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Tags: "I Have a Dream Speech" • ACT-SF • African American achievement • African American Art and Culture Complex • African American Celebration through Poetry • African American contribution • African American Shakes • African and African American Performing Arts Coalition • African Diaspora History Month • African music • Anisa Rasheed • Anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation • Avotcja • Bay Area Ethiopian-Israeli hip-hop artist • Bay Area journalism • Bay View arts editor Wanda Sabir • Bayview Opera House • Belva Davis • Berkeley Main Library • Berkeley Rep • Bill Dogget • Billy Higgins • Black and Jewish artists • Black Choreographers Here and Now • Black Cubans • Black Diaspora History Month • Black female television journalist • Black History Month • Black Panther Party • Black Rep • Brianna Amaya • Calvin Keys • CJM • Clifford Adams • Contemporary Jewish Museum • Coretta Scott • Cuba • Cuban culture • Cuban society • Cuttingball • Dance Mission • Dawan Muhammad • Debora Gerosa • Deborah Vaughan • Destiny • Dimensions Dance Theatre • Dimensions Extensions Performance Ensemble • Dingani Lelokoane • DJ Alarm • DJ Walt Digz • Dr. Albirda Rose’s The Village Dancers • Dr. Clayborne Carson • Dr. Susheel Bibbs • Dr. Umi Vaughan • Duke Ellington • East Bay Center for Performing Arts • Ed Reed • Elmer Gibson • Emancipation Proclamation • Ezra Jack Keats • Faye Carol • Fred Benjamin • Freight and Savage Coffee House • Garth Fagan • Gene Howell • Huey P. Newton • Hunters Point • Infinity Performing Ensemble • Infinity Productions • Jabari Shaw • James Leary • Jazz Heritage Center • Jetta Martin Dance Company • Juanita Hodge • jubilee • K Star Productions • Kalkidan Mashasha • Kamau Amen-Ra • Kehinde Wiley • Kellye Gray • KQED • Laney College Theater • Laney College Theatre • Latanya d.Tigner • Leon Joyce Jr. • LHT • LifeForceJazz Artists Collective • LifeForceJazz Record Label • Lorraine Hansberry Theatre • Malik Seneferu • Mama Charlotte • March on Washington • Marcus Shelby Orchestra • Marin Theatre Company • Martin Luther King Day • Martin Luther King Jr. • Mary Ellen Pleasant • Merritt College • MJ’s Brass Boppers • MoAD • Modesto Briseno • Monica Pree • Museum of the African Diaspora • Musical Tribute to Duke Ellington • Ninth Annual Black Choreographers Festival: Here and Now • Opening Reception • OyamO • Paradise Free Jahlove • Pat Coleman • Patricia Wilder • Paul Gibson • President Obama • presidential inauguration • Randall Kline • Rena Marie Guidry • Rep. Barbara Lee • Robert Henry Johnson • salsa-timba dancing • San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown • SF Playhouse • SFJAZZ • Sila’s World of Music Concert • SJ Rep • Thamsanqa Hlatywayo • The Magic Theatre • The Seastrunk Brothers • This Week in Northern California • Thomas Tandy • timba • Tribute to Billy Higgins • Wanda Sabir • Wanda's Picks • West Oakland Branch Library • Wilda Aisyah • WordSlanger • YBCA Forum • “Afro Cuba” • “Black Sabbath” • “Black Swan” • “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof” • “Dance Across the Diaspora” • “From These Roots Celebration” • “From These Roots: The Journey to Freedom” • “Harpist from the Hood" • “Loving Africa Tour” • “Martin’s Dream: My Journey and the Legacy of Martin Luther King Jr.” • “Martin’s Dream” • “No More Violence No More Pain” • “Rebel Dance Renegade Stance: Timba Music and Black Identity in Cuba” • “Rebel Dance Renegade Stance” • “The Kinsey Collection: Shared Treasures of Bernard and Shirley Kinsey Where Art and History Intersect” • “The Snowy Day” • “The World Stage: Israel” • “Tituba the Black Witch of Salem” • “World Stage Israel”

