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For him, it’s symbolic of unity in the community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 510 die-hards can take heart from the fact that only new residents will be assigned the 341 area code that goes into effect in July 2019. East Bay residents, like Sykes, who currently have 510 will get to keep it, but they will still have to get used to dialing 341 for new phone numbers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite local attachment to 510, the decision to introduce a new number was made out of necessity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the \u003ca href=\"https://www.nationalnanpa.com/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">North American Numbering Plan Administration\u003c/a>, it was predicted that the area using 510 would soon exhaust the available numbers with that area code. That can happen when there's \"\u003ca href=\"https://www.nationalnanpa.com/relief_planning/FAQs_Area_Code_Relief.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">increased consumer demand for regular telephones in homes and offices\u003c/a>,\" and new technologies, like cell phones and internet modems, that need numbers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think the distinction is people who are 510 still can retain their 510 number, which means Oakland can still retain its 510 or its 510 identity,” John Jones III said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jones, director of community and political engagement at East Oakland Black Cultural Zone, was born and raised in Oakland. 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"content": "\u003cp>On the first Tuesday in August, police officers and neighbors come together on sidewalks and in parking lots around the country for \u003ca href=\"https://natw.org/about\">National Night Out.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Part barbecue, part block party, these yearly events are meant to create a sense of security and to help support community policing. National Night Out, which grew out of a volunteer's efforts in the Philadelphia suburbs in the late 1970s, began in 1984 in 400 places around the country as part of a drive to increase community and neighborhood watch efforts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Zachary Norris went to a few National Night Out events with his sister. “For years she went, not because she was excited about the way police were treating communities, but because she saw break-ins on her street,” Norris said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Norris, now the head of the \u003ca href=\"https://ellabakercenter.org/\">Ella Baker Center for Human Rights\u003c/a> in Oakland, sometimes went along, but something about the event made him feel uncomfortable. “As police are passing out these little buttons and badges for kids, I’m thinking to myself, 'How do you view this young person? 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They have hands. They have minds. And all of those things are needed to build safety.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So they planned an alternative event on the same night, but separate. They called it a \u003ca href=\"http://www.nosl.us/\">Night Out for Safety and Liberation.\u003c/a> “Our aim is really to redefine safety, beyond policing and punishment and prisons,” Norris said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The first one happened in 2013, but over the past five years it has grown and expanded. This year there were five events in the East Bay and one in San Francisco, and more than 20 cities in the country participated. Norris said it has only become more necessary now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He pointed to incidents this summer, even here “in the so-called progressive Bay Area,” which have shown how white people use police or the threat of police to restrict the movement and activities of people of color. For example, in May \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13832886/were-still-here-bbqn-while-black-draws-out-oaklanders-in-force\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a white woman in Oakland called police complaining about two black men having a barbecue at Lake Merritt. \u003c/a>In June, a white woman in San Francisco called police \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/permit-patty-alison-ettel-audio-911-police-water-13035847.php\">on a young girl selling water.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Calling on police to exclude and push people out of communities -- that is actually the opposite of safety,” Norris said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11685935\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/blessing-e1533846783284.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11685935 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/blessing-e1533846783284.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Iyalode Yeyefini blesses the land at Night Out for Safety and Liberation in San Antonio Park in Oakland. \u003ccite>(Sandhya Dirks/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Tuesday night, in San Antonio Park in East Oakland, about 100 people gathered to eat pupusas, listen to music and Ohlone songs, and hear East African blessings. Balloons were tied to trees, foldout tables manned by local organizations lined the park's walkway, and people danced into the evening.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11685942\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/Mama-Blue-e1533846828918.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11685942 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/Mama-Blue-e1533846828918.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tenika Blue emcees Night Out for Safety and Liberation in Oakland. \u003ccite>(Sandhya Dirks/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“This is what safety and liberation looks like on a Tuesday night in Oakland, California, y’all!” shouted out Tenika Blue, known as SheBeLadyBlue, who emceed the festivities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a lot of positive energy out here, people are feeling good! 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Safety is children being able to play freely and be children.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There were hundreds of official National Night Out block parties across Oakland. Some black elders argue police are needed and the biggest problem is when officers don't arrive in time. \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2015/08/05/429773896/with-police-in-the-news-national-night-out-goes-alternative\">They say events like National Night Out are imperative to creating a collaborative relationship with police.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Norris said he understands where they are coming from. \"We understand that we need first responders, but they need to respond in the interest of community.\" Police, he said, can often act in a militarized manner, especially in poor and minority neighborhoods.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This is absolutely not an anti-police event,\" Norris said. \"But we need to look at different kinds of first responders.\" The community, organizing together, can often provide the best response to people in crisis, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In that way, Night Out for Safety and Liberation is part of a larger conversation happening in Oakland and across the country about finding \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11677337/oakland-church-steps-out-on-faith-and-pledges-to-stop-calling-police\">alternatives to policing\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lisa Paige was watching her young grandchildren hula-hoop on the park grass. “I grew up around here,” she said. “This is where I bring my grandbabies to play.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At first, when she smelled the food and heard the music, she thought it was a National Night Out event, not being aware that there was an alternative. 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This year there were five events in the East Bay and one in San Francisco, and more than 20 cities in the country participated. Norris said it has only become more necessary now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He pointed to incidents this summer, even here “in the so-called progressive Bay Area,” which have shown how white people use police or the threat of police to restrict the movement and activities of people of color. 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Balloons were tied to trees, foldout tables manned by local organizations lined the park's walkway, and people danced into the evening.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11685942\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/Mama-Blue-e1533846828918.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11685942 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/Mama-Blue-e1533846828918.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tenika Blue emcees Night Out for Safety and Liberation in Oakland. \u003ccite>(Sandhya Dirks/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“This is what safety and liberation looks like on a Tuesday night in Oakland, California, y’all!” shouted out Tenika Blue, known as SheBeLadyBlue, who emceed the festivities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a lot of positive energy out here, people are feeling good! 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"content": "\u003cp>The mourners wore white from head to toe as they filed into church for Nia Wilson’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2016/01/black-funeral-homes-mourning/426807/\">homegoing\u003c/a>, the funeral tradition for many in the African-American community. The backs of immaculate white jackets, white dresses and even jeans became a perfect canvas on which were painted pictures of Nia Wilson’s beautiful 18-year-old face, surrounded by angel wings and words like “Black Queens Matter.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Friday, Aug. 3, the young woman who was brutally stabbed, allegedly by a white man less than two weeks earlier at MacArthur BART Station in Oakland, was being sent home by family and friends.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nia, people said again and again, means “purpose” in Swahili. That her young life was full of possibility and purpose seemed clear. She wanted to be a paramedic, her family said, even getting CPR-certified after she saved one of her aunts from choking to death.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">\u003cstrong>'Nia’s love, that one kind of love that you will never have to question.