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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Slusser and the other plaintiffs immediately filed an emergency appeal, but one day later, the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals agreed with Crews.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Plaintiffs’ claims appear to present a substantial question and may have merit,” the appeals court said in its ruling. “But plaintiffs have not established clear entitlement to relief, and however potentially meritorious, their showing does not rise to the level of clear entitlement under the appropriate standards.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12015196\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12015196\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241120-TransgenderAthletes-01.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241120-TransgenderAthletes-01.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241120-TransgenderAthletes-01-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241120-TransgenderAthletes-01-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241120-TransgenderAthletes-01-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241120-TransgenderAthletes-01-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241120-TransgenderAthletes-01-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The San José State Spartans volleyball team prepares for the serve from their opponents, the University of New Mexico Lobos, at their home game on Nov. 2, 2024. \u003ccite>(Natalia Navarro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Civil rights experts had said keeping the player out of the tournament would violate the federal law, Title IX, which \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11936552/how-new-title-ix-rules-could-affect-californias-transgender-and-nonbinary-students\">prohibits sex-based discrimination\u003c/a> and sexual harassment in educational settings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Trans students have protections under Title IX, and they have protections under the Constitution’s equal protection guarantee,” said Shiwali Patel, senior director of safe and inclusive schools at the National Women’s Law Center. “It’s just kind of one tactic that we’ve seen extremists apply in trying to exclude trans people from civil rights protections.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Because the SJSU player being targeted in this lawsuit has never spoken publicly about her gender identity, KQED is not identifying her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement on Monday, the university said it “will continue to support its student-athletes and reject discrimination in all forms.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“All San José State University student-athletes are eligible to participate in their sports under NCAA and Mountain West Conference rules,” the statement said. “We are gratified that the Court rejected an eleventh-hour attempt to change those rules.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12015197\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12015197\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241120-TransgenderAthletes-02.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241120-TransgenderAthletes-02.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241120-TransgenderAthletes-02-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241120-TransgenderAthletes-02-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241120-TransgenderAthletes-02-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241120-TransgenderAthletes-02-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241120-TransgenderAthletes-02-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San José State University students (from left) Javier Ruiz, Ollie Harter and Louie McDonough hold handmade signs supporting the Spartans Volleyball team at their game in San Jose on Nov. 2, 2024. \u003ccite>(Natalia Navarro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>This lawsuit is just the latest legal action involving the SJSU volleyball team. Slusser is also a plaintiff in another suit challenging a NCAA policy that allows trans women to play under some circumstances.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since Slusser joined that suit led by former University of Kentucky swimmer and anti-trans activist Riley Gaines, four teams have \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12007485/san-jose-state-volleyball-faces-wave-of-forfeits-in-apparent-protest-over-transgender-athlete\">refused to play the Spartans\u003c/a> in apparent solidarity with Slusser.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The anti-trans advocacy group ICONS funds both lawsuits and claims that trans women have an unfair advantage that puts other players in danger of injury.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s no evidence that transgender women who medically transition have any universal athletic advantages over their cisgender counterparts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The lawsuits and forfeits have drawn the attention of conservative media outlets, in particular, and have fired up Republicans, including President-elect Donald Trump. Speaking on Fox News in October, he said he plans to ban all transgender women from competing in women’s sports.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12015199\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12015199\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241120-TransgenderAthletes-03.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241120-TransgenderAthletes-03.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241120-TransgenderAthletes-03-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241120-TransgenderAthletes-03-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241120-TransgenderAthletes-03-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241120-TransgenderAthletes-03-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241120-TransgenderAthletes-03-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The San José State Spartans volleyball team greets their opponents, the University of New Mexico Lobos, before playing their home game on Nov. 2, 2024. \u003ccite>(Natalia Navarro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The controversy is being mirrored in secondary school athletics. Stone Ridge Christian High School in Merced could face sanctions from California’s high school sports governing body after it forfeited a playoff girls’ volleyball game on Saturday against San Francisco Waldorf.