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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\">O\u003c/span>n a recent Sunday, in the parking lot behind the California Hotel on Oakland’s San Pablo Avenue, the Harvest Festival is bustling. Parents line up for plates of barbecue; kids decorate pumpkins in the pumpkin patch; and neighbors of all ages hang out while a DJ spins funk, soul and old school R&B.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The scene is just one example of how longtime, mostly African-American West Oakland residents are revitalizing a formerly blighted stretch of San Pablo Avenue with the help of \u003ca href=\"http://ebaldc.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">East Bay Asian Local Development Corporation\u003c/a> (EBALDC), one of Oakland’s largest affordable housing developers. Soon, the California Hotel will be at the center of a new cultural hub that will include a music venue, recording studio, restaurant, black culinary collective and a youth-focused music education program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Such efforts began in 2011, when EBALDC purchased the California Hotel and converted it into 137 below–market-rate units, mostly studio apartments. The hotel, which had been vacant since 2007, is part of an EBALDC project called \u003ca href=\"http://ebaldc.org/what-we-do/neighborhood-collaborations/sparc/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">SPARC\u003c/a>, or San Pablo Area Revitalization Collaborative, which seeks to cultivate a cultural hub on San Pablo Avenue that harks back to West Oakland’s legacy as a stronghold of black business.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13844013\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13844013\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/11/CA-Hotel-800x646.png\" alt=\"The California Hotel. \" width=\"800\" height=\"646\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/11/CA-Hotel-800x646.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/11/CA-Hotel-160x129.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/11/CA-Hotel-768x620.png 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/11/CA-Hotel-1020x824.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/11/CA-Hotel-960x775.png 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/11/CA-Hotel-240x194.png 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/11/CA-Hotel-375x303.png 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/11/CA-Hotel-520x420.png 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/11/CA-Hotel.png 1106w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The California Hotel. \u003ccite>(EBALDC)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“There’s a beautiful history in place here,” says EBALDC’s associate director of neighborhood collaborations, Romi Hall, adding EBALDC will begin construction on affordable family housing on the same block next year. “I think we’ve got to work really hard to preserve that part of the story and make it new, and that’s what we’re really trying to do in the neighborhood in partnership with residents.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As early as February 2019, the California Hotel will open a new brick-and-mortar location of popular Oakland eatery \u003ca href=\"https://www.icravebbq.com/copy-of-home-1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Crave BBQ\u003c/a> (which recently closed its pop-up on 17th and Center Streets). Crave BBQ’s new space will feature a music venue, The New Zanzibar Stage. It gets its name from the California Hotel’s original restaurant, The Zanzibar, where prominent performers like Billie Holiday, James Brown, Ray Charles, B.B. King, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13819256/tell-em-about-the-dream-kronos-quartet-explores-moment-mlk-went-off-script\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mahalia Jackson\u003c/a>, Pete Escovedo and Big Mama Thornton once played.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://opcmusic.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Oakland Public Conservatory of Music\u003c/a> (OPC), a music education nonprofit specializing in African American musical traditions, is collaborating with Crave BBQ on concert and educational programming at the new space. OPC’s founding director Angela Wellman says that while The New Zanzibar will honor the hotel’s legacy of jazz, blues, funk, soul and Latin music, it will also cater to young people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s going to be music that’s grounded in the African American experience,” she says. “But we have to try to stay relevant. We can’t reinvent a museum type of situation—that’s what it would be, like a living museum. That will be part of what we’re doing, but we also have to be relevant and make sure we showcase exactly what’s happening right now and how the music is continuing to evolve.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13844010\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13844010\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/11/ca-hotel-2-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"EBALDC's Romi Hall. \" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/11/ca-hotel-2-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/11/ca-hotel-2-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/11/ca-hotel-2-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/11/ca-hotel-2-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/11/ca-hotel-2-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/11/ca-hotel-2.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/11/ca-hotel-2-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/11/ca-hotel-2-960x640.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/11/ca-hotel-2-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/11/ca-hotel-2-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/11/ca-hotel-2-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">EBALDC’s Romi Hall. \u003ccite>(Nastia Voynovskaya)\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>mid Oakland’s rising real estate prices, EBALDC’s below–market-rate commercial rents are a big reason African-American small businesses and nonprofits have been able to anchor themselves in the neighborhood. OPC moved into the California Hotel’s downstairs commercial space a year ago after being displaced from its previous location in 2014. And \u003ca href=\"https://blackballuniverse.bandcamp.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Blackball Universe\u003c/a>, Grammy-winning Oakland musician \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/11836975/oakland-on-the-precipice-a-video-postcard-with-fantastic-negrito\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Fantastic Negrito\u003c/a>‘s record label, found a home in another EBALDC property down the block—a former liquor store—after losing its previous Jack London Square location.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cultural preservation is front-of-mind for the new EBALDC tenants as Oakland’s black population continues to decline amid ongoing gentrification. (African Americans made up 47 percent of Oakland’s population in 1980, compared to 24.7 percent according to the \u003ca href=\"https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/fact/table/oaklandcitycalifornia/RHI125217#viewtop\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">latest census estimate\u003c/a>.) “The way to sustain our culture is to make sure young people are acquiring skills to sustain it,” says Wellman, adding that she and Rashad Armstead, the owner of Crave BBQ, will offer workshops and activities for young people interested in the music and restaurant businesses.