_n-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/03/53607267_10102279978037620_2716052307702710272_n-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/03/53607267_10102279978037620_2716052307702710272_n-768x576.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/03/53607267_10102279978037620_2716052307702710272_n.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A dedication to Victor McElhaney on Broadway in Oakland. // Photo credit Pendarvis Harshaw \u003ccite>(Pendarvis Harshaw)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">L\u003c/span>ater that evening we pulled up to Zoo Labs, where \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/fuzethemc/\">Fuze The MC\u003c/a> gave us a tour, told us about selling a hologram he’d designed, mentioned his new card game—The Meme Game—and played us some cuts from his latest album. Another example of constantly working in order to make it here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before we ran out of Zoo Labs, \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/aquariusjohns/?hl=en\">Jennifer Johns\u003c/a> ran in. I introduced my cousin and told him he just encountered greatness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And then we made a beeline to the other side of town, where \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/kvnalln/\">Kevin Allen\u003c/a> was sitting in a studio, fresh back from a trip to Cuba. He spun a couple of tracks for us—including his new album with \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/rootsanbranches/\">DJ Basta\u003c/a>, which drops next month. And another track, a banger of a song, featuring \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/manidraper/\">Mani Draper\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/iamsu/?hl=en\">IamSu!\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By then, it was late, and time to hit Colonial Donuts for the nightcap.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the final day of his travels, I took my cousin to Richmond where my college buddy, Charles “Chuck T” Turner Jr., recently opened a studio called \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/richcitystudios/?hl=en\">Rich City Studios\u003c/a>. Taevon got an hour or two of studio time, and laid down some vocals on a track—his mission was complete.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13853273\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13853273\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/03/Taevon_Richmond-800x1047.jpg\" alt='Taevon Ransom at Rich City Studios in Richmond // Photo credit Charles \"Chuck T\" Turner Jr. ' width=\"800\" height=\"1047\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/03/Taevon_Richmond-800x1047.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/03/Taevon_Richmond-160x209.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/03/Taevon_Richmond-768x1005.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/03/Taevon_Richmond-1020x1335.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/03/Taevon_Richmond-917x1200.jpg 917w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/03/Taevon_Richmond.jpg 1228w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Taevon Ransom at Rich City Studios in Richmond // Photo credit Charles “Chuck T” Turner Jr. \u003ccite>(Charles \"Chuck T\" Turner Jr. )\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>He networked. He performed. He recorded. He ate well and he even saw family.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before we left Richmond to head to the airport, I poked my head into the \u003ca href=\"http://www.eastbaycenter.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">East Bay Center for the Performing Arts\u003c/a>—just to introduce myself to the organization, which is celebrating its 50th anniversary. In the lobby, there was a memorial table for Victor McElhaney.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Taevon and I then piled into the car to beat the five o’clock traffic. He held the aux cord, playing tracks from folks on the other side of the country, like Lil Tjay, Tae Fresh and Moneybag Yo—a bit of a cultural exchange, if you will. He said the highlight of his trip was the night at Alena—and that the lowlight was not getting any further than just meeting a girl. We laughed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And as drove down 580, near the Grand Avenue exit in Oakland, I pointed out a recently posted hand-printed sign on an overpass: “Love Life 2019.” I told my cousin how that was slogan championed by Lynette Gibson McElhaney a few years ago, as a way to dispel the notion that Oakland is a city of death and despair.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Taevon said he admired how our community is attempting to come together, and wrap their arms around the McElhaney family. He also noted the amount of Maseratis he’d seen casually cruising the streets. He laughed at the fact there was a “packaged” date on a bag of marijuana. He pointed to the deep green springtime East Bay hillside in amazement. He got the experience he bargained for.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I can’t afford to get my family a leg up in college, like some people here in the Bay Area, but I can afford to give them a first class ticket to the wealth that is arts and culture here in the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He’ll be back again soon. And next time, we’re doing Ethiopian food.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The next morning we stood on Faro Point, that little weird peninsula that juts out into the San Leandro Marina, and I gave him the lay of the land: Facebook is that way. E-40 is from up there. And the Pacific Ocean is beyond those funny-shaped buildings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I wiped my hands. Geography was cake. 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I’m talking someone painting on a wall over here, someone hemming jeans over there, someone else drawing on paper in such detail that it looked like a printed photo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And there was incense burning… And someone brought chili.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a back studio, \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/omiiroo/?hl=en\">Githinji Mbire\u003c/a> (you might recognize his work from the scene in \u003cem>Sorry To Bother You\u003c/em>, where Tessa Thompson’s character holds an art opening) was laying out a bunch of art pieces shaped like the continent of Africa—his staple. He’d constructed them from all sorts of pieces of wood, smaller than his other renditions of this design. He told me he plans to sell the small pieces on a sliding scale during the closing event at Alena at the end of this month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wait, Alena is closing? Seven Styles, the space’s manager, confirmed that after a long back-and-forth with the property owner, Alena Musuem will close at the end of the month. And on March 30, \u003ca href=\"https://www.eventbrite.com/e/reclaim-our-city-community-art-and-cultural-festival-tickets-58396770312\">they’re hosting one last party\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I gave my cousin some context about Oakland’s recent history with warehouse spaces used for art and music, and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/ghost-ship-fire\">the story of the Ghost Ship fire\u003c/a>. I told him how that led to stricter regulations of warehouses where artists work, and simultaneously made places for artists of color harder to secure than ever.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>My old man river tale was interrupted by this kid with glasses named \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/jacobdeloakland/\">Jacob Del Oakland\u003c/a>, asking if anyone in the room rapped. The universe knew to connect Jacob—an MC from Oakland who’s currently a senior at Kenyon College in Ohio—to Taevon, who’s currently a sophomore at Ohio University. The duo instantly clicked, grabbed a mic and went to work. They were later joined by \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/ashiakarana/\">Aishia Karana\u003c/a>, who played the guitar and sang a rendition of Andre 3000’s “Prototype,” as \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/cadencemylesmusic/?hl=en\">Cadence Myles\u003c/a> held down the drums.