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He also created a community poem, “Running For Your Life,” based on submissions to NPR about what it means to be Black and safe in America today that you can \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2020/05/27/862339935/running-for-your-life-a-community-poem-for-ahmaud-arbery\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">read here\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>]\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003ch3>Interview Highlights\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>On why he wrote this book of poems \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13889659 alignright\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/11/9780358539414_hres_custom-7c03c2ad34a13039a6258643769b8626e925c1eb.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"285\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/11/9780358539414_hres_custom-7c03c2ad34a13039a6258643769b8626e925c1eb.jpg 200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/11/9780358539414_hres_custom-7c03c2ad34a13039a6258643769b8626e925c1eb-160x228.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\">I think the weight of being Black was too much to carry for me for a long time. I didn’t know how to find answers to assert myself to do something. And then a friend of mine sent me a quote by Toni Morrison that said this is precisely the time when artists go to work. There’s no time for despair. No place for self pity. No need for silence. No room for fear. We speak, we write, we do language, that is how civilizations heal. And so I wrote. I used my words to scream, to shout, to sort of lift up my voice to shine a little light for the world.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I wanted to write this as a reminder to Black children and families to remember their humanity. I wanted to write it as sort of a wake-up call to white Americans to acknowledge and know the truth, to fight against a proclivity to maintain the hierarchy, whether conscious or not. I think of these poems as sort of negro spirituals in a way—which are timeless in their comfort and their guidance and their roots in praise houses and ring shouts and other informal gatherings of enslaved Africans who needed to express their sorrows and their hopes, wading in the water. \u003cem>Nobody knows the trouble I’ve seen\u003c/em>. \u003cem>Steal away to Jesus\u003c/em>. That’s what these poems are for me. They are psalms and balms for my soul and hopefully for our souls so that we can get on with the business of making the world a better place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>On the parallels he sees in James Baldwin’s \u003c/strong>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>A Report From Occupied Territory, \u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/report-occupied-territory/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">an essay written in 1966 about police brutality\u003c/a>, and what the nation is going through today—and on his own writing in this tradition\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I think [it’s] in the sense that Baldwin was crying out. It was a plea for our humanity, for the humanity of Black people in particular, of oppressed people in general, to be recognized. I don’t know if I’m writing a plea more so that I’m making a demand and that I’m saying we’ve got to reclaim our own humanity and cannot allow ourselves to be defined by other people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The wound, the wound has been here. The wound has been here since Africans first arrived on these shores. These episodes of police killings and brutality—they’ve existed for 400 years. I wrote this to remind us of the tragedy, while also showcasing the triumph. The only way for us to do things better in the future is to understand what we did wrong in the past. I do think that we are at a critical boiling point of resistance in America and you see whites and Blacks and all Americans coming together to stand up for what’s right. We’ve got to all say that we are fired up and we can’t take no more and I think that’s what’s happening.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">\u003cem>Copyright 2020 NPR. 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He also created a community poem, “Running For Your Life,” based on submissions to NPR about what it means to be Black and safe in America today that you can \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2020/05/27/862339935/running-for-your-life-a-community-poem-for-ahmaud-arbery\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">read here\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>]\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003ch3>Interview Highlights\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>On why he wrote this book of poems \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13889659 alignright\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/11/9780358539414_hres_custom-7c03c2ad34a13039a6258643769b8626e925c1eb.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"285\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/11/9780358539414_hres_custom-7c03c2ad34a13039a6258643769b8626e925c1eb.jpg 200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/11/9780358539414_hres_custom-7c03c2ad34a13039a6258643769b8626e925c1eb-160x228.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\">I think the weight of being Black was too much to carry for me for a long time. 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I think of these poems as sort of negro spirituals in a way—which are timeless in their comfort and their guidance and their roots in praise houses and ring shouts and other informal gatherings of enslaved Africans who needed to express their sorrows and their hopes, wading in the water. \u003cem>Nobody knows the trouble I’ve seen\u003c/em>. \u003cem>Steal away to Jesus\u003c/em>. That’s what these poems are for me. They are psalms and balms for my soul and hopefully for our souls so that we can get on with the business of making the world a better place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>On the parallels he sees in James Baldwin’s \u003c/strong>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>A Report From Occupied Territory, \u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/report-occupied-territory/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">an essay written in 1966 about police brutality\u003c/a>, and what the nation is going through today—and on his own writing in this tradition\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I think [it’s] in the sense that Baldwin was crying out. It was a plea for our humanity, for the humanity of Black people in particular, of oppressed people in general, to be recognized. 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To see more, visit \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">NPR\u003c/a>.\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=Kwame+Alexander+Offers+New+Poems+On+Race+And+Hope+As+%27Psalms+And+Balms%27+For+The+Soul&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/em>\u003c/div>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/arts/13889657/kwame-alexander-offers-new-poems-on-race-and-hope-as-psalms-and-balms","authors":["byline_arts_13889657"],"categories":["arts_1","arts_73"],"tags":["arts_3675","arts_2558","arts_11163","arts_3087","arts_6713"],"affiliates":["arts_137"],"featImg":"arts_13889658","label":"arts_137"},"arts_13879867":{"type":"posts","id":"arts_13879867","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"arts","id":"13879867","score":null,"sort":[1588794735000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"becoming-offers-a-revealing-but-selective-view-of-michelle-obama","title":"'Becoming' Offers a Revealing But Selective View of Michelle Obama","publishDate":1588794735,"format":"standard","headTitle":"‘Becoming’ Offers a Revealing But Selective View of Michelle Obama | KQED","labelTerm":{"term":137,"site":"arts"},"content":"\u003cp>It’s telling that the most barbed political criticism Michelle Obama drops in her new Netflix documentary \u003cem>Becoming\u003c/em> isn’t about Donald Trump’s birtherism or the commentators who tried to dismiss her as an angry black woman.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead, she criticizes fickle Democratic supporters while talking about Trump’s 2017 inauguration in a roundtable discussion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The day I left the White House, I write about how painful it was to sit on that stage—a lot of our folks didn’t vote,” she says in the film, which debuts Wednesday. “So it was almost like, a slap in the face.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Moments later, she expands on that idea, “I understand the people who voted for Trump, [but] the people who didn’t vote at all—the young people, the women—that’s when you think, man, people think this is a game.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The backbone of the documentary comes from footage filmed behind-the-scenes and onstage during the 34-stop tour to promote \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/books/titles/663568665/becoming\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">her best-selling memoir,\u003c/a> also called \u003cem>Becoming\u003c/em>. The tour featured celebrity hosts like Oprah Winfrey interviewing the former First Lady in arenas packed with fans; she spoke on everything from visiting a marriage counselor with her husband to raising young black children in a mansion like the White House.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her concern: during a visit with Laura Bush, she noticed the White House butlers were African American and Latino men decked out in tuxedoes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I didn’t want them growing up thinking grown African American men served them in tuxedoes,” she says. “The truth was that some of those men were (like) my uncles—they were the Pullman porters and other folks—I didn’t want my girls to grow up with that image.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Race is, of course, a huge subject in the film, as Michelle Obama details feeling immense pressure to be perfect as wife to the first black president. For fans who admire the family and their message of inclusion, \u003cem>Becoming\u003c/em> will be a bittersweet reminder of how differently the White House’s current occupants conduct themselves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wePNJGL7nDU\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, when young people ask Michelle Obama how to face the often-intangible forces of systemic prejudice and tribalism, Michelle Obama has a consistent answer: Stay focused. Work hard. Never accept a limiting label.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I never felt invisible,” she says, praising her parents for teaching her confidence. “We can’t afford to wait for the world to be equal to start feeling seen.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When a Native American student tells her he felt uneasy in classes with students wearing Trump hats, she responds: “So you’re in school. Be in school. Get your frickin’ education. Barack and I, all through this presidency, through the lies and the stuff they said about us, all we could do was wake up every day and do our jobs. Let our jobs and our lives speak for itself.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That sounds an awful lot like putting the burden on oppressed people to transcend their own oppression. The Obamas have faced criticism in the past for such “respectability politics”—which also imply that if a person of color doesn’t succeed, perhaps it’s because they didn’t try hard enough. (Remember those Democratic voters who stayed home?)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It would have been compelling to see Michelle Obama face some tough questions from someone who legitimately challenges her ideas. But \u003cem>Becoming\u003c/em> is produced by the Obamas’ Higher Ground Productions, following in the footsteps of other recent documentaries—like ESPN’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/29127505/espn-michael-jordan-documentary-big-takeaways-episodes-5-6-last-dance\">\u003cem>The Last Dance\u003c/em> \u003c/a>or Hulu’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.hulu.com/series/hillary-793891ec-5bb7-4200-ba93-e3629532d670?&cmp=12386&utm_source=google&utm_medium=SEM&utm_campaign=CM_SEM_Hillary%20Documentary&utm_term=+hulu%20+hillary&ds_rl=1251123&gclid=CjwKCAjwwMn1BRAUEiwAZ_jnEvFpq7FeplEMMgox0Gvbd1vT4aUX-dPNDqKNC6yNqYOWhJOdI8cDxhoCnhkQAvD_BwE&gclsrc=aw.ds\">\u003cem>Hillary\u003c/em>\u003c/a>—which counted on significant participation and support from key subjects to succeed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As good as all of these efforts are, there is also a sense that they can only go so far in challenging their superstar subjects. In \u003cem>Becoming\u003c/em>‘s case, that means a distinct lack of critics shown onscreen and moments that feel too much like an ad for the boss.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite Michelle Obama’s candor, \u003cem>Becoming \u003c/em>offers a selective view. Barack Obama doesn’t sit for an exclusive interview; daughters Sasha and Malia speak in just a few places. And the former First Lady avoids any direct criticism of political rivals, continuing to go high when others might consider going low.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even with its flaws, \u003cem>Becoming\u003c/em> is a compelling documentary, offering a carefully revealing look at a whip smart, ferociously practical woman trying to understand how her historic time in the White House changed herself, her family and the nation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">\u003cem>Copyright 2020 NPR. 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The tour featured celebrity hosts like Oprah Winfrey interviewing the former First Lady in arenas packed with fans; she spoke on everything from visiting a marriage counselor with her husband to raising young black children in a mansion like the White House.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her concern: during a visit with Laura Bush, she noticed the White House butlers were African American and Latino men decked out in tuxedoes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I didn’t want them growing up thinking grown African American men served them in tuxedoes,” she says. “The truth was that some of those men were (like) my uncles—they were the Pullman porters and other folks—I didn’t want my girls to grow up with that image.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Race is, of course, a huge subject in the film, as Michelle Obama details feeling immense pressure to be perfect as wife to the first black president. For fans who admire the family and their message of inclusion, \u003cem>Becoming\u003c/em> will be a bittersweet reminder of how differently the White House’s current occupants conduct themselves.\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/wePNJGL7nDU'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/wePNJGL7nDU'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>Still, when young people ask Michelle Obama how to face the often-intangible forces of systemic prejudice and tribalism, Michelle Obama has a consistent answer: Stay focused. Work hard. Never accept a limiting label.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I never felt invisible,” she says, praising her parents for teaching her confidence. “We can’t afford to wait for the world to be equal to start feeling seen.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When a Native American student tells her he felt uneasy in classes with students wearing Trump hats, she responds: “So you’re in school. Be in school. Get your frickin’ education. Barack and I, all through this presidency, through the lies and the stuff they said about us, all we could do was wake up every day and do our jobs. Let our jobs and our lives speak for itself.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That sounds an awful lot like putting the burden on oppressed people to transcend their own oppression. The Obamas have faced criticism in the past for such “respectability politics”—which also imply that if a person of color doesn’t succeed, perhaps it’s because they didn’t try hard enough. (Remember those Democratic voters who stayed home?)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It would have been compelling to see Michelle Obama face some tough questions from someone who legitimately challenges her ideas. But \u003cem>Becoming\u003c/em> is produced by the Obamas’ Higher Ground Productions, following in the footsteps of other recent documentaries—like ESPN’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/29127505/espn-michael-jordan-documentary-big-takeaways-episodes-5-6-last-dance\">\u003cem>The Last Dance\u003c/em> \u003c/a>or Hulu’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.hulu.com/series/hillary-793891ec-5bb7-4200-ba93-e3629532d670?