[contextly_sidebar id=”k77Kc9PvZ1cZ76SY09YMV8xm0vHyY9HV”]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When the California hotel opened in 1929, West Oakland was a thriving African-American and Latino neighborhood with an active cultural scene. That changed in the 1950s, ’60s and ’70s, when infrastructure projects like the interstate highway system, BART and the U.S. Postal Service building on 7th Street displaced many of West Oakland’s cultural institutions and longtime residents. In the ’70s and ’80s, the crack epidemic and mass incarceration further ravaged the community. And in recent years, West Oakland became the front line of a culture war as wealthier, whiter residents move in and upscale coffee shops and luxury apartment buildings spring up near homeless encampments and under-resourced schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have a lot of deep connections to West Oakland. My great-grandmother opened her first restaurant in the ’60s, back when 7th Street was all black businesses,” says Armstead. He plans to run a black food collective out of his new space, with food trucks, guest chefs, consumer products and and live cooking demos from black-owned businesses. The goal is to share resources with other black restaurateurs getting their projects off the ground.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That is our way of combating gentrification,” says Armstead. “Almost like setting the culture for businesses coming in here, letting them know we’re not going anywhere.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13844008\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13844008\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/11/ca-hotel-1-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Annette Miller of the Hoover/Foster Resident Action Council.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/11/ca-hotel-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/11/ca-hotel-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/11/ca-hotel-1-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/11/ca-hotel-1-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/11/ca-hotel-1-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/11/ca-hotel-1.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/11/ca-hotel-1-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/11/ca-hotel-1-960x640.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/11/ca-hotel-1-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/11/ca-hotel-1-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/11/ca-hotel-1-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Annette Miller of the Hoover/Foster Resident Action Council. \u003ccite>(Nastia Voynovskaya)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Local residents seem to resonate with this mission. Annette Miller, who was handing out handmade gift baskets to kids at the Harvest Festival’s pumpkin patch when I visited, is a lifelong West Oaklander who went through an \u003ca href=\"https://www.modernluxury.com/san-francisco/story/the-guardians-of-ghost-town\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">arduous fight\u003c/a> to save her grandmother’s home from foreclosure. Not long after winning her house back, Miller’s 19-year-old son was shot and killed. Those experiences motivated her to pour herself into community organizing; she’s the chair of a neighborhood advocacy group called the Hoover/Foster Resident Action Council, which supports EBALDC’s efforts to revitalize San Pablo Avenue.[contextly_sidebar id=”g4PVE00FJ2GSEOO9O1urHJBOlubwSCrT”]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My thing is, even though I lost my loss, I feel that I still need to stay connected to the community to let folks know, there’s actually different ways to heal, like meetings, being around kids, support organizations,” she tells me while helping a little girl with glitter on her cheeks select a pumpkin. “As long as I mix myself with other organizations like SPARC, I believe we can make a difference.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During my visit, I check out another party in the California Hotel’s downstairs rec room, where residents of all ages serve themselves from a soul food steam table as one neighbor regales them with his conga playing. “[The residents] hold a lot of history, they have a lot of opinions on how things should play out,” says Monique Kennedy, EBALDC’s West Oakland resident services manager. Her job is to help the residents of the hotel and neighboring EBALDC properties coordinate events and advocate for their interests.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13844023\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13844023\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/11/CAHotel-800x506.jpg\" alt=\"The lobby of the California Hotel in West Oakland.\" width=\"800\" height=\"506\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/11/CAHotel-800x506.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/11/CAHotel-160x101.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/11/CAHotel-768x486.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/11/CAHotel-1020x645.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/11/CAHotel-1200x759.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/11/CAHotel.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/11/CAHotel-1180x746.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/11/CAHotel-960x607.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/11/CAHotel-240x152.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/11/CAHotel-375x237.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/11/CAHotel-520x329.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The lobby of the California Hotel in West Oakland. \u003ccite>(Nastia Voynovskaya)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We wanted to come here because we wanted to be part of a solution to rebuild our neighborhoods,” says Field, the manager of Blackball Universe, which released Fantastic Negrito’s 2016 album titled \u003cem>The Last Days of Oakland\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We wanted Blackball Universe to help create the type of environment we feel is necessary in Oakland—now, before it’s gone. Black Oakland is rapidly declining, and if we’re not part of the solution to help establish something, we’re participating in the decline.”\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\">O\u003c/span>n a recent Sunday, in the parking lot behind the California Hotel on Oakland’s San Pablo Avenue, the Harvest Festival is bustling. Parents line up for plates of barbecue; kids decorate pumpkins in the pumpkin patch; and neighbors of all ages hang out while a DJ spins funk, soul and old school R&B.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The scene is just one example of how longtime, mostly African-American West Oakland residents are revitalizing a formerly blighted stretch of San Pablo Avenue with the help of \u003ca href=\"http://ebaldc.