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Kaplan co-authored the ordinance with Councilman Noel Gallo. “The requirements deal with a range of problems and potential problems that have occurred — including prohibiting threatening noises, requiring liability insurance, and where they can be deployed,” she wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kaplan also provided \u003ca href=\"https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/4895590/Suggested-Interim-Scooter-Regulations-2.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a set of additional suggestions\u003c/a> moving forward on the city’s scooter permits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The ordinance also creates low-income memberships for low-income riders with a rate “equivalent to” $5 for 12 months of unlimited 30-minute rides.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several people told the City Council Monday night that the scooters were a nuisance and had been causing problems. Councilman Larry Reid, who was the sole council member to vote against the ordinance, concurred, saying “one of them almost hit me on the sidewalk.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Original Post, Monday, Sept. 17:\u003c/strong> Oakland is about to join the growing number of cities around the country imposing regulations on electric stand-up rental scooters — the two-wheel transportation craze some hail as a delightful solution to traffic congestion and others condemn as an out-of-control urban nuisance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Oakland City Council is expected to vote Monday evening to approve an ordinance that will start the process of creating formal rules for operators who have distributed hundreds of scooters — or perhaps thousands — on the city’s streets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/4895591/Oakland-ScooterOrdinance.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">legislation\u003c/a>, which passed its first reading in July, is sponsored by council members Rebecca Kaplan and Noel Gallo and also covers dockless rental bicycles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It promotes rules similar in many respects to regulations \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfmta.com/sites/default/files/reports-and-documents/2018/08/scooter_policy_directive_08.28.2018.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">still under development\u003c/a> in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The scooter firms operating in Oakland would be responsible for ensuring their customers ride the vehicles legally and park them properly, for instance, and they could be penalized with reductions in their fleet size or loss of their permit for failing to do so.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the ordinance also includes some requirements for the companies — Bird, Lime and Skip are currently operating there — that go well beyond what San Francisco has required so far.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For example, the law would require scooter operators to distribute their machines throughout the city, with half of all their machines being placed in neighborhoods that the Metropolitan Transportation Commission defines as “communities of concern” based on percentage of low-income and minority residents and households without vehicles, among other factors. In Oakland, that’s virtually the entire city below Interstate 580.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a significant portion of Oakland that has really been underserved historically,” Kaplan said in an interview. “We want to make sure that as new options like the shared scooters come about, that everybody has a chance to benefit from that new option.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The ordinance would also create low-income memberships for low-income riders with a rate “equivalent to” $5 for 12 months of unlimited 30-minute rides. That would be virtually identical to the low-income membership offered by the Ford GoBike shared-bicycle system. The law would also require companies to provide access to those who don’t have smartphones or credit cards.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All three of the companies currently operating in Oakland offer low-income discounts from the usual fees — $1 to unlock a scooter and 15 cents a minute to ride. Lime and Skip both offer a 50 percent discount to low-income riders; Bird waives the initial $1 fee for low-income patrons.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to those provisions, Kaplan is suggesting \u003ca href=\"https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/4895590/Suggested-Interim-Scooter-Regulations-2.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a series of other conditions\u003c/a> be attached to the city’s scooter permits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She’d like to see scooter speeds limited to 12 mph to 15 mph. She also wants the scooter firms to be required to take steps to avoid “charging wars” — the situation where people being paid to charge the machines get in battles over securing vehicles at the end of the day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unlike San Francisco — where the city forced scooters off the streets while developing a one-year pilot project, then awarded permits to two firms that officials said filed the best applications — Oakland will not impose a limit on the number of scooter firms in the city and will allow them to continue to operate while its regulations are finalized.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Processes like the one in San Francisco “have seemed to yield a lot of antagonism,” Kaplan said. “Each company accuses the city of bias if they don’t get to be the chosen one.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said the new ordinance will create “a fairly serious set of rules … If the companies can follow them, they can operate, and that way the city personnel don’t have to pick winners and losers.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Bay City News contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The ordinance also creates low-income memberships for low-income riders with a rate “equivalent to” $5 for 12 months of unlimited 30-minute rides.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several people told the City Council Monday night that the scooters were a nuisance and had been causing problems. Councilman Larry Reid, who was the sole council member to vote against the ordinance, concurred, saying “one of them almost hit me on the sidewalk.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Original Post, Monday, Sept. 17:\u003c/strong> Oakland is about to join the growing number of cities around the country imposing regulations on electric stand-up rental scooters — the two-wheel transportation craze some hail as a delightful solution to traffic congestion and others condemn as an out-of-control urban nuisance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Oakland City Council is expected to vote Monday evening to approve an ordinance that will start the process of creating formal rules for operators who have distributed hundreds of scooters — or perhaps thousands — on the city’s streets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/4895591/Oakland-ScooterOrdinance.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">legislation\u003c/a>, which passed its first reading in July, is sponsored by council members Rebecca Kaplan and Noel Gallo and also covers dockless rental bicycles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It promotes rules similar in many respects to regulations \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfmta.com/sites/default/files/reports-and-documents/2018/08/scooter_policy_directive_08.28.2018.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">still under development\u003c/a> in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The scooter firms operating in Oakland would be responsible for ensuring their customers ride the vehicles legally and park them properly, for instance, and they could be penalized with reductions in their fleet size or loss of their permit for failing to do so.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the ordinance also includes some requirements for the companies — Bird, Lime and Skip are currently operating there — that go well beyond what San Francisco has required so far.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For example, the law would require scooter operators to distribute their machines throughout the city, with half of all their machines being placed in neighborhoods that the Metropolitan Transportation Commission defines as “communities of concern” based on percentage of low-income and minority residents and households without vehicles, among other factors. In Oakland, that’s virtually the entire city below Interstate 580.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a significant portion of Oakland that has really been underserved historically,” Kaplan said in an interview. “We want to make sure that as new options like the shared scooters come about, that everybody has a chance to benefit from that new option.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The ordinance would also create low-income memberships for low-income riders with a rate “equivalent to” $5 for 12 months of unlimited 30-minute rides. That would be virtually identical to the low-income membership offered by the Ford GoBike shared-bicycle system. The law would also require companies to provide access to those who don’t have smartphones or credit cards.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All three of the companies currently operating in Oakland offer low-income discounts from the usual fees — $1 to unlock a scooter and 15 cents a minute to ride. Lime and Skip both offer a 50 percent discount to low-income riders; Bird waives the initial $1 fee for low-income patrons.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to those provisions, Kaplan is suggesting \u003ca href=\"https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/4895590/Suggested-Interim-Scooter-Regulations-2.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a series of other conditions\u003c/a> be attached to the city’s scooter permits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She’d like to see scooter speeds limited to 12 mph to 15 mph. She also wants the scooter firms to be required to take steps to avoid “charging wars” — the situation where people being paid to charge the machines get in battles over securing vehicles at the end of the day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unlike San Francisco — where the city forced scooters off the streets while developing a one-year pilot project, then awarded permits to two firms that officials said filed the best applications — Oakland will not impose a limit on the number of scooter firms in the city and will allow them to continue to operate while its regulations are finalized.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Processes like the one in San Francisco “have seemed to yield a lot of antagonism,” Kaplan said. “Each company accuses the city of bias if they don’t get to be the chosen one.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said the new ordinance will create “a fairly serious set of rules … If the companies can follow them, they can operate, and that way the city personnel don’t have to pick winners and losers.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Bay City News contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>Stay caught up with the best of KQED’s reporting each week by subscribing to the \u003ca href=\"https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/qed-up/id1197721799?mt=2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Q’ed Up podcast\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>1. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11690787/when-oakland-was-a-chocolate-city-a-brief-history-of-festival-at-the-lake\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">When Oakland Was a ‘Chocolate City’: A Brief History of Festival at the Lake\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11692134\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/sandhya2-800x639.jpg\" alt='\"#Oakland’s finest at Festival at the Lake 1994,\" writes @noblesaa in an Instagram post about the Festival at the Lake.' width=\"800\" height=\"639\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11692134\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/sandhya2-800x639.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/sandhya2-160x128.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/sandhya2-1020x815.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/sandhya2-960x767.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/sandhya2-240x192.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/sandhya2-375x300.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/sandhya2-520x416.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/sandhya2.jpg 1080w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">‘#Oakland’s finest at Festival at the Lake 1994,’ writes @noblesaa in an Instagram post about the Festival at the Lake. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of @noblesaa)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>I moved to Oakland about a month ago, and I love it. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of my favorite things to do is go for a run around Lake Merritt. The views of the city over the water are beautiful, and it really feels like the heart of the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lake Merritt has been a witness — and some would say a big player — in the city’s ongoing story of race and space. Earlier in the year, the lake went viral when a white woman \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fh9D_PUe7QI\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">called the police\u003c/a> on two black men for barbecuing there. Black Oakland responded with a massive “\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13832886/were-still-here-bbqn-while-black-draws-out-oaklanders-in-force\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">BBQ’n While Black\u003c/a>” event, which reminded some people of a Lake Merritt summer event that was the place to be in the 1980s and 1990s: \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11690787/when-oakland-was-a-chocolate-city-a-brief-history-of-festival-at-the-lake\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Festival at the Lake\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>KQED’s Sandhya Dirks talked to the people who were there to reminisce about Festival at the Lake and what the lake means to people today.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>2. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11692380/brennans-berkeley-closing-september-15-2018\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Saying goodbye to Brennan’s, a Berkeley institution\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11692434\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/brennans180913b-800x625.jpg\" alt=\"Irish coffee was the signature offering at Brennan's, a bar closing Saturday, Sept. 15, just short of its 60th anniversary. \" width=\"800\" height=\"625\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11692434\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/brennans180913b-800x625.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/brennans180913b-160x125.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/brennans180913b-1020x796.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/brennans180913b-1200x937.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/brennans180913b.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/brennans180913b-1180x921.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/brennans180913b-960x750.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/brennans180913b-240x187.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/brennans180913b-375x293.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/brennans180913b-520x406.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Irish coffee was the signature offering at Brennan’s, a bar closing Saturday, Sept. 15, just short of its 60th anniversary. \u003ccite>(Dan Brekke/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>KQED’s Dan Brekke is our resident Bay Area historian (see his fantastic piece on the mysterious \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11689504/uncovering-the-real-story-behind-the-mysterious-east-bay-walls\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">East Bay Walls\u003c/a>), and if I were a Bay Area institution, Dan is the man I would want to write my eulogy. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brennan’s in Berkeley, which closed this weekend, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11692380/brennans-berkeley-closing-september-15-2018\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">received that honor\u003c/a>. It’s worth a read even if, like me, you’ve never been to Brennan’s and now, never will.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>3. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11691757/golden-state-plate-the-unsavory-history-of-green-goddess-dressing\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Turns out Green Goddess Dressing has a kind of racist past\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11691806\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32764_Screening_at_a_country_town_1931_6297430030-qut-800x672.jpg\" alt='British actor George Arliss starred in the play and film versions of \"The Green Goddess.\"' width=\"800\" height=\"672\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11691806\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32764_Screening_at_a_country_town_1931_6297430030-qut-800x672.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32764_Screening_at_a_country_town_1931_6297430030-qut-160x134.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32764_Screening_at_a_country_town_1931_6297430030-qut-1020x857.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32764_Screening_at_a_country_town_1931_6297430030-qut-1200x1008.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32764_Screening_at_a_country_town_1931_6297430030-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32764_Screening_at_a_country_town_1931_6297430030-qut-1180x991.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32764_Screening_at_a_country_town_1931_6297430030-qut-960x807.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32764_Screening_at_a_country_town_1931_6297430030-qut-240x202.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32764_Screening_at_a_country_town_1931_6297430030-qut-375x315.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32764_Screening_at_a_country_town_1931_6297430030-qut-520x437.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">British actor George Arliss starred in the play and film versions of ‘The Green Goddess.’ \u003ccite>(Flickr: National Library NZ on The Commons)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>They tell you to never meet your heroes, you’ll just be disappointed. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Sasha Khokha, the amazing host of the California Report Magazine, that hero was \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11691757/golden-state-plate-the-unsavory-history-of-green-goddess-dressing\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Green Goddess Dressing\u003c/a>. She grew up thinking of it as “hippie salad dressing” that she got at the health food store.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But now she knows that it was inspired by a 1920s play and film called “The Green Goddess” featuring a lot of British white guys playing Indians. Not great. \u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>4. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11692123/criminal-convictions-vex-8-million-californians-advocates-see-hope-for-relief\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">‘They won’t hire felons’\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11692164\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/amika-1-800x600.jpeg\" alt=\"Amika Mota with her 3-month-old daughter in Oakland. Mota was a firefighter in prison but can’t get a similar job on the outside because she’s one of 8 million Californians with a criminal conviction on their record.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11692164\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Amika Mota with her 3-month-old daughter in Oakland. Mota was a firefighter in prison but can’t get a similar job on the outside because she’s one of 8 million Californians with a criminal conviction on their record. \u003ccite>(Marisa Lagos/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>It’s been a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11689707/in-shift-california-lawmakers-embrace-some-ambitious-criminal-justice-reforms\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">good year\u003c/a> for supporters of criminal justice reform in California. Several major pieces of legislation — ending cash bail, opening up police records and making it harder to prosecute teens as adults, to name a few — passed the state Legislature and await Gov. Jerry Brown’s signature.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But for the 8 million Californians (that’s one out of every five people in the state) with a criminal conviction on their record, there are thousands of other laws that make their \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11692123/criminal-convictions-vex-8-million-californians-advocates-see-hope-for-relief\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">lives very hard\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A new report shows just how hard things can be for Californians with criminal convictions, and some advocates are hoping the report acts as a call to push for even more reforms.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>5. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11691500/could-creating-one-bay-area-city-solve-the-housing-crisis\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Should the Bay Area become one megacity?\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11691517\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/GettyImages-492064780-800x540.jpg\" alt=\"The Golden Gate Bridge and the San Francisco Bay are seen from above in San Francisco, California.\" width=\"800\" height=\"540\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11691517\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Golden Gate Bridge and San Francisco Bay are seen from above in San Francisco, California. \u003ccite>(Josh Edelson/AFP/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Here’s a wild solution to the Bay Area’s affordable housing crisis: turn the region into \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11691500/could-creating-one-bay-area-city-solve-the-housing-crisis\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">one giant megacity\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead of leaving it up to the region’s 101 cities to try and solve — or ignore — the housing issues in their communities, a megacity in theory could direct resources where they need to go across the region. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It could bypass local NIMBYism and finally make a dent in the housing problem. While it’s at it, it could build a truly regional transit system that connects us all in a way that makes commuting easier and better for the environment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Or, communities could still find ways to block development and public transit in the major cities might actually get worse with resources diverted to other parts of the region.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Whatever the result would be, it’s highly unlikely that it would ever happen. But it’s a fascinating thought experiment.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cem>Stay caught up with the best of KQED’s reporting each week by subscribing to the \u003ca href=\"https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/qed-up/id1197721799?mt=2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Q’ed Up podcast\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>1. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11690787/when-oakland-was-a-chocolate-city-a-brief-history-of-festival-at-the-lake\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">When Oakland Was a ‘Chocolate City’: A Brief History of Festival at the Lake\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11692134\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/sandhya2-800x639.jpg\" alt='\"#Oakland’s finest at Festival at the Lake 1994,\" writes @noblesaa in an Instagram post about the Festival at the Lake.' width=\"800\" height=\"639\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11692134\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/sandhya2-800x639.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/sandhya2-160x128.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/sandhya2-1020x815.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/sandhya2-960x767.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/sandhya2-240x192.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/sandhya2-375x300.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/sandhya2-520x416.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/sandhya2.jpg 1080w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">‘#Oakland’s finest at Festival at the Lake 1994,’ writes @noblesaa in an Instagram post about the Festival at the Lake. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of @noblesaa)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>I moved to Oakland about a month ago, and I love it. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of my favorite things to do is go for a run around Lake Merritt. The views of the city over the water are beautiful, and it really feels like the heart of the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lake Merritt has been a witness — and some would say a big player — in the city’s ongoing story of race and space. Earlier in the year, the lake went viral when a white woman \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fh9D_PUe7QI\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">called the police\u003c/a> on two black men for barbecuing there. Black Oakland responded with a massive “\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13832886/were-still-here-bbqn-while-black-draws-out-oaklanders-in-force\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">BBQ’n While Black\u003c/a>” event, which reminded some people of a Lake Merritt summer event that was the place to be in the 1980s and 1990s: \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11690787/when-oakland-was-a-chocolate-city-a-brief-history-of-festival-at-the-lake\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Festival at the Lake\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>KQED’s Sandhya Dirks talked to the people who were there to reminisce about Festival at the Lake and what the lake means to people today.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>2. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11692380/brennans-berkeley-closing-september-15-2018\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Saying goodbye to Brennan’s, a Berkeley institution\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11692434\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/brennans180913b-800x625.jpg\" alt=\"Irish coffee was the signature offering at Brennan's, a bar closing Saturday, Sept. 15, just short of its 60th anniversary. \" width=\"800\" height=\"625\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11692434\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/brennans180913b-800x625.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/brennans180913b-160x125.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/brennans180913b-1020x796.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/brennans180913b-1200x937.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/brennans180913b.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/brennans180913b-1180x921.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/brennans180913b-960x750.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/brennans180913b-240x187.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/brennans180913b-375x293.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/brennans180913b-520x406.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Irish coffee was the signature offering at Brennan’s, a bar closing Saturday, Sept. 15, just short of its 60th anniversary. \u003ccite>(Dan Brekke/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>KQED’s Dan Brekke is our resident Bay Area historian (see his fantastic piece on the mysterious \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11689504/uncovering-the-real-story-behind-the-mysterious-east-bay-walls\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">East Bay Walls\u003c/a>), and if I were a Bay Area institution, Dan is the man I would want to write my eulogy. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brennan’s in Berkeley, which closed this weekend, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11692380/brennans-berkeley-closing-september-15-2018\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">received that honor\u003c/a>. It’s worth a read even if, like me, you’ve never been to Brennan’s and now, never will.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>3. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11691757/golden-state-plate-the-unsavory-history-of-green-goddess-dressing\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Turns out Green Goddess Dressing has a kind of racist past\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11691806\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32764_Screening_at_a_country_town_1931_6297430030-qut-800x672.jpg\" alt='British actor George Arliss starred in the play and film versions of \"The Green Goddess.\"' width=\"800\" height=\"672\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11691806\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32764_Screening_at_a_country_town_1931_6297430030-qut-800x672.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32764_Screening_at_a_country_town_1931_6297430030-qut-160x134.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32764_Screening_at_a_country_town_1931_6297430030-qut-1020x857.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32764_Screening_at_a_country_town_1931_6297430030-qut-1200x1008.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32764_Screening_at_a_country_town_1931_6297430030-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32764_Screening_at_a_country_town_1931_6297430030-qut-1180x991.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32764_Screening_at_a_country_town_1931_6297430030-qut-960x807.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32764_Screening_at_a_country_town_1931_6297430030-qut-240x202.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32764_Screening_at_a_country_town_1931_6297430030-qut-375x315.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32764_Screening_at_a_country_town_1931_6297430030-qut-520x437.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">British actor George Arliss starred in the play and film versions of ‘The Green Goddess.’ \u003ccite>(Flickr: National Library NZ on The Commons)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>They tell you to never meet your heroes, you’ll just be disappointed. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Sasha Khokha, the amazing host of the California Report Magazine, that hero was \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11691757/golden-state-plate-the-unsavory-history-of-green-goddess-dressing\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Green Goddess Dressing\u003c/a>. She grew up thinking of it as “hippie salad dressing” that she got at the health food store.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But now she knows that it was inspired by a 1920s play and film called “The Green Goddess” featuring a lot of British white guys playing Indians. Not great. \u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>4. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11692123/criminal-convictions-vex-8-million-californians-advocates-see-hope-for-relief\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">‘They won’t hire felons’\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11692164\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/amika-1-800x600.jpeg\" alt=\"Amika Mota with her 3-month-old daughter in Oakland. Mota was a firefighter in prison but can’t get a similar job on the outside because she’s one of 8 million Californians with a criminal conviction on their record.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11692164\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Amika Mota with her 3-month-old daughter in Oakland. Mota was a firefighter in prison but can’t get a similar job on the outside because she’s one of 8 million Californians with a criminal conviction on their record. \u003ccite>(Marisa Lagos/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>It’s been a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11689707/in-shift-california-lawmakers-embrace-some-ambitious-criminal-justice-reforms\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">good year\u003c/a> for supporters of criminal justice reform in California. Several major pieces of legislation — ending cash bail, opening up police records and making it harder to prosecute teens as adults, to name a few — passed the state Legislature and await Gov. Jerry Brown’s signature.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But for the 8 million Californians (that’s one out of every five people in the state) with a criminal conviction on their record, there are thousands of other laws that make their \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11692123/criminal-convictions-vex-8-million-californians-advocates-see-hope-for-relief\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">lives very hard\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A new report shows just how hard things can be for Californians with criminal convictions, and some advocates are hoping the report acts as a call to push for even more reforms.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>5. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11691500/could-creating-one-bay-area-city-solve-the-housing-crisis\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Should the Bay Area become one megacity?\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11691517\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/GettyImages-492064780-800x540.jpg\" alt=\"The Golden Gate Bridge and the San Francisco Bay are seen from above in San Francisco, California.\" width=\"800\" height=\"540\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11691517\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Golden Gate Bridge and San Francisco Bay are seen from above in San Francisco, California. \u003ccite>(Josh Edelson/AFP/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Here’s a wild solution to the Bay Area’s affordable housing crisis: turn the region into \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11691500/could-creating-one-bay-area-city-solve-the-housing-crisis\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">one giant megacity\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead of leaving it up to the region’s 101 cities to try and solve — or ignore — the housing issues in their communities, a megacity in theory could direct resources where they need to go across the region. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It could bypass local NIMBYism and finally make a dent in the housing problem. While it’s at it, it could build a truly regional transit system that connects us all in a way that makes commuting easier and better for the environment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Or, communities could still find ways to block development and public transit in the major cities might actually get worse with resources diverted to other parts of the region.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Whatever the result would be, it’s highly unlikely that it would ever happen. But it’s a fascinating thought experiment.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>The ninth annual \u003ca href=\"https://www.oaklandpride.org/page/about-oakland-pride/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Oakland Pride\u003c/a> will be taking over downtown Oakland on Sunday. Here’s what you need to know before you go.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What is Oakland Pride?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Part parade and part festival, the event is dedicated to showcasing “the cultures and diversity of the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer (LGBTQ) community in Oakland and the East Bay” through education and community building.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>When is it?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The parade and festival both open on Sunday, Sept. 9 from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Where is it?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The parade goes up Broadway, starting at 14th Street and ending at 20th Street in downtown Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11691255\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11691255 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/a.jpg-800x407.jpg\" alt=\"The Oakland Pride parade route.\" width=\"800\" height=\"407\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/a.jpg-800x407.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/a.jpg-160x81.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/a.jpg-1020x520.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/a.jpg-1200x611.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/a.jpg-1180x601.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/a.jpg-960x489.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/a.jpg-240x122.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/a.jpg-375x191.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/a.jpg-520x265.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/a.jpg.jpg 1500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Oakland Pride parade route. \u003ccite>(Oakland Pride)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The festival is right next to the parade finish area, with a main entrance at Broadway and 20th Street. The festival includes a “Family and Children’s Garden,” and there will be four stages with their own unique lineups.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Does it cost to attend?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>General admission to the festival is $10, and tickets for children under 12 are $5. The parade is free unless you want VIP seating.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What should you bring?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Phone, money for admission, sunscreen and transit cards.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Are there any age restrictions?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are no age restrictions at Oakland Pride, which calls itself one of the “most diverse and family friendly” pride celebrations in the country. The \u003ca href=\"https://www.oaklandpride.org/page/pride-family-fun-zone/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Family and Children’s Garden\u003c/a> will be open from 11 a.m.-4 p.m., featuring programs and activities specially designed for children and their family.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11691283\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11691283 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/Oakland-Pride-Family.jpeg-800x800.jpeg\" alt=\"The Family and Children's Garden at Oakland Pride.\" width=\"800\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/Oakland-Pride-Family.jpeg-800x800.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/Oakland-Pride-Family.jpeg-160x160.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/Oakland-Pride-Family.jpeg.jpeg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/Oakland-Pride-Family.jpeg-240x240.jpeg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/Oakland-Pride-Family.jpeg-375x375.jpeg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/Oakland-Pride-Family.jpeg-520x520.jpeg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/Oakland-Pride-Family.jpeg-32x32.jpeg 32w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/Oakland-Pride-Family.jpeg-50x50.jpeg 50w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/Oakland-Pride-Family.jpeg-64x64.jpeg 64w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/Oakland-Pride-Family.jpeg-96x96.jpeg 96w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/Oakland-Pride-Family.jpeg-128x128.jpeg 128w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/Oakland-Pride-Family.jpeg-150x150.jpeg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Family and Children’s Garden at Oakland Pride. \u003ccite>(Oakland Pride)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>How should you get there?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>BART is your best bet to get Oakland Pride, with the 12th Street/Oakland City Center and 19th Street stations in Oakland being the closest stops. There will be very limited parking near the event.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/SFBARTable/status/1038487176277839873\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>AC Transit will have \u003ca href=\"http://www.actransit.org/2018/08/31/oakland-pride-downtown-detours-september-8-to-10/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">detours in place\u003c/a> for routes that go through the area. Some of these closures began Saturday morning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/rideact/status/1038517588744126464\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What hashtag should people use on social media?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>#OaklandPride\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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Here’s what you need to know before you go.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What is Oakland Pride?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Part parade and part festival, the event is dedicated to showcasing “the cultures and diversity of the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer (LGBTQ) community in Oakland and the East Bay” through education and community building.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>When is it?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The parade and festival both open on Sunday, Sept. 9 from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Where is it?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The parade goes up Broadway, starting at 14th Street and ending at 20th Street in downtown Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11691255\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11691255 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/a.jpg-800x407.jpg\" alt=\"The Oakland Pride parade route.\" width=\"800\" height=\"407\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/a.jpg-800x407.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/a.jpg-160x81.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/a.jpg-1020x520.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/a.jpg-1200x611.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/a.jpg-1180x601.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/a.jpg-960x489.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/a.jpg-240x122.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/a.jpg-375x191.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/a.jpg-520x265.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/a.jpg.jpg 1500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Oakland Pride parade route. \u003ccite>(Oakland Pride)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The festival is right next to the parade finish area, with a main entrance at Broadway and 20th Street. The festival includes a “Family and Children’s Garden,” and there will be four stages with their own unique lineups.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Does it cost to attend?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>General admission to the festival is $10, and tickets for children under 12 are $5. The parade is free unless you want VIP seating.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What should you bring?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Phone, money for admission, sunscreen and transit cards.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Are there any age restrictions?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are no age restrictions at Oakland Pride, which calls itself one of the “most diverse and family friendly” pride celebrations in the country. 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"content": "\u003cp>Like many Oakland residents, Candice Elder, 34, is alarmed at the rapidly increasing number of people pitching tents on sidewalks and under freeways in the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unlike most residents, Elder has worked at dozens of homeless encampments as part of a team providing “rapid response services on call 24-7,” including food, crisis management and medical assistance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The rate of homelessness has dramatically increased in the last few years. And you can correlate that to the affordability crisis,” said Elder, founder and director of \u003ca href=\"http://www.eastoaklandcollective.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The East Oakland Collective\u003c/a> nonprofit, as she visited a 65-year old woman sitting on a corner, surrounded by piles of belongings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It could take years to build more affordable housing, but Elder sees a faster way to relieve homelessness in the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s a lot of vacant properties that haven’t been used for years,” said Elder, as she pointed to a fenced, empty parcel next to the encampment she visited on a recent morning. “As a city and as a community, we need to take a look at these vacant public and private lands and see how we can use them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Voters To Decide on Taxing Owners of Vacant Properties\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland voters could approve the state’s first tax on privately-owned vacant properties in November. The city estimates the tax could raise as much as $10 million annually for homeless services, blight remediation and to stem illegal dumping. Tax revenue would also go toward new affordable housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11689756\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11689756\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/Photo-3-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The belongings of people living on a sidewalk in East Oakland sprawl next to an empty lot on Aug. 24, 2018. Homeless advocate Candice Elder, 34, said vacant properties dot the area. “A lot of properties were vacant when I was growing up, and they are still vacant now,” said Elder, a native of the city. \u003ccite>(Farida Jhabvala Romero/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Owners of properties in use fewer than 50 days per year would be taxed as much as $6,000 per parcel annually, if two-thirds of voters approve \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/4801970-Vacant-Property-Tax-Measure-2018-07-24.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the measure\u003c/a> in November.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two weeks after the Oakland City Council voted 6-2 to place the tax on the ballot, officials in the neighboring city of Richmond greenlighted a similar proposal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Owners of vacant properties would pay the same amount of additional tax, regardless of the size or worth of their property. Under California law, cities cannot legally tie a parcel tax to market values.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Critics worry the tax could disproportionately hurt small landowners, pushing some to sell their property to investors that can pay Oakland’s skyrocketing market values. But proponents praise the tax as a creative incentive to transform thousands of vacant lots and buildings into homes or businesses, and at the same time decrease blight.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are looking not only to get rid of the trash, the weeds, the types of problems you might see, but also to encourage people to do something that would be of benefit to the community,” said Councilwoman Rebecca Kaplan, who authored the measure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In just two years, the city’s homeless population increased by 25 percent to nearly 2,800 people, according to the most \u003ca href=\"http://everyonehome.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/City-of-Oakland-ES.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">recent survey\u003c/a> of Alameda County. But some homeless advocates say that’s a severe undercount because many people who are couch surfing or sleeping in cars were not included.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Property Owner Sees Benefits, but Objects to Tax\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland resident Francisco Acosta agrees with the goal of encouraging more productive uses for vacant properties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The father of three said an empty parcel next to his home attracts trash and drug use. A gunfight in the lot once sent a stray bullet through a bedroom in his house, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11689766\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11689766\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/Photo4-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Councilmember Rebecca Kaplan speaks with property owner Francisco Acosta in front of a vacant lot in West Oakland on Aug. 20, 2018. Kaplan authored a proposed tax on vacant properties to help ease homelessness in the city. \u003ccite>(Farida Jhabvala Romero/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But Acosta, who also owns a lot labeled as vacant by the county assessor’s office, doubted the tax would encourage him to build the duplex he previously planned for his land. He was dismayed after learning city permits would cost about $35,000 and take a year to process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It doesn’t make sense to just try to penalize people with taxes for not having something built on their lot when they are making it difficult for everybody to build something,” said Acosta, who is growing potatoes, bell peppers and other vegetables on the plot instead.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He might not be subject to the tax if the city defines gardening as an active use of property. But Acosta contemplated that if he is faced with a new $6,000 tax assessment each year, he would likely sell.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’d be too much money to pay,” he said. “The tax will pressure people into selling or building, but most likely selling for those who don’t have time, money and energy to deal with the tax.