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Sue Rahr’s tenure as Seattle’s Chief of Police is coming to an end. The interim chief took over the office during a rocky moment for SPD: she inherited a police officer staffing crisis and a workplace where senior staff had filed legal complaints over their treatment, alleging discrimination and sexism on the job . Rahr’s appointment to the position happened the same week, last June, as a deadly school shooting at Garfield High, setting off a series of discussions about public safety at schools, and in the Central District. And she was also in the awkward position of taking over the department from a chief who was initially demoted, and then fired for not being truthful about his alleged affair with a subordinate. It’s been an eventful almost 8 months. Chief Rahr sat down with Soundside host Libby Denkmann to discuss what’s changed during her time in leadership, and what still needs to happen at SPD. Guest: Outgoing Seattle Police Chief Sue Rahr Thank you to the supporters of KUOW, you help make this show possible! If you want to help out, go to kuow.org/donate/soundsidenotes Soundside is a production of KUOW in Seattle, a proud member of the NPR Network.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Seattle Police say they have stepped up their presence today on the Garfield High School campus in the Central District. Interim Police Chief Sue Rahr told King 5 that Seattle Public Schools reached out to ask for the support – following the shooting of 17-year old Amarr Murphy-Paine on campus last week. Parents, teachers, and students gathered at Garfield on Tuesday to talk about what safety and security needs to look like at the school.   There have been at least six shootings in and around Garfield over the past year, either on campus or within a few blocks of the school.     And one Garfield parent says she's tired of seeing the same response from the district, over and over. Guests: Carol Rava is the parent of both a current and former Garfield student. She's also a one-time Seattle Public Schools employee, and wrote an op-ed for the Seattle Times on school safety, published this week.  Related Links: https://www.seattletimes.com/opinion/stop-the-bleeding-sps-needs-to-do-better-to-keep-students-safe/  https://www.king5.com/article/news/local/seattle/seattle-police-presence-garfield-high-school/281-2594b875-e5b1-4a30-af2d-1fd58618ed00 https://www.kuow.org/stories/mapped-shootings-around-seattle-s-garfield-high-school-this-year  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Sam LaChow is a rapper, producer and videographer from Seattle. His latest single “Happy Music” is available everywhere now. In this episode we discuss music, sobriety, mental health, Seattle and more! 00:00 - Intro 00:13 - Seattle, Garfield High & Landmarks 04:00 - Touring & Seattle Venues 05:45 - Living in Seattle 07:05 - Sobriety & Addiction 10:20 - Career, Happiness & Psychology 14:00 - Fans, Fears & Failure 21:10 - Lucky Lefty Song & Video 22:20 - Kendrick Lamar & Drake Beef & Roasts 24:30 - Growth, Outside Validation & Helping Others 29:10 - Social Media & Promotion 31:10 - Motivational Speakers & Other Podcasts 33:00 - Pets 35:00 - Walking, Dieting & Health 36:50 - Arizona & Live Shows 38:30 - Accompanying Musicians & Musical Style & Fanbase 40:50 - Seattle Musicians 42:40 - Drugs ,Withdrawals & Psychedelics  46:10 - Working Out 47:25 - Wasting Time & Productivity 49:10 - Going to A.A. Meetings & Wisdom 51:50 - Motivational & Inspirational Speakers & Meditation  55:00 - New Music & Promotions 57:08 - OutroSam LaChow links:https://found.ee/samlachow?fbclid=PAAaY6y8bbowPe-G6Oyguafqmo1cPZGRtSfU28dW1TZcadjq5h3B-h8zJA1DE_aem_AUSHpPJoSI_QDuvtYT1ZFdLyHyenw_ZSNfP-LjjsccOiyLSG_00-YV90qsyJbusz-7IChuck Shute links:https://linktr.ee/chuck_shuteSupport the Show.Thanks for Listening & Shute for the Moon!

