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Wanda’s Picks for March 2013
March 8, 2013
Back when Mumia was a member of the Black Panther Party, he traveled west to work with the Oakland chapter – an important time in his evolution as a radical journalist. Now the story of his life and revolutionary times comes to The New Parkway Theater. Read about it and all of Wanda’s Picks for March 2013.
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Joanna Haigood’s ‘Sailing Away’: Black exodus from San Francisco 1858 and 2012
September 21, 2012
Sometimes one gets tired of living in a place that doesn’t want you there, Zaccho Artistic Director, Joanna Haigood, states at the reception Thursday at the California Historical Society. The only problem is 154 years later, Black people are still unwelcome in San Francisco, which is what “Sailing Away” addresses so eloquently without words.
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Wanda’s Picks for May 2012
May 5, 2012
We give honor to Mother Earth, her birthday celebrated the weekend of April 22 with many great events in the Bay Area, “Love Yo Mama” in East Oakland hosted by Nehanda Imara of Citizens for a Better Environment, one of my favorite community events. My granddaughter and I enjoyed visiting the Tassafaronga Farm.
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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
Wanda’s Picks for April 2012
April 4, 2012
The Oakland International Film Festival is Friday-Sunday, April 6-8, at the Oakland Museum of California, 10th and Oak Street, Oakland. Visit http://www.oiff.org/2012schedule.pdf. This year’s headliner is one of the most controversial independent films ever made, “The Spook Who Sat by the Door.” Watch it again here.
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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”
Filed Under: Culture Currents
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”
Wanda’s Picks for May 2011
May 4, 2011
Happy Mother’s Day to Yuri Kochiyama! I’d like to also wish the women who haven’t seen their children in a long time, some since birth, a special Happy Mother’s Day. Our prayers are with you even if you feel alone at a time when in America prisons systematically separate mothers from their children, often permanently.
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Filed Under: Culture Stories
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"
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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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Wanda’s picks for July
July 2, 2009
Required reading for Americans pre-fireworks and festivities should be an important speech given by abolitionist and former slave Frederick Douglass, who, in “What to the American Slave is Your Fourth of July?” questions this holiday which took place while citizens were denied their right to justice, freedom and equality. At the Oakland Public Conservatory, Michael Lange and youth wordsmiths Ayinde Webb, the drummer in the Frederick Douglass Youth Ensemble, and Jamani Williams will read excerpts.
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Tags: Aazura Nour • Alayna Stroud • Angela Dean-Baham • Angela Wellman • Annette Gordon-Reed • Axis Dance Company • Ayinde Webb • Baba Ken and Kotoja • Ben Oni Orchestra • Betty Johnson • Big Chief Victor Armstrong • Bill Bell and the Jazz Connection • Bill Pickett Invitational Rodeo • Bobi Cespedes • Bolokada Conde - Malinke Djembefola • Bongo Love • Brenda Hillman • Britt Karhoff • Calvin Keys • Camilo Nu • Carolyn Kameya • Carrie Mae Weems • Cesar A. Cruz • Chuy Varela • Colored Ink • Con Funk Shun • Cornelius Eady • Crispus Attucks • Deborah Grant • Donald Harrison 3D Experience • Donald Lacy • Dr. John Q. Taylor King • Drea Brown • Eddie Abrams • En Vogue • Ernestine Anderson with Eric Reed Trio • Evie Shockley • Fareed Haque • Favianna Rodriguez • Freddie McGregor • Frederick Douglass • Frederick Douglass Youth Ensemble • Frederick Harris and Friends • Friends of Negro Spirituals • Galway Kinnell • Gerald Albright • Haroun Serang • Harvey Schwartz • Issa Bagayaogo • Jamani Williams • James Farmer • Jennifer Chien • Jewelle Gomez • Jo Kreiter • Joe Farnsworth • Joyce Gordon Gallery • Judge