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Building new housing in Oakland is an expensive proposition. While construction costs can vary significantly based on the size and amenities of a project, the city estimates 1,000 square feet of new construction costs about $200,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Permitting fees for a three-bedroom home can total more than $25,000, according to Oakland’s planning and building department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Councilwoman Kaplan said she understands small property owners face barriers to build housing the city desperately needs. Her tax measure would give them financial assistance to design and construct affordable units.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nonprofits and low-income owners would be exempt from the tax, as well as others who can prove financial hardship.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kaplan suspects the majority of vacant properties are being held by owners as a speculative investment in Oakland’s hot real estate market.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People who may not have the connection and the motivation to do something with them, and especially a lot of big corporate speculators,” Kaplan said. “And so the vacant property tax will help us keep track of who owns them, what they’re doing with them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Measure Lacks Clarity, Critics Say\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About 4,400 bare lots could be subject to the tax plus an unknown number of vacant residential, commercial and industrial buildings, according to \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/4797561-View-Supplemental-Report-5-11-218.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a report\u003c/a> by Katano Kasaine, Oakland’s finance director.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Critics decried that lack of clarity, arguing it’s unfair to ask voters to decide on the tax in November.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’d be great to have a list first before you went about taxing people on it,” said Kiran Shenoy, government affairs director for the \u003ca href=\"http://oaklandberkeleyaor.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Oakland Berkeley Association of Realtors\u003c/a>. “We don’t know whether or not this is going to end up disenfranchising a lot of small Oakland property owners.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He stressed that although the measure has several exemptions, it will be up to the landowners to prove they qualify.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A recent \u003ca href=\"http://ternercenter.berkeley.edu/uploads/H.Raetz_Vacant_Parcels_Final.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">study\u003c/a> by the Terner Center for Housing Innovation at UC Berkeley found most vacant parcels in the city are small, fit for a single family house or duplex.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Author Hayley Raetz dug through county data that suggests 57 percent of vacant land owners in the city only hold one parcel. But she cautions that percentage is likely overblown in part because owners can create individual LLCs or limited liability companies for each property they buy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s where it gets tricky unfortunately. Sometimes you see lots that have owners with different first names and the same last name. But it’s hard to tell if that’s a family or if it’s just a common last name,” Raetz said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Implementing Tax Measure Will Be Key\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Land use experts and others following the debate said that while they support the concept of the tax, much of the proposal’s effectiveness depends on how the city would put it into action.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We do have some concerns about how it will be implemented, starting with the definition of what constitutes vacancy,” said Sarah Karlinsky, senior policy adviser at SPUR, a think tank focused on urban planning in the San Francisco Bay Area. The organization sent \u003ca href=\"https://www.spur.org/publications/policy-letter/2018-05-07/spur-comments-vacant-parcel-tax-oakland\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a letter\u003c/a> to city leaders recommending they clarify that definition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A parcel that hosts a farmers market once a week would be considered active, said Councilwoman Kaplan. But Karlinsky said enforcement even in that scenario could prove difficult.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Monitoring that from the public sector side is really tough,” she said. “Like, are they going to send people out every week to make sure Joe had his farmers market?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Proponents for the tax point to other cities that have tried taxing empty homes and blighted properties, such as \u003ca href=\"https://vancouver.ca/home-property-development/empty-homes-tax.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Vancouver, British Columbia\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://otr.cfo.dc.gov/page/otr-vacant-real-property\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Washington, D.C.\u003c/a> as examples of efforts to make land more productive while funding city services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think this vacant property tax is brilliant,” said Paula Hawthorn, adding that she is tired of walking by abandoned-looking storefronts near her Oakland home. “It’s a good way to stop people from holding on to their property for speculation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11689759\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11689759\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/Photo-5-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">James Vann, a retired architect who pushed for the proposed tax on vacant properties, near downtown Oakland on Aug. 23, 2018. “We’ve got to tackle homelessness now with whatever means we can,” he said. \u003ccite>(Farida Jhabvala Romero/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>For James Vann, a retired architect who pushed for the tax, the exemptions in Oakland’s measure, and the city’s promise to work out the details, are enough to move forward.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The tax would be in place no sooner than 2020, giving the city time to ramp up the effort and create a registry of properties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vann believes the measure, which would expire in 20 years, represents an opportunity to fund homeless services the city is struggling to afford.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s just no money there in the budget,” said Vann, a member of the Homeless Advocacy Working Group. “The homelessness problem is one that we are facing now, that is critical. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Voters To Decide on Taxing Owners of Vacant Properties\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland voters could approve the state’s first tax on privately-owned vacant properties in November. The city estimates the tax could raise as much as $10 million annually for homeless services, blight remediation and to stem illegal dumping. Tax revenue would also go toward new affordable housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11689756\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11689756\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/Photo-3-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The belongings of people living on a sidewalk in East Oakland sprawl next to an empty lot on Aug. 24, 2018. Homeless advocate Candice Elder, 34, said vacant properties dot the area. “A lot of properties were vacant when I was growing up, and they are still vacant now,” said Elder, a native of the city. \u003ccite>(Farida Jhabvala Romero/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Owners of properties in use fewer than 50 days per year would be taxed as much as $6,000 per parcel annually, if two-thirds of voters approve \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/4801970-Vacant-Property-Tax-Measure-2018-07-24.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the measure\u003c/a> in November.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two weeks after the Oakland City Council voted 6-2 to place the tax on the ballot, officials in the neighboring city of Richmond greenlighted a similar proposal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Owners of vacant properties would pay the same amount of additional tax, regardless of the size or worth of their property. Under California law, cities cannot legally tie a parcel tax to market values.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Critics worry the tax could disproportionately hurt small landowners, pushing some to sell their property to investors that can pay Oakland’s skyrocketing market values. But proponents praise the tax as a creative incentive to transform thousands of vacant lots and buildings into homes or businesses, and at the same time decrease blight.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are looking not only to get rid of the trash, the weeds, the types of problems you might see, but also to encourage people to do something that would be of benefit to the community,” said Councilwoman Rebecca Kaplan, who authored the measure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In just two years, the city’s homeless population increased by 25 percent to nearly 2,800 people, according to the most \u003ca href=\"http://everyonehome.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/City-of-Oakland-ES.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">recent survey\u003c/a> of Alameda County. But some homeless advocates say that’s a severe undercount because many people who are couch surfing or sleeping in cars were not included.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Property Owner Sees Benefits, but Objects to Tax\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland resident Francisco Acosta agrees with the goal of encouraging more productive uses for vacant properties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The father of three said an empty parcel next to his home attracts trash and drug use. A gunfight in the lot once sent a stray bullet through a bedroom in his house, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11689766\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11689766\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/Photo4-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Councilmember Rebecca Kaplan speaks with property owner Francisco Acosta in front of a vacant lot in West Oakland on Aug. 20, 2018. Kaplan authored a proposed tax on vacant properties to help ease homelessness in the city. \u003ccite>(Farida Jhabvala Romero/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But Acosta, who also owns a lot labeled as vacant by the county assessor’s office, doubted the tax would encourage him to build the duplex he previously planned for his land. He was dismayed after learning city permits would cost about $35,000 and take a year to process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It doesn’t make sense to just try to penalize people with taxes for not having something built on their lot when they are making it difficult for everybody to build something,” said Acosta, who is growing potatoes, bell peppers and other vegetables on the plot instead.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He might not be subject to the tax if the city defines gardening as an active use of property. But Acosta contemplated that if he is faced with a new $6,000 tax assessment each year, he would likely sell.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’d be too much money to pay,” he said. “The tax will pressure people into selling or building, but most likely selling for those who don’t have time, money and energy to deal with the tax.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Building new housing in Oakland is an expensive proposition. While construction costs can vary significantly based on the size and amenities of a project, the city estimates 1,000 square feet of new construction costs about $200,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Permitting fees for a three-bedroom home can total more than $25,000, according to Oakland’s planning and building department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Councilwoman Kaplan said she understands small property owners face barriers to build housing the city desperately needs. Her tax measure would give them financial assistance to design and construct affordable units.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nonprofits and low-income owners would be exempt from the tax, as well as others who can prove financial hardship.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kaplan suspects the majority of vacant properties are being held by owners as a speculative investment in Oakland’s hot real estate market.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People who may not have the connection and the motivation to do something with them, and especially a lot of big corporate speculators,” Kaplan said. “And so the vacant property tax will help us keep track of who owns them, what they’re doing with them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Measure Lacks Clarity, Critics Say\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About 4,400 bare lots could be subject to the tax plus an unknown number of vacant residential, commercial and industrial buildings, according to \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/4797561-View-Supplemental-Report-5-11-218.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a report\u003c/a> by Katano Kasaine, Oakland’s finance director.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Critics decried that lack of clarity, arguing it’s unfair to ask voters to decide on the tax in November.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’d be great to have a list first before you went about taxing people on it,” said Kiran Shenoy, government affairs director for the \u003ca href=\"http://oaklandberkeleyaor.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Oakland Berkeley Association of Realtors\u003c/a>. “We don’t know whether or not this is going to end up disenfranchising a lot of small Oakland property owners.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He stressed that although the measure has several exemptions, it will be up to the landowners to prove they qualify.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A recent \u003ca href=\"http://ternercenter.berkeley.edu/uploads/H.Raetz_Vacant_Parcels_Final.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">study\u003c/a> by the Terner Center for Housing Innovation at UC Berkeley found most vacant parcels in the city are small, fit for a single family house or duplex.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Author Hayley Raetz dug through county data that suggests 57 percent of vacant land owners in the city only hold one parcel. But she cautions that percentage is likely overblown in part because owners can create individual LLCs or limited liability companies for each property they buy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s where it gets tricky unfortunately. Sometimes you see lots that have owners with different first names and the same last name. But it’s hard to tell if that’s a family or if it’s just a common last name,” Raetz said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Implementing Tax Measure Will Be Key\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Land use experts and others following the debate said that while they support the concept of the tax, much of the proposal’s effectiveness depends on how the city would put it into action.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We do have some concerns about how it will be implemented, starting with the definition of what constitutes vacancy,” said Sarah Karlinsky, senior policy adviser at SPUR, a think tank focused on urban planning in the San Francisco Bay Area. The organization sent \u003ca href=\"https://www.spur.org/publications/policy-letter/2018-05-07/spur-comments-vacant-parcel-tax-oakland\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a letter\u003c/a> to city leaders recommending they clarify that definition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A parcel that hosts a farmers market once a week would be considered active, said Councilwoman Kaplan. But Karlinsky said enforcement even in that scenario could prove difficult.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Monitoring that from the public sector side is really tough,” she said. “Like, are they going to send people out every week to make sure Joe had his farmers market?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Proponents for the tax point to other cities that have tried taxing empty homes and blighted properties, such as \u003ca href=\"https://vancouver.ca/home-property-development/empty-homes-tax.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Vancouver, British Columbia\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://otr.cfo.dc.gov/page/otr-vacant-real-property\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Washington, D.C.\u003c/a> as examples of efforts to make land more productive while funding city services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think this vacant property tax is brilliant,” said Paula Hawthorn, adding that she is tired of walking by abandoned-looking storefronts near her Oakland home. “It’s a good way to stop people from holding on to their property for speculation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11689759\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11689759\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/Photo-5-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">James Vann, a retired architect who pushed for the proposed tax on vacant properties, near downtown Oakland on Aug. 23, 2018. “We’ve got to tackle homelessness now with whatever means we can,” he said. \u003ccite>(Farida Jhabvala Romero/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>For James Vann, a retired architect who pushed for the tax, the exemptions in Oakland’s measure, and the city’s promise to work out the details, are enough to move forward.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The tax would be in place no sooner than 2020, giving the city time to ramp up the effort and create a registry of properties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vann believes the measure, which would expire in 20 years, represents an opportunity to fund homeless services the city is struggling to afford.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s just no money there in the budget,” said Vann, a member of the Homeless Advocacy Working Group. “The homelessness problem is one that we are facing now, that is critical. 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"content": "\u003cp>Churches are some of the most segregated places in America. But two pastors in Oakland are trying an experiment — to merge a white congregation and a black congregation into one house of worship, called Tapestry Church.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It all began one day when Kyle Brooks was running late.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brooks was the pastor of Oakland Communion, a small mostly white church of newcomers to the city. He was attending the Bay Area Clergy Cohort, a social justice conference for Christian leaders, and stumbled into a group exercise after it had already started.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A facilitator had placed chairs in a pyramid shape. One at the front, then two behind it, then three, and four, and so on. The instructions were simple, sit in the chair that represents your place in society.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bernard Emerson, the pastor of a small black church called The Way, was on time. He knew exactly where he would sit. As a black man in America, Emerson took a seat in the back row.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By the time Brooks got there, there was only one seat left for him to take as a young white man, the single one right at the front. Right at the top of the privilege pyramid.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If I’m sitting all the way in the front,” Brooks said, “the people I need to be talking to are the people all the way in the back.” Bernard Emerson just happened to be there, in the back row.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That is the “meet-cute” story of their bromance, the one they like to tell. The two started talking and soon realized they were spiritual soulmates. They even quote the same passages from the Bible, like Jesus’ prayer in John 17: “Father make them one, as you and I are one.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The two men came from different faith traditions. Brooks was steeped in the Christian Reformed Church and Emerson, whose father was also a pastor, was raised in the American Baptist church.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Emerson said they made a conscious decision to put their friendship and shared love for God ahead of any differences in their spiritual traditions. “We decided then that we would be better brothers than we were pastors,” Emerson said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was not just bible passages the two had in common. They shared a dream of leading a multi-ethnic church. They talked a lot about what it would mean to create a church in the way that they had created their friendship, rooted in mutual respect and love.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The point of the church,” Brooks said, “is to be a display of God’s love for the world. And we can not do that effectively if we do not love each other.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was always the intent of our Lord that the church be multi-ethnic,” said Emerson. But that is not been the way church has historically been in America.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There is an infamous \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1q881g1L_d8\">Martin Luther King Jr quote\u003c/a> about exactly this, made in an appearance on NBC’s Meet The Press in 1960. “I think it is one of the tragedies of our nation,” King said, “one of the shameful tragedies of our nation, that 11 o’clock on a Sunday morning is one of the most segregated hours, if not the most segregated hours, in Christian America.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Things have changed slightly since King said that, but not a lot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The vast majority of people who go to church, go to church that is racially and ethnically homogeneous,” says Brooks. According to a \u003ca href=\"http://www.soc.duke.edu/natcong/about.html\">National Congregation Study\u003c/a>, funded by Pew Research, 8 out of 10 American church-goers attend a congregation that looks just like them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That was the case at both Brooks’ and Emerson’s small churches. For Pastor Emerson, it was especially true; a lot of his congregants are actually members of his extended family, so they really do look like him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While that Martin Luther King Jr. quote is often paraphrased and repeated, it’s not all he said that day. “Any church that stands against integration and that has a segregated body, is standing against the spirit of Jesus Christ and it fails to be a true witness,” he said. He admitted his own church was also not integrated. It was King’s belief that the church would not, like schools in America, be integrated through legal processes or outside pressure. American churches would only integrate if they decided to do the work themselves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Facing Fears \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11686490\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11686490\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/tapestry-pastors_wide-4508afc003cd2c943e8945059b02026cae4b1f52-s1200-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/tapestry-pastors_wide-4508afc003cd2c943e8945059b02026cae4b1f52-s1200-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/tapestry-pastors_wide-4508afc003cd2c943e8945059b02026cae4b1f52-s1200-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/tapestry-pastors_wide-4508afc003cd2c943e8945059b02026cae4b1f52-s1200-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/tapestry-pastors_wide-4508afc003cd2c943e8945059b02026cae4b1f52-s1200.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/tapestry-pastors_wide-4508afc003cd2c943e8945059b02026cae4b1f52-s1200-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/tapestry-pastors_wide-4508afc003cd2c943e8945059b02026cae4b1f52-s1200-960x540.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/tapestry-pastors_wide-4508afc003cd2c943e8945059b02026cae4b1f52-s1200-240x135.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/tapestry-pastors_wide-4508afc003cd2c943e8945059b02026cae4b1f52-s1200-375x211.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/tapestry-pastors_wide-4508afc003cd2c943e8945059b02026cae4b1f52-s1200-520x293.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pastor Bernard Emerson (left) and Pastor Kyle Brooks (right) standing in front of Brook’s East Oakland house. \u003ccite>(Sandhya Dirks/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Which brings us to Pastor Kyle Brooks and Pastor Bernard Emerson. They knew creating an inter-racial church was not going to be easy, but they kept kicking the idea around. They would take long walks through Oakland’s Dimond District and dream about it out loud. Maybe at some point in the future, they thought.