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Tags: 18th Annual Labor Fest • 2012 - The Musical • 34th Annual Bay Area Playwrights Festival • 700 and Int'l • 700th and Int'l • A Juneteenth Community Sing • A Panther is a Black Cat • AAMLO Townhall • Africa • African American Center • African Cosmology of the Bantu-Kongo • African Spiritual Healer in Crisis • African spiritual practices • AfroCuban Music in the Gardens • An Afternoon of Afro-Cuban Dance and Music • ancestors • Anna Dever Smith • Archie Lee • Avotcja • BASH • Bay Area SHorts • Bill Doggett • Black Liberation Army • Black Panther • BPP Commemorator Newspaper • Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters • California and the 150 Anniversary of the US Civil War: Slave Labor and Free Labor • California Habeas Project • Carlos Carrera • Castro Theater • Chinaka Hodge • City Lights Bookstore • Ciudad Juarez • classical music • COINTELPRO • Commies and American Democracy on Trial • Compared to What • contemporary art • Contra Costa College • Crime After Crime • Debbie Peagler • Deborah Willis • deFremery Park • Destiny • DJ DC of 106KMEL • domestic violence • Dr. K. Kia Bunseki Fu-Kiau • Eastside Cultural Center Friday • Edrix Cooper Anifowoshe • EJ Youngblood • emancipated Texans • Emancipation Proclamation • Eric Ting • Europe • fault lines • FilmWorks United • folk • Friends of Negro Spirituals • Galveston • Garden Series • General Order No. 3 • Geronimo ji jaga • Green Arcade • Haight St. • Hank Willis Thomas • Hip Hop • Hotel Nikko • Ise Lyfe • Jacki Sibblies Drury • jazz • Joshua Safran • Joyce Gordon Gallery • jubilee • Julie Cavanagh • Kamau Amen-Ra • Keba Konte • Kim Nalley • Koret Auditorium • KPFA • La Pena Cultural Center • Labor Fest • Larry Shoup • Let Me Down Easy • liberal • Lil Bobby Hutton • Majeedah Rahman • Marissa Gonzalez • Mexico • Mime Troupe • Mira Theatre • Nadio Costa • Namibia • Nancy Duranteau • Nashormeh Lindo • Negro Spirituals • Nina Simone • Norman K. Brown • Oakland • Paul Robeson • Pistols & Prayers • Playwrights Foundation • Poetry in the Struggle • political prisoners • race • racism • Reginald Major • role of slavery • Rulers and Rebels: A People's History of California • Sabina Berman • San Francisco • San Francisco Main Library • Sande Perez y Su Lande • Sara Marie Prada • Scott Martelle • segregationists • Self-Healing Power and Therapy • show tunes • Simbi-Simbi:Hold Up That Which Holds You Up • slaves • sociopolitical commentary • SOMARTs Cultural Center • South America • spirituals • Stanford Jazz Festival • TaSin Sabir • The African American Concert Singer • The Book • the Carribean • The Feat Within:Spies • The Healthy Baby Project • The Inconvenient Truth Behind Waiting for Superman • The RRazz Room • The Underground Railroad:Songs of Hope and Freedom • theatre • Thick House • trade unions • Union Major-Gen. Gordon Granger • United States • veteran • Vietnam • Visual Word - Poetry Through Photograph • Waiting for Superman • Wanda Sabir • We Are Proud to Present a Presentation • West Oakland • Women's Studies • Yerba Buena Free Concerts • Yoav Potash

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Tags: 10th Annual DIVAfest • 11th Annual Malcolm X Jazz Arts Festival • 14th Annual Stone Soul Concert • AAMLO • Abbie Rhone • Above All" • Abraham Burton • Abraham Burton Trio • Abraham Burton’s Trio • Africa Contemporary Arts Consortium • African American Museum and Library • African Burial Ground • African Diaspora • All of Us or None • Alrick Brown • America On-Line’s Black Voices • Andrea Joyce • Angela Davis • Angola 3 • Anna Deavere Smith • Art and Music in the Gardens • Atlantic • Audubon Ballroom • Berkeley Rep • Berry Gordy Jr. • Bill of Rights • Birdie Africa • Black Holocaust or Maafa • Black Monk • Book Passage • Booker T. 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King • Robert F. Williams • Robert H. King • Romare Bearden • Romare Bearden Foundation • Rwanda • Sacramento • San Antonio Park • San Francisco Carnaval Parade 2011 • San Francisco International Film Festival • Sarah Bouyain • SB 9 • Seventh Annual Berkeley World Music Festival • Seventh Annual CubaCaribe Festival • SFIFF • Sheryl Crow • Sleep Train Pavilion • Sonoma Jazz Festival • South Africa • SpeakOut • Speech • St. Paul AME Church • Steve Cooley • Sundance Kabuki • Sweden • Texas Gov. Ann Richards • Thaddeus Jones • The EastSide Cultural Center • the Last Poets • Theatre for Incarcerated Women • Thulani Davis • Thurgood Marshall • Tim Wise • Today Show • Tom Juarez • Transformation (Baptism) • Transition (Middle Passage) • UC Berkeley’s Pacific Film Archive • Umar Bin Hassan • Vanessa Roth • Virginia • Vukani Mawethu • Vukani Mawethu Choir • Wanda Sabir • Wanda’s Picks Radio • Wanda’s Picks Radio Show • Wee Pals • Will Smith • Women’s Civic Improvement Center • Work Week at Oakland Feather River Camp • World Festival of Black Art and Culture (FESMAN) • YBCA • YBCA Forum • YBCA Screening Room • Yerba Buena Center for the Arts • Yoav Potash • Yuri Kochiyama • “A Cat in Paris" • “A Day I Will Never Forget" • “American Teacher" • “Better This World" • “Body Evidence" • “Bowling for Columbine" • “Circumstance" • “Cointelpro 101” • “Crime After Crime" • “Crying for You” • “Day of Absence” • “Detroit Wild City” • “Divorce Iranian Style" • “Fahrenheit 9/11" • “Filosofîa Caribeña" • “Fires in the Mirror” • “From Process to Print: Graphic Works by Romare Bearden • “Girl in Translation" • “Hands Up" • “Hot Coffee • “I Am Legend" • “I Never Got Enough" • “I Wanna Be Your Man” • “I Wish I Had a Red Dress” • “Incendies" • “Jean Gentil” • “Just Charlie” • “Juvies” • “Kinyarwanda" • “Let Me Down Easy!” • “Life • “Lucky Girl” • “Marathon Boy" • “Microphone" • “Miss Representation" • “Mixed Messages” • “Monument" • “My Girl Is a Dime” • “Novikoff Ward: Serge Bromerg: Retour de Flamme: Rare and Restored Films” • “Nurse Jackie" • “Once and Forever" • “Page One: A Year Inside the New York Times" • “Phoenix Risen: The Art of Cartoonist David Brown" • “Port Chicago" • “Rituals of Water" • “Rodney Ewing: Unwashed Saints" • “Sisters in Law" • “The Black Power Mixtape 1967–1975" • “The Black Power Mixtape 1967–1975” • “The Green Wave" • “The Meeting" • “The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness" • “The Place in Between" • “The Rape Poems" • “The Redemption of General Butt Naked" • “The Tiniest Place" • “The Troll Hunter” • “The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration" • “The West Wing” • “Twilight: Los Angeles" • “Where Would I Be" • “Women Art Revolution" • "Allensworth: 100 Years of California Dream"