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They are the workers \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12081761/in-the-bay-area-raising-kids-comes-with-compromise\">staring at retirement accounts\u003c/a> that seem increasingly fragile. They are the drivers watching gas prices spin higher, turning the simple act of getting to work into \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12081471/driving-in-the-bay-area-is-essential-for-many-its-only-gotten-more-expensive\">another monthly calculation\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They are also the 91-year-old woman who opens her mail to discover her \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12079706/theyre-bleeding-us-dry-seniors-struggle-with-rent-hikes-evictions-in-california-mobile-home-parks\">mobile home has become unaffordable\u003c/a>, and the young worker \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12080289/700-a-month-sleeping-pods-make-sf-more-affordable-but-at-what-cost\">sleeping behind a privacy curtain\u003c/a> in a room full of strangers because $700 for a pod is the price of staying in San Francisco. In a region where everyday expenses seem to rise without end, immigrant-owned taquerias, bánh mì shops and noodle counters remain places \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13989331/best-cheap-affordable-restaurant-meals-bay-area-oakland-sf\">where a few dollars can still buy comfort\u003c/a>, community and a full stomach.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Taken together, these stories reveal a region where many people are no longer trying to get ahead — they are trying to stay put.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Outside of the Rockridge branch of the Oakland Public Library, an unhoused man named William usually sits in the shade. Everything he owns travels with him. A wheelchair serves as a storage unit. Several carry-on suitcases are strapped to it. A bulging white trash bag rises above the luggage like a sail. The carefully balanced collection resembles a small movable room — the visible evidence of a life deciding what can be carried and what must be left behind.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On a recent afternoon, Morton stopped to talk with William. She asked how he was doing. She offered to wash his laundry. I wave at William just about every day on my way home from BART. Most people walk past him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12084091\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12084091\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/260514-AFFORDABILITYNANCYMORTON-17-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/260514-AFFORDABILITYNANCYMORTON-17-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/260514-AFFORDABILITYNANCYMORTON-17-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/260514-AFFORDABILITYNANCYMORTON-17-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nancy Morton speaks with her unhoused neighbor, William, while walking through her neighborhood in Oakland on May 14, 2026. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The Bay Area’s affordability crisis is usually measured in dollars — home prices, rents, grocery bills and retirement accounts. But affordability shapes more than bank balances. It influences who stays, who leaves and how much people are willing to invest in one another. Morton has responded to those pressures by opening her home to friends, unhoused people and refugees, hosting dinners and pressing city leaders on housing and public safety. In a region where rising costs increasingly isolate people from one another, Morton has chosen a different response: She has doubled down on community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I first met Morton when she invited me to dinner in 2016, back when I was a \u003cem>San Francisco Chronicle\u003c/em> columnist. Our typical conversation is about politics, life and books. I still can’t believe we disagreed about \u003cem>The Vanishing Half\u003c/em>, Brit Bennett’s novel about colorism, identity and the choices people make to survive. Like most conversations with Morton, the disagreement remained friendly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She is a Rockridge fixture, always up for coffee at Im Moment Kaffee or Hudson Bay Cafe, where she occasionally meets dates. She participates in events at the Local Economy community space on College Avenue and rarely misses an opportunity to connect with people.[aside postID=news_12084761 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/IMG_1522.jpg']On a recent evening, pork sizzled on the stove inside Morton’s home while thick string beans softened in a pan nearby. Cheesy potatoes sat beneath foil. Sherbet waited in the freezer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Morton moved through the kitchen in socks, checking the oven while carrying on our conversation. That night, we talked about retirement, housing and what it means to grow older in one of the most expensive places in America. We talked about core strength, too — the kind developed through exercise and persistence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That conversation set the foundation for this story. Because when I think about Morton, I think about someone constantly exercising a different kind of muscle: the willingness to remain engaged in a city where many people feel exhausted, priced out or disconnected.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For 35 years, Morton, 78, has lived in the same Rockridge house. Every morning begins with the same command to Alexa.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Play KQED.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Morton is comfortably settled. She owns a home in one of Oakland’s most desirable neighborhoods and spent decades working in financial services and nonprofit finance. She plays bridge and is approaching Life Master status. She sometimes wears silver glitter nail polish because, as she likes to say, “your hands are always in front of people.” She follows local politics closely, attends lectures and performances and still drives the same car she bought in 2008.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Years ago, someone hit it on her way to yoga and drove off. Then, a few months ago, a man living in his car with his family offered to pound out the dent in a Home Depot parking lot. Morton later tracked him down and paid for a hotel room for his family.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12084088\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12084088\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/260514-AFFORDABILITYNANCYMORTON-07-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/260514-AFFORDABILITYNANCYMORTON-07-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/260514-AFFORDABILITYNANCYMORTON-07-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/260514-AFFORDABILITYNANCYMORTON-07-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nancy Morton looks at notes left for her by people who have stayed in her home in Oakland on May 14, 2026. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I’d rather do that than give to charities where I feel like the executives make all the money,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Morton understands that affordability is about more than money. Like many Oakland residents, she is concerned about public safety. She spends time on Nextdoor, where the trending topics often involve crime, missing pets, suspicious activity caught on door cams, spam phone calls and requests for help from neighbors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The comments make me so angry,” she told me.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12078769/oakland-crime-plunges-in-2026-but-many-residents-havent-felt-the-shift\">Crime is down in Oakland\u003c/a>. Violent crime, including homicide and rape, fell 22% during the first quarter compared with the same period in 2025. Homicides alone dropped 39%. The impacts remain uneven.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For many residents, concerns about quality of life extend beyond crime to include housing costs, homelessness and the growing sense that the Bay Area is becoming harder to afford and harder to navigate. Those concerns surface frequently in Rockridge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12084094\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12084094\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/260514-AFFORDABILITYNANCYMORTON-24-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/260514-AFFORDABILITYNANCYMORTON-24-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/260514-AFFORDABILITYNANCYMORTON-24-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/260514-AFFORDABILITYNANCYMORTON-24-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nancy Morton chats with a UC Berkeley student on the bus ride to sign up for a class at the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute in Berkeley on May 14, 2026. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Last year, plans for a 200-unit apartment building drew criticism from residents who argued the seven-story structure would be too tall. Years earlier, neighbors opposed a proposal to redevelop the former California College of the Arts campus with 600 homes, including a 19-story tower.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now another debate looms over College Avenue. The Trader Joe’s that anchors one of Rockridge’s busiest commercial corridors could eventually be replaced by two residential towers containing 400 senior housing units. Supporters see desperately needed housing near transit. Critics worry about scale, traffic and neighborhood character.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Morton follows the arguments closely.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I tend to see myself more as a moderator than an activist,” she said. “I want to hear from the people who support these projects, too. Why do they want them? What am I missing?”[aside postID=arts_13989331 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/05/050526BEST-MEALS-UNDER-10_GH_021-KQED.jpg']That instinct to understand people before judging them has shaped much of her life. Morton grew up in Pasadena, where the Tournament of Roses paraded through town every New Year’s Day. As a teenager, she saw the Beatles perform in Glendale and later attended a Rolling Stones concert in Sacramento. Neither memory impresses her very much today.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m not that into that kind of music,” she said. “I’m into protest music. I’d much rather go see Joni Mitchell.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After college, she spent five months traveling through Europe before returning home, convinced she could not spend the rest of her life in Pasadena. There were no glamorous opportunities waiting for her. She waited tables at Denny’s. She worked temporary jobs in Oakland. She accepted a position with an airline that folded before training ever began.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eventually, she answered a newspaper ad for a house parent for girls who were wards of the court. Some had survived abuse. Others had been abandoned by their families.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was 23 years old and suddenly responsible for five girls,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The work overwhelmed Morton, and she left after a year. But the connection endured. One of those girls still keeps in touch decades later.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The through line is hard to miss. Morton has spent much of her life finding people who need someplace to land. Years later, that instinct resurfaced when she began opening her home to refugees. One was Messia, a woman from Afghanistan. Thomas, whom Morton met while volunteering at Crossroads Transitional Shelter in East Oakland, now lives in the backyard she-shed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12084087\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12084087\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/260514-AFFORDABILITYNANCYMORTON-04-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/260514-AFFORDABILITYNANCYMORTON-04-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/260514-AFFORDABILITYNANCYMORTON-04-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/260514-AFFORDABILITYNANCYMORTON-04-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nancy Morton speaks with Thomas Nicholas, who is staying at her home, in Oakland on May 14, 2026. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The arrangements have not always been easy. Helping people rarely is, but Morton continues doing it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One day, she was driving through an alley near the Wendy’s on Broadway when she ran into Michael, an unhoused man she knows from the neighborhood. Morton had $19 in her purse, and she needed $10 later that day to play bridge. She gave Michael $9.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He said, ‘Do you want me to take care of William?’” Morton said. “And I thought, this is why I like this guy, because he’s going to give something to William.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The scene captured something Morton has spent much of her life practicing: people survive because other people decide they matter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The thing people can’t afford to lose is one another.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Taken together, these stories reveal a region where many people are no longer trying to get ahead — they are trying to stay put.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Outside of the Rockridge branch of the Oakland Public Library, an unhoused man named William usually sits in the shade. Everything he owns travels with him. A wheelchair serves as a storage unit. Several carry-on suitcases are strapped to it. A bulging white trash bag rises above the luggage like a sail. The carefully balanced collection resembles a small movable room — the visible evidence of a life deciding what can be carried and what must be left behind.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On a recent afternoon, Morton stopped to talk with William. She asked how he was doing. She offered to wash his laundry. I wave at William just about every day on my way home from BART. Most people walk past him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12084091\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12084091\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/260514-AFFORDABILITYNANCYMORTON-17-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/260514-AFFORDABILITYNANCYMORTON-17-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/260514-AFFORDABILITYNANCYMORTON-17-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/260514-AFFORDABILITYNANCYMORTON-17-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nancy Morton speaks with her unhoused neighbor, William, while walking through her neighborhood in Oakland on May 14, 2026. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The Bay Area’s affordability crisis is usually measured in dollars — home prices, rents, grocery bills and retirement accounts. But affordability shapes more than bank balances. It influences who stays, who leaves and how much people are willing to invest in one another. Morton has responded to those pressures by opening her home to friends, unhoused people and refugees, hosting dinners and pressing city leaders on housing and public safety. In a region where rising costs increasingly isolate people from one another, Morton has chosen a different response: She has doubled down on community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I first met Morton when she invited me to dinner in 2016, back when I was a \u003cem>San Francisco Chronicle\u003c/em> columnist. Our typical conversation is about politics, life and books. I still can’t believe we disagreed about \u003cem>The Vanishing Half\u003c/em>, Brit Bennett’s novel about colorism, identity and the choices people make to survive. Like most conversations with Morton, the disagreement remained friendly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She is a Rockridge fixture, always up for coffee at Im Moment Kaffee or Hudson Bay Cafe, where she occasionally meets dates. She participates in events at the Local Economy community space on College Avenue and rarely misses an opportunity to connect with people.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>On a recent evening, pork sizzled on the stove inside Morton’s home while thick string beans softened in a pan nearby. Cheesy potatoes sat beneath foil. Sherbet waited in the freezer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Morton moved through the kitchen in socks, checking the oven while carrying on our conversation. That night, we talked about retirement, housing and what it means to grow older in one of the most expensive places in America. We talked about core strength, too — the kind developed through exercise and persistence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That conversation set the foundation for this story. Because when I think about Morton, I think about someone constantly exercising a different kind of muscle: the willingness to remain engaged in a city where many people feel exhausted, priced out or disconnected.