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">East Bay Asian Local Development Corporation\u003c/a> (EBALDC), one of Oakland’s largest affordable housing developers. Soon, the California Hotel will be at the center of a new cultural hub that will include a music venue, recording studio, restaurant, black culinary collective and a youth-focused music education program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Such efforts began in 2011, when EBALDC purchased the California Hotel and converted it into 137 below–market-rate units, mostly studio apartments. The hotel, which had been vacant since 2007, is part of an EBALDC project called \u003ca href=\"http://ebaldc.org/what-we-do/neighborhood-collaborations/sparc/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">SPARC\u003c/a>, or San Pablo Area Revitalization Collaborative, which seeks to cultivate a cultural hub on San Pablo Avenue that harks back to West Oakland’s legacy as a stronghold of black business.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13844013\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13844013\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/11/CA-Hotel-800x646.png\" alt=\"The California Hotel. \" width=\"800\" height=\"646\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/11/CA-Hotel-800x646.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/11/CA-Hotel-160x129.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/11/CA-Hotel-768x620.png 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/11/CA-Hotel-1020x824.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/11/CA-Hotel-960x775.png 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/11/CA-Hotel-240x194.png 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/11/CA-Hotel-375x303.png 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/11/CA-Hotel-520x420.png 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/11/CA-Hotel.png 1106w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The California Hotel. \u003ccite>(EBALDC)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“There’s a beautiful history in place here,” says EBALDC’s associate director of neighborhood collaborations, Romi Hall, adding EBALDC will begin construction on affordable family housing on the same block next year. “I think we’ve got to work really hard to preserve that part of the story and make it new, and that’s what we’re really trying to do in the neighborhood in partnership with residents.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As early as February 2019, the California Hotel will open a new brick-and-mortar location of popular Oakland eatery \u003ca href=\"https://www.icravebbq.com/copy-of-home-1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Crave BBQ\u003c/a> (which recently closed its pop-up on 17th and Center Streets). Crave BBQ’s new space will feature a music venue, The New Zanzibar Stage. It gets its name from the California Hotel’s original restaurant, The Zanzibar, where prominent performers like Billie Holiday, James Brown, Ray Charles, B.B. King, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13819256/tell-em-about-the-dream-kronos-quartet-explores-moment-mlk-went-off-script\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mahalia Jackson\u003c/a>, Pete Escovedo and Big Mama Thornton once played.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://opcmusic.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Oakland Public Conservatory of Music\u003c/a> (OPC), a music education nonprofit specializing in African American musical traditions, is collaborating with Crave BBQ on concert and educational programming at the new space. OPC’s founding director Angela Wellman says that while The New Zanzibar will honor the hotel’s legacy of jazz, blues, funk, soul and Latin music, it will also cater to young people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s going to be music that’s grounded in the African American experience,” she says. “But we have to try to stay relevant. We can’t reinvent a museum type of situation—that’s what it would be, like a living museum. That will be part of what we’re doing, but we also have to be relevant and make sure we showcase exactly what’s happening right now and how the music is continuing to evolve.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13844010\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13844010\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/11/ca-hotel-2-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"EBALDC's Romi Hall. \" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/11/ca-hotel-2-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/11/ca-hotel-2-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/11/ca-hotel-2-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/11/ca-hotel-2-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/11/ca-hotel-2-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/11/ca-hotel-2.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/11/ca-hotel-2-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/11/ca-hotel-2-960x640.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/11/ca-hotel-2-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/11/ca-hotel-2-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/11/ca-hotel-2-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">EBALDC’s Romi Hall. \u003ccite>(Nastia Voynovskaya)\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>mid Oakland’s rising real estate prices, EBALDC’s below–market-rate commercial rents are a big reason African-American small businesses and nonprofits have been able to anchor themselves in the neighborhood. OPC moved into the California Hotel’s downstairs commercial space a year ago after being displaced from its previous location in 2014. And \u003ca href=\"https://blackballuniverse.bandcamp.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Blackball Universe\u003c/a>, Grammy-winning Oakland musician \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/11836975/oakland-on-the-precipice-a-video-postcard-with-fantastic-negrito\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Fantastic Negrito\u003c/a>‘s record label, found a home in another EBALDC property down the block—a former liquor store—after losing its previous Jack London Square location.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cultural preservation is front-of-mind for the new EBALDC tenants as Oakland’s black population continues to decline amid ongoing gentrification. (African Americans made up 47 percent of Oakland’s population in 1980, compared to 24.7 percent according to the \u003ca href=\"https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/fact/table/oaklandcitycalifornia/RHI125217#viewtop\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">latest census estimate\u003c/a>.) “The way to sustain our culture is to make sure young people are acquiring skills to sustain it,” says Wellman, adding that she and Rashad Armstead, the owner of Crave BBQ, will offer workshops and activities for young people interested in the music and restaurant businesses.\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When the California hotel opened in 1929, West Oakland was a thriving African-American and Latino neighborhood with an active cultural scene. That changed in the 1950s, ’60s and ’70s, when infrastructure projects like the interstate highway system, BART and the U.S. Postal Service building on 7th Street displaced many of West Oakland’s cultural institutions and longtime residents. In the ’70s and ’80s, the crack epidemic and mass incarceration further ravaged the community. And in recent years, West Oakland became the front line of a culture war as wealthier, whiter residents move in and upscale coffee shops and luxury apartment buildings spring up near homeless encampments and under-resourced schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have a lot of deep connections to West Oakland. My great-grandmother opened her first restaurant in the ’60s, back when 7th Street was all black businesses,” says Armstead. He plans to run a black food collective out of his new space, with food trucks, guest chefs, consumer products and and live cooking demos from black-owned businesses. The goal is to share resources with other black restaurateurs getting their projects off the ground.