In 1970, an unlikely R&B group evolved out of the Oakland chapter of the Black Panther Party. (Courtesy of It's About Time Black Panther Party Legacy & Alumni)
Fifty years ago, an unlikely musical group evolved out of the Oakland chapter of the Black Panther Party. They were called the Lumpen. And although they quickly gained a following for their air-tight funk and striking lyrics, they were always meant to be much more than mere entertainment.
Where other bands of their era were content to coast on good vibes, the Lumpenwere out to preach a message of revolution in places where that message wasn’t always wanted. They were a musical cadre whose mission was to spread the seed of social revolution, armed with funk, attitude and matching outfits.
In 1973, Michael Torrence is a 22-year-old Black Panther. He’s dedicated himself to the cause and obeyed every command. He’s a true soldier.
“We were definitely as hardcore as anybody cause we dropped everything to come,” says Torrence. “We didn’t join to sing. We joined to be revolutionaries. We joined to make the revolution. We joined … to be Panthers!”
But five years of complete devotion to the Panthers has taken a toll. Now, Torrence is desperate to focus on his personal life, just for a while.
But to do this, he needs to get permission and it's got to come from the top.
Torrence shows up at the Lamp Post — it’s a bar in West Oakland — where Panther leader Bobby Seale is having a birthday party. The two men huddle in a corner and talk for a while, but it’s all good.
Seale gives Torrence his blessing for some leave time.
Torrence is relieved. But as he’s making his way out of the bar, someone tells him that Huey Newton wants to see him. And he wants to see him now.
Newton is Seale’s comrade and co-founder of the Panthers. For years, Newton has been a strong and charismatic leader. But recently his moods have been unstable. Tonight, for whatever reason, he’s agitated.
Torrence is ushered into a chair in a back room. And there, flanked by a couple enforcers, is Newton.
“And he says, ‘Comrade, I hear you want to leave us. Well, do you want to leave bad enough to die? Do you really want to leave bad enough to die?' I don’t understand the question,” Torrence says. “And [Newton’s enforcer] June takes a gun and puts it to my head. 'Oh no, comrade, I don’t want to die.'"
“He say, ‘Okay. So this is what’s going to happen, you say…’"
Torrence starts to object. Newton isn't having it.
"Would you tell this brother not to talk when I’m talking?"
Torrence gets a swift kick in the mouth.
Newton begins again, "Okay then. So. You say, all power to the people."
"All power to the people,” mumbles Torrence.
Michael Torrence has just been persuaded to rethink his request for some time off — a pistol to the head is hard to argue with.
People Get Ready
By 1973, Torrence’s years with the Panthers have been a rollercoaster life of extremes. Many times he’s picked up a gun.
But he’s also picked up a microphone.
Though Torrence did not join the Panthers to sing, the movement’s Minister of Culture gave him and three other young soldiers a special assignment for the cause. It was an R&B group called the Lumpen.
When it all began in 1970, the Lumpen’s music was explosive. The band was powerful, and so was the message.
The Lumpen worked nonstop for the cause, killing it wherever they performed: San Francisco, Los Angeles, New York, Philadelphia and the Midwest.
But it only lasted 11 months. Then things in the Black Panther Party began to implode.
This is the story of the rise and fall of an unlikely R&B group born out of social upheaval. The Lumpen weren’t out to make hit records, they were out to change American culture.
It’s a journey unlike that of any other band.
And Michael Torrence was at the center of it.
Rise of the Panthers
In 1966, Huey Newton and Bobby Seale co-found the Black Panther Party. They're both students at Merritt Community College in Oakland.
Within a few years, the Party offers educational programs, food service, free medical care and drug rehab to the Black community. And the Panthers are leading the fight against rampant police brutality.
By the end of the ‘60s, change is in the air, and the Bay Area is ground zero.
“[In] San Francisco at that time, we were in the Fillmore District,” Torrence says. “It was very high-tension. Police were riding, you know, four or five deep. If you were out selling your papers they would come and harass you, snatch your papers, maybe arrest you, threaten you. But at the same time there was a lot of energy. That’s the best thing about it. You could really feel the energy, particularly among younger people, that we felt we could really make a change. Not only could we make a change, we were going to make a change. There was this commitment to die if necessary.”
Those papers are the weekly bible of party information, a publication called The Black Panther. And the Howard Quinn Printing Company on Alabama Street is where the Lumpen story begins.
Former Lumpen singer James Mott, now known as Saturu Ned, takes up the story.
“Wednesday night was distribution night, where we would get out the paper. Everybody would come," he said.
That's in 1970: He’s newly arrived from the Sacramento Panther chapter.
All the future members of the Lumpen are in attendance that Wednesday night: Torrence, Mott — now Saturu, William Calhoun and Clark “Santa Rita” Bailey. They all have musical backgrounds ranging from church choirs to professional-level experience, but when they meet, they’re just loyal young soldiers taking orders along with everybody else.
“It was a community gathering in Fillmore,” Saturu says. “At that time, Fillmore is not like it is now, changed, and the gentrification. It was … Fillmore.”
“And on those distribution nights when various chapters would all come together from the Bay Area to get the paper out, we would sing,” Torrence says.
“And we would sing, at that point, just doo-wop songs,” Saturu recalls. “So one night I went over there and the three of us sang and I joined in. And we started harmonizing. We just blended in so cool!”
“And then what we began to do was, we’d just put other words to the popular songs. Because we would be singing what we called revolutionary songs to encourage us in the struggle. In terms of the Lumpen, it kinda grew out of that. Just us singing together. Part of, I guess, the tradition of just singin’ while you work,” Torrence says.
It’s a typical Wednesday. The four Panthers are at the print shop, stacking and racking and harmonizing into the night. But this time, there’s someone listening: Emory Douglas, the party’s Minister of Culture.
“So after I got back to Central [headquarters], Emory comes in and says, ‘Hey brother, comrade James, you know, everybody relates to music.' I say, 'Yeah Emory, they do.' He says, ‘You guys sound good. We could create a group and the group could be part of the Ministry of Culture, where we could be able to get that message out in the music.’”
Emory Douglas is the brilliant style guru and visual artist whose iconic posters and flyers helped brand the movement.
“I just would make suggestions,” Douglas says. “Possibly adding some social justice context to the lyrics.”
At this point, Bobby Seale and Huey Newton are both behind bars. So Douglas approaches Panthers Chief of Staff David Hilliard. He understands the value of spreading the word through music, and he greenlights the project. He also gives the group a name: The Lumpen.
It’s a play on Karl Marx’s idea of the lumpenproletariat: the lower class that would rise up to crush the capitalist power structure.
“At the time the party was coming about, political education, political awareness, was growing tremendously,” says Billy X Jennings. He’s a former Panther and the party’s long time historian. He was tight with the Lumpen members fifty years ago, and still is to this day.
“In 1968, James Brown put out a song that really changed everything, because Black people, prior to that time, referred to themselves as Negro,” Jennings continues. “James Brown came out and said, 'We’re Black and we’re proud.' And once that record come out, you could never go back and say you’re a Negro. You could never go back! James Brown couldn’t have did that in ‘68 if there wasn’t a group like the Black Panther Party that had set up a foundation of knowledge already.”
“Emory was recognizing the role of music historically in Black people’s struggle and part of our culture period,” Torrence says. “He began to say, we can do something with this! You guys sound decent together anyway, because we just clicked like that. And so he encouraged us to put something together.
“Whatever rehearsal we would do, we would have to do after whatever other assignments or duties we had,” Torrence continues. “So we had to go sell the papers, we had to do the breakfast program, we’d have to do the garbage run, we’d have to do security. We’d have to do whatever it is that any other Panther would do.”
From the Panthers’ perspective, The Lumpen was not about show business. It was about contributing to the revolution.
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“Singing for us was just political work,” Torrence clarifies. “And if they said the next day, ‘Okay, that’s it,’ fine. Cause we didn’t join for that. If I was really about that, I could have been trying to do it out there in the world. I could have been out there trying to get paid. We never got paid, it was just, if this is how we can be helpful, if this is how we can be useful, if this will advance the cause, this is what we’ll do. But it was always, we follow orders.”
And now, only a few months since they were harmonizing to the oldies at the printing plant, their orders are to get onstage and get to work: Educate the people, spread the word and earn money for the party.
The Lumpen assemble a six-piece interracial backing band from local players sympathetic to the cause. They’re called the Freedom Messengers.
By the summer of 1970, the group is performing at rallies, community gatherings and Panther events around the Bay Area.
And they’re good. They’re tight. It’s a professional show on par with almost any act. They’ve got the energy of James Brown, and the dance moves and harmonies of the Temptations. But the lyrics are all about what the Panthers are all about.
Bobby Seale has just been arrested in New Haven. The first and only single the group makes is "Free Bobby Now." It’s written by Bill Calhoun, recorded at Tiki Studios in San Jose in August of 1970. Calhoun's song "No More" is on the flip side.
The record is released on the Panthers’ own Seize the Time label, with credit to Black Panther Party Productions. It’s promoted in the Party newspaper, and sold at live shows and Panther events. Any profits are funneled back into the party.
The Lumpen take the single around to Bay Area radio stations, but the lyrics are considered too provocative for airplay. But no one questions the quality of what they’re hearing.
“They took the craft seriously,” says Rickey Vincent. He’s the author of "Party Time: The Inside Story of the Black Panthers’ Band" and "How Black Power Transformed Soul Music". It’s a subject he knows well. His mother was an early Panther.
“When they did ‘People Get Ready’ by Curtis Mayfield and The Impressions, they hit those notes that you had to hit that show respect for those aspirations that were in that song in 1964-65. The Lumpen flipped the lyrics, obviously. Instead of saying ‘People get ready there’s a train a’comin’,' they said, ‘People get ready, the revolution’s comin', you don’t need a ticket, you need a loaded gun.’ And it was like, wait a minute, that’s soul music the way it’s supposed to be sung, but those are not lyrics the way we’ve heard them before.”
The Lumpen start headlining shows. They’re gigging weekly, doing benefits and playing college campuses up and down the West Coast. And when they’re not headlining, they’re on bills with the Grateful Dead, Carla Thomas and Curtis Mayfield.
And not only is the music on fire, but the live show takes choreography to a whole ‘nother level.
“Once we hit the stage, [it was] nonstop,” Torrence says. “Even mixed in a dance routine where we would act out brothers on the block playing dice, and James Mott would be a cop. He’d come and harass one and he’d be beating this brother up, and he’d be beating him with a club and I’m watching it, and then I’d finally get disgusted and I’d jump on the cop and Clark and I together, we’d beat the cop down. So it wasn’t just the singing, it was the choreography. The whole experience was something they hadn’t seen before.”
In the winter of 1970, the band hits the road for a tour of the Midwest and East Coast. The crowds are enthusiastic. But tensions are running high.
David Levinson is the Freedom Messengers’ 19-year-old sax player. After a show at the University of Minnesota, a snowstorm is kicking in. The band is packing up their gear when they’re approached by members of the Black Student Union.
“I’ll never forget this,” Levinson says. “They invited the Black members of the band to stay with them, but they didn’t want the white members of the band, of which there were two of us."
“These guys from the student group come out and they look like a military junta,” says Saturu Ned. “[They] got on the black berets and the black boots. I’m like, 'What are you guys doing?' 'Oh, uh, who are those white guys?' 'Excuse me? They’re a part of the Lumpen band.' 'Well, they can’t stay!' We told ’em, 'Look you motherfuckers, we’re not staying if they’re not staying.' I said, 'This is a people’s revolution and these are our brothers that we stand behind.'”
Levinson is still close with Saturu and the other former band members. “That’s just a small example of the kind of camaraderie and unity we felt. There never was any racism promoted for or practiced by the Black Panther Party at all.”
The Lumpen are also in the crosshairs of the cops wherever they go. Late one night after a college show in New Jersey, the police follow the band down an empty road heading out of town.
“They made us get out the car,” Saturu says. “They knew who we were and it was pitch dark where they pulled us over. We were like, this is it. They gonna kill us. There was a general rule back then, go to a lighted area. What they did was, one car got in front of us, slowed down. The other one got right behind us. And they waited for that real dark area to pull us over — this is part of the intimidation, right?
“There were four of’em. They was grinnin’. ‘Sing for us!’ So we started singing—what was that song? ‘As we stroll along together…’ They would harass us to let us know, we watching you. We know who you are.”
But the Lumpen are battling another force besides the authorities. And it’s coming from within the party.
“There were people in the party, some in leadership, some in the rank and file that said, ‘Yeah, these guys [in the Lumpen] think they’re something special,'" Torrence says.
“If it wasn’t for Emory, I don’t think the Lumpen would have came about because Emory is the one who had the juice,” Billy X Jennings emphasizes. “And there was people that wasn’t into the Lumpen. They didn’t think revolutionaries should be doing that kind of thing. But they were older people too, there weren’t R&B people, they were blues people, and during that time there was a difference. Most of the leadership was southern guys. Southern guys like blues. We are young guys, we like R&B. So that’s why [the Lumpen] never really got any more higher than they were because they were always related to as Panthers first.”
But that didn’t stop them.
On Fire in Oakland
It’s Nov. 10, 1970, at Merritt College in Oakland. It’s the alma mater of Huey Newton and Bobby Seale. The birthplace of the Black Panther Party. Tonight, to a packed auditorium, the Lumpen will get the message out.
Bear in mind: this group has been together for less than a year.
While almost everybody else in the San Francisco music scene has been getting high and jamming, the Lumpen have been working as full time revolutionaries, pursued by the police and the FBI.
And they still find time to get this group together.
And tonight is special. The show is being recorded for a live album, and the group pulls out all the stops. Billy X Jennings is there with his fist in the air.
“It was one of the best shows in my life because the audience was electrified. Once the Lumpen came on and the band start playing, you would hear them repeat something to the crowd and the crowd would throw it back. Like when they say, 'All power to the people,' the crowd would say, 'All power to the people!' with a force! And when they’d say, 'Death to the Fascist pigs,' they’d say, 'Death to fascist pigs!' If you just listen to the people’s feedback alone, you could get high on that. They were killin’ me boy! And even to this day when I hear that, it gives me that revolutionary enthusiasm cause everybody was on the one that night. We were thinking about the same thing — revolution.”
The show was an undeniable success… but no album ever appeared.
The master tapes made that night went missing, and have never been found. Some have suggested that they were confiscated by the FBI. It’s also possible that they were mislabeled and disappeared in the chaos and discord of the time period. Or they could be decaying in an attic somewhere, long forgotten.
Only a grainy, multi-generation cassette of the show has ever surfaced, but it captures the raw power of the band.
As 1971 arrives, the Panther Party leadership is in chaos. Bobby Seale is still in prison in New Haven. Eldridge Cleaver, the Minister of Information, has fled to Algeria to escape an attempted murder charge on an Oakland cop. The FBI is working to weaken and target the party through a secret counterintelligence program.
The party is factionalizing.
“Huey’s come back out with some different ideas about how things should go,” Torrence says. “In some cases you got Panther against Panther, whether you with Eldridge division or National Headquarters."
At this point, Eldridge is strongly promoting violence.
“Right,” Torrence says, but “Huey and Bobby were moving toward a survival program. Even we had to change because all of our original songs was about picking up the gun. There was some other things going on internally, in terms of some of the things being done by Huey that I didn’t agree with, I didn’t join for. And it wasn’t about the police. That was the thing that was bad about it. I was never scared about the police. It’s a bad thing when you get more concerned about the people that you work with than you do with the cops.”
As the atmosphere within the Party becomes more desperate, interest in the group from those in power dwindles to nothing. The Lumpen members are reassigned. They’re taken off R&B duty and put on security detail. Their days as a group are numbered.
“No, it wasn’t justified,” says Emory Douglas of the group's demise. “It could have been worked out, but you know we had people who wanted to exercise their position, as far as being in charge. All those things played into it, petty spitefulness. All that.”
As Torrence said earlier, if the day came when the singing had to stop, fine. That day finally came.
“We never thought of ourselves as anything other than Panthers. And the Lumpen was a cadre, a unit for a cultural purpose. We loved it, we enjoyed it, but in the big picture, it’s just another assignment. And so when the situation and circumstances change, then you move on to the next assignment. And we didn’t really have time to mourn about it. Because that’s exactly what happened."
