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Streets in the area remained closed Thursday afternoon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This was a scene none of us ever want to witness in real life,” Police Chief Paul Joseph said at a press conference Thursday afternoon. “It’s the kind of footage people might expect from an action movie, but this was not a movie. This was a battle for that sergeant’s life unfolding in the middle of our city, in broad daylight, with members of the public in the crossfire.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The deadly confrontation took place just a block from one of downtown San José’s most popular gathering areas for dining and entertainment, San Pedro Square, and sent echoes of gunfire throughout the busy area, captured on multiple videos now circulating on social media.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San José Police said the man, identified as 30-year-old Mohamed Husien of Davis, was armed with a gun when he stole a green Corvette from a dealership at the Capitol Expressway Auto Mall in South San José just after 2 p.m., and fled south before police arrived, though an SJPD helicopter followed the car as it headed into Hollister.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12070857\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1999px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12070857 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/260122-SJPDSHOOT-JG-2_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/260122-SJPDSHOOT-JG-2_qed.jpg 1999w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/260122-SJPDSHOOT-JG-2_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/260122-SJPDSHOOT-JG-2_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1999px) 100vw, 1999px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Members of the San José City Council listen as San José Police Chief Paul Joseph speaks to the media during a Jan. 22, 2026, press conference about a police shooting in downtown that occurred on Wednesday. \u003ccite>(Joseph Geha/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Just before 3 p.m., Hollister Police Department officers located the stolen car in a residential area and began a “slow-speed vehicle pursuit” that ended in the area of Buena Vista Road and Westside Boulevard when the car became disabled. 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While on the highway, police said the man “engaged the California Highway Patrol with more gunfire, firing out the window of his vehicle.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The man arrived at the downtown San José intersection in a white car, colliding with another vehicle while being pursued by police and other local authorities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Videos posted online show he got out of the car and was nearly struck by a police car. The man, whose gun had an extended magazine, and a sergeant fired at each other at close range.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One bullet struck the sergeant in the head, fracturing his skull, Joseph said Thursday. The suspect jumped into the driver’s seat of the police car. He then exited, running toward a highway off-ramp, while more shots rang out. The man fell and, moments later, another police vehicle barreled over him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another long volley of shooting followed, with a swarm of officers rushing forward, guns pointed at the man on the ground.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12047902\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12047902\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/240418-SJPDFILE-JG-6_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/240418-SJPDFILE-JG-6_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/240418-SJPDFILE-JG-6_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/240418-SJPDFILE-JG-6_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The exterior of the San José Police Department headquarters on April 18, 2024. \u003ccite>(Joseph Geha/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“That suspect was declared deceased at the scene,” San José Police Sgt. 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Police located the red Corvette Wednesday using license plate readers and briefly pursued him but lost the car before the theft of the green Corvette was reported.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Steve Slack, the president of the San José Police Officers’ Association, the union representing officers in the city, said in a statement that the bravery of San José Police officers, including the sergeant, was “on full display” Wednesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12070858\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1999px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12070858\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/260122-SJPDSHOOT-JG-1_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/260122-SJPDSHOOT-JG-1_qed.jpg 1999w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/260122-SJPDSHOOT-JG-1_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/260122-SJPDSHOOT-JG-1_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1999px) 100vw, 1999px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San José Police Chief Paul Joseph speaks to the media during a Jan. 22, 2026 press conference about a police shooting in downtown that occurred Wednesday. \u003ccite>(Joseph Geha/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Clearly this criminal had no regard for anyone’s life and endangered hundreds of innocent people during his multiple county crime spree. Our officers displayed courage as they ran toward gunfire and ultimately eliminated the threat,” Slack said. The injured sergeant “is in good spirits and we are supporting him and his family in every way we can,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sean Allen, the president of the San Jose/Silicon Valley NAACP, and a retired Santa Clara County Sheriff’s Office sergeant, said the situation Wednesday was “tragic,” and raises a lot of questions about how it all unfolded, and police actions in both counties. Police and other authorities will need to be very transparent in their investigation of this incident, and share updates with the community, Allen said, especially surrounding the use of deadly force. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>The man fled from police and stole another car from a person at gunpoint, Hollister police said, before he headed north back toward San José. While on the highway, police said the man “engaged the California Highway Patrol with more gunfire, firing out the window of his vehicle.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The man arrived at the downtown San José intersection in a white car, colliding with another vehicle while being pursued by police and other local authorities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Videos posted online show he got out of the car and was nearly struck by a police car. The man, whose gun had an extended magazine, and a sergeant fired at each other at close range.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One bullet struck the sergeant in the head, fracturing his skull, Joseph said Thursday. The suspect jumped into the driver’s seat of the police car. He then exited, running toward a highway off-ramp, while more shots rang out. 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\u003ccite>(Harun Ozalp/Anadolu via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In his conversation with Smith, Newsom discussed his transformation to becoming one of America’s leading Trump critics — a strategy of “fighting fire with fire” with \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12054858/newsom-trump-and-how-trolling-got-co-opted-by-the-powerful\">memes and online jabbing\u003c/a> that has won admiration from Democrats across the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though Newsom has attended the World Economic Forum previously, he credited his pugilistic approach for capturing attention in a fractured media environment. “I was doing my 10-point plans before, and I don’t think any of you would have been here this morning had I done that,” Newsom said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Asked whether California — where a \u003ca href=\"https://www.ppic.org/publication/ppic-statewide-survey-californians-and-their-government-december-2025/\">majority of residents\u003c/a> still believe 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>The governor was in the room with business titans and world leaders on Wednesday when Trump delivered a speech in which he called Newsom “a good guy” and appeared to offer to send National Guard troops to fight crime in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As Trump took credit for declining crime and criticized cities with sanctuary immigration laws, cameras panned to Newsom, who laughed and shook his head.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent responded Wednesday, accusing Newsom of “hobnobbing with the global elite while his California citizens are still homeless,” and deriding the governor as “too smug, too self-absorbed and too economically illiterate to know anything.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bessent spoke at USA House, a privately funded venue holding events with American officials and executives, which was scheduled to host a “fireside chat” later that day between Newsom and media outlet Fortune.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The governor’s office accused the Trump administration of pressuring the venue’s organizers to cancel the event.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was going to speak last night … a simple conversation, discussion after Trump’s speech,” Newsom said. “They made sure that I didn’t.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12070783\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1980px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12070783\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/GettyImages-2256680653.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1980\" height=\"1320\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/GettyImages-2256680653.jpg 1980w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/GettyImages-2256680653-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/GettyImages-2256680653-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1980px) 100vw, 1980px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent speaks at the 56th World Economic Forum (WEF) Annual Meeting in Davos, Switzerland, on Jan. 20, 2026. \u003ccite>(Harun Ozalp/Anadolu via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In his conversation with Smith, Newsom discussed his transformation to becoming one of America’s leading Trump critics — a strategy of “fighting fire with fire” with \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12054858/newsom-trump-and-how-trolling-got-co-opted-by-the-powerful\">memes and online jabbing\u003c/a> that has won admiration from Democrats across the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though Newsom has attended the World Economic Forum previously, he credited his pugilistic approach for capturing attention in a fractured media environment. “I was doing my 10-point plans before, and I don’t think any of you would have been here this morning had I done that,” Newsom said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Asked whether California — where a \u003ca href=\"https://www.ppic.org/publication/ppic-statewide-survey-californians-and-their-government-december-2025/\">majority of residents\u003c/a> still believe the state is heading in the wrong direction — can be held up as a model of effective governance, Newsom responded that he is “proud of my state.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have more Fortune 500 companies than any state in America, more scientists, more engineers, more Nobel laureates in my state than any state in America,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Newsom criticized the business executives he said have failed to stand up to Trump, he also continued his public campaign against a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12070052/proposal-to-tax-billionaires-ignites-a-political-fight-in-california\">proposed tax on billionaires\u003c/a> that could appear on California’s November ballot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12070630\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12070630\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/260116-NewsomLuriePresser-32-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/260116-NewsomLuriePresser-32-BL_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/260116-NewsomLuriePresser-32-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/260116-NewsomLuriePresser-32-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gov. 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"content": "\u003cp>Sarah Jolly has been trying to conceive with her husband for five years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The couple bought a house on the Central Coast in 2021 as newlyweds and thought they were “doing everything correct, financially,” Jolly said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But in reality, “we had no idea how many years infertility would strap us” when it came to their finances, she said. “It is one of the hardest things I’ve ever been through.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Testing, \u003cem>traveling \u003c/em>to get tested, seeking a diagnosis and treatments like intrauterine insemination have so far cost the couple around $15,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In vitro fertilization — when \u003ca href=\"https://crh.ucsf.edu/fertility-treatment/in-vitro-fertilization-ivf/\">eggs are paired with sperm in a lab and placed in the uterus\u003c/a> — was out of their reach, price-wise. One cycle of IVF in California could \u003ca href=\"https://www.pfcla.com/blog/ivf-costs-california\">potentially cost more than $20,000\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12070657\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12070657\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/embryologist.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/embryologist.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/embryologist-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/embryologist-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Illia Brusianskyi, a senior embryologist in Fountain Valley, CA., prepares embryos for genetic testing on Feb. 29, 2024. \u003ccite>(Jay L. Clendenin via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“There are so many people in our situation, but also learning that infertility is not covered by insurance,” Jolly said. “It’s not really supported.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s why Jolly is so encouraged by \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101912616/new-california-ivf-law-dramatically-expands-access\">a new state law\u003c/a> kicking in this month, which requires large employer-sponsored health plans to cover up to three cycles of IVF, plus other infertility services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I love that this law is being passed,” she said. “Taking the financial burden out of those choices would be life-changing for us.”[aside postID=news_12069971 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/GavinNewsomAP.jpg']California is now the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101912616/new-california-ivf-law-dramatically-expands-access\">15th state in the country\u003c/a> to adopt insurance mandates around IVF. The Society for Assisted Reproductive Technology’s most recent numbers show that in 2023 alone, \u003ca href=\"https://www.asrm.org/news-and-events/asrm-news/press-releasesbulletins/us-ivf-usage-increases-in-2023-leads-to-over-95000-babies-born/\">95,000 babies were born through IVF usage\u003c/a> in the United States.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As \u003ca href=\"https://stateline.org/2025/08/25/as-republicans-spar-over-ivf-some-turn-to-obscure-maha-backed-alternative/\">conservative attacks on IVF\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://fightforfamilies.resolve.org/\">the overturning of \u003cem>Roe v. Wade\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem> — \u003c/em>which previously protected \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/abortion\">abortion rights\u003c/a> in the U.S. — have left \u003ca href=\"https://www.americanprogress.org/article/how-the-alabama-ivf-ruling-is-connected-to-upcoming-supreme-court-cases-on-abortion/\">IVF and its providers with an uncertain legal future\u003c/a>, this new state law is another example of how California has been \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/abortion\">strengthening its reproductive rights\u003c/a> amidst an increasingly hostile federal landscape.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101912616/new-california-ivf-law-dramatically-expands-access\">KQED \u003cem>Forum’s\u003c/em>\u003c/a> Mina Kim spoke to Jolly, the bill’s author, San Fernando Valley state Sen. Caroline Menjivar and Shefali Luthra, \u003ca href=\"https://19thnews.org/author/shefali-luthra/\">reporter at The 19th \u003c/a>on what Californians can expect to see from the new IVF law kicking in this January.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>What is the new California IVF law? \u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB729\">new law\u003c/a>, Senate Bill 729, dictates that large insurance groups (defined as \u003ca href=\"https://www.ivyfertility.com/news/california-senate-bill-729-faq\">101 or more employees\u003c/a>) must expand their services to cover infertility treatments and diagnoses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition, according to \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB729\">the bill’s text\u003c/a>, large health insurance groups also must be able to cover “a maximum of 3 completed \u003ca href=\"https://www.pfcla.com/blog/egg-retrieval-process-what-to-expect\">oocyte retrievals\u003c/a>.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An array of other \u003ca href=\"https://www.dmhc.ca.gov/Portals/0/Docs/OPL/APL25-021-ImplementationofSenateBill729(2024)(12_30_2025).pdf?ver=U9xFsGl6wZuNEyfFwRISFw%3d%3d\">fertility-related services (link to PDF)\u003c/a> may include:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Unlimited embryo transfers\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Tubal evaluation and uterine evaluation\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Sperm DNA fragmentation analysis\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Thyroid function testing\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Ovarian reserve testing\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Procurement of donor semen, oocyte and embryo\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Physician services, including consultation and referral.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Surgery to treat infertility\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Medication to treat infertility\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Infectious disease screening and testing\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Medication to induce ovulation.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Keep in mind that some of these services are for \u003ca href=\"https://www.dmhc.ca.gov/Portals/0/Docs/OPL/APL25-021-ImplementationofSenateBill729(2024)(12_30_2025).pdf?ver=U9xFsGl6wZuNEyfFwRISFw%3d%3d\">“medically necessary”\u003c/a> cases of infertility — like \u003ca href=\"https://resolve.org/learn/financial-resources/insurance-coverage/understanding-californias-ivf-insurance-law/\">egg freezing before cancer treatment\u003c/a>. But the law is “pretty broad in some ways,” \u003ca href=\"https://19thnews.org/author/shefali-luthra/\">The 19th\u003c/a>’s Luthra said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s for treatment of infertility diagnosis and fertility treatment even beyond IVF,” Luthra said. “This creates a benefit structure for anyone who is navigating fertility to really get a sense of what might be causing that and how to treat that — whether it is IVF or something else that could help you become a parent.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>When does this law kick in?\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The law kicks in for health insurance contracts \u003ca href=\"https://sd20.senate.ca.gov/news/millions-californians-now-have-health-plan-coverage-infertility-and-fertility-services\">issued or renewed\u003c/a> on or after January 2026.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the national fertility organization Resolve, if an \u003ca href=\"https://resolve.org/learn/financial-resources/insurance-coverage/understanding-californias-ivf-insurance-law/\">“employer’s plan renews later in the year, coverage under California’s IVF mandate may not begin until that renewal date.”\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The law will be \u003ca href=\"https://sd20.senate.ca.gov/news/millions-californians-now-have-health-plan-coverage-infertility-and-fertility-services\">delayed\u003c/a> for public employees who work for entities like the state government and are covered by \u003ca href=\"https://www.calpers.ca.gov/\">CalPERS\u003c/a>. For them, the law will start on July 1, 2027.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Who does this law impact?\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Anyone interested in having children. By adjusting the definition of infertility, the state law has now \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/health/2025/12/aetna-lawsuit-lgbtq-ivf-fertility/\">expanded access\u003c/a> to LGBTQ+ couples or single people who would often have to pay out of pocket for multiple treatments, Mejivar said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Previously, the definition of infertility for major insurance companies like Aetna would include a person \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/health/2025/12/aetna-lawsuit-lgbtq-ivf-fertility/\">attesting they’d been having heterosexual sex for a year\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m glad that we outlawed that 30-year-old description,” Mejivar said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Are there exceptions to the law? \u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB729\">Religious employers\u003c/a>, small group employers and self-funded employers are \u003ca href=\"https://www.ccrmivf.com/blog/california-sb729-fertility-coverage/\">exempt\u003c/a> from this law. (But they can \u003ca href=\"https://www.blueshieldca.com/en/broker/resources/mandates\">opt to offer\u003c/a> these services, and employees of such organizations can \u003ca href=\"https://www.ccrmivf.com/blog/california-sb729-fertility-coverage/\">discuss options\u003c/a> with their human resources team.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to expanding to small individual health plans, Mejivar is also hoping to see the expansion reach Covered California: the state’s marketplace for plans offered under the Affordable Care Act.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12052572\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12052572\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/042924_Covered-CA_AH_06.jpg\" alt='A woman wearing a black and white striped shirt walks past a building with a sign that says \"Health Insurance Covered California.\"' width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/042924_Covered-CA_AH_06.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/042924_Covered-CA_AH_06-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/042924_Covered-CA_AH_06-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A Covered California Enrollment Center in Chula Vista on April 29, 2024. \u003ccite>(Adriana Heldiz / CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We passed my bill, the governor signed it, and it’s now up to the federal government to approve it,” she said. “But we just got a letter that said that [federal officials are] putting a pause on all approvals.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It wasn’t a rejection. They’re just putting a pause,” she added. “We’re hopeful that they’re going to be coming back in approving what’s called the essential health benefits so that we can get more millions of people under other plans covered for IVF and fertility services.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Sarah Jolly has been trying to conceive with her husband for five years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The couple bought a house on the Central Coast in 2021 as newlyweds and thought they were “doing everything correct, financially,” Jolly said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But in reality, “we had no idea how many years infertility would strap us” when it came to their finances, she said. “It is one of the hardest things I’ve ever been through.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Testing, \u003cem>traveling \u003c/em>to get tested, seeking a diagnosis and treatments like intrauterine insemination have so far cost the couple around $15,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In vitro fertilization — when \u003ca href=\"https://crh.ucsf.edu/fertility-treatment/in-vitro-fertilization-ivf/\">eggs are paired with sperm in a lab and placed in the uterus\u003c/a> — was out of their reach, price-wise. One cycle of IVF in California could \u003ca href=\"https://www.pfcla.com/blog/ivf-costs-california\">potentially cost more than $20,000\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12070657\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12070657\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/embryologist.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/embryologist.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/embryologist-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/embryologist-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Illia Brusianskyi, a senior embryologist in Fountain Valley, CA., prepares embryos for genetic testing on Feb. 29, 2024. \u003ccite>(Jay L. Clendenin via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“There are so many people in our situation, but also learning that infertility is not covered by insurance,” Jolly said. “It’s not really supported.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s why Jolly is so encouraged by \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101912616/new-california-ivf-law-dramatically-expands-access\">a new state law\u003c/a> kicking in this month, which requires large employer-sponsored health plans to cover up to three cycles of IVF, plus other infertility services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I love that this law is being passed,” she said. “Taking the financial burden out of those choices would be life-changing for us.”\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>California is now the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101912616/new-california-ivf-law-dramatically-expands-access\">15th state in the country\u003c/a> to adopt insurance mandates around IVF. The Society for Assisted Reproductive Technology’s most recent numbers show that in 2023 alone, \u003ca href=\"https://www.asrm.org/news-and-events/asrm-news/press-releasesbulletins/us-ivf-usage-increases-in-2023-leads-to-over-95000-babies-born/\">95,000 babies were born through IVF usage\u003c/a> in the United States.