Hundreds of people seeking asylum in the United States have been moving around King County for months.Last night, most of them cleared out of an encampment in a park, near Garfield High school.They had been staying there for about a week.We'll talk with KUOW reporter Gustavo Sagrero about how we got here and what long-term solutions are on the table.We can only make Seattle Now because listeners support us. You have the power! Make the show happen by making a gift to KUOW: https://www.kuow.org/donate/seattlenowAnd we want to hear from you! Follow us on Instagram at SeattleNowPod, or leave us feedback online: https://www.kuow.org/feedback

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3pm - Two Northshore SD principals on leave after police reports of drugs, guns // After shootings and new threats, Seattle's Garfield High cancels in-person classes // ‘The Way to Pronounce My Last Name? Winner': DeSantis Refuses to Explain How to Say His Surname // Autism Advocates Are Dreading a Campaign Season of Insinuations About Ron DeSantis // How to Learn: Pretty Much Anything // Children's Choir Stopped Mid-Performance While Singing National Anthem at US Capitol, Capitol Police Claims it is a Prohibited Form of ProtestSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

6pm - Two Northshore SD principals on leave after police reports of drugs, guns // After shootings and new threats, Seattle's Garfield High cancels in-person classes // ‘The Way to Pronounce My Last Name? Winner': DeSantis Refuses to Explain How to Say His Surname // Autism Advocates Are Dreading a Campaign Season of Insinuations About Ron DeSantis // How to Learn: Pretty Much Anything // Children's Choir Stopped Mid-Performance While Singing National Anthem at US Capitol, Capitol Police Claims it is a Prohibited Form of ProtestSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

On this Hacks & Wonks week-in-review, Crystal is joined by a friend of the show and today's co-host: Executive Director of The Urbanist, Doug Trumm! They discuss Sen. Mark Mullet announcing he's running for governor, The Amazon employee walk-out, SCOTUS ruling against the Teamsters in a blow to workers' rights, City of Burien encampment sweep controversy continues, the Redmond Salary commission being abruptly disbanded by the mayor after they considered paying council members competitive salaries, and SPD wasting public money meant for school and pedestrian safety.  As always, a full text transcript of the show is available below and at officialhacksandwonks.com. Find the host, Crystal Fincher, on Twitter at @finchfrii and find today's co-host, Doug Trumm, on Twitter at @dmtrumm. Doug Trumm Doug Trumm is executive director of The Urbanist, where he has contributed as a writer and editor since 2015. He graduated from the Evans School of Public Policy and Governance at UW in 2019 with a concentration in urban policy. As a car-free renter living in Seattle, his policy focuses include improving transit and street safety and tackling the housing affordability crisis. His cat Ole is a national treasure.   Resources “The Big Waterfront Bamboozle with Mike McGinn and Robert Cruickshank” from Hacks & Wonks   Washington State Senator Mark Mullet launches 2024 gubernatorial campaign    After shootings and new threats, Seattle's Garfield High cancels in-person classes   Pedestrian Projects Face Delays As School Camera Funding Falls Short - The Urbanist    Amazon walkout to go ahead after 1,700 employees sign on, organizers say | The Seattle Times    Some Amazon employees walk out in Seattle to protest climate, office policies | Reuters    Seattle city attorney will end community court, but some say the reason why is misleading    Emotions run high – but no action taken – at Burien City Council's Special Meeting Tuesday night    Burien Decides to Take No Action on Encampment on Its Property, Opening Path for Private Sweep - PubliCola    SCOTUS rules WA company can sue union over strike-related damage | Crosscut    Redmond mayor disbands commission proposing increased council salaries | The Seattle Times    Pedestrian Projects Face Delays As School Camera Funding Falls Short - The Urbanist    Find stories that Crystal is reading here

