“Projects supported by the latest round of grants include A Thousand Ships, a new play by Oakland-native Marcus Gardley that tells the story of women who came to the Bay Area to work in the shipyards during World War II (California Shakespeare Theater); J-Town, Chinatown, Our Town, a multidisciplinary work rooted in Brenda Wong Aoki's family's 121-year history in San Francisco (Center for Asian American Media); The Black (W)hole, a multidisciplinary theater production by Bamuthi Joseph that will serve as a spoken word elegy for Oakland youth killed before they reached the age of 30 (Destiny Arts Center); and We, the 100 Million, a series of place-based, community-driven "choreo-poems" by Michael "A Scribe Called Quess?" Moore that will explore inequity in the United States (PolicyLink).”