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As \u003ca href=\"https://stateline.org/2025/08/25/as-republicans-spar-over-ivf-some-turn-to-obscure-maha-backed-alternative/\">conservative attacks on IVF\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://fightforfamilies.resolve.org/\">the overturning of \u003cem>Roe v. Wade\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem> — \u003c/em>which previously protected \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/abortion\">abortion rights\u003c/a> in the U.S. — have left \u003ca href=\"https://www.americanprogress.org/article/how-the-alabama-ivf-ruling-is-connected-to-upcoming-supreme-court-cases-on-abortion/\">IVF and its providers with an uncertain legal future\u003c/a>, this new state law is another example of how California has been \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/abortion\">strengthening its reproductive rights\u003c/a> amidst an increasingly hostile federal landscape.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101912616/new-california-ivf-law-dramatically-expands-access\">KQED \u003cem>Forum’s\u003c/em>\u003c/a> Mina Kim spoke to Jolly, the bill’s author, San Fernando Valley state Sen. Caroline Menjivar and Shefali Luthra, \u003ca href=\"https://19thnews.org/author/shefali-luthra/\">reporter at The 19th \u003c/a>on what Californians can expect to see from the new IVF law kicking in this January.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>What is the new California IVF law? \u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB729\">new law\u003c/a>, Senate Bill 729, dictates that large insurance groups (defined as \u003ca href=\"https://www.ivyfertility.com/news/california-senate-bill-729-faq\">101 or more employees\u003c/a>) must expand their services to cover infertility treatments and diagnoses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition, according to \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB729\">the bill’s text\u003c/a>, large health insurance groups also must be able to cover “a maximum of 3 completed \u003ca href=\"https://www.pfcla.com/blog/egg-retrieval-process-what-to-expect\">oocyte retrievals\u003c/a>.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An array of other \u003ca href=\"https://www.dmhc.ca.gov/Portals/0/Docs/OPL/APL25-021-ImplementationofSenateBill729(2024)(12_30_2025).pdf?ver=U9xFsGl6wZuNEyfFwRISFw%3d%3d\">fertility-related services (link to PDF)\u003c/a> may include:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Unlimited embryo transfers\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Tubal evaluation and uterine evaluation\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Sperm DNA fragmentation analysis\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Thyroid function testing\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Ovarian reserve testing\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Procurement of donor semen, oocyte and embryo\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Physician services, including consultation and referral.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Surgery to treat infertility\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Medication to treat infertility\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Infectious disease screening and testing\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Medication to induce ovulation.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Keep in mind that some of these services are for \u003ca href=\"https://www.dmhc.ca.gov/Portals/0/Docs/OPL/APL25-021-ImplementationofSenateBill729(2024)(12_30_2025).pdf?ver=U9xFsGl6wZuNEyfFwRISFw%3d%3d\">“medically necessary”\u003c/a> cases of infertility — like \u003ca href=\"https://resolve.org/learn/financial-resources/insurance-coverage/understanding-californias-ivf-insurance-law/\">egg freezing before cancer treatment\u003c/a>. But the law is “pretty broad in some ways,” \u003ca href=\"https://19thnews.org/author/shefali-luthra/\">The 19th\u003c/a>’s Luthra said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s for treatment of infertility diagnosis and fertility treatment even beyond IVF,” Luthra said. “This creates a benefit structure for anyone who is navigating fertility to really get a sense of what might be causing that and how to treat that — whether it is IVF or something else that could help you become a parent.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>When does this law kick in?\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The law kicks in for health insurance contracts \u003ca href=\"https://sd20.senate.ca.gov/news/millions-californians-now-have-health-plan-coverage-infertility-and-fertility-services\">issued or renewed\u003c/a> on or after January 2026.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the national fertility organization Resolve, if an \u003ca href=\"https://resolve.org/learn/financial-resources/insurance-coverage/understanding-californias-ivf-insurance-law/\">“employer’s plan renews later in the year, coverage under California’s IVF mandate may not begin until that renewal date.”\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The law will be \u003ca href=\"https://sd20.senate.ca.gov/news/millions-californians-now-have-health-plan-coverage-infertility-and-fertility-services\">delayed\u003c/a> for public employees who work for entities like the state government and are covered by \u003ca href=\"https://www.calpers.ca.gov/\">CalPERS\u003c/a>. For them, the law will start on July 1, 2027.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Who does this law impact?\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Anyone interested in having children. By adjusting the definition of infertility, the state law has now \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/health/2025/12/aetna-lawsuit-lgbtq-ivf-fertility/\">expanded access\u003c/a> to LGBTQ+ couples or single people who would often have to pay out of pocket for multiple treatments, Mejivar said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Previously, the definition of infertility for major insurance companies like Aetna would include a person \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/health/2025/12/aetna-lawsuit-lgbtq-ivf-fertility/\">attesting they’d been having heterosexual sex for a year\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m glad that we outlawed that 30-year-old description,” Mejivar said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Are there exceptions to the law? \u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB729\">Religious employers\u003c/a>, small group employers and self-funded employers are \u003ca href=\"https://www.ccrmivf.com/blog/california-sb729-fertility-coverage/\">exempt\u003c/a> from this law. (But they can \u003ca href=\"https://www.blueshieldca.com/en/broker/resources/mandates\">opt to offer\u003c/a> these services, and employees of such organizations can \u003ca href=\"https://www.ccrmivf.com/blog/california-sb729-fertility-coverage/\">discuss options\u003c/a> with their human resources team.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to expanding to small individual health plans, Mejivar is also hoping to see the expansion reach Covered California: the state’s marketplace for plans offered under the Affordable Care Act.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12052572\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12052572\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/042924_Covered-CA_AH_06.jpg\" alt='A woman wearing a black and white striped shirt walks past a building with a sign that says \"Health Insurance Covered California.\"' width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/042924_Covered-CA_AH_06.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/042924_Covered-CA_AH_06-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/042924_Covered-CA_AH_06-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A Covered California Enrollment Center in Chula Vista on April 29, 2024. \u003ccite>(Adriana Heldiz / CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We passed my bill, the governor signed it, and it’s now up to the federal government to approve it,” she said. “But we just got a letter that said that [federal officials are] putting a pause on all approvals.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It wasn’t a rejection. They’re just putting a pause,” she added. “We’re hopeful that they’re going to be coming back in approving what’s called the essential health benefits so that we can get more millions of people under other plans covered for IVF and fertility services.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>California’s U.S. senators expressed grave concerns about conditions at the state’s newest and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12054544/californias-newest-immigration-facility-is-also-its-biggest-is-it-operating-legally\">largest immigration jail\u003c/a>, and said they will not support an upcoming bill to further increase funding for immigration enforcement, after a visit on Tuesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sens. Alex Padilla and Adam Schiff spent four hours inside the California City Detention Facility, a privately-owned former prison about 100 miles north of Los Angeles, where they met with the warden and spoke with a number of detained immigrants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They came away with stories of people in detention struggling to access health care for serious conditions — including a diabetic woman who was denied her medication for two months, Schiff said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The most frequent feedback we got was the inadequacy of the medical care they are receiving,” he added. “That’s frightening.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The immigration detention facility, owned and operated by the private, for-profit prison company CoreCivic, currently holds about 1,400 people, the senators said, but it has a capacity for 2,560 detainees. It opened in late August, under a two-year, $130 million contract with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. The detainee population has grown steadily, and \u003ca href=\"https://ir.corecivic.com/node/24926/pdf\">CoreCivic has said \u003c/a>it expects to fill the place early this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12070623\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12070623\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/AP26020826398216-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/AP26020826398216-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/AP26020826398216-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/AP26020826398216-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A guard walks to the entrance of an immigration detention center during a visit by California Democrats Sen. Adam Schiff and Sen. Alex Padilla, on Jan. 20, 2026, in California City, California. \u003ccite>(Marcio Jose Sanchez/AP Photo)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Previously, California leased the facility for use as a state prison, until ending its contract in 2024 as state efforts reduced the incarcerated population.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While much attention has been focused on the Trump administration’s increasingly violent deployment of ICE officers in American cities, the conditions inside ICE detention facilities are a hidden side of the immigration crackdown, Schiff said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These indiscriminate immigration raids — the heartbreak, the families separated from one another, the loss of life, as we saw in Minneapolis — that’s one trauma. When you walk inside these walls, you experience a different trauma,” he said. “I am most particularly concerned about the medical issue, because that can be life or death.”[aside postID=news_12069782 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/USImmigrationCustomsEnforcementHQGetty.jpg']Deaths in detention continue to rise. Last year, \u003ca href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2026/jan/04/ice-2025-deaths-timeline\">32 people \u003c/a>died in ICE facilities, a level not seen in more than two decades. And in just the first three weeks of 2026, ICE has reported that six more people have died.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Padilla noted that immigration detention is a form of civil detention, typically used to hold people while their deportation cases play out in immigration court. It is not intended as a punishment for a crime and \u003ca href=\"https://www.ice.gov/detain/detention-management\">ICE itself defines \u003c/a>the custody as “non-punitive.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, the deficient conditions — including adequate nutrition, medical attention and mental health care — add up to a punishing environment, the senator said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m leaving here even more concerned than I was when I arrived,” Padilla said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brian Todd, a spokesman for CoreCivic, rejected charges of inadequate food, water, blankets and other basics. And he insisted that health care access is not a problem for detainees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our clinic is staffed with licensed, credentialed doctors, nurses and mental health professionals who meet the highest standards of care,” he said. “All detainees have daily access to sign up for medical care and mental health services.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>ICE did not respond to a request for comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Democratic lawmakers want to visit ICE facilities\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>California’s attorney general and a state watchdog group, Disability Rights California, have both issued reports calling conditions at the California City facility “dangerous.” Earlier this month, Bay Area Rep. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12069220/south-bay-rep-ro-khanna-horrified-after-visit-to-california-city-ice-detention-center\">Ro Khanna made his own oversight visit\u003c/a> and announced he was “horrified” by what he found.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like Khanna, the senators scheduled the visit more than a week in advance, following a recent requirement imposed by ICE. By law, members of Congress have a right to conduct oversight of immigration facilities unannounced.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/RepRoKhanna/status/2008574388585578626\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, representatives have repeatedly been turned away from visiting detention centers over the past year, including \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2026/01/11/nx-s1-5673949/dhs-restricts-congressional-visits-to-ice-facilities-in-minneapolis-with-new-policy\">three Minnesota representatives\u003c/a> earlier this month. A challenge brought by several Democratic lawmakers in July is currently making its way through the courts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Padilla said Democrats shouldn’t be the only ones taking a hard look at U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, especially given the rise in in-custody deaths.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The Republican majority in Congress, in the House and the Senate, is failing, absolutely failing — or refusing — to live up to their oversight responsibility to hold a separate but co-equal branch of government accountable,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>ICE funding clash looms over massive spending bill\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In July, as part of a reconciliation package known as the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, Congress gave ICE an unprecedented $45 billion to expand detention over the next four years, \u003ca href=\"https://www.americanimmigrationcouncil.org/fact-sheet/big-beautiful-bill-immigration-border-security/\">effectively quadrupling\u003c/a> ICE’s annual detention budget.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those funds facilitated a swift expansion from 39,000 people in detention a year ago to roughly 70,000 today. They could potentially enable ICE to scale up to as many as 135,000 detention beds, \u003ca href=\"https://www.americanimmigrationcouncil.org/report/immigration-detention/\">analysts say\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12069309\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12069309 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/KristiNoemGetty.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/KristiNoemGetty.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/KristiNoemGetty-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/KristiNoemGetty-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem speaks at a news conference on Jan. 7, 2026, in Brownsville, Texas. Secretary Noem announced that the federal government would be deploying 500 miles of water barriers in the Rio Grande River. \u003ccite>(Michael Gonzalez/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In the coming days, Congress is poised to take up a massive appropriations bill that includes additional resources for the Department of Homeland Security, as well as funding for other agencies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bill is aimed at averting a funding lapse by a Jan. 30 deadline, months after the longest government shutdown in U.S. history last fall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many Democrats have stated that they would reject any funding bill without restrictions for ICE, after an officer shot and killed Minneapolis protester Renee Macklin Good on Jan. 7. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"#episode-transcript\">\u003ci>View the full episode transcript.\u003c/i>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13892202/watch-saint-coltrane-a-short-film-about-the-san-francisco-church-built-on-a-love-supreme\">Saint John Coltrane \u003c/a>African Orthodox Church Global Spiritual Community begins \u003ca href=\"https://www.coltranechurch.org/\">Sunday mass\u003c/a> with the blow of a conch shell. Then the saxophone comes in, blaring the opening notes of John Coltrane’s jazz masterpiece, \u003cem>A Love Supreme\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A Byzantine-style portrait of Coltrane is displayed on the altar. He’s wearing a white robe and clutching his soprano saxophone, a gold halo glittering above his head.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Throughout the service, the church band alternates between saxophone, bass and drum solos in a kind of makeshift jazz concert. Later, the sermon offered by His Eminence Archbishop Franzo W. King is a mix of traditional Christian teachings and references to Coltrane. It’s a fusion that King and his wife, the Most Reverend Mother Marina King, call “Coltrane Consciousness.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Coltrane Consciousness is acknowledging that the music and the sound of John Coltrane is that anointed sound that leaped down from the throne of heaven,” King said. “We want everybody to become aware of the power of this music, of this man, that testimony.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Coltrane Church, as it’s often called, is the \u003ca href=\"https://www.sf.gov/sites/default/files/2022-09/Item%202e.%20LBR-2021-22-019%20St.%20John%20Coltrane%20Church.pdf\">oldest \u003c/a>Black jazz organization in San Francisco now. And it has taken a windy path to achieve that longevity.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A baptism of sound\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The Coltrane Church’s origins date back to the 1960s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Kings had recently moved to San Francisco as a young couple in love. Upon arrival they were met with a vibrant music scene, with jazz venues dotting the city. The Fillmore District became known as “The Harlem of the West” for its abundance of Black-owned nightclubs and restaurants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12068339\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1999px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/20251221_JohnColtraneChurch_December_GH-1_qed.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12068339\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/20251221_JohnColtraneChurch_December_GH-1_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/20251221_JohnColtraneChurch_December_GH-1_qed.jpg 1999w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/20251221_JohnColtraneChurch_December_GH-1_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/20251221_JohnColtraneChurch_December_GH-1_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1999px) 100vw, 1999px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Supreme Mother Rev. Marina King sings during Sunday mass at the St. John Coltrane Church at Fort Mason in San Francisco on Dec. 21, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gustavo Hernandez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“The music was as hip as you could get, and we were trying to be hipsters and being into this music,” King said. “You could leave your house on a Friday night and you wouldn’t have to come home until Sunday afternoon.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Sept. 18, 1965, the Kings celebrated their first wedding anniversary by going to see The John Coltrane Quartet at a North Beach club called The Jazz Workshop. King knew the doorman, who seated them in the front row despite them being underage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As soon as Coltrane and his band entered the room, King said he felt the energy around him shift, “like [the band was] walking on a carpet of air.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was immediate,” Mother Marina agreed. “You could feel the presence, that energy. And then [Coltrane] lifted his horn. We were right in front, and he pointed right at our table.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Kings said they were rendered speechless throughout Coltrane’s set, hardly touching their drinks as they were transported to a spiritual realm beyond the jazz club.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MAgJ-igwuSQ\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We were caught in a windstorm of the spirit of the Holy Ghost. It was a powerful thing,” King said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Kings call this experience their “sound baptism.” From then on, their calling would be to spread John Coltrane’s gospel.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>From fans to worshippers\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>They started out by hosting listening sessions with friends in their home. They’d cook up a pot of beans and some cornbread to share, then pour over music, interviews and liner notes from jazz greats like John Coltrane, Thelonious Monk and Charlie Parker.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On July 17, 1967, Archbishop King was out at a jazz club when he learned that Coltrane had died. The Kings’ daughter, Pastor Wanika King-Stephens, remembers walking into the living room the next morning to find that her dad and uncle had stayed up all night listening to Coltrane’s music.[aside postID=news_11954252 hero='https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/062723-Wanda-Salvatto-07-RT-KQED-e1687904264135-1020x680.jpg']“They killed John,” King-Stephens recalled her father saying.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Coltrane died from liver cancer, most likely fueled by his drug and alcohol addiction in the earlier years of his fame. But Archbishop King believed Coltrane’s death symbolized the systems of racism that targeted Black men in America. This was a time of heightened tension for San Francisco’s Black population. Throughout the 1960s, the city’s so-called “\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11825401/how-urban-renewal-decimated-the-fillmore-district-and-took-jazz-with-it\">redevelopment for urban renewal\u003c/a>” ” program targeted low-income neighborhoods with minority residents for demolition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The redevelopment came in with the Negro removal and devastated the community,” King said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco’s redevelopment project brought an end to the “Harlem of the West” that had once defined the Fillmore District. Jazz clubs shuttered, minority and elderly residents were forced from their homes, and the city’s Black-owned music scene was decimated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Kings, though, were passionate that people still needed to hear this music. Motivated by an era of Black consciousness and political activity, they opened “The Yardbird Club,” a jazz club based out of their basement. The name paid homage to the jazz musician Charlie “Yardbird” Parker.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This makeshift venue functioned as a space where artists visiting San Francisco could experiment with new sounds, much like the city’s jazz clubs had once done.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But around 1969, something shifted for the Kings. It wasn’t just about saving the music or the culture anymore. It was about saving souls.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After years of studying Coltrane, they came to believe that his music, his activism — his whole belief system — was really a declaration of faith.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12068329\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/20251221_JohnColtraneChurch_December_GH-6_qed.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12068329\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/20251221_JohnColtraneChurch_December_GH-6_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/20251221_JohnColtraneChurch_December_GH-6_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/20251221_JohnColtraneChurch_December_GH-6_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/20251221_JohnColtraneChurch_December_GH-6_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">His Eminence Archbishop Franzo W. King greets congregants after Sunday mass at the St. John Coltrane Church at Fort Mason in San Francisco on Dec. 21, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gustavo Hernandez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We hear John Coltrane saying, ‘My music is the spiritual expression of what I am, my faith, my knowledge, my being,” King-Stephens said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Kings went all in on their devotion. “The Yardbird Club” became “The Yardbird Temple.” They didn’t just revere Coltrane anymore — they worshiped him, believed him to be the second coming of Christ and cited \u003cem>A Love Supreme\u003c/em> as his most sacred text.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A higher power\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Coltrane composed \u003cem>A Love Supreme\u003c/em> in the aftermath of heroin and alcohol addiction. Though he had risen to fame by the 1950s, Coltrane’s substance abuse made him unreliable. Miles Davis famously fired Coltrane from his band because of it. Coltrane had hit rock bottom and his music career was foundering because of it. So, he got clean — went cold turkey — and heard the voice of God.[aside postID=news_11881696 hero='https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/E-40.DeFremery-1020x682.jpg']Coltrane described this experience in the album’s liner notes: \u003cem>“During the year 1957, I experienced by the grace of God a spiritual awakening which was to lead me to a richer, fuller, more productive life. At that time, in gratitude, I humbly ask to be given the means and the privilege to make others happy through music.”\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>A Love Supreme\u003c/em>, which came out in 1965, marked a turning point in Coltrane’s career. The album was his declaration to God and an expression of his commitment to love and the divine. For 32 minutes and 47 seconds, Coltrane’s saxophone pulses and intertwines with piano and drums — a four-note bassline bedded beneath the sound. It’s played in all 12 keys, sending a \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2000/10/23/148148986/a-love-supreme\">message\u003c/a> that you can find \u003cem>A Love Supreme\u003c/em> everywhere.