There must have been a magical elixir flowing from the drinking fountains at Seattle's Garfield High School. Alumni include Jimi Hendrix, Quincy Jones, Macklemore and our very special guest Ishmael Butler, rapper and founding member of Shabazz Palaces and Grammy Award winning hip-hop group Digable Planets.Host Rachel Belle first met Ish eight years ago, when she interviewed him at his house for a column called Show Us Your Fridge. So, it felt right to indulge in another round of culinary voyeurism and take a peek into the healthy home cook's refrigerator.Ish and Rachel discuss the Shabazz Palace song Chocolate Soufflé, so Seattle pastry chef Brittany Bardeleben joins the show to walk us through how to make the fussy French dessert, and opines on why you rarely see it on menus these days.Follow along on Instagram!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Recorded on Sunday, we attempt to recap the last 7 weeks of UW events involving multiple players transferring in and out of both basketball and football teams, discuss how an AAU basketball league and the Huskies have in common, and all the recruiting news that fit to print. Plus, we indirectly discuss the spring football practices and ponder how easy it would be to manufacture beef between Pac-12 coaches ala Jimbo Fisher and Nick Saban. @2:45 – Information to contact your US Senator: https://www.senate.gov/senators/senators-contact.htm @34:35 – Lincoln Riley's dry brisket:https://www.si.com/extra-mustard/2021/04/05/oklahoma-lincoln-riley-easter-brisket-photo 4 star PG Koren Johnson of Garfield High signs with UW: https://www.seattletimes.com/sports/uw-husky-basketball/garfield-high-guard-koren-johnson-the-states-top-player-this-year-makes-it-official-signs-with-uw-husky-men/ WSU PG Noah Williams and formerly of O'Dea High transfers to UW: https://www.seattletimes.com/sports/uw-husky-basketball/former-wsu-guard-noah-williams-announces-hes-transferring-to-uw-mens-basketball-team/ Oregon C Franck Kepnang transfers to UW: https://www.seattletimes.com/sports/uw-husky-basketball/husky-mens-basketball-lands-oregon-transfer-franck-kepnang/ Emmitt Matthews transfers back to WVU: https://www.seattletimes.com/sports/uw-husky-basketball/husky-mens-basketball-transfer-emmitt-matthews-jr-announces-hes-returning-to-west-virginia/ Fresno State C Braxton Meah transfers to UW: https://www.seattletimes.com/sports/uw-husky-basketball/husky-mens-basketball-team-adds-transfer-center-braxton-meah/ UW gets four transfers: RB/WR Will Nixon from Nebraska and RB Wayne Taulapapa from Virginia, LB Kristopher Moll from UAB, DE Sekai Afoa-Asoau from College of San Mateo (JUCO) https://www.seattletimes.com/sports/uw-husky-football/nebraska-wr-will-nixon-announces-transfer-to-uw-huskies/ https://www.seattletimes.com/sports/uw-husky-football/virginia-running-back-wayne-taulapapa-announces-transfer-to-uw-huskies/ https://www.seattletimes.com/sports/uw-husky-football/local-juco-edge-rusher-sekai-asoau-afoa-verbally-commits-to-uw-huskies/ https://www.seattletimes.com/sports/uw-husky-football/former-uab-lb-and-all-conference-usa-standout-kristopher-moll-announced-graduate-transfer-to-uw-huskies/ 3 star WR Keith Reynolds commits to UW: https://www.seattletimes.com/sports/uw-husky-football/three-star-california-wr-keith-reynolds-becomes-uw-huskies-second-transfer-of-the-day/ 4 star WR Rashid Williams commits to UW: https://www.seattletimes.com/sports/uw-husky-football/california-wide-receiver-rashid-williams-becomes-uw-huskies-first-four-star-commit-in-the-2023-class/ 2025 WR LaMason Waller commits to UW: https://www.seattletimes.com/sports/uw-husky-football/uw-huskies-get-early-commitment-from-standout-2025-wide-receiver-lamason-waller/ Trent McDuffie goes 1st round, 21st overall, to the Kansas City Chiefs Kyler Gordon goes 2nd round, 39th overall, to the Chicago Bears Cade Otton goes 4th round, 106th overall, to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers Luke Wattenberg goes 5th round, 171st overall, to the Denver Broncos https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022_NFL_Draft CB Jacobe Covington transfers to USC , RB Caleb Berry and DL Noa Ngalu have entered the transfer portal. https://247sports.com/Article/USC-receives-commitment-from-Washington-DB-transfer-Jacobe-Covington-187599879/ https://www.seattletimes.com/sports/uw-husky-football/uw-redshirt-freshman-running-back-caleb-berry-enters-transfer-portal/ https://www.seattletimes.com/sports/uw-husky-football/reports-uw-huskies-dl-noa-ngalu-enters-transfer-portal/ LT Jaxson Kirkland is declared eligible and is coming back for a sixth season. https://www.seattletimes.com/sports/uw-husky-football/husky-nation-im-back-all-pac-12-left-tackle-jaxson-kirkland-cleared-to-return-to-uw-in-2022/

A former Garfield High School student alleges staff pressured him to keep quiet about sexual harassment and hazing on the school's swim team. He's taken legal action against Seattle Public Schools.