On May 23, 1971, in Sacramento, the Lumpen play their last gig. A few days later, Bill Calhoun decides to leave the party. He was the group’s songwriter. So only 11 months after it began, the band is done.
But the Panther Party is still Michael Torrence’s life. It’s all he’s known since he was a teenager. Which brings us back to that night in 1973 at the bar in West Oakland: The night Torrence talked to Bobby Seale and asked for some time off from the Panthers.
“So anyway, I go to Bobby at his birthday party at the Lamp Post and I said, ‘Well, Chairman, I have a daughter. She needs some support. Plus, I’m having these little anxiety attacks that’s affecting my work, it’s affecting my effectiveness. I don’t wanna quit, I don’t wanna leave, but I need some time. Get myself back together, and then I’m coming back. I’m coming back.’ And Bobby was real cool with me on it, you know. And I’m crying. I’m shedding tears.”
Torrence is leaving the bar when Huey Newton calls him back upstairs. He says the Party will contribute $50 a month for to support Torrence’s daughter. Then Newton puts a gun to Torrence’s head and says this:
“'Okay then,’” Torrence recalls. “'We send fifty dollars, but you say: All power to the people.' All power to the people. So I stuck around.
"And about six months later, one of the guys from Chicago comes by, says, ‘You still wanna go? Cause we can’t afford to pay for your kid no more. So you can go, you can leave now.’ OK. Well, all right then. Power to the people now.”
And that’s it. Michael Torrence is out of the Black Panthers.
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“And it was traumatic,” he says. “What was traumatic for me was leaving. What was traumatic was what it had become."
Did he feel betrayed?
“Yes! Absolutely. Betrayed, angry, bitter, frustrated. Yes. It took me a while to get back to what they call livin’ in the world. 'Cause the Party was my world. You ask me what I was, I was a Panther. That’s what I was and who I was. And then to lose that ... and try and adjust to out being here, and get a job. What am I gonna put on my resume? Where you been the last five years?”
But Torrence did have something on his resume that worked outside of the revolution: The Lumpen. It got him a job.
Torrence wound up singing behind Marvin Gaye, and he appeared on the singer’s 1974 album, “Marvin Gaye Live!” It was recorded just a few miles away from where the Lumpen recorded their own live album just four years earlier, in Oakland.
Torrence went on to write, produce and sing for other artists for the rest of the 1970s.
Though he parted ways with the Panthers almost 50 years ago, it’s still part of him.
“As far as the Black Panther Party’s concerned, I don’t regret anything,” he says. “I was with people, [and] these things last a lifetime … and I wouldn’t take that back for anything. Did we make some mistakes? Yeah. But at the time, for what it was, it was right on time. I was just glad to be a part of it. Like I said, we never did it to get famous, we never did it to get rich. We did it because we really wanted to do something for our people, and make a change.”
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It came as Israel launched strikes in Rafah after saying the terms of a cease-fire deal agreed to by Hamas were not acceptable, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2024/05/06/1249360882/israel-hamas-cease-fire\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">NPR reported\u003c/span>\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If the cease-fire is true and it happens and, you know, there’s a free Palestine – because that’s what we’re reaching towards – of course we’re going to be relieved and we’re going to be happy, but at the same time we lost a lot,” said Monia Alsena, 22, who graduated from SFSU last year and attended Monday in support of the protest encampment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I wish it was a permanent cease-fire,” said her friend Nermeen Elsaghir, 23, who is graduating this month and has family in the West Bank. “I wish it was freedom for Palestinians, for all of us.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, Elsaghir said she is “not very hopeful about having any kind of victory soon for Palestinians or a cease-fire. We’re helpless, and our leaders, especially Arab leaders, they’re not doing anything. It’s very sad.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t see how I’m hopeful,” she said. “I’m not.”\u003cbr>\n[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to Gaza health officials, more than 34,000 Palestinians have been killed in the war, which Israel launched after Hamas militants killed around 1,200 Israelis and took more than 200 hostage in a wave of attacks Oct. 7.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since April 29, a group called Students for Gaza has camped on a central lawn at SFSU to demand the California State University system disclose its financial ties to Israel and to divest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Students also rejected what they called Islamophobic censorship of speech and activism on campus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11985155\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11985155 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240506-SFSUPresident-57-BL_qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240506-SFSUPresident-57-BL_qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240506-SFSUPresident-57-BL_qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240506-SFSUPresident-57-BL_qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240506-SFSUPresident-57-BL_qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240506-SFSUPresident-57-BL_qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An SFSU community member speaks as President Lynn Mahoney listens outside of the César Chavez Student Center on campus on May 6, 2024. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>During Monday’s public meeting with student representatives at the university’s Malcolm X Plaza, Mahoney said she would take steps to increase transparency around where the endowment money is invested and to “take another look at that investment policy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Let me just say you’ve all been heard,” Mahoney said. “You have been heard.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Atzeli Ramirez praised Mahoney for being willing to negotiate with student protesters publicly, but she felt Mahoney didn’t go far enough in meeting their demands.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It felt like President Lynn Mahoney was trying to save face rather than negotiate,” Ramirez, 21, said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Amey Kulkarni is a media liaison for the protesters. Kulkarni has stayed in the encampment intermittently over the last week. He was angry Mahoney declined to declare the war in Gaza a genocide.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s something we’ve been explicit about from day one,” Kulkarni, 25, said. “Me as well as so many others in this camp do not want to normalize this.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label='Related Coverage' tag='gaza']In 2020, the SFSU student government passed a resolution requesting a university boycott and divestment from Israel, but Mahoney refused to support it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The school administration’s agreement to publicly negotiate with protesters this week, however, is starkly different from the approach of leadership at some other campuses. Nationally, more than 2,000 students have been arrested in protests against the war as of last week, according to the Associated Press.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Campus police arrested dozens of pro-Palestinian protesters in a parking structure at UCLA on Monday, \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2024-05-06/dozens-detained-at-ucla-early-monday\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">the Los Angeles Times reported\u003c/span>\u003c/a>, days after officers cleared the encampment there and arrested more than 200 people. Early Sunday, a student encampment at the University of Southern California disbanded after Los Angeles Police Department officers \u003ca href=\"https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/pro-palestinian-encampment-at-usc-dismantled-after-protestors-comply-with-order-to-leave\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">threatened to arrest the students\u003c/span>\u003c/a>. There were at least 14 pro-Palestinian encampments \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11984845/pro-palestinian-protests-on-california-college-campuses-what-are-students-demanding\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">on college campuses in California\u003c/span>\u003c/a> as of last week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the other side of the country, Harvard warned students Monday that protesters would be placed on involuntary leave from school, \u003ca href=\"https://www.cnn.com/business/live-news/university-protests-pro-palestinian-israel-05-06-24/index.html\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">according to CNN\u003c/span>\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11985121\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11985121\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240506-SFSUPresident-28-BL.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240506-SFSUPresident-28-BL.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240506-SFSUPresident-28-BL-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240506-SFSUPresident-28-BL-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240506-SFSUPresident-28-BL-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240506-SFSUPresident-28-BL-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240506-SFSUPresident-28-BL-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A large crowd assembled outside the SFSU Cesar Chavez Student Center meets with SFSU President Lynn Mahoney on May 6, 2024. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Not all university leaders have responded to encampments with police. Sacramento State University President Luke Woods \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11984845/pro-palestinian-protests-on-california-college-campuses-what-are-students-demanding\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">gave approval for the campus’ pro-Palestinian encampment\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan class=\"s2\"> late last month, and \u003c/span>UC Riverside pro-Palestinian student protesters voluntarily ended their encampment last week after reaching an agreement with university leadership to explore divestment from Israel, \u003ca href=\"https://riversiderecord.org/student-protesters-ucr-administration-reach-agreement-to-end-encampment/\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">according to the Riverside Record\u003c/span>\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SFSU has faced a decades-long challenge in responding to demands of its students around the Israeli-Palestinian\u003cspan class=\"Apple-converted-space\"> \u003c/span>conflict. Former SFSU President Leslie Wong drew criticism from students and faculty for an email he sent in 2018 saying “Zionists are welcome on our campus,” \u003ca href=\"https://goldengatexpress.org/81119/latest/news/president-wong-fails-to-unify/\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">according to the Golden Gate Express\u003c/span>\u003c/a>, the campus newspaper.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"President Lynn Mahoney with pro-Palestinian student protesters to discuss their demands as news spread of a cease-fire proposal in the Gaza Strip.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1715041272,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":22,"wordCount":904},"headData":{"title":"SFSU President Begins Negotiations With Campus Gaza Protesters | KQED","description":"President Lynn Mahoney with pro-Palestinian student protesters to discuss their demands as news spread of a cease-fire proposal in the Gaza Strip.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"SFSU President Begins Negotiations With Campus Gaza Protesters","datePublished":"2024-05-06T23:37:29.000Z","dateModified":"2024-05-07T00:21:12.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"Y","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"sticky":false,"nprStoryId":"kqed-11985130","excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","articleAge":"0","path":"/news/11985130/sfsu-president-begins-negotiations-with-campus-gaza-protesters","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Amid a wave of student protests that has spurred attacks and arrests on other California campuses, San Francisco State University’s top administrator met publicly with pro-Palestinian student protesters for the first time Monday to discuss their demands as news spread of a cease-fire proposal in the Gaza Strip.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The “moderated, open negotiations session” between President Lynn Mahoney and representatives of the SFSU Students for Palestine Encampment is believed to be one of the first of its kind, student organizers said. It came as Israel launched strikes in Rafah after saying the terms of a cease-fire deal agreed to by Hamas were not acceptable, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2024/05/06/1249360882/israel-hamas-cease-fire\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">NPR reported\u003c/span>\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If the cease-fire is true and it happens and, you know, there’s a free Palestine – because that’s what we’re reaching towards – of course we’re going to be relieved and we’re going to be happy, but at the same time we lost a lot,” said Monia Alsena, 22, who graduated from SFSU last year and attended Monday in support of the protest encampment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I wish it was a permanent cease-fire,” said her friend Nermeen Elsaghir, 23, who is graduating this month and has family in the West Bank. “I wish it was freedom for Palestinians, for all of us.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, Elsaghir said she is “not very hopeful about having any kind of victory soon for Palestinians or a cease-fire. We’re helpless, and our leaders, especially Arab leaders, they’re not doing anything. It’s very sad.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t see how I’m hopeful,” she said. “I’m not.”\u003cbr>\n\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>According to Gaza health officials, more than 34,000 Palestinians have been killed in the war, which Israel launched after Hamas militants killed around 1,200 Israelis and took more than 200 hostage in a wave of attacks Oct. 7.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since April 29, a group called Students for Gaza has camped on a central lawn at SFSU to demand the California State University system disclose its financial ties to Israel and to divest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Students also rejected what they called Islamophobic censorship of speech and activism on campus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11985155\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11985155 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240506-SFSUPresident-57-BL_qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240506-SFSUPresident-57-BL_qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240506-SFSUPresident-57-BL_qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240506-SFSUPresident-57-BL_qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240506-SFSUPresident-57-BL_qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240506-SFSUPresident-57-BL_qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An SFSU community member speaks as President Lynn Mahoney listens outside of the César Chavez Student Center on campus on May 6, 2024. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>During Monday’s public meeting with student representatives at the university’s Malcolm X Plaza, Mahoney said she would take steps to increase transparency around where the endowment money is invested and to “take another look at that investment policy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Let me just say you’ve all been heard,” Mahoney said. “You have been heard.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Atzeli Ramirez praised Mahoney for being willing to negotiate with student protesters publicly, but she felt Mahoney didn’t go far enough in meeting their demands.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It felt like President Lynn Mahoney was trying to save face rather than negotiate,” Ramirez, 21, said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Amey Kulkarni is a media liaison for the protesters. Kulkarni has stayed in the encampment intermittently over the last week. He was angry Mahoney declined to declare the war in Gaza a genocide.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s something we’ve been explicit about from day one,” Kulkarni, 25, said. “Me as well as so many others in this camp do not want to normalize this.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"label":"Related Coverage ","tag":"gaza"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>In 2020, the SFSU student government passed a resolution requesting a university boycott and divestment from Israel, but Mahoney refused to support it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The school administration’s agreement to publicly negotiate with protesters this week, however, is starkly different from the approach of leadership at some other campuses. Nationally, more than 2,000 students have been arrested in protests against the war as of last week, according to the Associated Press.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Campus police arrested dozens of pro-Palestinian protesters in a parking structure at UCLA on Monday, \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2024-05-06/dozens-detained-at-ucla-early-monday\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">the Los Angeles Times reported\u003c/span>\u003c/a>, days after officers cleared the encampment there and arrested more than 200 people. Early Sunday, a student encampment at the University of Southern California disbanded after Los Angeles Police Department officers \u003ca href=\"https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/pro-palestinian-encampment-at-usc-dismantled-after-protestors-comply-with-order-to-leave\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">threatened to arrest the students\u003c/span>\u003c/a>. There were at least 14 pro-Palestinian encampments \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11984845/pro-palestinian-protests-on-california-college-campuses-what-are-students-demanding\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">on college campuses in California\u003c/span>\u003c/a> as of last week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the other side of the country, Harvard warned students Monday that protesters would be placed on involuntary leave from school, \u003ca href=\"https://www.cnn.com/business/live-news/university-protests-pro-palestinian-israel-05-06-24/index.html\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">according to CNN\u003c/span>\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11985121\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11985121\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240506-SFSUPresident-28-BL.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240506-SFSUPresident-28-BL.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240506-SFSUPresident-28-BL-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240506-SFSUPresident-28-BL-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240506-SFSUPresident-28-BL-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240506-SFSUPresident-28-BL-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240506-SFSUPresident-28-BL-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A large crowd assembled outside the SFSU Cesar Chavez Student Center meets with SFSU President Lynn Mahoney on May 6, 2024. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Not all university leaders have responded to encampments with police. Sacramento State University President Luke Woods \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11984845/pro-palestinian-protests-on-california-college-campuses-what-are-students-demanding\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">gave approval for the campus’ pro-Palestinian encampment\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan class=\"s2\"> late last month, and \u003c/span>UC Riverside pro-Palestinian student protesters voluntarily ended their encampment last week after reaching an agreement with university leadership to explore divestment from Israel, \u003ca href=\"https://riversiderecord.org/student-protesters-ucr-administration-reach-agreement-to-end-encampment/\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">according to the Riverside Record\u003c/span>\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SFSU has faced a decades-long challenge in responding to demands of its students around the Israeli-Palestinian\u003cspan class=\"Apple-converted-space\"> \u003c/span>conflict. Former SFSU President Leslie Wong drew criticism from students and faculty for an email he sent in 2018 saying “Zionists are welcome on our campus,” \u003ca href=\"https://goldengatexpress.org/81119/latest/news/president-wong-fails-to-unify/\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">according to the Golden Gate Express\u003c/span>\u003c/a>, the campus newspaper.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11985130/sfsu-president-begins-negotiations-with-campus-gaza-protesters","authors":["11690"],"categories":["news_8"],"tags":["news_27626","news_6631","news_2200"],"featImg":"news_11985119","label":"news"},"news_11985053":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11985053","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11985053","found":true},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"small-houses-pose-solution-to-housing-crisis","title":"Small Houses Pose Solution to Housing Crisis","publishDate":1715013022,"format":"standard","headTitle":"Small Houses Pose Solution to Housing Crisis | KQED","labelTerm":{},"content":"\u003ch2>Small Houses Pose Solution to Housing Crisis\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Can solutions to California’s housing crisis be found in how we used to design and build homes in the past, namely smaller multifamily dwellings in neighborhoods and cities with fewer zoning restrictions. That topic is explored by Los Angeles urban planner Max Podemski. In his new book, A Paradise of Small Houses. I met up with Podemski in the L.A. neighborhood of Eagle Rock.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Guests: Saul Gonzalez, The California Report , and Max Podemski. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>DACA Recipients To Be Eligible for Medi-Cal \u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In California, tens of thousands of immigrants with Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals will soon be able to get health insurance. That’s after President Joe Biden on Friday announced that those with DACA can enroll in Affordable Care Act coverage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Reporter: Tyche Hendricks, KQED News \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>UC Workers to Hold Strike Authorization Vote \u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The union representing some 48 thousand academic workers in the UC system is planning to hold a strike authorization vote as early as this week over what they say is the university’s crackdown on pro-Palestinian protests. The decision to consider striking gained momentum after police action at UCLA that led to more than 200 arrests early last week\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Reporter: Tara Siler, KQED News, and Keith Mizuguchi, The California Report \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":null,"status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1715045292,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":8,"wordCount":225},"headData":{"title":"Small Houses Pose Solution to Housing Crisis | KQED","description":"Small Houses Pose Solution to Housing Crisis Can solutions to California's housing crisis be found in how we used to design and build homes in the past, namely smaller multifamily dwellings in neighborhoods and cities with fewer zoning restrictions. That topic is explored by Los Angeles urban planner Max Podemski. In his new book, A Paradise of Small Houses. I met up with Podemski in the L.A. neighborhood of Eagle Rock. Guests: Saul Gonzalez, The California Report , and Max Podemski. 