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We hear the Lord speaking to us in this music,” King said. “I’ve had John Coltrane through the music call my name. So we have revelations that come through the music.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mother Marina agreed. “Every time I hear it, there’s something new,” she said. “There’s always life there. It’s in the music. The magic is in the music.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12068328\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/20251221_JohnColtraneChurch_December_GH-5_qed.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12068328\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/20251221_JohnColtraneChurch_December_GH-5_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/20251221_JohnColtraneChurch_December_GH-5_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/20251221_JohnColtraneChurch_December_GH-5_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/20251221_JohnColtraneChurch_December_GH-5_qed-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rev. Marlee-I Mystic and His Eminence Archbishop Franzo W. King pause to speak with churchgoers following Sunday mass at the St. John Coltrane Church in San Francisco on Dec. 21, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gustavo Hernandez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The Kings say the album’s four song titles — \u003cem>Acknowledgement, Resolution, Pursuance \u003c/em>and \u003cem>Psalm\u003c/em> — offer a formula for how to reach a higher power.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The way his notes are moving and the way the sounds are connected, it’s almost like a rumble. It’s like a war. Sometimes he’s pleading your case. It’s many different feelings,” Mother Marina said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The 1970s: A period of transformation\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Now a religious community, the Kings surrendered themselves to Coltrane. They prayed, meditated and fasted for days at a time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Everything was falling into place, and the Kings “felt like we were in the right place at the right time, and that the spirit of God was really heavy in this part of the world,” King said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12068333\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/20251221_JohnColtraneChurch_December_GH-12_qed.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12068333\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/20251221_JohnColtraneChurch_December_GH-12_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/20251221_JohnColtraneChurch_December_GH-12_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/20251221_JohnColtraneChurch_December_GH-12_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/20251221_JohnColtraneChurch_December_GH-12_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Music memorabilia adorns the space in preparation for Sunday mass at the St. John Coltrane Church at Fort Mason in San Francisco on Dec. 21, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gustavo Hernandez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The Black Panther Party also became supporters of the church. Its co-founder, Huey P. Newton had become a mentor to Archbishop King and encouraged him to fuse politics, culture and religion. After moving to a storefront on Divisadero Street, the church began hosting programs that mirrored The Black Panthers’ Free Breakfast Program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>King-Stephens said the church’s free food program was “one of my [her] favorite things in the whole world.” Seven days a week, church members would prepare free vegetarian meals for hundreds of people. The lines snaked around the block.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We would go to Safeways and the supermarkets and the stuff that they would throw out, we’d take it out, put it in a tub, clean it, and serve it to the people,” King said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Kings believed that to be right with God was to be right with the people. Inspired by San Francisco’s hippie movement in the 1970s, they also hosted free yoga classes, practiced vegetarianism, and started borrowing from Eastern spirituality, led by Coltrane’s music.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“John Coltrane has an album entitled \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GwrV0qCX1LU&list=RDGwrV0qCX1LU&start_radio=1\">\u003cem>Om\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, and we literally took that as John saying, ‘I am Om,’” Mother Marina said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They studied the Sufi mystic, Inayat Khan, who believed music and sound to be the world’s life source, and incorporated Sanskrit chanting in their service.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We embrace the unity of religious ideas,” King said. “If you want to say that Buddha is the light, we don’t have a problem with that.”\u003cem> \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12070432\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/GettyImages-74258876-scaled-e1768939107671.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12070432\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/GettyImages-74258876-scaled-e1768939107671.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1420\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">American jazz musician and composer Alice Coltrane in 1970. \u003ccite>(Photo by Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In 1974, the Kings met Alice Coltrane, John’s widow. She had converted to Hinduism after her husband’s death and came to San Francisco to deepen her practice. The Kings joined her spiritual community in San Francisco, the Vedantic Center, and began worshipping her as the wife of God. They adopted Hindu names and sang backup on her early devotional \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=759TXOUIpjQ\">records\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But in 1981, Coltrane filed a $7.5 million \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/1981/10/24/nyregion/notes-on-people-coltrane-s-widow-sues-san-francisco-church.html\">lawsuit\u003c/a> against the Coltrane Church for copyright infringement and using her husband’s name and likeness without permission. She eventually dropped the lawsuit, but it set the Kings on a new path. The incident drew the attention of the African Orthodox Church, which wanted to expand to the West Coast. To join, the Kings had to recharacterize Coltrane from their God incarnate to a patron saint. They agreed.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Culture keepers\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The church joined the A.O.C and became the Saint John Coltrane African Orthodox Church in 1982. Now part of an organized religious movement, the Coltrane church leaned into its status as public-facing leaders and keepers of San Francisco culture.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think this is something people need to understand that this church has been an ambassador for this city,” King said.[aside postID=news_12059962 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/Jello-Biafra-of-the-Dead-Kennedys-performing-at-the-Mabuhay-Gardens-.jpg']They have traveled around the world, including to the \u003ca href=\"https://jazzajuan.com/en/\">Antibes Jazz Festival\u003c/a> in France — where Coltrane himself famously \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lWuhPVb175Y&list=RDlWuhPVb175Y&start_radio=1\">performed\u003c/a> A Love Supreme in 1965. The Kings were joined onstage by Carlos Santana, an early supporter of the church. Several travel guides even named them a top destination when visiting San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Kings and their church were vocal advocates on issues including environmental racism and police brutality, continuing the work that had long been part of their ethos. But the year 2000 marked yet another shift for the Coltrane Church. They were forced to leave their Divisadero storefront, the church’s home for nearly 30 years, after their rent more than \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/news/article/coltrane-church-holds-last-service-at-longtime-3239485.php\">doubled\u003c/a>. They also had to end their free food program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That was our home,” King-Stephens said. “And then, I watched that whole community change. And I tell you, I couldn’t drive through that neighborhood without crying for a whole year.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Looking to the future\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>They’ve relocated a few times since then. First, to the Fillmore, where they were one of just a handful of jazz institutions left. But they were evicted from that space too, before moving to their current location out of Fort Mason’s Magic Theater.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, King and Mother Marina see the church as a kind of Mecca, where Coltrane disciples from around the world can worship together. At the end of Sunday mass, Archbishop King and Mother Marina asked the community for donations. They’re trying to raise money to buy a building — what they hope will be a permanent home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12068330\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/20251221_JohnColtraneChurch_December_GH-8_qed.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12068330\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/20251221_JohnColtraneChurch_December_GH-8_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/20251221_JohnColtraneChurch_December_GH-8_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/20251221_JohnColtraneChurch_December_GH-8_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/20251221_JohnColtraneChurch_December_GH-8_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rev. Marlee-I Mystic (center) closes Sunday mass in a burst of joy and laughter at the St. John Coltrane Church in San Francisco on Dec. 21, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gustavo Hernandez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The Kings are in their eighties and looking towards the future of the church. Their daughter plans to usher the church into its next chapter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since the first sound baptism in 1965, the Coltrane Church has had different names, locations and philosophies. In fact, King often said that as the seasons change, so do the needs of the people. Change, he said, is baked into the very essence of the church.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And then at the same time, the church never changes,” King said. ”It remains constantly rooted in love and \u003cem>A Love Supreme\u003c/em>.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[baycuriousquestion]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2 id=\"episode-transcript\">Episode Transcript\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price:\u003c/strong> John Coltrane on the saxophone is like nothing else.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Sound of Coltrane playing\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price: \u003c/strong>He grew up in North Carolina in the 1930s…where the church was a big part of his life. Both of his grandfathers were ministers. But his calling was different. After high school, he moved to Philadelphia with his mother, where his music career started to take off. …\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Music plays\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price: \u003c/strong>By the mid-1950s, Coltrane was gaining recognition among other jazz musicians for the way he played, skipping scales in a style that became known as “sheets of sound.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Music plays\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price: \u003c/strong>Here’s Coltrane in a 1960 radio interview.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>John Coltrane: \u003c/strong>There’s some set things I know, some harmonic devices that I know that will take me out of the ordinary path if I use these. But I haven’t played them enough, and I”m not familiar enough, to take the one familiar line, so I play all of them so I can acclimate my ear. So I can hear.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price: \u003c/strong>He was a famously hard worker, practicing fingering, breath control…even specific notes for hours at a time. He was even said to fall asleep with his horn in his mouth. He caught the attention of some of the most famous jazz artists of his day… playing with folks like Thelonious Monk and Miles Davis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>John Coltrane: \u003c/strong>When I started it it was a little different because I started through Miles Davis and he was an accepted musician, you see. They got used to me in the States now when they first heard me when I was here they did not like it I remember. It’s a little different. They’re going to reject it at first.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price: \u003c/strong>But throughout these years of success, Coltrane struggled with alcohol and heroin addiction. Miles Davis famously fired him from his band for it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And so, the story goes, Coltrane got clean, cold turkey, an experience he describes in the liner notes of his masterpiece, \u003cem>A Love Supreme\u003c/em>, which came out in 1965. Here’s Denzel Washington reading them in the documentary \u003cem>Chasing Trane\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Denzel Washington reading Coltrane: \u003c/strong>During the year 1957, I experienced by the grace of Gd a spiritual awakening which was to lead me to a richer, fuller, more productive life. At that time, in gratitude, I humbly ask to be given the means and the privilege to make others happy through music.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price: \u003c/strong>A Love Supreme marked a turning point in Coltrane’s career. The album was Coltrane’s declaration to God, his commitment to love and the divine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And it has become the sacred text of a church in San Francisco — the Saint John Coltrane African Orthodox Church, Global Spiritual Community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Opening riff of A Love Supreme plays\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price: \u003c/strong>Today on Bay Curious, we’re going to church to learn how a jazz musician came to be revered as a saint and how the Coltrane Church has been a part of many cultural movements over the decades, transforming alongside the city. I’m Olivia Allen-Price. Don’t go away.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Sponsor message\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price: \u003c/strong>The Coltrane Church has been worshipping John Coltrane’s music, philosophy, and at times, even the man himself for 60 years. Reporter Asal Ehsanipour takes us to Sunday mass to learn more about what that sounds like.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Sounds of Coltrane Church Mass\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Asal Ehsanipour: \u003c/strong>The Saint John Coltrane African Orthodox Church opens Sunday mass with the blow of a conch shell.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Sound of conch shell blowing\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Asal Ehsanipour: \u003c/strong>Then the saxophone comes in, blaring the opening notes of John Coltrane’s \u003cem>A Love Supreme\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>A Love Supreme plays\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Asal Ehsanipour: \u003c/strong>On the altar is a Byzantine-style portrait of John Coltrane. He’s wearing a white robe and clutching his soprano saxophone. A gold halo glitters above his head.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Throughout the service, the band alternates between sax, bass, and drum solos in a kind of makeshift jazz concert. Later, the sermon offered by His Eminence the Most Reverend Franzo W. King is a mix of traditional Christian teachings, and references to Coltrane.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Archbishop King during mass: \u003c/strong>Jesus is the Lord of lords and the king of kings. And that one John Will.i.am Coltrane is that anointed sound that leaped down from the throne of heaven.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Asal Ehsanipour: \u003c/strong>For Archbishop King and his wife, the Most Reverend Mother Marina, the music and their worship is one and the same.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Mother Marina King: \u003c/strong>The mission of the church is to paint the globe with Coltrane Consciousness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Asal Ehsanipour: \u003c/strong>Coltrane Consciousness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Archbishop King: \u003c/strong>Coltrane Consciousness is acknowledging that the music and the sound of John Coltraine is that anointed sound. So we want everybody to become aware of the power of this music, of this man, that testimony.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Asal Ehsanipour: \u003c/strong>The Kings first heard the power of that testimony in 1960s San Francisco — as a young couple in love.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Archbishop King: \u003c/strong>The music was as hip as you could get, and we were trying to be hipsters and being into this music.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Asal Ehsanipour: \u003c/strong>One weekend, 1965, Franzo and Marina planned to celebrate their first wedding anniversary. They wanted to see The John Coltrane Quartet at a club in North Beach called The Jazz Workshop.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Archbishop King: \u003c/strong>You had to be 21 and we were both underage, but I knew the doorman. And he took us right up front.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Asal Ehsanipour: \u003c/strong>As soon as Coltrane entered the room, the Kings felt the energy around them shift.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Archbishop King: \u003c/strong>When they walked out, it was almost like they were walking on a carpet of air.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Mother Marina: \u003c/strong>It was immediate. You could feel the presence, that energy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Coltrane music starts here\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Mother Marina King: \u003c/strong>And then he lifted his horn. We were right in front, and he pointed right at our table.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Archbishop King: \u003c/strong>From the first note, we were lifted into another place beyond the confines of that jazz club. And when we finished, our drinks were still on the table, the ice had melted. I don’t remember us even talking to each other.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Mother Marina King: \u003c/strong>I didn’t know exactly how to react to it. I was just in the moment of experiencing a new experience.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Archbishop King: \u003c/strong>We were caught in a windstorm of the spirit of the Holy Ghost. It was a powerful thing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They call this experience their “sound baptism.” From then on, their calling would be to spread John Coltrane’s gospel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Archbishop King: \u003c/strong>We couldn’t keep it to ourselves. We had to give testimony, we had to tell people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Asal Ehsanipour: \u003c/strong>And tell people they did. Franzo and Marina had actually created a space to share their favorite music with friends — in a way, their first iteration of the Coltrane Church. Pastor Wanika King-Stephens still remembers those evenings her parents used to host.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Wanika King-Stephens: \u003c/strong>Really what that entailed was our listening clinic that took place in my parents’ living room. My mom would put on a pot of beans and make some cornbread and have people come over and they would sit and listen to the music of Thelonious Monk and Charlie Parker.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Asal Ehsanipour: \u003c/strong>Franzo and Marina poured over liner notes and interviews, spent hours absorbed in the music, analyzing it together. Then came July 17, 1967.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Wanika King-Stephens: \u003c/strong>When John Coltrane died I came into the living room to find my dad and my uncle and they had been up all night. Listening to Trane and just talking about him and the music and so when I came in the room, I’m like, “what’s what’s wrong?” You know, they said, you know, “they killed John.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Asal Ehsanipour: \u003c/strong>Coltrane died from liver cancer, most likely fueled by his drug and alcohol addiction. But to Franzo, his death symbolized the systems of racism that targeted Black men in America.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This was a time of heightened tension for San Francisco’s Black population. The city’s so-called “urban renewal” project was in full swing and it targeted low-income neighborhoods with minority residents for demolition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Archbishop King: \u003c/strong>The redevelopment came in with the Negro removal and devastated the community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Asal Ehsanipour: \u003c/strong>Redevelopment brought an end to the “Harlem of the West” that defined the Fillmore in the 40s and 50s. Jazz clubs shuttered. Minority and elderly residents were forced from their homes. And the city’s Black-owned music scene was decimated. Franzo, though, was passionate that people needed to hear this music.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Archbishop King: \u003c/strong>And it was during that period, too, where so-called black consciousness was coming out. It was just a very high cultural, political things going on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Asal Ehsanipour: \u003c/strong>So he and Marina mobilized. They opened what was essentially an underground jazz club — from their basement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Coltrane had been outspoken about the “corporatization” of jazz. It was just \u003cu>one\u003c/u> example of how he’d grown into an icon for the Black Power movement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Coltrane’s song Alabama plays \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Asal Ehsanipour: \u003c/strong>Here’s Coltrane’s 1963 song, Alabama, about the 16th Street Church bombing in Birmingham that killed four African American girls. Coltrane composed it to the rhythm of Martin Luther King Jr.’s eulogy following the attack.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Mother Marina King: \u003c/strong>So we’re living in these times of turmoil, yes it comes out in the music.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Asal Ehsanipour: \u003c/strong>But eventually, something shifted. For the Kings, the work stopped being about saving the music or the culture. It was about saving souls. Because after years of studying Coltrane, it had become clear to them that his music, his activism — his whole belief system — was really a declaration of faith.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Wanika King-Stephens: \u003c/strong>And we hear John Coltrane saying, my music is the spiritual expression of what I am, my faith, my knowledge, my being.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Asal Ehsanipour: \u003c/strong>The Kings went all in on their devotion. They converted the jazz club into a temple. Now they didn’t just revere Coltrane. They worshipped him. Believed he was the second coming of Christ.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Archbishop King: \u003c/strong>That he’s more than just a musician, but he is a prophet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Asal Ehsanipour: \u003c/strong>And that \u003cem>A Love Supreme \u003c/em>was his sacred text — his doctrine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>A Love Supreme starts playing\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Asal Ehsanipour: \u003c/strong>For 32 minutes and 47 seconds, Coltrane’s saxophone pulses and intertwines with piano and drums, a four note bassline bedded beneath the sound. It’s played in all 12 keys, sending a message that you can find A Love Supreme everywhere.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Archbishop King: \u003c/strong>We hear the Lord speaking to us in this music. I’ve had John Coltrane through the music call my name. So we have revelations that come through the music. And you find that in the sound of the music, you find it in the name of the compositions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Asal Ehsanipour: \u003c/strong>Archbishop King and Mother Marina say the album’s four song titles — \u003cem>Acknowledgment, Resolution, Pursuance, and Psalm —\u003c/em> offer a formula for how to reach a higher power.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Mother Marina King: \u003c/strong>The way his notes are moving and the way the sounds are connected, it’s almost like a rumble. It’s like a war. Sometimes he’s pleading your case. Every time I hear it, there’s something new. There’s always life there. It’s in the music, the magic is in the music.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Asal Ehsanipour: \u003c/strong>Franzo and Marina surrendered themselves to Coltrane. They prayed, meditated, and fasted for days at a time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Archbishop King: \u003c/strong>And we just felt like we were in the right place at the right time, and that the Spirit of God was really heavy in this part of the world.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Asal Ehsanipour: \u003c/strong>Around this time, The Black Panther Party was gaining traction. Started in Oakland in 1966 its co-founder Huey P. Newton had become a kind of mentor to Franzo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Huey P. Newton: \u003c/strong>The Black Panther Party for self defense is organized now throughout the nation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Asal Ehsanipour: \u003c/strong>Here’s Newton in 1968 describing the mission of the Panthers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Huey P Newton: \u003c/strong>And we advocate that all Black people in America are taught what politics is all about and what our history is all about.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Asal Ehsanipour: \u003c/strong>Newton encouraged the Coltrane Church to fuse politics and culture with religion. And in 1971, the Kings opened their first permanent location in a storefront on Divisadero St. From there, they started hosting social programs, similar to the Black Panthers’ Free Breakfast Program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Wanika King-Stephens: \u003c/strong>The food program was one of my favorite things in the whole world.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Asal Ehsanipour: \u003c/strong>Pastor Wanika says that seven days a week, they’d give free vegetarian meals to hundreds of people. The lines snaked around the block.