\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nNia’s love, the love she gives without no expression.'\u003ccite>A poem written by Nia Wilson’s sister, Malika Harris\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>In a slideshow of photos of Nia Wilson that streamed while Mariah Carey’s “Always Be My Baby” played from loudspeakers, you could see the purpose in her face, beautiful and young, looking at the camera, her eyes full of life, pouting her lips a little bit, capturing her best angle. A familiar pose repeats itself in these pictures, her hip cocked to one side, confident, proud, a girl on the cusp of being a woman, a daughter of Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What was evident, sitting in the vast room of Acts Full Gospel Church in East Oakland, was how deeply this young woman was loved by her large and close-knit family and beyond.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As members of her family came up to the pulpit, they read poems and told stories about Nia through a curtain of grief. She was everyone's favorite cousin, everyone's favorite aunt, just everyone's favorite.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I always think about your big smile and your loving ways,” said Aji Lewis, Nia’s oldest niece, still a little girl. “Titi Nia, I was told not to question God, but since you’ve been gone, I’ve been so confused,” the girl said between tears. “Can you promise to come visit me in my dreams?” she asked, before breaking down sobbing.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13837740/sayhername-10-illustrated-tributes-to-nia-wilson-lighting-up-social-media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#SayHerName: 10 Illustrated Tributes to Nia Wilson Lighting Up Social Media\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Nia Wilson’s cousin, Lauren Williams, described Nia as more like an older sister. The last time Williams was at a funeral, Nia was by her side comforting her. Now she was having to confront the loss of the person she wanted to turn to most.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ebony Monroe, Nia’s older cousin, also said they were more like sisters. The two “had a special bond.” Both women loved to do makeup, and she had made Nia up for her birthday and for prom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was just waiting for her to turn 21,” Monroe said. “And we was gonna go out.” Her voice broke while the crowd found a moment of bittersweet laughter. “We had plans,” she said. They had their whole lives ahead of them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nia Wilson’s sister, Malika Harris, read a poem she had written called \"Nia’s Love,\" while trying to hold back from crying.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Nia’s love, that one kind of love that you will never have to question, Nia’s love, the love she gives without no expression, Nia’s love, the love she gives when you need that feeling of protection,” Harris read.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11685025\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11685025\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/Nias-Love-800x1067.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"1067\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/Nias-Love-800x1067.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/Nias-Love-160x213.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/Nias-Love-1020x1360.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/Nias-Love-900x1200.jpg 900w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/Nias-Love-1920x2560.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/Nias-Love-1180x1573.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/Nias-Love-960x1280.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/Nias-Love-240x320.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/Nias-Love-375x500.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/Nias-Love-520x693.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A copy of a poem, written and read by Malika Harris, at the funeral of her sister, Nia Wilson. \u003ccite>(Sandhya Dirks )\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Nia’s love, my Nia’s love, so honest and true, baby girl shine bright, and I promise we will get justice for you.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If Nia was named \"Purpose\" at birth, her homegoing made it clear that for family and loved ones, there was purpose in her death.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Blessed are those of us that find their purpose in life. All of us have now found our purpose,” said Ansar El Muhammad in his eulogy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The service was interfaith. Nia’s father is Muslim, and in addition to family and local and national politicians such as Oakland City Council members and congresswoman Barbara Lee, ministers from both the Nation of Islam and Christian clergy spoke. They were united in their love for Nia and for her family, and in their anger over her savage killing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>John Lee Cowell, a 27-year-old parolee and transient, whose family has said he was \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfgate.com/news/crime/article/Police-arrest-suspect-in-Oakland-train-station-13099383.php\">mentally ill and estranged from them\u003c/a>, is accused of the murder of Nia Wilson and the attempted murder of her sister, Lahtifa Wilson. BART police have said that there is little doubt as to his guilt, as surveillance footage captured the July 22 attack.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>BART police described the murder as a prison-style attack, with Lee allegedly coming up from behind Nia Wilson and slitting her throat, then stabbing her sister.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It took around 24 hours for BART police to arrest Cowell, and when they did, the arrest was nonviolent, something many in the community feel might not have happened had he not been white.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">\u003cstrong>'The vengeance that comes from God,\u003c/strong> if government does not do its job, is a righteous indignation.'\u003ccite>Minister Keith Muhammad\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Pastor and minister alike aired their gut-wrenching anger over Nia’s murder. No one said John Lee Cowell’s name, but he was there in the room.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was mad, and I wanted them to find him, but I was hoping the homies find him first,” Bishop Keith Clark told the cheering crowd.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That anger was echoed by Minister Keith Muhammad: “Pastor said he felt that if law enforcement did not find this man, that he wouldn’t have felt badly if the hood caught up to him. I approve this message.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The vengeance that comes from God, if government does not do its job, is a righteous indignation,” he added, calling on the community to hold politicians' and law enforcement's feet to the fire to get justice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For many present, there were ghosts in the room, too. Ghosts that haunt Oakland’s black community, reminding them that they’ve felt too often that justice has been denied.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The memory of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/oscar-grant\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Oscar Grant\u003c/a>, killed by a BART police officer on New Year's Day 2009, hung in the room. The unarmed Grant was \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eo0d6Q4RVno\">shot in the back\u003c/a> while restrained and lying face-down at Fruitvale Station. The BART police officer said he mistook his gun for his taser. He was found guilty of involuntary manslaughter, but not guilty on charges of voluntary manslaughter and second-degree murder. He served 11 months in a private jail cell.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It wasn’t just the death of Oscar Grant or the slaying of Nia Wilson, connected to each other in the same way the BART tracks link station to station, that tinged the emotional service. It was also the echo of too many young black people, especially women, gone too soon. The Say Her Name hashtag and movement has become associated with Nia Wilson. Signs posted on the front windows of the entry to the church read: “Say her name” and “She is not a hashtag.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11685026\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11685026 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/IMG_0565-e1533576572817-800x1067.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"1067\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/IMG_0565-e1533576572817-800x1067.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/IMG_0565-e1533576572817-160x213.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/IMG_0565-e1533576572817-1020x1360.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/IMG_0565-e1533576572817-900x1200.jpg 900w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/IMG_0565-e1533576572817-1920x2560.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/IMG_0565-e1533576572817-1180x1573.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/IMG_0565-e1533576572817-960x1280.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/IMG_0565-e1533576572817-240x320.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/IMG_0565-e1533576572817-375x500.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/IMG_0565-e1533576572817-520x693.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A sign at the front of Acts Full Gospel Church in East Oakland for the funeral of Nia Wilson. \u003ccite>(Sandhya Dirks )\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>During the service, speakers called out for the room to \"say her name!\" The room roared back “Nia Wilson,” the sound filling the worship hall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.aapf.org/sayhername/\">Say Her Name\u003c/a> began as a response to a disproportionate lack of media attention given to the deaths of black women, especially in interactions with law enforcement. It blew up after Black Lives Matter became a national rallying cry that often focused on the killings of black men.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Media have been criticized for their response to Nia Wilson’s death. Local Fox affiliate KTVU showed a picture of her the day after her death holding a cellphone case that looked like a gun. “As if she was a gang member,” said Nina Knox, who grew up with Nia’s mother. “As if it should be swept under the carpet, as if you know, other people that’s not in the urban areas see such a picture, and say, 'Oh, that was just an old black gangbanger from Oakland and we don’t want to send our support there.' ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Critics point out that choosing images like that reframe the story, making it seem like she was responsible for her own murder, painting an innocent victim as a villain because of the color of her skin, making it easier for people not to care. \u003ca href=\"http://www.ktvu.com/news/protest-at-ktvu-over-use-of-inappropriate-nia-wilson-photo\">KTVU has apologized for its editorial choice\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13837639/nia-wilson-and-the-war-on-black-women\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Nia Wilson and the War on Black Women\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>A headline from \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/crime/article/BART-killing-Divergent-paths-met-tragically-on-13113688.php\">a San Francisco Chronicle story\u003c/a> about Nia Wilson’s murder said: “Divergent paths met tragically on Oakland platform.” That framing of the narrative threatens to erase Nia's death as the focal point, critics say, and puts her killer on the same level as her, as part of a tragic story rather than the prime mover of that tragedy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Nia’s name means purpose, Bishop Keith Clark said again, at the crescendo of his sermon. “That scoundrel of a human being, who snatched our sister’s life, what you meant for evil, God’s gonna work it for our good. 'Cause racism, we come to tell you something,” he called out, the crowd on their feet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11685028\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11685028 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/IMG_0569-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/IMG_0569-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/IMG_0569-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/IMG_0569-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/IMG_0569-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/IMG_0569-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/IMG_0569-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/IMG_0569-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/IMG_0569-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/IMG_0569-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/IMG_0569-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mourners stand at Nia Wilson's funeral. \u003ccite>(Sandhya Dirks)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>John Lee Cowell has not been charged with a hate crime, but for Nia Wilson's family and the black community in Oakland, there is no doubt that her death is about race. The district attorney's office and investigating officers say they have found no direct links to white supremacist organizations in Cowell’s past, but for many that does not mean it did not happen in the context of white supremacy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For the district attorney, the mayor, and all of those in government, can I be very clear about a piece of history that you and I are very clear about?” Minister Keith Muhammad asked the room.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If we waited for the slave master to say why he enslaved us, he would never admit to hatred. But we’ve got hundreds of years of slavery, suffering, and death,\" said Minister Muhammad. \"Look at how high the bar has been set before a hate crime can be convicted in America, and in the state of California. They have made convicting a hate crime an impossible dream,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bishop Keith Clark spoke directly to the current administration, while not calling out the president by name, hinting at the fact that President Trump has been uniformly silent about Nia Wilson’s murder. This in contrast to how a similar case played out: that of a young woman, Kathryn Steinle, also killed in a seemingly random attack in a public place in a violent and tragic way. When Steinle was fatally shot on a San Francisco pier in July 2015, then-\u003ca href=\"http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-kate-steinle-analysis-20171202-story.html\">candidate Trump used her death as a political rallying cry\u003c/a>. Kathryn Steinle was a white woman, killed by a gun fired by a homeless undocumented immigrant who had been incarcerated for low-level crimes.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">\u003cstrong>'Purpose, purpose \u003c/strong>has brought us together today.'\u003ccite>Bishop Bob Jackson\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Nia Wilson was a black woman, and the suspect in her killing is a homeless white man who was on parole and had been incarcerated for violent crimes in the past. A jury found that Steinle’s death had been an accident, but there is little doubt that the murder of Nia Wilson was an accident.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For the family and the community, the difference between these cases is not just that the killing of Nia Wilson was far more brutal and deliberate. It was that she was black, and her attacker white.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The administration done messed up now,” Bishop Clark said. “Because you let us get together, Muslims and Christians, you done messed up now.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the end of the over three-hour service, Bishop Bob Jackson, who leads Acts Full Gospel Church, came forward to speak the final words.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I didn’t know her but I love her,” Bishop Jackson said. “I didn’t know her, but I feel she’s a part of me. And I’m praying she became a part of all of us. Because if anybody is going to unite us, it’s going to be Nia.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Purpose, purpose has brought us together today,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There was an open casket, as is traditional at African-American homegoing celebrations, and a viewing of Nia Wilson's body. The family sat in the front row, resplendent in all white, as over 100 people lined up to pay their respects.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The coffin was covered in a translucent veil, a shroud. The body of Nia Wilson lay there, her makeup perfectly done, as it often was in life, her hair regal, her face silent and composed. Her eyes were closed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To those who came to say goodbye, she looked like a queen.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As members of her family came up to the pulpit, they read poems and told stories about Nia through a curtain of grief. She was everyone's favorite cousin, everyone's favorite aunt, just everyone's favorite.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I always think about your big smile and your loving ways,” said Aji Lewis, Nia’s oldest niece, still a little girl. “Titi Nia, I was told not to question God, but since you’ve been gone, I’ve been so confused,” the girl said between tears. “Can you promise to come visit me in my dreams?” she asked, before breaking down sobbing.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13837740/sayhername-10-illustrated-tributes-to-nia-wilson-lighting-up-social-media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#SayHerName: 10 Illustrated Tributes to Nia Wilson Lighting Up Social Media\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Nia Wilson’s cousin, Lauren Williams, described Nia as more like an older sister. The last time Williams was at a funeral, Nia was by her side comforting her. Now she was having to confront the loss of the person she wanted to turn to most.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ebony Monroe, Nia’s older cousin, also said they were more like sisters. The two “had a special bond.” Both women loved to do makeup, and she had made Nia up for her birthday and for prom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was just waiting for her to turn 21,” Monroe said. “And we was gonna go out.” Her voice broke while the crowd found a moment of bittersweet laughter. “We had plans,” she said. They had their whole lives ahead of them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nia Wilson’s sister, Malika Harris, read a poem she had written called \"Nia’s Love,\" while trying to hold back from crying.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Nia’s love, that one kind of love that you will never have to question, Nia’s love, the love she gives without no expression, Nia’s love, the love she gives when you need that feeling of protection,” Harris read.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11685025\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11685025\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/Nias-Love-800x1067.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"1067\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/Nias-Love-800x1067.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/Nias-Love-160x213.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/Nias-Love-1020x1360.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/Nias-Love-900x1200.jpg 900w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/Nias-Love-1920x2560.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/Nias-Love-1180x1573.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/Nias-Love-960x1280.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/Nias-Love-240x320.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/Nias-Love-375x500.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/Nias-Love-520x693.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A copy of a poem, written and read by Malika Harris, at the funeral of her sister, Nia Wilson. \u003ccite>(Sandhya Dirks )\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Nia’s love, my Nia’s love, so honest and true, baby girl shine bright, and I promise we will get justice for you.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If Nia was named \"Purpose\" at birth, her homegoing made it clear that for family and loved ones, there was purpose in her death.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Blessed are those of us that find their purpose in life. All of us have now found our purpose,” said Ansar El Muhammad in his eulogy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The service was interfaith. Nia’s father is Muslim, and in addition to family and local and national politicians such as Oakland City Council members and congresswoman Barbara Lee, ministers from both the Nation of Islam and Christian clergy spoke. They were united in their love for Nia and for her family, and in their anger over her savage killing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>John Lee Cowell, a 27-year-old parolee and transient, whose family has said he was \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfgate.com/news/crime/article/Police-arrest-suspect-in-Oakland-train-station-13099383.php\">mentally ill and estranged from them\u003c/a>, is accused of the murder of Nia Wilson and the attempted murder of her sister, Lahtifa Wilson. BART police have said that there is little doubt as to his guilt, as surveillance footage captured the July 22 attack.