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On Tuesday, the MLB said it gave the Oakland A’s its blessing to start scouting for other cities to move to, citing concerns over how little progress the city of Oakland has made to approve the $12 billion waterfront development project.
Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf is doubling down on her commitment to get the deal done.
“This is an investment that is worth making not just for Oakland but for Alameda County,” she said.
The Oakland City Council is expected to vote on the new ballpark proposal in July. Oakland City Council President Nikki Fortunato Bas told NBC Bay Area that she wants the league and the team to guarantee that the A’s are staying in Oakland for good.
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San Francisco, CA. – Mayor London N. Breed today announced the City of San Francisco is planning a new public art installation to honor Black lives and the history of African Americans. The installation is planned to be located in Golden Gate Park’s Music Concourse next month, in time for Juneteenth.
The installation, ‘Monumental Reckoning,’ by Bay Area sculptor Dana King, honors the first Africans stolen from their homeland and sold into chattel slavery in the New World. The installation consists of 350 sculptures representing the number of Africans initially forced onto the slave ship San Juan Bautista for a journey of death and suffering across the Atlantic in 1619. A handful of these original 350 ancestors became America’s first enslaved people.
The Oakland A s current home at the Oakland Coliseum.
Major League Baseball announced Tuesday, that it has instructed the A s to begin exploring relocation outside of Oakland, while also continuing to pursue a ballpark near Jack London Square.
The development is the latest in the A’s years-long attempt to build a new ballpark away from their current one at the Oakland Coliseum. Most recently the team has been working with city officials on a proposed stadium complex at Howard Terminal on the waterfront.
The project is supported by Mayor Libby Schaaf and local business groups. But it’s opposed by some workers at the Port of Oakland and business organizations in East Oakland, where the A’s play right now.
The Pandemic And Racist Attacks Are Devastating America s Chinatowns
The coronavirus pandemic and a rise in hate crimes against Asian Americans have significantly impacted the economies and cultural fabric of Chinatowns around the country, and are gravely harming the vitality of some of them, though rallying efforts are underway.
While racism is nothing new for Asian Americans, who have historically been the victims of the racialization of disease in the U.S., the length and intensity of this pandemic has fueled an economic disaster that is increasingly posing an existential threat to Asian American Pacific Islander neighborhoods.
Occurring parallel to a pandemic that has claimed 582,296 lives in the U.S., according to the Johns Hopkins Coronavirus Resource Center, the pandemic itself has disproportionately impacted Asian Americans in San Francisco, with the demographic accounting for 13.7% of the cases but also 52% of the deaths as of M