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For 35 years, Morton, 78, has lived in the same Rockridge house. Every morning begins with the same command to Alexa.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Play KQED.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Morton is comfortably settled. She owns a home in one of Oakland’s most desirable neighborhoods and spent decades working in financial services and nonprofit finance. She plays bridge and is approaching Life Master status. She sometimes wears silver glitter nail polish because, as she likes to say, “your hands are always in front of people.” She follows local politics closely, attends lectures and performances and still drives the same car she bought in 2008.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Years ago, someone hit it on her way to yoga and drove off. Then, a few months ago, a man living in his car with his family offered to pound out the dent in a Home Depot parking lot. 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Like many Oakland residents, she is concerned about public safety. She spends time on Nextdoor, where the trending topics often involve crime, missing pets, suspicious activity caught on door cams, spam phone calls and requests for help from neighbors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The comments make me so angry,” she told me.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12078769/oakland-crime-plunges-in-2026-but-many-residents-havent-felt-the-shift\">Crime is down in Oakland\u003c/a>. Violent crime, including homicide and rape, fell 22% during the first quarter compared with the same period in 2025. Homicides alone dropped 39%. The impacts remain uneven.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For many residents, concerns about quality of life extend beyond crime to include housing costs, homelessness and the growing sense that the Bay Area is becoming harder to afford and harder to navigate. 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Years earlier, neighbors opposed a proposal to redevelop the former California College of the Arts campus with 600 homes, including a 19-story tower.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now another debate looms over College Avenue. The Trader Joe’s that anchors one of Rockridge’s busiest commercial corridors could eventually be replaced by two residential towers containing 400 senior housing units. Supporters see desperately needed housing near transit. Critics worry about scale, traffic and neighborhood character.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Morton follows the arguments closely.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I tend to see myself more as a moderator than an activist,” she said. “I want to hear from the people who support these projects, too. Why do they want them? What am I missing?”\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>That instinct to understand people before judging them has shaped much of her life. Morton grew up in Pasadena, where the Tournament of Roses paraded through town every New Year’s Day. As a teenager, she saw the Beatles perform in Glendale and later attended a Rolling Stones concert in Sacramento. Neither memory impresses her very much today.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m not that into that kind of music,” she said. “I’m into protest music. I’d much rather go see Joni Mitchell.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After college, she spent five months traveling through Europe before returning home, convinced she could not spend the rest of her life in Pasadena. There were no glamorous opportunities waiting for her. She waited tables at Denny’s. She worked temporary jobs in Oakland. She accepted a position with an airline that folded before training ever began.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eventually, she answered a newspaper ad for a house parent for girls who were wards of the court. Some had survived abuse. Others had been abandoned by their families.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was 23 years old and suddenly responsible for five girls,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The work overwhelmed Morton, and she left after a year. But the connection endured. One of those girls still keeps in touch decades later.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The through line is hard to miss. Morton has spent much of her life finding people who need someplace to land. Years later, that instinct resurfaced when she began opening her home to refugees. One was Messia, a woman from Afghanistan. Thomas, whom Morton met while volunteering at Crossroads Transitional Shelter in East Oakland, now lives in the backyard she-shed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12084087\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12084087\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/260514-AFFORDABILITYNANCYMORTON-04-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/260514-AFFORDABILITYNANCYMORTON-04-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/260514-AFFORDABILITYNANCYMORTON-04-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/260514-AFFORDABILITYNANCYMORTON-04-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nancy Morton speaks with Thomas Nicholas, who is staying at her home, in Oakland on May 14, 2026. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The arrangements have not always been easy. Helping people rarely is, but Morton continues doing it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One day, she was driving through an alley near the Wendy’s on Broadway when she ran into Michael, an unhoused man she knows from the neighborhood. Morton had $19 in her purse, and she needed $10 later that day to play bridge. She gave Michael $9.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He said, ‘Do you want me to take care of William?’” Morton said. “And I thought, this is why I like this guy, because he’s going to give something to William.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The scene captured something Morton has spent much of her life practicing: people survive because other people decide they matter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The thing people can’t afford to lose is one another.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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President Donald Trump said Saturday that the latest strikes had killed Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the nation’s supreme leader for nearly 37 years and a long‑time foe of both Israel and the United States — a development that could trigger a major political and regional shift.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yasmine Mortazavi, an Iranian American and member of the Party for Socialism and Liberation, said she learned of the strikes after waking up Saturday morning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m still in a bit of shock,” she told KQED. “I’m not surprised. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/bay-area\">Bay Area\u003c/a> members of Congress sharply criticized President Donald Trump’s decision to launch coordinated U.S. strikes against Iran, warning the action risks another prolonged conflict and sidesteps Congress’ constitutional authority over war.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The United States and Israel began major combat operations early Saturday, targeting Iranian military infrastructure and senior leaders in what the Pentagon called “Operation Epic Fury.” Trump, in a video statement posted to Truth Social, said the campaign aims to destroy Iran’s missile capabilities, eliminate its naval power and prevent it from obtaining a nuclear weapon. Iranian state media reported retaliatory missile strikes against U.S. bases in Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Kuwait, Iraq, the United Arab Emirates and Jordan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rep. Sam Liccardo, D-San José, said he was unconvinced by the administration’s rationale and skeptical that airstrikes alone could accomplish the president’s stated goal of regime change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve never seen a bombing campaign effective in delivering regime change, whether you’re talking about Iraq or Afghanistan or Vietnam,” Liccardo said. “History is full of those examples where a dominant power believes by bombing somehow or another, there will be a change in regime. It doesn’t work that way.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Liccardo said while Iran is governed by what he described as a “dictatorial, murderous regime,” there is no organized or armed insurgency inside the country capable of toppling it. Regime change, he said, requires a sustained internal movement and, historically, years of engagement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The president has not explained his objectives in a way that is convincing to me, nor do I think they’ll be convincing to the American people,” Liccardo said. He added that achieving regime change would likely require ground forces — “the kind of engagement that the American public won’t support.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Liccardo also argued the president bypassed Congress in authorizing the strikes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is a president who does not care about the spirit or text of the Constitution,” he said. “Article One is very clear about congressional authority to declare war, and more importantly, for Congress to be consulted in a meaningful way.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump said Saturday that the U.S.‑Israeli strikes on Iran killed Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the nation’s supreme leader for nearly 37 years and a long‑time foe of both Israel and the United States — a development that could trigger a major political and regional shift, though Iran has not confirmed his death.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12074994\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12074994\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/GettyImages-2263454468-1-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/GettyImages-2263454468-1-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/GettyImages-2263454468-1-2000x1333.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/GettyImages-2263454468-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/GettyImages-2263454468-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/GettyImages-2263454468-1-2048x1365.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Iranians protest against attacks on Iran by Israel and the United States on Saturday, Feb. 28, 2026, in Tehran, as the government said it had launched missiles at regional U.S. military sites and Israel in response to U.S. and Israeli strikes across the country. (Photo by Majid Saeedi/Getty Images)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Rep. Mike Thompson, D-St. Helena, a Vietnam combat veteran, said the strikes were not unexpected given the recent U.S. military buildup in the region, but he questioned the unilateral nature of the decision.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You just don’t move that type of military presence into an area because you think it would be fun,” Thompson said. “This has been something that has been under consideration for some time.”\u003cbr>\nStill, Thompson said Congress must reassert its role.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This president has shown no respect for the rule of law or the Constitution,” Thompson said. “I think that the Congress of the United States needs to reassert itself. This is not something that should be done unilaterally.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He warned the escalation could draw the United States into another prolonged war, despite Trump’s past promises to end so-called forever wars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is looking a lot like another forever war, and it should concern us all,” Thompson said. “I don’t think it is something that the American people want to do, and that is send their sons and daughters into combat.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12074995\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12074995\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/GettyImages-2263420676-1-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/GettyImages-2263420676-1-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/GettyImages-2263420676-1-2000x1333.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/GettyImages-2263420676-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/GettyImages-2263420676-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/GettyImages-2263420676-1-2048x1365.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Smoke rises after Iran’s reported missile strike on the U.S. Navy’s Fifth Fleet headquarters in Manama, Bahrain, Saturday, Feb. 28, 2026, in retaliation for U.S. and Israeli attacks on Iran. (Photo by Stringer/Anadolu via Getty Images)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Rep. John Garamendi, a Democrat whose district represents parts of Contra Costa and Solano counties, said he has long supported political change in Iran but does not believe military force will achieve it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve been advocating a regime change in Iran for a long time, but I’ve never thought, and don’t agree today, that a military is going to achieve that goal,” Garamendi said. “It has to come from the people of Iran.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Garamendi said the United States is now “involved in a war, and a very aggressive one,” and warned that American casualties are likely as Iran strikes back at U.S. targets in the region.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The military action unfolded as Washington remained in a partial government shutdown after lawmakers failed to reach agreement on funding for several federal agencies, including the Department of Homeland Security. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/bay-area\">Bay Area\u003c/a> members of Congress sharply criticized President Donald Trump’s decision to launch coordinated U.S. strikes against Iran, warning the action risks another prolonged conflict and sidesteps Congress’ constitutional authority over war.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The United States and Israel began major combat operations early Saturday, targeting Iranian military infrastructure and senior leaders in what the Pentagon called “Operation Epic Fury.” Trump, in a video statement posted to Truth Social, said the campaign aims to destroy Iran’s missile capabilities, eliminate its naval power and prevent it from obtaining a nuclear weapon. Iranian state media reported retaliatory missile strikes against U.S. bases in Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Kuwait, Iraq, the United Arab Emirates and Jordan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rep. Sam Liccardo, D-San José, said he was unconvinced by the administration’s rationale and skeptical that airstrikes alone could accomplish the president’s stated goal of regime change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve never seen a bombing campaign effective in delivering regime change, whether you’re talking about Iraq or Afghanistan or Vietnam,” Liccardo said. “History is full of those examples where a dominant power believes by bombing somehow or another, there will be a change in regime. It doesn’t work that way.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Liccardo said while Iran is governed by what he described as a “dictatorial, murderous regime,” there is no organized or armed insurgency inside the country capable of toppling it. Regime change, he said, requires a sustained internal movement and, historically, years of engagement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The president has not explained his objectives in a way that is convincing to me, nor do I think they’ll be convincing to the American people,” Liccardo said. He added that achieving regime change would likely require ground forces — “the kind of engagement that the American public won’t support.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Liccardo also argued the president bypassed Congress in authorizing the strikes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is a president who does not care about the spirit or text of the Constitution,” he said. “Article One is very clear about congressional authority to declare war, and more importantly, for Congress to be consulted in a meaningful way.