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>BART police described the murder as a prison-style attack, with Lee allegedly coming up from behind Nia Wilson and slitting her throat, then stabbing her sister.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It took around 24 hours for BART police to arrest Cowell, and when they did, the arrest was nonviolent, something many in the community feel might not have happened had he not been white.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">\u003cstrong>'The vengeance that comes from God,\u003c/strong> if government does not do its job, is a righteous indignation.'\u003ccite>Minister Keith Muhammad\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Pastor and minister alike aired their gut-wrenching anger over Nia’s murder. No one said John Lee Cowell’s name, but he was there in the room.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was mad, and I wanted them to find him, but I was hoping the homies find him first,” Bishop Keith Clark told the cheering crowd.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That anger was echoed by Minister Keith Muhammad: “Pastor said he felt that if law enforcement did not find this man, that he wouldn’t have felt badly if the hood caught up to him. I approve this message.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The vengeance that comes from God, if government does not do its job, is a righteous indignation,” he added, calling on the community to hold politicians' and law enforcement's feet to the fire to get justice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For many present, there were ghosts in the room, too. Ghosts that haunt Oakland’s black community, reminding them that they’ve felt too often that justice has been denied.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The memory of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/oscar-grant\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Oscar Grant\u003c/a>, killed by a BART police officer on New Year's Day 2009, hung in the room. The unarmed Grant was \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eo0d6Q4RVno\">shot in the back\u003c/a> while restrained and lying face-down at Fruitvale Station. The BART police officer said he mistook his gun for his taser. He was found guilty of involuntary manslaughter, but not guilty on charges of voluntary manslaughter and second-degree murder. He served 11 months in a private jail cell.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It wasn’t just the death of Oscar Grant or the slaying of Nia Wilson, connected to each other in the same way the BART tracks link station to station, that tinged the emotional service. It was also the echo of too many young black people, especially women, gone too soon. The Say Her Name hashtag and movement has become associated with Nia Wilson. Signs posted on the front windows of the entry to the church read: “Say her name” and “She is not a hashtag.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11685026\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11685026 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/IMG_0565-e1533576572817-800x1067.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"1067\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/IMG_0565-e1533576572817-800x1067.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/IMG_0565-e1533576572817-160x213.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/IMG_0565-e1533576572817-1020x1360.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/IMG_0565-e1533576572817-900x1200.jpg 900w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/IMG_0565-e1533576572817-1920x2560.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/IMG_0565-e1533576572817-1180x1573.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/IMG_0565-e1533576572817-960x1280.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/IMG_0565-e1533576572817-240x320.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/IMG_0565-e1533576572817-375x500.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/IMG_0565-e1533576572817-520x693.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A sign at the front of Acts Full Gospel Church in East Oakland for the funeral of Nia Wilson. \u003ccite>(Sandhya Dirks )\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>During the service, speakers called out for the room to \"say her name!\" The room roared back “Nia Wilson,” the sound filling the worship hall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.aapf.org/sayhername/\">Say Her Name\u003c/a> began as a response to a disproportionate lack of media attention given to the deaths of black women, especially in interactions with law enforcement. It blew up after Black Lives Matter became a national rallying cry that often focused on the killings of black men.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Media have been criticized for their response to Nia Wilson’s death. Local Fox affiliate KTVU showed a picture of her the day after her death holding a cellphone case that looked like a gun. “As if she was a gang member,” said Nina Knox, who grew up with Nia’s mother. “As if it should be swept under the carpet, as if you know, other people that’s not in the urban areas see such a picture, and say, 'Oh, that was just an old black gangbanger from Oakland and we don’t want to send our support there.' ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Critics point out that choosing images like that reframe the story, making it seem like she was responsible for her own murder, painting an innocent victim as a villain because of the color of her skin, making it easier for people not to care. \u003ca href=\"http://www.ktvu.com/news/protest-at-ktvu-over-use-of-inappropriate-nia-wilson-photo\">KTVU has apologized for its editorial choice\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13837639/nia-wilson-and-the-war-on-black-women\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Nia Wilson and the War on Black Women\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>A headline from \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/crime/article/BART-killing-Divergent-paths-met-tragically-on-13113688.php\">a San Francisco Chronicle story\u003c/a> about Nia Wilson’s murder said: “Divergent paths met tragically on Oakland platform.” That framing of the narrative threatens to erase Nia's death as the focal point, critics say, and puts her killer on the same level as her, as part of a tragic story rather than the prime mover of that tragedy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Nia’s name means purpose, Bishop Keith Clark said again, at the crescendo of his sermon. “That scoundrel of a human being, who snatched our sister’s life, what you meant for evil, God’s gonna work it for our good. 'Cause racism, we come to tell you something,” he called out, the crowd on their feet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11685028\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11685028 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/IMG_0569-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/IMG_0569-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/IMG_0569-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/IMG_0569-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/IMG_0569-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/IMG_0569-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/IMG_0569-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/IMG_0569-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/IMG_0569-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/IMG_0569-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/IMG_0569-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mourners stand at Nia Wilson's funeral. \u003ccite>(Sandhya Dirks)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>John Lee Cowell has not been charged with a hate crime, but for Nia Wilson's family and the black community in Oakland, there is no doubt that her death is about race. The district attorney's office and investigating officers say they have found no direct links to white supremacist organizations in Cowell’s past, but for many that does not mean it did not happen in the context of white supremacy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For the district attorney, the mayor, and all of those in government, can I be very clear about a piece of history that you and I are very clear about?” Minister Keith Muhammad asked the room.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If we waited for the slave master to say why he enslaved us, he would never admit to hatred. But we’ve got hundreds of years of slavery, suffering, and death,\" said Minister Muhammad. \"Look at how high the bar has been set before a hate crime can be convicted in America, and in the state of California. They have made convicting a hate crime an impossible dream,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bishop Keith Clark spoke directly to the current administration, while not calling out the president by name, hinting at the fact that President Trump has been uniformly silent about Nia Wilson’s murder. This in contrast to how a similar case played out: that of a young woman, Kathryn Steinle, also killed in a seemingly random attack in a public place in a violent and tragic way. When Steinle was fatally shot on a San Francisco pier in July 2015, then-\u003ca href=\"http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-kate-steinle-analysis-20171202-story.html\">candidate Trump used her death as a political rallying cry\u003c/a>. Kathryn Steinle was a white woman, killed by a gun fired by a homeless undocumented immigrant who had been incarcerated for low-level crimes.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">\u003cstrong>'Purpose, purpose \u003c/strong>has brought us together today.'\u003ccite>Bishop Bob Jackson\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Nia Wilson was a black woman, and the suspect in her killing is a homeless white man who was on parole and had been incarcerated for violent crimes in the past. A jury found that Steinle’s death had been an accident, but there is little doubt that the murder of Nia Wilson was an accident.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For the family and the community, the difference between these cases is not just that the killing of Nia Wilson was far more brutal and deliberate. It was that she was black, and her attacker white.