&cmp=12386&utm_source=google&utm_medium=SEM&utm_campaign=CM_SEM_Hillary%20Documentary&utm_term=+hulu%20+hillary&ds_rl=1251123&gclid=CjwKCAjwwMn1BRAUEiwAZ_jnEvFpq7FeplEMMgox0Gvbd1vT4aUX-dPNDqKNC6yNqYOWhJOdI8cDxhoCnhkQAvD_BwE&gclsrc=aw.ds\">\u003cem>Hillary\u003c/em>\u003c/a>—which counted on significant participation and support from key subjects to succeed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As good as all of these efforts are, there is also a sense that they can only go so far in challenging their superstar subjects. In \u003cem>Becoming\u003c/em>‘s case, that means a distinct lack of critics shown onscreen and moments that feel too much like an ad for the boss.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite Michelle Obama’s candor, \u003cem>Becoming \u003c/em>offers a selective view. Barack Obama doesn’t sit for an exclusive interview; daughters Sasha and Malia speak in just a few places. And the former First Lady avoids any direct criticism of political rivals, continuing to go high when others might consider going low.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even with its flaws, \u003cem>Becoming\u003c/em> is a compelling documentary, offering a carefully revealing look at a whip smart, ferociously practical woman trying to understand how her historic time in the White House changed herself, her family and the nation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">\u003cem>Copyright 2020 NPR. To see more, visit \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">NPR\u003c/a>.\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=%27Becoming%27+Offers+A+Revealing+But+Selective+View+Of+Michelle+Obama&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/em>\u003c/div>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/arts/13879867/becoming-offers-a-revealing-but-selective-view-of-michelle-obama","authors":["byline_arts_13879867"],"categories":["arts_1","arts_990"],"tags":["arts_3675","arts_5826"],"affiliates":["arts_137"],"featImg":"arts_13879868","label":"arts_137"},"arts_13866927":{"type":"posts","id":"arts_13866927","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"arts","id":"13866927","score":null,"sort":[1569266016000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"the-ties-that-bind-bruce-springsteen-and-the-wide-divide","title":"The Ties That Bind: Bruce Springsteen and the Wide Divide","publishDate":1569266016,"format":"standard","headTitle":"The Ties That Bind: Bruce Springsteen and the Wide Divide | KQED","labelTerm":{"term":137,"site":"arts"},"content":"\u003cp>On February 4, 1999, on Wheeler Avenue in the Soundview section of the Bronx, Amadou Diallo, an immigrant from Guinea, was killed by four plainclothes members of the New York Police Department’s Street Crimes Unit. Diallo, who was unarmed, was standing on the front stoop of the building where he lived and reaching for his wallet when the officers started shooting. They fired forty-one bullets, nineteen of which hit Diallo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In response to the shooting, Bruce Springsteen released “American Skin (41 Shots),” a minor- key ballad, more anguished than angry, which applied the balms of empathy and narrative economy to a raw social wound. The central verse dramatizes what African American families call “the talk.” As a mother, Lena, prepares her son, Charles, for school, she reminds him: “You’ve got to understand the rules / if an officer stops you, promise me, you’ll always be polite / and that you’ll never ever run away / and promise mama you’ll keep your hands in sight.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The following summer, I managed to score seats up in the rafters of Madison Square Garden for one of the last shows in the E Street Band’s epic reunion tour. A few rows ahead of me at that show, there were two guys [who] were bigger Bruce fans than I was, or at least fans of longer standing and purer pedigree.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But this isn’t really about me. It’s about those other guys, who I might not have noticed, and would never have remembered nearly twenty years after the fact, if not for what I’m about to describe. They looked a little older than I was: closer to forty than thirty. They were meatier, louder, probably drunker and having a great time—dancing, pumping their fists, exchanging high fives with strangers, singing along to every chorus and most of the verses. They were not self-conscious at all.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At least not until the first mournful notes of “American Skin.” I don’t remember if Bruce introduced it or if anyone needed reminding. The officers had been acquitted four months earlier, in February 2000. Diallo’s mother, Kadijatou, had filed a suit against the city in April. Maybe he said something about that, or maybe everyone remembered when he sang the line “forty-one shots.” As soon as he did, the two men turned their backs to the stage, clasped their hands in front of them and bowed their heads. They didn’t boo and they didn’t walk out but stood silently, registering their protest at the Boss’s protest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQMqWAiWPMs\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Once the final chorus began to fade, he shifted—without pausing for breath—into the familiar harmonica riff that leads into the first verse of “The Promised Land.” Having made their point and enacted their displeasure, the two guys turned back to face the music, and when Bruce stopped singing after the first chorus and turned the microphone toward the crowd, they sang along with everyone else, belting out a stanza that expressed a different kind of protest: “Sometimes I feel so weak, I just wanna explode.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For a long time I held onto that moment as a complicated symbol of civic promise, a testament to the inclusiveness of popular music in general and Bruce Springsteen in particular. Of course he didn’t have the power to fix racism, to resolve the contradictions of class and ideology, to move the world toward justice. But the reach of his empathy was wide enough to extend to both Amadou Diallo’s family and, if not to his killers, surely to their families and supporters. The politics that would take any criticism of the police as a moral provocation, while far from Springsteen’s own beliefs, is in no way alien to his imagination. He might not have agreed with those guys standing with their backs turned but he understood them. And their understanding of \u003cem>him\u003c/em> was what authorized their protest. The concert created a civic space in which two antithetical sentiments could coexist and communicate with each other. Feelings might be hurt, but the bond between performer and fan was stronger than politics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Something like this idea defined the public career of Barack Obama, in some ways the most Springsteenian political figure in American political history. The speech at the 2004 Democratic National Convention that set Obama on course to capture the presidency wove a shimmering dialectic of unity and diversity. Obama rewrote historical conflict—about race, power, money, religion, and culture—as common struggle. He tried to insist in particular that America’s racial wounds could be salved by the mutual recognition of good will, by appreciation of the varieties of American skin we all inhabit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13866929\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 183px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13866929\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/09/download-3.jpg\" alt=\"'Long Walk Home: Reflections on Bruce Springsteen' by Jonathan D. Cohen, June Skinner Sawyers, Natalie Adler, Eric Alterman and Regina Barreca.\" width=\"183\" height=\"275\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/09/download-3.jpg 183w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/09/download-3-160x240.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 183px) 100vw, 183px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">‘Long Walk Home:\u003cbr>Reflections on Bruce Springsteen’ by Jonathan D. Cohen, June Skinner Sawyers, Natalie Adler, Eric Alterman and Regina Barreca. \u003ccite>(Rutgers University Press)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Is a dream a lie if it don’t come true?” As I write this, Obama’s liberal ideals have fallen on hard times. Maybe they were illusions to begin with, each fatally underestimating the depth and jaggedness of the fissures, the intensity of the fury, the tenacity of the tribal ties that bind. And maybe too, some of us invested too much faith in the charisma of our leaders, and rested too comfortably in the conviction of our own goodness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Or maybe we were listening wrong, missing the overtones of irony, the notes of tragedy, longing, and defeat that sounded through even the most ringing and rousing choruses. The liberal Springsteen has been a comforting fantasy, but the radical Springsteen—the poet of work, violence, futility, and all-in existential revolt—needs to be recovered, just as we are being forced to recall that the character of our common civic life has always been a matter of life and death. “You can get killed just for living in your American skin.”\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This is an edited excerpt of a longer work taken from \u003c/em>Long Walk Home: Reflections on Bruce Springsteen\u003cem>, a collection of essays from Rutgers University Press examining the artist, now in his 70th year, and his career. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Disclosure: NPR Music senior director Lauren Onkey has a piece included in the collection.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">\u003cem>Copyright 2019 NPR. To see more, visit \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">NPR\u003c/a>.\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=The+Ties+That+Bind%3A+Bruce+Springsteen+And+The+Wide+Divide&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/em>\u003c/div>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"A Springsteen concert \"created a civic space in which two antithetical sentiments could coexist and communicate with each other,\" writes A.O. Scott. The Boss turns 70 years old today.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1705022107,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":true,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":14,"wordCount":1098},"headData":{"title":"The Ties That Bind: Bruce Springsteen and the Wide Divide | KQED","description":"A Springsteen concert "created a civic space in which two antithetical sentiments could coexist and communicate with each other," writes A.O. Scott. The Boss turns 70 years old today.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"Article","headline":"The Ties That Bind: Bruce Springsteen and the Wide Divide","datePublished":"2019-09-23T19:13:36.000Z","dateModified":"2024-01-12T01:15:07.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}},"sticky":false,"nprByline":"A.O. 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Diallo, who was unarmed, was standing on the front stoop of the building where he lived and reaching for his wallet when the officers started shooting. They fired forty-one bullets, nineteen of which hit Diallo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In response to the shooting, Bruce Springsteen released “American Skin (41 Shots),” a minor- key ballad, more anguished than angry, which applied the balms of empathy and narrative economy to a raw social wound. The central verse dramatizes what African American families call “the talk.” As a mother, Lena, prepares her son, Charles, for school, she reminds him: “You’ve got to understand the rules / if an officer stops you, promise me, you’ll always be polite / and that you’ll never ever run away / and promise mama you’ll keep your hands in sight.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The following summer, I managed to score seats up in the rafters of Madison Square Garden for one of the last shows in the E Street Band’s epic reunion tour. 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Of course he didn’t have the power to fix racism, to resolve the contradictions of class and ideology, to move the world toward justice. But the reach of his empathy was wide enough to extend to both Amadou Diallo’s family and, if not to his killers, surely to their families and supporters. The politics that would take any criticism of the police as a moral provocation, while far from Springsteen’s own beliefs, is in no way alien to his imagination. He might not have agreed with those guys standing with their backs turned but he understood them. And their understanding of \u003cem>him\u003c/em> was what authorized their protest. The concert created a civic space in which two antithetical sentiments could coexist and communicate with each other. Feelings might be hurt, but the bond between performer and fan was stronger than politics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Something like this idea defined the public career of Barack Obama, in some ways the most Springsteenian political figure in American political history. The speech at the 2004 Democratic National Convention that set Obama on course to capture the presidency wove a shimmering dialectic of unity and diversity. Obama rewrote historical conflict—about race, power, money, religion, and culture—as common struggle. He tried to insist in particular that America’s racial wounds could be salved by the mutual recognition of good will, by appreciation of the varieties of American skin we all inhabit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13866929\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 183px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13866929\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/09/download-3.jpg\" alt=\"'Long Walk Home: Reflections on Bruce Springsteen' by Jonathan D. Cohen, June Skinner Sawyers, Natalie Adler, Eric Alterman and Regina Barreca.\" width=\"183\" height=\"275\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/09/download-3.jpg 183w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/09/download-3-160x240.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 183px) 100vw, 183px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">‘Long Walk Home:\u003cbr>Reflections on Bruce Springsteen’ by Jonathan D. Cohen, June Skinner Sawyers, Natalie Adler, Eric Alterman and Regina Barreca. \u003ccite>(Rutgers University Press)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Is a dream a lie if it don’t come true?” As I write this, Obama’s liberal ideals have fallen on hard times. Maybe they were illusions to begin with, each fatally underestimating the depth and jaggedness of the fissures, the intensity of the fury, the tenacity of the tribal ties that bind. And maybe too, some of us invested too much faith in the charisma of our leaders, and rested too comfortably in the conviction of our own goodness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Or maybe we were listening wrong, missing the overtones of irony, the notes of tragedy, longing, and defeat that sounded through even the most ringing and rousing choruses. The liberal Springsteen has been a comforting fantasy, but the radical Springsteen—the poet of work, violence, futility, and all-in existential revolt—needs to be recovered, just as we are being forced to recall that the character of our common civic life has always been a matter of life and death. “You can get killed just for living in your American skin.”\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This is an edited excerpt of a longer work taken from \u003c/em>Long Walk Home: Reflections on Bruce Springsteen\u003cem>, a collection of essays from Rutgers University Press examining the artist, now in his 70th year, and his career. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Disclosure: NPR Music senior director Lauren Onkey has a piece included in the collection.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">\u003cem>Copyright 2019 NPR. To see more, visit \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">NPR\u003c/a>.\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=The+Ties+That+Bind%3A+Bruce+Springsteen+And+The+Wide+Divide&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/em>\u003c/div>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/arts/13866927/the-ties-that-bind-bruce-springsteen-and-the-wide-divide","authors":["byline_arts_13866927"],"categories":["arts_73","arts_2303","arts_69","arts_75"],"tags":["arts_3675","arts_2767","arts_3652","arts_905"],"affiliates":["arts_137"],"featImg":"arts_13866931","label":"arts_137"},"arts_13863056":{"type":"posts","id":"arts_13863056","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"arts","id":"13863056","score":null,"sort":[1565048650000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"obama-urges-americans-to-reject-language-that-feeds-a-climate-of-fear","title":"Obama Urges Americans To Reject Language That 'Feeds A Climate Of Fear'","publishDate":1565048650,"format":"standard","headTitle":"Obama Urges Americans To Reject Language That ‘Feeds A Climate Of Fear’ | KQED","labelTerm":{"term":137,"site":"arts"},"content":"\u003cp>Former President Barack Obama weighed in on the mass shootings this past weekend in El Paso, Texas, and Dayton, Ohio, saying on Monday that Americans “should soundly reject language coming out of the mouths of any of our leaders that feeds a climate of fear and hatred or normalizes racist sentiments.