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Tags: 11th Annual Human Rights Film Festival • 11th Annual Oakland International Film Festival • 2013 Mash It Up Tour • 56th Annual San Francisco International Film Festival • 9th Annual CubaCaribe Festival of Dance Music • African Advocacy Network • Afro-Cuban modern dance company • Alice Walker • Alvin Ailey Dance Company • Ancestral Voices Choir • Andean folk tale • Arisika Razak • Ashay by the Bay • Augustus Jones • Bacheesos Live Arabic Music • Black Studies in America • Blackwater National Wildlife Refuge • Brava Theatre • Bruce Silverman • Caribbean Diaspora • Cheikh Amadou Bamba • Chi Gung • Chowchilla • Cristwell Muhammad • Cultural Odyssey • Dafina Kuficha • Damballah initiate • Dance Mission Theater • Daughters of the Goddess • David Glover • David Molina • Destiny Muhammad • Destiny Muhammad Project • Django • Dorchester County • Dr. Gabriela Lena Frank • Dr. Julia Hare • Dr. Liza Rankow • Dr. Nathan Hare • Duniya Dance and Drum Company • E.W. Wainwright • East Bay Meditation Center • Elephant Sushi • Elise Ching • Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi • enslaved people • Family Von Trapp • Fatoumata Diawara • floatation • Frederick Douglass • Frederick Harris • Gallo Center for the Arts • Gary Brown • Geoffery’s Club • GirlTrek’s “We Are Harriet 100-Year Tribute and Walking Challenge” • Halal Food Festival • Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad National Monument • Healing Oasis • Hodari Toure • Holy Redeemer Center • Idris Ackamoor • Ile Orunmila Oshun • Iya Nedra Williams • Iya Uzuri Amini • Jack Kornfield • Jacob Jackson • Jacob Jackson Home Site • Jewry’s liberation from slavery • JFK University in Berkeley • John Brown • Kaleo • Karen Seneferu • Konda Mason • L. Peter Callender • Laney College Theater • Leilani Bireley • Lula Washington Dance Theatre • Maestro Benjamin Simon • Mambo Susheel Bibbs • Marcus Penn • Marin Theatre Company • Marvin X • Mary Ellen Donald • Mary Ellen Pleasant • Maryland’s Eastern Shore • Masjidul Waritheen • Matthew Lopez • Medea Project • Michael Bernard Beckwith • Mouried Brotherhood • Ms. Transformative Visions • National Geographic • National Park System • New Beginning Ritual Theatre Ceremony • Nicholas Pelczar • Nilo Cruz • Oliver Mutakutzu • Olokun priestess • OneLife Institute • OneLife team • Orpheus World Music Ensemble • Oshun • P.J. Hogan • Passover • Peter Callender • Pharoah Sanders • Portia Anderson • Qanun • Queen Rhodessa Jones • Raz Kennedy • Rebecca Gibney • Resurrection Day • Rev. Liza Rankow • Rhodessa Jones • Rickie Byars Beckwith • Ritual for the Waters of the World • San Francisco Chamber Orchestra Composer in Residence • Sarah Michael • Season of Peace • Seder meal • Sekou Toure • sensory deprivation and isolation • SFCO musicians • Shy Hamilton • Sofia University • Spirit Silence Retreat • Stanley Clarke • Stasha and Brynn Mercedes • Stewart’s Canal • Studio One • Sundance Kabuki • Tacuma King • Tai Chi • Tammy Hall • Tarika Lewis • Teatro de la Danza del Caribe from Cuba • Terry Holgate • The Conservation Fund • Thomas B. Allen • Timbuktu Mali • Tobie Windham • Toni Collette • Touba City Senegal • U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service • Umoja • UniverSoul Circus • Vance Williams • Walking for Harriet • Wanda Sabir • Wanda’s Picks April 2013 • YBCA Forum • Yeye Luisah Teish • Zellerbach Auditorium • “African Window Panes” • “Confessions of a Shopaholic” • “Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s Beloved Community and Where We Go from Here” • “General” Harriet Tubman • “Harriet Tubman Secret Agent: How Daring Slaves and Free Blacks Spied for the Union during the Civil War” • “I Bring What I Love” • “Journey of the Shadow” • “Mental” • “Muriel’s Wedding” • “My Best Friend’s Wedding” • “One Flew over a Cuckoo’s Nest” • “The Dream Never Dies” • “The Little Rock Nine” • “The Madness of the Elephant” • “The Resurrection of SHE” • “The Sound of Music” • “The Whipping Man” • “Transformative Visions” • “Transformative Visions” exhibition

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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: "Every 36 Hours: Report on the Extrajudicial Killing of 120 Black People" • Adam Blueford • African community • Alameda County district attorney • Alan Blueford • Alan Dwayne Blueford • Ameir Rollins • American Indian Movement (AIM) • Andrew Moppin • Angela Davis • anti-war Port of Oakland • Ben Hartman of the Jerusalem Post • Black and Brown children • Black and Brown families • Black Panther Party for Self-Defense • Black self-defense groups • California Penal Section 407 • central Bronx • City of Oakland Police Department • Civil Rights Division • Clarence Mabanag • COINTELPRO • Declaration of Independence • Derrick Jones • Downtown Oakland • Dr. Huey P. Newton • El Hajj Malik el Shabazz • Eleanor Roosevelt • extrajudicial murder • Fannie Lou Hamer • FBI • federal District Judge Thelton Henderson • federal receivership • fight for liberation • Frank Vazquez • Free Children’s Breakfast Program • Gary King