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Everything we do at Stone Ridge Christian Academy reflects Biblical truth,” Julie Fagundes, campus administrator at Stone Ridge Christian Academy, said in an emailed statement. “Girls must compete against girls in sports because that is how God created us and SRC will not be complicit in a false message about sex.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fagundes sent a letter to parents claiming Waldorf has “a male athlete playing for their team.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is really, really hurtful, I think, to take such a tiny little minority community and target them cruelly and attempting to ban them from accessing things that not just that they enjoy, but that actually help them develop into better people,” said Honey Mahogany, director of San Francisco’s Office of Transgender Initiatives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The California Interscholastic Federation has a policy stating all students are permitted to participate in gender-separated sports.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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It is important we stand for integrity and fairness in female athletics.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wyoming did not specify a reason for its forfeit, providing only a short statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“After a lengthy discussion, the University of Wyoming will not play its scheduled conference match against San José State University in the UniWyo Sports Complex on Saturday, Oct. 5,” the university’s statement reads. “Per Mountain West Conference policy, the Conference will record the match as a forfeit and a loss for Wyoming.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The university declined to comment further.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2022, the NCAA changed its\u003ca href=\"https://www.ncaa.org/news/2022/1/19/media-center-board-of-governors-updates-transgender-participation-policy.aspx\"> transgender student-athlete participation policy\u003c/a> to require transgender athletes to undergo testosterone testing and meet sport-specific levels to compete in women’s divisions. The association is \u003ca href=\"https://www.iconswomen.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/088-2-Exhibit-A-Second-Amended-Complaint.pdf\">currently facing a lawsuit\u003c/a> over its move to allow transgender women to compete in women’s sports, filed in Georgia, which says it aims to “remedy sex discrimination against women in college athletics.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_11988162 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240125-SFSUStrike-08-BL_qut-1020x680.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SJSU has become a target in this debate, as a member of the school’s team recently joined the \u003ca href=\"https://www.iconswomen.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/088-2-Exhibit-A-Second-Amended-Complaint.pdf\">lawsuit against the NCAA\u003c/a>. In the lawsuit, Brooke Slusser, a junior at SJSU, said that one of her teammates she roomed with is transgender and repeatedly misgenders her. KQED is not naming the teammate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement, SJSU spokesperson Michelle Smith McDonald confirmed that all volleyball team members comply with the NCAA and the Mountain West Conference rules and regulations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is disappointing that our SJSU student-athletes… are being denied opportunities to compete,” she wrote. “We are committed to supporting our student-athletes through these challenges and in their ability to compete in an inclusive, fair, safe and respectful environment.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>University police are providing security for the team at home and road games, Smith McDonald said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Republican politicians like those in Wyoming and Idaho have voiced support for the teams refusing to play SJSU, advocates for transgender rights are speaking out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is doubling down on a policy of discrimination and exclusion instead of fostering what we should be fostering as part of athletics, which is camaraderie and competition,” said Tom Temprano, a spokesperson for the LGBTQ+ rights organization Equality California. “Instead, we’re centering these divisive values and discriminatory actions, which I would imagine the vast, vast majority of these student-athletes are unhappy with and would be opposed to.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SJSU is scheduled to play against Colorado State University on Thursday. 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"content": "\u003cp>Yoshihiro Uchida, a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11660424/san-joses-own-grandfather-of-judo-still-kicking-at-98\">renowned San José State University and Olympic coach\u003c/a> who helped establish judo as a competitive sport in the U.S., died early Thursday. He was 104.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The United States Judo Federation and the judo program at San José State announced Uchida’s death in social media posts Thursday evening.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He’s a pillar of the judo community,” Robert Fukuda, the executive director of the U.S. Judo Federation, told KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fukuda said that until very recently in Uchida’s life, even after passing the century mark, he would regularly attend practices at the San José State athletic hall named after him and watch students closely.