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Tags: 34th Annual San Francisco Ethnic Dance Festival • 62nd Annual San Francisco Juneteenth Festival • ACT-SF • Adrian Arias • African • African American Art and Culture Complex • African American Community Service Agency • African American Shakespeare Company • Afrikan Sistah's Media Network • Airlift Africa • Alejandro Murguia • Alice Walker • ANC President OliverTambo • Andrea Lewis • Andy McKee • Anita Baker • Anne Edwards • Asian jazz • Avotcja • Barack Obama Sr. • Barbara Marx Hubbard • Bayview Opera House • Be Still Retreat • Berkeley • Berkeley Juneteenth • Berkeley Rep • Bill Cosby • Billy Hart • Bishop Desmond Tutu • Black Rep • Black Repertory Group • Buck and the Preacher" • Burial Clay Theater • Cal Performances • California Coalition for Women Prisoners • California Habeas Project • Calvin Keys Organ Quintet • Cameron Brown • Carl Ray • Carlos Carvajal • Carlton • Castro Theatre • Ceu • Chapel of the Chimes • Chelle! and Friends • Chile • Chowchilla • Christina Anderson • City College of San Francisco • City Hall • City of Oakland’s Office of Parks and Recreation’s Father’s Day • Civic Center • CK Ladzekpo • Clarence Van Hook • Coca Cola • Communicating Peace • Critical Thinking • Crowded Fire • Cynthia Robinson • Dael Orlandersmith • Daisy Zamora • Dance Mission Theater • Denise Perrier • devorah major • Dick Gregory • Dorothy Dandridge • Dr. DeGruy • Dunsmuir Hellman Historic Estate • E Family • Earth Amplified • East Bay • Eddrick Osborne • education • Edythe Boone • Embodiment Project • Emmit Powell and the Gospel Elites • Family Day Parade and Festival • Fat Albert • Fely Tchaco’s Afro-Pop • Fito Reinoso • Forgiveness • Fort Mason Center • Fountain of Youth Band • Frameline36: the San Francisco International LGBT Film Festival • Francisco Alarcon • Frank Sinatra • Fred Ali Batin Jr. • FREE Annual Berkeley World Music Festival • Fremont • Gil Scott Heron • Glide Memorial Choir • Graceland • Greg Errico • Gypsy jazz • Harry Belafonte • Hawaiian • Hayward • Healdburg Jazz Festival • Health Village • Housewives Market • Imam Abu Qadir Al Amin • Incantations y the Bahia • Indonesia • Inner Peace • Iran • Jack London Aquatic Center • Jack London Square • James O’Dea • Janice Mirikitani • Jazz Roy-alty • Jerry Martini • JFK • JFK Library • John McLaren School • John O’Connor Vocational High School • Joshua Angel • Julian Priester • Juneteenth Family Reunion • Junius Courtney Big Band • justice • Kander and Ebb • Kansas City • Kash Killion • Keb’Mo • Kim McMillon • King Center • klezmer • Koret Auditorium • Kwame Ture • L. Peter Callendar • La Peña • Lake Merritt • Lake Merritt Gazebo • Lake Merritt Restaurant and Bakery • Latino/Hispanic Room • Leo Sullivan • libations for the ancestors • Lincoln Park • Lorna Dee Cervantes • Lorraine Hansberry • LP Second Generation • Luggage Store Gallery • Maria Muldaur • Maria Muldaur and Friends • Marianne Williamson • Marina Vista Memorial Park • Mark Bradford • Martin King • Martin Luther King Jr. Park • Merritt College • Meshell Ndegeocello • Michael Jackson • Michael White • Michele Rosewoman Trio • Michelle Alexander • military • Miriam Makeba • Moon Candy • Moroccan • Mt. 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Les Williams • UC Berkeley Boalt Hall • Union Square • urban peace • Urban Peace Movement • Vallejo • Victoria Theatre • Vijay Iyer Trio • Vivienne Crawford • Vukani Mawethu Choir • Walter Mosley • Wanda Brown • Wanda Sabir • Wanda's Picks • Wanda's Picks Radio • Wells Fargo • West Contra Costa County • West Meadow • Yerba Buena’s Novellus Theater • Yoshi’s Oakland • Zimbabwe • “25th Anniversary” • “A New Color” • “AeroSoul 3: Urban Hieroglyphics” • “Another Night in Treme” • “Birth 2012 and Beyond” • “Black Flight: Our Sojourn. Our Connections. Our Stories • “Black n Blue Boys / Broken Men” • “Cultivating Peace" • “Everybody is a Star Red Carpet VIP Party" • “Father’s Day Contest” • “Find Your Story" • “Focus on Fathers Family Day and Juneteenth Celebration” • “Genius Plus Soul Equals Jazz” • “Good Goods” • “House of Matter” • “Immigrant Voices Festival: The Celebration and Struggle of the Universal Immigrant Voices" • “Junius + Soul = Jazz" • “My Song” • “Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome" • “Question Bridge" • “Raisin in the Sun" • “Ray-ettes" • “The Big Picnic" • “The Power of Forgiveness" • “The Right Mistake" • “The Scottsboro Boys” • “The Tempest Tales" • “The World United Through Dance" • “Uptown Saturday Night" • “Voices for Peace" • “We Are the World" • “Yummy