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then a year ago, Neo-Nazis marched in Charlottesville, Virginia, and they felt like they could no longer wait.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>First, they had to break it to their congregations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I saw it on facebook, and instantly I typed back, ‘oh my god, this is exactly what I’ve been looking for,'” said LaSonya Brown, who had been attending Emerson’s church, The Way, for about a year. “I’ll be the first one to join,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brown was raised in a black church with only two white people in it. One was her godfather, who had married into the black community, the other was a white woman who would “speak in tongues, and then translate the tongue.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I never knew her name, but I’ll never forget her,” Brown said. Despite it being different than what she had known before, Brown welcomed the idea of an inclusive congregregation. “I think it was something that I wanted, but I didn’t realize that I wanted it until I saw his post,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At first she thought it was going to happen instantly, just everyone showing up to church together. But it is not that easy to flip the switch on hundreds of years of segregated worship.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s much more complicated than that,” Brown said. “You don’t think that your life is different than somebody else,” but it can be. In an ideal world, she said, people want to think about what they have in common and not their differences.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But we do not live in that ideal world of race relations. “There’s a lot of things that we don’t do in common,” she said. “But we do want to know how to be together.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Each church individually went through months of workshops and classes, owning up to their own fears about what merging would mean.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many people in Pastor Brooks’ white congregation were afraid of being uncomfortable. There was a feeling of discomfort around everything from different hymns, to the service being in a different neighborhood, to different styles of worship. There was also discomfort in having to face up to their responsibility, as white people, in ongoing American racism. Everyone in the church was excited about the merger, but that did not make it easy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pastor Emerson’s congregation was also supportive, and not just because they are largely family. The black congregants of The Way had different fears, fears that they might not be welcomed. Emerson said some of them asked, “will they accept us for who we are?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was afraid that the person that I think I am, is not the person that I really am,” said LaSonya Brown. She worried she might find out she was not as open to difference as she wanted to be, that she might not be the person who saw her Pastor’s post on facebook and declared she would be the first to sign to up for an integrated church.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There have been tests, like tensions over what kind of food to serve at coffee hour. A couple of interactions came off as rude. Brown said she thinks it may be similar to people speaking different languages, and things get lost in translation. They are still learning how to talk to each other.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I remember telling my momma, ‘momma, you know this happened, I might find another church,’ but then every Sunday I go, every Sunday I go,” Brown said. “And I can’t leave my church because I love my church.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her church now, the church she loves, is no longer The Way, because after months of talking and getting to know each other and learning each other’s songs, this past June, the two churches became one: \u003ca href=\"https://www.tapestryoakland.org/\">Tapestry Church\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11686487\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11686487\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/tapestry4_wide-ad4738568a24b0beb932ad6a703f1bedaa646f4d-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/tapestry4_wide-ad4738568a24b0beb932ad6a703f1bedaa646f4d-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/tapestry4_wide-ad4738568a24b0beb932ad6a703f1bedaa646f4d-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/tapestry4_wide-ad4738568a24b0beb932ad6a703f1bedaa646f4d-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/tapestry4_wide-ad4738568a24b0beb932ad6a703f1bedaa646f4d-1200x675.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/tapestry4_wide-ad4738568a24b0beb932ad6a703f1bedaa646f4d-1920x1080.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/tapestry4_wide-ad4738568a24b0beb932ad6a703f1bedaa646f4d-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/tapestry4_wide-ad4738568a24b0beb932ad6a703f1bedaa646f4d-960x540.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/tapestry4_wide-ad4738568a24b0beb932ad6a703f1bedaa646f4d-240x135.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/tapestry4_wide-ad4738568a24b0beb932ad6a703f1bedaa646f4d-375x211.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/tapestry4_wide-ad4738568a24b0beb932ad6a703f1bedaa646f4d-520x293.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pastor Kyle Brooks preaches the Sunday sermon, while Pastor Bernard Emerson listens intently. \u003ccite>(Sandhya Dirks/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Tapestry \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On a recent Sunday morning, about 25 people gathered in an East Oakland school cafeteria with children’s paintings of flowers on the walls.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The pastors say they’ve retained most of their original congregants. Not everyone comes every Sunday. They are still a small church.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brooks and Emerson take turns preaching, but they talk through their sermons together. There’s a melding of worship styles on display. The black church is well known for a vociferous call and response, something Brooks is really excited about. “It helps!” he said. “It’s a dialogue and a feedback.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“One of the cool things I love is that there are some people who have never done it, but inspired by some else, they yell out,” Brooks said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This has been a prayer answered,” said Kim Emerson, Pastor Emerson’s wife. “It was always our dream to have a multi-ethnic church and that wasn’t happening. It sometimes seems like you draw like-minded, or like-looking, people.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, they are drawing some new congregants. After service they hold events like ‘Pizza with Pastors,’ trying to get newcomers to stick around. The pastors tell their origin story, and people stay and eat and talk with each other.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dwight Davis and his husband moved to Oakland 14 years ago. Davis says they have probably visited every church in Oakland, but they keep coming back to Tapestry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re gay people,” Davis said. “So it’s nice to come into a place and not feel everybody’s like, ‘you’re going to burn before me,’ you know?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They had been searching for a diverse congregation, “where the communities came together and we could be apart of both.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Davis says it felt awkward to show up at a traditionally black church, especially with so many African American residents being displaced from Oakland by waves of mostly white newcomers. “You know with the gentrification and everything” Davis said, he felt uncomfortable at some churches, like he was “treading on somebody’s territory.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In these times you want to be sensitive to people’s sanctuary,” he said. “I don’t want to be that one person who interrupts someone’s sanctuary.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The pastors say that integrating America’s most segregated hour is not an easy, one-step process. It can be uncomfortable. There is no magic spell that allows you to snap your fingers and have it all be harmonious overnight.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You’re actually bringing people together who have deep and long and somewhat painful, traumatic histories with each other,” said Brooks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It will take time and love, alongside a willingness to be uncomfortable and honest. It will take people coming back Sunday after Sunday.\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By the time Brooks got there, there was only one seat left for him to take as a young white man, the single one right at the front. Right at the top of the privilege pyramid.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If I’m sitting all the way in the front,” Brooks said, “the people I need to be talking to are the people all the way in the back.” Bernard Emerson just happened to be there, in the back row.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That is the “meet-cute” story of their bromance, the one they like to tell. The two started talking and soon realized they were spiritual soulmates. They even quote the same passages from the Bible, like Jesus’ prayer in John 17: “Father make them one, as you and I are one.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The two men came from different faith traditions. Brooks was steeped in the Christian Reformed Church and Emerson, whose father was also a pastor, was raised in the American Baptist church.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Emerson said they made a conscious decision to put their friendship and shared love for God ahead of any differences in their spiritual traditions. “We decided then that we would be better brothers than we were pastors,” Emerson said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was not just bible passages the two had in common. They shared a dream of leading a multi-ethnic church. They talked a lot about what it would mean to create a church in the way that they had created their friendship, rooted in mutual respect and love.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The point of the church,” Brooks said, “is to be a display of God’s love for the world. And we can not do that effectively if we do not love each other.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was always the intent of our Lord that the church be multi-ethnic,” said Emerson. But that is not been the way church has historically been in America.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There is an infamous \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1q881g1L_d8\">Martin Luther King Jr quote\u003c/a> about exactly this, made in an appearance on NBC’s Meet The Press in 1960. “I think it is one of the tragedies of our nation,” King said, “one of the shameful tragedies of our nation, that 11 o’clock on a Sunday morning is one of the most segregated hours, if not the most segregated hours, in Christian America.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Things have changed slightly since King said that, but not a lot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The vast majority of people who go to church, go to church that is racially and ethnically homogeneous,” says Brooks. According to a \u003ca href=\"http://www.soc.duke.edu/natcong/about.html\">National Congregation Study\u003c/a>, funded by Pew Research, 8 out of 10 American church-goers attend a congregation that looks just like them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That was the case at both Brooks’ and Emerson’s small churches. For Pastor Emerson, it was especially true; a lot of his congregants are actually members of his extended family, so they really do look like him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While that Martin Luther King Jr. quote is often paraphrased and repeated, it’s not all he said that day. “Any church that stands against integration and that has a segregated body, is standing against the spirit of Jesus Christ and it fails to be a true witness,” he said. He admitted his own church was also not integrated. It was King’s belief that the church would not, like schools in America, be integrated through legal processes or outside pressure. 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They knew creating an inter-racial church was not going to be easy, but they kept kicking the idea around. They would take long walks through Oakland’s Dimond District and dream about it out loud. Maybe at some point in the future, they thought.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then a year ago, Neo-Nazis marched in Charlottesville, Virginia, and they felt like they could no longer wait.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>First, they had to break it to their congregations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I saw it on facebook, and instantly I typed back, ‘oh my god, this is exactly what I’ve been looking for,'” said LaSonya Brown, who had been attending Emerson’s church, The Way, for about a year. “I’ll be the first one to join,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brown was raised in a black church with only two white people in it. One was her godfather, who had married into the black community, the other was a white woman who would “speak in tongues, and then translate the tongue.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I never knew her name, but I’ll never forget her,” Brown said. Despite it being different than what she had known before, Brown welcomed the idea of an inclusive congregregation. “I think it was something that I wanted, but I didn’t realize that I wanted it until I saw his post,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At first she thought it was going to happen instantly, just everyone showing up to church together. But it is not that easy to flip the switch on hundreds of years of segregated worship.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s much more complicated than that,” Brown said. “You don’t think that your life is different than somebody else,” but it can be. In an ideal world, she said, people want to think about what they have in common and not their differences.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But we do not live in that ideal world of race relations. “There’s a lot of things that we don’t do in common,” she said. “But we do want to know how to be together.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Each church individually went through months of workshops and classes, owning up to their own fears about what merging would mean.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many people in Pastor Brooks’ white congregation were afraid of being uncomfortable. There was a feeling of discomfort around everything from different hymns, to the service being in a different neighborhood, to different styles of worship. There was also discomfort in having to face up to their responsibility, as white people, in ongoing American racism. Everyone in the church was excited about the merger, but that did not make it easy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pastor Emerson’s congregation was also supportive, and not just because they are largely family. The black congregants of The Way had different fears, fears that they might not be welcomed. Emerson said some of them asked, “will they accept us for who we are?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was afraid that the person that I think I am, is not the person that I really am,” said LaSonya Brown. She worried she might find out she was not as open to difference as she wanted to be, that she might not be the person who saw her Pastor’s post on facebook and declared she would be the first to sign to up for an integrated church.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There have been tests, like tensions over what kind of food to serve at coffee hour. A couple of interactions came off as rude. Brown said she thinks it may be similar to people speaking different languages, and things get lost in translation. They are still learning how to talk to each other.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I remember telling my momma, ‘momma, you know this happened, I might find another church,’ but then every Sunday I go, every Sunday I go,” Brown said. “And I can’t leave my church because I love my church.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her church now, the church she loves, is no longer The Way, because after months of talking and getting to know each other and learning each other’s songs, this past June, the two churches became one: \u003ca href=\"https://www.tapestryoakland.org/\">Tapestry Church\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11686487\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11686487\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/tapestry4_wide-ad4738568a24b0beb932ad6a703f1bedaa646f4d-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/tapestry4_wide-ad4738568a24b0beb932ad6a703f1bedaa646f4d-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/tapestry4_wide-ad4738568a24b0beb932ad6a703f1bedaa646f4d-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/tapestry4_wide-ad4738568a24b0beb932ad6a703f1bedaa646f4d-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/tapestry4_wide-ad4738568a24b0beb932ad6a703f1bedaa646f4d-1200x675.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/tapestry4_wide-ad4738568a24b0beb932ad6a703f1bedaa646f4d-1920x1080.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/tapestry4_wide-ad4738568a24b0beb932ad6a703f1bedaa646f4d-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/tapestry4_wide-ad4738568a24b0beb932ad6a703f1bedaa646f4d-960x540.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/tapestry4_wide-ad4738568a24b0beb932ad6a703f1bedaa646f4d-240x135.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/tapestry4_wide-ad4738568a24b0beb932ad6a703f1bedaa646f4d-375x211.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/tapestry4_wide-ad4738568a24b0beb932ad6a703f1bedaa646f4d-520x293.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pastor Kyle Brooks preaches the Sunday sermon, while Pastor Bernard Emerson listens intently. \u003ccite>(Sandhya Dirks/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Tapestry \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On a recent Sunday morning, about 25 people gathered in an East Oakland school cafeteria with children’s paintings of flowers on the walls.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The pastors say they’ve retained most of their original congregants. Not everyone comes every Sunday. They are still a small church.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brooks and Emerson take turns preaching, but they talk through their sermons together. There’s a melding of worship styles on display. The black church is well known for a vociferous call and response, something Brooks is really excited about. “It helps!” he said. “It’s a dialogue and a feedback.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“One of the cool things I love is that there are some people who have never done it, but inspired by some else, they yell out,” Brooks said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This has been a prayer answered,” said Kim Emerson, Pastor Emerson’s wife. “It was always our dream to have a multi-ethnic church and that wasn’t happening. It sometimes seems like you draw like-minded, or like-looking, people.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, they are drawing some new congregants. After service they hold events like ‘Pizza with Pastors,’ trying to get newcomers to stick around. The pastors tell their origin story, and people stay and eat and talk with each other.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dwight Davis and his husband moved to Oakland 14 years ago. Davis says they have probably visited every church in Oakland, but they keep coming back to Tapestry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re gay people,” Davis said. “So it’s nice to come into a place and not feel everybody’s like, ‘you’re going to burn before me,’ you know?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They had been searching for a diverse congregation, “where the communities came together and we could be apart of both.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Davis says it felt awkward to show up at a traditionally black church, especially with so many African American residents being displaced from Oakland by waves of mostly white newcomers. “You know with the gentrification and everything” Davis said, he felt uncomfortable at some churches, like he was “treading on somebody’s territory.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In these times you want to be sensitive to people’s sanctuary,” he said. “I don’t want to be that one person who interrupts someone’s sanctuary.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The pastors say that integrating America’s most segregated hour is not an easy, one-step process. It can be uncomfortable. There is no magic spell that allows you to snap your fingers and have it all be harmonious overnight.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You’re actually bringing people together who have deep and long and somewhat painful, traumatic histories with each other,” said Brooks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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Ray Kelly said Cowell is being held in protective custody at Santa Rita Jail “based on the severity of his charges and the amount of public attention this case is getting.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s people within the jail, I’m sure if they could take a shot at Mr. Cowell, they probably would based on a lot of the sentiment that’s out there right now,” Kelly said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cowell is expected to be arraigned on Wednesday morning. Kelly said the Sheriff’s Department expects the arraignment will draw large crowds, and the department will likely have extra deputies at the courthouse for security.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 8:30 p.m. Monday:\u003c/strong> BART says its police officers arrested murder suspect John Lee Cowell at the system’s Pleasant Hill Station.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>BART said officers took Cowell into custody “without incident” after an anonymous tip from a passenger. Cowell, who police say was captured on surveillance video Sunday night stabbing two women at Oakland’s MacArthur Station, was aboard an Antioch-bound train when he was arrested.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nia Wilson, 18, of Oakland, died in the Sunday night attack. Her sister, Lahtifa Wilson, 26, was critically injured.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>BART Police Chief Carlos Rojas said during a media briefing in Oakland that two officers found Cowell during a search of the train, which had been held at Pleasant Hill following a passenger’s call that the murder suspect was aboard.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rojas said that Cowell readily admitted his identity and provided a California ID card when officers requested it. Rojas added that Cowell was unarmed when officers detained him around 6:30 p.m.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meantime, a vigil for the stabbing victims at MacArthur Station early Monday evening was followed by a march to downtown Oakland. East Bay Express reporter Darwin BondGraham estimated the crowd that moved south on Telegraph Avenue at 1,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/DarwinBondGraha/status/1021568669002825728\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>KQED’s Alex Helmick said several dozen people later gathered at 20th and Broadway, shouting “Pigs go home,” prompting a contingent of five BART police officers to leave the area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Helicopter video from KTVU and ABC7 showed about 50 people gathered nearby, at 17th Street and Telegraph Avenue, with dozens more facing a police line farther down Broadway.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11682187\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/wilsonvigil180723.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11682187\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/wilsonvigil180723-800x563.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"563\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/wilsonvigil180723-800x563.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/wilsonvigil180723-160x113.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/wilsonvigil180723-1020x718.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/wilsonvigil180723-1200x844.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/wilsonvigil180723.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/wilsonvigil180723-1180x830.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/wilsonvigil180723-960x676.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/wilsonvigil180723-240x169.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/wilsonvigil180723-375x264.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/wilsonvigil180723-520x366.