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/BarackObama/status/1158453079035002881\">released on Twitter\u003c/a>, Obama did not mention President Trump by name, but his reference seemed clear.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Obama denounced language from “leaders who demonize those who don’t look like us, or suggest that other people, including immigrants, threaten our way of life, or refer to other people as sub-human, or imply that America belongs to just one certain type of people.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Such language, Obama said, “has no place in our politics and our public life.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He added that “it’s time for the overwhelming majority of Americans of goodwill, of every race and faith and political party, to say as much — clearly and unequivocally.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/BarackObama/status/1158453079035002881\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Obama’s statement Monday was a rare occasion when the former president, who has generally avoided commenting on politics since leaving office, spoke out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From the time Trump announced his candidacy in June 2015, he has been accused of making racist and anti-immigrant remarks. He accused Mexico of sending “their worst people” to the U.S., people he said who were “bringing drugs. They’re bringing crime. They’re rapists.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More recently he was \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2019/07/16/742236610/condemnation-of-president-delayed-by-debate-can-lawmakers-call-trump-tweets-raci\">condemned by the House of Representatives\u003c/a> for his remarks about four Democratic members of Congress, all women of color, who he said should “go back” to where they came from. He also launched an attack on House Oversight Committee Chairman Elijah Cummings, D-Md., saying Cummings’ Baltimore-based district was “\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2019/07/28/746019426/leaders-in-baltimore-and-maryland-denounce-trump-tweets-attacking-elijah-cumming\">a disgusting, rat and rodent infested mess\u003c/a>.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside tag='gilroy, gilroy shooting' label='More On Gilroy']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In his \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2019/08/05/748190808/trump-calls-for-strong-background-checks-following-el-paso-and-dayton-shootings\">remarks about the mass shootings\u003c/a> on Monday, Trump said that “hate has no place in our country.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In one voice,” Trump said, “our nation must condemn racism, bigotry and white supremacy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At least 31 people were killed in El Paso and Dayton. Texas authorities said they were close to linking the El Paso suspect to an anti-immigrant screed that was posted online shortly before the attack.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump called for perpetrators of mass shootings to be eligible for the death penalty and for increased attention to mental health. Trump did not repeat calls he tweeted earlier in the day to strengthen background checks for guns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Obama’s statement, released after Trump’s remarks, said no other nation “tolerates the levels of gun violence that we do.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Calling for tighter gun controls, Obama said, “We are not helpless here. And until all of us stand up and insist on holding public officials accountable for changing our gun laws, these tragedies will keep happening.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-12127869\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-800x78.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"78\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-768x75.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2019 \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">NPR\u003c/a>.\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"In a rare political post-presidency statement, former President Barack Obama called for tighter gun laws after the mass shootings in El Paso and Dayton. \"We are not helpless here,\" he said.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1705022402,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":18,"wordCount":510},"headData":{"title":"Obama Urges Americans To Reject Language That 'Feeds A Climate Of Fear' | KQED","description":"In a rare political post-presidency statement, former President Barack Obama called for tighter gun laws after the mass shootings in El Paso and Dayton. 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He accused Mexico of sending “their worst people” to the U.S., people he said who were “bringing drugs. They’re bringing crime. They’re rapists.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More recently he was \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2019/07/16/742236610/condemnation-of-president-delayed-by-debate-can-lawmakers-call-trump-tweets-raci\">condemned by the House of Representatives\u003c/a> for his remarks about four Democratic members of Congress, all women of color, who he said should “go back” to where they came from. He also launched an attack on House Oversight Committee Chairman Elijah Cummings, D-Md., saying Cummings’ Baltimore-based district was “\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2019/07/28/746019426/leaders-in-baltimore-and-maryland-denounce-trump-tweets-attacking-elijah-cumming\">a disgusting, rat and rodent infested mess\u003c/a>.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"tag":"gilroy, gilroy shooting","label":"More On Gilroy "},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In his \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2019/08/05/748190808/trump-calls-for-strong-background-checks-following-el-paso-and-dayton-shootings\">remarks about the mass shootings\u003c/a> on Monday, Trump said that “hate has no place in our country.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In one voice,” Trump said, “our nation must condemn racism, bigotry and white supremacy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At least 31 people were killed in El Paso and Dayton. Texas authorities said they were close to linking the El Paso suspect to an anti-immigrant screed that was posted online shortly before the attack.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump called for perpetrators of mass shootings to be eligible for the death penalty and for increased attention to mental health. Trump did not repeat calls he tweeted earlier in the day to strengthen background checks for guns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Obama’s statement, released after Trump’s remarks, said no other nation “tolerates the levels of gun violence that we do.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Calling for tighter gun controls, Obama said, “We are not helpless here. And until all of us stand up and insist on holding public officials accountable for changing our gun laws, these tragedies will keep happening.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-12127869\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-800x78.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"78\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-768x75.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2019 \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">NPR\u003c/a>.\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/arts/13863056/obama-urges-americans-to-reject-language-that-feeds-a-climate-of-fear","authors":["byline_arts_13863056"],"categories":["arts_835","arts_235"],"tags":["arts_3675","arts_596"],"affiliates":["arts_137"],"featImg":"arts_13863062","label":"arts_137"},"arts_13851806":{"type":"posts","id":"arts_13851806","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"arts","id":"13851806","score":null,"sort":[1551394813000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"sitting-at-the-right-hand-of-president-obama","title":"Sitting at the Right Hand of President Obama","publishDate":1551394813,"format":"image","headTitle":"Sitting at the Right Hand of President Obama | KQED","labelTerm":{"site":"arts"},"content":"\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">W\u003c/span>hen former President Barack Obama came to Oakland last week for the national My Brothers Keeper convention, he had no idea he’d be sitting next to Leo Mercer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-13833985\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/OGPenn.Cap_-160x184.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"160\" height=\"184\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/OGPenn.Cap_-160x184.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/OGPenn.Cap_.jpg 180w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 160px) 100vw, 160px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sure, he knew he’d be talking to Steph Curry during the town hall discussion at Oakland’s Scottish Rite Temple, where attendees from across all states would be in the house. And I’d imagine Obama was told he’d be asked questions by a few of the young men who sat around him on stage during the conversation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But then there was Leo Mercer, sitting just a few feet away from him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Leo wore a blazer over his hoodie, his long locs done up as if they were defying gravity. I watched him go from wiggling in his seat as the microphone was passed his way to standing firm and delivering a sincere two-part question to the former leader of the free world.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What role does music have in your life?” asked Leo, a 27-year-old Oakland native. “And what role can music have when it comes to liberation, policy change, social change and all those other items?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Are you a musician?” Obama said, answering Leo’s question with a question. “Yeah,” Leo replied. “I’ll have to listen to some of your tracks now,” Obama said, before going into riff about the discipline it takes to become a professional musician.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you’re like most people, you’d be thrilled to hear Obama say he’ll check out your music. But I couldn’t help but notice that after his pivot, Obama didn’t really answer Leo’s question at all.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13851827\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13851827\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/02/LRG-DSC3162-800x535.jpg\" alt=\"Leo Mercer at Lake Merritt in Oakland.\" width=\"800\" height=\"535\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/02/LRG-DSC3162-800x535.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/02/LRG-DSC3162-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/02/LRG-DSC3162-768x513.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/02/LRG-DSC3162-1020x682.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/02/LRG-DSC3162-1200x802.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/02/LRG-DSC3162.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Leo Mercer at Lake Merritt in Oakland. \u003ccite>(Pendarvis Harshaw/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">A\u003c/span> couple days ago, I called Leo to chop it up about his experience. Just as I figured, it was business as usual on a Monday morning. He was on BART, headed to a healing circle with the organization he works for, Urban Peace Movement, taking time to honor the lives of those who had recently passed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I could hear the train doors open and close in the background as we talked about how it felt to be on that stage, sitting a church aisle’s distance from the first African-American President this country has seen. When he asked Obama about music, Leo said, he noticed the same thing I’d noticed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He didn’t answer the part about what role music can play in terms of social movements and liberation,” said Leo. “He answered the first part, ‘What role does music play in your life?’ So, that was cool—but it would’ve been dope if answered the other part.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Leo went on to talk about another music reference Obama made while on stage, one that the media jumped on, when he implied that confident young men don’t need to act like rappers in music videos with gold jewelry and “eight women around you twerking.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I just saw this article in the \u003cem>New York Times\u003c/em> that was \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/23/opinion/my-brothers-keeper-obama.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">kind of shitting on us\u003c/a>. Basically saying Obama was scolding us. I disagree with that… talking about Obama was scolding us, talking about we don’t need to be wearing big chains,” said Leo. “They were basically misinterpreting how Obama was trying to get to us. And, to be honest, he was just keeping it real with us.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Leo noted that the whole conference was about supporting young men—and even if Obama’s “scolding” didn’t come off as supportive to some, Leo understood the intention behind the statement. He understood how that tied into the overall theme of the conference. Hell, that understanding of confidence is probably why he landed in the seat he was in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He told me he got turned down twice before his request to attend was accepted, once through an Instagram competition and again when he applied through Urban Peace Movement. He finally got the green light through the Urban Strategies Council. And when he walked in the door of that conference last week, he says he walked in there trying to gloat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Ya’ll not about to just have this conference out here and exclude the Oakland cats—the authentic Oakland cats!” said Leo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13851822\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13851822\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/02/LRG-DSC3152-800x535.jpg\" alt=\"Former president Barack Obama and the Warriors' Stephen Curry at the My Brither's Keeper conference in Oakland, Feb. 19, 2019.\" width=\"800\" height=\"535\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/02/LRG-DSC3152-800x535.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/02/LRG-DSC3152-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/02/LRG-DSC3152-768x513.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/02/LRG-DSC3152-1020x682.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/02/LRG-DSC3152-1200x802.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/02/LRG-DSC3152.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Former president Barack Obama and the Warriors’ Stephen Curry at the My Brother’s Keeper conference in Oakland, Feb. 19, 2019. Photo credit Pendarvis Harshaw \u003ccite>(Pendarvis Harshaw/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">A\u003c/span>s far as being on stage with Obama, Leo, a performer in his own right, says he had some butterflies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was nervous, but I was nervous in a way that was like, this is the uncle I ain’t seen in a minute,” said Leo, with a laugh. “I was nervous, but not nervous enough to be shaking and shit. I felt like talking to him, it was just like talking to Prince.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Leo wasn’t talking about the Prince of \u003cem>Purple Rain\u003c/em>. Dr. Prince White was one of Leo’s mentors; he was also a friend of mine. Prince \u003ca href=\"https://oaklandnorth.net/2018/09/04/remembering-the-social-justice-advocate-dr-prince-white/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">passed last August\u003c/a>. He’s one of the people Leo was headed to honor during the healing circle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before he passed, Dr. Prince White did all he could to push Leo into political arenas. About two years ago, Prince pulled strings and got Leo to \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pf7PAlJm2x0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">perform a spoken word piece\u003c/a> in front of current State Superintendent of Schools Tony Thurmond, Assembly member Rob Bonta, and Senator Nancy Skinner.