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The administration done messed up now,” Bishop Clark said. “Because you let us get together, Muslims and Christians, you done messed up now.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the end of the over three-hour service, Bishop Bob Jackson, who leads Acts Full Gospel Church, came forward to speak the final words.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I didn’t know her but I love her,” Bishop Jackson said. “I didn’t know her, but I feel she’s a part of me. And I’m praying she became a part of all of us. Because if anybody is going to unite us, it’s going to be Nia.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Purpose, purpose has brought us together today,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There was an open casket, as is traditional at African-American homegoing celebrations, and a viewing of Nia Wilson's body. The family sat in the front row, resplendent in all white, as over 100 people lined up to pay their respects.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The coffin was covered in a translucent veil, a shroud. The body of Nia Wilson lay there, her makeup perfectly done, as it often was in life, her hair regal, her face silent and composed. Her eyes were closed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>The funeral for 18-year-old Nia Wilson, the young Oakland woman killed in a knife attack at the MacArthur BART station two weeks ago, took place Friday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>East Oakland's Acts Full Gospel Church was filled with friends, community members and family. Local and national politicians, like Congresswoman Barbara Lee and City Councilmembers Lynette Gibson McElhaney and Rebecca Kaplan, took part. The homegoing, as funerals are often called in the black community, was interfaith, with ministers from the Nation of Islam and Christian clergy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wilson's relatives say they are still in mourning and focused on getting justice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During the service, one of Wilson's sisters, Malika Harris, read a poem.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Nia’s love, my Nia’s love, so honest and true,\" read Harris read through tears. \"Baby girl shine bright and big sister promise we will get justice for you. ... I love you.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11684866\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11684866\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/Nia8-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/Nia8-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/Nia8-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/Nia8-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/Nia8-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/Nia8-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/Nia8-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/Nia8-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/Nia8-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/Nia8-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/Nia8-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">At the front of Acts Full Gospel Church in East Oakland, mourners hung signs to honor Nia Wilson and to remind people that her life, and her death, are more than just a social media hashtag. \u003ccite>(Sandhya Dirks/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Bishop Bob Jackson of Acts Full was one of many who noted that \"Nia\" means \"purpose\" in Swahili -- and that Wilson could serve now to bring the community together against violence, especially violence against black women.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If anyone is going to unite us, it's gonna be Nia,\" Jackson said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nia Wilson's sister Lahtifa was also severely injured in the July 22 attack. John Lee Cowell, who is accused of Wilson's murder and the attempted murder of her sister, is set to appear in court to enter a plea later this month.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>Ron Dellums, an icon of Bay Area progressive politics who served on the Berkeley City Council, in Congress and as mayor of Oakland, has died at the age of 82. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dellums' nephew, Berkeley City Councilman Ben Bartlett, said Monday morning Dellums died Sunday night in Washington, D.C. The cause is reported to have been prostate cancer. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sandre Swanson, a former Dellums staffer who went on the represent Oakland in the state Assembly, said Monday his late boss “was considered the conscience of the Congress because he was uncompromising in his quest for peace and for social and economic justice.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The contributions that Congressman Dellums made to our East Bay community, the nation, and the world are too innumerable to count,\" Rep. Barbara Lee, D-Oakland, said in a statement. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lee, also a former Dellums aide, was elected after he abruptly resigned his seat in 1998. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I feel blessed to have called Congressman Dellums my dear friend, predecessor, and mentor,\" Lee said. \"I will miss him tremendously, and I will hold dear to my heart the many lessons I learned from this great public servant. My condolences are with the Dellums family, friends, and loved ones. His legacy and spirit will be forever with us.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf issued a statement calling Dellums “a true American hero.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Ron Dellums governed from a place of morality and compassion, and his political activism shed light on injustices within our country and all over the world,” Schaaf said. “His progressive values set the bedrock for Oakland values, and his life of public service will continue to inspire all of us to fight for a more just and equitable society.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dellums was a fixture in East Bay politics for more than 40 years, serving briefly on the City Council in Berkeley before winning \u003ca href=\"http://history.house.gov/People/Listing/D/DELLUMS,-Ronald-V--(D000222)/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">14 terms\u003c/a> in Congress. He closed out his political career with a single term as mayor of Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ronald Vernie Dellums was born in Oakland on Nov. 24, 1935, the son of Verney and Willa Dellums. His uncle, C.L. Dellums, served as president of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters and was an early leader in the Bay Area civil rights movement. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dellums wrote in his 2000 autobiography, \"\u003ca href=\"https://books.google.com/books?id=PeIjwqwt4BQC\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Lying Down With the Lions\u003c/a>,\" that his uncle encouraged his father to come to California from Texas to enroll at UC Berkeley. Before that happened, Dellums said, his parents met and married. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"After marriage and children, they knew that some of their dreams would be fulfilled only through the lives of their children,\" Dellums wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He attended St. Patrick's, a Roman Catholic elementary school in West Oakland, then Westlake Junior High School, McClymonds and Oakland Tech high schools. In his autobiography, Dellums said that though he succeeded at Tech at first, he lost interest in school after he was rejected, twice, for a spot on the school's varsity baseball squad. He enrolled in an engineering program at the City College of San Francisco, but soon dropped out. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At loose ends, Dellums enlisted in the Marine Corps in 1954, serving two years. He wrote that he found basic training to be \"shockingly strenuous and sometimes brutal. I thought it was the most horrible thing I had ever gotten into.\" But over time, he said, he adapted to the Corps' demand for discipline and found it helped him mature. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But he said one incident turned him against the idea of serving beyond his original enlistment. Despite receiving the highest score on a battery of tests given to his training battalion, he was rejected for Officer Candidate School only because he was black. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"From that day forward, I counted down every day and hour until my discharge,\" Dellums wrote. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Taking advantage of the GI Bill after leaving the service, he received a bachelor's degree from San Francisco State University and a master's in social work from UC Berkeley in the early 1960s, just as the college city was coming to national attention as a center of civil rights activism and opposition to the Vietnam War. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dellums was elected to the Berkeley City Council in 1967. He had served less than a full term when he ran against six-term incumbent Democratic Rep. Jeffery Cohelan. Dellums beat Cohelan, whom he accused of \"expedient liberalism\" for switching from support of war to an antiwar stance, in the primary.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dellums then became something of a national figure in the general election as Vice President Spiro Agnew singled him out as \"a political extremist who has no qualms about hobnobbing with political fanatics” — including the Black Panthers. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Ron-Dellums-former-congressman-and-Oakland-13116263.php\">the San Francisco Chronicle recalls\u003c/a>, Dellums was quick with his riposte.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If it’s radical to oppose the insanity and cruelty of the Vietnam War, if it’s radical to oppose racism and sexism and all other forms of oppression, if it’s radical to want to alleviate poverty, hunger, disease, homelessness, and other forms of human misery, then I’m proud to be called a radical,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dellums beat Republican challenger John E. Healy, a 25-year old Vietnam veteran, in the November election, getting 60 percent of the vote. He maintained a firm hold on the seat for the rest of his congressional tenure. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dellums was in the vanguard of a series of liberal causes during his 14 terms:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>He was a leading voice in opposing the Vietnam War and drawing attention to U.S. atrocities against Vietnamese civilians.