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A vigil for BART stabbing victim Nia Wilson at MacArthur BART turned into a march downtown. Small crowds like this one at 20th Street and Broadway gathered at several locations early Monday evening. \u003ccite>(Alex Helmick/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Original post, last updated 3:30 p.m. Monday:\u003c/strong> Police are searching for a 27-year-old man they say escaped after fatally stabbing an Oakland teenager and seriously wounding her sister at the transit agency’s MacArthur Station.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>BART Police Chief Carlos Rojas said in a media briefing Monday afternoon that the suspect, identified as John Lee Cowell, was seen in surveillance video attacking the two victims, then changing clothes as he fled through a nearby parking structure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>BART also disclosed Monday the deaths of two other patrons that occurred in unrelated incidents over the past week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to a BART statement on the Sunday night stabbing, the suspect boarded a train with the victims at the system’s Concord Station.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>BART said transit police officers who were already at MacArthur were alerted at 9:36 p.m. Sunday about a man with a knife on one the station’s two platforms. When they responded, they found Nia Wilson, 18, of Oakland, and her 26-year-old sister, Lahtifa, suffering from stab wounds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rojas said the two women, along with a third sister, were on the platform to transfer to another train when the suspect approached them with a knife and “struck very rapidly.” He called it “one of the most vicious attacks I’ve seen” in nearly 30 years of police experience.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was reminiscent of a prison yard assault, where you have an individual with a sharp object or a shank,” Rojas said. “And they do their attack so quickly that before anybody can really react, the person takes off running.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nia Wilson died at the scene. Her sister was rushed to a hospital with life-threatening injuries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/meganrcassidy/status/1021296996697559040\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>BART said officers identified Cowell from surveillance images captured by onboard and station platform cameras. They described Cowell as white, 5 feet 8 inches tall, weighing 190 pounds, with short, dark hair and a closely cropped beard and mustache.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rojas said Cowell, who was described as a transient, is “a violent felon who is currently on parole.” He said officers had found a knife they believe to be the weapon used in the attack from a construction site adjacent to MacArthur Station.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11682082\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 204px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/macarthur-murder-suspect-on-platform_original.png\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11682082\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/macarthur-murder-suspect-on-platform_original.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"204\" height=\"416\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/macarthur-murder-suspect-on-platform_original.png 204w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/macarthur-murder-suspect-on-platform_original-160x326.png 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 204px) 100vw, 204px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">BART released this surveillance image of John Lee Cowell, named as the suspect in a fatal Sunday night knife attack at Oakland’s MacArthur Station. \u003ccite>(BART)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>BART police said Cowell should be considered dangerous and anyone who sees him should immediately call 911.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rojas said the motive for the attack was unknown.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Daryle Allums, Nia Wilson’s godfather and a member of Oakland’s “Stop Killing Our Kids” anti-violence group, appeared with Rojas at the media briefing. He said Nia Wilson and her sister “didn’t ask to get cut or stabbed. Those are baby girls. Those are our children.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the midst of social media threads that have pointed to a possible racial motive for a white suspect’s attack on black women, Allums said, “We need the community, especially the African-American community, to stand down. … I’m in fear right now. We don’t know if this was racist, we don’t know if it was random, we don’t know what it was.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said Stop Killing Our Kids would hold a vigil at MacArthur Station from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m. Monday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In answer to a reporter’s question, Rojas said police don’t have any information connecting Cowell to hate groups.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“But that’s something we haven’t taken off the table, and we’ll look into that,” he said. “I know there’s been a lot of conversation on social media regarding that, but I don’t have one piece of evidence that this is race-related.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>BART Discloses Fatalities in Two Other Incidents\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>BART police also reported Monday that they were working to identify a suspect seen in a fatal assault early Saturday at Bay Fair Station in San Leandro. They said that at 1:20 a.m. Saturday, officers responded to a report of a man injured on the station platform.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The transit agency said a review of surveillance images showed that a man struck Don Stevens, 47, on the side of the head with a closed fist after an argument. Stevens struck his head on the concrete floor of the platform.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The best way I could describe it is cold-cocking him in the side of the head,” Rojas said. “It’s completely unexpected.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Police officers performed CPR until paramedics arrived, BART said, but Stevens was declared brain-dead at a local hospital. He was removed from life support and died Sunday afternoon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>BART police describe the suspect as a black male, 5 feet 8 inches tall with a medium build, shoulder-length dreadlocks in a ponytail, and a scruffy beard. The suspect was wearing a white T-shirt and a green jacket at the time of the incident.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11682071\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 606px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/bayfairsuspect.png\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11682071\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/bayfairsuspect.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"606\" height=\"743\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">BART police released this surveillance image of a man they say is a suspect in a fatal assault on another man early Saturday at Bay Fair Station in San Leandro. \u003ccite>(BART)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In a third incident, BART reported that Gerald Busbee, 51, of Pittsburg, died last week two days after suffering what appeared to be minor injuries in an altercation at the Pleasant Hill Station with a fellow passenger identified as Abdul Bey, 20.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rojas said that Busbee was injured in a fight last Wednesday apparently provoked by what he described as “mad-dogging” — a staredown — between the two passengers. Busbee suffered a cut lip and a cut on his knee that Rojas described as about one-eighth of an inch long.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bey was arrested after a lengthy foot pursuit, Rojas said. He was charged at the time with one count of battery on a transit passenger and five counts of resisting arrest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Busbee later went to a local hospital, complaining he wasn’t feeling well, Rojas said. He was sent home after an examination, but was found dead in bed at his home on Friday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The BART chief said an autopsy had determined that the cause of death appeared to be an infection arising from the cut on Busbee’s knee. He said the investigation is ongoing and BART police are conferring with Contra Costa authorities about charges in the case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The three fatal incidents in less than a week appear unprecedented in BART history. The last incident in which a BART passenger died as a result of an attack by a fellow rider occurred in January 2016.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s when Carlos Misael Funez-Romero, 19, of Antioch was \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/10827994/suspect-escaped-after-fatal-bart-shooting-on-saturday-night\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">shot and killed\u003c/a> aboard a San Francisco-bound train pulling into the West Oakland station.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prior to that killing, the most recent homicide aboard BART was believed to have occurred in the late 1990s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Funez-Romero killing has not been solved. However, the incident brought to light the fact that virtually all of the “cameras” aboard BART’s train fleet were actually decoys.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The agency has since installed working cameras on all its cars.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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They described Cowell as white, 5 feet 8 inches tall, weighing 190 pounds, with short, dark hair and a closely cropped beard and mustache.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rojas said Cowell, who was described as a transient, is “a violent felon who is currently on parole.” He said officers had found a knife they believe to be the weapon used in the attack from a construction site adjacent to MacArthur Station.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11682082\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 204px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/macarthur-murder-suspect-on-platform_original.png\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11682082\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/macarthur-murder-suspect-on-platform_original.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"204\" height=\"416\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/macarthur-murder-suspect-on-platform_original.png 204w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/macarthur-murder-suspect-on-platform_original-160x326.png 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 204px) 100vw, 204px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">BART released this surveillance image of John Lee Cowell, named as the suspect in a fatal Sunday night knife attack at Oakland’s MacArthur Station. \u003ccite>(BART)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>BART police said Cowell should be considered dangerous and anyone who sees him should immediately call 911.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rojas said the motive for the attack was unknown.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Daryle Allums, Nia Wilson’s godfather and a member of Oakland’s “Stop Killing Our Kids” anti-violence group, appeared with Rojas at the media briefing. He said Nia Wilson and her sister “didn’t ask to get cut or stabbed. Those are baby girls. Those are our children.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the midst of social media threads that have pointed to a possible racial motive for a white suspect’s attack on black women, Allums said, “We need the community, especially the African-American community, to stand down. … I’m in fear right now. We don’t know if this was racist, we don’t know if it was random, we don’t know what it was.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said Stop Killing Our Kids would hold a vigil at MacArthur Station from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m. Monday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In answer to a reporter’s question, Rojas said police don’t have any information connecting Cowell to hate groups.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“But that’s something we haven’t taken off the table, and we’ll look into that,” he said. “I know there’s been a lot of conversation on social media regarding that, but I don’t have one piece of evidence that this is race-related.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>BART Discloses Fatalities in Two Other Incidents\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>BART police also reported Monday that they were working to identify a suspect seen in a fatal assault early Saturday at Bay Fair Station in San Leandro. 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"content": "\u003cp>The California Supreme Court on Wednesday blocked a \u003ca href=\"https://www.oag.ca.gov/system/files/initiatives/pdfs/17-0018%20%28Three%20Californias%29_1.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ballot initiative, \u003c/a>which proposed splitting California into three separate states, from appearing on the November ballot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The measure was challenged by the Planning and Conservation League, which argued that the split constituted a “major revision” to the state constitution. Such changes can be placed in front of voters only by the state Legislature or a constitutional convention.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/4610515-3-Ca.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">brief order\u003c/a>, the court stated it was pulling the initiative, “because significant questions have been raised regarding the proposition’s validity, and because we conclude that the potential harm in permitting the measure to remain on the ballot outweighs the potential harm in delaying the proposition to a future election.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The order is very unusual and dramatic because it takes the opposition off the ballot,” said Planning and Conservation League executive director Howard Penn in a statement. “The court has done that sparingly in the past.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The initiative, dubbed “Cal 3” by its author, venture capitalist Timothy Draper, proposed breaking the current state into Northern California (from the Oregon border to Santa Cruz), California (the Central Coast and Los Angeles) and Southern California (the Central Valley, Inland Empire and San Diego). Draper collected nearly \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11661950/billionaire-seeks-to-split-california-into-3-states\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">double the number of signatures\u003c/a> needed to place most ballot measures before voters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gaining voter approval in November would have been just the first step in a long road to reality for Draper’s idea, with plenty of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11674665/breaking-up-is-hard-to-do-what-the-proposal-to-split-california-could-learn-from-the-past\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">legal and political hurdles\u003c/a> along the way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Draper’s push for the split centered on the promise of a smaller, more responsive state government.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Whether you agree or not with this initiative, this is not the way democracies are supposed to work,” Draper said in Facebook statement responding to the court’s move. “This kind of corruption is what happens in third world countries.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Opponents of the measure argued that few changes to the constitution are as significant as splitting up the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’d have to write three new constitutions, we’d have to rewrite thousands of laws and regulations, new legislatures, new courts, prisons,” said Steve Maviglio, spokesman for the group opposing Cal 3. “That would amount to billions and billions of dollars.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The court’s order does not rule out the possibility of the measure going before voters in the future.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the justices were unwilling to allow the initiative, labeled Proposition 9, to go before voters while they determined whether such a change could be placed on the ballot through the usual signature-gathering process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a filing last week, Draper told the court that the lawsuit came too late for him to have a “full opportunity to respond,” and that the court should consider the challenge after November.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The lawyers challenging Proposition 9 said the justices had enough information on hand to decide whether the measure should be removed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This post has been updated to include a statement from the initiative’s author.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>Graduation day for Cub Scout Pack 317 in San Jose was different from in years past: For the first time, girls were advancing through the ranks, following a historic decision by the Boy Scouts to let them participate in what had been, for more than a century, a boys-only program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The pack was one of many Scouting units to make the change earlier this year before girls could officially enroll in June in all Cub Scouts programs nationwide. Pack 317 Cubmaster Chris Webb first broached the idea with the boys.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There were a couple of them that gave me kind of a goofy, ‘yuck girls,’ kind of a response. But there wasn’t a really big objection to it,” he said. “The parents were totally on board and we just decided this is the right thing to do. And so far, it’s been great.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These girls are excited to be some of the first involved,” he said, adding that one of them could be the first Eagle Scout — Scouting’s highest honor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That excitement was palpable on graduation day at Baker Elementary School in May, when the girls — like the boys — got their faces painted, received new badges and swapped out their neckerchiefs to show that they’d graduated to the next level.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11680277\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11680277 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/cs_1-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/cs_1-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/cs_1-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/cs_1-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/cs_1-qut-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/cs_1-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/cs_1-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/cs_1-qut-960x640.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/cs_1-qut-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/cs_1-qut-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/cs_1-qut-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Some fun at Baker Elementary School in San Jose with Paige Elorreaga testing out a pogo stick before the graduation festivities began. The girls integrated easily into the pack since they’d already been attending meetings with their brothers who were members and doing a lot of the same activities, said Cubmaster Chris Webb. “But since they weren’t registered, they couldn’t get recognition for the stuff that they were doing,” he said. Now that they are, they can “get the patches and earn the ranks, just like their brothers can.” \u003ccite>(Samantha Shanahan/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11680278\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11680278 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/cs_2-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/cs_2-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/cs_2-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/cs_2-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/cs_2-qut-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/cs_2-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/cs_2-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/cs_2-qut-960x640.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/cs_2-qut-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/cs_2-qut-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/cs_2-qut-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Katia Dyrby, 9, graduated from wolf to bear rank (a pronouncement she made with a growl). “It’s been a great year and I really loved it,” she said. “I love the outdoors activities and the things about nature.” Her brother, Alessio, is in Scouting and said of his sister: “She is an amazing Cub Scout and she’s good at camping and hiking and everything.” When asked if she might one day achieve Eagle rank, Scouting’s highest honor, he said: “Probably.” \u003cem>(Samantha Shanahan/KQED)\u003c/em>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11680280\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11680280 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/cs_3-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/cs_3-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/cs_3-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/cs_3-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/cs_3-qut-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/cs_3-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/cs_3-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/cs_3-qut-960x640.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/cs_3-qut-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/cs_3-qut-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/cs_3-qut-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Shivam Singhal and Samuel Tong prepare the flag for graduation. Under the system set up by the national organization, there are now three types of Cub Scout packs: all-boy packs, all-girl packs and packs that include a mix of girl dens and boy dens — the same model will be used for the older youth in the Boy Scouts (now known as Scouts BSA). Webb, however, said that system wasn’t practical for Pack 317. “I took the initiative to say, ‘Hey, we’re going to fully integrate,’ which is a little outside of the BSA guidelines,” he said. “It’s been fine.” \u003ccite>(Samantha Shanahan/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11680281\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11680281 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/cs_4-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/cs_4-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/cs_4-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/cs_4-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/cs_4-qut-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/cs_4-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/cs_4-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/cs_4-qut-960x640.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/cs_4-qut-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/cs_4-qut-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/cs_4-qut-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Justin Webb prepares the neckerchiefs for the graduates. Scouts enter the tent with the neckerchiefs of their current rank and exit with next year’s rank on their uniforms to signify advancement to the next level. Part of Pack 317’s signing up to be a part of the pilot program is they had to give the girls the opportunity to do their rank advancement, which normally occurs over the period of a school year. With the first girls joining in January, the pack had to condense the advancement program into a few months, Webb said. “We made sure that the den leaders (dens make up a pack) — the parents that are putting on the program — were willing to go through some of the material a second time to make sure that the girls had a chance to finish. And they did great. They actually got through the stuff really quickly.” \u003cem>(Samantha Shanahan/KQED)\u003c/em>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11680282\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11680282 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/cs_5-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/cs_5-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/cs_5-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/cs_5-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/cs_5-qut-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/cs_5-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/cs_5-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/cs_5-qut-960x640.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/cs_5-qut-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/cs_5-qut-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/cs_5-qut-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Paige, 9, said her brother, Logan, inspired her to join Cub Scouts. She likes learning about badges, knots, putting up a tent and making fires. She said she and her parents spoke about how she “could make history by joining Boy Scouts. That feels really good and really awesome.” Logan quipped that the change has made it easier for parents so they can do the Scouting activities together as a family. “It’s better for the parents, too,” his dad, Brian agreed, chuckling. \u003cem>(Samantha Shanahan/KQED)\u003c/em>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11680283\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11680283 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/cs_7-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/cs_7-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/cs_7-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/cs_7-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/cs_7-qut-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/cs_7-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/cs_7-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/cs_7-qut-960x640.