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I took photos at that event. That’s about the time I took note of Leo’s potential. But I didn’t know too much of Leo’s backstory until we talked this week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I didn’t know his father was killed in West Oakland’s Lower Bottoms neighborhood in 1993, while Leo’s mother was pregnant with his sister.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I didn’t know Leo and his family spent time homeless after losing their house in the Bushrod neighborhood, during the first wave of what we’ve come to realize is a massive overhaul of this town we call home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I didn’t even know that Leo had dropped a \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fzd-8gmWz2w\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">new video for his latest song “Back”\u003c/a> just a few days ago. A song Leo says directly correlates to the question he posed to President Obama.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fzd-8gmWz2w\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I wanna see what the future holds / for a brother like me, with the truth in his soul,” he raps. Overall, he said, the song is about “how I’m doing community organizing and how I’m shut out of certain spaces because of my tenacity, and how I may intimidate people.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I’ve seen Leo’s fiery spirit firsthand. I’ve also seen how it can get things done. Case in point: when he and a number of other artists in the \u003ca href=\"https://www.determinationmedia.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">DetermiNation Mens Group\u003c/a> dropped “\u003ca href=\"https://vimeo.com/235669867\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Free Young Baby Huey\u003c/a>.” The song raised awareness for Dajon Ford, then being \u003ca href=\"https://www.eastbaytimes.com/2017/08/18/former-oakland-football-star-charged-as-an-adult-in-juvenile-armed-robbery-case-to-be-released/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">held in Santa Rita Jail for nearly four years without trial\u003c/a> for charges related to a robbery. Since he’d been charged as an adult for a crime committed as a juvenile, the implementation of Prop. 57 allowed Ford, Leo’s childhood friend, to be released.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In that music video, playing the role of a reporter is Nicole Lee, the executive director of the Urban Peace Movement. She was also in the building for Leo and Obama’s interaction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m really proud of him,” Lee said, talking about Leo. “This conference is amazing, and it’s a national conference that’s in Oakland, and there’s a lot of voices here from all over the country. And on one hand, that’s cool, and on the other hand, we want to make sure the voices of the people in our city of Oakland are represented. And I think Leo was the perfect person to rep the town and the East Bay.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I’d agree. And I’d also say that Leo already knows what role music has in working toward social change; he’s lived it. And after seeing him press Obama on the idea, and learning more about his story, I’d not only listen to his music—he’d have my vote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-12127869\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-800x78.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"78\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-768x75.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"When Leo Mercer, 27, sat onstage next to Obama last week in Oakland, there was no way the former president could have known his whole story.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1705026540,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":true,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":32,"wordCount":1469},"headData":{"title":"Sitting at the Right Hand of President Obama | KQED","description":"When Leo Mercer, 27, sat onstage next to Obama last week in Oakland, there was no way the former president could have known his whole story.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"Article","headline":"Sitting at the Right Hand of President Obama","datePublished":"2019-02-28T23:00:13.000Z","dateModified":"2024-01-12T02:29:00.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}},"sticky":false,"excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","articleAge":"0","path":"/arts/13851806/sitting-at-the-right-hand-of-president-obama","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">W\u003c/span>hen former President Barack Obama came to Oakland last week for the national My Brothers Keeper convention, he had no idea he’d be sitting next to Leo Mercer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-13833985\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/OGPenn.Cap_-160x184.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"160\" height=\"184\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/OGPenn.Cap_-160x184.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/OGPenn.Cap_.jpg 180w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 160px) 100vw, 160px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sure, he knew he’d be talking to Steph Curry during the town hall discussion at Oakland’s Scottish Rite Temple, where attendees from across all states would be in the house. And I’d imagine Obama was told he’d be asked questions by a few of the young men who sat around him on stage during the conversation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But then there was Leo Mercer, sitting just a few feet away from him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Leo wore a blazer over his hoodie, his long locs done up as if they were defying gravity. I watched him go from wiggling in his seat as the microphone was passed his way to standing firm and delivering a sincere two-part question to the former leader of the free world.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What role does music have in your life?” asked Leo, a 27-year-old Oakland native. “And what role can music have when it comes to liberation, policy change, social change and all those other items?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Are you a musician?” Obama said, answering Leo’s question with a question. “Yeah,” Leo replied. “I’ll have to listen to some of your tracks now,” Obama said, before going into riff about the discipline it takes to become a professional musician.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you’re like most people, you’d be thrilled to hear Obama say he’ll check out your music. But I couldn’t help but notice that after his pivot, Obama didn’t really answer Leo’s question at all.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13851827\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13851827\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/02/LRG-DSC3162-800x535.jpg\" alt=\"Leo Mercer at Lake Merritt in Oakland.\" width=\"800\" height=\"535\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/02/LRG-DSC3162-800x535.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/02/LRG-DSC3162-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/02/LRG-DSC3162-768x513.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/02/LRG-DSC3162-1020x682.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/02/LRG-DSC3162-1200x802.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/02/LRG-DSC3162.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Leo Mercer at Lake Merritt in Oakland. \u003ccite>(Pendarvis Harshaw/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">A\u003c/span> couple days ago, I called Leo to chop it up about his experience. Just as I figured, it was business as usual on a Monday morning. He was on BART, headed to a healing circle with the organization he works for, Urban Peace Movement, taking time to honor the lives of those who had recently passed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I could hear the train doors open and close in the background as we talked about how it felt to be on that stage, sitting a church aisle’s distance from the first African-American President this country has seen. When he asked Obama about music, Leo said, he noticed the same thing I’d noticed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He didn’t answer the part about what role music can play in terms of social movements and liberation,” said Leo. “He answered the first part, ‘What role does music play in your life?’ So, that was cool—but it would’ve been dope if answered the other part.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Leo went on to talk about another music reference Obama made while on stage, one that the media jumped on, when he implied that confident young men don’t need to act like rappers in music videos with gold jewelry and “eight women around you twerking.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I just saw this article in the \u003cem>New York Times\u003c/em> that was \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/23/opinion/my-brothers-keeper-obama.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">kind of shitting on us\u003c/a>. Basically saying Obama was scolding us. I disagree with that… talking about Obama was scolding us, talking about we don’t need to be wearing big chains,” said Leo. “They were basically misinterpreting how Obama was trying to get to us. And, to be honest, he was just keeping it real with us.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Leo noted that the whole conference was about supporting young men—and even if Obama’s “scolding” didn’t come off as supportive to some, Leo understood the intention behind the statement. He understood how that tied into the overall theme of the conference. Hell, that understanding of confidence is probably why he landed in the seat he was in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He told me he got turned down twice before his request to attend was accepted, once through an Instagram competition and again when he applied through Urban Peace Movement. He finally got the green light through the Urban Strategies Council. And when he walked in the door of that conference last week, he says he walked in there trying to gloat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Ya’ll not about to just have this conference out here and exclude the Oakland cats—the authentic Oakland cats!” said Leo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13851822\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13851822\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/02/LRG-DSC3152-800x535.jpg\" alt=\"Former president Barack Obama and the Warriors' Stephen Curry at the My Brither's Keeper conference in Oakland, Feb. 19, 2019.\" width=\"800\" height=\"535\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/02/LRG-DSC3152-800x535.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/02/LRG-DSC3152-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/02/LRG-DSC3152-768x513.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/02/LRG-DSC3152-1020x682.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/02/LRG-DSC3152-1200x802.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/02/LRG-DSC3152.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Former president Barack Obama and the Warriors’ Stephen Curry at the My Brother’s Keeper conference in Oakland, Feb. 19, 2019. Photo credit Pendarvis Harshaw \u003ccite>(Pendarvis Harshaw/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">A\u003c/span>s far as being on stage with Obama, Leo, a performer in his own right, says he had some butterflies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was nervous, but I was nervous in a way that was like, this is the uncle I ain’t seen in a minute,” said Leo, with a laugh. “I was nervous, but not nervous enough to be shaking and shit. I felt like talking to him, it was just like talking to Prince.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Leo wasn’t talking about the Prince of \u003cem>Purple Rain\u003c/em>. Dr. Prince White was one of Leo’s mentors; he was also a friend of mine. Prince \u003ca href=\"https://oaklandnorth.net/2018/09/04/remembering-the-social-justice-advocate-dr-prince-white/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">passed last August\u003c/a>. He’s one of the people Leo was headed to honor during the healing circle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before he passed, Dr. Prince White did all he could to push Leo into political arenas. About two years ago, Prince pulled strings and got Leo to \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pf7PAlJm2x0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">perform a spoken word piece\u003c/a> in front of current State Superintendent of Schools Tony Thurmond, Assembly member Rob Bonta, and Senator Nancy Skinner.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I took photos at that event. That’s about the time I took note of Leo’s potential. But I didn’t know too much of Leo’s backstory until we talked this week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I didn’t know his father was killed in West Oakland’s Lower Bottoms neighborhood in 1993, while Leo’s mother was pregnant with his sister.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I didn’t know Leo and his family spent time homeless after losing their house in the Bushrod neighborhood, during the first wave of what we’ve come to realize is a massive overhaul of this town we call home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I didn’t even know that Leo had dropped a \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fzd-8gmWz2w\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">new video for his latest song “Back”\u003c/a> just a few days ago. A song Leo says directly correlates to the question he posed to President Obama.\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/Fzd-8gmWz2w'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/Fzd-8gmWz2w'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>“I wanna see what the future holds / for a brother like me, with the truth in his soul,” he raps. Overall, he said, the song is about “how I’m doing community organizing and how I’m shut out of certain spaces because of my tenacity, and how I may intimidate people.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I’ve seen Leo’s fiery spirit firsthand. I’ve also seen how it can get things done. Case in point: when he and a number of other artists in the \u003ca href=\"https://www.determinationmedia.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">DetermiNation Mens Group\u003c/a> dropped “\u003ca href=\"https://vimeo.com/235669867\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Free Young Baby Huey\u003c/a>.” The song raised awareness for Dajon Ford, then being \u003ca href=\"https://www.eastbaytimes.com/2017/08/18/former-oakland-football-star-charged-as-an-adult-in-juvenile-armed-robbery-case-to-be-released/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">held in Santa Rita Jail for nearly four years without trial\u003c/a> for charges related to a robbery. Since he’d been charged as an adult for a crime committed as a juvenile, the implementation of Prop. 57 allowed Ford, Leo’s childhood friend, to be released.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In that music video, playing the role of a reporter is Nicole Lee, the executive director of the Urban Peace Movement. She was also in the building for Leo and Obama’s interaction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m really proud of him,” Lee said, talking about Leo. “This conference is amazing, and it’s a national conference that’s in Oakland, and there’s a lot of voices here from all over the country. And on one hand, that’s cool, and on the other hand, we want to make sure the voices of the people in our city of Oakland are represented. And I think Leo was the perfect person to rep the town and the East Bay.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I’d agree. And I’d also say that Leo already knows what role music has in working toward social change; he’s lived it. And after seeing him press Obama on the idea, and learning more about his story, I’d not only listen to his music—he’d have my vote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-12127869\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-800x78.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"78\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-768x75.