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>He was one of the first in Congress to call for U.S. action to end South Africa's racist policy of apartheid.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>He campaigned against expansion of Department of Defense spending and major new weapons programs, including the B-2 bomber and MX nuclear missile system.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>He launched a legal challenge questioning President George H.W. Bush's authority to order the major U.S. military buildup that followed Iraq's invasion of Kuwait and preceded the Gulf War of 1991.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>He was among those in Congress who tried to persuade the Clinton administration to lift the ban of gays and lesbians serving in the military. \u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Former Dellums staffer Sandre Swanson said the struggle to end apartheid consumed Dellums. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I remember when Ron took up the cause of Nelson Mandela and the Free South African movement, that's when he he grew a beard,\" Swanson said. \"He said, 'I'm going to shave this beard when Nelson Mandela is free,' although he did keep his beard after Nelson Mandela was free.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After Mandela was released from prison, in 1990, he received a rapturous welcome during an appearance at the Oakland Coliseum. Swanson said Mandela came to the East Bay \"specifically to thank Ron Dellums for his his words in Congress and every year put a resolution against apartheid.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"He was the voice, he was the soldier crying out in the wilderness alone on those issues,\" said Piper Dellums, one of Dellums' five children, on KQED's \"Forum\" program Monday. \"But he was also ... a hero to the invisible, to the oppressed, to the lost and shattered, the marginalized, the despised, the abused and the faceless. ... There was not one area of progressive ideology, of peace, of human dignities and rights, that he didn't cover. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Beyond his signature progressive campaigns, Dellums was also noted for delivering for his district. He was credited with securing a $55 million federal grant for Oakland's Chabot Space and Science Center and leaning on the Federal Emergency Management Agency to deliver on millions of dollars in aid due to Oakland after the catastrophic Oakland Hills Fire of 1991. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dellums resigned from Congress in February 1998, just over halfway through his final term, and embarked on a career as a private consultant and lobbyist. That career was interrupted in 2007, when Dellums entered the race to succeed Jerry Brown as mayor of Oakland. He won that race, his last. His tenure coincided with a troubled period, occurring at the same time as the onset of a deep national recession that hit the city hard. His term was also marked by unrest related to the BART police killing of Oscar Grant. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED's Guy Marzorati contributed to this post.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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His legacy and spirit will be forever with us.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf issued a statement calling Dellums “a true American hero.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Ron Dellums governed from a place of morality and compassion, and his political activism shed light on injustices within our country and all over the world,” Schaaf said. “His progressive values set the bedrock for Oakland values, and his life of public service will continue to inspire all of us to fight for a more just and equitable society.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dellums was a fixture in East Bay politics for more than 40 years, serving briefly on the City Council in Berkeley before winning \u003ca href=\"http://history.house.gov/People/Listing/D/DELLUMS,-Ronald-V--(D000222)/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">14 terms\u003c/a> in Congress. 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I thought it was the most horrible thing I had ever gotten into.\" But over time, he said, he adapted to the Corps' demand for discipline and found it helped him mature. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But he said one incident turned him against the idea of serving beyond his original enlistment. Despite receiving the highest score on a battery of tests given to his training battalion, he was rejected for Officer Candidate School only because he was black. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"From that day forward, I counted down every day and hour until my discharge,\" Dellums wrote. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Taking advantage of the GI Bill after leaving the service, he received a bachelor's degree from San Francisco State University and a master's in social work from UC Berkeley in the early 1960s, just as the college city was coming to national attention as a center of civil rights activism and opposition to the Vietnam War. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dellums was elected to the Berkeley City Council in 1967. He had served less than a full term when he ran against six-term incumbent Democratic Rep. Jeffery Cohelan. Dellums beat Cohelan, whom he accused of \"expedient liberalism\" for switching from support of war to an antiwar stance, in the primary.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dellums then became something of a national figure in the general election as Vice President Spiro Agnew singled him out as \"a political extremist who has no qualms about hobnobbing with political fanatics” — including the Black Panthers. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Ron-Dellums-former-congressman-and-Oakland-13116263.php\">the San Francisco Chronicle recalls\u003c/a>, Dellums was quick with his riposte.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If it’s radical to oppose the insanity and cruelty of the Vietnam War, if it’s radical to oppose racism and sexism and all other forms of oppression, if it’s radical to want to alleviate poverty, hunger, disease, homelessness, and other forms of human misery, then I’m proud to be called a radical,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dellums beat Republican challenger John E. 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The letter should explain:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What was their California Dream?\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>What happened to it?\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Is that California Dream still alive for you?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here's a letter from Javier Cervantes to his mother, Maria Mojarro Cervantes:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dear Mom, \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When I think of the California dream, I think of you: Maria Mojarro Cervantes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You grew up in Central Mexico in the state of Zacatecas. It was a harsh place. You grew up very poor, higher education was not an option, and there were no jobs. The only way to survive was to grow whatever you could and barter for farm animals. You had food and shelter, but that was it. No future, no chance to rise above your circumstances, you wanted more for your life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When you were only seventeen, you heard that some cousins of yours left to go up north and now had better lives. One of these cousins told you that maybe if you went, you could stay with an uncle. You wanted to go but you were scared. But you were more afraid to stay. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>How you would even get there? You had no idea. You didn’t know English. 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They were expecting you to marry a farmer and have a family, as all women did there. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You scraped together all the money you could and borrowed money from your friends, and then you were off.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You made it to Tijuana and got a hold of a human smuggler -- a \u003cem>coyote\u003c/em>. He hid you in the trunk of his car and drove you across the border, dropping you off at a bus station in San Diego. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When you finally got to your uncle’s house in San Francisco, he helped you find a job in housekeeping at a hotel in Oakland. You worked brutal, twelve-hour days.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In this new land, you were mistreated, looked down on, made to feel worthless.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although you suffered, you had faith that this would lead to a better life. You remained in a land that treated you as a second-class citizen. You could have gone home and brought all of this to an end. But you believed in your heart that your life would get better. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today, you are a U.S. citizen, a homeowner and a successful entrepreneur. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To pick up and leave Mexico, to carve out a life for yourself in another country, is unimaginable to me. But you -- a teenager from a small farm town -- did it, and showed me courage that I could not believe. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That is a true California Dream.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Love,\u003cbr>\nYour son, Javier Cervantes\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We’d love to see your letter to your family’s California Dreamer. Maybe it was a parent, a great-great grandparent or maybe even you were the first in your family to come to California with a dream. \u003ca href=\"http://bit.ly/californiadreamletter\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Fill out the form here\u003c/a> and share your story with us!\u003c/p>\n\n",