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If they weren’t doing something correct, he was out there helping correct them. It was pretty amazing; he was a very remarkable guy,” Fukuda said. “There’ll be a long time before there’s another person like him, I’ll say that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under the direction of the man known as Sensei Uchida, Coach Uchida, or more affectionately, “Yosh,” San José State has dominated judo since the early 1950s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When judo made its Olympic debut at the 1964 Tokyo Summer Games, Uchida coached the inaugural U.S. team. Since then, 22 San José State Spartans from several different countries and territories have emerged as Olympians from the school’s judo program, with four collecting medals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was so proud to be the first judo coach for the United States, and especially for the Japanese Americans who endured so much. I was glad they were able to see a Japanese American representing the U.S. at such a global event,” Uchida said in a 2018 interview with the California State University system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San José State President Cynthia Teniente-Matson, in a \u003ca href=\"https://pages.sjsu.edu/index.php/email/emailWebview?email=NjYzLVVLUS05OTgAAAGT_voDpLDFY7xsHKQYo03h5k3PzgxZHuNQHVnzx4TVn7YhFHU9_Iuxa1fk87ONFs-91mo9pRbSXLaxZs_vkyrCfd098v5jXKFySQ\">campus-wide message\u003c/a> that included a \u003ca href=\"https://www.google.com/url?q=https://vimeo.com/970267756?share%3Dcopy&sa=D&source=docs&ust=1719617862010387&usg=AOvVaw1LO3ci9uoWXrfKPfOfryMk\">tribute video\u003c/a>, called Uchida “one of the most renowned and accomplished Spartans in the history of the university.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Uchida was born in 1920 in Calexico. He grew up in Garden Grove, and in \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11660424/san-joses-own-grandfather-of-judo-still-kicking-at-98\">a 2018 interview with KQED\u003c/a>, he said his parents noticed his zeal for American culture. They introduced him to judo as a way to connect him with his heritage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was not learning any Japanese culture. They said, ‘We gotta change that!’” Uchida said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a freshman at San José State in 1940, Uchida obliged a request to teach judo as a student coach, which he did for two years before being drafted into the Army during World War II. While he was on duty, his own family was being separated and put into incarceration camps across the American West.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After returning in 1947, he helped San José State organize and sponsor the first nationwide Amateur Athletic Union championship in 1953. Since then, San José State has won more competitions than university clubs in the rest of the country combined.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While supporting the growth of judo, Uchida also studied biology at the university, graduating in 1947. He worked as a laboratory technician at O’Connor Hospital and then at San José Hospital and eventually bought a medical lab, growing the business before selling it more than 30 years later, according to the federation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Uchida gave back to his community, helping students when needed and he “became a driving force in investing more than $80 million into housing and commercial businesses to revitalize San José’s Japantown,” Tenitente-Matson said. He also founded the Japanese American Chamber of Silicon Valley in 1996.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He founded the \u003ca href=\"https://www.sjbjudo.org/\">San José Buddhist Judo Club\u003c/a> because Japanese Americans were discriminated against and frequently barred from patronizing local gyms and health clubs, Dan Kikuchi, an instructor at the club, told KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kikuchi grew up with Uchida as a neighbor, later becoming his student, family friend and mentee. He worked with him as a judo teacher at the school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He was all about bringing rights and recognition to a generation that were interned in camps, their own sons had to serve in the U.S. military. And coming out of that, there was so much prejudice against them,” Kikuchi said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kikuchi recalled when he fought in the 1974 national collegiate championship judo competition. Under Uchida, the San José State team had a 12-year consecutive winning streak on the line, and they were struggling in the final rounds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“All these coaches were yelling and jeering at him saying, ‘You’re finished, you’re done.” Kikuchi began to cry as he remembered feeling like he and his teammates had let Uchida down.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Kikuchi said Uchida proudly ignored the other coaches while walking through the gym, and it inspired Kikuchi and two others to win their matches, catapulting the team into another title.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He’s always kept his head up, always forged ahead and said, ‘You know, we could do this, we could do this.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Uchida in 2018 said he believes sports can help people grow outside the dojo as well. “As students work out and get better and better, it gives confidence to push forward,” the coach said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Outpourings of love, admiration and respect were spreading across social media on Friday from people who knew Uchida, and who were coached by him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He has impacted so many aspects of not only USA Judo, but the world wide Judo,” David Williams, a former student of Uchida’s, judo coach, and San José State professor, wrote in an Instagram tribute.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is okay to be sad to a degree, but I would hope that we would decide it is better to applaud all the wonderful things he has done and the lives that he has influenced and mentored,” Williams wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Arash Soofiani, a former student of Uchida and the owner of Westside Judo in Southern California, thanked Uchida in an Instagram post.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What a legendary life. 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"content": "\u003cp>Few dates hold as much resonance in the history of American rock ’n’ roll as Feb. 3, 1959.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On that day, a single-engine plane with room for only three passengers crashed into a cornfield in Clear Lake, Iowa, just minutes after takeoff. The pilot and three budding stars of rock ’n’ roll — Buddy Holly, J.P. Richardson Jr. aka The Big Bopper, and Ritchie Valens — all died. That winter day became known as “The Day the Music Died,” and was immortalized in the 1971 song “American Pie” by Don McLean.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11962655\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11962655\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/230927-TARTA-AMERICANA-02-KQED-800x1200.jpg\" alt=\"An ornate pink and white book cover.