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/arts/13851806/sitting-at-the-right-hand-of-president-obama","authors":["11491"],"categories":["arts_2303","arts_835","arts_69"],"tags":["arts_4459","arts_3675","arts_2767","arts_1118","arts_596","arts_1143","arts_2356"],"featImg":"arts_13851826","label":"arts"},"arts_13847871":{"type":"posts","id":"arts_13847871","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"arts","id":"13847871","score":null,"sort":[1546351225000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"oscar-grant-and-the-scarcity-of-hope","title":"Oscar Grant and the Scarcity of Hope","publishDate":1546351225,"format":"image","headTitle":"Oscar Grant and the Scarcity of Hope | KQED","labelTerm":{"site":"arts"},"content":"\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">I\u003c/span> didn’t vote for Barack Obama in 2008. He ran on the concept of hope and the promise of change, and honestly, as a 21 year-old African American man, I didn’t believe anything in this country would really change. Whenever I saw red and blue lights in my rearview mirror, it didn’t matter who was sitting in the Oval Office. I still feared for my life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-13833985\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/OGPenn.Cap_-160x184.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"160\" height=\"184\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/OGPenn.Cap_-160x184.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/OGPenn.Cap_.jpg 180w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 160px) 100vw, 160px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was supposed to be a “promising” new year in 2009: President Bush was leaving office and President Obama, the nation’s first African American president, was about to be sworn in. And then just a few weeks prior to Obama’s inauguration, Oscar Grant was killed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q2LDw5l_yMI\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">video\u003c/a> of Grant’s death showed Johannes Mehserle, a white Bay Area Rapid Transit officer, launching a bullet through the back of a defenseless young African American man who lay face down on the train platform at Fruitvale Station in East Oakland. The video spread instantly across the relatively new social media terrain, and was broadcast on local and national news outlets. What a way to start the year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It quickly canceled any notion of a “\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=18489466\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">post-racial America\u003c/a>,” as some folks were calling the era. Ha! To think, I almost had the audacity of hope.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13847914\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13847914\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/12/Pen.Grant_.FuneralProgram-800x543.jpg\" alt=\"A mourner holds holds a program during funeral services for twenty two year-old Oscar Grant III at Palma Ceia Baptist Church Jan. 7, 2009 in Hayward.\" width=\"800\" height=\"543\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/12/Pen.Grant_.FuneralProgram-800x543.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/12/Pen.Grant_.FuneralProgram-160x109.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/12/Pen.Grant_.FuneralProgram-768x522.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/12/Pen.Grant_.FuneralProgram-1020x693.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/12/Pen.Grant_.FuneralProgram-1200x815.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/12/Pen.Grant_.FuneralProgram.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A mourner holds holds a program during funeral services for twenty two year-old Oscar Grant III at Palma Ceia Baptist Church Jan. 7, 2009 in Hayward. \u003ccite>(Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">I\u003c/span>n 2009, I was in my junior year as a communications student at Howard University; I was just dabbling in journalism. And then I started covering stories related to Oscar Grant’s killing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s a whole wave of folks who were impacted by Oscar Grant’s death, so much that it altered their life’s trajectory. I’m one of them. For me, journalism got real.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For the first few months, I followed the news from my dorm room. I saw friends and fellow community members take to the streets demanding the arrest of Johannes Mehserle, and in the summer of 2010, I \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=128220858\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">wrote about\u003c/a> the Johannes Mehserle trial for NPR. I remember the trial of Michael Jackson’s doctor Conrad Murray, and the announcement that LeBron James would “take his talents to south beach,” and how they both made Oscar Grant a secondary story.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That same summer, I interviewed Oakland’s mayor Ron Dellums about the possibility of renaming Fruitvale Station in Oscar Grant’s honor. (Unrelated to my inquiry, Grant’s family put the question to a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11710770/honoring-oscar-grant-gets-political-at-bart-meeting\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">formal proposal\u003c/a> this year.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2010, I was downtown at Frank Ogawa Plaza when news broke of Mehserle’s verdict: involuntary manslaughter. Although he ultimately only spent eleven months behind bars, it was the first time in California’s history that an officer of the law would do time in jail related to the killing of a civilian.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A small win for change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13847912\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13847912\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/12/Pen.Grant_.Mural_-800x551.jpg\" alt=\"Protestors paint a mural of slain 22-year-old Oscar Grant III Jan. 14, 2009 in Oakland.\" width=\"800\" height=\"551\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/12/Pen.Grant_.Mural_-800x551.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/12/Pen.Grant_.Mural_-160x110.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/12/Pen.Grant_.Mural_-768x529.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/12/Pen.Grant_.Mural_-1020x702.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/12/Pen.Grant_.Mural_-1200x826.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/12/Pen.Grant_.Mural_.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/12/Pen.Grant_.Mural_-1180x812.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/12/Pen.Grant_.Mural_-960x661.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/12/Pen.Grant_.Mural_-240x165.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/12/Pen.Grant_.Mural_-375x258.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/12/Pen.Grant_.Mural_-520x358.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Protestors paint a mural of slain 22-year-old Oscar Grant on Jan. 14, 2009 in Oakland. \u003ccite>(Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>That summer I worked with Young Gully and Jamon Dru to produce \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://younggullyyh.bandcamp.com/album/the-grant-station-project\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Grant Station Project\u003c/a>\u003c/em>, a hip-hop album blending lyrics and audio interviews, all to document the feelings of community members at the time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2013, I \u003ca href=\"https://www.huffingtonpost.com/youth-radio-youth-media-international/from-oscar-to-trayvon_b_3659590.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">wrote about\u003c/a> Trayvon Martin and Oscar Grant for the Huffington Post. That was around the time President Obama, then in his second term, \u003ca href=\"https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/barack-obama/wake-police-shootings-obama-speaks-more-bluntly-about-race-n278616\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">finally said something\u003c/a> about police violence. I was happy to see that. I had voted for Obama the second time around—I was starting to accept that the change I was seeking wouldn’t come overnight. I figured the presence of an African American man in the position of president at least symbolized progress.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2014, I \u003ca href=\"https://story.californiasunday.com/miniseries-the-authorities\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">wrote about\u003c/a> Mike Brown, Ferguson and police brutality for \u003cem>California Sunday\u003c/em> magazine. I wrote about the \u003ca href=\"https://splinternews.com/who-has-the-privilege-to-protest-1793844263\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">privilege of protesting\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://splinternews.com/attorney-general-eric-holder-wants-better-data-about-po-1793844769\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">lack of a federal database\u003c/a> to document instances of police brutality for Fusion. I even worked on \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://itvs.org/films/force\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Force\u003c/a>\u003c/em>, a documentary about the Oakland Police Department, with Pete Nicks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I tell you all this not to tout my resume, but to explain that over the past 10 years, I’ve become burnt out on the topic of police killing people of color in America, particularly African American men. Burnt out not just because of my professional involvement, but because I’ve personally had to consume so many stories.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The tales of Aiyana Jones. Tamir Rice. Eric Garner. Philando Castile. Sandra Bland. Mario Woods. Alex Nieto. So many others. Even in this year, when police in Sacramento shot and killed Stephon Clark, an unarmed father of two. And before that, on Jan. 3, when a BART officer shot and killed Sahleem Tindle in West Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ten years after Oscar Grant, I’m \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13837639/nia-wilson-and-the-war-on-black-women\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">still writing about people like Nia Wilson\u003c/a>, who was killed by a white man at a BART station. He may not be an officer of the law, but given what’s transpired at the courts in what could potentially be a mistrial, it sure seems as though the law is on his side.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All of it is cause to lose hope.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13847915\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13847915\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/12/Pen.Grant_.Protestors-800x545.jpg\" alt=\"Protestors carry signs with a picture of slain 22-year-old Oscar Grant III during a demonstration at Oakland City Hall Jan. 14, 2009 in Oakland.\" width=\"800\" height=\"545\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/12/Pen.Grant_.Protestors-800x545.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/12/Pen.Grant_.Protestors-160x109.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/12/Pen.Grant_.Protestors-768x523.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/12/Pen.Grant_.Protestors-1020x695.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/12/Pen.Grant_.Protestors-1200x818.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/12/Pen.Grant_.Protestors.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/12/Pen.Grant_.Protestors-1180x804.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/12/Pen.Grant_.Protestors-960x654.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/12/Pen.Grant_.Protestors-240x164.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/12/Pen.Grant_.Protestors-375x255.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/12/Pen.Grant_.Protestors-520x354.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Protestors carry signs with a picture of slain 22-year-old Oscar Grant III during a demonstration at Oakland City Hall Jan. 14, 2009 in Oakland. \u003ccite>(Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">O\u003c/span>ver the past decade, we’ve seen some alterations, but no deep-rooted, systemic change. There have been numerous adjustments to the entire criminal justice system, including local police officers wearing body cameras, and statewide changes to incarceration, and the most recent federal criminal reform bill. We’ve even seen a few jury trials of police brutality where officers have been found \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Laquan_McDonald#Van_Dyke's_trial\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">guilty of murder\u003c/a>, as in the Laquan McDonald shooting in Chicago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Much respect to the people who’ve worked for these legislative changes. To the organizers, political figures, artists, and parents who’ve taken time away from their families to do something about this injustice: your efforts do not go unseen. I’ve seen you work for years, often behind a camera, focusing on aperture and lighting, while you focused on fighting the system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This past Sunday, many of the front-line fighters for justice in the name of Oscar Grant stood in the Eastside Arts Alliance community space, celebrating the birthday of Wanda Johnson, Oscar’s mother. If there is any hope for change, it was in that room that evening.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13847913\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13847913\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/12/Pen.Grant_.WandaJohnsonatEAA-800x535.jpg\" alt=\"Wanda Johnson (center), mother of Oscar Grant, at a December 2018 event at Eastside Arts Alliance in Oakland.\" width=\"800\" height=\"535\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/12/Pen.Grant_.WandaJohnsonatEAA.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/12/Pen.Grant_.WandaJohnsonatEAA-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/12/Pen.Grant_.WandaJohnsonatEAA-768x514.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Wanda Johnson (center), mother of Oscar Grant, at a December 2018 event at Eastside Arts Alliance in Oakland. \u003ccite>(Pendarvis Harshaw/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Am I a pessimist? No. I’m an African American man from Oakland who could’ve easily been Oscar Grant. And I know the underlying theme to this narrative. There’s a reason so many journalists have jobs reporting these kind of injustices.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Every day, there’s something in the news about people treated wrongly in prisons, school security guards crossing the line, or people dying in American custody while trying to flee poverty and/or war in their homeland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>No, it’s not all directly about police brutality, but it all adds up to dismiss any once-held notion of hope or change. As Donald Glover bleakly said earlier this year, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13831328/on-childish-gambinos-this-is-america-and-our-national-ugliness\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">this is America\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So this Jan. 1, as many bank on the potential for a new year’s changes—the prospect of financial growth, or weight loss—I’m resigned to the fact that little, if anything, will change in society for young black men. I’ll still vote, but I’ll also continue to fear for my life when I get pulled over.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I am looking forward to one thing this year, the third week in February, around the time of Oscar Grant’s birthday. That’s when former President Barack Obama is scheduled to be in Oakland to speak at a My Brother’s Keeper initiative—an event for African American boys and men.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I wonder if he’ll even mention Oscar Grant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-12127869\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-800x78.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"78\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-768x75.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Ten years after Oscar Grant's death, has anything really changed?","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1705026810,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":30,"wordCount":1387},"headData":{"title":"Oscar Grant and the Scarcity of Hope | KQED","description":"Ten years after Oscar Grant's death, has anything really changed?","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"Article","headline":"Oscar Grant and the Scarcity of Hope","datePublished":"2019-01-01T14:00:25.000Z","dateModified":"2024-01-12T02:33:30.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}},"sticky":false,"excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","articleAge":"0","path":"/arts/13847871/oscar-grant-and-the-scarcity-of-hope","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">I\u003c/span> didn’t vote for Barack Obama in 2008. He ran on the concept of hope and the promise of change, and honestly, as a 21 year-old African American man, I didn’t believe anything in this country would really change. Whenever I saw red and blue lights in my rearview mirror, it didn’t matter who was sitting in the Oval Office. I still feared for my life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-13833985\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/OGPenn.Cap_-160x184.