Sociology Alumnus Charles Long was featured in an article in The San Francisco Standard titled, “Foster care, jail, homelessness, and now UC Berkeley\u2019s top graduate at 43.”<\/p>\n
The heels of Charles Long\u2019s shoes gave out somewhere along Telegraph Avenue.<\/p>\n
Long had just crossed the stage at Memorial Stadium, newly minted as UC Berkeley\u2019s top graduating senior, and was trying to make the 15-minute walk to the restaurant down the street where his family had secured a table. It took him over an hour. Strangers kept stopping him.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Then, as his feet finally found a path through the throng, the soles of his Stacy Adams dress shoes \u2014 a pair held in reserve for years in his late grandfather\u2019s closet and barely worn \u2014 began to separate.<\/p>\n
The heel came loose. Then it slapped against the pavement with each step.<\/p>\n
Clap. People were still stopping him. Clap. Fellow grads were asking for selfies. Clap. They just wanted a quick word.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m having to rip the heels off my shoes,\u201d Long said, \u201cand people are still trying to stop and talk to me.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sociology Alumnus Charles Long was featured in an article in The San Francisco Standard titled, “Foster care, jail,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":341631,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[143,145,144],"class_list":["post-341630","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-oakland","tag-oakland","tag-oakland-headlines","tag-oakland-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341630","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=341630"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341630\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/341631"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=341630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=341630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=341630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}