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Tags: A Raisin in the Sun • African American Art and Culture Complex’s Buriel Clay Theater • African American Shakespeare • Afrikan Sistah's Media Network • Afro-Cuban • Alain Soto • Alayo Dance Company • Albert King • Albert Woodfox • Alisa Dillion-Ogden • Amnesty International • Angola • Angola 3 • Ashkenaz Music and Dance Center • Avotcja • Axis Dance Company • Bay Area • Bay View • Bayview Opera House Ruth Williams Memorial Theatre • Berkeley • Billy Bang • Black Choreographers Here and Now • Black Codes • Black Panther Party • Broadway • Cha Cha Cha • Chankletas • Citizens for a Better Environment • Columbia • CubaCaribe • CubaCaribe Festival • Cuban Salsa • Custom Made Theatre • Cutting Ball Theater • Dadda or Banyanyi • Dance Mission • Daria Nile Trio • Dewey Monument • East Bay • East Oakland • Eastside Arts Alliance • Eastside Cultural Center • Ebony • Educational Associates • Egun • El Hajj Malik el Shabazz • Elouise Burrell • Emancipation Proclamation • Eric Hunt • Filipino • Fredrika Keefer • Gifted and Black" • Gladys “Bobi” Cepedes • Gough Street Playhouse • Gov. Bobby Jindal • Great Mother Yemaja • Grrrl Bridge • Guaguanco • Gulf of Mexico • Habeas Project • Harriett Tubman Terrace Apartments • Herman King • Herman Wallace • Ifá-Orisha faith • Ile Orunmila Oshun • India Cooke • Jeff Chambers • John Williams • Joshua Bell • Juan de Dios Ramos • Judith Smith • Kash Killion • Kenneth Nash • Kev Choice Ensemble • Kevin Brown • Kevin Epps • Kyleigh Nevis • L. Peter Callender • Laney College • Lauri Anderson • Legal Services for Prisoners with Children • Leisei Chen • Lorraine Hansberry • Lorraine Hansberry Theatre • Louisiana • Louisiana Capital • Lucumi • Luisah Teish • Malcolm X • Malcolm X Jazzarts Festival • Malonga Center • Marc Brew • Marines Memorial Theatre • Martin King • Michael White • Michele Shay • Michelle Alexander • Mississippi • Mississippi River • MoAD • Modupue • Mother Earth • MOVE • Multi Ethnic Theater (MET) • Mumia Abu Jamal • Museum of the African Diaspora • Muziki Duane Roberson • Muziki Roberson • Nehanda Imara • New Orleans • Nina Simone • Oba Nani • Obba Nani • Occupy San Quentin • Olokun • Omar Sosa Afreecanos Quartet • Orisha • Oshun • Oya-Yansa Iansa • Palo Monte • Pearl Cleage • Pearl River county • Plaza CUBA • President Obama • Quentin Easter • Raices Profundas Mixed Repertory • Raissa Simpson • Ramon Ramos Alayo • Robert Gossett • Robert King • Rumba • Samuel Jackson • San Antonio Park • San Francisco • Sandy Poindexter • Santeria • SFIAF • Shelly Davis • Sister Makinyah • Sister Naderi Jomoke • Son • South Africa • Stanley E. Williams • Steven Anthony Jones • Straight Outta Hunter's Point 2 • Susana Arenas Pedroso • Sweet Honey in the Rock • Tarika Lewis • Tassafaronga Farm • Tenderloin • The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness • The Sacred Well • TNT • U.K. • UC Berkeley • Union Square • Union Square Live 2012 • United States • Vadim Jean • Victor Talledos • Wanda Brown • Wanda Sabir • Wanda's Picks Radio • Yagbe Onilu • Yambu • Yemaya • Yerba Buena Gardens Festival • Yewa • Yoruba • Zellerbach Auditorium • “Bitter Melon” • “Blues for an Alabama Sky” • “From the Bottom of the Heap-the Autobiography of Black Panther Robert Hillary King” • “From the Inside Out: Food as Medicine" • “Full of Words” • “Grace Notes" • “In The Land of the Free…” • “Layers of Love" • “Love Yo Mama” • “Oil and Water" • “To Be Young

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Tags: "Clap" • "Easy Rider • "Toy Story" • 55th Annual San Francisco International Film Festival • 57th Street Gallery • Aaron Mirmalek • Abel Damasceno Moura • African American History Department • African American Shakespeare • Afrikan Sistah's Media Network • Afro-Caribbean • AFSC Stopmax Campaign • Aiyana Jones • Albert Woodfox • Alex de Grassi • Alixa and Naima • All of Us or None • American • American Indian Movement • Amnesty International • Amoeba Records • Annie Elias • Anoushka Snakar • Aretha Franklin • Ariel Luckey • Arlington Cemetery • Ashkenaz Music and Dance Center • Assemblyman Sandre Swanson • Atasiea • Atlanta • Aya de Leon • Azadeh Zohrabi • Baton Rouge • Bay Area • Bay View • Ben Harper • Berkeley • Big in Oakland • Black Choreographers Here and Now • Black Dolls • Black History Month • Black in Oakland • Black Panther Party • Black Repertory Group Theatre • Bobby Hutton • Bower Hammer Skins • Brazil • British • Brooklyn • Brother Khalil Shaheed • Byb Chanel Biben • Cal Performances • California • California hunger strikers • California Prison Focus • Cara Black • Caribbean • Carl Perkins • Cesar Chavez • Chairman Bobbie Seale • Charles Lloyd New Quartet • Chicago 8 • Chicano • Chinyakare Ensemble • Chris Evans • Christopher La Vell Jones • Chuy Varela • Claire Schoen • Clarence “Ray” Johnson Jr. • Climbing PoeTree • Collage des Africains • Comisar • Congo • Connecticut • cruel and unusual punishment • Cuttingball Theatre • Daniel Booker • David Boyce • de Fremery Park • Debbie Allen • Deborah Vaughan • Delano • Destiny • Destiny Muhammad • Detroit • Diamano Coura • Dick Clark’s American Bandstand • Dimensions Dance Theater • Dimensions Dance Theatre • Dodgers • Dr. Arletha “Angel” Lands • Dr. Liza • Dr. Marcus Lorenzo Penn • Dr. Martin Luther King • Dr. Terence Elliott • E-Government Made Easy • Eastside Arts Alliance • Ebenezer Baptist Church • EGYPT 80 • Eldridge Cleaver • Ernest Jolly • FBI • First Annual Bay Area Community College HIV/AIDS Hip Hop Showcase • Folsom Prison • Frank Ogawa Plaza • Fred Setterberg • Friends and Family • Fua Dia Congo • Georgia • Germany • Ghana • Gov. Bobby Jindal • Greg Simmons • Haiti and Latin America • Hall of Culture • Hans Bennett • Harlem • Hastings Race and Poverty Law Journal • Healthy Economics • Hear the Cry • Herb Ruffin • Herbst Theatre • Herman Wallace • HIV • Holy Redeemer Center • Ida Sue Brown • International Coalition to Free the Angola 3 • Isaura Oliveira • Jackie Robinson • James Comisar • Jasmine Vassar • Jochelle Elise Perena • John Brown • John Henry Redwood • John Legend • Johnny Cash • Jon Fromer • Journalists for Mumia • Julia Chigamba • June Carter • June Jordan • Karese Young • Katrina Diaspora Survivors • KCSM • Keith Jarrett • Keith Josef Adkins • Kennedy • Kenneth Harding Jr • Kenneth L. Fergusin • Kerry Baxter Jr. • Kiazi Malonga • Kiilu Nyasha • La Pena Cultural Center • Laney College Theatre • LaTanya Tigner • Leonard Peltier Defense Offense Committee • Let Us Not Forget: Honor Fallen Comrades and Political Prisoners • Little Souls • Long Wharf Theatre • Lorraine Hansberry Theatre • Los Angeles • Louis B. Mayer Lounge • Louisiana State Capitol • Luis Rodriguez • Luis “Bato” Talamantez • Lunch Bucket Paradise • Lyric Dance and Vocal Ensemble • Lyricist Lounge • m.a. brooks • Madagascar • Made in Oakland • Malonga Casquelourde Center • Manuel La Fontaine • Maria Farntouri • McCarter Theatre • Metropolitan Museum of Art • Mexican-American • Mexico • Michael Lange • Michele Shay • Michigan • Midwood High • Mike Spencer • Mike “Phat Foot” McCoy • Minnesota History Center • MJ’s Brass Boppers • Mona Caron • Morehouse College • Musekiwa Chingodza • Mysterious Places • National Lawyers Guild • National Poetry Month • Neshormeh Lindo • New Haven • New Jersey • New York • Nixon • Norman Jewison • Northfield • Oakland • Oakland City Hall • Oakland International Film Festival • Oakland Museum • Oakland Museum of California • Oakland Public Library • Oaktown Jazz Workshop • Obsequies • OMCA Summer Nights • On Stage Studio (Kids N’Dance) • OneLife Angel Team • Oscar Grant III • Osun 07 Fashions • Owen Steinhauer • Pacific Film Archive • Paco de Lucía • Paige Bierma • Pan African • Paramount Theatre • Patricia Smith • Paula Martin • Pearl Cleage • Pharoahe Monch • Phylicia Rashad • Poetry for the People • Power to the people! • Princeton • Push Dance Company • Quijeremá • Quilombos • Raissa Simpson • Raja • Rape Awareness Month • Republican National Convention • RFK • Rio • Robert Gossett • Robert H. King • Robin Hood Summer Camp • Rod Steiger • Rough Reading Series • Rys Bowen • Sacramento International Film Festival • Sam Greenlee • San Francisco • San Francisco Public Library • San Quentin 6 • Seun Kuti • SFJAZZ • SFMOMA • Shaheed family • Sheena Johnson • Sidney Poitier • Sierra Maestra • South Asia • Stage Bridge Senior Theater Storytelling Concert • Stanford University Medical Center • Sundance • Sundance Kabuki • Susan Greene • Tahtanerriah Sessoms-Howell • TaSin Yasmin • Tavia Percia • Teen Poetry Reading • Temescal Art Center • Tennessee Three • Terence Nance • Terry Kupers • The Black Dot Cafe • The Dart Society • The Köln Concert • the Tenderloin • THEOFFCENTER • Tico “Choir Boy” Wells • TNT • Trayvon Martin • UC Berkeley • UC Hastings • UC Hastings College of the Law • Vietnam • Vinicius Oliveira • Virginia • W.A.R. (We Are Renegades) • Walter Dallas • Wanda Picks Radio • Wanda Sabir • Wanda's Picks • Warren Oates • West Oakland • Wilda Batin • William Crossman • Women's History Month • Wright Institute • YBCA Forum • Yoshi’s Jack London Square • Yoshi’s Oakland • Youth Poet Laureates • Youth Speaks • Zellerbach Auditorium • “1968” • “A Brush with the Tenderloin" • “All of Us or None: Social Justice Posters of the San Francisco Bay Area” • “Always Running: La Vida Loca" • “Black Flight” • “Blues for an Alabama Sky” • “Down the Congo Line" • “Final Fridays" • “Freedom Study #2" • “Gang Days in L.A.” • “Harpist from the