\" width=\"800\" height=\"1200\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/230927-TARTA-AMERICANA-02-KQED-800x1200.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/230927-TARTA-AMERICANA-02-KQED-1020x1530.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/230927-TARTA-AMERICANA-02-KQED-160x240.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/230927-TARTA-AMERICANA-02-KQED-1024x1536.jpg 1024w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/230927-TARTA-AMERICANA-02-KQED.jpg 1333w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A new book by award-winning poet J. Michael Martinez uses the life and music of ‘La Bamba’ singer Ritchie Valens to explore identity, culture and politics. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of J. Michael Martinez)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Valens was the youngest on board at 17 years old. The Mexican-American singer from Pacoima, in the San Fernando Valley, had begun his career less than a year earlier. Yet, his legacy was already cemented through his timeless hits including, “We Belong Together,” “Donna,” and his widely beloved interpretation of the Mexican folk song, “La Bamba.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 1987, the film \u003cem>La Bamba\u003c/em> starring Lou Diamond Phillips, captured Valens’ life story. Los Lobos, the veteran East Los Angeles rockers, performed Valens’ music. The band’s cover of “La Bamba,” went on to become a No. 1 hit upon the film’s release, reintroducing the music of Ritchie Valens to a new generation of fans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Almost 40 years later, award-winning poet and San José State professor J. Michael Martinez has created a new, poetic ode to Valens. \u003cem>Tarta Americana\u003c/em>, which is Spanish for American Pie, uses the life and music of Valens to better understand issues around race, culture and politics as they show up in Martinez’s own life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Sasha Khokha’s interview with J. Michael Martinez has been edited for length and clarity — for the full version, listen to the audio at the top of the page.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sasha Khokha: \u003c/strong>How did you first get into Ritchie Valens’ music?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Michael Martinez: \u003c/strong>My mother had “La Bamba” on vinyl, and it was actually the first record that she owned, so she would throw it on the record player growing up. After the movie came out, I was completely enthralled. And so, we ended up having the soundtrack always going and as a child, I would dance to “La Bamba.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>My mom had such a visceral, joyous response to the sound of his voice and to that opening pluck of guitar. To see my mother immediately joyous and jovial, shaking and ready to dance, that was always a sign that it was going to be a good day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BycLmWI97Nc\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>You mention the film \u003cem>La Bamba\u003c/em> a lot in this book. Tell me your first memories of watching it.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I distinctly remember this. We were in our little TV room. We’d ordered pepperoni pizza and my mother pushed it into the VHS and [hit] play. And [there’s] the opening music that the film has and then this particular scene of Latinos and Latinas in the fields harvesting and gathering.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11962656\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11962656\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/230927-TARTA-AMERICANA-03-KQED-800x1110.jpg\" alt=\"A scan of a photo of you children smiling and posing for a photo.\" width=\"800\" height=\"1110\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/230927-TARTA-AMERICANA-03-KQED-800x1110.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/230927-TARTA-AMERICANA-03-KQED-1020x1416.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/230927-TARTA-AMERICANA-03-KQED-160x222.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/230927-TARTA-AMERICANA-03-KQED-1107x1536.jpg 1107w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/230927-TARTA-AMERICANA-03-KQED.jpg 1441w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ivan Martinez and 5-year-old J. Michael Martinez, around the time he first watched the film La Bamba. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of J. Michael Martinez)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>No other film that I’d seen up to that point as a child had ever resonated with me in that way before. Because there were people that looked like my uncles and aunts, that looked like my mother, my father, and then Ritchie who was not able to speak Spanish fluently, like me.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It really changed my perspective of racial identification. Even as a child, I was like, “Oh, here’s a Chicano that can’t speak Spanish fluently like me that is interested in art like me.” He was deeply, deeply important — a pivotal figure for me to comprehend what it means to be a Chicano, a Latino, in the U.S.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Are there parallels that you see in terms of Valens’ journey as an artist and yours?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He was very much a presence in my young childhood, and so radically influenced my visions of what an artist can be. When he was singing, that music was meant to generate community and to generate hope and love, to bring people together, to see them in their joy. That full effort to pursue art, to pursue music, parallels for me the desire to pursue poetry in language and to cultivate community in the hopes of providing some avenue toward joy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Valens’ name was actually whitewashed by his record producer. His real name was Richard Valenzuela, right?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Certain people, because they’re lighter, they’re more digestible in terms of cultural perception and cultural difference. The more you look like me, the more I can comprehend you. And I think with Valens, that name becomes more legible to audiences that may not understand the “Zuela” of “Valenzuela.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>But what’s incredible is that one of his hit songs ended up being in Spanish.