Harriet Murphy • Juneteenth • Karim Scarlata • Kelly Kemp • Kenji Liu • King Sunny Ade • Kofy Brown • Ladysmith Black Mambazo • Linda Tillery • Lower Bottoms Playas • Luciano • Mai Doan • Marjon Alicia (King) Christopher • Martina Gusman • Mary Ann Brooks • Melecio Magdaluyo • Melissa Caywood • Michael Gene Sullivan • Michael Jackson • Michael Lange • Mike Aaberg • Nat Reed • Oakland Public Conservatory of Music • Pablo Trapero • Pamela Z • Paula West • Pearl Cleage • Peter Coyote • Pharoah Sanders’ Quartet • Rafael Rebollar • Raissa Simpson • Rebirth Brass Band • Recovery Theatre • Reed Rickert • Regina Carter Quintet • René de Guzman • Rene Escovedo y Grupo Festejo • Richard Kevin Cartwright • Robert Hass • Robert Henry Johnson • Robert King • Roberto Quintana • San Francisco Mime Troupe • Sandra Poindexter • Sandy Perez • Sarah “Sally” Hemings • Shanique Scott • Sharon Olds • Shawn Lyles • Sila and the AfroFunk Experience • Solange Knowles • Starbright Elizabeth Bilyck • Steven Turner • Stuart Hines King • Sukhawit Ali Khan • Sylvester Brooks • Taiwo Kujichagulia Seitu • the Itals • the Mighty Diamonds • Thomas Jefferson • Toña la Negra • Truong Tran • UpSurge • Vernon Jordon • Victor Little • Victoria Gannon • Vidhu Singh • Vieux Farka Touré • Vukani Mawethu Choir • W. Kamau Bell Curve • Wanda Sabir • William Henderson • Wycliffe Gordon Quartet • Youssopha Sidibe • Zakir Hussain
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Tags: Aazura Nour • Alayna Stroud • Angela Dean-Baham • Angela Wellman • Annette Gordon-Reed • Axis Dance Company • Ayinde Webb • Baba Ken and Kotoja • Ben Oni Orchestra • Betty Johnson • Big Chief Victor Armstrong • Bill Bell and the Jazz Connection • Bill Pickett Invitational Rodeo • Bobi Cespedes • Bolokada Conde - Malinke Djembefola • Bongo Love • Brenda Hillman • Britt Karhoff • Calvin Keys • Camilo Nu • Carolyn Kameya • Carrie Mae Weems • Cesar A. Cruz • Chuy Varela • Colored Ink • Con Funk Shun • Cornelius Eady • Crispus Attucks • Deborah Grant • Donald Harrison 3D Experience • Donald Lacy • Dr. John Q. Taylor King • Drea Brown • Eddie Abrams • En Vogue • Ernestine Anderson with Eric Reed Trio • Evie Shockley • Fareed Haque • Favianna Rodriguez • Freddie McGregor • Frederick Douglass • Frederick Douglass Youth Ensemble • Frederick Harris and Friends • Friends of Negro Spirituals • Galway Kinnell • Gerald Albright • Haroun Serang • Harvey Schwartz • Issa Bagayaogo • Jamani Williams • James Farmer • Jennifer Chien • Jewelle Gomez • Jo Kreiter • Joe Farnsworth • Joyce Gordon Gallery • Judge Harriet Murphy • Juneteenth • Karim Scarlata • Kelly Kemp • Kenji Liu • King Sunny Ade • Kofy Brown • Ladysmith Black Mambazo • Linda Tillery • Lower Bottoms Playas • Luciano • Mai Doan • Marjon Alicia (King) Christopher • Martina Gusman • Mary Ann Brooks • Melecio Magdaluyo • Melissa Caywood • Michael Gene Sullivan • Michael Jackson • Michael Lange • Mike Aaberg • Nat Reed • Oakland Public Conservatory of Music • Pablo Trapero • Pamela Z • Paula West • Pearl Cleage • Peter Coyote • Pharoah Sanders’ Quartet • Rafael Rebollar • Raissa Simpson • Rebirth Brass Band • Recovery Theatre • Reed Rickert • Regina Carter Quintet • René de Guzman • Rene Escovedo y Grupo Festejo • Richard Kevin Cartwright • Robert Hass • Robert Henry Johnson • Robert King • Roberto Quintana • San Francisco Mime Troupe • Sandra Poindexter • Sandy Perez • Sarah “Sally” Hemings • Shanique Scott • Sharon Olds • Shawn Lyles • Sila and the AfroFunk Experience • Solange Knowles • Starbright Elizabeth Bilyck • Steven Turner • Stuart Hines King • Sukhawit Ali Khan • Sylvester Brooks • Taiwo Kujichagulia Seitu • the Itals • the Mighty Diamonds • Thomas Jefferson • Toña la Negra • Truong Tran • UpSurge • Vernon Jordon • Victor Little • Victoria Gannon • Vidhu Singh • Vieux Farka Touré • Vukani Mawethu Choir • W. Kamau Bell Curve • Wanda Sabir • William Henderson • Wycliffe Gordon Quartet • Youssopha Sidibe • Zakir Hussain
Wanda’s Picks for May
May 1, 2009
Shout out to First Lady Michelle Obama, who presented the bust of Queen Mother Sojourner Truth, a woman who experienced first hand the hardships of slavery, yet emerged strong, so strong she had to remind America she too was a woman, a woman deserving all the respect and honor reserved for privileged white women.