Hood" • “How Would You Feel?” • “I Am Somebody” • “I Have Been to the Mountaintop” • “In the Beginning" • “In the Heat of the Night" • “In The Land of the Free…” • “It Calls You Back: An Odyssey Through Love Addiction" • “Jewels in the Square" • “John Brown’s Truth" • “Julius Caesar" • “Land/Home" • “Let Us Not Forget: History and Art by Black Panther Party Minister of Culture Emory Douglas” • “Love Balm for My SpiritChild: Testimonies of Healing Justice through Mothers’ Memory • “Love It or Leave It" • “Old Settler Factor” • “Poetry for the People: A Revolutionary Blueprint" • “Rebel Home Dance" • “Sisterhood is Powerful” • “Soldier: A Poet’s Childhood” • “Soul on Ice" • “The 1968 Exhibit" • “The Death of Hope” • “The Final Days of Negro-Ville" • “The Generation Gap” • “The Gray Box: A Multimedia Investigation” • “The Living Room War” • “The Old Settler" • “The Outer Limits of Solitary Confinement: A Public Forum to Support the California Prisoner Hunger Strike” • “The Oversimplification of Her Beauty" • “The Spook that Sat by the Door" • “The Votes Are In” • “Traces of the Trade" • “Traveller: A Raga-Flamenco Journey" • “Welcome to Chicago” • “We’re Losing The War" • “Yellow House Project: Beauty" • “Yellow House”

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Tags: 22nd Annual African American Celebration through Poetry • Abigail Disney • Abigail E. Disney • Abu Baker • Adam Hochchild • African Film Festival • Afrikan Sistah's Media Network • Afro-Haitian • Alexandra Township • Ali Samadi Ahadi • Alonozo King • ANC • ANC Youth League • and Sex Changed a Nation at War” • Arkansas State Press • Artist Proof • Artist Proof Studio • Ashby Flea Market • Aubrey Sekqabi • Ausar Auset Society West Coast Chapter • Austin • B.Yung • Bay Area • Bay Trail • Bay View • Bayard Rustin • Ben Turner • Berkeley • Bheki Khoza • Bilal • Bill T. Jones • Black and Green" • Black Choreographers Here and Now • Black Community Services Center • Black Friday • Bloemfontein • Blomfontein • Brava Theater • Brenda Joyce • Britain • Brother Fred • Cal Performances • Cal State East Bay • California • Calvin Keys • Cape Town • Central High • Charles Taylor • Children’s Civil Movement • Christine Chacha • City Lights Publishers • Civil Rights Movement • Colette Eloi • Community Works • Congo • Cool Arts • Dahlak Brathwaite • Dance Mission • Daniel Beaty • Daveed Diggs • David Norris • Dereca Blackmon • Dion Decibels • Dr. Dorothy I. Height • Dr. Marcus Lorenzo Penn • Dr. Robert Scott (posthumous) • Dr. Wangari Maathai (posthumous) • Dr. Yao Graham • East Bay Educational Program • Eastbay Church of Religious Science • Egypt • Elaine Lee • Elouise Burrell • Emmett Till • English • European • FESMAN • First Lady Michelle Obama • Gary Dobson • Germany • Gini Reticker • Gregory Maqoma • Haigood’s Zaccho Dance Company • Hausa • Helen Anderson • Hodari Davis • Homeless Talk: Helping the Poor Help Themselves • Independent Lens • Indie Film Festival • Iran • IT • Jacqueline Copeland-Carson • James Gayles • James Knox • Jazz Heritage Center Theatre • Jazz Heritage Gallery • Jeffrey Skoller • Jim Dennis • Joanne Griffith • Joburg • Johannesburg • Johannesburg University • Joseph Mmaphuti Kgomo • Julius Malema • La Pena Cultural Center • Lake Merritt Hotel • Laney College • Legal Services for