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump said Saturday that the U.S.‑Israeli strikes on Iran killed Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the nation’s supreme leader for nearly 37 years and a long‑time foe of both Israel and the United States — a development that could trigger a major political and regional shift, though Iran has not confirmed his death.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12074994\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12074994\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/GettyImages-2263454468-1-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/GettyImages-2263454468-1-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/GettyImages-2263454468-1-2000x1333.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/GettyImages-2263454468-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/GettyImages-2263454468-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/GettyImages-2263454468-1-2048x1365.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Iranians protest against attacks on Iran by Israel and the United States on Saturday, Feb. 28, 2026, in Tehran, as the government said it had launched missiles at regional U.S. military sites and Israel in response to U.S. and Israeli strikes across the country. (Photo by Majid Saeedi/Getty Images)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Rep. Mike Thompson, D-St. Helena, a Vietnam combat veteran, said the strikes were not unexpected given the recent U.S. military buildup in the region, but he questioned the unilateral nature of the decision.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You just don’t move that type of military presence into an area because you think it would be fun,” Thompson said. “This has been something that has been under consideration for some time.”\u003cbr>\nStill, Thompson said Congress must reassert its role.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This president has shown no respect for the rule of law or the Constitution,” Thompson said. “I think that the Congress of the United States needs to reassert itself. This is not something that should be done unilaterally.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He warned the escalation could draw the United States into another prolonged war, despite Trump’s past promises to end so-called forever wars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is looking a lot like another forever war, and it should concern us all,” Thompson said. “I don’t think it is something that the American people want to do, and that is send their sons and daughters into combat.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12074995\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12074995\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/GettyImages-2263420676-1-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/GettyImages-2263420676-1-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/GettyImages-2263420676-1-2000x1333.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/GettyImages-2263420676-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/GettyImages-2263420676-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/GettyImages-2263420676-1-2048x1365.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Smoke rises after Iran’s reported missile strike on the U.S. Navy’s Fifth Fleet headquarters in Manama, Bahrain, Saturday, Feb. 28, 2026, in retaliation for U.S. and Israeli attacks on Iran. (Photo by Stringer/Anadolu via Getty Images)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Rep. John Garamendi, a Democrat whose district represents parts of Contra Costa and Solano counties, said he has long supported political change in Iran but does not believe military force will achieve it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve been advocating a regime change in Iran for a long time, but I’ve never thought, and don’t agree today, that a military is going to achieve that goal,” Garamendi said. “It has to come from the people of Iran.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Garamendi said the United States is now “involved in a war, and a very aggressive one,” and warned that American casualties are likely as Iran strikes back at U.S. targets in the region.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The military action unfolded as Washington remained in a partial government shutdown after lawmakers failed to reach agreement on funding for several federal agencies, including the Department of Homeland Security. The standoff has underscored tensions between the White House and Congress even as lawmakers face mounting pressure to address the expanding conflict overseas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/rvasquez\">Rachael Vasquez\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/jlara\">Juan Carlos Lara\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/mbernal\">María Fernanda Bernal\u003c/a> contributed to this story\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Betty Reid Soskin, the nation’s oldest park ranger when she \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11910061/betty-reid-soskin-americas-oldest-park-ranger-retires-at-100\">retired in 2022 at age 100\u003c/a>, and a trailblazer in preserving the history of Black Americans and women, died Dec. 21. She was 104.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Soskin devoted her life to telling stories that might otherwise have gone untold, highlighting the contributions of marginalized communities and ensuring that forgotten voices were brought to the forefront of American history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Born Betty Charbonnet in Detroit on Sept. 22, 1921, Soskin spent her early years in New Orleans with her Creole family. She survived the devastating Great Mississippi Flood of 1927, an event that displaced her family and prompted their move to Oakland. Her childhood experiences shaped her understanding of race, resilience and community, laying the foundation for her lifelong commitment to advocacy and justice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12068222\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1086px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12068222\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/BettyYoungWomanPortrait1-1-scaled_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1086\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/BettyYoungWomanPortrait1-1-scaled_qed.jpg 1086w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/BettyYoungWomanPortrait1-1-scaled_qed-160x196.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1086px) 100vw, 1086px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Betty Reid Soskin poses for a photograph in the 1940s. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Betty Reid Soskin)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>During World War II, Soskin worked as a file clerk for the U.S. Air Force but resigned after discovering that her employers had hired her under the assumption that she was white. This pivotal moment illuminated the systemic racism of the era and fueled her passion for equity and truth-telling. She later worked in a segregated unit of the Boilermakers union, where she witnessed firsthand the discrimination faced by Black workers in the wartime industry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12068221\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1101px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12068221\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/Betty-in-60s-Asilomar-in-music-circle-1_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1101\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/Betty-in-60s-Asilomar-in-music-circle-1_qed.jpg 1101w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/Betty-in-60s-Asilomar-in-music-circle-1_qed-160x194.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1101px) 100vw, 1101px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Betty Reid Soskin sits in a music circle in the Asilomar area of Monterey Bay in the 1960s, reflecting her lifelong connection to music, community and cultural activism. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Betty Reid Soskin)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In 1945, she and her first husband, Mel Reid, \u003ca href=\"https://www.berkeleyside.org/2019/02/05/reids-records-californias-oldest-record-shop-to-close-in-the-fall\">founded Reid’s Records\u003c/a> in Berkeley, one of the first Black-owned record stores in the Bay Area. For nearly 75 years, the store served as a community hub, providing music and resources to South Berkeley’s Black community. It was also a space for activism and cultural exchange, reflecting Soskin’s enduring dedication to uplifting marginalized voices.[aside postID=news_11914312 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/BETTYREIDSOSKIN.jpg']Soskin’s advocacy took on new dimensions later in life when she became a prominent voice at the Rosie the Riveter/WWII Home Front National Historical Park in Richmond. Starting as a temporary employee at the age of 84, she became a permanent National Park Service ranger in 2011.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the next 15 years, she shared her personal experiences and those of African American workers during the war, shedding light on the racial segregation and systemic challenges of the era. Her storytelling drew large audiences, captivated by her firsthand accounts and her insistence on an inclusive historical narrative.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What gets remembered is a function of who’s in the room doing the remembering,” Soskin often said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She worked tirelessly to ensure that the contributions of women and Black Americans during World War II were not overshadowed in the broader historical narrative. Her efforts were instrumental in shaping the park’s mission and its dedication to uncovering overlooked histories.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Soskin’s impact extended far beyond the park. She was honored as California Woman of the Year in 1995 and received numerous accolades throughout her life, including a presidential coin from President Barack Obama in 2015 after she lit the National Christmas Tree at the White House.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11889541\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11889541\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/RS51635_081_ElSobrante_BettyReidSoskinMiddleSchool_09222021-qut.jpg\" alt=\"Betty Reid Soskin, smiling, sits in a wheelchair and holds a bright bouquet of flowers.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/RS51635_081_ElSobrante_BettyReidSoskinMiddleSchool_09222021-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/RS51635_081_ElSobrante_BettyReidSoskinMiddleSchool_09222021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/RS51635_081_ElSobrante_BettyReidSoskinMiddleSchool_09222021-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/RS51635_081_ElSobrante_BettyReidSoskinMiddleSchool_09222021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/RS51635_081_ElSobrante_BettyReidSoskinMiddleSchool_09222021-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Betty Reid Soskin poses beneath a sign for the newly renamed Betty Reid Soskin Middle School in El Sobrante during a student-led renaming ceremony on her 100th birthday, Sept. 22, 2021. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In 2022, on the day of her 100th birthday, the West Contra Costa Unified School District \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11889493/east-bay-middle-school-renamed-for-pioneering-park-ranger-betty-reid-soskin-on-her-100th-birthday\">renamed Juan Crespi Middle School in El Sobrante\u003c/a> in her honor, celebrating her legacy with a ribbon-cutting ceremony attended by local leaders, students and her family. The renaming process was driven by students and teachers who sought to honor a local figure dedicated to equity and justice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the ceremony, Soskin was showered with flowers and presented with a birthday cake.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t know what one might do to justify a long life,” she said. “I think that you have pretty much got it made.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11889493/east-bay-middle-school-renamed-for-pioneering-park-ranger-betty-reid-soskin-on-her-100th-birthday\">renaming of Betty Reid Soskin Middle School\u003c/a> was the culmination of a student-led movement to honor a local figure whose legacy stood for truth and justice. The students researched their former namesake, Juan Crespi, a Spanish Franciscan missionary, and learned about the mission system’s exploitation of Indigenous peoples.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11889544\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11889544\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/028_ElSobrante_BettyReidSoskinMiddleSchool_09222021.jpg\" alt=\"Masked students hold up signs thanking Betty Reid Soskin.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/028_ElSobrante_BettyReidSoskinMiddleSchool_09222021.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/028_ElSobrante_BettyReidSoskinMiddleSchool_09222021-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/028_ElSobrante_BettyReidSoskinMiddleSchool_09222021-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/028_ElSobrante_BettyReidSoskinMiddleSchool_09222021-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/028_ElSobrante_BettyReidSoskinMiddleSchool_09222021-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Students wait to present gifts to Betty Reid Soskin during a school renaming ceremony on her 100th birthday at the renamed Betty Reid Soskin Middle School in El Sobrante. Students and teachers led the effort to rename the school in her honor, citing her lifelong advocacy for racial justice, equity and inclusive history. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Inspired by the social justice movements of the COVID-19 pandemic, they sought to rename the school for someone who embodied resilience and advocacy.[aside postID=news_11889493 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/RS51596_041_ElSobrante_BettyReidSoskinMiddleSchool_09222021-qut.jpg']“I learned a lot these past couple of months, being on the naming committee and doing the project in general,” said Anaya Zenad, a former student who helped lead the renaming effort.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California Superintendent of Public Instruction Tony Thurmond, who attended the renaming ceremony, grew emotional as he spoke about Soskin’s impact.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have someone who has fought for civil rights, for women’s rights, for racial justice, and our children deserve to have someone to look up to,” he said at the ceremony.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her personal resilience was as remarkable as her professional achievements. In 2016, at the age of 94, she survived a violent home invasion, during which she was assaulted and robbed. Despite the trauma, Soskin returned to work weeks later, demonstrating her unyielding strength and dedication to her mission.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12068219\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12068219\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/SMNTF-LexMexArt-28.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/SMNTF-LexMexArt-28.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/SMNTF-LexMexArt-28-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/SMNTF-LexMexArt-28-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The four performers portraying Betty Reid Soskin in the stage play Sign My Name to Freedom — from left, Cathleen Riddley, Aidaa Peerzada, Lucca Troutman and Tierra Allen — each represent a different period of Soskin’s life, drawn from her memoir and lifelong work documenting Black history, music and activism. \u003ccite>(Photo by Alexa 'LexMex' Treviño)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Soskin’s life and work were chronicled in her memoir, \u003cem>Sign My Name to Freedom\u003c/em>, which \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13955108/betty-reid-soskin-stage-play-z-space-sign-my-name-to-freedom-review\">inspired both a stage play\u003c/a> and a documentary.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The documentary, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13952570/betty-reid-soskin-music-documentary-sign-my-name-to-freedom\">\u003cem>Sign My Name to Freedom: The Lost Music of Betty Reid Soskin\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, directed by Bryan Gibel, explores her life through the lens of her music, activism, and reflections on systemic racism.