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That is our way of combating gentrification,” says Armstead. “Almost like setting the culture for businesses coming in here, letting them know we’re not going anywhere.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13844008\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13844008\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/11/ca-hotel-1-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Annette Miller of the Hoover/Foster Resident Action Council.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/11/ca-hotel-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/11/ca-hotel-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/11/ca-hotel-1-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/11/ca-hotel-1-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/11/ca-hotel-1-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/11/ca-hotel-1.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/11/ca-hotel-1-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/11/ca-hotel-1-960x640.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/11/ca-hotel-1-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/11/ca-hotel-1-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/11/ca-hotel-1-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Annette Miller of the Hoover/Foster Resident Action Council. \u003ccite>(Nastia Voynovskaya)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Local residents seem to resonate with this mission. Annette Miller, who was handing out handmade gift baskets to kids at the Harvest Festival’s pumpkin patch when I visited, is a lifelong West Oaklander who went through an \u003ca href=\"https://www.modernluxury.com/san-francisco/story/the-guardians-of-ghost-town\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">arduous fight\u003c/a> to save her grandmother’s home from foreclosure. Not long after winning her house back, Miller’s 19-year-old son was shot and killed. Those experiences motivated her to pour herself into community organizing; she’s the chair of a neighborhood advocacy group called the Hoover/Foster Resident Action Council, which supports EBALDC’s efforts to revitalize San Pablo Avenue.\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My thing is, even though I lost my loss, I feel that I still need to stay connected to the community to let folks know, there’s actually different ways to heal, like meetings, being around kids, support organizations,” she tells me while helping a little girl with glitter on her cheeks select a pumpkin. “As long as I mix myself with other organizations like SPARC, I believe we can make a difference.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During my visit, I check out another party in the California Hotel’s downstairs rec room, where residents of all ages serve themselves from a soul food steam table as one neighbor regales them with his conga playing. “[The residents] hold a lot of history, they have a lot of opinions on how things should play out,” says Monique Kennedy, EBALDC’s West Oakland resident services manager. Her job is to help the residents of the hotel and neighboring EBALDC properties coordinate events and advocate for their interests.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13844023\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13844023\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/11/CAHotel-800x506.jpg\" alt=\"The lobby of the California Hotel in West Oakland.\" width=\"800\" height=\"506\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/11/CAHotel-800x506.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/11/CAHotel-160x101.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/11/CAHotel-768x486.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/11/CAHotel-1020x645.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/11/CAHotel-1200x759.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/11/CAHotel.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/11/CAHotel-1180x746.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/11/CAHotel-960x607.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/11/CAHotel-240x152.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/11/CAHotel-375x237.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/11/CAHotel-520x329.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The lobby of the California Hotel in West Oakland. \u003ccite>(Nastia Voynovskaya)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We wanted to come here because we wanted to be part of a solution to rebuild our neighborhoods,” says Field, the manager of Blackball Universe, which released Fantastic Negrito’s 2016 album titled \u003cem>The Last Days of Oakland\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>For Black History Month, a Bay Area filmmaker is touring San Mateo County libraries to talk about the history of West Oakland blues. Most of us have heard about it, in general terms, but there’s a lot to love in the nitty gritty.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Director Cheryl Fabio covers a lot of ground in her documentary, \u003ca href=\"https://evolutionarybluesfilm.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Evolutionary Blues: West Oakland’s Music Legacy\u003c/a>. “I mean, I even discovered music that I had grown up with and didn’t realize it was coming out of Oakland!” Fabio says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Take \u003cem>The Thrill Is Gone\u003c/em>. Originally recorded in Oakland in 1951, it became a huge crossover hit for B.B. King years later in 1969.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13823597\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13823597\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/02/RS29225_Screen-Shot-2018-02-01-at-8.08.56-PM-800x450.jpg\" alt=\""Certainly, the pain and suffering won't go anywhere. So, there'll be a need to sing the blues for a long time," says club owner Geoffrey Pete in the documentary "Evolutionary Blues."\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/02/RS29225_Screen-Shot-2018-02-01-at-8.08.56-PM-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/02/RS29225_Screen-Shot-2018-02-01-at-8.08.56-PM-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/02/RS29225_Screen-Shot-2018-02-01-at-8.08.56-PM-768x432.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/02/RS29225_Screen-Shot-2018-02-01-at-8.08.56-PM-240x135.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/02/RS29225_Screen-Shot-2018-02-01-at-8.08.56-PM-375x211.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/02/RS29225_Screen-Shot-2018-02-01-at-8.08.56-PM-520x292.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/02/RS29225_Screen-Shot-2018-02-01-at-8.08.56-PM.jpg 841w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">“Certainly, the pain and suffering won’t go anywhere. So, there’ll be a need to sing the blues for a long time,” says club owner Geoffrey Pete in the documentary “Evolutionary Blues.” \u003ccite>(Photo: Courtesy of Cheryl Fabio)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Fabio recalls another song, \u003ci>As We Were. \u003c/i>She was shocked to discover it was written by Paul Tillman Smith, who is local. “I knew Paul in high school. I had no idea that was his song! That just floored me, because it’s one of my favorite songs.