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Wanika King-Stephens: \u003c/strong>We would sing songs, you know, \u003cem>‘Serving the people makes me mighty glad. [fade under] \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Archbishop King: \u003c/strong>We would go to Safeways and the supermarkets and the stuff that they would throw out. We’d take it out, put it in a tub, clean it, and serve it to the people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Asal Ehsanipour: \u003c/strong>Franzo and Marina believed that to be right with God was to be \u003cem>\u003cu>right\u003c/u>\u003c/em> with the people. So they also hosted free yoga classes and donated clothes to the community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Archbishop King: \u003c/strong>We kind of learned that stuff from the hippies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Asal Ehsanipour: \u003c/strong>The vibe was Flower Power, psychedelics…\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Archbishop King: \u003c/strong>The Grateful Dead…\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Asal Ehsanipour: \u003c/strong>Utopian communes based out of old Victorian houses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Archbishop King: \u003c/strong>The so-called hippie movement was a powerful thing and we were very much a part of that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Asal Ehsanipour: \u003c/strong>And like the hippies, the Kings started borrowing from Eastern spirituality, led by Coltrane’s music.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Opening notes of “Om” by John Coltrane – 00:00\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Mother Marina King: \u003c/strong>John Coltrane has an album entitled Om. I thought of that as far as one of the albums that meant so much to us, especially early on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Sound of Coltrane’s “Om” playing \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Mother Marina King: \u003c/strong>And we literally took that as John saying, “I am Om.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Asal Ehsanipour: \u003c/strong>By the mid-70s, the Kings began shifting away from Christianity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Archbishop King: \u003c/strong>We embrace the unity of religious ideas. If you want to say that Buddha is the light, we don’t have a problem with that.\u003cem> \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Asal Ehsanipour: \u003c/strong>They incorporated Sanskrit chanting in their service.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Archbishop King chanting\u003cem>: \u003c/em>\u003c/strong>That’s something that we learned from Alice Coltrane.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Asal Ehsanipour: \u003c/strong>Alice Coltrane, John’s widow, had been immersed in Hindu spirituality for years and had come to San Francisco to deepen her practice. The Kings met her here and eventually joined her \u003cu>new\u003c/u> religious community called the Vedantic Center. Franzo and Marina began worshipping Alice as the wife of God and adopted Hindu names.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pastor Wanika remembers when her parents made that shift.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Wanika King-Stephens: \u003c/strong>So we go from jazz to Sanskrit and chanting and singing, you know, Hare Krishna and Shiva, Lord Shiva.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Asal Ehsanipour: \u003c/strong>The Kings sang backup on Alice’s early devotional records, like this one.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Singing \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Asal Ehsanipour: \u003c/strong>But in the early 80s, their relationship splintered. Alice filed a 7.5 million dollar lawsuit against the Coltrane Church for copyright infringement and using her husband’s name and likeness without permission. Alice eventually dropped the lawsuit, but the incident drew the attention of the African Orthodox Church, who wanted to expand to the West Coast. For the Kings, it was actually kind of similar to the temple they’d first opened except they had to recharacterize Coltrane from their God incarnate to a patron saint. They agreed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Wanika King-Stephens: \u003c/strong>For me, John was always just sort of evolving in my consciousness. So for him to go from God to Saint was not a big stretch for me. It’s like, great, okay. I can swing with that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Asal Ehsanipour: \u003c/strong>So in 1982, they became the \u003cem>\u003cu>Saint\u003c/u>\u003c/em> John Coltrane African Orthodox Church. Now part of an organized religious movement, the Coltrane Church leaned into its status as public facing leaders. Keepers, if you will, of San Francisco culture.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Archbishop King: \u003c/strong>I think this is something people need to understand that this church has been an ambassador for this city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Asal Ehsanipour: \u003c/strong>They traveled around the world. Like to the Antibes Jazz Festival in France — where Coltrane himself famously performed \u003cem>A Love Supreme\u003c/em> in 1965.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Archbishop King: \u003c/strong>Carlos Santana joined us on the stage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Mother Marina King: \u003c/strong>And even on airlines, we would say, hey, I saw your church advertised on United Airlines, and it would, you know, it was like a goal of places you need to see in San Francisco, and it would be the St. John Coltrane Church.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Asal Ehsanipour: \u003c/strong>But the year 2000 marked yet another shift for the Coltrane Church when they were forced out of their Divisadero storefront. Their home of nearly 30 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Wanika King-Stephens: \u003c/strong>It was awful, it was awful. I mean, I know I never saw it coming.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Asal Ehsanipour: \u003c/strong>Their rent more than doubled, and they had to end their free food program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Wanika King-Stephens: \u003c/strong>We had to leave, and that was our home. That was our home. And then I watched that whole community change. And I just, I tell you, I couldn’t drive through that neighborhood without crying for, like, a whole year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Asal Ehsanipour: \u003c/strong>They’ve relocated a few times since then. First to the Fillmore where they were one of just a handful of jazz institutions left. But they were evicted from that space too, before moving to their current location out of Fort Mason’s Magic Theater.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Sounds of Coltrane Church mass: Hallelujah! \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Mother Marina King during service: \u003c/strong>This next composition is entitled Tune Gene, and it means “He who comes in the glory of the Lord.” So I want you to clap your hands, pick up your tambourines. Do we have any dancers? You know, King David danced before the Lord with all the power of his might.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Asal Ehsanipour: \u003c/strong>Now, Archbishop King and Mother Marina see the church as a kind of Mecca, where Coltrane disciples from just about anywhere can worship together. On the day I visit, they’ve come from New York, Seattle, and closer to home, Redwood City.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Archbishop King in the service: \u003c/strong>This is the St. John Will-i-am Coltrane African Orthodox Church Global Spiritual Community. Amen. So we all are family, amen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Asal Ehsanipour: \u003c/strong>At the end of Sunday mass Archbishop King and Mother Marina asked for donations. They’re trying to raise money to buy a building. What they hope will be a permanent home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Archbishop King: \u003c/strong>So this church needs your money. Amen. Some of y’all are holding on to God’s money now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Asal Ehsanipour: \u003c/strong>Archbishop King and Mother Marina are in their 80s and are looking towards the future of the church, how it can live beyond them. Their daughter, Pastor Wanika, plans to take it over, to continue sharing the church’s message.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Archbishop King: \u003c/strong>So Coltrane Consciousness is a love supreme, a love supreme, a love supreme. That’s what this coltrane consciousness is all about.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Asal Ehsanipour: \u003c/strong>Since Archbishop King and Mother Marina’s sound baptism in 1965, the Coltrane Church has had different names, locations, philosophies. In fact, Archbishop King often says that as the seasons change, so do the needs of the people. Change, he says, is baked into the very essence of the church.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Archbishop King: \u003c/strong>And then at the same time, the church never changes. It remains constantly rooted in love and \u003cem>A Love Supreme\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Music fades out\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price:\u003c/strong> That story was reported by Asal Ehsanipour. You can attend mass at the Saint John Coltrane African Orthodox Church every Sunday at the Magic Theater at Fort Mason.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bay Curious is produced at member-supported KQED in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Our show is made by Katrina Schwartz, Christopher Beale and me, Olivia Allen-Price.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With extra support from Maha Sanad, Katie Sprenger, Jen Chien, Ethan Toven-Lindsey and everyone on team KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some members of the KQED podcast team are represented by the Screen Actors Guild American Federation of Television and Radio Artists, San Francisco, Northern California local.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thanks for listening. Have a great week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Coltrane Consciousness is acknowledging that the music and the sound of John Coltrane is that anointed sound that leaped down from the throne of heaven,” King said. “We want everybody to become aware of the power of this music, of this man, that testimony.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Coltrane Church, as it’s often called, is the \u003ca href=\"https://www.sf.gov/sites/default/files/2022-09/Item%202e.%20LBR-2021-22-019%20St.%20John%20Coltrane%20Church.pdf\">oldest \u003c/a>Black jazz organization in San Francisco now. And it has taken a windy path to achieve that longevity.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A baptism of sound\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The Coltrane Church’s origins date back to the 1960s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Kings had recently moved to San Francisco as a young couple in love. Upon arrival they were met with a vibrant music scene, with jazz venues dotting the city. The Fillmore District became known as “The Harlem of the West” for its abundance of Black-owned nightclubs and restaurants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12068339\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1999px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/20251221_JohnColtraneChurch_December_GH-1_qed.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12068339\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/20251221_JohnColtraneChurch_December_GH-1_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/20251221_JohnColtraneChurch_December_GH-1_qed.jpg 1999w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/20251221_JohnColtraneChurch_December_GH-1_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/20251221_JohnColtraneChurch_December_GH-1_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1999px) 100vw, 1999px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Supreme Mother Rev. Marina King sings during Sunday mass at the St. John Coltrane Church at Fort Mason in San Francisco on Dec. 21, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gustavo Hernandez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“The music was as hip as you could get, and we were trying to be hipsters and being into this music,” King said. “You could leave your house on a Friday night and you wouldn’t have to come home until Sunday afternoon.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Sept. 18, 1965, the Kings celebrated their first wedding anniversary by going to see The John Coltrane Quartet at a North Beach club called The Jazz Workshop. King knew the doorman, who seated them in the front row despite them being underage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As soon as Coltrane and his band entered the room, King said he felt the energy around him shift, “like [the band was] walking on a carpet of air.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was immediate,” Mother Marina agreed. “You could feel the presence, that energy. And then [Coltrane] lifted his horn. We were right in front, and he pointed right at our table.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Kings said they were rendered speechless throughout Coltrane’s set, hardly touching their drinks as they were transported to a spiritual realm beyond the jazz club.\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/MAgJ-igwuSQ'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/MAgJ-igwuSQ'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>“We were caught in a windstorm of the spirit of the Holy Ghost. It was a powerful thing,” King said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Kings call this experience their “sound baptism.” From then on, their calling would be to spread John Coltrane’s gospel.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>From fans to worshippers\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>They started out by hosting listening sessions with friends in their home. They’d cook up a pot of beans and some cornbread to share, then pour over music, interviews and liner notes from jazz greats like John Coltrane, Thelonious Monk and Charlie Parker.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On July 17, 1967, Archbishop King was out at a jazz club when he learned that Coltrane had died. The Kings’ daughter, Pastor Wanika King-Stephens, remembers walking into the living room the next morning to find that her dad and uncle had stayed up all night listening to Coltrane’s music.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“They killed John,” King-Stephens recalled her father saying.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Coltrane died from liver cancer, most likely fueled by his drug and alcohol addiction in the earlier years of his fame. But Archbishop King believed Coltrane’s death symbolized the systems of racism that targeted Black men in America. This was a time of heightened tension for San Francisco’s Black population. Throughout the 1960s, the city’s so-called “\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11825401/how-urban-renewal-decimated-the-fillmore-district-and-took-jazz-with-it\">redevelopment for urban renewal\u003c/a>” ” program targeted low-income neighborhoods with minority residents for demolition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The redevelopment came in with the Negro removal and devastated the community,” King said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco’s redevelopment project brought an end to the “Harlem of the West” that had once defined the Fillmore District. Jazz clubs shuttered, minority and elderly residents were forced from their homes, and the city’s Black-owned music scene was decimated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Kings, though, were passionate that people still needed to hear this music. Motivated by an era of Black consciousness and political activity, they opened “The Yardbird Club,” a jazz club based out of their basement. The name paid homage to the jazz musician Charlie “Yardbird” Parker.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This makeshift venue functioned as a space where artists visiting San Francisco could experiment with new sounds, much like the city’s jazz clubs had once done.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But around 1969, something shifted for the Kings. It wasn’t just about saving the music or the culture anymore. It was about saving souls.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After years of studying Coltrane, they came to believe that his music, his activism — his whole belief system — was really a declaration of faith.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12068329\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/20251221_JohnColtraneChurch_December_GH-6_qed.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12068329\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/20251221_JohnColtraneChurch_December_GH-6_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/20251221_JohnColtraneChurch_December_GH-6_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/20251221_JohnColtraneChurch_December_GH-6_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/20251221_JohnColtraneChurch_December_GH-6_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">His Eminence Archbishop Franzo W. King greets congregants after Sunday mass at the St. John Coltrane Church at Fort Mason in San Francisco on Dec. 21, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gustavo Hernandez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We hear John Coltrane saying, ‘My music is the spiritual expression of what I am, my faith, my knowledge, my being,” King-Stephens said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Kings went all in on their devotion. “The Yardbird Club” became “The Yardbird Temple.” They didn’t just revere Coltrane anymore — they worshiped him, believed him to be the second coming of Christ and cited \u003cem>A Love Supreme\u003c/em> as his most sacred text.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A higher power\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Coltrane composed \u003cem>A Love Supreme\u003c/em> in the aftermath of heroin and alcohol addiction. Though he had risen to fame by the 1950s, Coltrane’s substance abuse made him unreliable. Miles Davis famously fired Coltrane from his band because of it. Coltrane had hit rock bottom and his music career was foundering because of it. So, he got clean — went cold turkey — and heard the voice of God.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Coltrane described this experience in the album’s liner notes: \u003cem>“During the year 1957, I experienced by the grace of God a spiritual awakening which was to lead me to a richer, fuller, more productive life. At that time, in gratitude, I humbly ask to be given the means and the privilege to make others happy through music.”\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>A Love Supreme\u003c/em>, which came out in 1965, marked a turning point in Coltrane’s career. The album was his declaration to God and an expression of his commitment to love and the divine. For 32 minutes and 47 seconds, Coltrane’s saxophone pulses and intertwines with piano and drums — a four-note bassline bedded beneath the sound. It’s played in all 12 keys, sending a \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2000/10/23/148148986/a-love-supreme\">message\u003c/a> that you can find \u003cem>A Love Supreme\u003c/em> everywhere.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We hear the Lord speaking to us in this music,” King said. “I’ve had John Coltrane through the music call my name. So we have revelations that come through the music.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mother Marina agreed. “Every time I hear it, there’s something new,” she said. “There’s always life there. It’s in the music. The magic is in the music.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12068328\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/20251221_JohnColtraneChurch_December_GH-5_qed.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12068328\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/20251221_JohnColtraneChurch_December_GH-5_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/20251221_JohnColtraneChurch_December_GH-5_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/20251221_JohnColtraneChurch_December_GH-5_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/20251221_JohnColtraneChurch_December_GH-5_qed-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rev. Marlee-I Mystic and His Eminence Archbishop Franzo W. King pause to speak with churchgoers following Sunday mass at the St. John Coltrane Church in San Francisco on Dec. 21, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gustavo Hernandez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The Kings say the album’s four song titles — \u003cem>Acknowledgement, Resolution, Pursuance \u003c/em>and \u003cem>Psalm\u003c/em> — offer a formula for how to reach a higher power.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The way his notes are moving and the way the sounds are connected, it’s almost like a rumble. It’s like a war. Sometimes he’s pleading your case. It’s many different feelings,” Mother Marina said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The 1970s: A period of transformation\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Now a religious community, the Kings surrendered themselves to Coltrane. They prayed, meditated and fasted for days at a time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Everything was falling into place, and the Kings “felt like we were in the right place at the right time, and that the spirit of God was really heavy in this part of the world,” King said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12068333\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/20251221_JohnColtraneChurch_December_GH-12_qed.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12068333\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/20251221_JohnColtraneChurch_December_GH-12_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/20251221_JohnColtraneChurch_December_GH-12_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/20251221_JohnColtraneChurch_December_GH-12_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/20251221_JohnColtraneChurch_December_GH-12_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Music memorabilia adorns the space in preparation for Sunday mass at the St. John Coltrane Church at Fort Mason in San Francisco on Dec. 21, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gustavo Hernandez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The Black Panther Party also became supporters of the church. Its co-founder, Huey P. Newton had become a mentor to Archbishop King and encouraged him to fuse politics, culture and religion. After moving to a storefront on Divisadero Street, the church began hosting programs that mirrored The Black Panthers’ Free Breakfast Program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>King-Stephens said the church’s free food program was “one of my [her] favorite things in the whole world.” Seven days a week, church members would prepare free vegetarian meals for hundreds of people. The lines snaked around the block.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We would go to Safeways and the supermarkets and the stuff that they would throw out, we’d take it out, put it in a tub, clean it, and serve it to the people,” King said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Kings believed that to be right with God was to be right with the people. Inspired by San Francisco’s hippie movement in the 1970s, they also hosted free yoga classes, practiced vegetarianism, and started borrowing from Eastern spirituality, led by Coltrane’s music.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“John Coltrane has an album entitled \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GwrV0qCX1LU&list=RDGwrV0qCX1LU&start_radio=1\">\u003cem>Om\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, and we literally took that as John saying, ‘I am Om,’” Mother Marina said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They studied the Sufi mystic, Inayat Khan, who believed music and sound to be the world’s life source, and incorporated Sanskrit chanting in their service.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We embrace the unity of religious ideas,” King said. “If you want to say that Buddha is the light, we don’t have a problem with that.”\u003cem> \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12070432\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/GettyImages-74258876-scaled-e1768939107671.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12070432\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/GettyImages-74258876-scaled-e1768939107671.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1420\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">American jazz musician and composer Alice Coltrane in 1970. \u003ccite>(Photo by Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In 1974, the Kings met Alice Coltrane, John’s widow. She had converted to Hinduism after her husband’s death and came to San Francisco to deepen her practice. The Kings joined her spiritual community in San Francisco, the Vedantic Center, and began worshipping her as the wife of God. They adopted Hindu names and sang backup on her early devotional \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=759TXOUIpjQ\">records\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But in 1981, Coltrane filed a $7.5 million \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/1981/10/24/nyregion/notes-on-people-coltrane-s-widow-sues-san-francisco-church.html\">lawsuit\u003c/a> against the Coltrane Church for copyright infringement and using her husband’s name and likeness without permission. She eventually dropped the lawsuit, but it set the Kings on a new path. The incident drew the attention of the African Orthodox Church, which wanted to expand to the West Coast. To join, the Kings had to recharacterize Coltrane from their God incarnate to a patron saint. They agreed.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Culture keepers\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The church joined the A.O.C and became the Saint John Coltrane African Orthodox Church in 1982. Now part of an organized religious movement, the Coltrane church leaned into its status as public-facing leaders and keepers of San Francisco culture.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think this is something people need to understand that this church has been an ambassador for this city,” King said.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>They have traveled around the world, including to the \u003ca href=\"https://jazzajuan.com/en/\">Antibes Jazz Festival\u003c/a> in France — where Coltrane himself famously \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lWuhPVb175Y&list=RDlWuhPVb175Y&start_radio=1\">performed\u003c/a> A Love Supreme in 1965. The Kings were joined onstage by Carlos Santana, an early supporter of the church. Several travel guides even named them a top destination when visiting San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Kings and their church were vocal advocates on issues including environmental racism and police brutality, continuing the work that had long been part of their ethos. But the year 2000 marked yet another shift for the Coltrane Church. They were forced to leave their Divisadero storefront, the church’s home for nearly 30 years, after their rent more than \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/news/article/coltrane-church-holds-last-service-at-longtime-3239485.php\">doubled\u003c/a>. They also had to end their free food program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That was our home,” King-Stephens said. “And then, I watched that whole community change. And I tell you, I couldn’t drive through that neighborhood without crying for a whole year.