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Betty’s life story is a testament to the resilience and strength of those who face systemic challenges yet refuse to be defined by them,” Gibel said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12068220\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1008px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12068220\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/SMNTF_STILL2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1008\" height=\"630\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/SMNTF_STILL2.jpg 1008w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/SMNTF_STILL2-160x100.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1008px) 100vw, 1008px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Betty Reid Soskin listens to recordings of her own music as film director Bryan Gibel watches during the making of the documentary Sign My Name to Freedom: The Lost Music of Betty Reid Soskin. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Bryan Gibel)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The film captures intimate moments from her life, including her rediscovery of old recordings and her performance at Oakland’s Paramount Theatre with the Oakland Symphony and a 200-person choir.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Soskin’s dedication to justice and education was evident in her involvement with the civil rights movement and her work for former state Assemblymembers Dion Aroner and Loni Hancock. She fought for fair housing and educational opportunities for marginalized communities, emphasizing the need for systemic change in policies that disproportionately affected Black and low-income families.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her tireless advocacy and presence at legislative meetings ensured that equity remained a focus in California politics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even after retiring at age 100, Soskin continued to inspire through public appearances and reflections on her life, a powerful reminder of the importance of storytelling and preserving the full scope of history.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Betty Reid Soskin: A Life of Advocacy and Storytelling\u003c/h2>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>1921 : Born Betty Charbonnet in Detroit, Michigan.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>1927: Survives the Great Mississippi Flood, prompting her family’s move to Oakland, California.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>1942: Works for the U.S. Air Force as a file clerk but resigns after discovering she was hired under the assumption that she was white.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>1945: Co-founds Reid’s Records in Berkeley with her first husband, Mel Reid, making it one of the first Black-owned record stores in the Bay Area. The store remains a community hub for nearly 75 years.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>1960s-1970s: Becomes active in the civil rights movement and fights for fair housing and educational opportunities.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>1995: Named California Woman of the Year for her contributions to advocacy and community empowerment.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>2000: Plays a key role in planning the Rosie the Riveter/WWII Home Front National Historical Park in Richmond, ensuring the inclusion of Black workers’ experiences in its historical narrative.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>2004: Begins working with the National Park Service as a temporary interpretive ranger at the age of 84.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>2011: Becomes a permanent National Park Service ranger at the age of 89.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>2015: Lights the National Christmas Tree at the White House and receives a presidential coin from President Barack Obama.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>2016: Survives a violent home invasion at 94 but returns to work just weeks later.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>2018: Performs at Oakland’s Paramount Theatre with the Oakland Symphony and a 200-person choir, showcasing her musical activism.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>2019: Her memoir, \u003cem>Sign My Name to Freedom\u003c/em>, is published, chronicling her life and advocacy.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>2021: Documentary \u003cem>Sign My Name to Freedom: The Lost Music of Betty Reid Soskin\u003c/em> begins production.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>2022: Retires at age 100 from the National Park Service. On the same day, the West Contra Costa Unified School District renamed Juan Crespi Middle School in El Sobrante as Betty Reid Soskin Middle School.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Born Betty Charbonnet in Detroit on Sept. 22, 1921, Soskin spent her early years in New Orleans with her Creole family. She survived the devastating Great Mississippi Flood of 1927, an event that displaced her family and prompted their move to Oakland. Her childhood experiences shaped her understanding of race, resilience and community, laying the foundation for her lifelong commitment to advocacy and justice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12068222\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1086px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12068222\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/BettyYoungWomanPortrait1-1-scaled_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1086\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/BettyYoungWomanPortrait1-1-scaled_qed.jpg 1086w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/BettyYoungWomanPortrait1-1-scaled_qed-160x196.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1086px) 100vw, 1086px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Betty Reid Soskin poses for a photograph in the 1940s. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Betty Reid Soskin)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>During World War II, Soskin worked as a file clerk for the U.S. Air Force but resigned after discovering that her employers had hired her under the assumption that she was white. This pivotal moment illuminated the systemic racism of the era and fueled her passion for equity and truth-telling. She later worked in a segregated unit of the Boilermakers union, where she witnessed firsthand the discrimination faced by Black workers in the wartime industry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12068221\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1101px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12068221\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/Betty-in-60s-Asilomar-in-music-circle-1_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1101\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/Betty-in-60s-Asilomar-in-music-circle-1_qed.jpg 1101w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/Betty-in-60s-Asilomar-in-music-circle-1_qed-160x194.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1101px) 100vw, 1101px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Betty Reid Soskin sits in a music circle in the Asilomar area of Monterey Bay in the 1960s, reflecting her lifelong connection to music, community and cultural activism. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Betty Reid Soskin)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In 1945, she and her first husband, Mel Reid, \u003ca href=\"https://www.berkeleyside.org/2019/02/05/reids-records-californias-oldest-record-shop-to-close-in-the-fall\">founded Reid’s Records\u003c/a> in Berkeley, one of the first Black-owned record stores in the Bay Area. For nearly 75 years, the store served as a community hub, providing music and resources to South Berkeley’s Black community. It was also a space for activism and cultural exchange, reflecting Soskin’s enduring dedication to uplifting marginalized voices.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Soskin’s advocacy took on new dimensions later in life when she became a prominent voice at the Rosie the Riveter/WWII Home Front National Historical Park in Richmond. Starting as a temporary employee at the age of 84, she became a permanent National Park Service ranger in 2011.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the next 15 years, she shared her personal experiences and those of African American workers during the war, shedding light on the racial segregation and systemic challenges of the era. Her storytelling drew large audiences, captivated by her firsthand accounts and her insistence on an inclusive historical narrative.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What gets remembered is a function of who’s in the room doing the remembering,” Soskin often said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She worked tirelessly to ensure that the contributions of women and Black Americans during World War II were not overshadowed in the broader historical narrative. Her efforts were instrumental in shaping the park’s mission and its dedication to uncovering overlooked histories.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Soskin’s impact extended far beyond the park. She was honored as California Woman of the Year in 1995 and received numerous accolades throughout her life, including a presidential coin from President Barack Obama in 2015 after she lit the National Christmas Tree at the White House.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11889541\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11889541\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/RS51635_081_ElSobrante_BettyReidSoskinMiddleSchool_09222021-qut.jpg\" alt=\"Betty Reid Soskin, smiling, sits in a wheelchair and holds a bright bouquet of flowers.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/RS51635_081_ElSobrante_BettyReidSoskinMiddleSchool_09222021-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/RS51635_081_ElSobrante_BettyReidSoskinMiddleSchool_09222021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/RS51635_081_ElSobrante_BettyReidSoskinMiddleSchool_09222021-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/RS51635_081_ElSobrante_BettyReidSoskinMiddleSchool_09222021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/RS51635_081_ElSobrante_BettyReidSoskinMiddleSchool_09222021-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Betty Reid Soskin poses beneath a sign for the newly renamed Betty Reid Soskin Middle School in El Sobrante during a student-led renaming ceremony on her 100th birthday, Sept. 22, 2021. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In 2022, on the day of her 100th birthday, the West Contra Costa Unified School District \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11889493/east-bay-middle-school-renamed-for-pioneering-park-ranger-betty-reid-soskin-on-her-100th-birthday\">renamed Juan Crespi Middle School in El Sobrante\u003c/a> in her honor, celebrating her legacy with a ribbon-cutting ceremony attended by local leaders, students and her family. The renaming process was driven by students and teachers who sought to honor a local figure dedicated to equity and justice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the ceremony, Soskin was showered with flowers and presented with a birthday cake.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t know what one might do to justify a long life,” she said. “I think that you have pretty much got it made.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11889493/east-bay-middle-school-renamed-for-pioneering-park-ranger-betty-reid-soskin-on-her-100th-birthday\">renaming of Betty Reid Soskin Middle School\u003c/a> was the culmination of a student-led movement to honor a local figure whose legacy stood for truth and justice. The students researched their former namesake, Juan Crespi, a Spanish Franciscan missionary, and learned about the mission system’s exploitation of Indigenous peoples.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11889544\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11889544\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/028_ElSobrante_BettyReidSoskinMiddleSchool_09222021.jpg\" alt=\"Masked students hold up signs thanking Betty Reid Soskin.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/028_ElSobrante_BettyReidSoskinMiddleSchool_09222021.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/028_ElSobrante_BettyReidSoskinMiddleSchool_09222021-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/028_ElSobrante_BettyReidSoskinMiddleSchool_09222021-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/028_ElSobrante_BettyReidSoskinMiddleSchool_09222021-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/028_ElSobrante_BettyReidSoskinMiddleSchool_09222021-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Students wait to present gifts to Betty Reid Soskin during a school renaming ceremony on her 100th birthday at the renamed Betty Reid Soskin Middle School in El Sobrante. Students and teachers led the effort to rename the school in her honor, citing her lifelong advocacy for racial justice, equity and inclusive history. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Inspired by the social justice movements of the COVID-19 pandemic, they sought to rename the school for someone who embodied resilience and advocacy.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“I learned a lot these past couple of months, being on the naming committee and doing the project in general,” said Anaya Zenad, a former student who helped lead the renaming effort.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California Superintendent of Public Instruction Tony Thurmond, who attended the renaming ceremony, grew emotional as he spoke about Soskin’s impact.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have someone who has fought for civil rights, for women’s rights, for racial justice, and our children deserve to have someone to look up to,” he said at the ceremony.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her personal resilience was as remarkable as her professional achievements. In 2016, at the age of 94, she survived a violent home invasion, during which she was assaulted and robbed. Despite the trauma, Soskin returned to work weeks later, demonstrating her unyielding strength and dedication to her mission.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12068219\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12068219\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/SMNTF-LexMexArt-28.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/SMNTF-LexMexArt-28.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/SMNTF-LexMexArt-28-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/SMNTF-LexMexArt-28-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The four performers portraying Betty Reid Soskin in the stage play Sign My Name to Freedom — from left, Cathleen Riddley, Aidaa Peerzada, Lucca Troutman and Tierra Allen — each represent a different period of Soskin’s life, drawn from her memoir and lifelong work documenting Black history, music and activism. \u003ccite>(Photo by Alexa 'LexMex' Treviño)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Soskin’s life and work were chronicled in her memoir, \u003cem>Sign My Name to Freedom\u003c/em>, which \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13955108/betty-reid-soskin-stage-play-z-space-sign-my-name-to-freedom-review\">inspired both a stage play\u003c/a> and a documentary.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The documentary, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13952570/betty-reid-soskin-music-documentary-sign-my-name-to-freedom\">\u003cem>Sign My Name to Freedom: The Lost Music of Betty Reid Soskin\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, directed by Bryan Gibel, explores her life through the lens of her music, activism, and reflections on systemic racism.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Betty’s life story is a testament to the resilience and strength of those who face systemic challenges yet refuse to be defined by them,” Gibel said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12068220\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1008px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12068220\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/SMNTF_STILL2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1008\" height=\"630\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/SMNTF_STILL2.jpg 1008w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/SMNTF_STILL2-160x100.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1008px) 100vw, 1008px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Betty Reid Soskin listens to recordings of her own music as film director Bryan Gibel watches during the making of the documentary Sign My Name to Freedom: The Lost Music of Betty Reid Soskin. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Bryan Gibel)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The film captures intimate moments from her life, including her rediscovery of old recordings and her performance at Oakland’s Paramount Theatre with the Oakland Symphony and a 200-person choir.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Soskin’s dedication to justice and education was evident in her involvement with the civil rights movement and her work for former state Assemblymembers Dion Aroner and Loni Hancock. She fought for fair housing and educational opportunities for marginalized communities, emphasizing the need for systemic change in policies that disproportionately affected Black and low-income families.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her tireless advocacy and presence at legislative meetings ensured that equity remained a focus in California politics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even after retiring at age 100, Soskin continued to inspire through public appearances and reflections on her life, a powerful reminder of the importance of storytelling and preserving the full scope of history.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Betty Reid Soskin: A Life of Advocacy and Storytelling\u003c/h2>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>1921 : Born Betty Charbonnet in Detroit, Michigan.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>1927: Survives the Great Mississippi Flood, prompting her family’s move to Oakland, California.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>1942: Works for the U.S. Air Force as a file clerk but resigns after discovering she was hired under the assumption that she was white.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>1945: Co-founds Reid’s Records in Berkeley with her first husband, Mel Reid, making it one of the first Black-owned record stores in the Bay Area. The store remains a community hub for nearly 75 years.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>1960s-1970s: Becomes active in the civil rights movement and fights for fair housing and educational opportunities.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>1995: Named California Woman of the Year for her contributions to advocacy and community empowerment.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>2000: Plays a key role in planning the Rosie the Riveter/WWII Home Front National Historical Park in Richmond, ensuring the inclusion of Black workers’ experiences in its historical narrative.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>2004: Begins working with the National Park Service as a temporary interpretive ranger at the age of 84.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>2011: Becomes a permanent National Park Service ranger at the age of 89.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>2015: Lights the National Christmas Tree at the White House and receives a presidential coin from President Barack Obama.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>2016: Survives a violent home invasion at 94 but returns to work just weeks later.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>2018: Performs at Oakland’s Paramount Theatre with the Oakland Symphony and a 200-person choir, showcasing her musical activism.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>2019: Her memoir, \u003cem>Sign My Name to Freedom\u003c/em>, is published, chronicling her life and advocacy.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>2021: Documentary \u003cem>Sign My Name to Freedom: The Lost Music of Betty Reid Soskin\u003c/em> begins production.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>2022: Retires at age 100 from the National Park Service. On the same day, the West Contra Costa Unified School District renamed Juan Crespi Middle School in El Sobrante as Betty Reid Soskin Middle School.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>This summer, Jenn Oakley bought a one-bedroom condo in Emeryville — a milestone that once seemed impossible after more than a decade of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/homelessness\">homelessness\u003c/a>, addiction, recovery and rehabilitation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her journey is wild, full of sharp turns and near collapses. Before I get to it, know this: When I first \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/otisrtaylorjr/article/Who-can-really-afford-rent-in-the-Bay-Area-Beats-15271337.php\">told her story\u003c/a> as a \u003cem>San Francisco Chronicle\u003c/em> columnist, readers sent money. Their generosity gave her the foothold she needed to start climbing back.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s the truth about touching the bottom: No one climbs out alone. Some land on a safety net. Others crash onto concrete. We pass them every day — in tents, in shacks, at stoplights with cardboard pleas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakley’s story makes me wonder what else might be possible in the Bay Area, where stability feels impossible for many. Her story illuminates the cruelty of a system that punishes those who lose their housing. Years of homelessness, addiction and structural barriers made Oakley — the most determined unhoused person I’ve reported on — a long shot. She did nearly everything right — sobriety, training, work, service — and still needed luck and the kindness of strangers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For the tens of thousands drifting street to street and the countless more hanging on by a rent check, the door to stable, permanent housing isn’t just closed — it’s bolted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12054862\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12054862 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/Jenn-Oakley_homelessnesshomeownership_MO32_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/Jenn-Oakley_homelessnesshomeownership_MO32_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/Jenn-Oakley_homelessnesshomeownership_MO32_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/Jenn-Oakley_homelessnesshomeownership_MO32_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jenn Oakley poses for a portrait inside her moving truck after moving out her belongings from a storage unit en route to her first-ever owned home in the East Bay on June 7, 2025. \u003ccite>(Manuel Orbegozo for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>When I first met Oakley, she had her face buried in the hood of a beat-up Nissan Altima, which was leaking oil. It was May 2020, outside the Lake Merritt Tuff Sheds, Oakland’s transitional housing for the unhoused. It was the early pandemic, and most of us were going stir-crazy inside. I wanted to talk to the people who didn’t have the luxury.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakley told me she’d been homeless for a decade. After moving to Oakland from Tennessee nearly two decades ago, Oakley, a college graduate, sold insurance. Her slide began in 2009, after her father died. Grief pushed her into meth. The spiral was swift and merciless: she lost her housing, her work and nearly herself. Then came the stroke, which left her partially paralyzed in a room at the Value Inn at the corner of MacArthur Boulevard and Shafter Avenue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I followed her for seven months. In December 2020, she moved into her own room near UC Berkeley — $950 a month for a chance at stability, made possible in part by the generosity of \u003cem>Chronicle\u003c/em> readers. The distance \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/otisrtaylorjr/article/Bay-Area-has-been-memorable-but-family-s-15780385.php\">between the streets and a bed\u003c/a> with a roof came down to just $3,000.[aside postID=news_12051236 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250626-GRANTSPASSDECISIONANNI-03-BL-KQED.jpg']On May 28, 2025, Oakley became the owner of a waterfront condo in Emeryville. The complex has gyms, jacuzzis and saunas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m working so much I can’t even enjoy it yet,” Oakley told me, standing in the breakfast nook where she has her work-from-home station. She’s juggling three jobs and nearly 80 hours a week. “In the future, I’m gonna make some changes to this place.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She wants to get rid of the beige carpet. Oakley, who regularly runs five miles a day, still has to hang her running medals, patches and bibs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We’ve kept in touch since meeting five years ago. The more I got to know her, the more I realized: If someone as focused as Oakley can barely grasp an affordable apartment, what hope remains for those on the street?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gov. Gavin Newsom has pushed cities to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12039730/newsom-pushes-cities-ban-homeless-encampments-across-california\">ban homeless encampments\u003c/a> across California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>RV communities are asphalt villages, stubborn and sprawling, their challenges mounting as more Californians \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12043516/rv-encampments-are-notoriously-hard-to-close-this-city-found-something-that-works\">trade driveways for curbsides\u003c/a> and turn vehicles into permanent homes. California’s homeless population is still the largest in the country, with more than 187,000 people \u003ca href=\"https://www.huduser.gov/portal/sites/default/files/pdf/2024-AHAR-Part-1.pdf\">at last count\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12043991\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12043991 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/JENN-OAKLEY_HOMELESSNESSHOMEOWNERSHIP_MO15-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/JENN-OAKLEY_HOMELESSNESSHOMEOWNERSHIP_MO15-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/JENN-OAKLEY_HOMELESSNESSHOMEOWNERSHIP_MO15-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/JENN-OAKLEY_HOMELESSNESSHOMEOWNERSHIP_MO15-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jenn Oakley relied on her community of friends and graduates from Rising Sun Center for Opportunity, where she is a case manager, for assistance in moving out of her storage unit in Emeryville on June 7, 2025. \u003ccite>(Manuel Orbegozo for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In the Bay Area, the homelessness crisis continues to swell, reaching a record 38,891 people in 2024 — a 6% jump from the year before, according to the Bay Area Council Economic Institute. The surge is driven by the relentless housing and affordability crunch, compounded by struggles with mental health and substance use. Already stretched shelters and supportive housing programs struggle to keep up with a growing population.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For most, the odds of escaping homelessness are grim. But every so often, someone beats them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakley, known as Tennessee Jenn on the streets, won the lottery. No, not like the unhoused man who \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/california/article/california-lottery-homeless-man-20769219.php\">won a $1 million prize\u003c/a> from a California Lottery scratcher. Oakley won the housing lottery in Emeryville. She’s the first person to become a homeowner through First Home Emeryville, the city’s down payment assistance program for first-time buyers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If your credit’s not good enough, if you don’t have enough money, then you’re out,” she told me as she showed me around her place. “And even if you do get approved, then you gotta find a spot. There’s only 40 condos for sale in Emeryville at any given time.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12043988\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12043988 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/JENN-OAKLEY_HOMELESSNESSHOMEOWNERSHIP_MO02-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/JENN-OAKLEY_HOMELESSNESSHOMEOWNERSHIP_MO02-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/JENN-OAKLEY_HOMELESSNESSHOMEOWNERSHIP_MO02-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/JENN-OAKLEY_HOMELESSNESSHOMEOWNERSHIP_MO02-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jenn Oakley carries a box filled with her belongings into a moving truck in Emeryville on June 7, 2025. \u003ccite>(Manuel Orbegozo for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Only three were in her price range — and she needed to qualify for a loan. Another buyer made an offer, and she nearly lost the place, but her mortgage broker hustled to close the deal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As we sat on her porch one Sunday afternoon last month, Fattie, Oakley’s lab-mastiff mix, nudged my leg, drooling for attention. Until her stroke, Oakley, now 47, had lived and worked in a hotel for three years, she said. The stroke only slowed her down temporarily. As she recovered, she threw herself into learning new trades, determined to build a stable future.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakley’s leadership and passion for helping others were obvious the first time she met former Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf.[aside postID=news_12050701 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250722-SHELTERFAMILIES-08-BL-KQED.jpg']“It was a pleasure to stay in touch and see those gifts develop,” Schaaf said. “I’m grateful she stayed in touch with me. So often, as policymakers, we launch a program like Cabin Communities, we only get to evaluate its success with cold aggregated data or, sadly, not at all. To see intimately how Jenn was affected by the city’s actions was a profound gift for me. And I got a friend in the bargain.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While living in the cabins, Oakley took automotive tech classes at Chabot College in Hayward. She completed a construction-training program at Rising Sun Center for Opportunity, which helps low-income people enter trades. She trained for two years to be a heavy equipment mechanic, only to be dismissed, she said, by a sexist instructor who questioned her age and mocked her background. Oakley said she was the third woman in 10 years to complete the program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She’s worked security, changed oil at Jiffy Lube in Castro Valley, even fueled airplanes at San Francisco International Airport — until a background check flagged old drug and weapon charges, and she was escorted off the premises, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She found her occupational calling by leaning into what she knows. She thrived working at Lifelong Medical Care, an organization that helps residents navigate the transition from homelessness into permanent housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12043998\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12043998 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/JENN-OAKLEY_HOMELESSNESSHOMEOWNERSHIP_MO42-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/JENN-OAKLEY_HOMELESSNESSHOMEOWNERSHIP_MO42-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/JENN-OAKLEY_HOMELESSNESSHOMEOWNERSHIP_MO42-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/JENN-OAKLEY_HOMELESSNESSHOMEOWNERSHIP_MO42-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jenn Oakley moves her belongings into the bedroom of her first-ever owned home in the East Bay on June 7, 2025. \u003ccite>(Manuel Orbegozo for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“All these people had been homeless, now they’re trying to figure out how to live inside,” she told me. “They’ve got disabilities, addiction, violence — but I loved it. And they loved me. I was good at it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She’s now the lead case manager at Rising Sun, helping others move out of homelessness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was homeless for 10 years. I was on drugs for 30. I can tell them all that stuff, and it gives me instant credibility,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her compassion isn’t limited to her job description. She also looks after a man she met while homeless — a man who had a stroke and cannot speak. She helped him secure an apartment in Brooklyn Basin and still checks in, making sure he has meals, medication and the support he needs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12043997\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12043997 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/JENN-OAKLEY_HOMELESSNESSHOMEOWNERSHIP_MO39-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/JENN-OAKLEY_HOMELESSNESSHOMEOWNERSHIP_MO39-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/JENN-OAKLEY_HOMELESSNESSHOMEOWNERSHIP_MO39-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/JENN-OAKLEY_HOMELESSNESSHOMEOWNERSHIP_MO39-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jenn Oakley has championed advocacy for equal access to housing and opportunities in the East Bay and plans to write a book about her journey from homelessness to home ownership. Photographed on June 7, 2025. \u003ccite>(Manuel Orbegozo for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We were friends, but we weren’t that close. He’s older, and I saw him, and I had instant survivor’s guilt,” Oakley said. “I mean, my stroke — I came back. I started taking care of him and doing his case work, doing all this stuff.