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That topic is explored by Los Angeles urban planner Max Podemski. In his new book, A Paradise of Small Houses. I met up with Podemski in the L.A. neighborhood of Eagle Rock.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Guests: Saul Gonzalez, The California Report , and Max Podemski. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>DACA Recipients To Be Eligible for Medi-Cal \u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In California, tens of thousands of immigrants with Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals will soon be able to get health insurance. That’s after President Joe Biden on Friday announced that those with DACA can enroll in Affordable Care Act coverage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Reporter: Tyche Hendricks, KQED News \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>UC Workers to Hold Strike Authorization Vote \u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The union representing some 48 thousand academic workers in the UC system is planning to hold a strike authorization vote as early as this week over what they say is the university’s crackdown on pro-Palestinian protests. 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California Agency Says it Will Take Millions to Find Out","publishDate":1715022015,"format":"standard","headTitle":"Who Owns the Apartment Next Door? California Agency Says it Will Take Millions to Find Out | KQED","labelTerm":{"term":18481,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>Who is the flesh-and-blood landlord with a city-spanning portfolio of apartments concealed behind an obscurely named limited liability company? Who is the proprietor of a local restaurant, hotel or regional car wash chain shrouded beneath a corporate veil?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Who actually owns what in California?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For three years, a coalition of anti-eviction advocates, unions, legal aid organizations, affordable housing boosters, workers rights groups and pro-transparency activists have been demanding that the state make it easier to answer those questions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And for three years, those efforts have failed in the Legislature.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supporters of this year’s version, \u003ca href=\"https://digitaldemocracy.calmatters.org/bills/ca_202320240sb1201?slug=CA_202320240SB1201\">Senate Bill 1201,\u003c/a> authored by \u003ca href=\"https://digitaldemocracy.calmatters.org/legislators/maria-elena-durazo-165445\">Sen. María Elena Durazo\u003c/a>, a Los Angeles Democrat, now worry that their fourth effort will soon meet a similar fate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Businesses operating in California must regularly submit documents to the Secretary of State that list the company’s name and address, along with those of its top managers and anyone responsible for receiving legal filings on the company’s behalf. That information is publicly available on the \u003ca href=\"https://bizfileonline.sos.ca.gov/search/business\">Secretary of State’s website\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Durazo’s bill would add an additional disclosure requirement: The names and home or business addresses of “beneficial owners” — defined as anyone who “exercises substantial control” or owns at least 25% of a company.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=\"news_11983000,news_11945744,news_11984610\" label=\"Related Stories\"]As Durazo \u003ca href=\"https://digitaldemocracy.calmatters.org/hearings/257789?t=1504&f=9894c3d5281deb91c62d4cf1b0cd7321\">explained at a recent Senate committee hearing\u003c/a>, the bill is “simply adding one line on the forms that anybody fills out…It’s not asking for any more.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yet last week, the Senate Appropriations Committee, tasked with putting a fiscal price tag on pending legislation, said implementing the bill would cost the state $9.3 million in its first year and nearly $3 million every year after that. The majority of those ongoing expenses would go toward paying the estimated 24 state employees that Secretary of State analysts say are needed to make the bill work. That would represent \u003ca href=\"https://admin.cdn.sos.ca.gov/reports/2024/bus-filing-processing-time-report-march-2024.pdf\">roughly 10% of the agency’s workforce \u003c/a>that now processes business filings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though $9 million is \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/capitol/2024/04/budget-deficit-california-deal/\">couch cushion change by California budgetary standards\u003c/a>, the bill’s supporters say the number mystifies them. For a 2020 bill requiring the Secretary of State to \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB3075\">add a different question to the same form\u003c/a>, the fiscal estimate was a mere $561,000 in the first year and $79,000 thereafter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is an example of a good governance bill that will fail because of bad governance,” said Jyotswaroop Bawa with the progressive nonprofit Rise Economy, which is sponsoring the bill. “By not collecting beneficial owner information, the Secretary of State’s office is allowing chaos to continue with impunity.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bawa and other supporters of the bill say publishing ownership information will make it easier for tenants, workers and regulators to track down scofflaw landlords and other business owners.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Opponents of the bill, which include state and local landlord groups, the California Association of Realtors and the California Chamber of Commerce, argue that it is already easy enough to contact a business and that disclosing the identities of individual owners would violate their privacy and enable harassment.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>The Secretary of State’s office refused to break down sky-high estimate\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Once a bill receives a big cost estimate, it’s put in a list known\u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2017/09/capitol-suspense-california-bills-vanish-almost-without-trace/\"> as the “suspense file.”\u003c/a> Then, in marathon sessions held twice a year, the Assembly and Senate appropriations committees rapidly tick through every bill on that list, passing some along and killing others without debate or a public vote. The first legislative culling of the year is set for mid-May.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With its seven-digit cost estimate, Bawa said she worries SB 1201 will be the latest victim of “death by price tag,” especially when the state is \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/capitol/2024/04/budget-deficit-california-deal/\">facing a multibillion-dollar deficit\u003c/a>. And it wouldn’t be the first time this idea has died a quiet procedural death.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2021, a bill that would have required companies to unveil their human owners when filing business records with the state \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB1199\">didn’t get a hearing\u003c/a>. A \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billVotesClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB889\">revived attempt\u003c/a> the next year failed in the Senate after a majority on a key committee \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/digital-democracy/2024/04/california-democrats-no-votes/\">declined to cast a vote “yes” or “no” but simply abstained\u003c/a>. Last year, a third try succumbed to the suspense file after the bill was dinged with a $9 million cost estimate from the Secretary of State’s office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In coming up with this year’s figure, the Senate \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/202320240SB1201_Senate-Appropriations.pdf\">committee’s fiscal analysis\u003c/a> said it got the estimates from the Secretary of State. Itemized totals include $3 million in “IT project costs” and more than $2 million in “mailing costs.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Secretary of State’s office refused to answer specific questions from CalMatters about the bill’s cost estimate but instead responded by email with an unsigned statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The Office of the Secretary of State continues to be involved in deliberations and ongoing discussions with legislative staff related to SB 1201. In furtherance of this process, we must respectfully decline to publicly comment on the substantive or fiscal issues associated with the bill at this early point in the legislative process,” the statement said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the office “did not provide context” for its fiscal breakdown, the committee analysis says, the Secretary of State expressed more detailed concerns over last year’s version of the bill. Back then, the office warned that investigating and verifying the ownership information through a modified form would be costly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bill, as currently written, does not require the Secretary of State to perform that due diligence, which led an earlier Senate committee to \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billAnalysisClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB1201#\">raise concerns about the bill’s effectiveness.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>‘We could do it for $200’\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Corporations and limited liability companies exist in part to ensure that investors in a company aren’t held directly legally responsible for the things that that company does or doesn’t do. If a company maintains unsafe conditions at a rental property, a tenant can sue the company itself, seeking damages from the corporate treasury but not from the business owner’s personal checking account.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Publicizing an owner’s name and address, then, doesn’t serve an obvious legal purpose, said Debra Carlton, a spokesperson for the California Apartment Association. Landlords can always be reached through the property management companies they employ. Lawsuits can always be served to a company’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.sos.ca.gov/business-programs/business-entities/service-process\">listed representative.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The point of the corporate veil is that you go after the corporation’s assets” in a lawsuit, said Carlton, but it doesn’t prevent landlords from getting sued. “You see lawsuits every day being brought against the industry.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Matthew Silver, a lawyer who represents cities and counties in substandard housing cases, agreed that Durazo’s bill isn’t likely to make his work easier going after negligent landlords. It’s often quicker to serve court papers to a corporation or LLC than “an individual slumlord” who doesn’t have a paper trail or web presence, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s a path that leads you from the corporate name to the people who actually own it, ultimately, and we will find them and hold them responsible,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But there are times when it’s crucial to track down a human business owner quickly, long before matters end up at court, said Larry Brooks, who runs the residential lead prevention program for Alameda County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He remembers a case in 2022 when twin toddlers were found living in an old apartment with flaking paint. Lead levels in their blood were so high the children were immediately hospitalized. The twins’ parents, undocumented immigrants, initially refused to put Brooks and his team in touch with the building’s property management company, fearing eviction or deportation, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So Brooks began hunting on his own. He turned first to the county assessor’s office to find the property owner’s name, then plugged that name into the Secretary of State’s database. The corporate documents there only listed a street address. Brooks struggled to connect that address with a phone number or email address.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Finally, a county nurse persuaded the twins’ mother to share the phone number of a Sacramento-based property management company. That company put Brooks in touch with the owner, a corporation in Texas, he said. The entire process took two weeks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I wish that there were some state or federal law that required every corporate landlord to have a local contact,” said Brooks, who has also advised Human Impact Partners, a public health nonprofit that supports Durazo’s bill. “In a situation like with the twins, where the blood lead levels were so high they were life-threatening, and the kids had to be rushed to the hospital, you want to be able to call somebody immediately.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brooks said he couldn’t share additional information about the children or the landlord, citing medical privacy laws and pending litigation. CalMatters was unable to verify the details of the story independently.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Making it easier to find the name and address of a business owner would provide a treasure trove of data for tenant rights organizations, housing researchers and \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2021-02-24/rental-housing-shell-companies-landlords\">investigative reporters\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it would also be a boon for would-be harassers and activists, said Carlton. “I can’t figure out what their true purpose is,” she said of the bill’s sponsors. “They want to shame people publicly, maybe.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Carlton was also puzzled by the $9 million cost estimate: “I almost felt like saying, ‘We could do it,’” she said. “We could do it for $200.”\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"A legislative effort to force LLCs and corporations to publicly disclose their owners publicly faces a surprising obstacle: A massive cost estimate from the Secretary of State.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1715026267,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":37,"wordCount":1673},"headData":{"title":"Who Owns the Apartment Next Door? California Agency Says it Will Take Millions to Find Out | KQED","description":"A legislative effort to force LLCs and corporations to publicly disclose their owners publicly faces a surprising obstacle: A massive cost estimate from the Secretary of State.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"Who Owns the Apartment Next Door? California Agency Says it Will Take Millions to Find Out","datePublished":"2024-05-06T19:00:15.000Z","dateModified":"2024-05-06T20:11:07.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"Y","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"sticky":false,"nprByline":"Ben Christopher, CalMatters","nprStoryId":"kqed-11985069","excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","showOnAuthorArchivePages":"No","articleAge":"0","path":"/news/11985069/who-owns-the-apartment-next-door-california-agency-says-it-will-take-millions-to-find-out","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Who is the flesh-and-blood landlord with a city-spanning portfolio of apartments concealed behind an obscurely named limited liability company? Who is the proprietor of a local restaurant, hotel or regional car wash chain shrouded beneath a corporate veil?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Who actually owns what in California?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For three years, a coalition of anti-eviction advocates, unions, legal aid organizations, affordable housing boosters, workers rights groups and pro-transparency activists have been demanding that the state make it easier to answer those questions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And for three years, those efforts have failed in the Legislature.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supporters of this year’s version, \u003ca href=\"https://digitaldemocracy.calmatters.org/bills/ca_202320240sb1201?slug=CA_202320240SB1201\">Senate Bill 1201,\u003c/a> authored by \u003ca href=\"https://digitaldemocracy.calmatters.org/legislators/maria-elena-durazo-165445\">Sen. María Elena Durazo\u003c/a>, a Los Angeles Democrat, now worry that their fourth effort will soon meet a similar fate.\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>Businesses operating in California must regularly submit documents to the Secretary of State that list the company’s name and address, along with those of its top managers and anyone responsible for receiving legal filings on the company’s behalf. That information is publicly available on the \u003ca href=\"https://bizfileonline.sos.ca.gov/search/business\">Secretary of State’s website\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Durazo’s bill would add an additional disclosure requirement: The names and home or business addresses of “beneficial owners” — defined as anyone who “exercises substantial control” or owns at least 25% of a company.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"news_11983000,news_11945744,news_11984610","label":"Related Stories "},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>As Durazo \u003ca href=\"https://digitaldemocracy.calmatters.org/hearings/257789?t=1504&f=9894c3d5281deb91c62d4cf1b0cd7321\">explained at a recent Senate committee hearing\u003c/a>, the bill is “simply adding one line on the forms that anybody fills out…It’s not asking for any more.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yet last week, the Senate Appropriations Committee, tasked with putting a fiscal price tag on pending legislation, said implementing the bill would cost the state $9.3 million in its first year and nearly $3 million every year after that. The majority of those ongoing expenses would go toward paying the estimated 24 state employees that Secretary of State analysts say are needed to make the bill work. That would represent \u003ca href=\"https://admin.cdn.sos.ca.gov/reports/2024/bus-filing-processing-time-report-march-2024.pdf\">roughly 10% of the agency’s workforce \u003c/a>that now processes business filings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though $9 million is \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/capitol/2024/04/budget-deficit-california-deal/\">couch cushion change by California budgetary standards\u003c/a>, the bill’s supporters say the number mystifies them. For a 2020 bill requiring the Secretary of State to \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB3075\">add a different question to the same form\u003c/a>, the fiscal estimate was a mere $561,000 in the first year and $79,000 thereafter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is an example of a good governance bill that will fail because of bad governance,” said Jyotswaroop Bawa with the progressive nonprofit Rise Economy, which is sponsoring the bill. “By not collecting beneficial owner information, the Secretary of State’s office is allowing chaos to continue with impunity.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bawa and other supporters of the bill say publishing ownership information will make it easier for tenants, workers and regulators to track down scofflaw landlords and other business owners.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Opponents of the bill, which include state and local landlord groups, the California Association of Realtors and the California Chamber of Commerce, argue that it is already easy enough to contact a business and that disclosing the identities of individual owners would violate their privacy and enable harassment.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>The Secretary of State’s office refused to break down sky-high estimate\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Once a bill receives a big cost estimate, it’s put in a list known\u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2017/09/capitol-suspense-california-bills-vanish-almost-without-trace/\"> as the “suspense file.”\u003c/a> Then, in marathon sessions held twice a year, the Assembly and Senate appropriations committees rapidly tick through every bill on that list, passing some along and killing others without debate or a public vote. The first legislative culling of the year is set for mid-May.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With its seven-digit cost estimate, Bawa said she worries SB 1201 will be the latest victim of “death by price tag,” especially when the state is \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/capitol/2024/04/budget-deficit-california-deal/\">facing a multibillion-dollar deficit\u003c/a>. And it wouldn’t be the first time this idea has died a quiet procedural death.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2021, a bill that would have required companies to unveil their human owners when filing business records with the state \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB1199\">didn’t get a hearing\u003c/a>. A \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billVotesClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB889\">revived attempt\u003c/a> the next year failed in the Senate after a majority on a key committee \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/digital-democracy/2024/04/california-democrats-no-votes/\">declined to cast a vote “yes” or “no” but simply abstained\u003c/a>. Last year, a third try succumbed to the suspense file after the bill was dinged with a $9 million cost estimate from the Secretary of State’s office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In coming up with this year’s figure, the Senate \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/202320240SB1201_Senate-Appropriations.pdf\">committee’s fiscal analysis\u003c/a> said it got the estimates from the Secretary of State. Itemized totals include $3 million in “IT project costs” and more than $2 million in “mailing costs.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Secretary of State’s office refused to answer specific questions from CalMatters about the bill’s cost estimate but instead responded by email with an unsigned statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The Office of the Secretary of State continues to be involved in deliberations and ongoing discussions with legislative staff related to SB 1201. In furtherance of this process, we must respectfully decline to publicly comment on the substantive or fiscal issues associated with the bill at this early point in the legislative process,” the statement said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the office “did not provide context” for its fiscal breakdown, the committee analysis says, the Secretary of State expressed more detailed concerns over last year’s version of the bill. Back then, the office warned that investigating and verifying the ownership information through a modified form would be costly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bill, as currently written, does not require the Secretary of State to perform that due diligence, which led an earlier Senate committee to \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billAnalysisClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB1201#\">raise concerns about the bill’s effectiveness.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>‘We could do it for $200’\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Corporations and limited liability companies exist in part to ensure that investors in a company aren’t held directly legally responsible for the things that that company does or doesn’t do. If a company maintains unsafe conditions at a rental property, a tenant can sue the company itself, seeking damages from the corporate treasury but not from the business owner’s personal checking account.