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/cs_7-qut-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/cs_7-qut-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/cs_7-qut-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">“I think it’s (being in Scouting) going to give Paige (coming out of tent) a lot of confidence, a lot of good values and morals for growing up and being a strong, powerful woman,” said her father, Brian. \u003cem>(Samantha Shanahan/KQED)\u003c/em>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11680573\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 5760px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11680573\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/180516untitled-4.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"5760\" height=\"3840\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/180516untitled-4.jpg 5760w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/180516untitled-4-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/180516untitled-4-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/180516untitled-4-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/180516untitled-4-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/180516untitled-4-1920x1280.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/180516untitled-4-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/180516untitled-4-960x640.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/180516untitled-4-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/180516untitled-4-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/180516untitled-4-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 5760px) 100vw, 5760px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jenny Barelli, left, used to informally join her brothers at Cub Scouts before the program opened to girls. “She thought all the things that the boys were doing was a lot of fun. When they opened it up to girls we asked her if she wanted to do it and she said, ‘sure.’ We all come, all together on Wednesday night, and it’s really been a fun, fun family activity,” said her mom, Nicole Barelli. Scouting provides her “opportunities to try new things and she’s a very athletic, active girl. They play a lot of games and it just gives her more opportunities to play with kids from our neighborhood.” (Samantha Shanahan/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11680286\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11680286 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/cs_11-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/cs_11-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/cs_11-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/cs_11-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/cs_11-qut-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/cs_11-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/cs_11-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/cs_11-qut-960x640.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/cs_11-qut-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/cs_11-qut-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/cs_11-qut-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cubmaster Chris Webb gives Katia Dyrby the Cub Scout handshake. Girls can join Scouts BSA — the program formerly known as Boy Scouts — in early 2019. Webb said the only concern he has heard from boys about that upcoming change is “maybe the girls might take over some of the leadership positions and take charge. A lot of the boys in that age want to stand back and don’t want to take on those leadership roles. And so now they’ll have to put their game on and compete, right, because the girls are going to come in and really do well.” \u003cem>(Samantha Shanahan/KQED)\u003c/em>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Graduation day for Cub Scout Pack 317 in San Jose was different from in years past: For the first time, girls were advancing through the ranks, following a historic decision by the Boy Scouts to let them participate in what had been, for more than a century, a boys-only program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The pack was one of many Scouting units to make the change earlier this year before girls could officially enroll in June in all Cub Scouts programs nationwide. Pack 317 Cubmaster Chris Webb first broached the idea with the boys.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There were a couple of them that gave me kind of a goofy, ‘yuck girls,’ kind of a response. But there wasn’t a really big objection to it,” he said. “The parents were totally on board and we just decided this is the right thing to do. And so far, it’s been great.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These girls are excited to be some of the first involved,” he said, adding that one of them could be the first Eagle Scout — Scouting’s highest honor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That excitement was palpable on graduation day at Baker Elementary School in May, when the girls — like the boys — got their faces painted, received new badges and swapped out their neckerchiefs to show that they’d graduated to the next level.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11680277\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11680277 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/cs_1-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/cs_1-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/cs_1-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/cs_1-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/cs_1-qut-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/cs_1-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/cs_1-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/cs_1-qut-960x640.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/cs_1-qut-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/cs_1-qut-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/cs_1-qut-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Some fun at Baker Elementary School in San Jose with Paige Elorreaga testing out a pogo stick before the graduation festivities began. The girls integrated easily into the pack since they’d already been attending meetings with their brothers who were members and doing a lot of the same activities, said Cubmaster Chris Webb. “But since they weren’t registered, they couldn’t get recognition for the stuff that they were doing,” he said. Now that they are, they can “get the patches and earn the ranks, just like their brothers can.” \u003ccite>(Samantha Shanahan/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11680278\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11680278 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/cs_2-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/cs_2-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/cs_2-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/cs_2-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/cs_2-qut-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/cs_2-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/cs_2-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/cs_2-qut-960x640.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/cs_2-qut-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/cs_2-qut-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/cs_2-qut-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Katia Dyrby, 9, graduated from wolf to bear rank (a pronouncement she made with a growl). “It’s been a great year and I really loved it,” she said. “I love the outdoors activities and the things about nature.” Her brother, Alessio, is in Scouting and said of his sister: “She is an amazing Cub Scout and she’s good at camping and hiking and everything.” When asked if she might one day achieve Eagle rank, Scouting’s highest honor, he said: “Probably.” \u003cem>(Samantha Shanahan/KQED)\u003c/em>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11680280\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11680280 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/cs_3-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/cs_3-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/cs_3-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/cs_3-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/cs_3-qut-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/cs_3-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/cs_3-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/cs_3-qut-960x640.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/cs_3-qut-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/cs_3-qut-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/cs_3-qut-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Shivam Singhal and Samuel Tong prepare the flag for graduation. Under the system set up by the national organization, there are now three types of Cub Scout packs: all-boy packs, all-girl packs and packs that include a mix of girl dens and boy dens — the same model will be used for the older youth in the Boy Scouts (now known as Scouts BSA). Webb, however, said that system wasn’t practical for Pack 317. “I took the initiative to say, ‘Hey, we’re going to fully integrate,’ which is a little outside of the BSA guidelines,” he said. “It’s been fine.” \u003ccite>(Samantha Shanahan/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11680281\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11680281 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/cs_4-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/cs_4-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/cs_4-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/cs_4-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/cs_4-qut-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/cs_4-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/cs_4-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/cs_4-qut-960x640.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/cs_4-qut-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/cs_4-qut-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/cs_4-qut-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Justin Webb prepares the neckerchiefs for the graduates. Scouts enter the tent with the neckerchiefs of their current rank and exit with next year’s rank on their uniforms to signify advancement to the next level. Part of Pack 317’s signing up to be a part of the pilot program is they had to give the girls the opportunity to do their rank advancement, which normally occurs over the period of a school year. With the first girls joining in January, the pack had to condense the advancement program into a few months, Webb said. “We made sure that the den leaders (dens make up a pack) — the parents that are putting on the program — were willing to go through some of the material a second time to make sure that the girls had a chance to finish. And they did great. They actually got through the stuff really quickly.” \u003cem>(Samantha Shanahan/KQED)\u003c/em>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11680282\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11680282 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/cs_5-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/cs_5-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/cs_5-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/cs_5-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/cs_5-qut-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/cs_5-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/cs_5-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/cs_5-qut-960x640.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/cs_5-qut-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/cs_5-qut-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/cs_5-qut-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Paige, 9, said her brother, Logan, inspired her to join Cub Scouts. She likes learning about badges, knots, putting up a tent and making fires. She said she and her parents spoke about how she “could make history by joining Boy Scouts. That feels really good and really awesome.” Logan quipped that the change has made it easier for parents so they can do the Scouting activities together as a family. “It’s better for the parents, too,” his dad, Brian agreed, chuckling. \u003cem>(Samantha Shanahan/KQED)\u003c/em>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11680283\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11680283 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/cs_7-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/cs_7-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/cs_7-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/cs_7-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/cs_7-qut-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/cs_7-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/cs_7-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/cs_7-qut-960x640.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/cs_7-qut-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/cs_7-qut-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/cs_7-qut-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">“I think it’s (being in Scouting) going to give Paige (coming out of tent) a lot of confidence, a lot of good values and morals for growing up and being a strong, powerful woman,” said her father, Brian. \u003cem>(Samantha Shanahan/KQED)\u003c/em>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11680573\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 5760px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11680573\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/180516untitled-4.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"5760\" height=\"3840\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/180516untitled-4.jpg 5760w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/180516untitled-4-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/180516untitled-4-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/180516untitled-4-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/180516untitled-4-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/180516untitled-4-1920x1280.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/180516untitled-4-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/180516untitled-4-960x640.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/180516untitled-4-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/180516untitled-4-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/180516untitled-4-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 5760px) 100vw, 5760px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jenny Barelli, left, used to informally join her brothers at Cub Scouts before the program opened to girls. “She thought all the things that the boys were doing was a lot of fun. When they opened it up to girls we asked her if she wanted to do it and she said, ‘sure.’ We all come, all together on Wednesday night, and it’s really been a fun, fun family activity,” said her mom, Nicole Barelli. Scouting provides her “opportunities to try new things and she’s a very athletic, active girl. They play a lot of games and it just gives her more opportunities to play with kids from our neighborhood.” (Samantha Shanahan/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11680286\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11680286 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/cs_11-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/cs_11-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/cs_11-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/cs_11-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/cs_11-qut-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/cs_11-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/cs_11-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/cs_11-qut-960x640.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/cs_11-qut-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/cs_11-qut-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/cs_11-qut-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cubmaster Chris Webb gives Katia Dyrby the Cub Scout handshake. Girls can join Scouts BSA — the program formerly known as Boy Scouts — in early 2019. Webb said the only concern he has heard from boys about that upcoming change is “maybe the girls might take over some of the leadership positions and take charge. A lot of the boys in that age want to stand back and don’t want to take on those leadership roles. And so now they’ll have to put their game on and compete, right, because the girls are going to come in and really do well.” \u003cem>(Samantha Shanahan/KQED)\u003c/em>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>“What was the use of my having come from Oakland it was not natural to have come from there yes write about it if I like or any-thing if I like but not there, there is no there there.”\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>— Gertrude Stein, 1937, “Everybody’s Autobiography”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That quote, much abused and shortened, taken out of context and misunderstood, has long been misapplied to Oakland. You’ve probably heard it, maybe even said it yourself, “there is no there there.” But Stein wasn’t talking about some lacunae at the heart of the town. She was talking about her own childhood home, her own neighborhood, that feeling we have when we return to the place where we were young only to find it no longer there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She was talking nostalgically, that the Oakland she knew no longer existed,” Ishmael Reed, the prolific \u003ca href=\"http://ishmaelreed.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Oakland-based novelist\u003c/a>, said, “a lot of people have taken that as a put down.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other writers have been clearly insulting in their takes on Oakland. “Bret Harte, when the earthquake hit, he said it didn’t do much damage in Oakland, because there are some places even the earth won’t swallow,” Reed said. “I mean that’s the kind of hit you get on Oakland.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reed has written around a dozen novels, and that does not include his \u003ca href=\"https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/ishmael-reed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">countless books\u003c/a> of history, poems, criticism and plays. His latest, \u003ca href=\"https://africasacountry.com/2018/06/soul-brother-krishna\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">“Conjugating Hindi”\u003c/a>, set in part in California and Oakland, was published this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Writer Tommy Orange has also just published a book, his first novel, “There There.” It’s been heaped with praise by reviewers and has been on the \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/31/books/tommy-orange-there-there-native-american.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">New York Times\u003c/a> Best Sellers list for the past month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/AAKnopf/status/1007274371923234816\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Orange said he set out to write an Oakland novel, a novel that contained the city he grew up in, which is why he picked the Stein quote. “’There, there’ has been used to say it doesn’t have culture. Or it doesn’t have place, or it doesn’t have a feel to it,” Orange said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a very convenient quote if you’re gentrifying some place, to be like ‘there’s no place there anyway,’ or ‘nobodys from Oakland’,” Orange said. “All the new people here, all the new white people gentrifying, it’s very convenient to have that feeling.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That feeling, Orange said, is just wrong.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This summer, Oakland artists are pushing back against the narrative of an invisible city, for all the world to see. They are portraying the place and the people from here with spectacular and sweeping visions, from a film that uses satirical science fiction to take on capitalism, racism and gentrification, to a story spanning the intertwining lives of urban Native Americans and their deep history in Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sorry To Bother You\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Boots Riley, musician with The Coup, \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/22/magazine/how-boots-riley-infiltrated-hollywood.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">activist, local intellectual and man-about-The-Town\u003c/a>, filmed his movie “Sorry To Bother You” over 28 days last summer in Oakland. Now, after getting attention on the festival circuit, it’s opening nationally.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XeISaoQDh2g\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Riley said growing up in Oakland, he would endlessly \u003ca href=\"https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2018/07/sorry-to-bother-you-boots-riley-oakland\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ride the bus back and forth through the flatlands of the city\u003c/a>. From San Leandro, through East Oakland, all the way down Telegraph Avenue and into Berkeley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The Oakland that I grew up in was one in which we were constantly wanting to be engaged with something bigger than us,” Riley said. “We felt like there was nothing to do, we felt like there weren’t things available to us.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Later, when they got older, they would drive in cars, “we didn’t get on the freeway because that trip was what it was all about, looking for signs of life.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On those long car rides, they would pass boarded up buildings, neighborhoods abandoned by infrastructure, places and people in which the city did not invest. They would also find others like them, say hello while stopped at red lights, whole streams of young people driving in cars, looking for life and each other. It sounds like a scene out of “American Graffiti,” or any of our childhoods, before social media. But Riley said because these were black teenagers, Oakland passed anti-cruising laws, making what for so many was a rite of passage into an illegal activity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That didn’t stop culture and creativity from creeping up through cracks in the concrete. The young people of Oakland made music, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11668394/spinning-rims-spinning-cars-the-history-of-the-oakland-sideshow\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">staged sideshows\u003c/a>, invented \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQRRnAhmB58\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">turfing\u003c/a>, a specific style of street dancing known for its fluid and hypnotic movements, and created a new genre of hip-hop that came to be called hyphy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Riley said the city and local businesses continually put up bars to access and inclusion. Even when they had the artists and wanted to set up shows, the city wouldn’t approve permits for them, or would make them prohibitively expensive to put on. There was a fear of black people gathering en masse, he said. It wasn’t just the anti-cruising laws, it was also clamp downs on events like Festival at The Lake.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Refusing access to places, has been a big part of my growing up,” Riley said. He said that was especially true when it came to music.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The most glaring example for Riley is \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Oakland-Pulls-Plug-on-Rap-Concert-City-rejects-2983526.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tupac Shakur\u003c/a>, who many claim as Oakland’s own. “Tupac couldn’t perform in Oakland,” Riley said. “They wouldn’t let it happen. The venues that existed in Oakland, wouldn’t do hip-hop.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was not that there was “no there there” for Riley, it was that systems of power and economic forces were working very hard against people being anywhere. If they were black.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://youtu.be/X3mUlxpeLUg\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Fighting Cliched Representation \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Boots Riley’s film is now available to audiences across the country, representing Oakland to the world at large.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Feeling represented, feeling seen, is important, Riley said. He remembers when Sheila E. came back to her high school, Oakland High, where Riley was a student, to pass out tickets to her new movie, \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yjEJ5UqH0pY\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Krush Groove\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She came to the school in her full Prince-style regalia,” he said. “It seemed like there was a light around her as she walked through the hall, like of your high school!