In this Sunday Edition: As some 13,000 runners and walkers stream out of the starting corral at Dodger Stadium onto Sunset Boulevard to begin their 26.2-mile journey, they'll have more elbow room than normal — because only about half the normal number of participants is racing. From Sharon McNary. Plus: For decades, the rival football teams of Roosevelt High in Boyle Heights and Garfield High in East Los Angeles have duked it out in an annual tradition called the East L.A. Classic. Last year's game was canceled, as the pandemic tore through both communities. The two schools see this year's game as a show of resilience — and unity. From Leslie Berenstein Rojas. This program is made possible in part by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, a private corporation funded by the American people.  Support the show: https://support.laist.com/laistnav

Saxophonist Gary Hammon has been playing jazz since the 1960s. Having started on the saxophone as a junior at Garfield High, he then went on to study at the New England Conservatory of Music in 1969, the first year Black students were accepted. Listen in to hear about his storied career as a musician in Boston, New York, and Seattle! This episode was edited and mixed by Ronan Delisle.

Running out of options, Max questions her final suspect: Garfield High basketball star and Bryan Bae's main rival, Xavier Rose. STARRING:Miriam Randolph as Maxine PhillipsMichael Benzinger as Bryan BaeRandryck Lewis as Xavier Rosewith Connett Croghan as Devin Gilroyfeaturing Ryan Conlon as Jeremy the ServerDirected and Produced by Miriam Randolph & Henry ParizekWritten by Chase CarsonSound Editing and Mixing by Henry ParizekTheme Music by Francois ComtoisMusic by Henry ParizekPoster Design by Raven NobleTrailer Editing by Ryan ConlonThe Parting of the Shoe is produced by Two Steps to the Left Productions with Bear Elegance Productions.(c) Two Steps to the Left Productions, LLC. 2021

In the movie, Stand and Deliver, Jaime Escalante educed things from students at Garfield High that they never knew they had. It changed their lives forever. This same skill of educing is foundational to the new paradigm of the Revolution where everyone gets to contribute when the church gathers. (1 Cor. 14:26). The rally cry is "Everyone gets to play!"

In this short segment I talk about “Stand and Deliver” and what the movie means to me. The story behind the movie is amazing and it is based on Jaime Escalante and his teaching experience in East L.A. at Garfield High. This movie has always meant a lot to me because of the students in the movie and what they have to deal with to become “successful.” I love teachers that find ways to raise the bar and demand more from their students. I believe I can relate to this movie because the main character reminds me of my father and just seeing a Bolivian teacher push his Latinx students to the next level was amazing. I highly recommend the movie to anyone who wants to be inspired and take his teachings to their real life. I used a lot of these lessons in my high school soccer coaching days at Grant High School and currently in my classroom. I strive to create real world experiences in the classroom for all of my students. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/educadence/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/educadence/support

0:06 - Episode Introduction1:28 - Hosts Checking In 2:09 - Jini Palmer at CHOP9:08 - Perspective of BLM King County Silent March17:47 - Conversation with Elmer Dixon41:16 - Meet Aileen Granstrom44:56 - Host Recap46:10 - Marcus Harrison Green's Crosscut Excerpt____________________________________________________________Elmer Dixon  was born in Chicago and moved to Seattle at age 7 when his father took a job at Boeing. Dixon grew up in Seattle's Central District, attending Garfield High School. While at Garfield High, Dixon helped organize the school's Black Student Union in 1968. That same year, with his older brother Aaron Dixon, he co-founded the Seattle Chapter of the Black Panther Party. He served the Chapter as its Field Marshall as well as the Breakfast Program Coordinator. When the Seattle Chapter closed its office and some of its core members moved to Oakland in 1972, Elmer, under parole and unable to move to Oakland, stayed in Seattle and reorganized the Chapter. He worked to sustain the Party's breakfast program and health clinic, maintaining the Panther organization until 1976 and some programs into the 1980s. Elmer Dixon now works as a diversity consultant.Aileen Granstrom  is a Elementary School Associate Teacher in Bellevue, as well as a dance instructor at the University of Washington.  You can find a video version Enrique's piece with Aileen Granstrom HERE   ____________________________________________________________Produced In Partnership With :Town Hall Seattle  (https://townhallseattle.org/)The South Seattle Emerald  (https://southseattleemerald.com/)_____________________________________________________________Executive Producer + Host  // Marcus Harrison GreenExecutive Producer + Host // Enrique CernaExecutive Producer + Host // Jini PalmerAdditional Production Support Provided By // Hans Anderson & JEFFSCOTTSHAWMusic Provided By // Draze "The Hood Ain't The Same" // http://www.thedrazeexperience.com/about-draze/

