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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. 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Filed Under: Culture Stories
Tags: "Deaf Jam” • "Still Here" • 10th Annual Documentary Film Festival • 29th Annual SFJAZZ Fall Season • 3.9 Collective Group • 9th Congressional District • Abdul Jan Mohamed • African • African Diaspora • Afrikan Sistahs’ Media Network • Al Son del Tunduki Quijeremá • Alameda • Albert Woodfox • Amara Tabor-Smith • American Dream • Amy Wendel • Angola 3 • Antoine Hunter’s Urban Jazz Dance Company • Avotcja • Ayikodans • Barbary • Bassekou Kouyate • Bay Area • Bay Farm Island • Bay Trail • Bay View Arts Editor • Beavides • Benny Green • Berkeley • Black • black and GREEN: a blues” (rbGb) • Black Holocaust • Black Panther History Month • Blue Bridge • Bradley Walters Community Room • Brava Theatre • Breast Cancer Awareness Month • Burkina Faso • Cal Performances • Cal Performances Ticket Office • California • Capacitor • Centennial Suffrage Parade • Chris Potter • Christine Lee • Clairdee • Classical Revolution’s Musical Art Quintet • Cuban • Culture Clash • daKAH Orchestra • Dance Mission Theate • Daniel Brevil • Daniel Meisel • Daoud Aoulad-Syad • Darieck Scott • Democratic Republic of the Congo Awareness Month • Dia de Los Muertos • Domestic Violence Awareness Month • Don Reed • Douglas Turner Ward • Dylan Thomas • D’FaQTo Life • D’Lo • Eddie Marshall • El Día de los Muertos • Epiphany Production • Epiphany Productions Sonic Dance Theater • Erik Benner • European • Faustin Linyekula/Studios Kabako’s • FBI • FESPACO • Film Festival and Art Exhibit • Freight and Salvage • Gaston Kabore • Geoff “Double G” Gallegos • Haiti and Latin America • Herbert Siguenza • Herman Wallace • Hotel Nikko • Idan Raichel • Imagine • India Arie • Irina Zadov • Israeli • Jamie Fidler • Javon Jackson • Jeanguy Saintus • Jenesha de Riveira • Jimmy Cobb • John Coltrane • Jonathan Dearman • José James • Joseph Campbell • Joshua Dylan Mellars • Karinda Dobbins • Katrina • KickStart • Kippy Marks • Kiswahili • Lakeside Park Bandstand • Landmark • Laney College • Lavi Kontinye!” • Leadership High • Lex Leifheit • Life Continues!” • Linda Isabelle Francois • Lorraine Hansberry Theatre • Luz Garcia • Maafa Commemoration • Maafa Commemoration Month • Main Library • Malian ngoni • Malonga Center • Marc Bamuthi Joseph • Maria • McCoy Tyner • Michael Warr • Micia Mosely • Mill Valley Film Festival • Mohamed Mouftakir • Mona Caron • Morocco • Motor City • Mr. James Armstrong • Mulgrew Miller • Muslims • Nancy Cato • New Orleans • Ngoni Ba • Nigerian Independence • Nina G • Nobel Prize • Novellus Theater • Oakland • Ocean Beach • ODC/Dance • Othello • Palace Hotel • Pan African Diaspora • Paramount Theatre • PBS • Peter Sellars • Peter Washington • PTSD • Quijeremá • Ramadan • Ramadan Rides • Rara Tou Limen • René and Rio Yañez • Rhena Jasey • Robert H. King • Rocky Yazzie’s • Rodney Ewing • Rokia Traore • Ron Moultrie Saunders • Ron Ragin • Roxie • RRAZZ Room • RTL • Salsamania • San Francisco Main Library • San Francisco Women Against Rape (SFWAR) • San Leandro • Shakespeare • Shattuck Cinemas • Sheila E • Sightlines • Silicon Valley African Film Festival • Sirron Norris • Sister Fa • Sixth Annual MoAD Gala • Skype • Smith Rafael Film Center • SOMARTs Cultural Center • South Shore Shopping Center • Steven Anthony Jones • Stone Soul II • Student Center • Sweet Can Circus • Tamara Roberts • Tamil Sri Lankan-American • Tat Wong Kung Fu Lion Dancers • Texas • the Americas • The Brotherhood of Cyclists • the Day of the Dead • The Marsh San Francisco • The Museum of the African Diaspora • The Sirron Norris Gallery • Theater Terrace Lobby • Thelonious Monk • Tiempo Libre • Toni Morrison • UC Berkeley Campus • Union City • United States • UpSurge! Jazz Poetry Ensemble • Urban Jazz Dance Company • Urban Music • US/Senegal • Valley of the Docs • Vanessa Roth • Wanda Sabir • Wanda’s Picks • Wanda’s Picks Radio Show • War and Peace" • West Coast • William Rhodes • Yerba Buena Center for the Arts • Yerba Buena Center for the Arts Forum • Yoshi’s San Francisco • Zellerbach Playhouse • “A Brush with the Tenderloin" • “A Weekend with Pablo Picasso" • “Africa Speaks" • “All She Can" • “American Teacher" • “Being Elmo: A Puppeteer’s Journey" • “Birmingham: Foot Soldier of the Civil Rights Movement" • “Buud Yam" • “Cointelpro 101" • “Day of Absence" • “Desdemona" • “E-14th: True Tales of a Reluctant Player” • “Feast of Words: A Literary Potluck" • “Finding Joe" • “Hip Hop Maestro" • “How to Start a Revolution" • “Illuminations: Dia de los Muertos 2011” • “In the Land of the Free" • “Labels are Forever” • “Left by the Ship" • “Light for Haiti • “Limyè pou Ayiti • “Monk’s Dream” • “Night School: Faustin Linyekula” • “Our Daily Bread” • “Pegasus” • “Play Like a Lion: The Legacy of Maestro Ali Akbar Khan" • “red • “Sarabah" • “Scenes of a Crime" • “She Who Laughs Lasts" • “The Creators" • “The Furious Force of Rhymes" • “The Gentle Side of John Coltrane" • “The Kipling Hotel: True Misadventures of the Electric Pink ‘80s” • “The Mosque" • “Trolley Dances” • “Wend Kuni” • “Where My Girls At?” • “Women • “Yoga Woman"

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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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Filed Under: Prison Stories
Tags: Angola 3 • Angola Warden Burl Cain • Black Panthers • Geronimo ji jaga • Herman Wallace • Jackie Sumell • Robert H. King • Wanda Sabir

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Filed Under: Prison Stories
Tags: Albert Woodfox • Angola 3 • Angola State Prison • Black Panther • Congressman John Conyers • Herman Wallace • Jim Crow • Robert H. King • U.S. District Court Judge James Brady • Wanda Sabir • Warden Burl Cain