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Publicizing an owner’s name and address, then, doesn’t serve an obvious legal purpose, said Debra Carlton, a spokesperson for the California Apartment Association. Landlords can always be reached through the property management companies they employ. Lawsuits can always be served to a company’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.sos.ca.gov/business-programs/business-entities/service-process\">listed representative.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The point of the corporate veil is that you go after the corporation’s assets” in a lawsuit, said Carlton, but it doesn’t prevent landlords from getting sued. “You see lawsuits every day being brought against the industry.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Matthew Silver, a lawyer who represents cities and counties in substandard housing cases, agreed that Durazo’s bill isn’t likely to make his work easier going after negligent landlords. It’s often quicker to serve court papers to a corporation or LLC than “an individual slumlord” who doesn’t have a paper trail or web presence, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s a path that leads you from the corporate name to the people who actually own it, ultimately, and we will find them and hold them responsible,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But there are times when it’s crucial to track down a human business owner quickly, long before matters end up at court, said Larry Brooks, who runs the residential lead prevention program for Alameda County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He remembers a case in 2022 when twin toddlers were found living in an old apartment with flaking paint. Lead levels in their blood were so high the children were immediately hospitalized. The twins’ parents, undocumented immigrants, initially refused to put Brooks and his team in touch with the building’s property management company, fearing eviction or deportation, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So Brooks began hunting on his own. He turned first to the county assessor’s office to find the property owner’s name, then plugged that name into the Secretary of State’s database. The corporate documents there only listed a street address. Brooks struggled to connect that address with a phone number or email address.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Finally, a county nurse persuaded the twins’ mother to share the phone number of a Sacramento-based property management company. That company put Brooks in touch with the owner, a corporation in Texas, he said. The entire process took two weeks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I wish that there were some state or federal law that required every corporate landlord to have a local contact,” said Brooks, who has also advised Human Impact Partners, a public health nonprofit that supports Durazo’s bill. “In a situation like with the twins, where the blood lead levels were so high they were life-threatening, and the kids had to be rushed to the hospital, you want to be able to call somebody immediately.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brooks said he couldn’t share additional information about the children or the landlord, citing medical privacy laws and pending litigation. CalMatters was unable to verify the details of the story independently.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Making it easier to find the name and address of a business owner would provide a treasure trove of data for tenant rights organizations, housing researchers and \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2021-02-24/rental-housing-shell-companies-landlords\">investigative reporters\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it would also be a boon for would-be harassers and activists, said Carlton. “I can’t figure out what their true purpose is,” she said of the bill’s sponsors. “They want to shame people publicly, maybe.”\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>But Carlton was also puzzled by the $9 million cost estimate: “I almost felt like saying, ‘We could do it,’” she said. “We could do it for $200.”\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11985069/who-owns-the-apartment-next-door-california-agency-says-it-will-take-millions-to-find-out","authors":["byline_news_11985069"],"categories":["news_6266","news_8"],"tags":["news_28458","news_1775","news_1852"],"affiliates":["news_18481"],"featImg":"news_11985077","label":"news_18481"},"news_11985041":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11985041","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11985041","found":true},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"grooblen-egg-freeze","title":"Grooblen: 'Egg Freeze'","publishDate":1714955442,"format":"standard","headTitle":"Grooblen: ‘Egg Freeze’ | KQED","labelTerm":{},"content":"\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/sundaymusicdrop\">The Sunday Music Drop is a weekly radio series hosted by the KQED weekend news team.\u003c/a> In each segment, we feature a song from a local musician or band with an upcoming show and hear about what inspires their music.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vocalist and guitarist Ellie Stokes of the San Francisco-based “cabaret dream psych band” Grooblen found her true love for rock when she was able to participate in the SF Rock Project, a nonprofit music school for youth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was introduced to so many people in the music community — just intergenerationally — from a very young age because we played a lot of, like, street festivals, like Sunday streets, we played a lot of community events,” Stokes said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stokes formed the band initially with her brother and a family friend, who played songs she had written over the years. Eventually, they went to college and Stokes began volunteering at a community radio station during the pandemic. She met her friend and drummer Sean Aaron there, and the two began performing as a duo. The other band members would later join through connections at the radio station and other friends.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stokes also runs a small nonprofit organization called Big Leap Collective that throws accessible community concerts within the Bay Area and beyond. There’s also an educational program for people to learn skills in production management and more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We feature a lot of like independent local artists and touring bands as well that don’t really have as much of a financial backing,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The song “Egg Freeze” was written after Stokes experienced chronic pain and consulted with her gynecologist.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She was like, ‘Well, the only real way to basically stop the suffering is to get a hysterectomy.’ And I was like, that certainly can’t be true,” Stokes said. “That was the launch pad, and this was kind of written, like, what if that was the only option? If I wanted to have this option in the future, if I wanted to have children, I’d have to get my eggs frozen.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She was able to have a different procedure done instead that helped her manage her pain.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I know they’re just, there’s so many people out there who don’t have that access, and it just feels like they aren’t getting listened to,” she said. “Everyone deserves a chance to be able to feel good in their body.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The band’s members include Sean Aaron, Alejandro Lara-Agraz, Spencer Lay, Eva Gogas and Jack Lillian. 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California Voters May Decide","publishDate":1714820449,"format":"standard","headTitle":"Should Kids Learn Financial Literacy in School? California Voters May Decide | KQED","labelTerm":{},"content":"\u003cp>School curriculum is usually the purview of education experts, but this fall, it could be decided by California voters, who will vote on adding a new requirement for high school students: a one-semester class in managing personal finances.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California’s Secretary of State is poised to certify that the \u003ca href=\"https://www.financialed4ca.com/_files/ugd/ddc900_30f9026dbbfc41da84354dffd0155870.pdf\">California Personal Finance Act\u003c/a> is eligible for the November ballot, which would add financial literacy to the list of high school graduation requirements beginning with the class of 2030.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Students would learn about paying for college, online banking, taxes, budgeting, credit, retirement accounts, loans, how the stock market works and other topics. The issue is critical, organizers said, as students face a shifting economy and difficult decisions about college, careers and their futures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“No one comes out of the womb knowing how to manage their credit score. It has to be taught,” said Tim Ranzetta, co-founder of a \u003ca href=\"https://www.ngpf.org/\">personal finance education nonprofit\u003c/a> and a chief backer of the initiative. “And right now, there’s a dramatic gap between what students know and what they need to know. We have to change that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Voters seem to agree with him. A 2022 \u003ca href=\"https://www.nefe.org/news/2022/04/financial-education-mandates.aspx\">survey\u003c/a> of adults nationwide showed that nearly 90% support a financial literacy requirement in high school, and nearly as many wished they had taken such a course when they were students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s not surprising, considering the financial woes many people incur. The average \u003ca href=\"https://www.lendingtree.com/credit-cards/credit-card-debt-statistics/\">credit card debt in California\u003c/a> is $8,366, the sixth-highest rate in the country, and 1 in 6 borrowers nationwide are \u003ca href=\"https://www.newamerica.org/education-policy/edcentral/millions-spend-years-in-student-loan-default/#:~:text=Almost%207%20million%20people%2C%20about,270%20days'%20worth%20of%20payments.\">in default on their student loans\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Financial literacy already in classrooms\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>However, some education experts have pushed back, not because they’re opposed to financial literacy for students but because they question whether voters are best equipped to dictate what’s taught in classrooms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Currently, the state’s History-Social Studies framework includes a \u003ca href=\"https://www.cde.ca.gov/ci/hs/cf/documents/hssfwchapter18.pdf\">one-semester course in economics\u003c/a>, required for graduation, that covers much of the same material proposed by the financial literacy ballot initiative proponents. Financial literacy is also included in the first, second and ninth grade curriculum. First graders, for example, learn that money can be exchanged for goods and services, and people decide how to spend their money.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, Ranzetta said the curriculum, last updated in 2017, doesn’t focus enough on financial literacy. Personal finance is covered for only a few weeks in the economics course; the rest covers more abstract economic concepts like international trade, resource allocation and the benefits and drawbacks of capitalism. Individual teachers can choose how much they want to focus on certain topics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State Superintendent Tony Thurmond wouldn’t answer questions about the ballot initiative, although he endorsed it. Linda Darling-Hammond, president of the State Board of Education, also wouldn’t answer questions.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Leaving curriculum decisions to voters is ‘a bad idea’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The proposed ballot initiative so far has almost zero opposition, but some are questioning the idea of letting voters — and not education experts — decide what students learn in the classroom. Ordinarily, the curriculum in California is developed by a group of teachers and subject-matter professionals who serve on the \u003ca href=\"https://www.cde.ca.gov/be/cc/cd/\">Instructional Quality Commission\u003c/a>, which meets publicly six times a year. A new curriculum is subject to multiple reviews, edits and public vetting, ultimately going before the \u003ca href=\"https://www.cde.ca.gov/be/\">State Board of Education\u003c/a> for adoption. Local school boards can adjust the curriculum according to the needs of their students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Most voters don’t know much about education policy, and having them decide what can be taught in schools is a bad idea,” said Morgan Polikoff, an education professor at the University of Southern California. “We already have a process in place for adopting curriculum, and if people are unhappy with it, there are plenty of avenues to have their voices heard — they can go to meetings, they can vote people out of office, they can talk to their representatives.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Polikoff worries that adopting curriculum through ballot initiatives could set a dangerous precedent. Religious or anti-LGBTQ curriculum, for example, could be approved by voters, setting up costly and lengthy legal showdowns with the state Department of Education.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Curriculum can be complicated, as well. When writing new curricula, the Instructional Quality Commission looks at the broader context, ensuring students get new material every year that builds on what they learned previously, subjects don’t overlap and topics are flexible enough for teachers to adapt lessons to the individual needs of their students. Textbooks and tests are also taken into consideration.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Legislature weighs in\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Most curriculum updates and changes originate with the commission, but sometimes the Legislature weighs in. The state’s new \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/education/k-12-education/2021/10/ethnic-studies-requirement/\">ethnic studies\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/education/k-12-education/2023/11/fake-news-california-school/\">media literacy\u003c/a> requirements, for example, stemmed from Assembly bills. Another bill, \u003ca href=\"https://digitaldemocracy.calmatters.org/bills/ca_202320240ab2097?slug=CA_202320240AB2097\">AB 2097\u003c/a>, would add computer science as a graduation requirement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://digitaldemocracy.calmatters.org/bills/ca_202320240ab2927?slug=CA_202320240AB2927\">AB 2927\u003c/a>, a financial literacy bill proposed by Democrat \u003ca href=\"https://digitaldemocracy.calmatters.org/legislators/kevin-mccarty-22\">Kevin McCarty\u003c/a> of Sacramento, would actually do almost the same thing as the ballot initiative. The bill would require financial literacy as a graduation requirement, although it would go into effect until 2031, a year later than the ballot measure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bruce Fuller, an education professor at UC Berkeley, said he worries about the increasing politicization of curriculum — either from the Legislature or those pushing for ballot initiatives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have these political interests unabashedly trying to control what’s taught in the classroom instead of leaving it up to teachers and locally elected school boards,” Fuller said. “We should trust those folks to devise a thoughtful curriculum that’s appropriate for their students.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He also questioned the ever-growing list of graduation requirements. High schools only offer six or seven class periods a day, and with more required classes, there’s less room for art and other electives. Some districts have started adding an extra period so students can fit in all the classes they need to take to graduate, \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/education/k-12-education/2024/04/career-pathways/\">finish a career pathway\u003c/a> and qualify for California’s public universities.[aside postID=news_11984551 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240423-SAT-III-MD-06-KQED-1020x680.jpg']“I’m not sure how adding more required classes is going to motivate restless teenagers,” Fuller said. “With more requirements, we’re giving them almost no chance to study things they’re actually interested in.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McCarty’s bill is not the Legislature’s first attempt to wade into financial literacy. A dozen bills requiring financial literacy have died or been vetoed in recent years, in most cases because the financial literacy curriculum already exists and the state already has a system for adopting the curriculum.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As Gov. Jerry Brown wrote in 2018 when he \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billStatusClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB858\">vetoed a bill\u003c/a> that would have made financial literacy materials available to teachers: “This bill is unnecessary. The History-Social Science Framework already contains financial literacy content for pupils in kindergarten through grade 12, as well as a financial literacy elective.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ranzetta said the Legislature’s inability to pass a financial literacy curriculum spurred him to take the matter directly to voters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I recognize the value of the process, but it’s slow, and so far, it hasn’t worked in California,” he said. “The issue is too urgent and too popular to wait any longer.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ranzetta grew up in New Jersey, where his father was a banker, and his mother was a community volunteer who raised six children. He learned financial literacy from his parents and assumed other young people did, too. It wasn’t until he started volunteering at an East Palo Alto high school that he realized many students are clueless about money and that ignorance can hamper them throughout their lives. But they were eager to learn, he said, and share the information with their parents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That experience inspired him to start NextGen Personal Finance, which offers free financial literacy curriculum and training for teachers. At least 7,000 teachers in California and more than 100,000 nationwide have participated, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A class that demystifies money\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>At Berkeley High School, Crystal Rigley Janis teaches two economics classes and three personal finance classes. Her classes cover topics she wishes she had known as a young person, such as negotiating a salary, not relying on gut instinct when investing, and avoiding individual stocks in favor of index funds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It took me 15 years to understand those things, and it probably cost me millions of dollars,” said Rigley, who worked for several years at a wealth management firm before going into teaching. “I don’t want other people to make the mistakes I did.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11985029\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11985029\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/CMFinance02.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/CMFinance02.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/CMFinance02-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/CMFinance02-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/CMFinance02-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/CMFinance02-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/CMFinance02-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Students walk in the main entrance of Berkeley High School in Berkeley on May 1, 2024. \u003ccite>(Laure Andrillon/CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Eliza Maier, a senior, was so inspired by Rigley’s class that she opened a Roth IRA when she turned 18 and transferred money from her low-interest savings account. The class, she said, helped demystify money and its role in major life choices.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We learned that money isn’t good or bad — it’s a tool,” Maier said. “It can help you realize your goals. It can help you be prepared for whatever happens in your life. 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The issue is critical, organizers said, as students face a shifting economy and difficult decisions about college, careers and their futures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“No one comes out of the womb knowing how to manage their credit score. It has to be taught,” said Tim Ranzetta, co-founder of a \u003ca href=\"https://www.ngpf.org/\">personal finance education nonprofit\u003c/a> and a chief backer of the initiative. “And right now, there’s a dramatic gap between what students know and what they need to know. We have to change that.”\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>Voters seem to agree with him. A 2022 \u003ca href=\"https://www.nefe.org/news/2022/04/financial-education-mandates.aspx\">survey\u003c/a> of adults nationwide showed that nearly 90% support a financial literacy requirement in high school, and nearly as many wished they had taken such a course when they were students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s not surprising, considering the financial woes many people incur. The average \u003ca href=\"https://www.lendingtree.com/credit-cards/credit-card-debt-statistics/\">credit card debt in California\u003c/a> is $8,366, the sixth-highest rate in the country, and 1 in 6 borrowers nationwide are \u003ca href=\"https://www.newamerica.org/education-policy/edcentral/millions-spend-years-in-student-loan-default/#:~:text=Almost%207%20million%20people%2C%20about,270%20days'%20worth%20of%20payments.\">in default on their student loans\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Financial literacy already in classrooms\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>However, some education experts have pushed back, not because they’re opposed to financial literacy for students but because they question whether voters are best equipped to dictate what’s taught in classrooms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Currently, the state’s History-Social Studies framework includes a \u003ca href=\"https://www.cde.ca.gov/ci/hs/cf/documents/hssfwchapter18.pdf\">one-semester course in economics\u003c/a>, required for graduation, that covers much of the same material proposed by the financial literacy ballot initiative proponents. Financial literacy is also included in the first, second and ninth grade curriculum. First graders, for example, learn that money can be exchanged for goods and services, and people decide how to spend their money.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, Ranzetta said the curriculum, last updated in 2017, doesn’t focus enough on financial literacy. Personal finance is covered for only a few weeks in the economics course; the rest covers more abstract economic concepts like international trade, resource allocation and the benefits and drawbacks of capitalism. Individual teachers can choose how much they want to focus on certain topics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State Superintendent Tony Thurmond wouldn’t answer questions about the ballot initiative, although he endorsed it. Linda Darling-Hammond, president of the State Board of Education, also wouldn’t answer questions.