Jr. • Huey P. Newton • Interim Police Chief Howard Jordan • Israeli police commanders • J. Edgar Hoover • JAB • Jeralyn Blueford • Jesse Jackson • Jim Chanin • Jody Woodfox III • Johannes Mehserle • John Burris • Joshua Russell • Jude Siapno • Judi Bari • Justice 4 Alan Blueford • Justice 4 Alan Blueford Coalition • Laney College Black Student Union • Laney College Theater • Leslie Allen • Lovelle Mixon • Malaika H. Kambon • Malcolm X Grassroots Movement • Marcus Mosiah Garvey • Matthew Hornung • Mayor Jean Quan • Michael Rains • Michelle Alexander • Millie McGhee • negotiated settlement agreement (NSA) • NYPD Officer Miguel Masso • Oakland City Hall • Oakland PD • Oakland Police Department headquarters • Oakland Police Department misconduct • Oakland Police Department murder and murder • Oakland police officers • Oakland Rider case • Oakland’s chief of police • Occupy Oakland • OPD internal affairs • OPD Officer Dara-Quiroz • OPD Officer Hector Jimenez • OPD officer Miguel Masso • OPD Officer Perez-Angeles • OPD Sgt. Patrick Gonzalez • Oscar Grant III • people of color • police brutality • Policeman’s Bill of Rights • Professor Ward Churchill • racial profiling • racist violence • Rafael Santiago • re-call bids • Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. • Riders case • right to bear arms • Second Amendment to the Constitution of the United States • SF Examiner’s Ed Montgomery • Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee • Ten Point Program • The New Jim Crow • Tim Killings • U.N. MINUSTAH • U.S. Attorney’s office in San Francisco • U.S. Department of Justice • victims of police brutality • Weather Underground • West Oakland • William C. Sullivan • ‘Honoring Alan Blueford’ • “Drifted Back in Time: Deep Secrets Revealed” • “joint Israel police-Abraham Fund Initiative” • “Secrets Uncovered” • “War Against the Panthers: A Study of Repression in America” • “What’s Done in the Dark”

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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. Washington • Brandon Darby • California Coalition for Women Prisoners • California Coalition for Women Prisoners (CCWP) • California Habeas Project • Castro • Central California Women’s Facility (CCWF) • Charlie Wilson • Cheryl Smith • Chinese-American • City Lights • Claude Marks • Common Ground Relief • Congo • Constitution • Dakar • Dance Mission Theater • Daniele Anastasion • Danny Glover • Debbie Peagler • Dejuan Conner • Detroit • Diana Ross • Digital Underground • Dimensions Rites of Passage Spring Production • Dispersal (Hurricane Katrina) • Dogpatch Cafe and Art Gallery • Dorian Brockington • Douglas Turner Ward • Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. • East Bay • Eastside Arts Alliance • Egypt • Elvin Jones • Eric Revis • Eric Strauss • EXIT Theatre Studio • Fantasia • FBI • Field of Dreams • Firestone • First Congregational Church of Oakland • First Landing National Monument to Slavery and Freedom • First Landing of Africans • Flint • Florent Tillon • Ford • Fort Monroe • France and Burkina Faso • Frances Driscoll • Freight and Savage • Gap Band • George Washington Carver • Germany • Gipsy Kings • Göran Hugo Olsson • Grassroots Composers Ensemble • Hafsa Al Amin • Haiti and Latin America • Hampton • Hank Jones • Harlem • Hitler • Honorable Elijah Muhammad • International Year for People of African Descent • Isabel Wilkerson • Ivy League • Jazz Heritage Center Educational and Media Theatre • Jean Kwok • Jeff Stetson • John Africa • John Fogerty • John Henrik Clarke • John Santos • John Santos Sextet • Jon Fromer • Joshua Safan • Kabuki • Kaidi Depelchin • Kamala Harris • Kathryn Wood • Katie Galloway • KBLX • Kelly Duane de La Vega • Ken Foster • Kim Longinott • Kimball’s Carnival • Kimberly Jeffery • King Leopold • La Tierra de Arará Celebrating the Dance and Music of the Afro-Caribbean • Lake Merritt Garden Center • Lance Armstrong • Laney College Theater • Lauren Hutton • Legal Services for Prisoners with Children • Leonard Foglia • Leslie Neale • Little Stevie Wonder • LWOP • Mabel Williams • Malcolm X • Malik Rahim • Malonga Casquelourd Center • Malonga Casquelourd Center for the Arts Theatre • Marisa Gonzalez • Mark Wright • Marvin Gaye • Medea Project • Mediterranean • Michael Jackson • Michael Lange • Michael Moore • Michelle Alexander • Michigan • Morrie Turner • Mother’s Day • Motown • MOVE family • Muammar Qaddafi • Museum of the African Diaspora • Museum of the African Diaspora (MoAD) • Muziki Roberson • NAACP • Nadia Costa • Nasheet Waits • Natasha • Nation of Islam • NBC • New York • New York Times • Ogun • Old Point Comfort • Oliver Schmitz • Opiyo Okach • Pearl Cleage • Pink Saris" • Pop Lyfe • Port Chicago 50 • Port Chicago Naval Base • President Barack Obama • Priscilla Ocen • Prostate Cancer Foundation • Pulitzer Prize • Push Dance Company • Raissa Simpson • Ramona Africa • Ranzel Merritt • Rashad • Red Vic Movie House • Republic of New Afrika • Resistance (Civil Rights) • Rhodessa Jones • Richmond • Riverhead Trade Paperbacks • Robert F. 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"