
Refugees, entrepreneurs, visionaries—these are the historic roots of Oakland, California. The city has long been home for people building new lives and imagining even better ones. But dreams deferred also haunt this place, in its empty post-boom skyscrapers, its infamous homicide rates and deep budget cuts. In the face of entrenched problems, though, the people of Oakland characteristically answer back with diverse, revolutionary solutions. Everywhere you can feel the forces of idealism, the belief that people working together can make this place with such enormous potential work better. And in a city where the government hasn’t managed to tackle the biggest problems, people know that if they really want change, they’ll have to make it happen themselves. In this episode we explore the rewards—and costs—for people dreaming big in Oakland.
Links
- The Chauncey Bailey Project
- 38th Notes (Bay Area Hip-hop and Culture)
- Get:Live Sessions
- Oakland Asian Cultural Center
- Oakland International High School
- Alameda County Public Health Department’s City and County Neighborhood Initiative
- The California Endowment’s 10-year Building Healthy Communities initiative
Episode Music
Artist | Track |
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Balmorhea | Constellations |
Bronx River Parkway | Mi Corazon |
Copenhaniacs | The Presentation (instrumental remix) |
The Coup | Dig It (instrumental) |
Digital Underground | The Humpty Dance |
Do D.A.T. | The Bridge |
Do D.A.T. | Color Scheme |
Do D.A.T. | Dat Dat Dat |
Duke Ellington | To You |
Hieroglyphics | Heat (instrumental) |
Hieroglyphics | Make Your Move (instrumental) |
Hieroglyphics | What the Funk (instrumental) |
Jurassic 5 | Hugh Fidelity (instrumental) |
Jurassic 5 | If You Only Knew (instrumental) |
K-OS | Rise Like the Sun (Headrush instrumental) |
MC Hammer | Can’t Touch This |
Ratatat | To Everest |
Reflection Eternal | Chaos (instrumental) |
Rodger Collins | Foxy Girls in Oakland |
Sly and the Family Stone | Dance to the Music |