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Isn’t that ironic? Isn’t that beautiful? You don’t need to compromise in order to be popular, to create art that finds itself accessible to different audiences. That still informs my revolutionary attitude toward language, toward teaching; that there can be integrity and you don’t necessarily need to compromise in the name of capital to sell a product.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11962660\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11962660\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/230927-TARTA-AMERICANA-07-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"A group of people outdoors beside a house.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/230927-TARTA-AMERICANA-07-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/230927-TARTA-AMERICANA-07-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/230927-TARTA-AMERICANA-07-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/230927-TARTA-AMERICANA-07-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/230927-TARTA-AMERICANA-07-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/230927-TARTA-AMERICANA-07-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A Martinez family gathering. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of J. Michael Martinez)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>A lot of this book is in the form of letters from you to Valens. One of my favorite letters is where you talk about an experience your niece had and how you reacted to it. \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\u003cem>Letters to Ritchie XI\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ritchie,\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This morning my seven-year-old niece told me a story\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>about a girl in her class asking her if she was a “dirty\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mexican,” & frowning, I recalled a conversation with\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>my mother two days prior, when my mother reminded\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>me: when I was five, when we were the only “colored”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>people in the freshly painted suburban all-American\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>picket fence dream on the northwest side of a pretty\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>square town; my mother said, one day, after playing on\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>the sparkly slide side of the park, I stumbled home,\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>crying, & Baby-Me told my Mom-Then that an older,\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>tall, freckle-faced, red-haired boy kept calling me a\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“dirty Mexican,” & my mom said I cry-sighed to her, “I\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>take showers, Mommy, I’m not\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"padding-left: 120px;\">dirty,”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"padding-left: 120px;\">&, Ritchie,\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"padding-left: 120px;\">heart emojis\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"padding-left: 160px;\">pop-tart\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>around me as I try to remember being such a small\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>bucktoothed bowl-cut, &, Ritchie, this morning, forty\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>years older than four feet, I asked my niece how she\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>replied, & my niece flipped her long, chestnut-brown\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>hair over her shoulder, & after an intentionally dramatic\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>pause, she lifted her chin, & rocking her head on her\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>neck, all Beyoncé-Queen-B-has-deemed-you-Oh-No-\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You-Didn’t, she said, “I told her I was a Martinez, & then\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I pushed her butt to the ground,” &, Ritchie, fireworks\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>smiling out of the corner of her eyes, for one moment we\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>were both one anticipation, then, heads thrown back,\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>we’re braying trombones, stomping merry—joy our\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>preferred stereotype.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>[aside label='More Stories on the Arts' tag='arts']\u003cstrong>Valens almost becomes the listener and somebody to bear witness to your own biographical journey as you’re mining his.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yeah, I think that’s really right on. 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That winter day became known as “The Day the Music Died,” and was immortalized in the 1971 song “American Pie” by Don McLean.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11962655\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11962655\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/230927-TARTA-AMERICANA-02-KQED-800x1200.jpg\" alt=\"An ornate pink and white book cover.\" width=\"800\" height=\"1200\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/230927-TARTA-AMERICANA-02-KQED-800x1200.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/230927-TARTA-AMERICANA-02-KQED-1020x1530.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/230927-TARTA-AMERICANA-02-KQED-160x240.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/230927-TARTA-AMERICANA-02-KQED-1024x1536.jpg 1024w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/230927-TARTA-AMERICANA-02-KQED.jpg 1333w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A new book by award-winning poet J. 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The band’s cover of “La Bamba,” went on to become a No. 1 hit upon the film’s release, reintroducing the music of Ritchie Valens to a new generation of fans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Almost 40 years later, award-winning poet and San José State professor J. Michael Martinez has created a new, poetic ode to Valens. \u003cem>Tarta Americana\u003c/em>, which is Spanish for American Pie, uses the life and music of Valens to better understand issues around race, culture and politics as they show up in Martinez’s own life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Sasha Khokha’s interview with J. 