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Tags: abolition of slavery • African heritage • Alfre Woodard • Andrea Turner • Andrew Bancroft • Anthony Veneziale • Ascension Praise Dancers • Attorney Attorney Jerry Brown • Barbara Dane • Ben Jealous • Ben Jones • Bill T. Jones • Billy Davis Jr. • Billy Strayhorn • Black Alliance for Just Immigration (BAJI) • Bob Weir • Brian Rodvien • Brwn Bflo • Butterscotch • Califia • capital punishment • Cascada de Flores • Charles Dutton • Christopher (Chris) Rodriguez • Conscious Daughters • Cynthia McKinney • Daveed Diggs • Debbie de Coudreaux • Denise Perrier • Diamano Coura • DJ Ren the Vinyl Archaeologist • Don Reed • Duke Ellington • Ed Begley Jr. • Eleanor Luis • Emancipation Hall • Evangeline Canonizado Buell • Evelyn Luluquisen • Faith Petric • First Lady Michelle Obama • Fredo Doumbe • Gasper Yanga • George "Jazzbeaux" Spencer • Harriet and Alex Bagwell • Henry Ramsey • Irwin Silber • Jacinta Vlach • James Monroe Iglehart • Jean-Marie Teno • Jean-Pierre Simons • Jetta Martin • Johannes Mehserle • John Burris • Johnny Symons • Jojo Kuo • Jon Fromer • Joo Wan Kim • Junius Courtney Big Band • Keith Sanchez • Kev Choice Ensemble • Kyle Canfield • Kyra Gordon • Lena Horne • Lynda Gutierrez • Marilyn McCoo • Mary Wilson • Maurice Engler • Melanie DeMore • Melina Jones • Michael Velez • Mike Smith • Mr. Majestic • Mystic Roots • Narada Michael Walden • Nat Courtney • Nicole Beharie • Nigel "Bokei" Jeffers • Nuruddin Farah • Olive Mitra • Orquesta Bakan • Oscar Grant • Pat Wynne • Pete Escovedo • President Pío de Jesus Pico • prison reform • Queen Mother Sojourner Truth • Raissa Simpson • Ralph Gordon Jazz • Ras D • Rashad Pridgen • Regina N. Kelly • Rev. Daima Clark • Richie Cunning • Robert Hillary King • Roswell Rudd • Rumbache • Sala Steinbach • Salif Keita • Salif Malimakone • San Francisco 8 • Sanjay Pardanani • Sebastião Salgado • Soulifted • Sting • suffrage • T-Kash • Takeo Wong • Tenshin Reb Anderson • The Soulcialites • Tim Disney • Toumani Diabaté • Trackademics and The Honor Roll • Trevor Traynor • Tru Boo • Umoja West African Dancers • Verna Gillis • Wanda Sabir • Widya Batin • women's rights • Youssou Ndour • Yuri Kochiyama • Zion I
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Tags: abolition of slavery • African heritage • Alfre Woodard • Andrea Turner • Andrew Bancroft • Anthony Veneziale • Ascension Praise Dancers • Attorney Attorney Jerry Brown • Barbara Dane • Ben Jealous • Ben Jones • Bill T. Jones • Billy Davis Jr. • Billy Strayhorn • Black Alliance for Just Immigration (BAJI) • Bob Weir • Brian Rodvien • Brwn Bflo • Butterscotch • Califia • capital punishment • Cascada de Flores • Charles Dutton • Christopher (Chris) Rodriguez • Conscious Daughters • Cynthia McKinney • Daveed Diggs • Debbie de Coudreaux • Denise Perrier • Diamano Coura • DJ Ren the Vinyl Archaeologist • Don Reed • Duke Ellington • Ed Begley Jr. • Eleanor Luis • Emancipation Hall • Evangeline Canonizado Buell • Evelyn Luluquisen • Faith Petric • First Lady Michelle Obama • Fredo Doumbe • Gasper Yanga • George "Jazzbeaux" Spencer • Harriet and Alex Bagwell • Henry Ramsey • Irwin Silber • Jacinta Vlach • James Monroe Iglehart • Jean-Marie Teno • Jean-Pierre Simons • Jetta Martin • Johannes Mehserle • John Burris • Johnny Symons • Jojo Kuo • Jon Fromer • Joo Wan Kim • Junius Courtney Big Band • Keith Sanchez • Kev Choice Ensemble • Kyle Canfield • Kyra Gordon • Lena Horne • Lynda Gutierrez • Marilyn McCoo • Mary Wilson • Maurice Engler • Melanie DeMore • Melina Jones • Michael Velez • Mike Smith • Mr. Majestic • Mystic Roots • Narada Michael Walden • Nat Courtney • Nicole Beharie • Nigel "Bokei" Jeffers • Nuruddin Farah • Olive Mitra • Orquesta Bakan • Oscar Grant • Pat Wynne • Pete Escovedo • President Pío de Jesus Pico • prison reform • Queen Mother Sojourner Truth • Raissa Simpson • Ralph Gordon Jazz • Ras D • Rashad Pridgen • Regina N. Kelly • Rev. Daima Clark • Richie Cunning • Robert Hillary King • Roswell Rudd • Rumbache • Sala Steinbach • Salif Keita • Salif Malimakone • San Francisco 8 • Sanjay Pardanani • Sebastião Salgado • Soulifted • Sting • suffrage • T-Kash • Takeo Wong • Tenshin Reb Anderson • The Soulcialites • Tim Disney • Toumani Diabaté • Trackademics and The Honor Roll • Trevor Traynor • Tru Boo • Umoja West African Dancers • Verna Gillis • Wanda Sabir • Widya Batin • women's rights • Youssou Ndour • Yuri Kochiyama • Zion I
Wanda’s Picks for February
February 1, 2009
We want to call the names of those who made their transition in January and offer condolences to their loved ones who have yet to cross that bridge. I still can’t wrap my mind around the fact that Ave Montague is gone.
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Tags: Adam David Miller • Adolph Grimes III • Afro-Cuban All Stars • Al Young • Alice C. Royal • Allensworth • Anatasia Dunham-Parker • Anna Maria Flechero • Anthony J. Smith and Eliza Shefler • Antoine Hunter • Athol Fugard • Ave Montague • Avoctja • Avotcja • Aya de Leon • Black Alliance for Just Immigration • Black History Month • Black Power Movement • Black Repertory Theatre • Blackberri • Block Report Radio • Bobby Seale • C Kelly Wright • Carolyn Brandy • Cassandra Henderson • Chicago 8 • College of Alameda • Dahrio Hutton • Delina Brooks • Destiny Arts • Destiny Harpist from the Hood • Dimensions Extensions Performance Ensemble • Donald Lacy • Dr. Amina Mama • Earl "Chico" Freeman • Elizabeth Alexander • Eva Paterson • former San Francisco Poet Laureate devorah major • Frankie Manning • Frederick Harris • Gabriel Teodros • Gerry Lim • Guy Washington • H.D. Moe • Hank Jones • Hansford Prince • Henry Clement and the Gumbo Band & Posse • Hilda Robinson • Irma Thomas • Isaura Olivera • Jack and Adelle Foley • Jaime Wright • James Weldon Johnson • Jeff Jones • Jimmy Baldwin • Jimmy Scott • Juan de Marcos • Judy Grane • Julian Carroll • Kamau Seitu • Karla Brundage • Katherine Hastings • Kim Shuck • L. Peter Callendar • Lady Bianca • Langston Hughes • Ledisi • Leslie Simon • Linda Tillery • Luis Napoles • Malonga Casquelourd Theater • Mamacoatl • Martha Cinader and Tony Mims • Mary Watkins • Meklit Hadero • Melanie De More • Minister of Information JR • Minnie Grimes • Muhammad Ali • Muziki Roberson • Nandi SoJourn Asantewaa Crosby • Ntozake Shange • Oak SOTA • On Demand • Oni Faida Lampley • Opal Palmer Adisa • Oscar Grant III • Paul Robeson • Paula Parker • Pearl Cleage • Pete Escovedo • Phavia Kujichagulia • Prasant Radhakrishnan • President Barack Obama • Raissa Simpson • Randy Weston • Rashad Pridgen • Reginald Lockett • Rev. Joseph E. Lowery • Rhonda Benin • Richard Bona • Robert O'Hara • Rokia Traore • San Francisco Black Film Festival • Sean Vaughn Scott • SF SOTA • Stephanie Powell • Susan Anderson • Tania Santiago • Tayo Taluko • Tim Wise • Todd Brown • Tom Rigney and Flambeau • Tureeda Mikell • Val Serrant • Wanda Sabir • William C. Tweed • Yehmanja Houff • Zora Neale Hurston
Filed Under: Culture Stories
Tags: Adam David Miller • Adolph Grimes III • Afro-Cuban All Stars • Al Young • Alice C. Royal • Allensworth • Anatasia Dunham-Parker • Anna Maria Flechero • Anthony J. Smith and Eliza Shefler • Antoine Hunter • Athol Fugard • Ave Montague • Avoctja • Avotcja • Aya de Leon • Black Alliance for Just Immigration • Black History Month • Black Power Movement • Black Repertory Theatre • Blackberri • Block Report Radio • Bobby Seale • C Kelly Wright • Carolyn Brandy • Cassandra Henderson • Chicago 8 • College of Alameda • Dahrio Hutton • Delina Brooks • Destiny Arts • Destiny Harpist from the Hood • Dimensions Extensions Performance Ensemble • Donald Lacy • Dr. Amina Mama • Earl "Chico" Freeman • Elizabeth Alexander • Eva Paterson • former San Francisco Poet Laureate devorah major • Frankie Manning • Frederick Harris • Gabriel Teodros • Gerry Lim • Guy Washington • H.D. Moe • Hank Jones • Hansford Prince • Henry Clement and the Gumbo Band & Posse • Hilda Robinson • Irma Thomas • Isaura Olivera • Jack and Adelle Foley • Jaime Wright • James Weldon Johnson • Jeff Jones • Jimmy Baldwin • Jimmy Scott • Juan de Marcos • Judy Grane • Julian Carroll • Kamau Seitu • Karla Brundage • Katherine Hastings • Kim Shuck • L. Peter Callendar • Lady Bianca • Langston Hughes • Ledisi • Leslie Simon • Linda Tillery • Luis Napoles • Malonga Casquelourd Theater • Mamacoatl • Martha Cinader and Tony Mims • Mary Watkins • Meklit Hadero • Melanie De More • Minister of Information JR • Minnie Grimes • Muhammad Ali • Muziki Roberson • Nandi SoJourn Asantewaa Crosby • Ntozake Shange • Oak SOTA • On Demand • Oni Faida Lampley • Opal Palmer Adisa • Oscar Grant III • Paul Robeson • Paula Parker • Pearl Cleage • Pete Escovedo • Phavia Kujichagulia • Prasant Radhakrishnan • President Barack Obama • Raissa Simpson • Randy Weston • Rashad Pridgen • Reginald Lockett • Rev. Joseph E. Lowery • Rhonda Benin • Richard Bona • Robert O'Hara • Rokia Traore • San Francisco Black Film Festival • Sean Vaughn Scott • SF SOTA • Stephanie Powell • Susan Anderson • Tania Santiago • Tayo Taluko • Tim Wise • Todd Brown • Tom Rigney and Flambeau • Tureeda Mikell • Val Serrant • Wanda Sabir • William C. Tweed • Yehmanja Houff • Zora Neale Hurston
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