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the weekends, she surveys unhoused people across East Oakland, where encampments have been pushed. She navigates streets to connect with people who would otherwise disappear.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They’re scattered. It’s a whole different climate than it was five years ago. Ever since Grants Pass passed, everything has changed,” she said, referring to the Supreme Court decision that gives cities \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11991340/supreme-court-says-laws-criminalizing-homeless-camping-do-not-violate-constitution\">more power to regulate\u003c/a> encampments on sidewalks and public property.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s a long way from the street to where she lives now, in a complex with Bay Bridge views and three swimming pools. We watched as neighbors shuffled past in robes, heading to swim or sunbathe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Like, wait,” Oakley said, shaking her head, “this is where I live now?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakley’s story makes me wonder what else might be possible in the Bay Area, where stability feels impossible for many. Her story illuminates the cruelty of a system that punishes those who lose their housing. Years of homelessness, addiction and structural barriers made Oakley — the most determined unhoused person I’ve reported on — a long shot. She did nearly everything right — sobriety, training, work, service — and still needed luck and the kindness of strangers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For the tens of thousands drifting street to street and the countless more hanging on by a rent check, the door to stable, permanent housing isn’t just closed — it’s bolted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12054862\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12054862 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/Jenn-Oakley_homelessnesshomeownership_MO32_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/Jenn-Oakley_homelessnesshomeownership_MO32_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/Jenn-Oakley_homelessnesshomeownership_MO32_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/Jenn-Oakley_homelessnesshomeownership_MO32_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jenn Oakley poses for a portrait inside her moving truck after moving out her belongings from a storage unit en route to her first-ever owned home in the East Bay on June 7, 2025. \u003ccite>(Manuel Orbegozo for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>When I first met Oakley, she had her face buried in the hood of a beat-up Nissan Altima, which was leaking oil. It was May 2020, outside the Lake Merritt Tuff Sheds, Oakland’s transitional housing for the unhoused. It was the early pandemic, and most of us were going stir-crazy inside. I wanted to talk to the people who didn’t have the luxury.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakley told me she’d been homeless for a decade. After moving to Oakland from Tennessee nearly two decades ago, Oakley, a college graduate, sold insurance. Her slide began in 2009, after her father died. Grief pushed her into meth. The spiral was swift and merciless: she lost her housing, her work and nearly herself. Then came the stroke, which left her partially paralyzed in a room at the Value Inn at the corner of MacArthur Boulevard and Shafter Avenue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I followed her for seven months. In December 2020, she moved into her own room near UC Berkeley — $950 a month for a chance at stability, made possible in part by the generosity of \u003cem>Chronicle\u003c/em> readers. The distance \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/otisrtaylorjr/article/Bay-Area-has-been-memorable-but-family-s-15780385.php\">between the streets and a bed\u003c/a> with a roof came down to just $3,000.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>On May 28, 2025, Oakley became the owner of a waterfront condo in Emeryville. The complex has gyms, jacuzzis and saunas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m working so much I can’t even enjoy it yet,” Oakley told me, standing in the breakfast nook where she has her work-from-home station. She’s juggling three jobs and nearly 80 hours a week. “In the future, I’m gonna make some changes to this place.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She wants to get rid of the beige carpet. Oakley, who regularly runs five miles a day, still has to hang her running medals, patches and bibs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We’ve kept in touch since meeting five years ago. The more I got to know her, the more I realized: If someone as focused as Oakley can barely grasp an affordable apartment, what hope remains for those on the street?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gov. Gavin Newsom has pushed cities to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12039730/newsom-pushes-cities-ban-homeless-encampments-across-california\">ban homeless encampments\u003c/a> across California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>RV communities are asphalt villages, stubborn and sprawling, their challenges mounting as more Californians \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12043516/rv-encampments-are-notoriously-hard-to-close-this-city-found-something-that-works\">trade driveways for curbsides\u003c/a> and turn vehicles into permanent homes. California’s homeless population is still the largest in the country, with more than 187,000 people \u003ca href=\"https://www.huduser.gov/portal/sites/default/files/pdf/2024-AHAR-Part-1.pdf\">at last count\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12043991\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12043991 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/JENN-OAKLEY_HOMELESSNESSHOMEOWNERSHIP_MO15-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/JENN-OAKLEY_HOMELESSNESSHOMEOWNERSHIP_MO15-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/JENN-OAKLEY_HOMELESSNESSHOMEOWNERSHIP_MO15-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/JENN-OAKLEY_HOMELESSNESSHOMEOWNERSHIP_MO15-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jenn Oakley relied on her community of friends and graduates from Rising Sun Center for Opportunity, where she is a case manager, for assistance in moving out of her storage unit in Emeryville on June 7, 2025. \u003ccite>(Manuel Orbegozo for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In the Bay Area, the homelessness crisis continues to swell, reaching a record 38,891 people in 2024 — a 6% jump from the year before, according to the Bay Area Council Economic Institute. The surge is driven by the relentless housing and affordability crunch, compounded by struggles with mental health and substance use. Already stretched shelters and supportive housing programs struggle to keep up with a growing population.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For most, the odds of escaping homelessness are grim. But every so often, someone beats them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakley, known as Tennessee Jenn on the streets, won the lottery. No, not like the unhoused man who \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/california/article/california-lottery-homeless-man-20769219.php\">won a $1 million prize\u003c/a> from a California Lottery scratcher. Oakley won the housing lottery in Emeryville. She’s the first person to become a homeowner through First Home Emeryville, the city’s down payment assistance program for first-time buyers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If your credit’s not good enough, if you don’t have enough money, then you’re out,” she told me as she showed me around her place. “And even if you do get approved, then you gotta find a spot. There’s only 40 condos for sale in Emeryville at any given time.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12043988\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12043988 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/JENN-OAKLEY_HOMELESSNESSHOMEOWNERSHIP_MO02-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/JENN-OAKLEY_HOMELESSNESSHOMEOWNERSHIP_MO02-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/JENN-OAKLEY_HOMELESSNESSHOMEOWNERSHIP_MO02-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/JENN-OAKLEY_HOMELESSNESSHOMEOWNERSHIP_MO02-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jenn Oakley carries a box filled with her belongings into a moving truck in Emeryville on June 7, 2025. \u003ccite>(Manuel Orbegozo for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Only three were in her price range — and she needed to qualify for a loan. Another buyer made an offer, and she nearly lost the place, but her mortgage broker hustled to close the deal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As we sat on her porch one Sunday afternoon last month, Fattie, Oakley’s lab-mastiff mix, nudged my leg, drooling for attention. Until her stroke, Oakley, now 47, had lived and worked in a hotel for three years, she said. The stroke only slowed her down temporarily. As she recovered, she threw herself into learning new trades, determined to build a stable future.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakley’s leadership and passion for helping others were obvious the first time she met former Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“It was a pleasure to stay in touch and see those gifts develop,” Schaaf said. “I’m grateful she stayed in touch with me. So often, as policymakers, we launch a program like Cabin Communities, we only get to evaluate its success with cold aggregated data or, sadly, not at all. To see intimately how Jenn was affected by the city’s actions was a profound gift for me. And I got a friend in the bargain.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While living in the cabins, Oakley took automotive tech classes at Chabot College in Hayward. She completed a construction-training program at Rising Sun Center for Opportunity, which helps low-income people enter trades. She trained for two years to be a heavy equipment mechanic, only to be dismissed, she said, by a sexist instructor who questioned her age and mocked her background. Oakley said she was the third woman in 10 years to complete the program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She’s worked security, changed oil at Jiffy Lube in Castro Valley, even fueled airplanes at San Francisco International Airport — until a background check flagged old drug and weapon charges, and she was escorted off the premises, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She found her occupational calling by leaning into what she knows. She thrived working at Lifelong Medical Care, an organization that helps residents navigate the transition from homelessness into permanent housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12043998\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12043998 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/JENN-OAKLEY_HOMELESSNESSHOMEOWNERSHIP_MO42-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/JENN-OAKLEY_HOMELESSNESSHOMEOWNERSHIP_MO42-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/JENN-OAKLEY_HOMELESSNESSHOMEOWNERSHIP_MO42-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/JENN-OAKLEY_HOMELESSNESSHOMEOWNERSHIP_MO42-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jenn Oakley moves her belongings into the bedroom of her first-ever owned home in the East Bay on June 7, 2025. \u003ccite>(Manuel Orbegozo for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“All these people had been homeless, now they’re trying to figure out how to live inside,” she told me. “They’ve got disabilities, addiction, violence — but I loved it. And they loved me. I was good at it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She’s now the lead case manager at Rising Sun, helping others move out of homelessness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was homeless for 10 years. I was on drugs for 30. I can tell them all that stuff, and it gives me instant credibility,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her compassion isn’t limited to her job description. She also looks after a man she met while homeless — a man who had a stroke and cannot speak. She helped him secure an apartment in Brooklyn Basin and still checks in, making sure he has meals, medication and the support he needs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12043997\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12043997 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/JENN-OAKLEY_HOMELESSNESSHOMEOWNERSHIP_MO39-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/JENN-OAKLEY_HOMELESSNESSHOMEOWNERSHIP_MO39-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/JENN-OAKLEY_HOMELESSNESSHOMEOWNERSHIP_MO39-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/JENN-OAKLEY_HOMELESSNESSHOMEOWNERSHIP_MO39-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jenn Oakley has championed advocacy for equal access to housing and opportunities in the East Bay and plans to write a book about her journey from homelessness to home ownership. Photographed on June 7, 2025. \u003ccite>(Manuel Orbegozo for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We were friends, but we weren’t that close. He’s older, and I saw him, and I had instant survivor’s guilt,” Oakley said. “I mean, my stroke — I came back. I started taking care of him and doing his case work, doing all this stuff.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the weekends, she surveys unhoused people across East Oakland, where encampments have been pushed. She navigates streets to connect with people who would otherwise disappear.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They’re scattered. It’s a whole different climate than it was five years ago. Ever since Grants Pass passed, everything has changed,” she said, referring to the Supreme Court decision that gives cities \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11991340/supreme-court-says-laws-criminalizing-homeless-camping-do-not-violate-constitution\">more power to regulate\u003c/a> encampments on sidewalks and public property.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s a long way from the street to where she lives now, in a complex with Bay Bridge views and three swimming pools. We watched as neighbors shuffled past in robes, heading to swim or sunbathe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Like, wait,” Oakley said, shaking her head, “this is where I live now?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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Gavin Newsom called Burton “a legendary powerhouse that breathed life into our party and fought for a better California for everyone — uniting Democrats across race, belief, and background.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over decades in Sacramento and Washington, D.C., Burton built a reputation for blunt, profanity-laced candor as he fought for labor unions and the working class. He was far from perfect, but he was known for championing ordinary people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A staunch Democrat, he also crossed the aisle to work with Republican governors and legislators — many of whom he counted as friends in an era of a very different Republican Party.[aside postID=news_12054886 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/JohnBurtonGetty3.jpg']“He was firm in his commitment to working families, to poor people, and he was really a progressive warrior,” Rep. 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John Burton pictured in his office, February 1980. \u003ccite>(Janet Fries/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In 1974, amid the Watergate scandal, Burton was elected to represent San Francisco and part of Marin County in Congress. He served until 1982, when he stepped down to address his cocaine addiction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 1996, Burton won a state Senate seat, rising to become president pro tem until term limits forced him out in 2004. After leaving the Legislature, he chaired the California Democratic Party from 2009 until 2017. When Democrats opened a new Sacramento office in 2014, they named it the John L. Burton Democratic Headquarters in his honor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“California has lost a giant,” state Senate President Pro Tem Mike McGuire wrote on \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/ilike_mike/status/1964757021221392433\">X\u003c/a>. “John Burton — who led the State Senate with passion and empowered a generation of Californians — never stopped fighting for the most vulnerable and he used his real political power to help those who needed it most.”