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To see my mother immediately joyous and jovial, shaking and ready to dance, that was always a sign that it was going to be a good day.\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/BycLmWI97Nc'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/BycLmWI97Nc'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cstrong>You mention the film \u003cem>La Bamba\u003c/em> a lot in this book. Tell me your first memories of watching it.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I distinctly remember this. We were in our little TV room. We’d ordered pepperoni pizza and my mother pushed it into the VHS and [hit] play. 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This came at a time when Smith, who had already broken multiple speed records, was widely considered one of the fastest men in the world.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yV4zvaxeI94]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the years, attitudes toward the men began to change. In 1984, Smith and Carlos became emissaries for the Summer Olympics in Los Angeles and were subsequently inducted into the U.S. Track and Field Hall of Fame. 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But the finding is essentially moot, because Silva \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11762733/los-gatos-cop-resigns-amid-outcry-over-beating-at-san-jose-state\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">resigned\u003c/a> from the Los Gatos-Monte Sereno Police Department last month, amid controversy over the violence involved in an \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11759028/former-san-jose-state-cop-fired-for-excessive-force-won-job-back-on-appeal\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">arrest he made in 2016\u003c/a> when he was working for the San Jose State University Police Department.[aside postID='news_11759028,news_11760061,news_11762733' hero=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/Johnathon-Silva-SJSU-Police-excessive-force-Los-Gatos-Peter-Decena-1020x574.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A public statement and \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OTnw5oJimpM&feature=youtu.be\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">YouTube video\u003c/a> of body-camera footage from the April 19, 2019 encounter, in the 100 block of Towne Terrace, was posted by the Police Department Friday in response to Senate Bill 1421, California’s new police transparency law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The law compelled the release of previously protected disciplinary records when an officer was found to have engaged in sexual assault or dishonesty, or was involved in a shooting or use of force that caused great bodily injury.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to police, Silva was called to the apartment building after a resident reported that Newlon was yelling obscenities and scaring her. 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His landlord described him to police as a Navy veteran who suffered from post-traumatic stress disorder and a brain tumor, according to incident reports released by the Police Department, and the woman who called police said she only wanted him to get help.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Silva was the subject of public scrutiny after SB 1421 records released in July — first reported by KQED and the Bay Area News Group — \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11759028/former-san-jose-state-cop-fired-for-excessive-force-won-job-back-on-appeal\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">revealed\u003c/a> that he had been fired by San Jose State after a 2016 incident in which he brutally beat a man who was watching porn and may have been masturbating in the campus library. The civil suit filed by the subject of the beating led to $950,000 settlement. 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From a design standpoint, it’s fair to say few people give it a second look.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size='medium' align='right' citation='Charlie Faas, SJSU senior vice president of administration and finance']‘If we don’t solve the faculty staff housing issue, it’s going to be really hard to have classes and educate students.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This building is ugly,” said Charlie Faas, SJSU’s senior vice president of administration and finance. “This building is a three-story concrete pillar-type building that has a lot of open spaces inside, a lot of less-than-good utilization of the space, and it’s short.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state agrees. In fact, California’s real estate division recommended that current tenants — like the Department of Public Health — move elsewhere so that the Alquist Building can be transferred to another state agency free of charge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Jose State wants to be that agency.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Housing Help for Faculty Feeling the Squeeze\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Faas has big plans: parking, retail and several new residential towers, with up to 1,000 below-market-rate apartments for faculty and graduate students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size='medium' align='right' citation=\"William Armaline, professor of sociology at SJSU\"]‘You work very hard on a professional degree … I’m a tenured professor. 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Silva also used a Taser on Chong, who was apparently mentally ill and was refusing the officer's orders to give his real name and birthdate, but the stun gun malfunctioned, according to police.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Warning, this video contains graphic imagery and language.\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\nhttps://youtu.be/BLIC3gaAiBc\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then-university Police Chief Peter Decena and his command staff, while voicing concern about the violence, ultimately decided that the force Silva used was within department policy and training, according to records released by the school. But the college overrode that decision after launching its own investigation following Chong's lawsuit over the encounter. 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