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The glory days of Oakland blues lasted from the 1920s through the early 60s. So where did that blues scene go? urban quote-unquote redevelopment in the 1960s devastated what was once a vibrant neighborhood home to musicians, clubs and the people who filled those clubs. In more recent years, rising rents have forced even more people out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But today, as in yesteryear, there are plenty of reasons to continue singing the blues. Fabio says, “It’s the story of being done badly, and so anybody can participate in that story.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13823598\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-13823598 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/02/RS29226_Screen-Shot-2018-02-01-at-8.11.22-PM-800x445.jpg\" alt=\"Faye Carol, a blues and jazz singer, says in the documentary "Evolutionary Blues" that the genre has evolved dynamically over the years. "It morphs itself in so many ways, that you don't even know it's the blues."\" width=\"800\" height=\"445\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/02/RS29226_Screen-Shot-2018-02-01-at-8.11.22-PM-800x445.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/02/RS29226_Screen-Shot-2018-02-01-at-8.11.22-PM-160x89.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/02/RS29226_Screen-Shot-2018-02-01-at-8.11.22-PM-768x427.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/02/RS29226_Screen-Shot-2018-02-01-at-8.11.22-PM-240x133.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/02/RS29226_Screen-Shot-2018-02-01-at-8.11.22-PM-375x209.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/02/RS29226_Screen-Shot-2018-02-01-at-8.11.22-PM-520x289.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/02/RS29226_Screen-Shot-2018-02-01-at-8.11.22-PM.jpg 847w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Faye Carol, a blues and jazz singer, says in the documentary “Evolutionary Blues” that the genre has evolved dynamically over the years. “It morphs itself in so many ways, that you don’t even know it’s the blues.” \u003ccite>(Photo: Courtesy of Cheryl Fabio)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The documentary chronicles the rise of blues music in the Jim Crow south, as well as how the Great Migration brought an influx of African-Americans keen to hear the music they grew up with. Bay Area musicians were more than happy to oblige, and they collaborated with each other to produce new musical innovations and influence artists all over the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This explains why you can hear the influence of the blues in jazz, R&B, soul, hip hop, and rap. Although it must be said there are still plenty of people who compose and perform blues music today, in the Bay Area and beyond.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fortunately for us, a lot of the old time music is available online — but not “Evolutionary Blues,” which \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/2017/09/25/evolutionary-blues-resurrects-west-oaklands-musical-legacy/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">premiered Sept. 27\u003c/a> at Oakland’s Grand Lake Theatre. Fabio doesn’t have theatrical rights lined up yet, but she’s been running community screenings all over the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>To learn more about where and when the documentary is playing, look \u003ca href=\"https://evolutionarybluesfilm.com/screenings\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cstrong>here\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>For Black History Month, a Bay Area filmmaker is touring San Mateo County libraries to talk about the history of West Oakland blues. Most of us have heard about it, in general terms, but there’s a lot to love in the nitty gritty.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Director Cheryl Fabio covers a lot of ground in her documentary, \u003ca href=\"https://evolutionarybluesfilm.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Evolutionary Blues: West Oakland’s Music Legacy\u003c/a>. “I mean, I even discovered music that I had grown up with and didn’t realize it was coming out of Oakland!” Fabio says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Take \u003cem>The Thrill Is Gone\u003c/em>. Originally recorded in Oakland in 1951, it became a huge crossover hit for B.B. King years later in 1969.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13823597\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13823597\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/02/RS29225_Screen-Shot-2018-02-01-at-8.08.56-PM-800x450.jpg\" alt=\""Certainly, the pain and suffering won't go anywhere. So, there'll be a need to sing the blues for a long time," says club owner Geoffrey Pete in the documentary "Evolutionary Blues."\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/02/RS29225_Screen-Shot-2018-02-01-at-8.08.56-PM-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/02/RS29225_Screen-Shot-2018-02-01-at-8.08.56-PM-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/02/RS29225_Screen-Shot-2018-02-01-at-8.08.56-PM-768x432.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/02/RS29225_Screen-Shot-2018-02-01-at-8.08.56-PM-240x135.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/02/RS29225_Screen-Shot-2018-02-01-at-8.08.56-PM-375x211.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/02/RS29225_Screen-Shot-2018-02-01-at-8.08.56-PM-520x292.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/02/RS29225_Screen-Shot-2018-02-01-at-8.08.56-PM.jpg 841w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">“Certainly, the pain and suffering won’t go anywhere. So, there’ll be a need to sing the blues for a long time,” says club owner Geoffrey Pete in the documentary “Evolutionary Blues.” \u003ccite>(Photo: Courtesy of Cheryl Fabio)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Fabio recalls another song, \u003ci>As We Were. \u003c/i>She was shocked to discover it was written by Paul Tillman Smith, who is local. “I knew Paul in high school. I had no idea that was his song! That just floored me, because it’s one of my favorite songs.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The glory days of Oakland blues lasted from the 1920s through the early 60s. So where did that blues scene go? urban quote-unquote redevelopment in the 1960s devastated what was once a vibrant neighborhood home to musicians, clubs and the people who filled those clubs. In more recent years, rising rents have forced even more people out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But today, as in yesteryear, there are plenty of reasons to continue singing the blues. Fabio says, “It’s the story of being done badly, and so anybody can participate in that story.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13823598\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-13823598 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/02/RS29226_Screen-Shot-2018-02-01-at-8.11.22-PM-800x445.jpg\" alt=\"Faye Carol, a blues and jazz singer, says in the documentary "Evolutionary Blues" that the genre has evolved dynamically over the years. "It morphs itself in so many ways, that you don't even know it's the blues."\" width=\"800\" height=\"445\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/02/RS29226_Screen-Shot-2018-02-01-at-8.11.22-PM-800x445.