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Leaving curriculum decisions to voters is ‘a bad idea’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The proposed ballot initiative so far has almost zero opposition, but some are questioning the idea of letting voters — and not education experts — decide what students learn in the classroom. Ordinarily, the curriculum in California is developed by a group of teachers and subject-matter professionals who serve on the \u003ca href=\"https://www.cde.ca.gov/be/cc/cd/\">Instructional Quality Commission\u003c/a>, which meets publicly six times a year. A new curriculum is subject to multiple reviews, edits and public vetting, ultimately going before the \u003ca href=\"https://www.cde.ca.gov/be/\">State Board of Education\u003c/a> for adoption. Local school boards can adjust the curriculum according to the needs of their students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Most voters don’t know much about education policy, and having them decide what can be taught in schools is a bad idea,” said Morgan Polikoff, an education professor at the University of Southern California. “We already have a process in place for adopting curriculum, and if people are unhappy with it, there are plenty of avenues to have their voices heard — they can go to meetings, they can vote people out of office, they can talk to their representatives.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Polikoff worries that adopting curriculum through ballot initiatives could set a dangerous precedent. Religious or anti-LGBTQ curriculum, for example, could be approved by voters, setting up costly and lengthy legal showdowns with the state Department of Education.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Curriculum can be complicated, as well. When writing new curricula, the Instructional Quality Commission looks at the broader context, ensuring students get new material every year that builds on what they learned previously, subjects don’t overlap and topics are flexible enough for teachers to adapt lessons to the individual needs of their students. Textbooks and tests are also taken into consideration.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Legislature weighs in\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Most curriculum updates and changes originate with the commission, but sometimes the Legislature weighs in. The state’s new \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/education/k-12-education/2021/10/ethnic-studies-requirement/\">ethnic studies\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/education/k-12-education/2023/11/fake-news-california-school/\">media literacy\u003c/a> requirements, for example, stemmed from Assembly bills. Another bill, \u003ca href=\"https://digitaldemocracy.calmatters.org/bills/ca_202320240ab2097?slug=CA_202320240AB2097\">AB 2097\u003c/a>, would add computer science as a graduation requirement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://digitaldemocracy.calmatters.org/bills/ca_202320240ab2927?slug=CA_202320240AB2927\">AB 2927\u003c/a>, a financial literacy bill proposed by Democrat \u003ca href=\"https://digitaldemocracy.calmatters.org/legislators/kevin-mccarty-22\">Kevin McCarty\u003c/a> of Sacramento, would actually do almost the same thing as the ballot initiative. The bill would require financial literacy as a graduation requirement, although it would go into effect until 2031, a year later than the ballot measure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bruce Fuller, an education professor at UC Berkeley, said he worries about the increasing politicization of curriculum — either from the Legislature or those pushing for ballot initiatives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have these political interests unabashedly trying to control what’s taught in the classroom instead of leaving it up to teachers and locally elected school boards,” Fuller said. “We should trust those folks to devise a thoughtful curriculum that’s appropriate for their students.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He also questioned the ever-growing list of graduation requirements. High schools only offer six or seven class periods a day, and with more required classes, there’s less room for art and other electives. Some districts have started adding an extra period so students can fit in all the classes they need to take to graduate, \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/education/k-12-education/2024/04/career-pathways/\">finish a career pathway\u003c/a> and qualify for California’s public universities.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"news_11984551","hero":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240423-SAT-III-MD-06-KQED-1020x680.jpg","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“I’m not sure how adding more required classes is going to motivate restless teenagers,” Fuller said. “With more requirements, we’re giving them almost no chance to study things they’re actually interested in.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McCarty’s bill is not the Legislature’s first attempt to wade into financial literacy. A dozen bills requiring financial literacy have died or been vetoed in recent years, in most cases because the financial literacy curriculum already exists and the state already has a system for adopting the curriculum.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As Gov. Jerry Brown wrote in 2018 when he \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billStatusClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB858\">vetoed a bill\u003c/a> that would have made financial literacy materials available to teachers: “This bill is unnecessary. 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But they were eager to learn, he said, and share the information with their parents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That experience inspired him to start NextGen Personal Finance, which offers free financial literacy curriculum and training for teachers. At least 7,000 teachers in California and more than 100,000 nationwide have participated, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A class that demystifies money\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>At Berkeley High School, Crystal Rigley Janis teaches two economics classes and three personal finance classes. Her classes cover topics she wishes she had known as a young person, such as negotiating a salary, not relying on gut instinct when investing, and avoiding individual stocks in favor of index funds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It took me 15 years to understand those things, and it probably cost me millions of dollars,” said Rigley, who worked for several years at a wealth management firm before going into teaching. “I don’t want other people to make the mistakes I did.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11985029\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11985029\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/CMFinance02.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/CMFinance02.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/CMFinance02-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/CMFinance02-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/CMFinance02-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/CMFinance02-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/CMFinance02-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Students walk in the main entrance of Berkeley High School in Berkeley on May 1, 2024. \u003ccite>(Laure Andrillon/CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Eliza Maier, a senior, was so inspired by Rigley’s class that she opened a Roth IRA when she turned 18 and transferred money from her low-interest savings account. 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Here's What You Need to Know","publishDate":1707854404,"format":"standard","headTitle":"Inheriting a Home in California? Here’s What You Need to Know | KQED","labelTerm":{"term":72,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>If you’re expecting to inherit a home in California, you might need to find a “for sale” sign. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11841414/what-you-need-to-know-about-proposition-19-and-property-tax-transfers-transcript\">That’s because Proposition 19\u003c/a> has made it much harder to keep that house.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before the proposition narrowly passed in 2020, parents could pass down their home and their very low property tax rate to their children. But Proposition 19 changed that. Now, the property’s value gets reassessed at the time of transfer, and the property taxes could rise along with it. It’s confusing for some who can’t decide whether they should sell or keep their newly inherited property.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For many people in California, inheriting a home their parents bought decades earlier — when the cost of housing was much more affordable concerning average salaries — is the only way they’ll be able to own a home. If you’re in this situation, keep reading for some factors to consider:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Do you plan to live in the house you inherit?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>There are some benefits for people who choose to make an inherited property their primary residence. If you plan to live in the inherited home, you can apply to have up to $1 million excluded from the tax reassessment as long as you move into the home within a year of the transfer. [pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Alicia Gamez, attorney, specializing in California taxation law, estate planning, trust and probate law\"]‘I have seen circumstances where the property tax reassessment really threatens a family’s ability to stay in their neighborhood.’[/pullquote]Despite those benefits, there are some downsides, said Alicia Gamez, an attorney specializing in California taxation law, estate planning, trust and probate law. If a family’s home is a multi-unit building, where the parents live in one unit while their children live in other units, only the parents’ unit will qualify for a reassessment exemption. The other units, where the children live, would get reassessed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I have seen circumstances where the property tax reassessment really threatens a family’s ability to stay in their neighborhood,” Gamez said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gamez said situations can differ based on the circumstances of families. If the home requires repairs, those can add up, and deciding to live in the home is even more expensive and complicated. If siblings are involved, selling and splitting the money may be easier than having one sibling buy out the others.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If the children already own a home, they might not want to move. In that case, they can choose to sell the inherited property or rent it out.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Do you plan to rent out the inherited house?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Rather than selling the inherited property, many inheritors chose to rent out the home and collect a passive income. Before Proposition 19 passed, the inheritors could keep the low property tax rate. [aside label='More on Housing' tag='housing']Some people called this the “\u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/economy/2018/08/prop-13-jeff-bridges-property-taxes-inheritance-estate-california/\">Lebowski loophole\u003c/a>” because the law allowed people like actor Jeff Bridges and his siblings to \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/politics/la-pol-ca-california-property-taxes-elites-201808-htmlstory.html\">pay $5,700 in annual property taxes\u003c/a> on the Malibu beach house his parents bought in the 1950s while renting it out for $15,995 a month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But now, if you plan to rent out the property you inherit, the property’s value will be reassessed and could result in a steep increase in property taxes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gamez said Proposition 19 also aimed to fix some of the “market anomalies” created by decades of unusually low tax rates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There were people in San Francisco who had real estate that was vacant, and it only cost them $600 a year in property taxes,” she said. “They chose not to sell it because it was an appreciating asset with very low overhead.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With Proposition 19, she said, “It’s going to cost them tens of thousands of dollars to just hold it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Why was Proposition 19 passed in the first place?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Proposition 19, officially called the Home Protection for Seniors, Severely Disabled, Families and Victims of Wildfire or Natural Disasters Act, aimed to help people 55 years and older downsize from larger, single-family homes into smaller houses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.car.org/knowledge/brokers/Prop-19\">California Association of Realtors\u003c/a> lobbied in favor of the proposition and promised it would “open up tens of thousands of housing opportunities,” making the homes “more readily available for first-time homeowners, families and Californians throughout the state.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thanks to Proposition 19, people looking to downsize into a smaller home or condo can keep their low tax rate if they purchase a home of equal or lesser value.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of the money generated through the increased property taxes this new law is expected to generate, 80% funds fire suppression efforts for local special districts and the rest goes to the State Department of Forestry and Fire Protection.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Is there a chance Proposition 19 will be overturned?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Some property owners across the state want to \u003ca href=\"https://reinstate58.hjta.org/\">repeal Proposition 19\u003c/a> and bring the issue in front of voters, but the movement is still small. [pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Kern Singh, attorney, specializing in estate law\"]‘I’m a real estate investor myself, and I haven’t taken any drastic measures. I’m waiting to see how this pans out in the long run.’[/pullquote]Kern Singh, an attorney who specializes in estate law, said some of his clients considered transferring their property to their children immediately, rather than waiting for the property to increase in value, as a way to maintain a lower tax rate. But he said he’s urging those clients to wait and see what happens with Proposition 19.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m a real estate investor myself, and I haven’t taken any drastic measures,” he said. “I’m waiting to see how this pans out in the long run.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gamez is a bit more skeptical about any repeal effort, especially as more people purchase homes in California and pay steep property taxes, often for older properties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think that for every person who has a super low property tax basis, they have several neighbors who do not,” she said. “Are those neighbors going to vote to let their neighbor keep their 1979 property tax basis? I think there are a lot of people who feel significant resentment towards having not been born here in the first place.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Proposition 19, which voters narrowly passed in 2020, aimed to give a tax break to older Californians looking to downsize. But the new law also changed the math for people inheriting a home, complicating an already emotional decision.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1707858552,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":22,"wordCount":1093},"headData":{"title":"Inheriting a Home in California? Here's What You Need to Know | KQED","description":"Proposition 19, which voters narrowly passed in 2020, aimed to give a tax break to older Californians looking to downsize. But the new law also changed the math for people inheriting a home, complicating an already emotional decision.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"Inheriting a Home in California? Here's What You Need to Know","datePublished":"2024-02-13T20:00:04.000Z","dateModified":"2024-02-13T21:09:12.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"Y","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"sticky":false,"excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","articleAge":"0","path":"/news/11975582/inheriting-a-home-in-california-heres-what-you-need-to-know","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>If you’re expecting to inherit a home in California, you might need to find a “for sale” sign. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11841414/what-you-need-to-know-about-proposition-19-and-property-tax-transfers-transcript\">That’s because Proposition 19\u003c/a> has made it much harder to keep that house.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before the proposition narrowly passed in 2020, parents could pass down their home and their very low property tax rate to their children. But Proposition 19 changed that. Now, the property’s value gets reassessed at the time of transfer, and the property taxes could rise along with it. It’s confusing for some who can’t decide whether they should sell or keep their newly inherited property.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For many people in California, inheriting a home their parents bought decades earlier — when the cost of housing was much more affordable concerning average salaries — is the only way they’ll be able to own a home. If you’re in this situation, keep reading for some factors to consider:\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\u003ch2>Do you plan to live in the house you inherit?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>There are some benefits for people who choose to make an inherited property their primary residence. If you plan to live in the inherited home, you can apply to have up to $1 million excluded from the tax reassessment as long as you move into the home within a year of the transfer. \u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"‘I have seen circumstances where the property tax reassessment really threatens a family’s ability to stay in their neighborhood.’","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"medium","align":"right","citation":"Alicia Gamez, attorney, specializing in California taxation law, estate planning, trust and probate law","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Despite those benefits, there are some downsides, said Alicia Gamez, an attorney specializing in California taxation law, estate planning, trust and probate law. If a family’s home is a multi-unit building, where the parents live in one unit while their children live in other units, only the parents’ unit will qualify for a reassessment exemption. The other units, where the children live, would get reassessed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I have seen circumstances where the property tax reassessment really threatens a family’s ability to stay in their neighborhood,” Gamez said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gamez said situations can differ based on the circumstances of families. If the home requires repairs, those can add up, and deciding to live in the home is even more expensive and complicated. If siblings are involved, selling and splitting the money may be easier than having one sibling buy out the others.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If the children already own a home, they might not want to move. In that case, they can choose to sell the inherited property or rent it out.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Do you plan to rent out the inherited house?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Rather than selling the inherited property, many inheritors chose to rent out the home and collect a passive income. Before Proposition 19 passed, the inheritors could keep the low property tax rate. \u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"label":"More on Housing ","tag":"housing"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Some people called this the “\u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/economy/2018/08/prop-13-jeff-bridges-property-taxes-inheritance-estate-california/\">Lebowski loophole\u003c/a>” because the law allowed people like actor Jeff Bridges and his siblings to \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/politics/la-pol-ca-california-property-taxes-elites-201808-htmlstory.html\">pay $5,700 in annual property taxes\u003c/a> on the Malibu beach house his parents bought in the 1950s while renting it out for $15,995 a month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But now, if you plan to rent out the property you inherit, the property’s value will be reassessed and could result in a steep increase in property taxes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gamez said Proposition 19 also aimed to fix some of the “market anomalies” created by decades of unusually low tax rates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There were people in San Francisco who had real estate that was vacant, and it only cost them $600 a year in property taxes,” she said. “They chose not to sell it because it was an appreciating asset with very low overhead.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With Proposition 19, she said, “It’s going to cost them tens of thousands of dollars to just hold it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Why was Proposition 19 passed in the first place?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Proposition 19, officially called the Home Protection for Seniors, Severely Disabled, Families and Victims of Wildfire or Natural Disasters Act, aimed to help people 55 years and older downsize from larger, single-family homes into smaller houses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.car.org/knowledge/brokers/Prop-19\">California Association of Realtors\u003c/a> lobbied in favor of the proposition and promised it would “open up tens of thousands of housing opportunities,” making the homes “more readily available for first-time homeowners, families and Californians throughout the state.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thanks to Proposition 19, people looking to downsize into a smaller home or condo can keep their low tax rate if they purchase a home of equal or lesser value.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of the money generated through the increased property taxes this new law is expected to generate, 80% funds fire suppression efforts for local special districts and the rest goes to the State Department of Forestry and Fire Protection.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Is there a chance Proposition 19 will be overturned?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Some property owners across the state want to \u003ca href=\"https://reinstate58.hjta.org/\">repeal Proposition 19\u003c/a> and bring the issue in front of voters, but the movement is still small. \u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"‘I’m a real estate investor myself, and I haven’t taken any drastic measures. I’m waiting to see how this pans out in the long run.’","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"medium","align":"right","citation":"Kern Singh, attorney, specializing in estate law","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Kern Singh, an attorney who specializes in estate law, said some of his clients considered transferring their property to their children immediately, rather than waiting for the property to increase in value, as a way to maintain a lower tax rate. But he said he’s urging those clients to wait and see what happens with Proposition 19.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m a real estate investor myself, and I haven’t taken any drastic measures,” he said. “I’m waiting to see how this pans out in the long run.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gamez is a bit more skeptical about any repeal effort, especially as more people purchase homes in California and pay steep property taxes, often for older properties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think that for every person who has a super low property tax basis, they have several neighbors who do not,” she said. “Are those neighbors going to vote to let their neighbor keep their 1979 property tax basis? I think there are a lot of people who feel significant resentment towards having not been born here in the first place.”