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Tags: 23rd Annual African American Celebration • 57th Street Gallery • AAACC • addiction • Adesola Osakalumi (Fela Anikulapo-Kuti alternate) • Advanced Jazz Band • African • African American Art and Culture Complex • African American Center • African American Shakespeare Company • African Americans • Afrikan Children’s Advanced Learning Center • Akan • Alameda County • Alex Haley • American • and Healing” • Angola • Art and Progression" • ASCAC Western Region • Attorney Legrand Clegg II • Ausar Auset • Bamako • Barbara Hunter • Bayfair Mall • Bill Bell • Bill T. Jones • Black • Black Friday • Black Panther • Black Power • Black Women in American History and Culture • Botswana • Brava Theater • Bro. Manu Ampin • Bro. Vincent Lynch • Bro. Walter Turner • Broadway • Buriel Clay Theater • Burkina Faso • Caribbean • Charles White • City College of San Francisco • City College of San Francisco Music Department • Civil Rights • Claude McCay • Cornelius Moore • Curran Theatre • Damu Sudi Alii • David Hardiman Jr. • Diego Rivera Theater • Dr. Adebisi T’Olodumare Aromolaren • Dr. Marcus Lorenzo Penn • Dr. Samella Lewis • Eastside Cultural Center • Eddie Marshall • El Hajj Malik • Encuentro del Canto Popular Festival • European • Fela Anikulapo Kuti • FESMAN 2010 • Festival of Black Art and Culture • Frances Watkins Harper • Frankye Kelly • Fresh Choice • Gang Days in LA" • Glenn Pearson • Grief Ritual • Grupo Raiz • Healing and Wisdom” • Her Trio • Hotel Nikko • Houston Pearson • In Memoriam" • Jamal Ali • Jazz/Rock Improvisational Workshop • Jeff Clayton • John Santos Sextet • Joshua Angel • Juanita Brown • Kali • Kamau Seitu • Karen Bass • Kathy Sloane • Kenneth Byrd • Kheven LaGrone • Kheven Lee LaGrone • Kim Nalley • Kush • LA Museum of Tolerance • Laguna Honda Hospital • Larry Douglas • Leona Lodge • Linda Stewart • Los Peludos • Luis Rodriguez • Maafa • Madagascar • Mamakye • Mamakye (Dolores Mae Dixon) • Marcus Garvey • Marcus Gary • Marlena Shaw • Mary McLeod Bethune • MB Hanif • Mellotones • Melvin Butts • Mexican • Miguel Covarrubias • Negro • New York • Nicole Chantal de Weever • Nigeria • Nubia • Oakland • Oakland Public Library’s Teen Center • Obataiya Tamirr Lewis Edwards • Ocean Beach • Octavia Butler • Oneika Phillips • PanAfrican • Peter Conheim • Piri Thomas • President Thomas Sankara • Professor Manu Ampim • Public Health Department • Qur’an • Redwood City • Revolutions • Rhonda Benin • Robert Henry Johnson’s Post-Afric Highway’s Maafa Play Reading • Robert Jones • Rosa Parks • RRAZZ Room • Sabrina Burns • Sahr • Saint Louis • Sami Ali • San Francisco • San Francisco Main Library • San Leandro • Sankofa • Sargent Johnson Gallery • Senegal • shaped by Cultures" • Sherri Young • Sheryl Lee Ralph • Shirlee Taylor Haizlip • Shori Matthews • Sis. Banche Richardson • Sis. Makinya Kouate • Sis. Shukuru Sanders • Sister Makulla Godwin • Sobonfu Somé • South Africa • Steve Seid • Take 2 • Tammy Hall • Tempest Landry • Timbuktu • UC Berkeley Pacific Film Archive • Umoja (Unity) • UMOJA CD Release Party • Walter Mosley • Wanda Sabir • Wanda’s Picks • Wanda’s Picks Radio • West African Dagara • West Oakland Branch Library • Wo’se Community Church of the African Way • Zimbabwe • “A Gospel Christmas” • “A Soulful Jazz New Year" • “Always Running: La Vida Loca • “California Soul for the Holidays” • “Cinderella" • “COLLECTED: Stories of Acquisition and Reclamation" • “Dance of the Kalahari • “Down These Mean Streets" • “Falling Out of Grace: Meditations on Loss • “FELA!” • “Fledgling" • “Freedom Sisters” • “I Am American: Black Genealogy Through the Eye of an Artist” • “I Am America” • “It Calls You Back: An Odyssey through Love • “Keystone Korner: Portrait of a Jazz Club" • “Manchild in the Promised Land" • “Now Dig This! Art and Black Los Angeles 1960-1980" • “Of Water and the Spirit" • “Pacific Standard" • “Places of Validation • “Southern (Dis)comfort: The American South in Cinema" • “The African Diaspora in the Art of Miguel Covarrubias: Driven by color • “The Autobiography of Malcolm X” • “The Song of Freedom” • “The Spirit of Intimacy: Ancient African Teachings in the Ways of Relationships” • “The Tempest Tales” • “Totems" • “Traces of the Trade"