Tammerlin drummond biography of donald
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Project: Zebra Murals aka Animural - 1983 / 2016
Medium: Oils on Concrete
Dimensions: 18' x 150' Each djur is between 4' / 13' bred by 12' / 14' tall
Location: Broadway at 34th Street, nära Mosswood Park, Oakland
Artist Dan Fontes' Iconic Freeway Zebra Mural Gets New Life
By TAMMERLIN DRUMMOND | tdrummond@bayareanewsgroup.com
July 6, 2016 at 7:58 am
OAKLAND — Ronald Reagan was president. More than 40 musicians, including Michael Jackson and Bruce Springsteen recorded “We are the World,” an album that raised millions of dollars for famine relief in Africa. A gallon of gas cost $1.09.
A lot has changed since 1985. But one thing that has endured are the zebra murals painted bygd a then-young, unknown artist named Dan Fontes beneath a freeway overpass in downtown Oakland. Over the course of three decades, the larger-than-life figures that have delighted two generations have taken a serious beating. Sun, rain and graffiti taggers have engelskt ord för att något är skadat eller förstört the original artwork of five z
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In the late ’90s, a vicious feud raged between rival East Coast and West Coast rappers.
In November 1997, Derrick Childs was a 19-year-old high school dropout living in Richmond. One afternoon he got into a confrontation with an 18-year-old man. According to Childs, both teens had guns. He shot first.
The other man survived. Childs was convicted of assault with intent to cause great bodily injury. He served 10 years in some of California’s toughest prisons. San Quentin. Solano State. Corcoran. Folsom.
At first blush, Childs’ story seems tragically typical. America’s prisons are bursting at the seams with young African-American men — most of them high school dropouts.
Many of them are incarcerated for the same reason as Childs. They were carrying guns to protect themselves from all the other young men in their neighborhoods carrying guns.
After their release, two-thirds wind up right back in prison within three years.
The news is full of st
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Tammerlin Drummond: Valuable exploration of life beyond the Bay Area
THERE ARE children — not just in Oakland but also in poor neighborhoods in cities and country towns all across the United States — who have never had the opportunity to travel beyond the place where they were born.
Believe it or not, there are kids in East Oakland who haven’t been to Lake Merritt because no one ever took them.
What chance do you suppose a child with zero exposure to the outside world will have of competing in our increasingly global marketplace when he or she becomes an adult?
Probably zero.
Unless that is, someone from outside the confines of their narrow world intervenes — someone like Jennifer Howard, a dynamic young teacher at Oakland High School.
She has organized a bus tour to Southern California colleges to give the 28 juniors in her class an opportunity to explore schools — and life — outside the Bay Area.
Howard has contacted the universities on her own to arrange college tours.