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Looking to the future\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>They’ve relocated a few times since then. First, to the Fillmore, where they were one of just a handful of jazz institutions left. But they were evicted from that space too, before moving to their current location out of Fort Mason’s Magic Theater.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, King and Mother Marina see the church as a kind of Mecca, where Coltrane disciples from around the world can worship together. At the end of Sunday mass, Archbishop King and Mother Marina asked the community for donations. They’re trying to raise money to buy a building — what they hope will be a permanent home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12068330\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/20251221_JohnColtraneChurch_December_GH-8_qed.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12068330\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/20251221_JohnColtraneChurch_December_GH-8_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/20251221_JohnColtraneChurch_December_GH-8_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/20251221_JohnColtraneChurch_December_GH-8_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/20251221_JohnColtraneChurch_December_GH-8_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rev. Marlee-I Mystic (center) closes Sunday mass in a burst of joy and laughter at the St. John Coltrane Church in San Francisco on Dec. 21, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gustavo Hernandez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The Kings are in their eighties and looking towards the future of the church. Their daughter plans to usher the church into its next chapter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since the first sound baptism in 1965, the Coltrane Church has had different names, locations and philosophies. In fact, King often said that as the seasons change, so do the needs of the people. Change, he said, is baked into the very essence of the church.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And then at the same time, the church never changes,” King said. ”It remains constantly rooted in love and \u003cem>A Love Supreme\u003c/em>.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-content post-body\">\u003ch2 id=\"episode-transcript\">Episode Transcript\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price:\u003c/strong> John Coltrane on the saxophone is like nothing else.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Sound of Coltrane playing\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price: \u003c/strong>He grew up in North Carolina in the 1930s…where the church was a big part of his life. Both of his grandfathers were ministers. But his calling was different. After high school, he moved to Philadelphia with his mother, where his music career started to take off. …\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Music plays\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price: \u003c/strong>By the mid-1950s, Coltrane was gaining recognition among other jazz musicians for the way he played, skipping scales in a style that became known as “sheets of sound.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Music plays\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price: \u003c/strong>Here’s Coltrane in a 1960 radio interview.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>John Coltrane: \u003c/strong>There’s some set things I know, some harmonic devices that I know that will take me out of the ordinary path if I use these. But I haven’t played them enough, and I”m not familiar enough, to take the one familiar line, so I play all of them so I can acclimate my ear. So I can hear.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price: \u003c/strong>He was a famously hard worker, practicing fingering, breath control…even specific notes for hours at a time. He was even said to fall asleep with his horn in his mouth. He caught the attention of some of the most famous jazz artists of his day… playing with folks like Thelonious Monk and Miles Davis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>John Coltrane: \u003c/strong>When I started it it was a little different because I started through Miles Davis and he was an accepted musician, you see. They got used to me in the States now when they first heard me when I was here they did not like it I remember. It’s a little different. They’re going to reject it at first.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price: \u003c/strong>But throughout these years of success, Coltrane struggled with alcohol and heroin addiction. Miles Davis famously fired him from his band for it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And so, the story goes, Coltrane got clean, cold turkey, an experience he describes in the liner notes of his masterpiece, \u003cem>A Love Supreme\u003c/em>, which came out in 1965. Here’s Denzel Washington reading them in the documentary \u003cem>Chasing Trane\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Denzel Washington reading Coltrane: \u003c/strong>During the year 1957, I experienced by the grace of Gd a spiritual awakening which was to lead me to a richer, fuller, more productive life. At that time, in gratitude, I humbly ask to be given the means and the privilege to make others happy through music.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price: \u003c/strong>A Love Supreme marked a turning point in Coltrane’s career. The album was Coltrane’s declaration to God, his commitment to love and the divine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And it has become the sacred text of a church in San Francisco — the Saint John Coltrane African Orthodox Church, Global Spiritual Community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Opening riff of A Love Supreme plays\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price: \u003c/strong>Today on Bay Curious, we’re going to church to learn how a jazz musician came to be revered as a saint and how the Coltrane Church has been a part of many cultural movements over the decades, transforming alongside the city. I’m Olivia Allen-Price. Don’t go away.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Sponsor message\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price: \u003c/strong>The Coltrane Church has been worshipping John Coltrane’s music, philosophy, and at times, even the man himself for 60 years. Reporter Asal Ehsanipour takes us to Sunday mass to learn more about what that sounds like.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Sounds of Coltrane Church Mass\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Asal Ehsanipour: \u003c/strong>The Saint John Coltrane African Orthodox Church opens Sunday mass with the blow of a conch shell.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Sound of conch shell blowing\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Asal Ehsanipour: \u003c/strong>Then the saxophone comes in, blaring the opening notes of John Coltrane’s \u003cem>A Love Supreme\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>A Love Supreme plays\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Asal Ehsanipour: \u003c/strong>On the altar is a Byzantine-style portrait of John Coltrane. He’s wearing a white robe and clutching his soprano saxophone. A gold halo glitters above his head.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Throughout the service, the band alternates between sax, bass, and drum solos in a kind of makeshift jazz concert. Later, the sermon offered by His Eminence the Most Reverend Franzo W. King is a mix of traditional Christian teachings, and references to Coltrane.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Archbishop King during mass: \u003c/strong>Jesus is the Lord of lords and the king of kings. And that one John Will.i.am Coltrane is that anointed sound that leaped down from the throne of heaven.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Asal Ehsanipour: \u003c/strong>For Archbishop King and his wife, the Most Reverend Mother Marina, the music and their worship is one and the same.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Mother Marina King: \u003c/strong>The mission of the church is to paint the globe with Coltrane Consciousness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Asal Ehsanipour: \u003c/strong>Coltrane Consciousness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Archbishop King: \u003c/strong>Coltrane Consciousness is acknowledging that the music and the sound of John Coltraine is that anointed sound. So we want everybody to become aware of the power of this music, of this man, that testimony.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Asal Ehsanipour: \u003c/strong>The Kings first heard the power of that testimony in 1960s San Francisco — as a young couple in love.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Archbishop King: \u003c/strong>The music was as hip as you could get, and we were trying to be hipsters and being into this music.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Asal Ehsanipour: \u003c/strong>One weekend, 1965, Franzo and Marina planned to celebrate their first wedding anniversary. They wanted to see The John Coltrane Quartet at a club in North Beach called The Jazz Workshop.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Archbishop King: \u003c/strong>You had to be 21 and we were both underage, but I knew the doorman. And he took us right up front.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Asal Ehsanipour: \u003c/strong>As soon as Coltrane entered the room, the Kings felt the energy around them shift.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Archbishop King: \u003c/strong>When they walked out, it was almost like they were walking on a carpet of air.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Mother Marina: \u003c/strong>It was immediate. You could feel the presence, that energy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Coltrane music starts here\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Mother Marina King: \u003c/strong>And then he lifted his horn. We were right in front, and he pointed right at our table.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Archbishop King: \u003c/strong>From the first note, we were lifted into another place beyond the confines of that jazz club. And when we finished, our drinks were still on the table, the ice had melted. I don’t remember us even talking to each other.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Mother Marina King: \u003c/strong>I didn’t know exactly how to react to it. I was just in the moment of experiencing a new experience.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Archbishop King: \u003c/strong>We were caught in a windstorm of the spirit of the Holy Ghost. It was a powerful thing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They call this experience their “sound baptism.” From then on, their calling would be to spread John Coltrane’s gospel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Archbishop King: \u003c/strong>We couldn’t keep it to ourselves. We had to give testimony, we had to tell people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Asal Ehsanipour: \u003c/strong>And tell people they did. Franzo and Marina had actually created a space to share their favorite music with friends — in a way, their first iteration of the Coltrane Church. Pastor Wanika King-Stephens still remembers those evenings her parents used to host.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Wanika King-Stephens: \u003c/strong>Really what that entailed was our listening clinic that took place in my parents’ living room. My mom would put on a pot of beans and make some cornbread and have people come over and they would sit and listen to the music of Thelonious Monk and Charlie Parker.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Asal Ehsanipour: \u003c/strong>Franzo and Marina poured over liner notes and interviews, spent hours absorbed in the music, analyzing it together. Then came July 17, 1967.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Wanika King-Stephens: \u003c/strong>When John Coltrane died I came into the living room to find my dad and my uncle and they had been up all night. Listening to Trane and just talking about him and the music and so when I came in the room, I’m like, “what’s what’s wrong?” You know, they said, you know, “they killed John.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Asal Ehsanipour: \u003c/strong>Coltrane died from liver cancer, most likely fueled by his drug and alcohol addiction. But to Franzo, his death symbolized the systems of racism that targeted Black men in America.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This was a time of heightened tension for San Francisco’s Black population. The city’s so-called “urban renewal” project was in full swing and it targeted low-income neighborhoods with minority residents for demolition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Archbishop King: \u003c/strong>The redevelopment came in with the Negro removal and devastated the community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Asal Ehsanipour: \u003c/strong>Redevelopment brought an end to the “Harlem of the West” that defined the Fillmore in the 40s and 50s. Jazz clubs shuttered. Minority and elderly residents were forced from their homes. And the city’s Black-owned music scene was decimated. Franzo, though, was passionate that people needed to hear this music.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Archbishop King: \u003c/strong>And it was during that period, too, where so-called black consciousness was coming out. It was just a very high cultural, political things going on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Asal Ehsanipour: \u003c/strong>So he and Marina mobilized. They opened what was essentially an underground jazz club — from their basement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Coltrane had been outspoken about the “corporatization” of jazz. It was just \u003cu>one\u003c/u> example of how he’d grown into an icon for the Black Power movement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Coltrane’s song Alabama plays \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Asal Ehsanipour: \u003c/strong>Here’s Coltrane’s 1963 song, Alabama, about the 16th Street Church bombing in Birmingham that killed four African American girls. Coltrane composed it to the rhythm of Martin Luther King Jr.’s eulogy following the attack.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Mother Marina King: \u003c/strong>So we’re living in these times of turmoil, yes it comes out in the music.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Asal Ehsanipour: \u003c/strong>But eventually, something shifted. For the Kings, the work stopped being about saving the music or the culture. It was about saving souls. Because after years of studying Coltrane, it had become clear to them that his music, his activism — his whole belief system — was really a declaration of faith.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Wanika King-Stephens: \u003c/strong>And we hear John Coltrane saying, my music is the spiritual expression of what I am, my faith, my knowledge, my being.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Asal Ehsanipour: \u003c/strong>The Kings went all in on their devotion. They converted the jazz club into a temple. Now they didn’t just revere Coltrane. They worshipped him. Believed he was the second coming of Christ.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Archbishop King: \u003c/strong>That he’s more than just a musician, but he is a prophet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Asal Ehsanipour: \u003c/strong>And that \u003cem>A Love Supreme \u003c/em>was his sacred text — his doctrine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>A Love Supreme starts playing\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Asal Ehsanipour: \u003c/strong>For 32 minutes and 47 seconds, Coltrane’s saxophone pulses and intertwines with piano and drums, a four note bassline bedded beneath the sound. It’s played in all 12 keys, sending a message that you can find A Love Supreme everywhere.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Archbishop King: \u003c/strong>We hear the Lord speaking to us in this music. I’ve had John Coltrane through the music call my name. So we have revelations that come through the music. And you find that in the sound of the music, you find it in the name of the compositions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Asal Ehsanipour: \u003c/strong>Archbishop King and Mother Marina say the album’s four song titles — \u003cem>Acknowledgment, Resolution, Pursuance, and Psalm —\u003c/em> offer a formula for how to reach a higher power.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Mother Marina King: \u003c/strong>The way his notes are moving and the way the sounds are connected, it’s almost like a rumble. It’s like a war. Sometimes he’s pleading your case. Every time I hear it, there’s something new. There’s always life there. It’s in the music, the magic is in the music.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Asal Ehsanipour: \u003c/strong>Franzo and Marina surrendered themselves to Coltrane. They prayed, meditated, and fasted for days at a time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Archbishop King: \u003c/strong>And we just felt like we were in the right place at the right time, and that the Spirit of God was really heavy in this part of the world.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Asal Ehsanipour: \u003c/strong>Around this time, The Black Panther Party was gaining traction. Started in Oakland in 1966 its co-founder Huey P. Newton had become a kind of mentor to Franzo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Huey P. Newton: \u003c/strong>The Black Panther Party for self defense is organized now throughout the nation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Asal Ehsanipour: \u003c/strong>Here’s Newton in 1968 describing the mission of the Panthers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Huey P Newton: \u003c/strong>And we advocate that all Black people in America are taught what politics is all about and what our history is all about.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Asal Ehsanipour: \u003c/strong>Newton encouraged the Coltrane Church to fuse politics and culture with religion. And in 1971, the Kings opened their first permanent location in a storefront on Divisadero St. From there, they started hosting social programs, similar to the Black Panthers’ Free Breakfast Program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Wanika King-Stephens: \u003c/strong>The food program was one of my favorite things in the whole world.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Asal Ehsanipour: \u003c/strong>Pastor Wanika says that seven days a week, they’d give free vegetarian meals to hundreds of people. The lines snaked around the block.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Wanika King-Stephens: \u003c/strong>We would sing songs, you know, \u003cem>‘Serving the people makes me mighty glad. [fade under] \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Archbishop King: \u003c/strong>We would go to Safeways and the supermarkets and the stuff that they would throw out. We’d take it out, put it in a tub, clean it, and serve it to the people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Asal Ehsanipour: \u003c/strong>Franzo and Marina believed that to be right with God was to be \u003cem>\u003cu>right\u003c/u>\u003c/em> with the people. So they also hosted free yoga classes and donated clothes to the community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Archbishop King: \u003c/strong>We kind of learned that stuff from the hippies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Asal Ehsanipour: \u003c/strong>The vibe was Flower Power, psychedelics…\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Archbishop King: \u003c/strong>The Grateful Dead…\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Asal Ehsanipour: \u003c/strong>Utopian communes based out of old Victorian houses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Archbishop King: \u003c/strong>The so-called hippie movement was a powerful thing and we were very much a part of that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Asal Ehsanipour: \u003c/strong>And like the hippies, the Kings started borrowing from Eastern spirituality, led by Coltrane’s music.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Opening notes of “Om” by John Coltrane – 00:00\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Mother Marina King: \u003c/strong>John Coltrane has an album entitled Om. I thought of that as far as one of the albums that meant so much to us, especially early on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Sound of Coltrane’s “Om” playing \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Mother Marina King: \u003c/strong>And we literally took that as John saying, “I am Om.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Asal Ehsanipour: \u003c/strong>By the mid-70s, the Kings began shifting away from Christianity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Archbishop King: \u003c/strong>We embrace the unity of religious ideas. If you want to say that Buddha is the light, we don’t have a problem with that.\u003cem> \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Asal Ehsanipour: \u003c/strong>They incorporated Sanskrit chanting in their service.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Archbishop King chanting\u003cem>: \u003c/em>\u003c/strong>That’s something that we learned from Alice Coltrane.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Asal Ehsanipour: \u003c/strong>Alice Coltrane, John’s widow, had been immersed in Hindu spirituality for years and had come to San Francisco to deepen her practice. The Kings met her here and eventually joined her \u003cu>new\u003c/u> religious community called the Vedantic Center. Franzo and Marina began worshipping Alice as the wife of God and adopted Hindu names.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pastor Wanika remembers when her parents made that shift.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Wanika King-Stephens: \u003c/strong>So we go from jazz to Sanskrit and chanting and singing, you know, Hare Krishna and Shiva, Lord Shiva.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Asal Ehsanipour: \u003c/strong>The Kings sang backup on Alice’s early devotional records, like this one.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Singing \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Asal Ehsanipour: \u003c/strong>But in the early 80s, their relationship splintered. Alice filed a 7.5 million dollar lawsuit against the Coltrane Church for copyright infringement and using her husband’s name and likeness without permission. Alice eventually dropped the lawsuit, but the incident drew the attention of the African Orthodox Church, who wanted to expand to the West Coast. For the Kings, it was actually kind of similar to the temple they’d first opened except they had to recharacterize Coltrane from their God incarnate to a patron saint. They agreed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Wanika King-Stephens: \u003c/strong>For me, John was always just sort of evolving in my consciousness. So for him to go from God to Saint was not a big stretch for me. It’s like, great, okay. I can swing with that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Asal Ehsanipour: \u003c/strong>So in 1982, they became the \u003cem>\u003cu>Saint\u003c/u>\u003c/em> John Coltrane African Orthodox Church. Now part of an organized religious movement, the Coltrane Church leaned into its status as public facing leaders. Keepers, if you will, of San Francisco culture.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Archbishop King: \u003c/strong>I think this is something people need to understand that this church has been an ambassador for this city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Asal Ehsanipour: \u003c/strong>They traveled around the world. Like to the Antibes Jazz Festival in France — where Coltrane himself famously performed \u003cem>A Love Supreme\u003c/em> in 1965.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Archbishop King: \u003c/strong>Carlos Santana joined us on the stage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Mother Marina King: \u003c/strong>And even on airlines, we would say, hey, I saw your church advertised on United Airlines, and it would, you know, it was like a goal of places you need to see in San Francisco, and it would be the St. John Coltrane Church.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Asal Ehsanipour: \u003c/strong>But the year 2000 marked yet another shift for the Coltrane Church when they were forced out of their Divisadero storefront. Their home of nearly 30 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Wanika King-Stephens: \u003c/strong>It was awful, it was awful. I mean, I know I never saw it coming.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Asal Ehsanipour: \u003c/strong>Their rent more than doubled, and they had to end their free food program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Wanika King-Stephens: \u003c/strong>We had to leave, and that was our home. That was our home. And then I watched that whole community change. And I just, I tell you, I couldn’t drive through that neighborhood without crying for, like, a whole year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Asal Ehsanipour: \u003c/strong>They’ve relocated a few times since then. First to the Fillmore where they were one of just a handful of jazz institutions left. But they were evicted from that space too, before moving to their current location out of Fort Mason’s Magic Theater.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Sounds of Coltrane Church mass: Hallelujah! \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Mother Marina King during service: \u003c/strong>This next composition is entitled Tune Gene, and it means “He who comes in the glory of the Lord.” So I want you to clap your hands, pick up your tambourines. Do we have any dancers? You know, King David danced before the Lord with all the power of his might.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Asal Ehsanipour: \u003c/strong>Now, Archbishop King and Mother Marina see the church as a kind of Mecca, where Coltrane disciples from just about anywhere can worship together. On the day I visit, they’ve come from New York, Seattle, and closer to home, Redwood City.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Archbishop King in the service: \u003c/strong>This is the St. John Will-i-am Coltrane African Orthodox Church Global Spiritual Community. Amen. So we all are family, amen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Asal Ehsanipour: \u003c/strong>At the end of Sunday mass Archbishop King and Mother Marina asked for donations. They’re trying to raise money to buy a building. What they hope will be a permanent home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Archbishop King: \u003c/strong>So this church needs your money. Amen. Some of y’all are holding on to God’s money now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Asal Ehsanipour: \u003c/strong>Archbishop King and Mother Marina are in their 80s and are looking towards the future of the church, how it can live beyond them. Their daughter, Pastor Wanika, plans to take it over, to continue sharing the church’s message.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Archbishop King: \u003c/strong>So Coltrane Consciousness is a love supreme, a love supreme, a love supreme. That’s what this coltrane consciousness is all about.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Asal Ehsanipour: \u003c/strong>Since Archbishop King and Mother Marina’s sound baptism in 1965, the Coltrane Church has had different names, locations, philosophies. In fact, Archbishop King often says that as the seasons change, so do the needs of the people. Change, he says, is baked into the very essence of the church.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Archbishop King: \u003c/strong>And then at the same time, the church never changes. It remains constantly rooted in love and \u003cem>A Love Supreme\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Music fades out\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price:\u003c/strong> That story was reported by Asal Ehsanipour. You can attend mass at the Saint John Coltrane African Orthodox Church every Sunday at the Magic Theater at Fort Mason.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bay Curious is produced at member-supported KQED in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Our show is made by Katrina Schwartz, Christopher Beale and me, Olivia Allen-Price.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With extra support from Maha Sanad, Katie Sprenger, Jen Chien, Ethan Toven-Lindsey and everyone on team KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some members of the KQED podcast team are represented by the Screen Actors Guild American Federation of Television and Radio Artists, San Francisco, Northern California local.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thanks for listening. Have a great week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>"