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"160\" height=\"184\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/OGPenn.Cap_-160x184.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/OGPenn.Cap_.jpg 180w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 160px) 100vw, 160px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was supposed to be a “promising” new year in 2009: President Bush was leaving office and President Obama, the nation’s first African American president, was about to be sworn in. And then just a few weeks prior to Obama’s inauguration, Oscar Grant was killed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q2LDw5l_yMI\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">video\u003c/a> of Grant’s death showed Johannes Mehserle, a white Bay Area Rapid Transit officer, launching a bullet through the back of a defenseless young African American man who lay face down on the train platform at Fruitvale Station in East Oakland. The video spread instantly across the relatively new social media terrain, and was broadcast on local and national news outlets. What a way to start the year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It quickly canceled any notion of a “\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=18489466\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">post-racial America\u003c/a>,” as some folks were calling the era. Ha! To think, I almost had the audacity of hope.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13847914\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13847914\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/12/Pen.Grant_.FuneralProgram-800x543.jpg\" alt=\"A mourner holds holds a program during funeral services for twenty two year-old Oscar Grant III at Palma Ceia Baptist Church Jan. 7, 2009 in Hayward.\" width=\"800\" height=\"543\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/12/Pen.Grant_.FuneralProgram-800x543.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/12/Pen.Grant_.FuneralProgram-160x109.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/12/Pen.Grant_.FuneralProgram-768x522.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/12/Pen.Grant_.FuneralProgram-1020x693.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/12/Pen.Grant_.FuneralProgram-1200x815.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/12/Pen.Grant_.FuneralProgram.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A mourner holds holds a program during funeral services for twenty two year-old Oscar Grant III at Palma Ceia Baptist Church Jan. 7, 2009 in Hayward. \u003ccite>(Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">I\u003c/span>n 2009, I was in my junior year as a communications student at Howard University; I was just dabbling in journalism. And then I started covering stories related to Oscar Grant’s killing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s a whole wave of folks who were impacted by Oscar Grant’s death, so much that it altered their life’s trajectory. I’m one of them. For me, journalism got real.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For the first few months, I followed the news from my dorm room. I saw friends and fellow community members take to the streets demanding the arrest of Johannes Mehserle, and in the summer of 2010, I \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=128220858\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">wrote about\u003c/a> the Johannes Mehserle trial for NPR. I remember the trial of Michael Jackson’s doctor Conrad Murray, and the announcement that LeBron James would “take his talents to south beach,” and how they both made Oscar Grant a secondary story.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That same summer, I interviewed Oakland’s mayor Ron Dellums about the possibility of renaming Fruitvale Station in Oscar Grant’s honor. (Unrelated to my inquiry, Grant’s family put the question to a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11710770/honoring-oscar-grant-gets-political-at-bart-meeting\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">formal proposal\u003c/a> this year.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2010, I was downtown at Frank Ogawa Plaza when news broke of Mehserle’s verdict: involuntary manslaughter. Although he ultimately only spent eleven months behind bars, it was the first time in California’s history that an officer of the law would do time in jail related to the killing of a civilian.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A small win for change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13847912\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13847912\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/12/Pen.Grant_.Mural_-800x551.jpg\" alt=\"Protestors paint a mural of slain 22-year-old Oscar Grant III Jan. 14, 2009 in Oakland.\" width=\"800\" height=\"551\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/12/Pen.Grant_.Mural_-800x551.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/12/Pen.Grant_.Mural_-160x110.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/12/Pen.Grant_.Mural_-768x529.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/12/Pen.Grant_.Mural_-1020x702.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/12/Pen.Grant_.Mural_-1200x826.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/12/Pen.Grant_.Mural_.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/12/Pen.Grant_.Mural_-1180x812.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/12/Pen.Grant_.Mural_-960x661.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/12/Pen.Grant_.Mural_-240x165.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/12/Pen.Grant_.Mural_-375x258.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/12/Pen.Grant_.Mural_-520x358.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Protestors paint a mural of slain 22-year-old Oscar Grant on Jan. 14, 2009 in Oakland. \u003ccite>(Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>That summer I worked with Young Gully and Jamon Dru to produce \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://younggullyyh.bandcamp.com/album/the-grant-station-project\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Grant Station Project\u003c/a>\u003c/em>, a hip-hop album blending lyrics and audio interviews, all to document the feelings of community members at the time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2013, I \u003ca href=\"https://www.huffingtonpost.com/youth-radio-youth-media-international/from-oscar-to-trayvon_b_3659590.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">wrote about\u003c/a> Trayvon Martin and Oscar Grant for the Huffington Post. That was around the time President Obama, then in his second term, \u003ca href=\"https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/barack-obama/wake-police-shootings-obama-speaks-more-bluntly-about-race-n278616\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">finally said something\u003c/a> about police violence. I was happy to see that. I had voted for Obama the second time around—I was starting to accept that the change I was seeking wouldn’t come overnight. I figured the presence of an African American man in the position of president at least symbolized progress.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2014, I \u003ca href=\"https://story.californiasunday.com/miniseries-the-authorities\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">wrote about\u003c/a> Mike Brown, Ferguson and police brutality for \u003cem>California Sunday\u003c/em> magazine. I wrote about the \u003ca href=\"https://splinternews.com/who-has-the-privilege-to-protest-1793844263\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">privilege of protesting\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://splinternews.com/attorney-general-eric-holder-wants-better-data-about-po-1793844769\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">lack of a federal database\u003c/a> to document instances of police brutality for Fusion. I even worked on \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://itvs.org/films/force\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Force\u003c/a>\u003c/em>, a documentary about the Oakland Police Department, with Pete Nicks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I tell you all this not to tout my resume, but to explain that over the past 10 years, I’ve become burnt out on the topic of police killing people of color in America, particularly African American men. Burnt out not just because of my professional involvement, but because I’ve personally had to consume so many stories.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The tales of Aiyana Jones. Tamir Rice. Eric Garner. Philando Castile. Sandra Bland. Mario Woods. Alex Nieto. So many others. Even in this year, when police in Sacramento shot and killed Stephon Clark, an unarmed father of two. And before that, on Jan. 3, when a BART officer shot and killed Sahleem Tindle in West Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ten years after Oscar Grant, I’m \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13837639/nia-wilson-and-the-war-on-black-women\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">still writing about people like Nia Wilson\u003c/a>, who was killed by a white man at a BART station. He may not be an officer of the law, but given what’s transpired at the courts in what could potentially be a mistrial, it sure seems as though the law is on his side.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All of it is cause to lose hope.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13847915\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13847915\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/12/Pen.Grant_.Protestors-800x545.jpg\" alt=\"Protestors carry signs with a picture of slain 22-year-old Oscar Grant III during a demonstration at Oakland City Hall Jan. 14, 2009 in Oakland.\" width=\"800\" height=\"545\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/12/Pen.Grant_.Protestors-800x545.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/12/Pen.Grant_.Protestors-160x109.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/12/Pen.Grant_.Protestors-768x523.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/12/Pen.Grant_.Protestors-1020x695.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/12/Pen.Grant_.Protestors-1200x818.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/12/Pen.Grant_.Protestors.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/12/Pen.Grant_.Protestors-1180x804.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/12/Pen.Grant_.Protestors-960x654.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/12/Pen.Grant_.Protestors-240x164.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/12/Pen.Grant_.Protestors-375x255.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/12/Pen.Grant_.Protestors-520x354.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Protestors carry signs with a picture of slain 22-year-old Oscar Grant III during a demonstration at Oakland City Hall Jan. 14, 2009 in Oakland. \u003ccite>(Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">O\u003c/span>ver the past decade, we’ve seen some alterations, but no deep-rooted, systemic change. There have been numerous adjustments to the entire criminal justice system, including local police officers wearing body cameras, and statewide changes to incarceration, and the most recent federal criminal reform bill. We’ve even seen a few jury trials of police brutality where officers have been found \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Laquan_McDonald#Van_Dyke's_trial\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">guilty of murder\u003c/a>, as in the Laquan McDonald shooting in Chicago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Much respect to the people who’ve worked for these legislative changes. To the organizers, political figures, artists, and parents who’ve taken time away from their families to do something about this injustice: your efforts do not go unseen. I’ve seen you work for years, often behind a camera, focusing on aperture and lighting, while you focused on fighting the system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This past Sunday, many of the front-line fighters for justice in the name of Oscar Grant stood in the Eastside Arts Alliance community space, celebrating the birthday of Wanda Johnson, Oscar’s mother. If there is any hope for change, it was in that room that evening.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13847913\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13847913\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/12/Pen.Grant_.WandaJohnsonatEAA-800x535.jpg\" alt=\"Wanda Johnson (center), mother of Oscar Grant, at a December 2018 event at Eastside Arts Alliance in Oakland.\" width=\"800\" height=\"535\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/12/Pen.Grant_.WandaJohnsonatEAA.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/12/Pen.Grant_.WandaJohnsonatEAA-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/12/Pen.Grant_.WandaJohnsonatEAA-768x514.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Wanda Johnson (center), mother of Oscar Grant, at a December 2018 event at Eastside Arts Alliance in Oakland. \u003ccite>(Pendarvis Harshaw/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Am I a pessimist? No. I’m an African American man from Oakland who could’ve easily been Oscar Grant. And I know the underlying theme to this narrative. There’s a reason so many journalists have jobs reporting these kind of injustices.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Every day, there’s something in the news about people treated wrongly in prisons, school security guards crossing the line, or people dying in American custody while trying to flee poverty and/or war in their homeland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>No, it’s not all directly about police brutality, but it all adds up to dismiss any once-held notion of hope or change. As Donald Glover bleakly said earlier this year, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13831328/on-childish-gambinos-this-is-america-and-our-national-ugliness\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">this is America\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So this Jan. 1, as many bank on the potential for a new year’s changes—the prospect of financial growth, or weight loss—I’m resigned to the fact that little, if anything, will change in society for young black men. I’ll still vote, but I’ll also continue to fear for my life when I get pulled over.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I am looking forward to one thing this year, the third week in February, around the time of Oscar Grant’s birthday. That’s when former President Barack Obama is scheduled to be in Oakland to speak at a My Brother’s Keeper initiative—an event for African American boys and men.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I wonder if he’ll even mention Oscar Grant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-12127869\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-800x78.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"78\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-768x75.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/arts/13847871/oscar-grant-and-the-scarcity-of-hope","authors":["11491"],"categories":["arts_2303","arts_835"],"tags":["arts_3675","arts_2767","arts_1118","arts_596","arts_2356","arts_6252"],"featImg":"arts_13847910","label":"arts"},"arts_13847716":{"type":"posts","id":"arts_13847716","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"arts","id":"13847716","score":null,"sort":[1546026160000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"barack-obama-includes-bay-area-authors-movies-on-year-end-list","title":"Barack Obama Includes Bay Area Authors, Movies on Year-End List","publishDate":1546026160,"format":"standard","headTitle":"Barack Obama Includes Bay Area Authors, Movies on Year-End List | KQED","labelTerm":{"site":"arts"},"content":"\u003cp>Former President Barack Obama continued a tradition of sharing his favorite books, films and music of the year Friday, including several works by artists from the Bay Area. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It gives me a moment to pause and reflect on the year through the books, movies, and music that I found most thought-provoking, inspiring, or just plain loved,” he wrote in a Facebook post. “It also gives me a chance to highlight talented authors, artists, and storytellers – some who are household names and others who you may not have heard of before.” [contextly_sidebar id=”3hSiRLx6iX9S4ZbNYwE6IbbPJHTFlMvM”]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the books section of the list, Obama included Tommy Orange’s debut novel \u003cem>There There\u003c/em>, which follows a cast of Native American characters as their lives converge on a powwow at the Oakland Coliseum; and Oakland-based \u003cem>Mother Jones\u003c/em> reporter Shane Bauer’s \u003cem>American Prison\u003c/em>, an account of his time working at a privately-run prison in Louisiana alongside the history of for-profit incarceration in the United States. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For movies, meanwhile, Obama plugged \u003cem>Blindspotting\u003c/em>, an Oakland-set and filmed tale of gentrification and police violence co-starring and written by \u003cem>Hamilton\u003c/em> star Daveed Diggs and spoken-word artist Rafael Casal. Ryan Coogler’s box-office smash \u003cem>Black Panther\u003c/em>, which begins and ends with scenes set in Oakland, also received Obama’s stamp of approval. [contextly_sidebar id=”8Eta5q50BLJiUZ7TQTyOAgSjm64mk2jG”]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of the 22 songs on Obama’s list of favorite music, only Vallejo-raised H.E.R.’s R&B slow-burner “Could’ve Been” represents the Bay Area. As the singer reacted to Obama’s endorsement on Twitter, “Look mama I made it!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13846501/sorry-to-bother-you-blindspotting-shut-out-of-golden-globe-nominations\">Golden Globe nominations\u003c/a>, Oakland artist Boots Riley’s pro-labor comedy \u003cem>Sorry to Bother You\u003c/em> was shut out of Obama’s list. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Find Obama’s entire year-end list \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/barackobama/posts/10156393283416749?__tn__=K-R\">here\u003c/a>. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[vimeo 278727750 w=640 h=360]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"The former president shared a year-end list including works by Tommy Orange and Daveed Diggs. 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The number of episodes and the formats for the shows have not been decided.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp data-para-count=\"275\" data-total-count=\"854\">“Mr. Obama does not intend to use his Netflix shows to directly respond to President Trump or conservative critics, according to people familiar with discussions about the programming. They said the Obamas had talked about producing shows that highlight inspirational stories.”\u003c/p>\n\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp data-para-count=\"275\" data-total-count=\"854\">Multiple show concepts are under consideration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp data-para-count=\"294\" data-total-count=\"1895\">In one possible show idea, Obama could moderate conversations on topics that dominated his presidency — health care, voting rights, immigration, foreign policy, climate change — and that have continued to divide a polarized American electorate during President Trump’s time in office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp data-para-count=\"296\" data-total-count=\"2191\">Another program could feature the former first lady on topics, like nutrition, that she championed in the White House. The Obamas could also lend their brand — and their endorsement — to documentaries or fictional programming on Netflix that align with their beliefs and values.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp data-para-count=\"296\" data-total-count=\"2191\">It’s unclear how much the Obamas would be paid. Executives from Apple and Amazon, which have their own streaming services, are said to have expressed interest in talking with the former president about content deals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp data-para-count=\"275\" data-total-count=\"854\">“President and Mrs. Obama have always believed in the power of storytelling to inspire,” Eric Schultz, a senior adviser to the former president, told the T\u003cem>imes\u003c/em> Thursday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp data-para-count=\"275\" data-total-count=\"854\">“Throughout their lives, they have lifted up stories of people whose efforts to make a difference are quietly changing the world for the better. As they consider their future personal plans, they continue to explore new ways to help others tell and share their stories,” Schultz said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp data-para-count=\"275\" data-total-count=\"854\">A Netflix spokesman declined to comment to media organizations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp data-para-count=\"275\" data-total-count=\"854\">Netflix reports that they have more than 117 million subscribers, 55 million of whom are in the U.S. \u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2018 NPR. To see more, visit http://www.npr.org/.\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=Obama+In+Talks+To+Produce+Shows+For+Netflix%2C+Report+Says&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/div>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"The former president is in negotiations to produce a series of high-profile shows for Netflix, according to \u003cem>The New York Times\u003c/em>. The number of episodes and show formats have not been decided.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1705028299,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":4,"wordCount":390},"headData":{"title":"Obama in Talks to Produce Shows for Netflix, Report Says | KQED","description":"The former president is in negotiations to produce a series of high-profile shows for Netflix, according to The New York Times. 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The number of episodes and the formats for the shows have not been decided.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp data-para-count=\"275\" data-total-count=\"854\">“Mr. Obama does not intend to use his Netflix shows to directly respond to President Trump or conservative critics, according to people familiar with discussions about the programming. They said the Obamas had talked about producing shows that highlight inspirational stories.”\u003c/p>\n\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp data-para-count=\"275\" data-total-count=\"854\">Multiple show concepts are under consideration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp data-para-count=\"294\" data-total-count=\"1895\">In one possible show idea, Obama could moderate conversations on topics that dominated his presidency — health care, voting rights, immigration, foreign policy, climate change — and that have continued to divide a polarized American electorate during President Trump’s time in office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp data-para-count=\"296\" data-total-count=\"2191\">Another program could feature the former first lady on topics, like nutrition, that she championed in the White House. 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Executives from Apple and Amazon, which have their own streaming services, are said to have expressed interest in talking with the former president about content deals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp data-para-count=\"275\" data-total-count=\"854\">“President and Mrs. Obama have always believed in the power of storytelling to inspire,” Eric Schultz, a senior adviser to the former president, told the T\u003cem>imes\u003c/em> Thursday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp data-para-count=\"275\" data-total-count=\"854\">“Throughout their lives, they have lifted up stories of people whose efforts to make a difference are quietly changing the world for the better. As they consider their future personal plans, they continue to explore new ways to help others tell and share their stories,” Schultz said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp data-para-count=\"275\" data-total-count=\"854\">A Netflix spokesman declined to comment to media organizations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp data-para-count=\"275\" data-total-count=\"854\">Netflix reports that they have more than 117 million subscribers, 55 million of whom are in the U.S. \u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2018 NPR. To see more, visit http://www.npr.org/.\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=Obama+In+Talks+To+Produce+Shows+For+Netflix%2C+Report+Says&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/div>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/arts/13826802/obama-in-talks-to-produce-shows-for-netflix-report-says","authors":["byline_arts_13826802"],"categories":["arts_235","arts_990"],"tags":["arts_3675","arts_3324","arts_596"],"affiliates":["arts_137"],"featImg":"arts_13826803","label":"arts_137"},"arts_13824229":{"type":"posts","id":"arts_13824229","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"arts","id":"13824229","score":null,"sort":[1518457142000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"paintings-of-barack-and-michelle-obama-unveiled-at-portrait-gallery","title":"Paintings of Barack and Michelle Obama Unveiled at Portrait Gallery","publishDate":1518457142,"format":"standard","headTitle":"Paintings of Barack and Michelle Obama Unveiled at Portrait Gallery | KQED","labelTerm":{"term":137,"site":"arts"},"content":"\u003cp>Brand new portraits of former president Barack Obama and former first lady Michelle Obama — wearing matching calm, strong expressions — were revealed on Monday at the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kehinde Wiley painted Barack Obama sitting in a chair, elbows in his knees, leaning forward with an intense expression. The background, typical of a Wiley painting, is a riotous pattern of intense greens.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Pretty sharp,” Obama said with a grin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Amy Sherald, a Baltimore-based artist, painted Michelle Obama sitting in a floor-length gown, chin on her hand, looking directly at the viewer with a calm, level gaze.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The paintings, like the presidency they honor, are a historic first. Wiley and Sherald — both already famous for their portraits of black Americans — are the first black painters to receive a presidential portrait commission from the museum.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Celebrities from Shonda Rimes to Steven Spielberg, former administration officials from Josh Earnest to Eric Holder, and members of the media filed into the Portrait Gallery’s expansive, glass-covered central courtyard for the ceremony. Kim Sajet, the director of the gallery, told the audience that a portrait was not truly finished until a viewer, a member of the public, had a personal encounter with it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then came the unveiling — quite literally, as fabric covers were pulled off the portraits on a small stage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13824232\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/02/gettyimages-917394226_custom-33ddc0358dbc3e52104e113b239e67f185b74b35-800x617.jpg\" alt=\"Former U.S. President Barack Obama looks at former first lady Michelle Obama's newly unveiled portrait during a ceremony at the Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery.\" width=\"800\" height=\"617\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13824232\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/02/gettyimages-917394226_custom-33ddc0358dbc3e52104e113b239e67f185b74b35-800x617.jpg 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https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/02/gettyimages-917394226_custom-33ddc0358dbc3e52104e113b239e67f185b74b35-240x185.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/02/gettyimages-917394226_custom-33ddc0358dbc3e52104e113b239e67f185b74b35-375x289.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/02/gettyimages-917394226_custom-33ddc0358dbc3e52104e113b239e67f185b74b35-520x401.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/02/gettyimages-917394226_custom-33ddc0358dbc3e52104e113b239e67f185b74b35.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Former U.S. President Barack Obama looks at former first lady Michelle Obama’s newly unveiled portrait during a ceremony at the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery. \u003ccite>(Mark Wilson/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The paintings exemplify the two artists’ trademark styles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Wiley typically portrays people of color posing as famous figures in Western art,” the Portrait Gallery writes. “Through this practice, he challenges the visual rhetoric of power that is dominated by elite white men.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sherald, “known for her stylized, archetypal portrayals of African Americans,” survived a heart transplant in 2012, the museum notes. “A personification of resilience herself, Sherald conveys the inner strength of her subjects through a combination of calm expressions and confrontational poses,” the gallery writes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I am a little overwhelmed, to say the least,” Michelle Obama said in a speech, after helping Sherald reveal her work. “As you may have guessed, I don’t think there is anybody in my family who has ever had a portrait done, let alone a portrait that will be hanging in the National Gallery — at least as far as I know, Mom,” she said. “But all those folks who helped me be here today, they are with us physically and they are with us in spirit.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m also thinking of all the young people, particularly girls and girls of color, who … will see an image of someone who looks like them hanging on the wall of this great American institution,” she said. “I know the kind of impact that will have on their lives, because I was one of those girls.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was a point Sherald echoed minutes later, when she emphasized that her portrait of Obama was conceptual and archetypal, bigger than just one model.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You exist in our minds and our hearts in the way that we do because we can see ourselves in you,” she said, turning toward Michelle Obama.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Barack Obama, for his part, said he admired how Wiley’s photos “challenge our conventional views of power and privilege.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But he said he rejected Wiley’s ideas that involved him, for instance, riding a horse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“‘I’ve got enough political problems without you making me look like Napoleon,'” he remembered telling Wiley. “‘You’ve got to bring it down a touch.’ And that’s what he did.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“How do you explain that a lot of that is just simply not true?” Wiley said, when he took to the lectern. Then he got more serious.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13824230\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/02/gettyimages-917389206_custom-176652404f95f8d0b43d8ee6ef7c9cd06cbe223e-800x546.jpg\" alt=\"Former President Barack Obama stands with his and former first lady Michelle Obama's newly unveiled portraits during a ceremony at the Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C.\" width=\"800\" height=\"546\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13824230\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/02/gettyimages-917389206_custom-176652404f95f8d0b43d8ee6ef7c9cd06cbe223e-800x546.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/02/gettyimages-917389206_custom-176652404f95f8d0b43d8ee6ef7c9cd06cbe223e-160x109.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/02/gettyimages-917389206_custom-176652404f95f8d0b43d8ee6ef7c9cd06cbe223e-768x524.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/02/gettyimages-917389206_custom-176652404f95f8d0b43d8ee6ef7c9cd06cbe223e-1020x696.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/02/gettyimages-917389206_custom-176652404f95f8d0b43d8ee6ef7c9cd06cbe223e-1920x1309.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/02/gettyimages-917389206_custom-176652404f95f8d0b43d8ee6ef7c9cd06cbe223e-1180x805.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/02/gettyimages-917389206_custom-176652404f95f8d0b43d8ee6ef7c9cd06cbe223e-960x655.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/02/gettyimages-917389206_custom-176652404f95f8d0b43d8ee6ef7c9cd06cbe223e-240x164.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/02/gettyimages-917389206_custom-176652404f95f8d0b43d8ee6ef7c9cd06cbe223e-375x256.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/02/gettyimages-917389206_custom-176652404f95f8d0b43d8ee6ef7c9cd06cbe223e-520x355.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/02/gettyimages-917389206_custom-176652404f95f8d0b43d8ee6ef7c9cd06cbe223e.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Former President Barack Obama stands with his and former first lady Michelle Obama’s newly unveiled portraits during a ceremony at the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C. \u003ccite>(Mark Wilson/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“The ability to be the first African-American painter to paint the first African-American president of the United States is absolutely overwhelming,” Wiley said. “It doesn’t get any better than that. I was humbled by this invitation but I was also inspired by Barack Obama’s personal story.