Prisoners with Children • Leymah Gbowee • Liberia • Linda Burnham • LINES Contemporary Ballet • Little Rock 9 • Living Word Festival • Lucious Christopher “L.C.” Bates • Lulu • Lush Life Gallery • Madagascar • Mail@Guardian • Malawi • Mandela • Marc Bamuthi Joseph • March on Washington • Marcus Books • Market Theatre • Martin King • Mbeki • Melville • Melvin Van Peebles • Mic Turner • Mike Mvelase • Mophatong • Mouride Brotherhood (the Muridiyya) • Moving into Dance • Museum Africa • Museum of the African Disapora • Muslim • Mutombo Mpanya • My Father's House • Myesha Jenkins • NAACP • Ned Bank • Ned Oil • New York • Newtown Cultural Precinct • Nobel Peace Prize • Oak Center • Oakland • Occupy Action • Oprah • Pacific Film Archive • Paepae Kenny Mmekwa • Pan African • Pat Jamison • Patricia A. Montgomery • PBS • Pedi • PFA • Pinise • Pray the Devil Back to Hell • Prayer • President Jacob Zuma • Pretoria • Pretoria News • Prince Newtown • Qi Gong • Rainbow Recreation Center • Ramadan Rides • Red • Regina Mundy • Rhodessa Jones • Rosa Parks • Rosebank • San Francisco • San Quentin • Sankofa • Second Annual Ubuntu Awards • Selaelo Maredi • Senegal • SFJAZZ • Shaka Jamal • Sharon La Cruise • Shekhem Samerit Kau • Sifiso E. Kweyama • South Africa • Sowetan • Soweto • Stanford University • State Theatre • Stephen Lawrence • Street Sheet • Street Spirit • Sudanese • Tambo Mbeki • Ted Coffey • Texas • The Allen Temple AIDS Ministry • The Citizen • The Knowledge Conference • The Long Shadow of Little Rock" • The Lucky Bean • The Star • The Telegraph (published in UK • The Zimbabwean (published in Europe) • Third World • Third World Network • Tim Wise • Tkolwe Sehume • Tlokwe Sehume • Touba • Tsakane • Tshwane • Tunde • UC Berkeley • UC Merced • Union Building • University of Texas • Usuthu Art Productions • Vera Nobles • Viva Riva • Walter Turner • Wampanoag. Pilgrims • Wanda Sabir • Wanda's Picks Radio • West Oakland Branch Library • Westend Theatre • Wits • Witwatersrand • World Cultures • Yerba Buena Center for the Arts • Youth Speaks • Yvette Hochberg • Zellerbach Hall • Zora Neale Hurston • Zulu • “Activism in the Age of Obama” • “Beautiful Me" • “Daisy Bates: First Lady of Little Rock” • “Dance Umbrella" • “Dear White America: Letter to a New Minority" • “I Dream a World” • “Kinshasa Symphony” • “Mighty Be Our Powers: How Sisterhood • “Redefining Black Power: Reflections on the State of Black America" • “Redefining Black Power” • “Screenagers: 14th Annual Bay Area High School Film and Video Festival" • “Slamnation" • “Story/Time" • “Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song” • “The Green Wave" • “Through the Night" • “We Still Live Here - Âs Nutayuneân" • “Word Becomes Flesh”

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Tags: African Film Festival • Athol Fugard • Ayodele Nzinga • Black Choreographers Here and Now • Dave Eggers • Dr. Carlos Moore • Elinor Sisulu • Ellis Berry • Friends of Sironka Maasai Dance Troupe • Gabriel Teodros • Geoffrey Grier • Jerry Fowler • Josh Costello • Kendra Kimbrough • Laura Elaine Ellis • Mark Ashurst • Meklit Hadero • Omer Ismael • Paul Robeson • Pearl Cleage • Richard Silliamson • Robert Rotberg • Sheryl Lee Ralph • Valentino Achak Deng • Victoria Erville • Wanda Sabir • Yehmanja Houff • Youssef Chahine