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I laughed as Taevon and Jacob fell the hell back and watched Aishia and Cadence do their thing. So often I’ve seen guys hog the mic in the cipher, but this time the young men just stood back, near the chili that Aishia had brought, and watched in awe for a few.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Taevon and I left with Andre 3000’s words stuck in our heads, and we bent a corner or two before we pulled up to my block. Across the street from my apartment, three candles lit the porch of Councilmember Lynette Gibson McElhaney’s residence. I told Taevon how the family is mourning \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-victor-mcelhaney-usc-student-killed-oakland-son-20190311-story.html\">the recent murder of her son, Victor McElhaney\u003c/a>. Victor, a drummer who was well-known in artists’ circles around Oakland, had been shot and killed in a reported botched robbery on USC’s campus in Los Angeles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With heavy hearts, we called it a night and prepared for the morning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13853050\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13853050\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/03/IMG_3788-800x600.jpeg\" alt=\"Githinji Mbire at Alena Musuem and Art Gallery in West Oakland\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/03/IMG_3788-800x600.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/03/IMG_3788-160x120.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/03/IMG_3788-768x576.jpeg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/03/IMG_3788-1020x765.jpeg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/03/IMG_3788-1200x900.jpeg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/03/IMG_3788-1920x1440.jpeg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/03/IMG_3788.jpeg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Githinji Mbire at Alena Musuem and Art Gallery in West Oakland. // Photo credit Pendarvis Harshaw \u003ccite>(Pendarvis Harshaw)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Monday allowed my cousin to see the other side of Bay Area culture: working… all the time. He buried his head in his psychology notebook while I read, wrote and took phone calls in a café.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That evening my cousin attended \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/second_mondays/\">Second Mondays\u003c/a>, an open mic series hosted in \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/afropics1/\">Tayleur Crenshaw\u003c/a>‘s living room. I’d gone to last month’s event, and although I was few years older than most folks in the room, I was there for the vibe. The 25–30 poets, comedians and artists gathered there on a Monday evening were further evidence that there’s a need for safe spaces for artists of color to simply come together and \u003cem>be\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Taevon was starting to see that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He was also starting to see that women in the Bay Area are uniquely beautiful. When I picked him up from the open mic, he told me he met a girl. I asked what she looked like. He said he couldn’t tell what race she was. I said, yup, that’s the Bay Area for ya.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tuesday was the business side of the arts world. He met my KQED family, and got to attend a pitch meeting. He saw the life-sized Big Bird cutout in the green room, and got a peek at Michael Krasny hosting \u003cem>Forum\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And then we ran downtown to have lunch with my friend Teresa Johns at Twitter. Along the way, I asked him to be mindful as to where he sees African American folks in the city. A lot of people who are homeless or in service positions, he observed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Teresa, a white woman with a heart of gold, showed Taevon around Twitter headquarters while I sat in the lobby and took more phone calls. While my cousin didn’t like the jackfruit tacos from Twitter’s lunchroom, he appreciated seeing the inner workings of the tech business.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We ran from there to Bandcamp’s new office in downtown Oakland. When we parked, Taevon said he had some quarters for the meter—and as he put them into the machine, he was shocked to see how little value each coin had. “Damn, it’s expensive here!” he exclaimed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before we dipped into Bandcamp headquarters, I ran across the street to take a photo of some graffiti: the words “RIP King Victor” painted on a wall at Broadway and 19th, further homage to the life of Victor McElhaney.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/dispomax/\">Max Gibson\u003c/a> gave us a quick tour of Bandcamp and a breakdown on how their music streaming business works, we stopped by Youth Radio—just so lil cuz could see where I came from.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13853053\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13853053\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/03/53607267_10102279978037620_2716052307702710272_n-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"A dedication to Victor McElhaney on Broadway in Oakland\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/03/53607267_10102279978037620_2716052307702710272_n-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/03/53607267_10102279978037620_2716052307702710272_n-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/03/53607267_10102279978037620_2716052307702710272_n-768x576.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/03/53607267_10102279978037620_2716052307702710272_n.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A dedication to Victor McElhaney on Broadway in Oakland. // Photo credit Pendarvis Harshaw \u003ccite>(Pendarvis Harshaw)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">L\u003c/span>ater that evening we pulled up to Zoo Labs, where \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/fuzethemc/\">Fuze The MC\u003c/a> gave us a tour, told us about selling a hologram he’d designed, mentioned his new card game—The Meme Game—and played us some cuts from his latest album. Another example of constantly working in order to make it here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before we ran out of Zoo Labs, \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/aquariusjohns/?hl=en\">Jennifer Johns\u003c/a> ran in. I introduced my cousin and told him he just encountered greatness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And then we made a beeline to the other side of town, where \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/kvnalln/\">Kevin Allen\u003c/a> was sitting in a studio, fresh back from a trip to Cuba. He spun a couple of tracks for us—including his new album with \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/rootsanbranches/\">DJ Basta\u003c/a>, which drops next month. And another track, a banger of a song, featuring \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/manidraper/\">Mani Draper\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/iamsu/?hl=en\">IamSu!\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By then, it was late, and time to hit Colonial Donuts for the nightcap.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the final day of his travels, I took my cousin to Richmond where my college buddy, Charles “Chuck T” Turner Jr., recently opened a studio called \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/richcitystudios/?hl=en\">Rich City Studios\u003c/a>. 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