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The Berkeley Wire: 01.19.12

January 19, 2012 4:55 pm by Berkeleyside Editors

Berkeley engineers help protect refugees from violence [East Bay Express]
Legendary singer Johnny Otis, who grew up in Berkeley, dies [Mercury News]
Robert Bresson movies at BAM/PFA will make you weep [KQED]
Longtime Berkeley kitchen remodeler takes BAHA award [Inside Bay Area]

Photo: Utata Thursday walk, by 2812 photography/Berkeleyside Flickr pool.

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  • Bruce Love

    The Obit mentions that Otis grew up in the “black section of Berkeley”.    Does anyone know (or … remember) more specifically than that?  

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T0mIFzCaOko

  • Becky O’Malley

    Yes.