Elmer Dixon was born in Chicago and moved to Seattle at age 7 when his father took a job at Boeing. Dixon grew up in Seattle’s Central District, attending Garfield High School. While at Garfield High, Dixon helped organize the school’s Black Student Union in 1968. That same year, with his older brother Aaron Dixon, he co-founded the Seattle Chapter of the Black Panther Party. He served the Chapter as its Field Marshall as well as the Breakfast Program Coordinator. When the Seattle Chapter closed its office and some of its core members moved to Oakland in 1972, Elmer, under parole and unable to move to Oakland, stayed in Seattle and reorganized the Chapter. He worked to sustain the Party’s breakfast program and health clinic, maintaining the Panther organization until 1976 and some programs into the 1980s. Elmer Dixon now works as a diversity consultant.

After the events of summer 1982, when Jaime Escalante's Advanced Placement Calculus students were accused of cheating and then vindicated on a re-test, Escalante had become famous first in local and then national news. The original story about an American institution, ETS, allegedly discriminating based on race to accuse the latino students of cheating, turned into a story of surprise and applause as an "academic sinkhole" like Garfield High managed to have such a large number of students taking AP Calculus. The events of 1982 inspired a film about Jaime Escalante, Stand and Deliver, which spread his fame to an even wider audience. But the film came too early. In the years following 1982, calculus at Garfield High continuedto grow with the same momentum, reaching ever greater heights. After the 18 students taking the exam in 1982, there were 33 in 1983, a whopping 68 in 1984 (more than double the previous year!), and two years later, in 1986, a staggering 151 students took the test, more than eight times as many as in the year that brought Escalante fame. While AP Calculus was in overdrive, other AP programs also began to thrive. Garfield High now offered Advanced Placement courses in History, English, Biology, Physics, French, Government, and Computer Science, with a growing number of students taking these year on year. Within twelve years, Garfield High had transformed from a gang-ridden hole on the brink of being shut down, to an academic beacon with a waiting list of 400 students. It is truly a story worth telling. Enjoy the episode.

In 1974, Garfield High School got a new principal (headmaster) in the form of Alex Avilez. The school was in turmoil, with a major gang presence, and a police presence to help combat the gang presence. It was noisy, with music blaring from "dozens" of radios; fights broke out often; truancy was rampant; and the dropout rate was 50%. Avilez's core belief was in people's fundamental goodness. He was excited about young people and about human potential, and wanted to aim for a peaceful Garfield High in which everyone loved one another. The way to achieve this, he decided, was to treat the students as the adults they were about to become. He registered the gangs with the school, placed their insignia in prominent locations, and negotiated with gang leaders to preserve decorum and reduce violence. Possemato was principal after Avilez. Together with Gradillas, he had a very different approach to discipline at the school. Although Gradillas believed that every child knows the difference between right and wrong, he felt that this sense was often deeply buried, and the way to get the best out of adolescents often involved pushing their buttons and riling them up emotionally. He would physically take down students being a danger to others, accuse liars of being cowards, and tell parents that they were sorry that their children had no respect for them. The difference in the effectiveness of these two approaches was stark. One almost plunged the school into an abyss, while the other saved it from closing. It is an important part of the Garfield High story that doesn't get told as much as Escalante's calculus teaching, and yet was essential to its success. Enjoy the episode.