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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\u003cp>It’s been a busy week overseas. Here’s what’s happening in our neck of the woods.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>1. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11680469/how-an-oakland-oaks-baseball-player-broke-barriers\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Artie Wilson broke baseball’s color barrier in Oakland\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11680536\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/aartie-800x713.jpg\" alt=\"Baseball card featuring Artie Wilson.\" width=\"800\" height=\"713\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11680536\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/aartie-800x713.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/aartie-160x143.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/aartie-1020x909.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/aartie-1200x1069.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/aartie-1180x1051.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/aartie-960x855.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/aartie-240x214.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/aartie-375x334.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/aartie-520x463.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/aartie.jpg 1918w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Baseball card featuring Artie Wilson. \u003ccite>(Society for American Baseball Research)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>We all know about how Jackie Robinson broke Major League Baseball’s color barrier when he played for the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1947. But what we don’t often think about is that there were dozens of minor leagues operating all over the country, and they all had color barriers of their own.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of those barriers was in the Pacific Coast League, and in 1949, it was broken in Oakland when Artie Wilson suited up for the Oakland Oaks. Wilson was a 5-time all star in the Negro Leagues, and some say he was even better than Robinson. While playing for the Oaks, Wilson faced the same bigotry and racial hatred that Robinson did on the other side of the country. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 1951, Wilson made his big league debut for the New York Giants, but he eventually told the Giants manager to send him back to the minor leagues so the team could bring up a young star in the organization: Willie Mays.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I had never heard of Artie Wilson until I listened to KQED’s Brian Watt’s interview with Gaylon White, a baseball historian and author of “Singles and Smiles: How Artie Wilson Broke Baseball’s Color Barrier.” It’s a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11680469/how-an-oakland-oaks-baseball-player-broke-barriers\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">great interview\u003c/a> full of fascinating details and stories from baseball’s past.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>2. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11679947/its-like-a-tax-for-living-in-east-palo-alto-life-in-a-bank-desert\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">What do you do if there are no banks in town?\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11679959\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/IMG_1299-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Parking sign for an ATM near East Palo Alto Government Center.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11679959\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Parking sign for an ATM near East Palo Alto Government Center. \u003ccite>(Tonya Mosley/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>One of the most popular places in East Palo Alto isn’t a restaurant, a park or a community gathering space. It’s a Bank of America ATM. It’s the only major bank presence in East Palo Alto, a city of nearly 30,000 residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>KQED’s Tonya Mosley explains that the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11679947/its-like-a-tax-for-living-in-east-palo-alto-life-in-a-bank-desert\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">lack of banking options\u003c/a> is a holdover from the region’s racist past, when segregation and redlining were pervasive. Now, residents are fighting to get more banks into their city.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>3. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11680321/all-wildfires-are-not-alike-but-the-u-s-is-fighting-them-that-way\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">We don’t have a fire problem. We have many fire problems.\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11680330\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/Firefighters-800x581.jpg\" alt=\"Wildland firefighters, like this crew heading into New Mexico’s Gila National Forest, in 2012, are equipped and operate differently from urban firefighters.\" width=\"800\" height=\"581\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11680330\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/Firefighters-800x581.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/Firefighters-160x116.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/Firefighters-1020x741.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/Firefighters-1200x872.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/Firefighters.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/Firefighters-1180x857.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/Firefighters-960x698.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/Firefighters-240x174.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/Firefighters-375x272.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/Firefighters-520x378.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Wildland firefighters, like this crew heading into New Mexico’s Gila National Forest, in 2012, are equipped and operate differently from urban firefighters. \u003ccite>(USFS Gila National Forest, CC BY-SA)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>It seems like every week there’s a new fire (or two or three) burning through the region or the state. And while all wildfires might look alike to most of us, Stephen Pyne \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11680321/all-wildfires-are-not-alike-but-the-u-s-is-fighting-them-that-way\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">knows they’re not\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pyne teaches about fire at Arizona State University, and he says that we need to stop fighting all fires the same:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Every major fire rekindles another round of commentaries about “America’s wildfire problem.” But the fact is that our nation does not have a fire problem. It has many fire problems, and they require different strategies. Some problem fires have technical solutions, some demand cultural calls. All are political.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003ch2>4. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11674188/hetch-hetchy-waters-epic-journey-from-mountains-to-tap\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">How long does it take San Francisco’s drinking water to get to your tap?\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11677995\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS5675_DSC00348-800x532.jpg\" alt=\"The Hetch Hetchy Reservoir in Yosemite National Park supplies water to San Francisco and other Bay Area cities.\" width=\"800\" height=\"532\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11677995\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Hetch Hetchy Reservoir in Yosemite National Park supplies water to San Francisco and other Bay Area cities. \u003ccite>(Lauren Sommer/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>About 85 percent of San Francisco’s water comes from the Hetch Hetchy Reservoir in Yosemite National Park, and it goes on \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11674188/hetch-hetchy-waters-epic-journey-from-mountains-to-tap\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">quite the journey\u003c/a>. Along its more than 150 mile trek, the water goes through a hydroelectric dam that generates electricity to power San Francisco schools, Muni light-rail vehicles and more. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So how long does that all take? \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/series/baycurious\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bay Curious\u003c/a> explains, with the help of a very curious 8-year-old.\t\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>5. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11680221/the-female-orgasm-comes-quietly-to-the-streets-of-san-francisco\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">How do you advertise a ‘smart’ vibrator?\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11680262\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/RS31788_lioness1-qut-800x577.jpg\" alt='An ad for a \"smart\" vibrator could not compete for attention with workers washing a building at Van Ness Avenue and Jackson Street in San Francisco.' width=\"800\" height=\"577\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11680262\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/RS31788_lioness1-qut-800x577.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/RS31788_lioness1-qut-160x115.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/RS31788_lioness1-qut-1020x736.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/RS31788_lioness1-qut-1200x866.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/RS31788_lioness1-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/RS31788_lioness1-qut-1180x851.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/RS31788_lioness1-qut-960x693.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/RS31788_lioness1-qut-240x173.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/RS31788_lioness1-qut-375x271.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/RS31788_lioness1-qut-520x375.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An ad for a “smart” vibrator could not compete for attention with workers washing a building at Van Ness Avenue and Jackson Street in San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Patricia Yollin/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>My first reaction when I saw the story headlined, “\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11680221/the-female-orgasm-comes-quietly-to-the-streets-of-san-francisco\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Female Orgasm Comes (Quietly) to the Streets of San Francisco\u003c/a>,” was that it might be one of the best headlines I’d ever read.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then I read the story and found it even better than the headline. 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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\u003cp>It’s been a busy week overseas. Here’s what’s happening in our neck of the woods.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>1. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11680469/how-an-oakland-oaks-baseball-player-broke-barriers\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Artie Wilson broke baseball’s color barrier in Oakland\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11680536\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/aartie-800x713.jpg\" alt=\"Baseball card featuring Artie Wilson.\" width=\"800\" height=\"713\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11680536\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/aartie-800x713.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/aartie-160x143.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/aartie-1020x909.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/aartie-1200x1069.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/aartie-1180x1051.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/aartie-960x855.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/aartie-240x214.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/aartie-375x334.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/aartie-520x463.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/aartie.jpg 1918w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Baseball card featuring Artie Wilson. \u003ccite>(Society for American Baseball Research)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>We all know about how Jackie Robinson broke Major League Baseball’s color barrier when he played for the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1947. But what we don’t often think about is that there were dozens of minor leagues operating all over the country, and they all had color barriers of their own.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of those barriers was in the Pacific Coast League, and in 1949, it was broken in Oakland when Artie Wilson suited up for the Oakland Oaks. Wilson was a 5-time all star in the Negro Leagues, and some say he was even better than Robinson. While playing for the Oaks, Wilson faced the same bigotry and racial hatred that Robinson did on the other side of the country. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 1951, Wilson made his big league debut for the New York Giants, but he eventually told the Giants manager to send him back to the minor leagues so the team could bring up a young star in the organization: Willie Mays.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I had never heard of Artie Wilson until I listened to KQED’s Brian Watt’s interview with Gaylon White, a baseball historian and author of “Singles and Smiles: How Artie Wilson Broke Baseball’s Color Barrier.” It’s a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11680469/how-an-oakland-oaks-baseball-player-broke-barriers\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">great interview\u003c/a> full of fascinating details and stories from baseball’s past.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>2. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11679947/its-like-a-tax-for-living-in-east-palo-alto-life-in-a-bank-desert\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">What do you do if there are no banks in town?\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11679959\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/IMG_1299-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Parking sign for an ATM near East Palo Alto Government Center.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11679959\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Parking sign for an ATM near East Palo Alto Government Center. \u003ccite>(Tonya Mosley/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>One of the most popular places in East Palo Alto isn’t a restaurant, a park or a community gathering space. It’s a Bank of America ATM. It’s the only major bank presence in East Palo Alto, a city of nearly 30,000 residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>KQED’s Tonya Mosley explains that the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11679947/its-like-a-tax-for-living-in-east-palo-alto-life-in-a-bank-desert\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">lack of banking options\u003c/a> is a holdover from the region’s racist past, when segregation and redlining were pervasive. Now, residents are fighting to get more banks into their city.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>3. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11680321/all-wildfires-are-not-alike-but-the-u-s-is-fighting-them-that-way\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">We don’t have a fire problem. We have many fire problems.\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11680330\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/Firefighters-800x581.jpg\" alt=\"Wildland firefighters, like this crew heading into New Mexico’s Gila National Forest, in 2012, are equipped and operate differently from urban firefighters.\" width=\"800\" height=\"581\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11680330\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/Firefighters-800x581.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/Firefighters-160x116.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/Firefighters-1020x741.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/Firefighters-1200x872.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/Firefighters.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/Firefighters-1180x857.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/Firefighters-960x698.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/Firefighters-240x174.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/Firefighters-375x272.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/Firefighters-520x378.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Wildland firefighters, like this crew heading into New Mexico’s Gila National Forest, in 2012, are equipped and operate differently from urban firefighters. \u003ccite>(USFS Gila National Forest, CC BY-SA)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>It seems like every week there’s a new fire (or two or three) burning through the region or the state. And while all wildfires might look alike to most of us, Stephen Pyne \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11680321/all-wildfires-are-not-alike-but-the-u-s-is-fighting-them-that-way\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">knows they’re not\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pyne teaches about fire at Arizona State University, and he says that we need to stop fighting all fires the same:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Every major fire rekindles another round of commentaries about “America’s wildfire problem.” But the fact is that our nation does not have a fire problem. It has many fire problems, and they require different strategies. Some problem fires have technical solutions, some demand cultural calls. All are political.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003ch2>4. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11674188/hetch-hetchy-waters-epic-journey-from-mountains-to-tap\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">How long does it take San Francisco’s drinking water to get to your tap?\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11677995\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS5675_DSC00348-800x532.jpg\" alt=\"The Hetch Hetchy Reservoir in Yosemite National Park supplies water to San Francisco and other Bay Area cities.\" width=\"800\" height=\"532\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11677995\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Hetch Hetchy Reservoir in Yosemite National Park supplies water to San Francisco and other Bay Area cities. \u003ccite>(Lauren Sommer/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>About 85 percent of San Francisco’s water comes from the Hetch Hetchy Reservoir in Yosemite National Park, and it goes on \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11674188/hetch-hetchy-waters-epic-journey-from-mountains-to-tap\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">quite the journey\u003c/a>. Along its more than 150 mile trek, the water goes through a hydroelectric dam that generates electricity to power San Francisco schools, Muni light-rail vehicles and more. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So how long does that all take? \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/series/baycurious\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bay Curious\u003c/a> explains, with the help of a very curious 8-year-old.\t\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>5. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11680221/the-female-orgasm-comes-quietly-to-the-streets-of-san-francisco\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">How do you advertise a ‘smart’ vibrator?\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11680262\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/RS31788_lioness1-qut-800x577.jpg\" alt='An ad for a \"smart\" vibrator could not compete for attention with workers washing a building at Van Ness Avenue and Jackson Street in San Francisco.' width=\"800\" height=\"577\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11680262\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/RS31788_lioness1-qut-800x577.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/RS31788_lioness1-qut-160x115.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/RS31788_lioness1-qut-1020x736.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/RS31788_lioness1-qut-1200x866.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/RS31788_lioness1-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/RS31788_lioness1-qut-1180x851.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/RS31788_lioness1-qut-960x693.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/RS31788_lioness1-qut-240x173.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/RS31788_lioness1-qut-375x271.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/RS31788_lioness1-qut-520x375.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An ad for a “smart” vibrator could not compete for attention with workers washing a building at Van Ness Avenue and Jackson Street in San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Patricia Yollin/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>My first reaction when I saw the story headlined, “\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11680221/the-female-orgasm-comes-quietly-to-the-streets-of-san-francisco\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Female Orgasm Comes (Quietly) to the Streets of San Francisco\u003c/a>,” was that it might be one of the best headlines I’d ever read.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then I read the story and found it even better than the headline. 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