[aside postID=news_12054630 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/GavinNewsomAP.jpg']Sen. Alex Padilla praised Burton for expanding health care access, strengthening worker protections and increasing funding for education.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“John was bluntly honest and never shied away from a fight if it meant protecting the vulnerable and giving a voice to the voiceless — a mission he carried on even after his political career by providing a pathway to a better life for thousands of foster youth and securing billions of dollars to invest in their success,” Padilla said in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Assembly Speaker Robert Rivas (D-Salinas) praised Burton for promoting Democratic values that shaped generations of politics and activism in the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He leveraged California’s size and influence to do the most good across decades, from divestment in South Africa to supporting farmworkers to enshrining abortion rights in our Constitution,” Rivas said in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Local leaders also weighed in on Burton’s passing. San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie praised him for dedicating his life to public service.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“His legacy is woven into the fabric of our city and state—in the rights of workers, in protections for foster youth and the most vulnerable, and in the countless public servants he mentored,” he posted on \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/DanielLurie/status/1964772774024781835\">X\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland Mayor Barbara Lee called Burton her “dear friend.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For more than five decades, John fought for those without a voice — from foster children to farmworkers, from union members to the elderly,” Lee said on \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/BarbaraLee_CA/status/1964792717608976560\">X\u003c/a>. “His mentorship shaped generations of Democratic leaders, and his legacy is alive in every progressive victory in California.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Rise East\u003c/strong> did \u003cem>it\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2023, Rise East — anchored by a collective of nonprofits known as the 40×40 Council — received a $50 million grant from \u003cstrong>Blue Meridian Partners\u003c/strong>, a national philanthropic organization. But there was a catch: The money could only be unlocked if Rise East raised $50 million from local donors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101909974/live-from-east-oakland-can-100-million-revitalize-oaklands-black-community\">Thursday episode of \u003cstrong>\u003cem>Forum\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>, Rise East formally announced it had surpassed the goal. The work of investing $100 million in East Oakland to drive systemic change — with a focus on education, public safety and housing — has already begun.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What we’re talking about is a 40-square-block area — roughly from Interstate 580 to the San Francisco Bay and from Seminary Avenue to the San Leandro border — that has the densest concentration of Black people in Oakland. It’s where our shared history of disinvestment in Black communities can’t hide.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rise East has a \u003ca href=\"https://www.riseeast.org/\">10-year plan\u003c/a> to address decades of harm. And it’s East Oakland natives who are leading the effort with hopes of keeping Black families in the neighborhood while encouraging the return of those displaced by economic barriers and systemic disinvestment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Carolyn Johnson\u003c/strong>, CEO of the \u003cstrong>Black Cultural Zone,\u003c/strong> which, among other things, addresses the displacement of Black People and Black businesses in Oakland, emphasizes the need for affordable housing and job creation. For a community to exist and thrive, there has to be a place reserved for the community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There hasn’t been an effort like this that actually has the voices of folks who are born and raised in the area to be a part of the conversation,” Johnson told my colleague \u003cstrong>Brian Watt\u003c/strong> in November. “My vision is to see commercial corridors that are thriving, that are vibrant, that are filled with cultural artisans, makers.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lfO3NRN8jig\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Liberation Park project, a formerly abandoned lot that has been converted into a cultural hub, and the 8321 International Welcome Center are key Rise East initiatives. Johnson, who grew up in East Oakland, said Rise East is focused on healing and strengthening the Black community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If we don’t hold ‘place,’ we won’t be here,” she said. “So real estate is an important part, and really giving people opportunities to build economic wealth is critical.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The $100 million is an investment in the health, safety and prosperity of East Oakland. It’s not enough to cure systemic inequities, but it can change the fortunes of a neighborhood and city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The $100 million experiment offers a glimpse of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/reparations\">what reparations could look like\u003c/a> — not as a payout, but as an investment in public safety, a response to the decades of mass incarceration that undermined a generation of Black and brown families and destabilized their communities. Ballooning police budgets won’t solve what that kind of harm has done.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12020008\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12020008\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/241010-RiseEastDeepDown-33-BL.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/241010-RiseEastDeepDown-33-BL.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/241010-RiseEastDeepDown-33-BL-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/241010-RiseEastDeepDown-33-BL-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/241010-RiseEastDeepDown-33-BL-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/241010-RiseEastDeepDown-33-BL-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/241010-RiseEastDeepDown-33-BL-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Carolyn Johnson (center right), CEO of Black Culture Zone, leads a fundraising walking tour for the Rise East collective along International Boulevard in Oakland on Oct. 10, 2024. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Oakland residents deserve \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12040935/barbara-lee-sworn-in-as-oaklands-mayor-says-today-marks-a-new-era\">hope that doesn’t hinge on an election\u003c/a>. Oakland is the birthplace and home of much of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/bayareahiphop\">Bay Area’s culture\u003c/a>. Just ask the people rooted there; the people determined to build the future they want to see. For KQED, \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/author/olivia-cruz-mayeda/\">\u003cstrong>Olivia Cruz Mayeda\u003c/strong>\u003c/a> chronicled how the $100 million investment could bring its long-time residents relief in \u003cstrong>\u003cem>Deep Down\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/kqedarts/reel/DABtsbHyy2l/\">a five-part Instagram video series\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Deep Down\u003c/em> captured the beauty and realness of East Oakland, as well as the artists, business owners, community leaders and residents who dream of a better future. The series centered East Oakland’s cultural intersections — \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/eastbay/article/east-oakland-neighborhood-diversity-20279937.php\">Black, Japanese, Filipino, Indigenous and Latino families\u003c/a> living next to each other — that cracked under the weight of history.[aside postID=news_12008909 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/Deep-Down-1020x680.jpg']For a November 2023 \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/newsletters/political-breakdown\">\u003cstrong>\u003cem>Political Breakdown\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/a> newsletter, I wrote about the disinvestment in East Oakland that began when the General Motors assembly plant closed and moved to Fremont in 1963. The closure started an exodus of resources, and white residents fled the city for the suburbs, attracted by low-interest housing loans and newly-built highways that made it easier to commute to work in downtown Oakland, San Francisco or the South Bay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11943263/americas-highway-system-is-a-monument-to-environmental-racism-and-a-history-of-inequity\">Black neighborhoods in Oakland were bulldozed to make room for the highways\u003c/a>. Urban renewal, redlining and police violence contributed to East Oakland’s decline. Predatory check-cashing stores replaced banks. The one-two punch of the foreclosure crisis and the Great Recession crushed Black homeowners. Between 2007 and 2011, more than 10,500 Oakland homes were foreclosed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rise East plans to focus on investments in education, community safety, health care, affordable housing and boosting the local economy — you know, the areas that simply can’t be addressed through a tough-on-crime approach. The decade-long, community-led effort will be driven by local nonprofits and leaders rooted in East Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12020003\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12020003\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/241010-RiseEastDeepDown-56-BL.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/241010-RiseEastDeepDown-56-BL.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/241010-RiseEastDeepDown-56-BL-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/241010-RiseEastDeepDown-56-BL-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/241010-RiseEastDeepDown-56-BL-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/241010-RiseEastDeepDown-56-BL-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/241010-RiseEastDeepDown-56-BL-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The East Oakland Youth Development Center in Oakland on Oct. 10, 2024. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>When I talked to \u003cstrong>Selena Wilson\u003c/strong>, CEO of the \u003ca href=\"https://eoydc.org/\">East Oakland Youth Development Center\u003c/a>, for the \u003cem>Political Breakdown\u003c/em> newsletter, she told me Rise East would succeed in raising $50 million. When we talked earlier this week, we reflected on how much Oakland — and the country — has changed in less than two years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland is in a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12038739/oakland-budget-keeps-fire-stations-closed-police-cuts-in-place-despite-new-sales-tax\">budget crisis\u003c/a> — and it could get worse. Same with the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12040189/ousd-after-school-programs-could-be-cut-by-at-least-50\">school district\u003c/a>. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12041026/new-trump-administration-rules-could-cut-off-crucial-federal-homelessness-funding\">Federal dollars are drying up\u003c/a>, and the cuts are coming fast. Philanthropy, once eager in the wake of George Floyd’s murder five years ago, is stepping back — cautious now, quiet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12034699/racial-justice-advocates-stay-course-dei-faces-mounting-attacks\">DEI has become a dirty word\u003c/a> in some circles, an easy target for people who’ve stopped pretending to care about systemic inequality. And \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12033818/lgbtq-activists-rally-at-newsoms-home-demand-stronger-trans-rights-commitment\">queer and trans people are being demonized\u003c/a> — their existence politicized, their rights rolled back, their humanity debated like policy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The marginalized communities that we’re centering in this work are literally under attack in a different way, and so in that way the need has become even greater,” Wilson, an East Oakland native, said. “It’s kind of one of those two steps forward, three steps back, but we shall persist.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We’re witnessing the renaissance of East Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are undeterred. We are not discouraged. We are lionized, if anything, to triple down,” Wilson said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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For a community to exist and thrive, there has to be a place reserved for the community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There hasn’t been an effort like this that actually has the voices of folks who are born and raised in the area to be a part of the conversation,” Johnson told my colleague \u003cstrong>Brian Watt\u003c/strong> in November. “My vision is to see commercial corridors that are thriving, that are vibrant, that are filled with cultural artisans, makers.”\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/lfO3NRN8jig'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/lfO3NRN8jig'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>The Liberation Park project, a formerly abandoned lot that has been converted into a cultural hub, and the 8321 International Welcome Center are key Rise East initiatives. Johnson, who grew up in East Oakland, said Rise East is focused on healing and strengthening the Black community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If we don’t hold ‘place,’ we won’t be here,” she said. “So real estate is an important part, and really giving people opportunities to build economic wealth is critical.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The $100 million is an investment in the health, safety and prosperity of East Oakland. It’s not enough to cure systemic inequities, but it can change the fortunes of a neighborhood and city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The $100 million experiment offers a glimpse of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/reparations\">what reparations could look like\u003c/a> — not as a payout, but as an investment in public safety, a response to the decades of mass incarceration that undermined a generation of Black and brown families and destabilized their communities. 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The series centered East Oakland’s cultural intersections — \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/eastbay/article/east-oakland-neighborhood-diversity-20279937.php\">Black, Japanese, Filipino, Indigenous and Latino families\u003c/a> living next to each other — that cracked under the weight of history.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>For a November 2023 \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/newsletters/political-breakdown\">\u003cstrong>\u003cem>Political Breakdown\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/a> newsletter, I wrote about the disinvestment in East Oakland that began when the General Motors assembly plant closed and moved to Fremont in 1963. The closure started an exodus of resources, and white residents fled the city for the suburbs, attracted by low-interest housing loans and newly-built highways that made it easier to commute to work in downtown Oakland, San Francisco or the South Bay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11943263/americas-highway-system-is-a-monument-to-environmental-racism-and-a-history-of-inequity\">Black neighborhoods in Oakland were bulldozed to make room for the highways\u003c/a>. Urban renewal, redlining and police violence contributed to East Oakland’s decline. Predatory check-cashing stores replaced banks. The one-two punch of the foreclosure crisis and the Great Recession crushed Black homeowners. Between 2007 and 2011, more than 10,500 Oakland homes were foreclosed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rise East plans to focus on investments in education, community safety, health care, affordable housing and boosting the local economy — you know, the areas that simply can’t be addressed through a tough-on-crime approach. The decade-long, community-led effort will be driven by local nonprofits and leaders rooted in East Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12020003\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12020003\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/241010-RiseEastDeepDown-56-BL.