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"content": "\u003cp>Emma Denice Milligan can be a prankster. Her warm eyes, big smile and wheelchair can be misleading, said her caregiver, Wanda Kincy. But Emma once crashed a wedding and helped herself to the food. Another time, she put herself on a plane from \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/oakland\">Oakland\u003c/a> to Chicago to meet her high school sweetheart without telling her caregivers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kincy points two fingers at her own eyes and then at Milligan’s. “I know you,” she said with a grin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kincy arrives at the Oakland home Milligan shares with her aunt and uncle at 8 a.m., five days a week, staying until at least 10 p.m. and overnight on Thursdays and Fridays. She helps Milligan, 57, get dressed, bathed and ready for her adult day program. Kincy books Milligan’s paratransit rides, times medication reminders and keeps track of the small details that make her independence possible.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The care Kincy provides is covered through California’s Medicaid program, also known as Medi-Cal. Federal cuts have many advocates worried about the future of such care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under federal law, most home- and community-based services are optional benefits, meaning states can choose whether to include services like personal care in their Medicaid plans and how broadly to offer them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In California, Medicaid covers in-home supportive services to Californians who are elderly, blind or disabled and would otherwise be at risk of nursing home placement. The federal government reimburses California for about half of the cost of IHSS.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12070295\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12070295\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/InHomeCare2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/InHomeCare2.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/InHomeCare2-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/InHomeCare2-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">In her Oakland home on Dec. 12, 2025, Emma Denice Milligan smiles at her caregiver, Wanda Kincy, as Kincy recounts how Milligan has coped with the death of her mother, Carolyn Milligan, a human rights activist who worked on housing rights in Chicago and served Black communities in Oakland, in 2023. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Hyeyoon Cho)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In-home services enable Milligan’s family to hire Kincy to assist with daily personal care and household tasks so Milligan can remain safely in her family home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If I lose Wanda, then I would probably have to go to a facility,” she said. “People at the facility don’t care. I would be calling them for help, and they wouldn’t come. I’d be left alone and be wet all night, because I can’t go to the bathroom.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Milligan has received IHSS on and off while living in both California and Chicago. In 2011, she moved to Oakland and has relied on the program continuously since. But there is a growing concern about how long the services can last.[aside postID=news_12068383 hero='https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/001_KQED_Oakland_HighlandHospital_041152020-1020x680.jpg']In July, Congress approved roughly $1 trillion in Medicaid cuts over the next decade, beginning in 2026. Because the federal government pays roughly 54% of California’s total home- and community-based services costs, the impending cuts immediately raised alarm.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.whitehouse.gov/articles/2025/06/myth-vs-fact-the-one-big-beautiful-bill/\">White House\u003c/a> has said the budget package would not affect Medicaid coverage for people with disabilities. Advocates warn the changes will nonetheless fall heavily on home- and community-based services, which aren’t protected like nursing home services. They say optional services are often the first to be reduced.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hagar Dickman, a senior attorney at Justice in Aging, said the risk to in-home services is not theoretical. During last year’s state budget negotiations, she said, Gov. Gavin Newsom’s administration initially looked to IHSS as one of the first areas to cut when facing a projected shortfall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In the May budget revision, home- and community-based services were immediately on the table,” Dickman said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The budget proposed \u003ca href=\"https://calbudgetcenter.org/resources/first-look-understanding-the-governors-2025-26-may-revision/#h-revised-budget-fails-to-invest-in-older-adults-and-californians-with-disabilities\">over $1 billion\u003c/a> in mostly ongoing cuts to in-home supportive services, including limits on provider pay and hours and the elimination of benefits for certain groups. Although this was not adopted in the final budget, a plan for freezing new Medi-Cal enrollments from undocumented adults, including IHSS eligibility, was adopted and is set to begin in 2026, while existing enrollees retain coverage. \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12070297\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12070297\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/InHomeCare3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/InHomeCare3.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/InHomeCare3-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/InHomeCare3-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Emma Denice Milligan jokes with Wanda Kincy in Ability Now, an Oakland-based adult day center for people with disabilities, on Nov. 20, 2025. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Hyeyoon Cho)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Dickman said this episode underscored how quickly optional services can be targeted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When states are under pressure, they go after HCBS [home- and community-based services] first because they’re optional under federal law,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Congress has agreed to restructure \u003ca href=\"https://calbudgetcenter.org/resources/how-federal-funding-cuts-threaten-the-health-of-californians/\">Medicaid\u003c/a> by reducing the federal government’s share of reimbursements, restricting how states raise Medicaid revenue and imposing new eligibility checks, work requirements and exclusions for certain immigrant groups.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A recent analysis by the \u003ca href=\"https://www.chcf.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/HowCutsMediCalHomeCommunityBasedServicesImpactCA.pdf\">California Health Care Foundation \u003c/a>suggests the consequences could be costly. If the state reduces HCBS by 10% in response to federal cuts, California could face roughly $1 billion in added Medicaid expenses as more residents are moved into institutional settings.[aside postID=news_12068555 hero='https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/GettyImages-1197447255-1020x680.jpg']“The federal Medicaid cuts are an absolute disaster for HCBS,” said Sabrina Epstein, a policy analyst at Disability Rights California. She said the cuts will push many people off Medicaid, leaving them without access to the only program that funds round-the-clock in-home support.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People will be forced into nursing homes or left to rely on unpaid family care,” Epstein said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During the Great Recession, the federal government gave states more money for Medicaid. Researchers at UCSF and the Disability Rights Education and Defense Fund \u003ca href=\"https://geigergibson.publichealth.gwu.edu/sites/g/files/zaxdzs4421/files/2025-04/Kaye%20HCBS%20Cuts%202010-2012%20%282%29%20%281%29.pdf\">examined what happened\u003c/a> when Congress ended enhanced federal Medicaid funding to states between 2010 and 2012.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Every state responded by cutting home- and community-based services in some way — reducing benefits, the number of people covered, or both. Waiting lists for home care grew across the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California will not be able to absorb the loss if federal Medicaid cuts take effect in 2026, said Mike Pereira, executive director of Ala Costa Centers in Berkeley, which offers adult day services to people with developmental disabilities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re all bracing,” he said. “We’re watching the sand run out of the hourglass.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Round-the-clock care\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Milligan’s bedroom is crowded but intentional. A metal lift helps get her out of bed. A tray table holds adaptive cups and utensils. Framed photographs line the walls: Emma smiling at family gatherings, dressed up for celebrations, captured at different points in her life. One large portrait shows her late mother smiling for the camera.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Milligan’s uncle, Austin Long-Scott, is in his 80s and has Parkinson’s disease, which has increasingly limited what he can physically do. His wife, Ethel, is also in her 80s and not able to do as much as she used to do for Milligan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We used to stay with her 24/7,” Austin Long-Scott said. “We can’t do that anymore.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12070294\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12070294\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/InHomeCare1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/InHomeCare1.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/InHomeCare1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/InHomeCare1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photos of Emma Denice Milligan with friends and pastors sit in the corner of her room in Oakland on Dec. 12, 2025. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Hyeyoon Cho)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In October, Milligan had a setback, spending weeks in the hospital as doctors struggled to manage severe chest and stomach pain. Kincy often stayed with her, helping communicate with nurses and doctors, monitoring pain levels and watching for changes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Without IHSS, Long-Scott said, their options would be grim. Paying out of pocket to retain Kincy would be financially overwhelming.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Without a caregiver, Milligan would not be able to speak at churches and community organizations about disability justice or connect domestic violence survivors with resources, advocacy that she’s been committed to for more than a decade.[aside postID=news_12069772 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/011426_SF-VA-CUTS-_GH_013-KQED.jpg']Kincy reads the statements Milligan writes and facilitates questions from the audience. Their coordination allows Milligan to remain active in her community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The two of them just bonded,” Long-Scott said. “It was almost instant.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the afternoons, Milligan attends Ability Now Bay Area, a center for people with disabilities. There, she is developing a business idea on adaptive clothing, which grew out of her daily care needs. She wants to design garments secured with snaps, magnets or velcro — clothing that can be put on and taken off with minimal movement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fridays leave small joys for Milligan: browsing with Kincy at Macy’s Backstage in Pleasanton or getting dumplings in Alameda. Recently, at an outlet store in Berkeley, Kincy used her charms to talk a cashier into reducing the price of a new jacket for Milligan by 15%. They were thrilled about the bargain.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Milligan appreciates Kincy and the programs that enable her to remain vibrant in her community. “People I meet at Ability Now and the community around me understand me. They can relate,” she said. “Wanda and I always crack up when we’re there. They bring a lot of joy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story is part of \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://archive.is/o/DQQxE/https:/hub.journalism.berkeley.edu/thestakes/\">\u003cem>“The Stakes,”\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem> a UC Berkeley Journalism project on executive orders and actions affecting Californians and their communities.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>Three years after a landslide closed a stretch of Highway 1 through Big Sur — cutting off the coastal route from San Francisco to Los Angeles for locals and visitors alike — \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12069761/californias-highway-1-fully-opens-through-big-sur-years-after-major-landslides\">the road is finally open again.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And while visitors to Big Sur from the Bay Area \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12049138/big-sur-visit-highway-one-closed-best-hikes-state-parks-camping-cabins\">have still been able to access much of the storied coastline north of the closure\u003c/a>, the entire south section of this stunning region has been inaccessible to Highway 1 travelers from the north for the last few years — something that’s all changed this week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This stretch of highway is just iconic,” said Dan Falat, district superintendent for California State Parks’ San Luis Obispo Coast District.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you’ve never driven it — or you haven’t driven it since you were a child — it’s really a wonderful connection between north and south.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So now that you can drive all the way through Big Sur in its entirety from the Bay Area, keep reading for our list of everything you’ve been missing south of the slide: from scenic campsites to must-see views, attractions and wildlife.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Just remember: There is little to no cell phone service on this drive, so make sure to download an offline map ahead of time. And if you need a refresher on the best Big Sur spots north of the now-reopened closure, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12049138/big-sur-visit-highway-one-closed-best-hikes-state-parks-camping-cabins\">we’ve got you covered here\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jump straight to:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#Staysandcastlesforhistorybuffs\"> Stays (and castles) for history buffs\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#Nativewildlifethatsinseason\">Native wildlife that’s in season\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Iconic campsites and hikes\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Just south of the previous closure is \u003ca href=\"https://www.parks.ca.gov/?page_id=577\">Limekiln State Park\u003c/a>, open only for day use right now. And while this means you currently can’t camp there, you can still take the easy half-mile Limekiln Trail to see the namesake furnaces that, in the late 1800s, were used to purify limestone to be used in concrete.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But you can stay at \u003ca href=\"https://www.recreation.gov/camping/campgrounds/233116\">Kirk Creek Campground\u003c/a>, whose blufftop spots boast spectacular ocean views. While this location is in extremely high demand, as a U.S. Forest Service campground, Kirk Creek has a couple of first-come, first-served spots too. If you want to take your chances, get there early –\u003ca href=\"https://www.reddit.com/r/BigSur/comments/1jvf4ik/whats_the_chance_of_getting_a_walk_in_spot_at/\"> frequent campers suggest from 9 a.m. to checkout time\u003c/a> – for the best shot at a spot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12070071\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12070071\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/bigsur1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1274\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/bigsur1.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/bigsur1-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/bigsur1-1536x1019.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Camping along the Big Sur/Pacific Coast of California. Kirk Creek Campground, Los Padres National Forest, California. \u003ccite>(NNehring/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>If you’re in for a multi-night Big Sur adventure, this entire area of wilderness is part of the Los Padres National Forest, where \u003ca href=\"https://www.hikelospadres.com/\">hiking and backpacking trails abound\u003c/a>. The best part: backcountry campsites are plentiful and permit-free, although you will need a \u003ca href=\"https://permit.preventwildfiresca.org/\">campfire permit\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Day trippers can keep driving south for a short jaunt to \u003ca href=\"https://www.alltrails.com/trail/us/california/sand-dollar-beach-trail\">Sand Dollar Beach\u003c/a> — perfect for a picnic — and \u003ca href=\"https://www.alltrails.com/trail/us/california/salmon-creek-trail-to-salmon-creek-falls\">Salmon Creek Falls\u003c/a>, a quick out-and-back to a 120-foot waterfall that should be flowing in the winter months.[aside postID=news_12069761 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/BigSur-1020x680.jpg']Just across the highway, you can also check \u003ca href=\"https://www.recreation.gov/camping/campgrounds/231959\">Plaskett Creek Campground\u003c/a> for first-come-first-served campsites.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Once you’re past the steepest cliffsides of the drive, check out the network of trails at \u003ca href=\"https://www.parks.ca.gov/?page_id=590\">Hearst San Simeon State Park\u003c/a>, the \u003ca href=\"https://visitcambriaca.com/moonstone-beach-boardwalk/\">Moonstone Beach Boardwalk\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.parks.ca.gov/?page_id=22263\">Estero Bluffs\u003c/a> or \u003ca href=\"https://www.parks.ca.gov/?page_id=593\">Morro Strand\u003c/a> state parks and beaches.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Each of these has ample trails to explore if you need to stretch your legs after the long drive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Just remember: If you’re going to visit any of these on-the-highway attractions, make sure you pull \u003cem>all \u003c/em>the way off the highway to park — and be aware of oncoming traffic in both directions, California State Parks’ Falat said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Take your time; don’t rush,” he said. “Be prepared for it to take a while.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“But just know that whether you’re coming from the north or coming from the south, it’s a beautiful drive and just enjoy it,” he urged.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"Staysandcastlesforhistorybuffs\">\u003c/a>Historic cliffside haunts\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Looking for a luxurious night’s stay along the coast? Just past the closure are two iconic resting points: \u003ca href=\"https://www.treebonesresort.com/\">Treebones Resort,\u003c/a> which offers high-end yurt-style accommodations and top-tier seafood, and \u003ca href=\"https://www.raggedpointinn.com/\">Ragged Point Inn\u003c/a>, an all-in-one hotel, restaurant, gift shop, coffee bar and mini mart all on one tiny outpost.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both those stays are within striking distance of two-storied spots for southbound travelers who make it the full distance: \u003ca href=\"https://www.piedrasblancas.org/\">Piedras Blancas Light Station\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://hearstcastle.org/\">Hearst Castle\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The light station, which just celebrated its \u003ca href=\"https://www.piedrasblancas.org/history\">150th birthday\u003c/a>, has been a longtime critical navigation point for sea travelers — flashing its lights every 15 seconds since 1875, according to Cressant Swarts, the location’s gift shop manager. Today, visitors can tour the grounds with an advance \u003ca href=\"https://www.recreation.gov/ticket/252948/ticket/249\">reservation\u003c/a>, which is $10 for adults and $5 for kids, plus a $1 processing fee. In the winter, there’s just one tour a day on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays, which can fill up quickly, Swarts advised.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12070072\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1980px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12070072\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/GettyImages-1050350294.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1980\" height=\"1320\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/GettyImages-1050350294.jpg 1980w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/GettyImages-1050350294-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/GettyImages-1050350294-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1980px) 100vw, 1980px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Neptune Pool at Hearst Castle is viewed on Oct. 4, 2018, in San Simeon, California. \u003ccite>(George Rose/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>While there was a lot less traffic to the historic site during the road closure, in the new year, Swarts said the light station’s staff “don’t really know what to expect” in the weeks after the Hwy 1 reopening. “It’ll be interesting to see how long it takes people to really get used to the road being open again, since it’s been closed so long.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And if you make it all the way to San Simeon, reward yourself with a visit to famed \u003ca href=\"https://hearstcastle.org/history-behind-hearst-castle/\">Hearst Castle\u003c/a>: the lavish estate of publishing tycoon William Randolph Hearst, where he threw star-studded parties during Hollywood’s Golden Age in the 1920s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Renowned for architect Julia Morgan’s eclectic Arts and Crafts style, the castle is an imaginative, over-the-top wonderland full of art, gardens and pools. But you can’t visit without a tour, so be sure to book one – the \u003ca href=\"https://hearstcastle.org/tour-hearst-castle/daily-tours/grand-rooms-tour/\">Grand Rooms Tour\u003c/a> is the most popular and iconic.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"Nativewildlifethatsinseason\">\u003c/a>Unforgettable wildlife\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The entire Big Sur coast is ideal for animal lovers – \u003ca href=\"https://www.alltrails.com/us/california/big-sur/birding\">and bird watchers are especially spoiled\u003c/a> north of where the rockslide closed the road. Summertime travelers can even pop into the \u003ca href=\"https://www.ventanaws.org/discovery_center.html\">Discovery Center’s \u003cem>The Wildlife of Big Sur\u003c/em>\u003c/a> exhibit at Andrew Molera State Park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But south of the former closure is where mammal aficionados can really get their fix. Don’t miss the Elephant Seal Rookery at Piedras Blancas, just south of the light station — which, contrary to what the name suggests, isn’t just about the elephant seals. You’ll also find harbor seals, sea lions, sea otters, sea birds and other native wildlife at the rookery, and you may be lucky enough to see migrating whales passing by.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12070074\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1980px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12070074\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/GettyImages-907783684.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1980\" height=\"1320\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/GettyImages-907783684.jpg 1980w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/GettyImages-907783684-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/GettyImages-907783684-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1980px) 100vw, 1980px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Northern elephant seals lay on the beach at the Piedras Blancas Elephant Seal Rookery on Jan. 12, 2018 in San Simeon, California. \u003ccite>(Nick Ut/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>And right now is an especially great time to visit, said Carla Swift, president of the Friends of the Elephant Seals’ board of directors, as it’s pupping season for the seals: “the only time of year the whole family is on the beach.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Just be extra mindful to observe the seals from afar and not disturb them while they’re resting on the beach, Swift said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And for those traveling with kids, the \u003ca href=\"https://elephantseal.org/venue/friends-of-the-elephant-seal-gift-shop/\">Friends of the Elephant Seal Visitor Center\u003c/a> is just a few miles south of the viewpoint, where you can learn more about the seals and their habitat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Just across the highway, you can also check \u003ca href=\"https://www.recreation.gov/camping/campgrounds/231959\">Plaskett Creek Campground\u003c/a> for first-come-first-served campsites.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Once you’re past the steepest cliffsides of the drive, check out the network of trails at \u003ca href=\"https://www.parks.ca.gov/?page_id=590\">Hearst San Simeon State Park\u003c/a>, the \u003ca href=\"https://visitcambriaca.com/moonstone-beach-boardwalk/\">Moonstone Beach Boardwalk\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.parks.ca.gov/?page_id=22263\">Estero Bluffs\u003c/a> or \u003ca href=\"https://www.parks.ca.gov/?page_id=593\">Morro Strand\u003c/a> state parks and beaches.