One of the main lessons from the story of Jaime Escalante's career at East LA's Garfeild High School was that it was ultimately a team effort to reach the academic level that the school eventually did. Apart from Escalante himself, there are two figures who stand out as central to the story: Henry Gradillas and Benjamin Jimenez. Gradillas joined Garfield High as a biology teacher after six years in the US army and a short stint as an orchard manager. He saw clear similarities between the young people in his classroom and those who he had been training as an army captain - they were only slightly younger, and they had similar needs, desires, and problems. He would later be promoted to Dean of Discipline and finally Principal (Headmaster) of Garfield High, positions in which he would help deal with Escalante's problem students, and provide him with the resources he needed to make the Advanced Placement Calculus courses a success. Jimenez was one of the other mathematics teachers at Garfield. Impressed with Escalante's classes, he became an apprentice and later collaborator and ally to Escalante. He would go on to run many of the courses preparing students for a the rigours of calculus, and would run some of the calculus classes themselves when the program grew above 100 students. Without Jimenez, Escalante would be left with only uninterested teachers and active enemies in his department, and too much work for one individual to carry out. Escalante himself needs much less introduction, famous as he is. The title of the book is Escalante: The Greatest Teacher in America after all. The book goes into more detail about his background than those of the others. The most interesting thing we hear about his background is how he struggled as a beginning teacher, and the teachers that he admired as he went through his training. It is enlightening to see what his early influences were in terms of his approach to teaching. Enjoy the episode.

Jaime Escalante was a Bolivian teacher who came to Los Angeles in the 1960s. After joining the chaotic failing school Garfield High as a mathematics teacher in 1974, he soon began an Advanced Placement Calculus program that grew to an unheard of size for such a disadvantaged community. In 1982, the Educational Testing Service (ETS), which wrote and marked the tests, suspected Garfield High students of cheating. This led to interest from the media and later fame for Escalante as people started to take notice of what was happening at the school. Soon after, the film Stand and Deliver was produced based on Escalante's success up to that point, starring Edward James Olmos in the leading role. However, even this film did not capture the scale of the success at Garfield High, as it came too early. After 1982, the number of students at the school taking AP Calculus continued to climb to stratospheric heights, from 18 in 1982 - already unbelievable to most, hence the media attention - to 33 in 1983, 68 in 1984, and an eye-watering 151 in 1986. Other AP programs also took off, including History, Government, English, Physics, and Computer Science. How did all this happen? What is Escalante's secret? These are pressing questions, as they could lead to a better understanding of how to motivate and teach students, as well as how to turn a failing school around. This book is written as a story, and so the themes and key lessons from it have to be disentangled from the narrative. We will be looking at it in four parts: Introducing the main characters (Jaime Escalante, Henry Gradillas, and Benjamin Jimenez); Considering the two very different approaches to discipline applied at the school, one with disastrous consequences and one that saved the school from closing; Examining how Escalante and his "team" managed to raise standards and achievement; and Admiring the "glory years", after 1982, when the whole school was on the academic upsurge. There are several lessons to take from the story of Escalante and Garfield High. I hope you enjoy learning from this exceptional case study as much as I have. Enjoy the episode.

Holding Tobias Whale proves more difficult than anticipated while Jefferson continues to grapple with that and life at Garfield High under new leadership

Lynn has a new co-worker, Jenn has a new therapist, and Garfield High has a new principal. 

While Jefferson loses power at Garfield High, Lynn takes on the responsibility of the Green Light Babies.  Join Wally Analog as he flies the '82 plane solo this episode, skimming the ground and narrowly missing mountaintops as he talks about last week's episode of Black Lightning!