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/241010-RiseEastDeepDown-56-BL.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/241010-RiseEastDeepDown-56-BL-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/241010-RiseEastDeepDown-56-BL-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/241010-RiseEastDeepDown-56-BL-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/241010-RiseEastDeepDown-56-BL-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/241010-RiseEastDeepDown-56-BL-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The East Oakland Youth Development Center in Oakland on Oct. 10, 2024. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>When I talked to \u003cstrong>Selena Wilson\u003c/strong>, CEO of the \u003ca href=\"https://eoydc.org/\">East Oakland Youth Development Center\u003c/a>, for the \u003cem>Political Breakdown\u003c/em> newsletter, she told me Rise East would succeed in raising $50 million. When we talked earlier this week, we reflected on how much Oakland — and the country — has changed in less than two years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland is in a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12038739/oakland-budget-keeps-fire-stations-closed-police-cuts-in-place-despite-new-sales-tax\">budget crisis\u003c/a> — and it could get worse. Same with the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12040189/ousd-after-school-programs-could-be-cut-by-at-least-50\">school district\u003c/a>. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12041026/new-trump-administration-rules-could-cut-off-crucial-federal-homelessness-funding\">Federal dollars are drying up\u003c/a>, and the cuts are coming fast. Philanthropy, once eager in the wake of George Floyd’s murder five years ago, is stepping back — cautious now, quiet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12034699/racial-justice-advocates-stay-course-dei-faces-mounting-attacks\">DEI has become a dirty word\u003c/a> in some circles, an easy target for people who’ve stopped pretending to care about systemic inequality. And \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12033818/lgbtq-activists-rally-at-newsoms-home-demand-stronger-trans-rights-commitment\">queer and trans people are being demonized\u003c/a> — their existence politicized, their rights rolled back, their humanity debated like policy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The marginalized communities that we’re centering in this work are literally under attack in a different way, and so in that way the need has become even greater,” Wilson, an East Oakland native, said. “It’s kind of one of those two steps forward, three steps back, but we shall persist.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We’re witnessing the renaissance of East Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are undeterred. We are not discouraged. We are lionized, if anything, to triple down,” Wilson said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>The three-way syringe hisses — a dry \u003cem>pssst\u003c/em> followed by the rhythmic \u003cem>chik-chik-chik\u003c/em> of the metal dental scaler on enamel, as hardened tartar is scraped from my teeth, a sound I can almost feel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It had been four years since I last saw my dentist, Dr. Jessica Ngo, and a lot had happened since then.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Through the safety glasses I wore to shield my eyes from splashes and debris, I caught sight of her dark eyes and the mole on the skin fold below her left eye. She wore Orascoptic dental loupes — high-powered lenses designed for spotting what eludes the naked eye. I hummed along with Taylor Swift’s “Shake It Off” as I followed the stray wisps of black hair slipping from beneath the satin headgear she wore.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Are you really wearing a bonnet?” I asked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ngo — or Dr. J, as I call her — laughed behind her surgical mask.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I told her I also wear a bonnet to protect my locs while sleeping. It’s a hair thing. I \u003cem>get\u003c/em> it. We laughed together.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Maybe you could use some more laughter these days. National Smile Month, an annual campaign to promote \u003ca href=\"https://www.dentalhealth.org/national-smile-month\">oral health\u003c/a>, began Tuesday, but in 2025, there hasn’t been much to smile about for the people I care for. The ripple effects of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12034478/federal-workers-fired-thousands-california-wants-hire-them\">mass layoffs\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12037889/trump-administration-considers-immigration-detention-bay-area-military-base-records-show\">detentions\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12030273/if-trump-revokes-ukrainian-refugees-legal-status-many-in-california-fear-deportation\">deportations\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12034742/california-students-visa-cancellations-sue-trump-administration\">visa cancellations\u003c/a>, trade threats, and the volatility of the stock market and retirement accounts leave many people stressed, \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/news/article/Author-finds-happiness-not-misery-loves-company-9961102.php\">anxious\u003c/a> — and kissing their teeth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12039305\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12039305\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250505-NATIONALSMILESMONTH-07-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250505-NATIONALSMILESMONTH-07-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250505-NATIONALSMILESMONTH-07-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250505-NATIONALSMILESMONTH-07-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250505-NATIONALSMILESMONTH-07-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250505-NATIONALSMILESMONTH-07-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250505-NATIONALSMILESMONTH-07-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dr. Jessica Ngo, a dentist at Total Health Dental Care, talks with patient Otis R. Taylor Jr. in the Berkeley offices on May 5, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>I returned to Dr. J’s office at \u003ca href=\"https://totalhealthdentalcare.com/jessica-ngo\">Total Health Dental Care\u003c/a> on Telegraph Avenue in Berkeley because I’ve been grinding my teeth. And eating too many Skittles. And I missed the care she offers — the kind of sensitivity I haven’t found elsewhere.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Poor oral health is closely linked to chronic diseases such as stroke, heart disease and diabetes. Proper oral hygiene can extend life expectancy. However, for people without dental insurance to reduce out-of-pocket expenses, preventative care is inaccessible.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I actually had terrible teeth growing up,” Dr. J, a San Francisco native and one of five children raised by Chinese immigrants, told me. “I probably have over 20 fillings, and I have a root canal, a few crowns.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wait, what?[aside postID=news_12039102 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/072820-Doctor-Pediatrician-Kid-GETTY-CM-01-copy-1020x680.jpg']“They were working all the time,” she said of her parents. “I don’t think we had very much supervision. They didn’t double-check if we were brushing properly. They didn’t really restrict us on what we were eating, so we ate a lot of junk food and had a lot of candy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dr. J, who is married with two young daughters, told me she doesn’t recall her family having insurance when she was a child growing up in the Ingleside neighborhood. If she did go to the dentist, it was an emergency.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As a result of that, I had a lot of cavities that probably went untreated for a period of time before I saw dentists in my teenage years, and that’s when I needed all of that dental work,” she said. “I actually enjoyed going to the dentist, because it was something that wasn’t always available to me.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That is why she does what she does.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is why I go to see her: My mother, who once dug through the garbage for a baby tooth I wanted to put under my pillow for the tooth fairy, has always stressed the importance of a healthy mouth. Going to the dentist wasn’t always available to her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I balked at braces, because I didn’t want to get teased, even though my misaligned central incisors — buck teeth — were clowned. Braces gave me a straighter smile — and made me less prone to gum disease, which slowly erodes the bone and tissue that anchor your teeth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12039309\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12039309\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250505-NATIONALSMILESMONTH-35-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250505-NATIONALSMILESMONTH-35-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250505-NATIONALSMILESMONTH-35-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250505-NATIONALSMILESMONTH-35-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250505-NATIONALSMILESMONTH-35-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250505-NATIONALSMILESMONTH-35-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250505-NATIONALSMILESMONTH-35-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Chusang Nhasang talks with patient Otis Taylor at the front desk of the Total Health Dental Care Berkeley offices on May 5, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>If left untreated, gum disease can lead to tooth loss and lingering bad breath. The problems can go far beyond your mouth. The bacteria behind gum disease can enter the bloodstream, traveling to organs like the heart, lungs and kidneys.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Gum issues, if you’re not taking care of it, become a lot more complicated to treat as time goes on, so your mom was definitely right in that regard,” Dr. J, 36, said. “It’s rare to have that prevention or preventative care if there is a financial barrier or the patient isn’t covered, and so lower-income individuals have a harder time with that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Republicans in Congress are debating how to cut billions from Medicaid over the next decade — known as Medi-Cal in California — the safety-net program that covers health care for low-income families, children, seniors and people with disabilities. In California, roughly 15 million people rely on it.[aside postID=news_12039390 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/IMG_1018-1020x765.jpg']According to one IGS poll, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12039465/medicaid-cuts-divide-california-house-members-as-budget-deadline-looms\">more than half — 56% — of California voters\u003c/a> believe the state will be negatively impacted by proposed changes to Medi-Cal, which offers preventative and restorative dental benefits to children and adults. More than two-thirds of Medi-Cal recipients express concern about \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12039102/californians-worried-about-medi-cal-congressional-republicans-consider-cuts\">their own health insurance coverage\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And get this: The prevalence of periodontal disease is higher among Black and Mexican American adults age 30 and older, according to \u003ca href=\"https://www.nidcr.nih.gov/research/oralhealthinamerica\">Oral Health in America: Advances and Challenges\u003c/a> — a report from the National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research, part of the National Institutes of Health.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s why the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/reparations\">California Reparations Task Force\u003c/a>, the first statewide body to study reparations for Black people, released a report with 115 policy recommendations, including a section on \u003ca href=\"https://oag.ca.gov/system/files/media/ch29-ca-reparations.pdf\">remedying disparities\u003c/a> in oral health care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What kept me away from Dr. J’s office was insurance — Total Health didn’t take KQED’s plan. That changed this year when KQED switched providers. With age, I’ve come to value doctors I can truly connect with — where care feels human, not just clinical.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dr. J’s office has been renovated with slat wood paneling and wood floors, but the energy remains the same. I crack jokes with Chusang Nhasang, the financial manager. The music is from personal playlists.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12039306\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12039306\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250505-NATIONALSMILESMONTH-25-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250505-NATIONALSMILESMONTH-25-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250505-NATIONALSMILESMONTH-25-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250505-NATIONALSMILESMONTH-25-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250505-NATIONALSMILESMONTH-25-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250505-NATIONALSMILESMONTH-25-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250505-NATIONALSMILESMONTH-25-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dr. Jessica Ngo, a dentist at Total Health Dental Care, holds her Orascoptic dental loupes in Berkeley on May 5, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>It’s the kind of place where dental anxiety melts away like butter on a pancake fresh off the griddle, a dental office where talk of sneaker collecting feels just as natural as a cleaning. Dental hygienists and dental assistants move around the office on lightweight performance shoes, such as On or Hoka. Dr. J said Adidas Ultraboosts are her go-to, but the last time I saw her, she was rocking the orange-accented Adidas Yeezy Boost 350 V2 Beluga Reflective.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“At some point, I was a major collector,” she said as she peeled off her gloves and pulled out her phone to play Jubel’s electronic dance cover of “\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tYwBRlgeK9Q\">Dancing in the Moonlight\u003c/a>,” a \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g5JqPxmYhlo\">1972 hit by King Harvest\u003c/a>. “I had shoe boxes — a line of them. I actually have a ton of shoes I’ve never opened, and so I became more practical. I don’t buy them just to store them anymore. I buy them to wear them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She’s going to give the shoes to her daughters, who, like me, love going to the dentist. Dr. J pointed out my Air Max 1 Dirty Denim. 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More than two-thirds of Medi-Cal recipients express concern about \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12039102/californians-worried-about-medi-cal-congressional-republicans-consider-cuts\">their own health insurance coverage\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And get this: The prevalence of periodontal disease is higher among Black and Mexican American adults age 30 and older, according to \u003ca href=\"https://www.nidcr.nih.gov/research/oralhealthinamerica\">Oral Health in America: Advances and Challenges\u003c/a> — a report from the National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research, part of the National Institutes of Health.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s why the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/reparations\">California Reparations Task Force\u003c/a>, the first statewide body to study reparations for Black people, released a report with 115 policy recommendations, including a section on \u003ca href=\"https://oag.ca.gov/system/files/media/ch29-ca-reparations.pdf\">remedying disparities\u003c/a> in oral health care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What kept me away from Dr. J’s office was insurance — Total Health didn’t take KQED’s plan. That changed this year when KQED switched providers. With age, I’ve come to value doctors I can truly connect with — where care feels human, not just clinical.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dr. J’s office has been renovated with slat wood paneling and wood floors, but the energy remains the same. I crack jokes with Chusang Nhasang, the financial manager. 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