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The National Portrait Gallery, a member of the Smithsonian Institution, has worked with outgoing presidents to commission a new portrait of each one since 1962.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More recently it began collecting portraits of first ladies as well. The Portrait Gallery, a member of the Smithsonian Institution, \u003ca href=\"http://npg.si.edu/blog/people-presidential-portraits-national-portrait-gallery\" target->writes\u003c/a>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\n\u003cp>“Official portraits are interesting beasts because they are, of course official: they signify the status and attainments of the person portrayed. But they also are deeply personal, even revelatory, portrayals that say something of the character of the man or woman who shows their face to the public. The style of the portrait – the pose, the colors, the setting, as well as facial features (in the 19th century stern and forbidding was definitely the default expression) – all convey a measure of the sitter.”\u003c/p>\n\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>The official National Portrait Gallery \u003ca href=\"https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/george-w-bushs-portrait-at-national-portrait-gallery-34317269/\" target->paintings\u003c/a> of George and Laura Bush both featured relatively casual, relaxed poses, with small smiles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The gallery’s portrait of Bill Clinton, by Nelson Shanks, was controversial after Shanks \u003ca href=\"https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2015/03/the-subtle-satire-of-a-bill-clinton-portrait/386558/\">said\u003c/a> he’d hidden a reference to the Monica Lewinsky scandal in the canvas. A different portrait of Clinton, a Chuck Close \u003ca href=\"http://npg.si.edu/blog/now-on-view-bill-clinton-chuck-close\">painting\u003c/a> of the former president’s grin, is on display in the museum.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new paintings of the Obamas will be on view to the public beginning Tuesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wiley’s painting of former President Obama will be permanently installed in the “America’s Presidents” exhibit (The Portrait Gallery has the “only complete collection of presidential portraits outside the White House,” the museum said in a statement.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sherald’s painting of Michelle Obama will be on display through November in the museum’s “Recent Acquisitions” section. \u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2018 NPR. To see more, visit http://www.npr.org/.\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=Paintings+Of+Barack+And+Michelle+Obama+Unveiled+At+Portrait+Gallery&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/div>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"The former president and first lady chose artists Kehinde Wiley and Amy Sherald — the first African-American artists to receive such a commission — to paint them for the museum's collection.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1705028539,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":29,"wordCount":1073},"headData":{"title":"Paintings of Barack and Michelle Obama Unveiled at Portrait Gallery | KQED","description":"The former president and first lady chose artists Kehinde Wiley and Amy Sherald — the first African-American artists to receive such a commission — to paint them for the museum's collection.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"Article","headline":"Paintings of Barack and Michelle Obama Unveiled at Portrait Gallery","datePublished":"2018-02-12T17:39:02.000Z","dateModified":"2024-01-12T03:02:19.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}},"sticky":false,"nprImageCredit":"Mark Wilson","nprByline":"Camila Domonoske","nprImageAgency":"Getty Images","nprStoryId":"585066637","nprApiLink":"http://api.npr.org/query?id=585066637&apiKey=MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004","nprHtmlLink":"https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2018/02/12/585066637/paintings-of-barack-and-michelle-obama-unveiled-at-portrait-gallery?ft=nprml&f=585066637","nprRetrievedStory":"1","nprPubDate":"Mon, 12 Feb 2018 12:25:00 -0500","nprStoryDate":"Mon, 12 Feb 2018 09:23:00 -0500","nprLastModifiedDate":"Mon, 12 Feb 2018 12:25:22 -0500","path":"/arts/13824229/paintings-of-barack-and-michelle-obama-unveiled-at-portrait-gallery","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Brand new portraits of former president Barack Obama and former first lady Michelle Obama — wearing matching calm, strong expressions — were revealed on Monday at the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kehinde Wiley painted Barack Obama sitting in a chair, elbows in his knees, leaning forward with an intense expression. The background, typical of a Wiley painting, is a riotous pattern of intense greens.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Pretty sharp,” Obama said with a grin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Amy Sherald, a Baltimore-based artist, painted Michelle Obama sitting in a floor-length gown, chin on her hand, looking directly at the viewer with a calm, level gaze.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The paintings, like the presidency they honor, are a historic first. Wiley and Sherald — both already famous for their portraits of black Americans — are the first black painters to receive a presidential portrait commission from the museum.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Celebrities from Shonda Rimes to Steven Spielberg, former administration officials from Josh Earnest to Eric Holder, and members of the media filed into the Portrait Gallery’s expansive, glass-covered central courtyard for the ceremony. Kim Sajet, the director of the gallery, told the audience that a portrait was not truly finished until a viewer, a member of the public, had a personal encounter with it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then came the unveiling — quite literally, as fabric covers were pulled off the portraits on a small stage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13824232\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/02/gettyimages-917394226_custom-33ddc0358dbc3e52104e113b239e67f185b74b35-800x617.jpg\" alt=\"Former U.S. President Barack Obama looks at former first lady Michelle Obama's newly unveiled portrait during a ceremony at the Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery.\" width=\"800\" height=\"617\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13824232\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/02/gettyimages-917394226_custom-33ddc0358dbc3e52104e113b239e67f185b74b35-800x617.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/02/gettyimages-917394226_custom-33ddc0358dbc3e52104e113b239e67f185b74b35-160x123.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/02/gettyimages-917394226_custom-33ddc0358dbc3e52104e113b239e67f185b74b35-768x593.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/02/gettyimages-917394226_custom-33ddc0358dbc3e52104e113b239e67f185b74b35-1020x787.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/02/gettyimages-917394226_custom-33ddc0358dbc3e52104e113b239e67f185b74b35-1920x1481.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/02/gettyimages-917394226_custom-33ddc0358dbc3e52104e113b239e67f185b74b35-1180x910.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/02/gettyimages-917394226_custom-33ddc0358dbc3e52104e113b239e67f185b74b35-960x741.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/02/gettyimages-917394226_custom-33ddc0358dbc3e52104e113b239e67f185b74b35-240x185.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/02/gettyimages-917394226_custom-33ddc0358dbc3e52104e113b239e67f185b74b35-375x289.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/02/gettyimages-917394226_custom-33ddc0358dbc3e52104e113b239e67f185b74b35-520x401.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/02/gettyimages-917394226_custom-33ddc0358dbc3e52104e113b239e67f185b74b35.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Former U.S. President Barack Obama looks at former first lady Michelle Obama’s newly unveiled portrait during a ceremony at the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery. \u003ccite>(Mark Wilson/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The paintings exemplify the two artists’ trademark styles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Wiley typically portrays people of color posing as famous figures in Western art,” the Portrait Gallery writes. “Through this practice, he challenges the visual rhetoric of power that is dominated by elite white men.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sherald, “known for her stylized, archetypal portrayals of African Americans,” survived a heart transplant in 2012, the museum notes. “A personification of resilience herself, Sherald conveys the inner strength of her subjects through a combination of calm expressions and confrontational poses,” the gallery writes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I am a little overwhelmed, to say the least,” Michelle Obama said in a speech, after helping Sherald reveal her work. “As you may have guessed, I don’t think there is anybody in my family who has ever had a portrait done, let alone a portrait that will be hanging in the National Gallery — at least as far as I know, Mom,” she said. “But all those folks who helped me be here today, they are with us physically and they are with us in spirit.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m also thinking of all the young people, particularly girls and girls of color, who … will see an image of someone who looks like them hanging on the wall of this great American institution,” she said. “I know the kind of impact that will have on their lives, because I was one of those girls.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was a point Sherald echoed minutes later, when she emphasized that her portrait of Obama was conceptual and archetypal, bigger than just one model.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You exist in our minds and our hearts in the way that we do because we can see ourselves in you,” she said, turning toward Michelle Obama.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Barack Obama, for his part, said he admired how Wiley’s photos “challenge our conventional views of power and privilege.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But he said he rejected Wiley’s ideas that involved him, for instance, riding a horse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“‘I’ve got enough political problems without you making me look like Napoleon,'” he remembered telling Wiley. “‘You’ve got to bring it down a touch.’ And that’s what he did.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“How do you explain that a lot of that is just simply not true?” Wiley said, when he took to the lectern. Then he got more serious.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13824230\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/02/gettyimages-917389206_custom-176652404f95f8d0b43d8ee6ef7c9cd06cbe223e-800x546.jpg\" alt=\"Former President Barack Obama stands with his and former first lady Michelle Obama's newly unveiled portraits during a ceremony at the Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C.\" width=\"800\" height=\"546\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13824230\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/02/gettyimages-917389206_custom-176652404f95f8d0b43d8ee6ef7c9cd06cbe223e-800x546.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/02/gettyimages-917389206_custom-176652404f95f8d0b43d8ee6ef7c9cd06cbe223e-160x109.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/02/gettyimages-917389206_custom-176652404f95f8d0b43d8ee6ef7c9cd06cbe223e-768x524.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/02/gettyimages-917389206_custom-176652404f95f8d0b43d8ee6ef7c9cd06cbe223e-1020x696.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/02/gettyimages-917389206_custom-176652404f95f8d0b43d8ee6ef7c9cd06cbe223e-1920x1309.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/02/gettyimages-917389206_custom-176652404f95f8d0b43d8ee6ef7c9cd06cbe223e-1180x805.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/02/gettyimages-917389206_custom-176652404f95f8d0b43d8ee6ef7c9cd06cbe223e-960x655.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/02/gettyimages-917389206_custom-176652404f95f8d0b43d8ee6ef7c9cd06cbe223e-240x164.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/02/gettyimages-917389206_custom-176652404f95f8d0b43d8ee6ef7c9cd06cbe223e-375x256.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/02/gettyimages-917389206_custom-176652404f95f8d0b43d8ee6ef7c9cd06cbe223e-520x355.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/02/gettyimages-917389206_custom-176652404f95f8d0b43d8ee6ef7c9cd06cbe223e.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Former President Barack Obama stands with his and former first lady Michelle Obama’s newly unveiled portraits during a ceremony at the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C. \u003ccite>(Mark Wilson/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“The ability to be the first African-American painter to paint the first African-American president of the United States is absolutely overwhelming,” Wiley said. “It doesn’t get any better than that. I was humbled by this invitation but I was also inspired by Barack Obama’s personal story.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The National Portrait Gallery, a member of the Smithsonian Institution, has worked with outgoing presidents to commission a new portrait of each one since 1962.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More recently it began collecting portraits of first ladies as well. The Portrait Gallery, a member of the Smithsonian Institution, \u003ca href=\"http://npg.si.edu/blog/people-presidential-portraits-national-portrait-gallery\" target->writes\u003c/a>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\n\u003cp>“Official portraits are interesting beasts because they are, of course official: they signify the status and attainments of the person portrayed. But they also are deeply personal, even revelatory, portrayals that say something of the character of the man or woman who shows their face to the public. The style of the portrait – the pose, the colors, the setting, as well as facial features (in the 19th century stern and forbidding was definitely the default expression) – all convey a measure of the sitter.”\u003c/p>\n\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>The official National Portrait Gallery \u003ca href=\"https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/george-w-bushs-portrait-at-national-portrait-gallery-34317269/\" target->paintings\u003c/a> of George and Laura Bush both featured relatively casual, relaxed poses, with small smiles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The gallery’s portrait of Bill Clinton, by Nelson Shanks, was controversial after Shanks \u003ca href=\"https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2015/03/the-subtle-satire-of-a-bill-clinton-portrait/386558/\">said\u003c/a> he’d hidden a reference to the Monica Lewinsky scandal in the canvas. A different portrait of Clinton, a Chuck Close \u003ca href=\"http://npg.si.edu/blog/now-on-view-bill-clinton-chuck-close\">painting\u003c/a> of the former president’s grin, is on display in the museum.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new paintings of the Obamas will be on view to the public beginning Tuesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wiley’s painting of former President Obama will be permanently installed in the “America’s Presidents” exhibit (The Portrait Gallery has the “only complete collection of presidential portraits outside the White House,” the museum said in a statement.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sherald’s painting of Michelle Obama will be on display through November in the museum’s “Recent Acquisitions” section. \u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2018 NPR. To see more, visit http://www.npr.org/.\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=Paintings+Of+Barack+And+Michelle+Obama+Unveiled+At+Portrait+Gallery&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/div>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/arts/13824229/paintings-of-barack-and-michelle-obama-unveiled-at-portrait-gallery","authors":["byline_arts_13824229"],"categories":["arts_835","arts_235","arts_70"],"tags":["arts_1448","arts_3675","arts_596","arts_5826"],"affiliates":["arts_137"],"featImg":"arts_13824231","label":"arts_137"}},"programsReducer":{"possible":{"id":"possible","title":"Possible","info":"Possible is hosted by entrepreneur Reid Hoffman and writer Aria Finger. Together in Possible, Hoffman and Finger lead enlightening discussions about building a brighter collective future. 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