\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":"/news/11975582/inheriting-a-home-in-california-heres-what-you-need-to-know","authors":["11672"],"programs":["news_72"],"categories":["news_6266","news_8"],"tags":["news_32707","news_18538","news_27626","news_1775"],"featImg":"news_11975585","label":"news_72"},"news_11827750":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11827750","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11827750","found":true},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"a-trojan-horse-of-funk-and-soul-the-story-of-the-black-panthers-house-band","title":"A Trojan Horse of Funk and Soul: The Story of the Black Panthers House Band","publishDate":1594425032,"format":"audio","headTitle":"The California Report Magazine | KQED News","labelTerm":{"term":26731,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>Fifty years ago, an unlikely musical group evolved out of the Oakland chapter of the Black Panther Party. They were called the Lumpen. And although they quickly gained a following for their air-tight funk and striking lyrics, they were always meant to be much more than mere entertainment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Where other bands of their era were content to coast on good vibes, the Lumpen\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>were out to preach a message of revolution in places where that message wasn’t always wanted. They were a musical cadre whose mission was to spread the seed of social revolution, armed with funk, attitude and matching outfits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 1973, Michael Torrence is a 22-year-old Black Panther. He’s dedicated himself to the cause and obeyed every command. He’s a true soldier.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We were definitely as hardcore as anybody cause we dropped everything to come,” says Torrence. “We didn’t join to sing. We joined to be revolutionaries. We joined to make the revolution. We joined … to be Panthers!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But five years of complete devotion to the Panthers has taken a toll. Now, Torrence is desperate to focus on his personal life, just for a while.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But to do this, he needs to get permission and it's got to come from the top.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11730261\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11730261\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/lumpen_hangin-800x475.jpg\" alt=\"When the Black Panthers needed a funk band to help galvanize the masses, the Lumpen didn't miss a beat.\" width=\"800\" height=\"475\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/lumpen_hangin-800x475.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/lumpen_hangin-160x95.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/lumpen_hangin-1020x605.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/lumpen_hangin-1200x712.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/lumpen_hangin.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">When the Black Panthers needed a funk band to help galvanize the masses, the Lumpen didn't miss a beat. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of It's About Time Black Panther Party Legacy & Alumni)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Torrence shows up at the Lamp Post — it’s a bar in West Oakland — where Panther leader Bobby Seale is having a birthday party. The two men huddle in a corner and talk for a while, but it’s all good.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Seale gives Torrence his blessing for some leave time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Torrence is relieved. But as he’s making his way out of the bar, someone tells him that Huey Newton wants to see him. And he wants to see him now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newton is Seale’s comrade and co-founder of the Panthers. For years, Newton has been a strong and charismatic leader. But recently his moods have been unstable. Tonight, for whatever reason, he’s agitated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Torrence is ushered into a chair in a back room. And there, flanked by a couple enforcers, is Newton.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And he says, ‘Comrade, I hear you want to leave us. Well, do you want to leave bad enough to die? Do you really want to leave bad enough to die?' I don’t understand the question,” Torrence says. “And [Newton’s enforcer] June takes a gun and puts it to my head. 'Oh no, comrade, I don’t want to die.'\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He say, ‘Okay. So this is what’s going to happen, you say…’\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Torrence starts to object. Newton isn't having it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Would you tell this brother not to talk when I’m talking?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Torrence gets a swift kick in the mouth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newton begins again, \"Okay then. So. You say, all power to the people.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"All power to the people,” mumbles Torrence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Michael Torrence has just been persuaded to rethink his request for some time off — a pistol to the head is hard to argue with.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11828362\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11828362\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/RS43861_Michael-Torrence-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/RS43861_Michael-Torrence-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/RS43861_Michael-Torrence-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/RS43861_Michael-Torrence-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/RS43861_Michael-Torrence-qut-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/RS43861_Michael-Torrence-qut-1832x1374.jpg 1832w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/RS43861_Michael-Torrence-qut-1376x1032.jpg 1376w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/RS43861_Michael-Torrence-qut-1044x783.jpg 1044w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/RS43861_Michael-Torrence-qut-632x474.jpg 632w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/RS43861_Michael-Torrence-qut-536x402.jpg 536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/RS43861_Michael-Torrence-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Former Black Panther and Lumpen member Michael Torrence. \u003ccite>(Peter Gilstrap/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>People Get Ready\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>By 1973, Torrence’s years with the Panthers have been a rollercoaster life of extremes. Many times he’s picked up a gun.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But he’s also picked up a microphone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though Torrence did not join the Panthers to sing, the movement’s Minister of Culture gave him and three other young soldiers a special assignment for the cause. It was an R&B group called the Lumpen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Michael Torrence, former member of the Lumpen\"]'You could really feel the energy, particularly among younger people, that we felt we could really make a change. Not only could we make a change, we were going to make a change. '[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When it all began in 1970, the Lumpen’s music was explosive. The band was powerful, and so was the message.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Lumpen worked nonstop for the cause, killing it wherever they performed: San Francisco, Los Angeles, New York, Philadelphia and the Midwest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it only lasted 11 months. Then things in the Black Panther Party began to implode.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is the story of the rise and fall of an unlikely R&B group born out of social upheaval. The Lumpen weren’t out to make hit records, they were out to change American culture.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s a journey unlike that of any other band.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And Michael Torrence was at the center of it.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Rise of the Panthers\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>In 1966, Huey Newton and Bobby Seale co-found the Black Panther Party. They're both students at Merritt Community College in Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Within a few years, the Party offers educational programs, food service, free medical care and drug rehab to the Black community. And the Panthers are leading the fight against rampant police brutality.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By the end of the ‘60s, change is in the air, and the Bay Area is ground zero.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“[In] San Francisco at that time, we were in the Fillmore District,” Torrence says. “It was very high-tension. Police were riding, you know, four or five deep. If you were out selling your papers they would come and harass you, snatch your papers, maybe arrest you, threaten you. But at the same time there was a lot of energy. That’s the best thing about it. You could really feel the energy, particularly among younger people, that we felt we could really make a change. Not only could we make a change, we were going to make a change. There was this commitment to die if necessary.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those papers are the weekly bible of party information, a publication called The Black Panther. And the Howard Quinn Printing Company on Alabama Street is where the Lumpen story begins.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11828364\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11828364\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/RS43863_James-Mott-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/RS43863_James-Mott-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/RS43863_James-Mott-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/RS43863_James-Mott-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/RS43863_James-Mott-qut-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/RS43863_James-Mott-qut-1832x1374.jpg 1832w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/RS43863_James-Mott-qut-1376x1032.jpg 1376w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/RS43863_James-Mott-qut-1044x783.jpg 1044w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/RS43863_James-Mott-qut-632x474.jpg 632w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/RS43863_James-Mott-qut-536x402.jpg 536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/RS43863_James-Mott-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lumpen singer and former Black Panther James Mott, aka Saturu Ned. \u003ccite>(Peter Gilstrap/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Former Lumpen singer James Mott, now known as Saturu Ned, takes up the story.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Wednesday night was distribution night, where we would get out the paper. Everybody would come,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That's in 1970: He’s newly arrived from the Sacramento Panther chapter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All the future members of the Lumpen are in attendance that Wednesday night: Torrence, Mott — now Saturu, William Calhoun and Clark “Santa Rita” Bailey. They all have musical backgrounds ranging from church choirs to professional-level experience, but when they meet, they’re just loyal young soldiers taking orders along with everybody else.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was a community gathering in Fillmore,” Saturu says. “At that time, Fillmore is not like it is now, changed, and the gentrification. It was … Fillmore.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And on those distribution nights when various chapters would all come together from the Bay Area to get the paper out, we would sing,” Torrence says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And we would sing, at that point, just doo-wop songs,” Saturu recalls. “So one night I went over there and the three of us sang and I joined in. And we started harmonizing. We just blended in so cool!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Michael Torrence, former member of the Lumpen\"]'If this is how we can be helpful, if this is how we can be useful, if this will advance the cause, this is what we’ll do.'[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And then what we began to do was, we’d just put other words to the popular songs. Because we would be singing what we called revolutionary songs to encourage us in the struggle. In terms of the Lumpen, it kinda grew out of that. Just us singing together. Part of, I guess, the tradition of just singin’ while you work,” Torrence says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s a typical Wednesday. The four Panthers are at the print shop, stacking and racking and harmonizing into the night. But this time, there’s someone listening: Emory Douglas, the party’s Minister of Culture.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So after I got back to Central [headquarters], Emory comes in and says, ‘Hey brother, comrade James, you know, everybody relates to music.' I say, 'Yeah Emory, they do.' He says, ‘You guys sound good. We could create a group and the group could be part of the Ministry of Culture, where we could be able to get that message out in the music.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Emory Douglas is the brilliant style guru and visual artist whose iconic posters and flyers helped brand the movement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I just would make suggestions,” Douglas says. “Possibly adding some social justice context to the lyrics.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At this point, Bobby Seale and Huey Newton are both behind bars. So Douglas approaches Panthers Chief of Staff David Hilliard. He understands the value of spreading the word through music, and he greenlights the project. He also gives the group a name: The Lumpen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s a play on Karl Marx’s idea of the lumpenproletariat: the lower class that would rise up to crush the capitalist power structure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11828363\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11828363\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/RS43862_Billy-Jennings-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/RS43862_Billy-Jennings-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/RS43862_Billy-Jennings-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/RS43862_Billy-Jennings-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/RS43862_Billy-Jennings-qut-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/RS43862_Billy-Jennings-qut-1832x1374.jpg 1832w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/RS43862_Billy-Jennings-qut-1376x1032.jpg 1376w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/RS43862_Billy-Jennings-qut-1044x783.jpg 1044w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/RS43862_Billy-Jennings-qut-632x474.jpg 632w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/RS43862_Billy-Jennings-qut-536x402.jpg 536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/RS43862_Billy-Jennings-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Former Black Panther Billy X Jennings, friend of the Lumpen members, and fan of the band. \u003ccite>(Peter Gilstrap/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“At the time the party was coming about, political education, political awareness, was growing tremendously,” says Billy X Jennings. He’s a former Panther and the party’s long time historian. He was tight with the Lumpen members fifty years ago, and still is to this day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In 1968, James Brown put out a song that really changed everything, because Black people, prior to that time, referred to themselves as Negro,” Jennings continues. “James Brown came out and said, 'We’re Black and we’re proud.' And once that record come out, you could never go back and say you’re a Negro. You could never go back! James Brown couldn’t have did that in ‘68 if there wasn’t a group like the Black Panther Party that had set up a foundation of knowledge already.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Emory was recognizing the role of music historically in Black people’s struggle and part of our culture period,” Torrence says. “He began to say, we can do something with this! You guys sound decent together anyway, because we just clicked like that. And so he encouraged us to put something together.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Whatever rehearsal we would do, we would have to do after whatever other assignments or duties we had,” Torrence continues. “So we had to go sell the papers, we had to do the breakfast program, we’d have to do the garbage run, we’d have to do security. We’d have to do whatever it is that any other Panther would do.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From the Panthers’ perspective, The Lumpen was not about show business. It was about contributing to the revolution.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Singing for us was just political work,” Torrence clarifies. “And if they said the next day, ‘Okay, that’s it,’ fine. Cause we didn’t join for that. If I was really about that, I could have been trying to do it out there in the world. I could have been out there trying to get paid. We never got paid, it was just, if this is how we can be helpful, if this is how we can be useful, if this will advance the cause, this is what we’ll do. But it was always, we follow orders.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And now, only a few months since they were harmonizing to the oldies at the printing plant, their orders are to get onstage and get to work: Educate the people, spread the word and earn money for the party.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Lumpen assemble a six-piece interracial backing band from local players sympathetic to the cause. They’re called the Freedom Messengers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By the summer of 1970, the group is performing at rallies, community gatherings and Panther events around the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And they’re good. They’re tight. It’s a professional show on par with almost any act. They’ve got the energy of James Brown, and the dance moves and harmonies of the Temptations. But the lyrics are all about what the Panthers are all about.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G2llXaUMMqc\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bobby Seale has just been arrested in New Haven. The first and only single the group makes is \"Free Bobby Now.\" It’s written by Bill Calhoun, recorded at Tiki Studios in San Jose in August of 1970. Calhoun's song \"No More\" is on the flip side.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The record is released on the Panthers’ own Seize the Time label, with credit to Black Panther Party Productions. It’s promoted in the Party newspaper, and sold at live shows and Panther events. Any profits are funneled back into the party.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Lumpen take the single around to Bay Area radio stations, but the lyrics are considered too provocative for airplay. But no one questions the quality of what they’re hearing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They took the craft seriously,” says Rickey Vincent. He’s the author of \"Party Time: The Inside Story of the Black Panthers’ Band\" and \"How Black Power Transformed Soul Music\". It’s a subject he knows well. His mother was an early Panther.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When they did ‘People Get Ready’ by Curtis Mayfield and The Impressions, they hit those notes that you had to hit that show respect for those aspirations that were in that song in 1964-65. The Lumpen flipped the lyrics, obviously. Instead of saying ‘People get ready there’s a train a’comin’,' they said, ‘People get ready, the revolution’s comin', you don’t need a ticket, you need a loaded gun.’ And it was like, wait a minute, that’s soul music the way it’s supposed to be sung, but those are not lyrics the way we’ve heard them before.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11828372\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11828372\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/Lumpen_seize_the_time_benefit-800x1100.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"1100\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/Lumpen_seize_the_time_benefit-800x1100.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/Lumpen_seize_the_time_benefit-1020x1402.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/Lumpen_seize_the_time_benefit-160x220.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/Lumpen_seize_the_time_benefit-1117x1536.jpg 1117w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/Lumpen_seize_the_time_benefit.jpg 1276w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Lumpen performed a benefit show in Oakland on Oct. 11, 1970. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of It's About Time Black Panther Party Legacy & Alumni)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The Lumpen start headlining shows. They’re gigging weekly, doing benefits and playing college campuses up and down the West Coast. And when they’re not headlining, they’re on bills with the Grateful Dead, Carla Thomas and Curtis Mayfield.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And not only is the music on fire, but the live show takes choreography to a whole ‘nother level.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Once we hit the stage, [it was] nonstop,” Torrence says. “Even mixed in a dance routine where we would act out brothers on the block playing dice, and James Mott would be a cop. He’d come and harass one and he’d be beating this brother up, and he’d be beating him with a club and I’m watching it, and then I’d finally get disgusted and I’d jump on the cop and Clark and I together, we’d beat the cop down. So it wasn’t just the singing, it was the choreography. The whole experience was something they hadn’t seen before.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the winter of 1970, the band hits the road for a tour of the Midwest and East Coast. The crowds are enthusiastic. But tensions are running high.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>David Levinson is the Freedom Messengers’ 19-year-old sax player. After a show at the University of Minnesota, a snowstorm is kicking in. The band is packing up their gear when they’re approached by members of the Black Student Union.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ll never forget this,” Levinson says. “They invited the Black members of the band to stay with them, but they didn’t want the white members of the band, of which there were two of us.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These guys from the student group come out and they look like a military junta,” says Saturu Ned. “[They] got on the black berets and the black boots. I’m like, 'What are you guys doing?' 'Oh, uh, who are those white guys?' 'Excuse me? They’re a part of the Lumpen band.' 'Well, they can’t stay!' We told ’em, 'Look you motherfuckers, we’re not staying if they’re not staying.' I said, 'This is a people’s revolution and these are our brothers that we stand behind.'”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Levinson is still close with Saturu and the other former band members. “That’s just a small example of the kind of camaraderie and unity we felt. There never was any racism promoted for or practiced by the Black Panther Party at all.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11828371\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11828371\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/Lumpen_4-800x1092.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"1092\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/Lumpen_4-800x1092.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/Lumpen_4-1020x1393.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/Lumpen_4-160x218.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/Lumpen_4-1125x1536.jpg 1125w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/Lumpen_4.jpg 1294w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Lumpen performed at Stanford University on Feb. 17, 1971. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of It's About Time Black Panther Party Legacy & Alumni)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The Lumpen are also in the crosshairs of the cops wherever they go. Late one night after a college show in New Jersey, the police follow the band down an empty road heading out of town.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They made us get out the car,” Saturu says. “They knew who we were and it was pitch dark where they pulled us over. We were like, this is it. They gonna kill us. There was a general rule back then, go to a lighted area. What they did was, one car got in front of us, slowed down. The other one got right behind us. And they waited for that real dark area to pull us over — this is part of the intimidation, right?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There were four of’em. They was grinnin’. ‘Sing for us!’ So we started singing—what was that song? ‘As we stroll along together…’ They would harass us to let us know, we watching you. We know who you are.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the Lumpen are battling another force besides the authorities. And it’s coming from within the party.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There were people in the party, some in leadership, some in the rank and file that said, ‘Yeah, these guys [in the Lumpen] think they’re something special,'\" Torrence says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If it wasn’t for Emory, I don’t think the Lumpen would have came about because Emory is the one who had the juice,” Billy X Jennings emphasizes. “And there was people that wasn’t into the Lumpen. They didn’t think revolutionaries should be doing that kind of thing. But they were older people too, there weren’t R&B people, they were blues people, and during that time there was a difference. Most of the leadership was southern guys. Southern guys like blues. We are young guys, we like R&B. So that’s why [the Lumpen] never really got any more higher than they were because they were always related to as Panthers first.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But that didn’t stop them.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>On Fire in Oakland\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>It’s Nov. 10, 1970, at Merritt College in Oakland. It’s the alma mater of Huey Newton and Bobby Seale. The birthplace of the Black Panther Party. Tonight, to a packed auditorium, the Lumpen will get the message out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bear in mind: this group has been together for less than a year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While almost everybody else in the San Francisco music scene has been getting high and jamming, the Lumpen have been working as full time revolutionaries, pursued by the police and the FBI.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And they still find time to get this group together.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Billy X Jennings, a former Black Panther and the party’s historian\"]'It was one of the best shows in my life because the audience was electrified. ... We were thinking about the same thing — revolution.'[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And tonight is special. The show is being recorded for a live album, and the group pulls out all the stops. Billy X Jennings is there with his fist in the air.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was one of the best shows in my life because the audience was electrified. Once the Lumpen came on and the band start playing, you would hear them repeat something to the crowd and the crowd would throw it back. Like when they say, 'All power to the people,' the crowd would say, 'All power to the people!' with a force! And when they’d say, 'Death to the Fascist pigs,' they’d say, 'Death to fascist pigs!' If you just listen to the people’s feedback alone, you could get high on that. They were killin’ me boy! And even to this day when I hear that, it gives me that revolutionary enthusiasm cause everybody was on the one that night. We were thinking about the same thing — revolution.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The show was an undeniable success… but no album ever appeared.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The master tapes made that night went missing, and have never been found. Some have suggested that they were confiscated by the FBI. It’s also possible that they were mislabeled and disappeared in the chaos and discord of the time period. Or they could be decaying in an attic somewhere, long forgotten.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Only a grainy, multi-generation cassette of the show has ever surfaced, but it captures the raw power of the band.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11828149\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 582px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11828149\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/The_Lumpen_DC_2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"582\" height=\"391\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/The_Lumpen_DC_2.jpg 582w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/The_Lumpen_DC_2-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 582px) 100vw, 582px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Lumpen’s mission was to spread the seed of social revolution. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of It's About Time Black Panther Party Legacy & Alumni)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>As 1971 arrives, the Panther Party leadership is in chaos. Bobby Seale is still in prison in New Haven. Eldridge Cleaver, the Minister of Information, has fled to Algeria to escape an attempted murder charge on an Oakland cop. The FBI is working to weaken and target the party through a secret \u003ca href=\"https://www.history.com/topics/civil-rights-movement/black-panthers#section_4\">counterintelligence program.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The party is factionalizing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Huey’s come back out with some different ideas about how things should go,” Torrence says. “In some cases you got Panther against Panther, whether you with Eldridge division or National Headquarters.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At this point, Eldridge is strongly promoting violence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Right,” Torrence says, but “Huey and Bobby were moving toward a survival program. Even we had to change because all of our original songs was about picking up the gun. There was some other things going on internally, in terms of some of the things being done by Huey that I didn’t agree with, I didn’t join for. And it wasn’t about the police. That was the thing that was bad about it. I was never scared about the police. It’s a bad thing when you get more concerned about the people that you work with than you do with the cops.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the atmosphere within the Party becomes more desperate, interest in the group from those in power dwindles to nothing. The Lumpen members are reassigned. They’re taken off R&B duty and put on security detail. Their days as a group are numbered.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“No, it wasn’t justified,” says Emory Douglas of the group's demise. “It could have been worked out, but you know we had people who wanted to exercise their position, as far as being in charge. All those things played into it, petty spitefulness. All that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As Torrence said earlier, if the day came when the singing had to stop, fine. That day finally came.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Michael Torrence, former member of the Lumpen\"]'We never did it to get famous, we never did it to get rich. We did it because we really wanted to do something for our people, and make a change.'[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We never thought of ourselves as anything other than Panthers. And the Lumpen was a cadre, a unit for a cultural purpose. We loved it, we enjoyed it, but in the big picture, it’s just another assignment. And so when the situation and circumstances change, then you move on to the next assignment. And we didn’t really have time to mourn about it. Because that’s exactly what happened.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On May 23, 1971, in Sacramento, the Lumpen play their last gig. A few days later, Bill Calhoun decides to leave the party. He was the group’s songwriter. So only 11 months after it began, the band is done.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the Panther Party is still Michael Torrence’s life. It’s all he’s known since he was a teenager. Which brings us back to that night in 1973 at the bar in West Oakland: The night Torrence talked to Bobby Seale and asked for some time off from the Panthers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So anyway, I go to Bobby at his birthday party at the Lamp Post and I said, ‘Well, Chairman, I have a daughter. She needs some support. Plus, I’m having these little anxiety attacks that’s affecting my work, it’s affecting my effectiveness. I don’t wanna quit, I don’t wanna leave, but I need some time. Get myself back together, and then I’m coming back. I’m coming back.’ And Bobby was real cool with me on it, you know. And I’m crying. I’m shedding tears.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Torrence is leaving the bar when Huey Newton calls him back upstairs. He says the Party will contribute $50 a month for to support Torrence’s daughter. Then Newton puts a gun to Torrence’s head and says this:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“'Okay then,’” Torrence recalls. “'We send fifty dollars, but you say: All power to the people.' All power to the people. So I stuck around.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"And about six months later, one of the guys from Chicago comes by, says, ‘You still wanna go? Cause we can’t afford to pay for your kid no more. So you can go, you can leave now.’ OK. Well, all right then. Power to the people now.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And that’s it. Michael Torrence is out of the Black Panthers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside tag=\"black-panthers\" label=\"Related coverage\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And it was traumatic,” he says. “What was traumatic for me was leaving. What was traumatic was what it had become.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Did he feel betrayed?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Yes! Absolutely. Betrayed, angry, bitter, frustrated. Yes. It took me a while to get back to what they call livin’ in the world. 'Cause the Party was my world. You ask me what I was, I was a Panther. That’s what I was and who I was. And then to lose that ... and try and adjust to out being here, and get a job. What am I gonna put on my resume? Where you been the last five years?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Torrence did have something on his resume that worked outside of the revolution: The Lumpen. It got him a job.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Torrence wound up singing behind Marvin Gaye, and he appeared on the singer’s 1974 album, “Marvin Gaye Live!” It was recorded just a few miles away from where the Lumpen recorded their own live album just four years earlier, in Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Torrence went on to write, produce and sing for other artists for the rest of the 1970s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though he parted ways with the Panthers almost 50 years ago, it’s still part of him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As far as the Black Panther Party’s concerned, I don’t regret anything,” he says. “I was with people, [and] these things last a lifetime … and I wouldn’t take that back for anything. Did we make some mistakes? Yeah. But at the time, for what it was, it was right on time. I was just glad to be a part of it. Like I said, we never did it to get famous, we never did it to get rich. We did it because we really wanted to do something for our people, and make a change.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Fifty years ago, an unlikely R&B group evolved out of the Oakland chapter of the Black Panther Party. The Lumpen weren’t out to make hit records, they were out to change American culture.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1595458736,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":true,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":117,"wordCount":4840},"headData":{"title":"A Trojan Horse of Funk and Soul: The Story of the Black Panthers House Band | KQED","description":"Fifty years ago, an unlikely R&B group evolved out of the Oakland chapter of the Black Panther Party. 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They were called the Lumpen. And although they quickly gained a following for their air-tight funk and striking lyrics, they were always meant to be much more than mere entertainment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Where other bands of their era were content to coast on good vibes, the Lumpen\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>were out to preach a message of revolution in places where that message wasn’t always wanted. They were a musical cadre whose mission was to spread the seed of social revolution, armed with funk, attitude and matching outfits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 1973, Michael Torrence is a 22-year-old Black Panther. He’s dedicated himself to the cause and obeyed every command. He’s a true soldier.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We were definitely as hardcore as anybody cause we dropped everything to come,” says Torrence. “We didn’t join to sing. We joined to be revolutionaries. We joined to make the revolution. We joined … to be Panthers!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But five years of complete devotion to the Panthers has taken a toll. Now, Torrence is desperate to focus on his personal life, just for a while.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But to do this, he needs to get permission and it's got to come from the top.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11730261\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11730261\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/lumpen_hangin-800x475.jpg\" alt=\"When the Black Panthers needed a funk band to help galvanize the masses, the Lumpen didn't miss a beat.\" width=\"800\" height=\"475\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/lumpen_hangin-800x475.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/lumpen_hangin-160x95.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/lumpen_hangin-1020x605.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/lumpen_hangin-1200x712.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/lumpen_hangin.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">When the Black Panthers needed a funk band to help galvanize the masses, the Lumpen didn't miss a beat. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of It's About Time Black Panther Party Legacy & Alumni)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Torrence shows up at the Lamp Post — it’s a bar in West Oakland — where Panther leader Bobby Seale is having a birthday party. The two men huddle in a corner and talk for a while, but it’s all good.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Seale gives Torrence his blessing for some leave time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Torrence is relieved. But as he’s making his way out of the bar, someone tells him that Huey Newton wants to see him. And he wants to see him now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newton is Seale’s comrade and co-founder of the Panthers. For years, Newton has been a strong and charismatic leader. But recently his moods have been unstable. Tonight, for whatever reason, he’s agitated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Torrence is ushered into a chair in a back room. And there, flanked by a couple enforcers, is Newton.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And he says, ‘Comrade, I hear you want to leave us. Well, do you want to leave bad enough to die? Do you really want to leave bad enough to die?' I don’t understand the question,” Torrence says. “And [Newton’s enforcer] June takes a gun and puts it to my head. 'Oh no, comrade, I don’t want to die.'\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He say, ‘Okay. So this is what’s going to happen, you say…’\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Torrence starts to object. Newton isn't having it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Would you tell this brother not to talk when I’m talking?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Torrence gets a swift kick in the mouth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newton begins again, \"Okay then. So. You say, all power to the people.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"All power to the people,” mumbles Torrence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Michael Torrence has just been persuaded to rethink his request for some time off — a pistol to the head is hard to argue with.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11828362\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11828362\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/RS43861_Michael-Torrence-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/RS43861_Michael-Torrence-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/RS43861_Michael-Torrence-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/RS43861_Michael-Torrence-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/RS43861_Michael-Torrence-qut-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/RS43861_Michael-Torrence-qut-1832x1374.jpg 1832w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/RS43861_Michael-Torrence-qut-1376x1032.jpg 1376w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/RS43861_Michael-Torrence-qut-1044x783.jpg 1044w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/RS43861_Michael-Torrence-qut-632x474.jpg 632w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/RS43861_Michael-Torrence-qut-536x402.jpg 536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/RS43861_Michael-Torrence-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Former Black Panther and Lumpen member Michael Torrence. \u003ccite>(Peter Gilstrap/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>People Get Ready\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>By 1973, Torrence’s years with the Panthers have been a rollercoaster life of extremes. Many times he’s picked up a gun.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But he’s also picked up a microphone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though Torrence did not join the Panthers to sing, the movement’s Minister of Culture gave him and three other young soldiers a special assignment for the cause. It was an R&B group called the Lumpen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"'You could really feel the energy, particularly among younger people, that we felt we could really make a change. Not only could we make a change, we were going to make a change. '","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"medium","align":"right","citation":"Michael Torrence, former member of the Lumpen","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When it all began in 1970, the Lumpen’s music was explosive. The band was powerful, and so was the message.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Lumpen worked nonstop for the cause, killing it wherever they performed: San Francisco, Los Angeles, New York, Philadelphia and the Midwest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it only lasted 11 months. Then things in the Black Panther Party began to implode.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is the story of the rise and fall of an unlikely R&B group born out of social upheaval. The Lumpen weren’t out to make hit records, they were out to change American culture.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s a journey unlike that of any other band.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And Michael Torrence was at the center of it.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Rise of the Panthers\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>In 1966, Huey Newton and Bobby Seale co-found the Black Panther Party. They're both students at Merritt Community College in Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Within a few years, the Party offers educational programs, food service, free medical care and drug rehab to the Black community. And the Panthers are leading the fight against rampant police brutality.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By the end of the ‘60s, change is in the air, and the Bay Area is ground zero.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“[In] San Francisco at that time, we were in the Fillmore District,” Torrence says. “It was very high-tension. Police were riding, you know, four or five deep. If you were out selling your papers they would come and harass you, snatch your papers, maybe arrest you, threaten you. But at the same time there was a lot of energy. That’s the best thing about it. You could really feel the energy, particularly among younger people, that we felt we could really make a change. Not only could we make a change, we were going to make a change. There was this commitment to die if necessary.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those papers are the weekly bible of party information, a publication called The Black Panther. And the Howard Quinn Printing Company on Alabama Street is where the Lumpen story begins.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11828364\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11828364\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/RS43863_James-Mott-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/RS43863_James-Mott-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/RS43863_James-Mott-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/RS43863_James-Mott-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/RS43863_James-Mott-qut-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/RS43863_James-Mott-qut-1832x1374.jpg 1832w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/RS43863_James-Mott-qut-1376x1032.jpg 1376w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/RS43863_James-Mott-qut-1044x783.jpg 1044w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/RS43863_James-Mott-qut-632x474.jpg 632w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/RS43863_James-Mott-qut-536x402.jpg 536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/RS43863_James-Mott-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lumpen singer and former Black Panther James Mott, aka Saturu Ned. \u003ccite>(Peter Gilstrap/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Former Lumpen singer James Mott, now known as Saturu Ned, takes up the story.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Wednesday night was distribution night, where we would get out the paper. Everybody would come,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That's in 1970: He’s newly arrived from the Sacramento Panther chapter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All the future members of the Lumpen are in attendance that Wednesday night: Torrence, Mott — now Saturu, William Calhoun and Clark “Santa Rita” Bailey. They all have musical backgrounds ranging from church choirs to professional-level experience, but when they meet, they’re just loyal young soldiers taking orders along with everybody else.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was a community gathering in Fillmore,” Saturu says. “At that time, Fillmore is not like it is now, changed, and the gentrification. It was … Fillmore.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And on those distribution nights when various chapters would all come together from the Bay Area to get the paper out, we would sing,” Torrence says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And we would sing, at that point, just doo-wop songs,” Saturu recalls. “So one night I went over there and the three of us sang and I joined in. And we started harmonizing. We just blended in so cool!