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Oakland’s Youth Poet Laureate Ella Gordon recited a powerful poem about the magic of living in the diverse East Bay city, while performances from Destiny Muhammad, a.k.a. the Harpist from the Hood, and young dancers in the African Queens Dance Company ignited the venue with the kind of soulful, grassroots energy for which this town is renowned.

Among the acts who performed at that inaugural get-together, Kimmel joked as he introduced Davis: “Moses with the Bay City Rollers backing him up.”

At one Radio One event, he and Peel remembered watching, stunned, as fans of the Bay City Rollers brought chaos.

Not long after that, he parted company with Radio One after describing the Bay City Rollers as "musical garbage".

In the newest wave of grievances, residents of Vallejo, an East Bay city 20 minutes north of Oakland, signed a petition last week pleading with Newsom to deploy CHP officers there, citing an “alarming increase” in crimes amid an understaffed police department and a “regular location for large and violent sideshows.”