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Each of these has ample trails to explore if you need to stretch your legs after the long drive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Just remember: If you’re going to visit any of these on-the-highway attractions, make sure you pull \u003cem>all \u003c/em>the way off the highway to park — and be aware of oncoming traffic in both directions, California State Parks’ Falat said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Take your time; don’t rush,” he said. “Be prepared for it to take a while.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“But just know that whether you’re coming from the north or coming from the south, it’s a beautiful drive and just enjoy it,” he urged.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"Staysandcastlesforhistorybuffs\">\u003c/a>Historic cliffside haunts\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Looking for a luxurious night’s stay along the coast? Just past the closure are two iconic resting points: \u003ca href=\"https://www.treebonesresort.com/\">Treebones Resort,\u003c/a> which offers high-end yurt-style accommodations and top-tier seafood, and \u003ca href=\"https://www.raggedpointinn.com/\">Ragged Point Inn\u003c/a>, an all-in-one hotel, restaurant, gift shop, coffee bar and mini mart all on one tiny outpost.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both those stays are within striking distance of two-storied spots for southbound travelers who make it the full distance: \u003ca href=\"https://www.piedrasblancas.org/\">Piedras Blancas Light Station\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://hearstcastle.org/\">Hearst Castle\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The light station, which just celebrated its \u003ca href=\"https://www.piedrasblancas.org/history\">150th birthday\u003c/a>, has been a longtime critical navigation point for sea travelers — flashing its lights every 15 seconds since 1875, according to Cressant Swarts, the location’s gift shop manager. Today, visitors can tour the grounds with an advance \u003ca href=\"https://www.recreation.gov/ticket/252948/ticket/249\">reservation\u003c/a>, which is $10 for adults and $5 for kids, plus a $1 processing fee. In the winter, there’s just one tour a day on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays, which can fill up quickly, Swarts advised.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12070072\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1980px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12070072\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/GettyImages-1050350294.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1980\" height=\"1320\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/GettyImages-1050350294.jpg 1980w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/GettyImages-1050350294-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/GettyImages-1050350294-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1980px) 100vw, 1980px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Neptune Pool at Hearst Castle is viewed on Oct. 4, 2018, in San Simeon, California. \u003ccite>(George Rose/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>While there was a lot less traffic to the historic site during the road closure, in the new year, Swarts said the light station’s staff “don’t really know what to expect” in the weeks after the Hwy 1 reopening. “It’ll be interesting to see how long it takes people to really get used to the road being open again, since it’s been closed so long.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And if you make it all the way to San Simeon, reward yourself with a visit to famed \u003ca href=\"https://hearstcastle.org/history-behind-hearst-castle/\">Hearst Castle\u003c/a>: the lavish estate of publishing tycoon William Randolph Hearst, where he threw star-studded parties during Hollywood’s Golden Age in the 1920s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>The union representing 31,000 nurses, rehab therapists, pharmacists and other specialty health care professionals at \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/kaiser-permanente\">Kaiser Permanente\u003c/a> plans to go on an open-ended strike at hospitals and clinics across California and Hawaii, it said this week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After both sides hit a wall in their months-long contract talks, the walkout is set to begin Jan. 26 at nearly 20 Kaiser hospitals and 200 clinics, with no end in sight.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We will be on strike until we reach an agreement,” said Brian Mason, a negotiator for the United Nurses Associations of California/Union of Health Care Professionals. He warned that the strike will likely cause delayed or canceled surgeries and appointments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>UNAC/UHCP is part of an alliance of health care unions negotiating with Kaiser for a new set of national and local contracts. In October, about 61,000 members of the alliance \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12060288/kaiser-strike-ends-sunday-as-union-and-management-plan-to-resume-wage-talks\">staged a five-day, multi-state strike\u003c/a> to demand wage and staffing increases.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Talks resumed after the walkout, but they broke down in mid-December when Kaiser negotiators accused UNAC/UHCP leaders of not bargaining in good faith.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FVpegM9XML4\">statement issued on YouTube\u003c/a>, chief human resources officer Greg Holmes said a union official threatened to release “evidence of illegal, unethical and reputationally damaging information about Kaiser Permanente” unless both sides reached an acceptable agreement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11963437\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11963437\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/231004-KAISER-STRIKE-OAKLAND-MD-13-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"A large group of people line the sidewalk in front of a large building.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/231004-KAISER-STRIKE-OAKLAND-MD-13-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/231004-KAISER-STRIKE-OAKLAND-MD-13-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/231004-KAISER-STRIKE-OAKLAND-MD-13-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/231004-KAISER-STRIKE-OAKLAND-MD-13-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/231004-KAISER-STRIKE-OAKLAND-MD-13-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/231004-KAISER-STRIKE-OAKLAND-MD-13-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kaiser workers strike in front of a sign at the Kaiser Permanente Oakland Medical Center in Oakland on Oct. 2, 2023 \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Kaiser \u003ca href=\"https://about.kaiserpermanente.org/who-we-are/labor-relations/alliance-national-bargaining/media-statements/kaiser-permanente-statement-on-a-path-forward-in-alliance-bargaining\">proposed moving forward\u003c/a> with contract negotiations at a local level with other unions in the alliance — a move that prompted UNAC/UHCP to file an unfair labor practice charge at the National Labor Relations Board.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The union accused Kaiser of trying to bypass the agreed-upon national bargaining process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Thursday, it posted \u003ca href=\"https://unacuhcp.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/ProfitsOverPatients_2026.pdf\">a report online\u003c/a> alleging that the Kaiser Permanente Group Trust, which manages pension funds for employees, invested in CoreCivic and the GEO Group, private prison companies that run detention centers for Immigration and Customs Enforcement.[aside postID=news_12069414 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/011326_SOLANO-COUNTY-STRIKE-_GH_022-KQED.jpg']“When Kaiser claims it cannot afford meaningful improvements and summarily rejects proposals that would enhance patient care and health care provider well-being, its financial priorities merit detailed scrutiny,” the report said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kaiser has not replied to an email message seeking questions about the union’s claim and its financial investments. 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"content": "\u003cp>In late November, Bay Area criminal defense attorney James Cook began offering his legal services free of charge to residents of Minneapolis — the latest American city to be embroiled in the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/donald-trump\">Trump\u003c/a> administration’s escalating immigration crackdown and ensuing protests from residents opposed to sweeping enforcement operations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His days often start before dawn, with an early morning text or call from distressed residents who report having seen their friends or family be taken away by masked agents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A lot of people have my information, that’s been texted far and wide throughout Minneapolis by protesters and ICE watchers and other people, and they send me the information,” Cook said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Armed with a list of names of detained or missing residents, Cook will head to the local ICE detention facility to confirm whether those people are being held there and plan next steps to prevent their deportation and, if possible, win their release.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cook, who grew up in Minneapolis and has homes there and in San Francisco, admitted that — in general — he hasn’t found much success. Of the hundreds of names he’s been given, he said he’s only successfully argued for somebody’s release from detention a couple of times.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My thing has been to try to get a suspension or something so that the person can get proper counsel and do the nuanced work that needs to be done,” Cook said. “Just to stop it or delay it and since the efforts have really been ramped up, I haven’t been able to do any of it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12070315\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1980px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12070315\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/GettyImages-2255813342.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1980\" height=\"1320\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/GettyImages-2255813342.jpg 1980w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/GettyImages-2255813342-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/GettyImages-2255813342-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1980px) 100vw, 1980px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Protesters are confronted by an ICE supporter during a demonstration outside the Bishop Whipple Federal Building in Minneapolis, Minnesota, on Jan. 15, 2026. \u003ccite>(Octavio JONES/AFP)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The Trump administration’s Operation Metro Surge has led to the arrival of as many as 2,000 federal officers operating in Minnesota, many in the Minneapolis area — with up to a \u003ca href=\"https://www.startribune.com/how-ice-numbers-compare-to-twin-cities-largest-police-forces/601562617\">thousand\u003c/a> more on their way, according to Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem. While some agents are from Customs and Border Patrol, the bulk of the presence is from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The operation, which the DHS called the largest in the agency’s history, has led to the arrests of more than 4,500 immigrants, according to the \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://www.startribune.com/operation-metro-surge-when-will-it-end-chicago/601564603\">Minnesota Star-Tribune\u003c/a>\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Residents like Cook have expressed their opposition to what they see as an incursion of hostile, anonymous and unaccountable agents and that opposition has only intensified since ICE agents killed Renee Good earlier this month and shot and wounded another person this week.[aside postID=news_12069782 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/USImmigrationCustomsEnforcementHQGetty.jpg']Cook, who has been on the ground, said he’s worried that the rights of those arrested are not being protected. “When they pluck people off the street for simply exercising their First Amendment rights, that’s a constitutional violation,” Cook said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cook said he also believes the rights of citizens monitoring or protesting federal officers are also being violated, pointing to examples of people detained seemingly without cause other than shouting at federal agents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cook is not an immigration attorney. His area of expertise is in criminal defense law and mostly in state courts, not federal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In criminal defense, you have one prime directive,” Cook said. “Your mission is to get people out of custody and … in doing so, make sure the government fully follows the Constitution.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cook works for Burris, Nisenbaum, Curry & Lacy, an Oakland-based law firm with a history of taking on high-profile cases of police or government misconduct. Partner John Burris represented Rodney King — whose videotaped beating at the hands of multiple Los Angeles police officers in 1991 sparked large-scale unrest in the city— and the family of Oscar Grant, an unarmed Black man killed by a BART police officer on New Year’s Day 2009.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was partially that history, Cook said, that caused people in the Twin Cities to begin reaching out to him for help and compelled him to begin offering his services pro bono.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12070092\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12070092\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/260115-JAMES-COOK-EF-02-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/260115-JAMES-COOK-EF-02-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/260115-JAMES-COOK-EF-02-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/260115-JAMES-COOK-EF-02-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Attorney James Cook stands for a portrait outside of the Bishop Henry Whipple Federal Building in Minneapolis on, Jan. 15, 2026. \u003ccite>(Evan Frost for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>One major obstacle Cook said he’s facing is the fact that detainees are often transferred out of the state very quickly after they’re detained, often to facilities in Texas where they are prepared for deportation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“By the time I get there, even if it’s just a few hours later, if they’re in El Paso or they’re on a plane on the way, I can’t do anything,” Cook said. “All I can do is give the family, you know, some of the referrals that I have in El Paso.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cook recalled being contacted by the family of a man who had been detained one day around 8 a.m.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I got over to the detention facility at noon and confirmed that he was there … I filed a notice of suspension and then, I went back later that day just before they closed and they’d already sent him to Texas,” Cook said. Cook said the client had called his family before noon the following day to say he was back in Durango, a state in northern Mexico.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Conversations like these are why Cook reminds his clients and their families that they still have constitutional rights — which should legally be upheld.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12069308\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/ReneeGoodProtestOaklandGetty3.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12069308\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/ReneeGoodProtestOaklandGetty3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1341\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/ReneeGoodProtestOaklandGetty3.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/ReneeGoodProtestOaklandGetty3-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/ReneeGoodProtestOaklandGetty3-1536x1030.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Protesters take part in a vigil for Renee Nicole Good at Fruitvale Plaza Park in Oakland, California, on Jan. 7, 2026. \u003ccite>(Jane Tyska/Digital First Media/East Bay Times via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“There’s no way, based on what I’m seeing anecdotally, that people are being treated properly as pre-trial detainees, if they’re doing the deportations that quick,” Cook said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Whatever way they’re wording it, they’re not giving them the proper information. That is where I think that real research — where the questions need to be asked and where the government needs to be held accountable.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Department of Homeland Security did not return a request for comment. Cook also didn’t mince words about the stakes he believes are involved.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In high school, you learn about Nazi Germany, and you think like well, ‘I’d want to try to stop it back then’ or the Japanese internment camps. Well, this is the time, we’re living that right now,” Cook said. “In fact, that’s what I would say to any attorney, if you ever thought like … ‘I would do things to stop it.’ Well, this is it. This is what you can do.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Cook, who has been on the ground, said he’s worried that the rights of those arrested are not being protected. “When they pluck people off the street for simply exercising their First Amendment rights, that’s a constitutional violation,” Cook said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cook said he also believes the rights of citizens monitoring or protesting federal officers are also being violated, pointing to examples of people detained seemingly without cause other than shouting at federal agents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cook is not an immigration attorney. His area of expertise is in criminal defense law and mostly in state courts, not federal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In criminal defense, you have one prime directive,” Cook said. “Your mission is to get people out of custody and … in doing so, make sure the government fully follows the Constitution.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cook works for Burris, Nisenbaum, Curry & Lacy, an Oakland-based law firm with a history of taking on high-profile cases of police or government misconduct. Partner John Burris represented Rodney King — whose videotaped beating at the hands of multiple Los Angeles police officers in 1991 sparked large-scale unrest in the city— and the family of Oscar Grant, an unarmed Black man killed by a BART police officer on New Year’s Day 2009.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was partially that history, Cook said, that caused people in the Twin Cities to begin reaching out to him for help and compelled him to begin offering his services pro bono.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12070092\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12070092\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/260115-JAMES-COOK-EF-02-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/260115-JAMES-COOK-EF-02-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/260115-JAMES-COOK-EF-02-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/260115-JAMES-COOK-EF-02-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Attorney James Cook stands for a portrait outside of the Bishop Henry Whipple Federal Building in Minneapolis on, Jan. 15, 2026. \u003ccite>(Evan Frost for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>One major obstacle Cook said he’s facing is the fact that detainees are often transferred out of the state very quickly after they’re detained, often to facilities in Texas where they are prepared for deportation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“By the time I get there, even if it’s just a few hours later, if they’re in El Paso or they’re on a plane on the way, I can’t do anything,” Cook said. “All I can do is give the family, you know, some of the referrals that I have in El Paso.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cook recalled being contacted by the family of a man who had been detained one day around 8 a.m.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I got over to the detention facility at noon and confirmed that he was there … I filed a notice of suspension and then, I went back later that day just before they closed and they’d already sent him to Texas,” Cook said. 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"content": "\u003cp>Facing a proposal in California to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12064693/california-doctors-urge-ban-on-engineered-stone-as-silicosis-cases-surge\">ban the use of a popular countertop material\u003c/a> linked to a growing lung disease killing stonecutters, industry representatives said they are taking steps to self-police and tackle the crisis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Artificial stone is linked to an aggressive form of silicosis among workers who have inhaled toxic silica dust generated when cutting and shaping slabs of the material, also known as engineered stone or quartz.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The International Surface Fabricators Association, with support from large artificial stone manufacturers, has resurfaced plans to establish a private certification program overseen by the industry to ensure only fabrication shops following required safety measures handle the controversial slabs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The group aims to begin piloting business certification in Southern California, the nation’s silicosis epicenter, as early as this summer, according to testimony by ISFA’s CEO Laurie Weber to California regulators on Thursday in Sacramento. The audit and training program, which would be expanded statewide later in the year, aims to protect workers without banning artificial stone, she added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We believe that bans happen when systems fail, and we’re here to help fix the system,” Weber said. “We want an opportunity to sit at the table and talk about how to solve this together.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Close to 500 stonecutters have \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11969381/california-regulators-to-vote-on-emergency-rules-for-stonecutters-safety\">contracted the incurable disease\u003c/a> in California, including 54 who’ve undergone lung transplants and 27 who have died since 2019, according to tracking efforts by state health authorities. Nearly all those sick are Latino men, many of them immigrants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12064718\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12064718\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/251119-Miners-Lung-silicosis-01-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1500\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/251119-Miners-Lung-silicosis-01-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/251119-Miners-Lung-silicosis-01-KQED-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/251119-Miners-Lung-silicosis-01-KQED-1536x1152.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A photo of a pair lungs with silicosis used in a Cal/OSHA presentation slide about the disease, and rising number of cases in California, at a public meeting on Nov. 13, 2025. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Museomed via Wikimedia Commons)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Occupational safety experts say mounting scientific evidence shows that engineered stone dust is much more dangerous than that released by marble and other natural stones, though large U.S. manufacturers of the factory-made material, such as Cambria, dispute that assessment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A medical association petitioned the California Occupational Safety and Health Standards Board last month to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12067166/health-emergency-california-doctors-urge-ban-of-countertop-material-linked-to-deadly-disease\">prohibit dust-producing tasks\u003c/a> on engineered stone with more than 1% crystalline silica, including slicing and polishing. According to the Western Occupational Environmental Medicine Association, a ban would encourage the use of safer substitutes now sold in the U.S. and Australia by some manufacturers, such as Caesarstone and Cosentino. Australia prohibited the sale of engineered stone with more than 1% crystalline silica in 2024.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The clock is ticking as we discuss, as we try this and that. Why are we protecting this cosmetic material for which there is a particularly appropriate and excellent substitute?” Dr. Robert Blink, an occupational medicine doctor in San Francisco and the association’s former president, said during the board meeting in response to ISFA’s licensing plan. “Why are we doing this while we’re waiting for people to die?”[aside postID=news_12069714 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/StoneworkerGetty.jpg']The testimony came a day after Cambria and other beleaguered industry representatives testified before a U.S. House subcommittee in support of a bill that would \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12069714/as-california-silicosis-cases-rise-engineered-stone-industry-seeks-immunity-in-dc\">immunize their companies\u003c/a> from hundreds of lawsuits by sick stoneworkers. \u003ca href=\"https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/5437/text\">H.R. 5437\u003c/a>, introduced by California Rep. Tom McClintock last September, would prohibit civil lawsuits against stone slab manufacturers or sellers for harm resulting from the alteration of their products and dismiss pending claims.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rebecca Schult, Cambria’s chief legal officer, traveled from the Washington, D.C., hearing to the board meeting in Sacramento. The Minnesota-based company accounts for 40-50% of artificial stone produced in the U.S., though most of the material is imported from other countries, she said. Cambria, which also owns fabrication shops, has not yet developed alternatives to its high-silica artificial stone products.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ll do my very best to be here going forward as well so that we can work on this together,” Schult told the regulators. “Quartz slab products can be cut safely.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Weber said the industry pushed for a licensing system to be included in a state bill that \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12033036/california-bill-moves-forward-protect-stonecutters-deadly-disease\">went into effect this year\u003c/a>, which reinforces workplace protections to prevent silicosis. She said it’s unclear why the bill’s final version did not include a certification initiative.