As we sat and talked about his life, dozens of locals walked over to say hello to the family. And while not enough people know Roy Clay's story, it seems that everyone knows Roy. The following week I sat with Clay, now 92 years old, as well as Rodney and brother Chris at Crogan’s Bar in Oakland. On a late-summer morning in the Oakland Hills, a kind man named Rodney was catching his breath after scaling the hundred or more steps up the public footpath outside my COVID-era, one-man newsroom, the garage.Īfter sympathizing over the workout, Rodney started sharing the story of his father, a tale with so many pioneering moments it’s hard to know where to start.
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