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That meant that we meant something,” he said. “We were told so much that we are insignificant. Through life, and what we see on television or in the movies.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Representation is important, but for Riley making this movie is about more than reflecting Oakland back to the people who live here. Representation is also about how Oakland appears to the outside world. Not just with images of the city and its residents, but the radical politics that thrive here, from the Black Panthers to Occupy Oakland to Black Lives Matter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m fighting cliche,” Riley said. “Usually when we make something, we tend to fall into the conventions of the people that have done it before.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Representation on the left has problems of its own, Riley said. For him, diversifying representation is not enough. “Even on the left, we’ve moved away from class struggle in the last 50 years and started talking about things in terms of people’s personalities,” he said. “As an effect of the McCarthy era, even in places like public radio, people won’t put out an idea that makes them look like they might be a communist. So they water down their philosophy so much, that we lie to people, we tell each other that the way to change things is by letting our voice be heard.” This perpetuates a myth that representation — that ‘\u003ca href=\"http://www.pulitzer.org/article/not-giving-voice-voiceless\">giving voice to the voiceless\u003c/a>‘ as the cliche has it — is enough. For Riley, representation without rigorous class analysis, without tools for reshaping the power dynamics that cage the working class from the ruling class, can never be enough.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Art, Riley said, has the power to reshape our conceptions, even to spread the message that power structures can be dismantled by the withholding of labor. “Much of what we believe about the world, like what we envision of the world, is formed by works of art: Movies, TV.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And yes, sometimes that does start with the way we see places. “Like I’ve never been to Delhi,” Riley said. “I’ve a picture in my head of what it looks like and that picture is not even from the news, it’s probably from James Bond movies, with really racist ideas about it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland has not been immune from these kinds of racist, outsider representations. When President Donald Trump was a candidate, he was asked by the \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/22/magazine/donald-trump-primary-win.html?_r=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">New York Times where the most dangerous place he had ever been to was\u003c/a>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>“There are places in America that are among the most dangerous in the world,” Trump responded. “You go to places like Oakland. Or Ferguson. The crime numbers are worse. Seriously.”\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Oakland did have a high crime rate in the 1990’s and in the 2000’s, but the crime, and murder rate, has dropped significantly in recent years. It is not, by these statistics, one of the most dangerous cities in the United States, let alone the entire world.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But those broad brush strokes have shaped Oakland’s image for a long time, often erasing the culture, political and artistic, of people here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Writer Tommy Orange is all too familiar with that myth of Oakland. “People know of Oakland, but it was like the murder capital in the 90’s and sort of has that representation,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Orange wanted to find different representations of his hometown. He searched for Oakland novels while writing his book, and was surprised to find so few.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A lot of writing this,” Orange said, “came from the native invisibility, and then the Oakland invisibility thing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>There There\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Orange, the Gertrude Stein quote speaks not just to the invisibility of Oakland, but the invisibility of native people, especially in cities. “For native people, similarly, we live on land that has been changed from what it was,” Orange said. “The novel is about identity and native identity, and figuring out how we make sense of living in the city.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Orange came into an understanding of his identity, as what he calls an urban Indian, over time. Urban Indian is a term that has come to refer to native people who have moved and relocated, whether by force or choice, to cities and metropolitan areas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I would always say I’m native, but I’d probably say I’m half,” he said. “Because as a native person you’re constantly have to qualify yourself, or how much, or you’re actually being directly asked how much you are.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I knew my mom was white and my dad was Indian,” he said. “It was a conflict in the house to some extent, and I knew it was a deep conflict based on history, and that was just something that I always knew.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But what he didn’t always know was where he fit. “There’s a difference identity-wise, if you were born on the rez, and you’re part of…” he pauses. “If you’re from a reservation you’re surrounded by people of your same tribe. People from the city, who grew up in the city, not only are you not around your tribe, you’re around a lot of non-Indian people.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Orange’s parents divorced when he was 13-years-old, and he said his teenage years were hard. But in 2005, he got a job at the \u003ca href=\"http://www.nativehealth.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Native American Health Center\u003c/a> in Oakland, and found the urban Indian community here, “I felt that sense of belonging again, and belonging to a community of people that were like me,” he said. “I didn’t even know that community existed.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It definitely changed me in a big way to feel like, oh there’s other people like me here, and there’s a long history of us being here,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11679459\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11679459\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/therethere-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A copy of Tommy Orange's "There There," a first novel from the author, which has been on the New York Times Best Sellers list for the past month.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A copy of Tommy Orange’s “There There,” a first novel from the author, which has been on the New York Times Best Sellers list for the past month. \u003ccite>(Sandhya Dirks/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>He writes of that community in “There There”:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We bought and rented homes, slept on the streets, under freeways, we went to school, joined the armed forces, populated Indian bars in the Fruitvale in Oakland, and in the Mission in San Francisco. We lived in boxcar villages in Richmond. We made art and we made babies and we made way for our people to go back and forth between reservation and city. We did not move to cities to die. The sidewalks and streets, the concrete absorbed our heaviness. The glass, metal, rubber and wires, the speed, the hurtling masses—the city took us in.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Giving representation to the urban Indian, Orange said, is a big part of why he wrote this book. “It’s a totally different experience being an urban Indian than it is being a rez Indian, and so much of representation is based on reservation Indians or historical Indians,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It risks being erased, if all you can refer to as self is historical — then you’re basically already gone.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gone, as in not there at all.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Here, Here\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are these subtle parallels between the experiences of exclusion and the search for significance and belonging in both Riley’s and Orange’s childhoods, and in their paths to storytelling.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But of course, the biggest parallel, is that they are both telling stories grounded in their Oaklands, which both are, and are not, the same place. Maybe it is a coincidence, that in the same summer, their work is finding acclaim before a national audience. Oakland seems to be having a moment in the zeitgeist.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Riley said that isn’t just happening in books and movies. His socialist and communist ideologies, of dismantling capitalism through withholding labor, are finding a foothold in national politics. Which is why Riley said despite everything that is happening in American politics right now, he is hopeful. “The population is much more radical than the democratic party,” Riley said. “There was a right wing think tank that did this study of millennials and they were \u003ca href=\"http://www.foxnews.com/us/2017/11/03/millennials-think-socialism-would-create-great-safe-space-study-finds.html\">up in arms\u003c/a> at the results,” Riley said. “The results were that \u003ca href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/sep/02/socialism-young-americans-bernie-sanders\">one in two millennials think this should be a socialist society\u003c/a>, and that gives me hope.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11679334\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11679334\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/GettyImages-986802002-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Director Boots Riley attends the Film Independent At LACMA Presents Screening And Q&A Of 'Sorry To Bother You' at Bing Theater At LACMA on June 28, 2018 in Los Angeles, California.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Director Boots Riley attends the Film Independent At LACMA Presents Screening And Q&A Of ‘Sorry To Bother You’ at Bing Theater At LACMA on June 28, 2018 in Los Angeles, California. \u003ccite>(Tommaso Boddi/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Riley sees artists like himself being embraced as part of a deeper change in radical representation. Tommy Orange also sees his success as part of a larger phenomenon, both of Native writers, and of the city he is from.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Oakland’s having a great year,” Orange said. He’s referring not only to Riley and himself, but also a certain hometown basketball team. “And hopefully that will not be a wave that comes and goes and recedes.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Recently Orange had his own Gertrude Stein moment, going back to the street he grew up on. But unlike with Stein, his house was still there. He took his wife and son, and they had a picnic near his childhood home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It looked totally small, because when you go back to things from your childhood you just feel big, because you are bigger,” he said. “But there’s also something about memory and the way size and scope changes.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There was another change he noticed too, “the money that has come into Oakland, has changed the street. It was a lot nicer than I remember it,” he laughed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Orange said the people still felt very much the same. But that isn’t true for everyone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland writer Ishmael Reed said he doesn’t recognize his neighborhood anymore. “This used to be a black neighborhood,” he said. “It’s now, no longer that. Everybody knew everybody, it was like more of a family neighborhood. But now, people seem to be alienated.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here comes the classic moment in any Oakland story, that always turns the knife. The city in which both Riley and Orange were raised is changing. And for many Native and black people, it is no longer affordable. At the same moment that these storytellers are gaining national attention for their work about diverse and complicated Oakland, it has become less and less possible for black and Native people to afford to live here. In the glow of all this representation, of them showing the \u003cem>there\u003c/em> that is \u003cem>here\u003c/em>, the people that have been here all along, can’t always stay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tommy Orange and his family do not live in Oakland, because he has not been able to afford the steadily rising rents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re currently live out in Angels Camp,” he said. “Were thinking of moving back in the fall, because now we can afford it. And we haven’t been able to move back, because we haven’t been able to afford it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, with the success of his new book, he may just be able to come back. Writing a book about his beloved Oakland, may have provided him the resources to return home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If we make it back in the fall,” Orange said, “I’ll think of it like that. Like Oakland allowed me to come back.”\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp>Orange said he set out to write an Oakland novel, a novel that contained the city he grew up in, which is why he picked the Stein quote. “’There, there’ has been used to say it doesn’t have culture. Or it doesn’t have place, or it doesn’t have a feel to it,” Orange said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a very convenient quote if you’re gentrifying some place, to be like ‘there’s no place there anyway,’ or ‘nobodys from Oakland’,” Orange said. “All the new people here, all the new white people gentrifying, it’s very convenient to have that feeling.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That feeling, Orange said, is just wrong.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This summer, Oakland artists are pushing back against the narrative of an invisible city, for all the world to see. They are portraying the place and the people from here with spectacular and sweeping visions, from a film that uses satirical science fiction to take on capitalism, racism and gentrification, to a story spanning the intertwining lives of urban Native Americans and their deep history in Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sorry To Bother You\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Boots Riley, musician with The Coup, \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/22/magazine/how-boots-riley-infiltrated-hollywood.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">activist, local intellectual and man-about-The-Town\u003c/a>, filmed his movie “Sorry To Bother You” over 28 days last summer in Oakland. Now, after getting attention on the festival circuit, it’s opening nationally.\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/XeISaoQDh2g'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/XeISaoQDh2g'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>Riley said growing up in Oakland, he would endlessly \u003ca href=\"https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2018/07/sorry-to-bother-you-boots-riley-oakland\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ride the bus back and forth through the flatlands of the city\u003c/a>. From San Leandro, through East Oakland, all the way down Telegraph Avenue and into Berkeley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The Oakland that I grew up in was one in which we were constantly wanting to be engaged with something bigger than us,” Riley said. “We felt like there was nothing to do, we felt like there weren’t things available to us.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Later, when they got older, they would drive in cars, “we didn’t get on the freeway because that trip was what it was all about, looking for signs of life.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On those long car rides, they would pass boarded up buildings, neighborhoods abandoned by infrastructure, places and people in which the city did not invest. They would also find others like them, say hello while stopped at red lights, whole streams of young people driving in cars, looking for life and each other. It sounds like a scene out of “American Graffiti,” or any of our childhoods, before social media. But Riley said because these were black teenagers, Oakland passed anti-cruising laws, making what for so many was a rite of passage into an illegal activity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That didn’t stop culture and creativity from creeping up through cracks in the concrete. The young people of Oakland made music, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11668394/spinning-rims-spinning-cars-the-history-of-the-oakland-sideshow\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">staged sideshows\u003c/a>, invented \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQRRnAhmB58\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">turfing\u003c/a>, a specific style of street dancing known for its fluid and hypnotic movements, and created a new genre of hip-hop that came to be called hyphy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Riley said the city and local businesses continually put up bars to access and inclusion. Even when they had the artists and wanted to set up shows, the city wouldn’t approve permits for them, or would make them prohibitively expensive to put on. There was a fear of black people gathering en masse, he said. It wasn’t just the anti-cruising laws, it was also clamp downs on events like Festival at The Lake.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Refusing access to places, has been a big part of my growing up,” Riley said. He said that was especially true when it came to music.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The most glaring example for Riley is \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Oakland-Pulls-Plug-on-Rap-Concert-City-rejects-2983526.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tupac Shakur\u003c/a>, who many claim as Oakland’s own. “Tupac couldn’t perform in Oakland,” Riley said. “They wouldn’t let it happen. The venues that existed in Oakland, wouldn’t do hip-hop.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was not that there was “no there there” for Riley, it was that systems of power and economic forces were working very hard against people being anywhere. If they were black.\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/X3mUlxpeLUg'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/X3mUlxpeLUg'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Fighting Cliched Representation \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Boots Riley’s film is now available to audiences across the country, representing Oakland to the world at large.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Feeling represented, feeling seen, is important, Riley said. He remembers when Sheila E. came back to her high school, Oakland High, where Riley was a student, to pass out tickets to her new movie, \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yjEJ5UqH0pY\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Krush Groove\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She came to the school in her full Prince-style regalia,” he said. “It seemed like there was a light around her as she walked through the hall, like of your high school!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That meant that we meant something,” he said. “We were told so much that we are insignificant. Through life, and what we see on television or in the movies.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Representation is important, but for Riley making this movie is about more than reflecting Oakland back to the people who live here. Representation is also about how Oakland appears to the outside world. Not just with images of the city and its residents, but the radical politics that thrive here, from the Black Panthers to Occupy Oakland to Black Lives Matter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m fighting cliche,” Riley said. “Usually when we make something, we tend to fall into the conventions of the people that have done it before.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Representation on the left has problems of its own, Riley said. For him, diversifying representation is not enough. “Even on the left, we’ve moved away from class struggle in the last 50 years and started talking about things in terms of people’s personalities,” he said. “As an effect of the McCarthy era, even in places like public radio, people won’t put out an idea that makes them look like they might be a communist. So they water down their philosophy so much, that we lie to people, we tell each other that the way to change things is by letting our voice be heard.” This perpetuates a myth that representation — that ‘\u003ca href=\"http://www.pulitzer.org/article/not-giving-voice-voiceless\">giving voice to the voiceless\u003c/a>‘ as the cliche has it — is enough. For Riley, representation without rigorous class analysis, without tools for reshaping the power dynamics that cage the working class from the ruling class, can never be enough.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Art, Riley said, has the power to reshape our conceptions, even to spread the message that power structures can be dismantled by the withholding of labor. “Much of what we believe about the world, like what we envision of the world, is formed by works of art: Movies, TV.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And yes, sometimes that does start with the way we see places. “Like I’ve never been to Delhi,” Riley said. “I’ve a picture in my head of what it looks like and that picture is not even from the news, it’s probably from James Bond movies, with really racist ideas about it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland has not been immune from these kinds of racist, outsider representations. When President Donald Trump was a candidate, he was asked by the \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/22/magazine/donald-trump-primary-win.html?_r=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">New York Times where the most dangerous place he had ever been to was\u003c/a>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>“There are places in America that are among the most dangerous in the world,” Trump responded. “You go to places like Oakland. Or Ferguson. The crime numbers are worse. Seriously.”\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Oakland did have a high crime rate in the 1990’s and in the 2000’s, but the crime, and murder rate, has dropped significantly in recent years. It is not, by these statistics, one of the most dangerous cities in the United States, let alone the entire world.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But those broad brush strokes have shaped Oakland’s image for a long time, often erasing the culture, political and artistic, of people here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Writer Tommy Orange is all too familiar with that myth of Oakland. “People know of Oakland, but it was like the murder capital in the 90’s and sort of has that representation,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Orange wanted to find different representations of his hometown. He searched for Oakland novels while writing his book, and was surprised to find so few.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A lot of writing this,” Orange said, “came from the native invisibility, and then the Oakland invisibility thing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>There There\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Orange, the Gertrude Stein quote speaks not just to the invisibility of Oakland, but the invisibility of native people, especially in cities. “For native people, similarly, we live on land that has been changed from what it was,” Orange said. “The novel is about identity and native identity, and figuring out how we make sense of living in the city.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Orange came into an understanding of his identity, as what he calls an urban Indian, over time. Urban Indian is a term that has come to refer to native people who have moved and relocated, whether by force or choice, to cities and metropolitan areas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I would always say I’m native, but I’d probably say I’m half,” he said. “Because as a native person you’re constantly have to qualify yourself, or how much, or you’re actually being directly asked how much you are.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I knew my mom was white and my dad was Indian,” he said. “It was a conflict in the house to some extent, and I knew it was a deep conflict based on history, and that was just something that I always knew.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But what he didn’t always know was where he fit. “There’s a difference identity-wise, if you were born on the rez, and you’re part of…” he pauses. “If you’re from a reservation you’re surrounded by people of your same tribe. People from the city, who grew up in the city, not only are you not around your tribe, you’re around a lot of non-Indian people.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Orange’s parents divorced when he was 13-years-old, and he said his teenage years were hard. But in 2005, he got a job at the \u003ca href=\"http://www.nativehealth.