Grant as he lay face down on a BART station platform. For example, Pointer represented Oscar Grant's family in their case against BART police officer Mehserle who shot and killed Mr. He is no stranger to high profile and high stakes police abuse cases. Over the course of 16 years at the Law Offices of John Burris, Pointer represented dozens of families in police brutality and personal injury cases. Pointer turned them down and immediately began handling police brutality cases at the renowned civil rights office of John Burris. Hastings College of the Law in San Francisco. He went on to obtain his law degree from U.C. Berkeley with high academic honors and a bachelor's degree in Political Science. As a young man, Pointer often heard about and saw a notorious band of outlaw Oakland police officers known as the "Riders" terrorize his community. Shotgun Wedding Quintet A four-piece ensemble of multi instrumentalists blending hip hop and jazz to make a big funky sound.ADANTE POINTER was born and raised in Oakland, California. UC Berkeley's own electronic dream pop artist. Young Prisms The Bay Area five-piece dreamy shoegaze rock group with dark, driving rhythms. The Dodos Acclaimed indie rock duo influenced by bluegrass, metal, and gamelan recently released their 4th nationally praised album. KALX also curated a music series this fall at Friday Nights at BAM/PFA, which featured three unique Bay Area bands that reflected the diverse sounds of the station. The 50th anniversary celebration kicked off with an exhibit at Oakland's Rock Paper Scissors Collective showcasing 50 years of select KALX artifacts and ephemera. In the fall of 2012, KALX put on a series of commemorative events celebrating the past 50 years!įriday, September 7 - Friday, September 28, 2012 Renowned for its eclectic and adventurous programming, KALX was recently voted Best Radio Station by the East Bay Express in 2011. Few stations in the nation can boast that members of Green Day crashed on their couches, Frank Black strummed Beach Boys songs in their studios, or John Lennon chatted with their news crew about the riots in People’s Park. For a more in-depth look at KALX's journey, check out the Full and Unabridged History. Fifty years later, KALX is a well-respected radio station heard over the air at 90.7FM in the SF Bay Area and on the web at. It all started back in 1962 when KALX, originally Radio KAL, began broadcasts out of a simple cigar box heard only on the UC Berkeley campus.
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