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/02/RS29226_Screen-Shot-2018-02-01-at-8.11.22-PM-160x89.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/02/RS29226_Screen-Shot-2018-02-01-at-8.11.22-PM-768x427.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/02/RS29226_Screen-Shot-2018-02-01-at-8.11.22-PM-240x133.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/02/RS29226_Screen-Shot-2018-02-01-at-8.11.22-PM-375x209.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/02/RS29226_Screen-Shot-2018-02-01-at-8.11.22-PM-520x289.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/02/RS29226_Screen-Shot-2018-02-01-at-8.11.22-PM.jpg 847w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Faye Carol, a blues and jazz singer, says in the documentary “Evolutionary Blues” that the genre has evolved dynamically over the years. “It morphs itself in so many ways, that you don’t even know it’s the blues.” \u003ccite>(Photo: Courtesy of Cheryl Fabio)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The documentary chronicles the rise of blues music in the Jim Crow south, as well as how the Great Migration brought an influx of African-Americans keen to hear the music they grew up with. Bay Area musicians were more than happy to oblige, and they collaborated with each other to produce new musical innovations and influence artists all over the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This explains why you can hear the influence of the blues in jazz, R&B, soul, hip hop, and rap. Although it must be said there are still plenty of people who compose and perform blues music today, in the Bay Area and beyond.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fortunately for us, a lot of the old time music is available online — but not “Evolutionary Blues,” which \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/2017/09/25/evolutionary-blues-resurrects-west-oaklands-musical-legacy/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">premiered Sept. 27\u003c/a> at Oakland’s Grand Lake Theatre. Fabio doesn’t have theatrical rights lined up yet, but she’s been running community screenings all over the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>To learn more about where and when the documentary is playing, look \u003ca href=\"https://evolutionarybluesfilm.com/screenings\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cstrong>here\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>The new documentary \u003ca href=\"http://www.swfcenter4sj.org/evolutionary-blues.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cem>Evolutionary Blues: West Oakland’s Music Legacy\u003c/em>\u003c/a> examines a timely topic: the ways in which art, and specifically music, is constantly changing in concert with larger sociopolitical forces. The film, by director Cheryl Fabio, traces how hymns sung by slaves picking cotton transformed into the blues, which begat rock ‘n’ roll, funk, and even elements of hip-hop.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alabama Mike, one of many East Bay musicians featured in the film, sums up this progression aptly: “The blues had babies.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the music has evolved, the reason for its existence remains obstinately rooted. The blues emerged as the collective, mournful wail of people trampled by America’s system of white supremacy. Fabio weaves politics into the narrative of music history to show how the migrants who fled the Jim Crow south were unable to escape institutionalized racism — and neither were the generations that followed. African Americans weren’t lynched in Oakland, but their homes were stolen and smashed during the era of “urban renewal.” Their grandchildren and great-grandchildren are still being targeted and killed in the streets by police.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fabio, a long-time Oaklander, doesn’t have an academic expertise in the blues, but still felt qualified to make a movie about the genre. “I’ve been black all my life,” she explains.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13809488\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/09/crew-trainstation-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Filmmaker Cheryl Fabio (center) on set at 16th Street Station. \" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13809488\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/09/crew-trainstation.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/09/crew-trainstation-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/09/crew-trainstation-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/09/crew-trainstation-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/09/crew-trainstation-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/09/crew-trainstation-520x346.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Filmmaker Cheryl Fabio (center) on set at 16th Street Station. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Evolutionary Blues/Cheryl Fabio)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Evolutionary Blues\u003c/em> was originally intended as a one-hour special for \u003ca href=\"http://www2.oaklandnet.com/government/o/CityClerk/s/KTOP/index.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">KTOP\u003c/a>, the City of Oakland’s public access TV channel that broadcasts local government meetings. Once Fabio began her research, though, she was flooded with so many stories that it turned into a two-year project, culminating in the feature-length film that\u003ca href=\"https://www.eventbrite.com/e/evolutionary-blues-west-oaklands-music-legacy-tickets-36852277153?aff=efbeventtix\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">premieres at the Grand Lake Theater\u003c/a> on Sept. 27 before hitting the festival circuit. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It wasn’t our intent to go this big, but it was too fascinating to squelch it, so we let it grow,” she says. \u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">The people brought the sounds with them, and once they became city people, the sounds evolved — because they was evolving. \u003ccite>Faye Carol, singer\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Citing one example of how community involvement made the film possible, Fabio explained that when she couldn’t afford to license archival photos of performers like James Brown and T-Bone Walker, a local photographer offered images from his personal collection for free. The DIY spirit behind the film is reminiscent of the mid-century West Oakland that \u003cem>Evolutionary Blues\u003c/em> vividly brings back to life. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During World War II, the demand for workers sparked the biggest black population boom in Oakland’s history. Most of the new arrivals settled near the shipyards to be close to their jobs — and also because housing segregation was strictly enforced throughout the Bay Area. As black families primarily from Texas, Louisiana, Arkansas, and Oklahoma moved in, white homeowners subdivided their Victorians into rental units and moved out to East Oakland. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 7th Street corridor quickly became a thriving hub for black-owned businesses, including many nightclubs, and the musical styles that new residents brought with them blended into a fresh concoction: West Coast Blues. In an interview filmed inside West Oakland’s historic, crumbling \u003ca href=\"https://localwiki.org/oakland/16th_Street_Station\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">16th Street Station\u003c/a>, award-winning singer Faye Carol explained, “The people brought the sounds with them and once they became city people, the sounds evolved — because they was evolving.