A look at Jan Van Meter's 21st Century updated take on Black Lightning's origin story.Affiliate link included.Transcript:"Justice like lightning should ever appear, to some men hope, to other men fear." We're taking a look at Black Lightning, Year One, coming up next.Black Lightning was created by Tony Isabella in 1977. Black Lightning, Year One was published in 2009 and is a modern updating of Black Lightning's origin stories. The reason this was done is that he was introduced prior to Crisis on Infinite Earth where the DC Universe could be rebooted, and its continuity simplified so that that would never happen again. And about twenty-five years later they had to do it again.The original origin story from the 1970s really worked pretty well for the most part. The story was that Jefferson Pierce, a gold medal Olympian, returned to his old high school – Garfield High in a suicide slum in Metropolis – to serve as a high school teacher; and the murder of one of his students leads him to become Black Lightning and to take on the 100, the evil gang that dominates his city. 2009 Update changes some things. First, rather than coming in as a teacher he arrives as the principal. In some ways I think this is kind of a nod to Lean on Me where Morgan Freeman plays Joe Clarke, a principal who comes to restore order to a troubled school. In the original story Pierce was divorced and his ex-wife showed up working at the same school he was at, and she is in the school and frequently ignored until finally they become friends and happily divorced as was the big trend in the 1970s, the cultural push for people to become divorced, be good friends and have it all be very socially acceptable. This not really being a thing in 2009 he is actually still married to his wife Lynn and they have one child and another child's quickly on the way. But Jeff's decision to become Black Lightning creates a lot of friction in his marriage, ending up with her leaving him though not getting divorced. She doesn't come off particularly well in the exchange but there's actually a reason for it, and it's probably the book's most clever innovation. And what makes a good retelling of an origin story stand out from one that is a bit weak, a good retelling will take a look at some element of the story that wasn't explained or fleshed out and flesh it out and provide a remarkable twist that fills in a hole that a writer in a previous age hadn't thought of. And writer Jen Van Meter really does that here. When you think about it a key problem with the original story of Suicide Slum called Southside here in Year One is the idea that there is a portion of Metropolis that is overrun with crime, and that Superman doesn't do anything about it. When you think about it the idea then is that Superman is not addressing the problems with crime in this neighborhood unlike crime in other parts of Metropolis, because he doesn't really care about black people. I'm sure that is not what Tony Isabella was going for. He was used to dealing with Marvel characters, and Marvel characters do not generally have as much power or scope as Superman. There's a reason Spider-Man doesn't fight crime in Harlem as a practice, because his main area is Manhattan and Queens, and he cannot fly everywhere in the city. Superman is different and the original take on this leaves the impression that there's a portion of Metropolis that Superman is ignoring even as he flies all over the world and universe to fight crime elsewhere. And Van Meter does something clever and introduces an evil mystical force into the equation as the key cause behind this. And as most people know, Superman does not have powers against magic; and in the books it's referenced that Superman is weakened inside the Suicide Slum....

Filmmaker Ron Dawson talks about creating experimental documentary ImprovJam: A Musical Convergence of Jazz, Rock & Rap. ImprovJam captures the improvisational jam sessions of three of Seattle's finest jazz musicians, a rock guitarist, and a freestyle rapper.  ImprovJam was filmed on location in the music room of Garfield High, a school with a rich musical history, boasting one of the finest jazz teams in the nation, and alma mater to such musical legends as Jimi Hendrix, Quincy Jones, and contemporary rap artist Macklemore.  What happens when Ron and his crew takes nine video cameras including two Canon C100's, two T3i's, two 70D's, and four Panasonic GH4's - and records the convergence of jazz, rock, and rap is nothing short of magical. Mentioned in the show: Producer/Director Ron Dawson, Dare Dreamer Mediahttp://daredreamer.net ImprovJam: A Musical Convergence of Jazz, Rock & Raphttp://soundandsea.tv/improvjam/ Seattle Repertory Jazz Orchestrahttp://srjo.org/ Ayron Jones of Ayron Jones and the Wayhttp://ajandtheway.com/ Turtle T.http://whatsupturtle.com/ RA Scionhttp://rascion.com/ Willow Craft Mediahttp://willowcraftmedia.com/ Blue Fern Productionshttp://bluefernproductions.com/ David Patterson (Camera and Audio)https://vimeo.com/davepatterson Blaine Rochester (Audio Mixer)http://www.nueraofficial.com/ Ryan Booth - Serial Box TV:http://www.ryanbooth.net/serialbox-presents/ RØDE Microphoneshttp://rode.com/ LensProToGohttp://lensprotogo.com/ Rhino Camera Gearhttp://rhinocameragear.com/ FxFactorhttp://fxfactory.com/ Music Bedhttp://musicbed.com/ Take your business to the next level with KRE8 University: http://carlolson.tv/kre8 Become an associate producer of the Digital Convergence Podcast by your generous financial support: http://www.patreon.com/carlolson Leave voice mail feedback:https://www.speakpipe.com/CarlOlson Send me an email: http://carlolson.tv/contact/