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"'If this is how we can be helpful, if this is how we can be useful, if this will advance the cause, this is what we’ll do.'","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"medium","align":"right","citation":"Michael Torrence, former member of the Lumpen","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And then what we began to do was, we’d just put other words to the popular songs. Because we would be singing what we called revolutionary songs to encourage us in the struggle. In terms of the Lumpen, it kinda grew out of that. Just us singing together. Part of, I guess, the tradition of just singin’ while you work,” Torrence says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s a typical Wednesday. The four Panthers are at the print shop, stacking and racking and harmonizing into the night. But this time, there’s someone listening: Emory Douglas, the party’s Minister of Culture.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So after I got back to Central [headquarters], Emory comes in and says, ‘Hey brother, comrade James, you know, everybody relates to music.' I say, 'Yeah Emory, they do.' He says, ‘You guys sound good. We could create a group and the group could be part of the Ministry of Culture, where we could be able to get that message out in the music.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Emory Douglas is the brilliant style guru and visual artist whose iconic posters and flyers helped brand the movement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I just would make suggestions,” Douglas says. “Possibly adding some social justice context to the lyrics.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At this point, Bobby Seale and Huey Newton are both behind bars. So Douglas approaches Panthers Chief of Staff David Hilliard. He understands the value of spreading the word through music, and he greenlights the project. He also gives the group a name: The Lumpen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s a play on Karl Marx’s idea of the lumpenproletariat: the lower class that would rise up to crush the capitalist power structure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11828363\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11828363\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/RS43862_Billy-Jennings-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/RS43862_Billy-Jennings-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/RS43862_Billy-Jennings-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/RS43862_Billy-Jennings-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/RS43862_Billy-Jennings-qut-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/RS43862_Billy-Jennings-qut-1832x1374.jpg 1832w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/RS43862_Billy-Jennings-qut-1376x1032.jpg 1376w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/RS43862_Billy-Jennings-qut-1044x783.jpg 1044w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/RS43862_Billy-Jennings-qut-632x474.jpg 632w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/RS43862_Billy-Jennings-qut-536x402.jpg 536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/RS43862_Billy-Jennings-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Former Black Panther Billy X Jennings, friend of the Lumpen members, and fan of the band. \u003ccite>(Peter Gilstrap/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“At the time the party was coming about, political education, political awareness, was growing tremendously,” says Billy X Jennings. He’s a former Panther and the party’s long time historian. He was tight with the Lumpen members fifty years ago, and still is to this day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In 1968, James Brown put out a song that really changed everything, because Black people, prior to that time, referred to themselves as Negro,” Jennings continues. “James Brown came out and said, 'We’re Black and we’re proud.' And once that record come out, you could never go back and say you’re a Negro. You could never go back! James Brown couldn’t have did that in ‘68 if there wasn’t a group like the Black Panther Party that had set up a foundation of knowledge already.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Emory was recognizing the role of music historically in Black people’s struggle and part of our culture period,” Torrence says. “He began to say, we can do something with this! You guys sound decent together anyway, because we just clicked like that. And so he encouraged us to put something together.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Whatever rehearsal we would do, we would have to do after whatever other assignments or duties we had,” Torrence continues. “So we had to go sell the papers, we had to do the breakfast program, we’d have to do the garbage run, we’d have to do security. We’d have to do whatever it is that any other Panther would do.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From the Panthers’ perspective, The Lumpen was not about show business. It was about contributing to the revolution.\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>“Singing for us was just political work,” Torrence clarifies. “And if they said the next day, ‘Okay, that’s it,’ fine. Cause we didn’t join for that. If I was really about that, I could have been trying to do it out there in the world. I could have been out there trying to get paid. We never got paid, it was just, if this is how we can be helpful, if this is how we can be useful, if this will advance the cause, this is what we’ll do. But it was always, we follow orders.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And now, only a few months since they were harmonizing to the oldies at the printing plant, their orders are to get onstage and get to work: Educate the people, spread the word and earn money for the party.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Lumpen assemble a six-piece interracial backing band from local players sympathetic to the cause. They’re called the Freedom Messengers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By the summer of 1970, the group is performing at rallies, community gatherings and Panther events around the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And they’re good. They’re tight. It’s a professional show on par with almost any act. They’ve got the energy of James Brown, and the dance moves and harmonies of the Temptations. But the lyrics are all about what the Panthers are all about.\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/G2llXaUMMqc'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/G2llXaUMMqc'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>Bobby Seale has just been arrested in New Haven. The first and only single the group makes is \"Free Bobby Now.\" It’s written by Bill Calhoun, recorded at Tiki Studios in San Jose in August of 1970. Calhoun's song \"No More\" is on the flip side.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The record is released on the Panthers’ own Seize the Time label, with credit to Black Panther Party Productions. It’s promoted in the Party newspaper, and sold at live shows and Panther events. Any profits are funneled back into the party.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Lumpen take the single around to Bay Area radio stations, but the lyrics are considered too provocative for airplay. But no one questions the quality of what they’re hearing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They took the craft seriously,” says Rickey Vincent. He’s the author of \"Party Time: The Inside Story of the Black Panthers’ Band\" and \"How Black Power Transformed Soul Music\". It’s a subject he knows well. His mother was an early Panther.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When they did ‘People Get Ready’ by Curtis Mayfield and The Impressions, they hit those notes that you had to hit that show respect for those aspirations that were in that song in 1964-65. The Lumpen flipped the lyrics, obviously. Instead of saying ‘People get ready there’s a train a’comin’,' they said, ‘People get ready, the revolution’s comin', you don’t need a ticket, you need a loaded gun.’ And it was like, wait a minute, that’s soul music the way it’s supposed to be sung, but those are not lyrics the way we’ve heard them before.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11828372\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11828372\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/Lumpen_seize_the_time_benefit-800x1100.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"1100\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/Lumpen_seize_the_time_benefit-800x1100.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/Lumpen_seize_the_time_benefit-1020x1402.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/Lumpen_seize_the_time_benefit-160x220.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/Lumpen_seize_the_time_benefit-1117x1536.jpg 1117w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/Lumpen_seize_the_time_benefit.jpg 1276w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Lumpen performed a benefit show in Oakland on Oct. 11, 1970. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of It's About Time Black Panther Party Legacy & Alumni)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The Lumpen start headlining shows. They’re gigging weekly, doing benefits and playing college campuses up and down the West Coast. And when they’re not headlining, they’re on bills with the Grateful Dead, Carla Thomas and Curtis Mayfield.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And not only is the music on fire, but the live show takes choreography to a whole ‘nother level.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Once we hit the stage, [it was] nonstop,” Torrence says. “Even mixed in a dance routine where we would act out brothers on the block playing dice, and James Mott would be a cop. He’d come and harass one and he’d be beating this brother up, and he’d be beating him with a club and I’m watching it, and then I’d finally get disgusted and I’d jump on the cop and Clark and I together, we’d beat the cop down. So it wasn’t just the singing, it was the choreography. The whole experience was something they hadn’t seen before.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the winter of 1970, the band hits the road for a tour of the Midwest and East Coast. The crowds are enthusiastic. But tensions are running high.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>David Levinson is the Freedom Messengers’ 19-year-old sax player. After a show at the University of Minnesota, a snowstorm is kicking in. The band is packing up their gear when they’re approached by members of the Black Student Union.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ll never forget this,” Levinson says. “They invited the Black members of the band to stay with them, but they didn’t want the white members of the band, of which there were two of us.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These guys from the student group come out and they look like a military junta,” says Saturu Ned. “[They] got on the black berets and the black boots. I’m like, 'What are you guys doing?' 'Oh, uh, who are those white guys?' 'Excuse me? They’re a part of the Lumpen band.' 'Well, they can’t stay!' We told ’em, 'Look you motherfuckers, we’re not staying if they’re not staying.' I said, 'This is a people’s revolution and these are our brothers that we stand behind.'”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Levinson is still close with Saturu and the other former band members. “That’s just a small example of the kind of camaraderie and unity we felt. There never was any racism promoted for or practiced by the Black Panther Party at all.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11828371\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11828371\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/Lumpen_4-800x1092.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"1092\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/Lumpen_4-800x1092.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/Lumpen_4-1020x1393.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/Lumpen_4-160x218.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/Lumpen_4-1125x1536.jpg 1125w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/Lumpen_4.jpg 1294w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Lumpen performed at Stanford University on Feb. 17, 1971. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of It's About Time Black Panther Party Legacy & Alumni)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The Lumpen are also in the crosshairs of the cops wherever they go. Late one night after a college show in New Jersey, the police follow the band down an empty road heading out of town.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They made us get out the car,” Saturu says. “They knew who we were and it was pitch dark where they pulled us over. We were like, this is it. They gonna kill us. There was a general rule back then, go to a lighted area. What they did was, one car got in front of us, slowed down. The other one got right behind us. And they waited for that real dark area to pull us over — this is part of the intimidation, right?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There were four of’em. They was grinnin’. ‘Sing for us!’ So we started singing—what was that song? ‘As we stroll along together…’ They would harass us to let us know, we watching you. We know who you are.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the Lumpen are battling another force besides the authorities. And it’s coming from within the party.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There were people in the party, some in leadership, some in the rank and file that said, ‘Yeah, these guys [in the Lumpen] think they’re something special,'\" Torrence says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If it wasn’t for Emory, I don’t think the Lumpen would have came about because Emory is the one who had the juice,” Billy X Jennings emphasizes. “And there was people that wasn’t into the Lumpen. They didn’t think revolutionaries should be doing that kind of thing. But they were older people too, there weren’t R&B people, they were blues people, and during that time there was a difference. Most of the leadership was southern guys. Southern guys like blues. We are young guys, we like R&B. So that’s why [the Lumpen] never really got any more higher than they were because they were always related to as Panthers first.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But that didn’t stop them.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>On Fire in Oakland\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>It’s Nov. 10, 1970, at Merritt College in Oakland. It’s the alma mater of Huey Newton and Bobby Seale. The birthplace of the Black Panther Party. Tonight, to a packed auditorium, the Lumpen will get the message out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bear in mind: this group has been together for less than a year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While almost everybody else in the San Francisco music scene has been getting high and jamming, the Lumpen have been working as full time revolutionaries, pursued by the police and the FBI.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And they still find time to get this group together.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"'It was one of the best shows in my life because the audience was electrified. ... We were thinking about the same thing — revolution.'","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"medium","align":"right","citation":"Billy X Jennings, a former Black Panther and the party’s historian","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And tonight is special. The show is being recorded for a live album, and the group pulls out all the stops. Billy X Jennings is there with his fist in the air.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was one of the best shows in my life because the audience was electrified. Once the Lumpen came on and the band start playing, you would hear them repeat something to the crowd and the crowd would throw it back. Like when they say, 'All power to the people,' the crowd would say, 'All power to the people!' with a force! And when they’d say, 'Death to the Fascist pigs,' they’d say, 'Death to fascist pigs!' If you just listen to the people’s feedback alone, you could get high on that. They were killin’ me boy! And even to this day when I hear that, it gives me that revolutionary enthusiasm cause everybody was on the one that night. We were thinking about the same thing — revolution.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The show was an undeniable success… but no album ever appeared.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The master tapes made that night went missing, and have never been found. Some have suggested that they were confiscated by the FBI. It’s also possible that they were mislabeled and disappeared in the chaos and discord of the time period. Or they could be decaying in an attic somewhere, long forgotten.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Only a grainy, multi-generation cassette of the show has ever surfaced, but it captures the raw power of the band.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11828149\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 582px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11828149\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/The_Lumpen_DC_2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"582\" height=\"391\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/The_Lumpen_DC_2.jpg 582w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/The_Lumpen_DC_2-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 582px) 100vw, 582px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Lumpen’s mission was to spread the seed of social revolution. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of It's About Time Black Panther Party Legacy & Alumni)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>As 1971 arrives, the Panther Party leadership is in chaos. Bobby Seale is still in prison in New Haven. Eldridge Cleaver, the Minister of Information, has fled to Algeria to escape an attempted murder charge on an Oakland cop. The FBI is working to weaken and target the party through a secret \u003ca href=\"https://www.history.com/topics/civil-rights-movement/black-panthers#section_4\">counterintelligence program.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The party is factionalizing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Huey’s come back out with some different ideas about how things should go,” Torrence says. “In some cases you got Panther against Panther, whether you with Eldridge division or National Headquarters.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At this point, Eldridge is strongly promoting violence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Right,” Torrence says, but “Huey and Bobby were moving toward a survival program. Even we had to change because all of our original songs was about picking up the gun. There was some other things going on internally, in terms of some of the things being done by Huey that I didn’t agree with, I didn’t join for. And it wasn’t about the police. That was the thing that was bad about it. I was never scared about the police. It’s a bad thing when you get more concerned about the people that you work with than you do with the cops.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the atmosphere within the Party becomes more desperate, interest in the group from those in power dwindles to nothing. The Lumpen members are reassigned. They’re taken off R&B duty and put on security detail. Their days as a group are numbered.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“No, it wasn’t justified,” says Emory Douglas of the group's demise. “It could have been worked out, but you know we had people who wanted to exercise their position, as far as being in charge. All those things played into it, petty spitefulness. All that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As Torrence said earlier, if the day came when the singing had to stop, fine. That day finally came.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"'We never did it to get famous, we never did it to get rich. We did it because we really wanted to do something for our people, and make a change.'","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"medium","align":"right","citation":"Michael Torrence, former member of the Lumpen","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We never thought of ourselves as anything other than Panthers. And the Lumpen was a cadre, a unit for a cultural purpose. We loved it, we enjoyed it, but in the big picture, it’s just another assignment. And so when the situation and circumstances change, then you move on to the next assignment. And we didn’t really have time to mourn about it. Because that’s exactly what happened.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On May 23, 1971, in Sacramento, the Lumpen play their last gig. A few days later, Bill Calhoun decides to leave the party. He was the group’s songwriter. So only 11 months after it began, the band is done.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the Panther Party is still Michael Torrence’s life. It’s all he’s known since he was a teenager. Which brings us back to that night in 1973 at the bar in West Oakland: The night Torrence talked to Bobby Seale and asked for some time off from the Panthers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So anyway, I go to Bobby at his birthday party at the Lamp Post and I said, ‘Well, Chairman, I have a daughter. She needs some support. Plus, I’m having these little anxiety attacks that’s affecting my work, it’s affecting my effectiveness. I don’t wanna quit, I don’t wanna leave, but I need some time. Get myself back together, and then I’m coming back. I’m coming back.’ And Bobby was real cool with me on it, you know. And I’m crying. I’m shedding tears.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Torrence is leaving the bar when Huey Newton calls him back upstairs. He says the Party will contribute $50 a month for to support Torrence’s daughter. Then Newton puts a gun to Torrence’s head and says this:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“'Okay then,’” Torrence recalls. “'We send fifty dollars, but you say: All power to the people.' All power to the people. So I stuck around.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"And about six months later, one of the guys from Chicago comes by, says, ‘You still wanna go? Cause we can’t afford to pay for your kid no more. So you can go, you can leave now.’ OK. Well, all right then. Power to the people now.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And that’s it. Michael Torrence is out of the Black Panthers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"tag":"black-panthers","label":"Related coverage "},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And it was traumatic,” he says. “What was traumatic for me was leaving. What was traumatic was what it had become.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Did he feel betrayed?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Yes! Absolutely. Betrayed, angry, bitter, frustrated. Yes. It took me a while to get back to what they call livin’ in the world. 'Cause the Party was my world. You ask me what I was, I was a Panther. That’s what I was and who I was. And then to lose that ... and try and adjust to out being here, and get a job. What am I gonna put on my resume? Where you been the last five years?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Torrence did have something on his resume that worked outside of the revolution: The Lumpen. It got him a job.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Torrence wound up singing behind Marvin Gaye, and he appeared on the singer’s 1974 album, “Marvin Gaye Live!” It was recorded just a few miles away from where the Lumpen recorded their own live album just four years earlier, in Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Torrence went on to write, produce and sing for other artists for the rest of the 1970s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though he parted ways with the Panthers almost 50 years ago, it’s still part of him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As far as the Black Panther Party’s concerned, I don’t regret anything,” he says. “I was with people, [and] these things last a lifetime … and I wouldn’t take that back for anything. Did we make some mistakes? Yeah. But at the time, for what it was, it was right on time. I was just glad to be a part of it. 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