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13809491\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/09/IMG_1911-800x800.jpg\" alt=\"Legendary 7th Street blues club Esther's Orbit Room shuttered in 2011. \" width=\"800\" height=\"800\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13809491\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/09/IMG_1911.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/09/IMG_1911-160x160.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/09/IMG_1911-768x768.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/09/IMG_1911-240x240.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/09/IMG_1911-375x375.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/09/IMG_1911-520x520.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/09/IMG_1911-32x32.jpg 32w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/09/IMG_1911-50x50.jpg 50w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/09/IMG_1911-64x64.jpg 64w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/09/IMG_1911-96x96.jpg 96w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/09/IMG_1911-128x128.jpg 128w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/09/IMG_1911-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Legendary 7th Street blues club Esther’s Orbit Room shuttered in 2011. \u003ccite>(Liam O'Donoghue)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In the late 1940s, record producer Bob Geddins launched a massively influential though often overlooked studio, and several record labels. The Pullman Porters, a politically active union of Black railroad workers, helped distribute Geddins’ recordings of blues pioneers such as Lowell Fulson and Jimmy McCracklin across the country. West Oakland turned into a magnet for aspiring musicians like B.B. King, who visited frequently, and T-Bone Walker, who became famous for doing the splits while playing guitar and was called “the greatest entertainer of all time” by Chuck Berry. Other stars of the scene included Big Mama Thornton, renowned for making “Hound Dog” a hit three years before Elvis Presley, and Sugar Pie DeSanto, a firecracker known for leaping from pianos with James Brown, who is \u003ca href=\"https://www.eastbayexpress.com/oakland/sugar-pie-desantos-delicious-soul/Content?oid=7694048\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">still playing shows\u003c/a> at 81 years old. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unfortunately, video recordings of juke joint performances during the height of this scene are virtually nonexistent, but Fabio makes up for the lack of archival footage with rich recollections from folks who were actually there, like the aforementioned DeSanto. These stories, along with a thumping soundtrack and gorgeous black-and-white photos from the collection of \u003ca href=\"https://www.arcadiapublishing.com/Products/9781467125659\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">E.F. Joseph\u003c/a> — an Oakland photojournalist who obsessively documented local black cultural events for more than five decades — give the documentary an intimate, visceral feel. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This era captured in \u003cem>Evolutionary Blues\u003c/em> ended abruptly when swaths of the neighborhood, including most of 7th Street, were demolished to make room for massive infrastructure projects, including Interstate 880, BART, and an enormous U.S. Post Office facility. Thousands of residents were pushed out with little compensation through eminent domain. Decommissioned military tanks were used to crush one of America’s most vital black communities into rubble. (Yes, really — the photos are devastating.) As the film shifts into the post-blues era, the viewer is left grappling with these traumatic images, making it difficult to fully appreciate the chapters exploring 1960s and ’70s funk — and that music’s connection to another Oakland institution: The Black Panther Party. \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13809492\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/09/SugarPie_1-800x1196.jpg\" alt=\"Sugar Pie DeSanto, an Oakland blues icon, still performs today.\" width=\"800\" height=\"1196\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13809492\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/09/SugarPie_1.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/09/SugarPie_1-160x239.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/09/SugarPie_1-768x1148.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/09/SugarPie_1-240x359.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/09/SugarPie_1-375x561.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/09/SugarPie_1-520x777.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sugar Pie DeSanto, an Oakland blues icon, still performs today. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Sugar Pie DeSanto)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In recent years, historic venue \u003ca href=\"https://www.eastbayexpress.com/oakland/elis-mile-high-club-in-west-oakland-celebrates-its-blues-legacy-this-weekend/Content?oid=5307834\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Eli’s Mile High Club\u003c/a>, now primarily known as a punk bar, has begun hosting blues nights to bring local legends back to its storied stage. But according to Geoffrey Pete, long-time owner of downtown venue Geoffrey’s Inner Circle, black businesses are still facing institutional discrimination, and have limited opportunities to rebuild the scene or preserve its legacy. Pete’s club was \u003ca href=\"https://www.eastbayexpress.com/oakland/cops-charging-overtime-to-clubs/Content?oid=2491919\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">shut down from 2009 through 2012\u003c/a> following a controversy that involved an OPD sergeant allegedly fabricating a shooting as part of what Pete characterized as a shakedown scheme for “protection money.” As long as these kinds of stories persist, the message behind the blues will remain urgent. “The pain and suffering won’t go anywhere, so there’ll be a need to sing the blues for a long time,” he said in film. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fabio is also confident that Oakland’s Black population will ultimately refuse to succumb to the forces of displacement bearing down on the East Bay. “I’m optimistic, because I view us as a stubborn people,” she said. “That’s why we’re still here. I can’t imagine this generation is gonna flake out and we’re going to disappear.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-800x78.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"78\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-12127869\" 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>‘Evolutionary Blues: West Oakland’s Music Legacy’ premieres at Oakland’s Grand Lake Theater on Wednesday, Sept. 27, at 7pm. Tickets are available \u003ca href=\"https://www.eventbrite.com/e/evolutionary-blues-west-oaklands-music-legacy-tickets-36852277153?aff=efbeventtix\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here\u003c/a>. There will also be a screening on Nov. 10 at \u003ca href=\"http://www.oaklandlibrary.org/locations/african-american-museum-library-oakland\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The African American Museum and Library at Oakland\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It wasn’t our intent to go this big, but it was too fascinating to squelch it, so we let it grow,” she says. \u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">The people brought the sounds with them, and once they became city people, the sounds evolved — because they was evolving. \u003ccite>Faye Carol, singer\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Citing one example of how community involvement made the film possible, Fabio explained that when she couldn’t afford to license archival photos of performers like James Brown and T-Bone Walker, a local photographer offered images from his personal collection for free. The DIY spirit behind the film is reminiscent of the mid-century West Oakland that \u003cem>Evolutionary Blues\u003c/em> vividly brings back to life. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During World War II, the demand for workers sparked the biggest black population boom in Oakland’s history. Most of the new arrivals settled near the shipyards to be close to their jobs — and also because housing segregation was strictly enforced throughout the Bay Area. As black families primarily from Texas, Louisiana, Arkansas, and Oklahoma moved in, white homeowners subdivided their Victorians into rental units and moved out to East Oakland. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 7th Street corridor quickly became a thriving hub for black-owned businesses, including many nightclubs, and the musical styles that new residents brought with them blended into a fresh concoction: West Coast Blues. In an interview filmed inside West Oakland’s historic, crumbling \u003ca href=\"https://localwiki.org/oakland/16th_Street_Station\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">16th Street Station\u003c/a>, award-winning singer Faye Carol explained, “The people brought the sounds with them and once they became city people, the sounds evolved — because they was evolving.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13809491\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/09/IMG_1911-800x800.jpg\" alt=\"Legendary 7th Street blues club Esther's Orbit Room shuttered in 2011. \" width=\"800\" height=\"800\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13809491\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/09/IMG_1911.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/09/IMG_1911-160x160.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/09/IMG_1911-768x768.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/09/IMG_1911-240x240.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/09/IMG_1911-375x375.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/09/IMG_1911-520x520.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/09/IMG_1911-32x32.jpg 32w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/09/IMG_1911-50x50.jpg 50w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/09/IMG_1911-64x64.jpg 64w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/09/IMG_1911-96x96.jpg 96w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/09/IMG_1911-128x128.jpg 128w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/09/IMG_1911-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Legendary 7th Street blues club Esther’s Orbit Room shuttered in 2011. \u003ccite>(Liam O'Donoghue)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In the late 1940s, record producer Bob Geddins launched a massively influential though often overlooked studio, and several record labels. The Pullman Porters, a politically active union of Black railroad workers, helped distribute Geddins’ recordings of blues pioneers such as Lowell Fulson and Jimmy McCracklin across the country. West Oakland turned into a magnet for aspiring musicians like B.B. King, who visited frequently, and T-Bone Walker, who became famous for doing the splits while playing guitar and was called “the greatest entertainer of all time” by Chuck Berry. Other stars of the scene included Big Mama Thornton, renowned for making “Hound Dog” a hit three years before Elvis Presley, and Sugar Pie DeSanto, a firecracker known for leaping from pianos with James Brown, who is \u003ca href=\"https://www.eastbayexpress.com/oakland/sugar-pie-desantos-delicious-soul/Content?oid=7694048\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">still playing shows\u003c/a> at 81 years old. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unfortunately, video recordings of juke joint performances during the height of this scene are virtually nonexistent, but Fabio makes up for the lack of archival footage with rich recollections from folks who were actually there, like the aforementioned DeSanto. These stories, along with a thumping soundtrack and gorgeous black-and-white photos from the collection of \u003ca href=\"https://www.arcadiapublishing.com/Products/9781467125659\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">E.F. Joseph\u003c/a> — an Oakland photojournalist who obsessively documented local black cultural events for more than five decades — give the documentary an intimate, visceral feel. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This era captured in \u003cem>Evolutionary Blues\u003c/em> ended abruptly when swaths of the neighborhood, including most of 7th Street, were demolished to make room for massive infrastructure projects, including Interstate 880, BART, and an enormous U.S. Post Office facility. Thousands of residents were pushed out with little compensation through eminent domain. Decommissioned military tanks were used to crush one of America’s most vital black communities into rubble. (Yes, really — the photos are devastating.) As the film shifts into the post-blues era, the viewer is left grappling with these traumatic images, making it difficult to fully appreciate the chapters exploring 1960s and ’70s funk — and that music’s connection to another Oakland institution: The Black Panther Party. \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13809492\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/09/SugarPie_1-800x1196.jpg\" alt=\"Sugar Pie DeSanto, an Oakland blues icon, still performs today.\" width=\"800\" height=\"1196\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13809492\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/09/SugarPie_1.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/09/SugarPie_1-160x239.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/09/SugarPie_1-768x1148.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/09/SugarPie_1-240x359.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/09/SugarPie_1-375x561.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/09/SugarPie_1-520x777.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sugar Pie DeSanto, an Oakland blues icon, still performs today. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Sugar Pie DeSanto)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In recent years, historic venue \u003ca href=\"https://www.eastbayexpress.com/oakland/elis-mile-high-club-in-west-oakland-celebrates-its-blues-legacy-this-weekend/Content?oid=5307834\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Eli’s Mile High Club\u003c/a>, now primarily known as a punk bar, has begun hosting blues nights to bring local legends back to its storied stage. 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I can’t imagine this generation is gonna flake out and we’re going to disappear.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-800x78.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"78\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-12127869\" 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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