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12033047\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1999px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12033047\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/231017-StonecutterSilicosis-002-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/231017-StonecutterSilicosis-002-BL_qed.jpg 1999w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/231017-StonecutterSilicosis-002-BL_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/231017-StonecutterSilicosis-002-BL_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/231017-StonecutterSilicosis-002-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/231017-StonecutterSilicosis-002-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/231017-StonecutterSilicosis-002-BL_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1999px) 100vw, 1999px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A stone fabricator places his hand on a table that he cut at his home in San Francisco on Oct. 17, 2023. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Two years ago, California approved the nation’s strictest rules to try to protect stonecutters. But the sophisticated measures, which prohibit the dry cutting of engineered stone to suppress dust and require employers to provide workers with respirators that can cost more than $1,000 each, are unfeasible for most fabrication businesses, according to employers and workplace regulators. About 95% of countertop fabrication shops that Cal/OSHA inspectors have visited were not following the required protections.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Advocates who have surveyed and informed stonecutters about silica hazards in the Los Angeles area said they doubted an industry certification initiative would help protect many from the disease.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The challenge here is that the industry wants to essentially police itself under the proposal that they presented today,” Maegan Ortiz, who directs the Instituto de Educación Popular del Sur de California, said. “I think if history has shown us anything, big industries do not do very well at that.\u003cem>”\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Silicosis has also been found among stoneworkers in Illinois, Colorado, Utah, Washington and other states where engineered stone is cut, though medical experts believe the illness is severely underreported.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The group aims to begin piloting business certification in Southern California, the nation’s silicosis epicenter, as early as this summer, according to testimony by ISFA’s CEO Laurie Weber to California regulators on Thursday in Sacramento. The audit and training program, which would be expanded statewide later in the year, aims to protect workers without banning artificial stone, she added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We believe that bans happen when systems fail, and we’re here to help fix the system,” Weber said. “We want an opportunity to sit at the table and talk about how to solve this together.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Close to 500 stonecutters have \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11969381/california-regulators-to-vote-on-emergency-rules-for-stonecutters-safety\">contracted the incurable disease\u003c/a> in California, including 54 who’ve undergone lung transplants and 27 who have died since 2019, according to tracking efforts by state health authorities. Nearly all those sick are Latino men, many of them immigrants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12064718\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12064718\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/251119-Miners-Lung-silicosis-01-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1500\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/251119-Miners-Lung-silicosis-01-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/251119-Miners-Lung-silicosis-01-KQED-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/251119-Miners-Lung-silicosis-01-KQED-1536x1152.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A photo of a pair lungs with silicosis used in a Cal/OSHA presentation slide about the disease, and rising number of cases in California, at a public meeting on Nov. 13, 2025. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Museomed via Wikimedia Commons)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Occupational safety experts say mounting scientific evidence shows that engineered stone dust is much more dangerous than that released by marble and other natural stones, though large U.S. manufacturers of the factory-made material, such as Cambria, dispute that assessment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A medical association petitioned the California Occupational Safety and Health Standards Board last month to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12067166/health-emergency-california-doctors-urge-ban-of-countertop-material-linked-to-deadly-disease\">prohibit dust-producing tasks\u003c/a> on engineered stone with more than 1% crystalline silica, including slicing and polishing. According to the Western Occupational Environmental Medicine Association, a ban would encourage the use of safer substitutes now sold in the U.S. and Australia by some manufacturers, such as Caesarstone and Cosentino. Australia prohibited the sale of engineered stone with more than 1% crystalline silica in 2024.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The clock is ticking as we discuss, as we try this and that. Why are we protecting this cosmetic material for which there is a particularly appropriate and excellent substitute?” Dr. Robert Blink, an occupational medicine doctor in San Francisco and the association’s former president, said during the board meeting in response to ISFA’s licensing plan. “Why are we doing this while we’re waiting for people to die?”\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>The testimony came a day after Cambria and other beleaguered industry representatives testified before a U.S. House subcommittee in support of a bill that would \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12069714/as-california-silicosis-cases-rise-engineered-stone-industry-seeks-immunity-in-dc\">immunize their companies\u003c/a> from hundreds of lawsuits by sick stoneworkers. \u003ca href=\"https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/5437/text\">H.R. 5437\u003c/a>, introduced by California Rep. Tom McClintock last September, would prohibit civil lawsuits against stone slab manufacturers or sellers for harm resulting from the alteration of their products and dismiss pending claims.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rebecca Schult, Cambria’s chief legal officer, traveled from the Washington, D.C., hearing to the board meeting in Sacramento. The Minnesota-based company accounts for 40-50% of artificial stone produced in the U.S., though most of the material is imported from other countries, she said. Cambria, which also owns fabrication shops, has not yet developed alternatives to its high-silica artificial stone products.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ll do my very best to be here going forward as well so that we can work on this together,” Schult told the regulators. “Quartz slab products can be cut safely.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Weber said the industry pushed for a licensing system to be included in a state bill that \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12033036/california-bill-moves-forward-protect-stonecutters-deadly-disease\">went into effect this year\u003c/a>, which reinforces workplace protections to prevent silicosis. She said it’s unclear why the bill’s final version did not include a certification initiative.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12033047\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1999px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12033047\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/231017-StonecutterSilicosis-002-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/231017-StonecutterSilicosis-002-BL_qed.jpg 1999w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/231017-StonecutterSilicosis-002-BL_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/231017-StonecutterSilicosis-002-BL_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/231017-StonecutterSilicosis-002-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/231017-StonecutterSilicosis-002-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/231017-StonecutterSilicosis-002-BL_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1999px) 100vw, 1999px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A stone fabricator places his hand on a table that he cut at his home in San Francisco on Oct. 17, 2023. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Two years ago, California approved the nation’s strictest rules to try to protect stonecutters. But the sophisticated measures, which prohibit the dry cutting of engineered stone to suppress dust and require employers to provide workers with respirators that can cost more than $1,000 each, are unfeasible for most fabrication businesses, according to employers and workplace regulators. About 95% of countertop fabrication shops that Cal/OSHA inspectors have visited were not following the required protections.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Advocates who have surveyed and informed stonecutters about silica hazards in the Los Angeles area said they doubted an industry certification initiative would help protect many from the disease.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The challenge here is that the industry wants to essentially police itself under the proposal that they presented today,” Maegan Ortiz, who directs the Instituto de Educación Popular del Sur de California, said. “I think if history has shown us anything, big industries do not do very well at that.\u003cem>”\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Silicosis has also been found among stoneworkers in Illinois, Colorado, Utah, Washington and other states where engineered stone is cut, though medical experts believe the illness is severely underreported.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Downtown \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/san-jose\">San José\u003c/a> residents aren’t startled by the daunting figure in a billowing black-and-purple cape beneath the streetlights. They know what comes next: the gravelly rattle of a rolling cart stocked with water bottles and food.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Hey, Batman! Do what you do best,” one passerby shouted on a warm August night last year — an enthusiastic acknowledgement of Batman, and the superhero’s mission.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some nights, Batman meets new people. On others, he reconnects with familiar faces — like Miguel, who walked over when he saw Batman wheeling his cart.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is a good man,” Miguel said, as Batman kneeled to pour water for Miguel’s dog Lorio.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We’re only using Miguel’s first name to protect his privacy as someone who is unhoused and part of a vulnerable population. Miguel speaks with certainty: “He’s my friend.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Monica, whom we’re referring to by her first name for the same reason, spotted Batman across St. James Park and ran up to him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12053072\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250813_THEBATMANOFSANJOSES_GH-18-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12053072\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250813_THEBATMANOFSANJOSES_GH-18-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250813_THEBATMANOFSANJOSES_GH-18-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250813_THEBATMANOFSANJOSES_GH-18-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250813_THEBATMANOFSANJOSES_GH-18-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Miguel reaches out to shake hands with the Batman of San José after receiving water and snacks at St. James Park in San José on Aug. 13, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gustavo Hernandez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I’ve known him a long time,” she said excitedly, receiving the water Batman was handing out. “That’s my super[hero].”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is the Batman of San José — a masked volunteer who has spent nearly eight years walking the city at night to help unhoused residents. He’s a far cry from the vigilantes of comic books. He isn’t swooping from rooftops, seeking revenge or delivering justice through fists. His superpower is noticing people who feel ignored and offering them food, first aid supplies, and sometimes, being someone they can confide in.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Disguise as a form of protest\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In recent years, whimsical costumes — inflatable frogs, unicorns, oversized creatures — have become a \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/10/24/g-s1-94724/trump-inflatable-animals-frog-no-kings-protest-portland\">national protest language\u003c/a>, mitigating tension between demonstrators and law enforcement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the tradition goes deeper.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 1974, California’s own \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1986-12-17-me-3053-story.html\">Captain Sticky\u003c/a> became the first widely documented \u003ca href=\"https://wiki.rlsh.net/wiki/RLSH_Map\">“real-life superhero,”\u003c/a> testifying before the Federal Trade Commission about health insurance fraud while dressed in a peanut-butter-and-jelly-themed cape. \u003cem>CBS San Diego\u003c/em>’s cameras \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cf8Ibh1Y5JE\">captured\u003c/a> the contradiction at the heart of Captain Sticky: a quirky, outsized persona paired with a deadly serious mission — confronting “evil” by leading investigations into convalescent hospitals he said were defrauding consumers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Others followed: \u003ca href=\"https://www.lametrochurches.org/dangerman-warns-la-is-not-safe-be-careful\">Danger Man\u003c/a> in Los Angeles, \u003ca href=\"https://wiki.rlsh.net/wiki/Shadarko\">Shadarko\u003c/a> in San Francisco — every day people donning costumes to protect their neighbors, deter violence, or simply show up when institutions didn’t. Batman of San José joined their ranks in 2018, when he was a high school junior.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>An origin story that starts with one act of discrimination\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Batman’s story began on an ordinary drive home from school. He was 17 when he spotted an unhoused single mother stranded on the side of the road with a broken-down car. A nearby mechanic refused to help her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Batman asked the mechanic for the same assistance on her behalf later, the mechanic agreed.[aside postID=news_12051236 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250626-GRANTSPASSDECISIONANNI-03-BL-KQED.jpg']“She tried to do exactly what I did,” he remembered. “But for some reason, I was allowed to do that and not her. That very clear sense of discrimination stuck with me.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He went home unsettled — and then decided not to let the moment pass. Within days, he began figuring out how to help people like the single mother he’d seen on the roadside.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At first, the effort was modest. His costume was bare-bones — just a sweatshirt with a Batman logo — and the supplies he handed out came from money saved from summer jobs. He stashed pieces of the outfit in his backpack or under his clothes, slipping into his Batman persona after class to check on people downtown.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His choice of Batman was deliberate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I appreciate that the character is human,” he said. “[He] wants to do the right thing despite having no superpowers [and] turns personal struggle into something that helps others.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said his own struggles with a learning disability propelled him to become Batman. Now, helping others is a way to heal some of the pain he felt as a kid.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then he grinned: “And the character looks cool. I won’t deny it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He embodied the character, not sharing his identity with even his parents. For Batman, anonymity is part of the work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It means I can keep myself out of this,” he said. “And it helps people recognize me from a distance.” He added that it also makes him more approachable, using levity to connect with the unhoused.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Batman of San José walked beneath the Highway 87 underpass in 2020, the familiarity of the costume drew immediate attention — especially from a 3-year-old child living there with his mother.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12053070\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250813_THEBATMANOFSANJOSES_GH-13-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12053070\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250813_THEBATMANOFSANJOSES_GH-13-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250813_THEBATMANOFSANJOSES_GH-13-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250813_THEBATMANOFSANJOSES_GH-13-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250813_THEBATMANOFSANJOSES_GH-13-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">With bottles of water in hand, the Batman of San José prepares to distribute supplies in San José on Aug. 13, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gustavo Hernandez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“The kid was absolutely fascinated,” Batman recalled. “He was grabbing at the ears of the mask and the cape.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The tender moment caught him off guard, and he found he was grateful to be wearing a mask.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I lost it almost immediately,” he said, recalling the sadness of seeing a child so young without shelter. “The mask helped hide that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The family was trying to get the child into school, he explained, but life on the street made regular attendance nearly impossible. Over the next several years, Batman worked alongside case managers, providing groceries, financial assistance and a steady presence as the family navigated housing instability.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After about two years, when the family received more permanent housing, the child finally started attending school. Batman was there for his kindergarten graduation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It wasn’t high school or college,” he said. “But to that family, it meant everything, [and] that mom is my personal hero.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12053074\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250820-BATMAN-OF-SAN-JOSE-MD-01-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12053074\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250820-BATMAN-OF-SAN-JOSE-MD-01-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250820-BATMAN-OF-SAN-JOSE-MD-01-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250820-BATMAN-OF-SAN-JOSE-MD-01-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250820-BATMAN-OF-SAN-JOSE-MD-01-KQED-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Batman of San Jose films the clearing of the homeless encampment at Columbus Park in San Jose on Aug. 18, 2025. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The mother told him her child now runs around clutching a piece of black fabric, pretending it’s Batman — something that keeps him safe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I never thought I’d have that kind of impact,” Batman said. “It taught me I don’t have to do everything — to that kid, that was everything.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since then, he has designed the costume with intention: gloves for scrambling up riverbanks, shin guards for kneeling beside tents, a belt filled with first-aid supplies, tools and tape. And the dramatic cape? It doubles as an emergency blanket.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I can give it to someone if I run out of everything else,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The weight of friendship and loss\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Batman has become a quiet keeper of stories and routes — able to trace who’s still around, who’s disappeared, and how lives on the margins shift over time. He has forged authentic relationships with the people he encounters, and each person leaves a mark.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I consider a lot of the people I meet out here to be my friends,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He shared the story of Susie, an unhoused woman he checked on often, until police cleared the area where she was living.[aside postID=news_12058091 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250831-CREATIVEMUTUALAID00140_TV-KQED.jpg']“She passed away recently,” he said. “She was swept [by police] and then got hit by a car [in the street] — that should have never happened to her.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His grievance is with a system that he feels repeatedly casts unhoused people aside — clearing encampments without permanent housing solutions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>City officials have said that the cost and pace of building permanent housing have led the city to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12026437/san-jose-mayor-proposes-permanent-shift-homeless-funding-from-housing-shelter\">prioritize temporary shelter\u003c/a>. In an emailed statement, Mayor Matt Mahan’s office told KQED: “We’ve expanded temporary housing so that we can get people off the streets faster while continuing to invest in permanent supportive housing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The office pointed to city data showing that more than 800 affordable housing units were permitted last year and that funding fromMeasure E — a San José tax on property sales of $2 million or more passed by voters in 2020 — helped prevent more than 1,200 families from falling into homelessness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But for Batman, those metrics don’t capture what he has watched unfold on the street.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People should be alive that aren’t anymore, “ he said, holding back tears. “My friends are dying, and I’m losing people I care about.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So, he keeps walking — beneath freeway ramps, through parks and along light rail stations — checking on people he hasn’t seen in days. Sometimes, he runs into someone he feared he’d lost.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On this night, he spotted KC approaching.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s been a minute,” Batman said. “I’ve been worried about you.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve been locked up for like 13 months,” KC replied. Their longstanding friendship bridges any discomfort over asking for resources — what Batman can bring next time: underwear, flashlights and a sleeping bag.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When asked how it feels to see Batman, “I feel happy,” KC said, smiling.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Beyond the cape: advocacy, policy and mutual aid\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Batman’s work does not end on the sidewalk. He has spoken at \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vGfuMC9Y97E\">City Hall\u003c/a>, intervened during police sweeps and shown up at demonstrations. At a \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GoE1fkZyIjI&t=58s\">San José protest\u003c/a> last summer over human rights violations under the Trump administration, he addressed the crowd with his own understanding of resistance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When I look at people across the country standing up to authoritarianism, I see heroes,” he said. “And that’s the scariest thing — to be a hero.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12053075\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250820-BATMAN-OF-SAN-JOSE-MD-02-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12053075\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250820-BATMAN-OF-SAN-JOSE-MD-02-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250820-BATMAN-OF-SAN-JOSE-MD-02-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250820-BATMAN-OF-SAN-JOSE-MD-02-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250820-BATMAN-OF-SAN-JOSE-MD-02-KQED-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Batman walks through the former homeless encampment at Columbus Park in San José on Aug. 18, 2025. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>For him, that fear translated into urgency. He wanted the people he knew on the streets to live longer lives — not just endure them. He pushed back against the assumption that unhoused people were not trying hard enough.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People think, ‘Why don’t they have to work for it?’” he said. “Quite a few [unhoused] people work — it’s that it can be impossible to fit everything into one day.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For many, he explained, survival became a full-time job: finding food and water, staying clean, protecting belongings, getting to work — while also trying to secure housing. From what he has seen, the most common paths into being unhoused are job loss and medical debt.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s why ‘Housing First’ is always the best way to go,” he said. “Research shows it’s the quickest way to stabilize someone.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An \u003ca href=\"https://healthpolicy.ucla.edu/sites/default/files/2024-04/housing-healthy-california-program-evaluation-2024.pdf\">evaluation \u003c/a>by UCLA’s Center for Health Policy Research echoes that view. 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They point to the cost of permanent housing — at about $1 million per unit — and the scale of unsheltered homelessness — around 5000 people — in San José, which they say makes a build-first approach untenable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We can’t build a permanent unit for the lucky few, while leaving the vast majority of people to suffer and far too often, die, on our streets,” Dean said. “We’ve chosen to get people indoors faster with a solution that is cheaper and faster to build, so they don’t have to wait on the streets indefinitely.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As that debate continues, Batman’s work has grown beyond a one-person effort. What began as solo nighttime rounds has become a small mutual-aid collective called \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/bayareasuperheroes/?hl=en\">Bay Area Superheroes\u003c/a>. He has joined forces with the Crimson Fist, Black Phoenix and KaiKai Bee, expanding their reach to San Francisco and Oakland. 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In full costume, he cannot walk more than a few feet without running into someone he knows.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s Batman!” one man called out. “Not the hero we deserve, but the hero we need.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Batman smiled, waved, and disappeared into the dark with his cart of snacks and supplies, the shimmer of purple and black satin trailing behind him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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