naima aguiñiga sabe que sus entregas se convierten en sonrisas en los rostros de familias cuando abrens o tarjetas. yo soy este, 1 de los duendes de santa claus vestido en azul este. y pues sí, me siento como un duende de un gough de santa claus este ayudándoles a santa claus, este a entregar todos los paquetes. y mientras algunos la ven como la ayudante personal de papá noel, naima sabe muy bien qpe su trabajo se convierte más peligroso en esta época del año. esa es una de las precauciones más, más grandes que yo tomo, que me aseguro que estoy hablando por teléfono si es con mi hijo o un pariente mío para que me escuchen. este ha sido el blanco para muchos rateros en todo el área de la bahía, así que los carteros están tomando suma precaución durante los días navideños. según la oficina de responsabilidad gubernamental, el último año fiscal reportaron 600 casos de robos en contra de trabajadores del servicio postal. eso es 7 veces más que en el año 2019. el inspector de servicio postal de estados unidos dio a conocer el video de vigilancia de 2 robos recientes en vallejo y antioch. en

and while some might see her as santa claus along her route, naima knows the grinch could be lurkingy corner. literally. we have to have that sensory on even, you know, like spider-man. even stronger than usual because of the simple fact that, you know, every little crack on, you know, the little on the ground that you hear, you have to make sure to turn around and make sure who it is. robbers have been increasingly targeting mail carriers. the government accountability office reported 600 robberies involving postal workers in the last fiscal year. that was up sevenfold from 2019. just recently, the u.s. postal inspector released surveillance video of two recent robberies in vallejo and antioch. both incidents involved guns. there is a $150,000 reward for whoever helps solve each case. it is scary as as a male, a female carrier, it's scarier, you know, compared to the mail, because you don't know what to do. you don't know what to expect. you know, sometimes you don't know how to handle the situation, and you try to do it the best you can. the gao report says there are several crime

naima, thank you so much for joining us. yeah, thanks for having me. all right. so tell us about the christmas celebration. so many people you help, so many people. what does it take to put all of this together? yeah, it's a huge effort. you know, we have over 170 volunteers helping out on christmas day alone. we get there pretty early. we're handing out 130 turkeys, 80 hams, 30 gallons of gravy to community. so a lot of volunteer coordination and support. this is something that we've been doing for a long time. and then as you saw from today, great community partners like jobeth with the house of you all look so ribs, you all look so organized there, 170 volunteers, so many. and this has to be one of the busiest times for your volunteers. yes, one of the busiest times of the year. are you guys seeing more people in need these days? we are in san francisco. we've had a 7% rise in homelessness. and even if you're not homeless, we're seeing a lot more of people needing food support. so it's a huge rise overall this year. we've seen an increase in our meal services,

cochrane. >> naima, good morning to you. and first, let's just talk about black christmas music, because, i mean, the temptation. silent night i don't know who sang the definitive version before them, but this for me is now it. what is it about? about black christmas music that kind of makes it a subgenre of its own? >> um, first of all, good morning. thank you for having me. um, i think the same thing, the thing about black christmas music is the same thing about black music, period. um, there is just there's a feeling there's a soul. it is baked in nostalgia, sonic nostalgia. it instantly transports us back. um, as i as, i guess, christmas music and holiday music does for everyone to family, people long gone childhood memories. but our christmas music is just so soulful, right? or even if it's not soulful, it might be funky or it might be very hip, but it is just the same elements that make black music itself very distinctive. like some can be descriptive, some things you can name sonically, but some of it is just about fe

and my daughter naima, who's obviously, you know, the naima reaches far, right.e got coltrane, but it was a name we on because we wanted a name that both her puerto rican my my partner's puerto rican grandparents could say and something that held a bit of like all of us simultaneous. and lastly i want to thank and i want to bring into the room with paul marshall calls the kitchen poets. right but i want to bring into room what i would call my first publisher and editor, my grandmother. all right. i think there's a way in which my grandmother sort of and she used to say, baby, you could sing. i don't know what she was thought about because i can't really sing. but, you know, i hold a note. but what she heard was my desire to sort of to sing or to express. right. and so i want to tell a quick story and then i'll be out of here. and this is what i mean by her as my first publisher, my first editor. so when i was a kid and grandmother's house where i was raised, ah, for some reason every january, february, it's not for some reason we always listened to. so she had th