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Native American Health Center\u003c/a> in Oakland, and found the urban Indian community here, “I felt that sense of belonging again, and belonging to a community of people that were like me,” he said. “I didn’t even know that community existed.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It definitely changed me in a big way to feel like, oh there’s other people like me here, and there’s a long history of us being here,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11679459\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11679459\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/therethere-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A copy of Tommy Orange's "There There," a first novel from the author, which has been on the New York Times Best Sellers list for the past month.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A copy of Tommy Orange’s “There There,” a first novel from the author, which has been on the New York Times Best Sellers list for the past month. \u003ccite>(Sandhya Dirks/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>He writes of that community in “There There”:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We bought and rented homes, slept on the streets, under freeways, we went to school, joined the armed forces, populated Indian bars in the Fruitvale in Oakland, and in the Mission in San Francisco. We lived in boxcar villages in Richmond. We made art and we made babies and we made way for our people to go back and forth between reservation and city. We did not move to cities to die. The sidewalks and streets, the concrete absorbed our heaviness. The glass, metal, rubber and wires, the speed, the hurtling masses—the city took us in.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Giving representation to the urban Indian, Orange said, is a big part of why he wrote this book. “It’s a totally different experience being an urban Indian than it is being a rez Indian, and so much of representation is based on reservation Indians or historical Indians,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It risks being erased, if all you can refer to as self is historical — then you’re basically already gone.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gone, as in not there at all.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Here, Here\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are these subtle parallels between the experiences of exclusion and the search for significance and belonging in both Riley’s and Orange’s childhoods, and in their paths to storytelling.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But of course, the biggest parallel, is that they are both telling stories grounded in their Oaklands, which both are, and are not, the same place. Maybe it is a coincidence, that in the same summer, their work is finding acclaim before a national audience. Oakland seems to be having a moment in the zeitgeist.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Riley said that isn’t just happening in books and movies. His socialist and communist ideologies, of dismantling capitalism through withholding labor, are finding a foothold in national politics. Which is why Riley said despite everything that is happening in American politics right now, he is hopeful. “The population is much more radical than the democratic party,” Riley said. “There was a right wing think tank that did this study of millennials and they were \u003ca href=\"http://www.foxnews.com/us/2017/11/03/millennials-think-socialism-would-create-great-safe-space-study-finds.html\">up in arms\u003c/a> at the results,” Riley said. “The results were that \u003ca href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/sep/02/socialism-young-americans-bernie-sanders\">one in two millennials think this should be a socialist society\u003c/a>, and that gives me hope.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11679334\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11679334\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/GettyImages-986802002-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Director Boots Riley attends the Film Independent At LACMA Presents Screening And Q&A Of 'Sorry To Bother You' at Bing Theater At LACMA on June 28, 2018 in Los Angeles, California.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Director Boots Riley attends the Film Independent At LACMA Presents Screening And Q&A Of ‘Sorry To Bother You’ at Bing Theater At LACMA on June 28, 2018 in Los Angeles, California. \u003ccite>(Tommaso Boddi/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Riley sees artists like himself being embraced as part of a deeper change in radical representation. Tommy Orange also sees his success as part of a larger phenomenon, both of Native writers, and of the city he is from.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Oakland’s having a great year,” Orange said. He’s referring not only to Riley and himself, but also a certain hometown basketball team. “And hopefully that will not be a wave that comes and goes and recedes.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Recently Orange had his own Gertrude Stein moment, going back to the street he grew up on. But unlike with Stein, his house was still there. He took his wife and son, and they had a picnic near his childhood home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It looked totally small, because when you go back to things from your childhood you just feel big, because you are bigger,” he said. “But there’s also something about memory and the way size and scope changes.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There was another change he noticed too, “the money that has come into Oakland, has changed the street. It was a lot nicer than I remember it,” he laughed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Orange said the people still felt very much the same. But that isn’t true for everyone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland writer Ishmael Reed said he doesn’t recognize his neighborhood anymore. “This used to be a black neighborhood,” he said. “It’s now, no longer that. Everybody knew everybody, it was like more of a family neighborhood. But now, people seem to be alienated.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here comes the classic moment in any Oakland story, that always turns the knife. The city in which both Riley and Orange were raised is changing. And for many Native and black people, it is no longer affordable. At the same moment that these storytellers are gaining national attention for their work about diverse and complicated Oakland, it has become less and less possible for black and Native people to afford to live here. In the glow of all this representation, of them showing the \u003cem>there\u003c/em> that is \u003cem>here\u003c/em>, the people that have been here all along, can’t always stay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tommy Orange and his family do not live in Oakland, because he has not been able to afford the steadily rising rents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re currently live out in Angels Camp,” he said. “Were thinking of moving back in the fall, because now we can afford it. And we haven’t been able to move back, because we haven’t been able to afford it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, with the success of his new book, he may just be able to come back. Writing a book about his beloved Oakland, may have provided him the resources to return home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>A large group of people gathered at Lake Merritt in Oakland on Sunday for what organizers say will be a monthly event throughout the summer: “BBQ’n While Black.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13832886/were-still-here-bbqn-while-black-draws-out-oaklanders-in-force\">first “BBQ’n While Black” event\u003c/a> happened in May after an incident in which a white woman called the police on a black Oakland resident who was barbecuing at the lake.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While that first event was a kind of protest, organizers say the goal has evolved. Now, they want to remind people that Oakland’s identity is rooted strongly in black community and culture.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People have been barbecuing at the lake since the beginning of the lake’s creation,” says organizer Logan Cortez, who was born and raised in Oakland. “So it’s just really a celebration of what we’ve always been doing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Throughout the cloudy afternoon, families grilled burgers and hot dogs; DJs played music; and local vendors sold clothes, food and artwork.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11678578\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11678578 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/1-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Imani Baylor runs a vintage clothing business called Eccentric Vibes. She says the event feels like a family reunion. 'It's magnetic. People are walking down the street and you hear, "Hey queen! What up, cousin! Hey, nephew!" It’s like we are all family here.'\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/1-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/1-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/1-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/1-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/1-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/1-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/1-960x720.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/1-240x180.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/1-375x281.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/1-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Imani Baylor runs a vintage clothing business called Eccentric Vibes. She says the event feels like a family reunion. ‘It’s magnetic. People are walking down the street and you hear, “Hey queen! What up, cousin! Hey, nephew!” It’s like we are all family here.’ \u003ccite>(Muna Danish/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11678579\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11678579 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/2-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"(L-R) Terrance Smith, Brandon Dawkins and Will Morrison grill some burgers at Lake Merritt on Sunday. Smith moved here from Louisiana 20 years ago. 'No matter where we’re from, we are all Oakland, and we’re not going anywhere, and there’s nothing they can do to change that.'\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/2-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/2-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/2-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/2-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/2-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/2-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/2-960x720.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/2-240x180.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/2-375x281.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/2-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">(L-R) Terrance Smith, Brandon Dawkins and Will Morrison grill some burgers at Lake Merritt on Sunday. Smith moved here from Louisiana 20 years ago. ‘No matter where we’re from, we are all Oakland, and we’re not going anywhere, and there’s nothing they can do to change that.’ \u003ccite>(Muna Danish/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11678580\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11678580 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/3-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Sharon Myatt is 56 years old and moved to San Ramon from Oakland six years ago. She says she grew up skating around the lake. After leaving Oakland she says the incident in April has helped reunite black people at the lake. 'I’m from San Ramon, and you can see I came back ... This is where I was born.'\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/3-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/3-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/3-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/3-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/3-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/3-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/3-960x720.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/3-240x180.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/3-375x281.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/3-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sharon Myatt is 56 years old and moved to San Ramon from Oakland six years ago. She says she grew up skating around the lake. After leaving Oakland she says the incident in April has helped reunite black people at the lake. ‘I’m from San Ramon, and you can see I came back … This is where I was born.’ \u003ccite>(Muna Danish/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11678581\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11678581 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/4-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"(L-R) Organizer Jhamel Morrison and DJ Gas Ken. Morrison: 'We didn't want to just make it about an issue, but you can just come and hang out and now people look forward to something. It's an opportunity for us to mingle.' He says people from all over the Bay Area came to the event on Sunday. \" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/4-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/4-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/4-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/4-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/4-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/4-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/4-960x720.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/4-240x180.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/4-375x281.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/4-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">(L-R) Organizer Jhamel Morrison and DJ Gas Ken. Morrison: ‘We didn’t want to just make it about an issue, but you can just come and hang out and now people look forward to something. It’s an opportunity for us to mingle.’ He says people from all over the Bay Area came to the event on Sunday. \u003ccite>(Muna Danish/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11678583\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11678583 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/6-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"(L-R) Aljernon Olden and Martha Olden are both from Oakland and celebrated getting married last week. They came to the event for the 'good energy, good positive vibes and a lot of black people.' \" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/6-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/6-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/6-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/6-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/6-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/6-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/6-960x720.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/6-240x180.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/6-375x281.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/6-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">(L-R) Aljernon Olden and Martha Olden are both from Oakland and celebrated getting married last week. They came to the event for the ‘good energy, good positive vibes and a lot of black people.’ \u003ccite>(Muna Danish/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11678584\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11678584 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/7-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Kumi Rauf is selling t-shirts with his business 'I Love Being Black' that he started in the '90s. 'We can’t complain about not enough positivity out there if we are not creating it ourselves.'\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/7-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/7-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/7-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/7-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/7-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/7-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/7-960x720.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/7-240x180.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/7-375x281.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/7-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kumi Rauf is selling t-shirts with his business ‘I Love Being Black’ that he started in the ’90s. ‘We can’t complain about not enough positivity out there if we are not creating it ourselves.’ \u003ccite>(Muna Danish/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11678585\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11678585 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/8-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"People gathered at Lake Merritt on Sunday to celebrate black community and culture.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/8-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/8-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/8-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/8-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/8-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/8-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/8-960x720.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/8-240x180.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/8-375x281.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/8-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">People gathered at Lake Merritt on Sunday to celebrate black community and culture. \u003ccite>(Muna Danish/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>A large group of people gathered at Lake Merritt in Oakland on Sunday for what organizers say will be a monthly event throughout the summer: “BBQ’n While Black.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13832886/were-still-here-bbqn-while-black-draws-out-oaklanders-in-force\">first “BBQ’n While Black” event\u003c/a> happened in May after an incident in which a white woman called the police on a black Oakland resident who was barbecuing at the lake.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While that first event was a kind of protest, organizers say the goal has evolved. Now, they want to remind people that Oakland’s identity is rooted strongly in black community and culture.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People have been barbecuing at the lake since the beginning of the lake’s creation,” says organizer Logan Cortez, who was born and raised in Oakland. “So it’s just really a celebration of what we’ve always been doing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Throughout the cloudy afternoon, families grilled burgers and hot dogs; DJs played music; and local vendors sold clothes, food and artwork.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11678578\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11678578 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/1-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Imani Baylor runs a vintage clothing business called Eccentric Vibes. She says the event feels like a family reunion. 'It's magnetic. People are walking down the street and you hear, "Hey queen! What up, cousin! Hey, nephew!" It’s like we are all family here.'\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/1-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/1-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/1-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/1-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/1-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/1-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/1-960x720.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/1-240x180.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/1-375x281.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/1-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Imani Baylor runs a vintage clothing business called Eccentric Vibes. 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'No matter where we’re from, we are all Oakland, and we’re not going anywhere, and there’s nothing they can do to change that.'\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/2-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/2-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/2-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/2-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/2-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/2-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/2-960x720.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/2-240x180.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/2-375x281.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/2-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">(L-R) Terrance Smith, Brandon Dawkins and Will Morrison grill some burgers at Lake Merritt on Sunday. 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This is where I was born.'\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/3-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/3-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/3-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/3-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/3-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/3-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/3-960x720.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/3-240x180.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/3-375x281.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/3-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sharon Myatt is 56 years old and moved to San Ramon from Oakland six years ago. She says she grew up skating around the lake. After leaving Oakland she says the incident in April has helped reunite black people at the lake. ‘I’m from San Ramon, and you can see I came back … This is where I was born.’ \u003ccite>(Muna Danish/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11678581\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11678581 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/4-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"(L-R) Organizer Jhamel Morrison and DJ Gas Ken. Morrison: 'We didn't want to just make it about an issue, but you can just come and hang out and now people look forward to something. It's an opportunity for us to mingle.' 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Morrison: ‘We didn’t want to just make it about an issue, but you can just come and hang out and now people look forward to something. It’s an opportunity for us to mingle.’ He says people from all over the Bay Area came to the event on Sunday. \u003ccite>(Muna Danish/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11678583\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11678583 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/6-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"(L-R) Aljernon Olden and Martha Olden are both from Oakland and celebrated getting married last week. 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They came to the event for the ‘good energy, good positive vibes and a lot of black people.’ \u003ccite>(Muna Danish/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11678584\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11678584 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/7-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Kumi Rauf is selling t-shirts with his business 'I Love Being Black' that he started in the '90s. 'We can’t complain about not enough positivity out there if we are not creating it ourselves.'\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/7-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/7-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/7-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/7-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/7-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/7-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/7-960x720.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/7-240x180.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/7-375x281.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/7-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kumi Rauf is selling t-shirts with his business ‘I Love Being Black’ that he started in the ’90s. ‘We can’t complain about not enough positivity out there if we are not creating it ourselves.’ \u003ccite>(Muna Danish/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11678585\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11678585 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/8-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"People gathered at Lake Merritt on Sunday to celebrate black community and culture.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/8-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/8-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/8-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/8-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/8-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/8-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/8-960x720.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/8-240x180.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/8-375x281.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/8-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">People gathered at Lake Merritt on Sunday to celebrate black community and culture. \u003ccite>(Muna Danish/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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