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Tags: 11th Annual Musical Tribute Honoring Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. • 13th Amendment • 2013 Dr. Martin Luther King • 2013 Freedom Train • 2013 MLK March and Parade • 23rd Annual African American Celebration through Poetry • 49er band • African liberation • African-American • Afrikan Sistah's Media Network • Alabama • Alameda • Albert Woodfox • American • Angelina’s Bar and Grill (formerly Tradewinds Bar and Restaurant) • Arizona • Arrowhead Marsh • Art Shack • Aswan High Dam • AT&T Park • Atlanta • Attitudinal Healing Connection’s 15th annual Martin Luther King Jr. community event • Avotcja • Bay Area • Bay View • Bayview Opera House • Berkeley • Bill Cosby • Bill Graham Auditorium • Billy Bang • Billy Eckstine • Bird and Beckett Books • Black • Black Literary Review • Brooklyn • Brown Pelicans • California • California Theatre • Calvin Candie • Casa Latina Taqueria Bakery and Café • Christian • Christoph Waltz • City College • Civil Rights Movement • Civil War • Clapper Rail • Coleman Domingo • College of Alameda • congas • Congressional • Daniel Day-Lewis • David Hardiman Sr. • Denardo Coleman • Denise Perrier • Diaspora • DJ Aline • DJ Sister Yasmin • Douglas Blackmon • Dr. Arif Gamal • Duke Ellington • Edmund Pettus Bridge • Eliza Shefler • Elsie Washington • Emancipation Proclamation • Emmit Powell and The Gospel Elite • English • Eurocentric • First Friendship Institutional Church’s Praise Team • Fontella Bass • Fort Bragg • Frank Fisher • funk • General Benjamin O. Davis Jr. • Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel • George Washington Carver • Germany • Geronimo ji jaga • guiros • Habitat Restoration at the Martin Luther King Jr. Shoreline • Harlem of the West • Harlequin • Herbst Theater • Hip Hop • Huey Newton-Bobby Seale Conference Room • Huntsville • I Have a Dream • Imani (Faith) • In the Name of Love • Iran • James McBride • Jamie Foxx • Jayne Cortez • Jennifer Holliday • Jill Hecht • Jimmy McCracklin • Joe Turner • Josh Houston • Jr. Birthday Celebration • jubilee • Junius Courtney Big Band • Kamau Seitu • Katniss Everdeen • KBLX • Kerry Washington • Kevan Peabody • Kush and Nubia • Kushite • Latin • Lefty O’Doul Bridge • Leonard Peltier • Leonardo DiCaprio • Lincoln • Lou Rawls • Lynne Stewart • Make the Dream Real • maracas • March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom • Marvin Gaye • Mary Stallings • Mary Todd • McClymonds High School • Merritt College • Modupue • Montgomery • Mookie • Ms. Bronze Contest • Nancy Wilson • Navarro Wines • Nikki Thomas • NPR • Nubians • Oakland • Oakland Community Exhibition • Observation Platform • Olympian • Ornette Coleman • panderetas • Panem • Paramount Theater • Peeta Mellark • Phil África • Pittsburg • Pittsburg Arts and Community Foundation • Pittsburg Chamber of Commerce • Prairie View A&M University • President Obama • Q.R. Hand Jr. • Quentin Tarantino • r&b • Raider band • Railroad Book Depot • reggae • Robert Johnson • Rock the House for Dr. King • Rod Diridon Train Station • Russell “Maroon” Shoalz • Sally Field • Sam Houston • Samuel Jackson • Samuel Walter Houston • San Francisco • San Francisco All-Stars Big Band • San Francisco’s Caltrain Station • San Jose • Sarah Vaughn • Save Nubia Project (SNP) • Selma • SF8 • Slavery by Another Name • soul • Spanglish y lo que seais • Spanish • Spike Lee • St. Cyprian’s Episcopal Church • Sudan • Sudanese • Texas • Thaddeus Stevens • The 16th Annual Bringing the Noise for Martin Luther King Jr. • The Air Force Base • The Music of the Word (La Palabra Musical) • the Oakland Children’s Community Choir with Oaktown Jazz Workshop • the Oakland Interfaith Gospel Choir • Tommy Lee Jones • trumpet • Tuck & Patti • Tuskegee University • U.S. Army • Umoja • Union of Black Episcopalians • Village Project’s Seventh Annual Kwanzaa Celebrations 2012-2013 • Vision Festival • Wade Nobles Ph.D. • Walter Mosley • Wanda Sabir • Wanda's Picks Radio • Wendell Baker • West Oakland Branch Library • West Point • Willie Lynch • Willie Mays Plaza • WordSong • World Heritage Sites • World Music • Yerba Buena Center for the Arts • Yerba Buena Center for the Arts and Gardens • Youth Speaks • “A Night of Gospel” • “Burn” • “Celebration of The Emancipation Proclamation” • “Django Unchained” • “Do the Right Thing" • “Elders Make the Dream Real for Educating Youth" • “Kill Bill Vol. 1" • “Miracle at St. Anna" • “Phenomenology of Spirit" • “Pulp Fiction” • “Quilombo" • “Red Hook Summer” • “Red Hook" • “Rescue Me" • “Tempest Tales" • “The Color of Water” • “The Curtain Rises" • “The Dream and 50 Years" • “With Every Step I Take"

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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”

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Tags: 22nd Annual African American Celebration through Poetry • Abigail Disney • Abigail E. Disney • Abu Baker • Adam Hochchild • African Film Festival • Afrikan Sistah's Media Network • Afro-Haitian • Alexandra Township • Ali Samadi Ahadi • Alonozo King • ANC • ANC Youth League • and Sex Changed a Nation at War” • Arkansas State Press • Artist Proof • Artist Proof Studio • Ashby Flea Market • Aubrey Sekqabi • Ausar Auset Society West Coast Chapter • Austin • B.Yung • Bay Area • Bay Trail • Bay View • Bayard Rustin • Ben Turner • Berkeley • Bheki Khoza • Bilal • Bill T. Jones • Black and Green" • Black Choreographers Here and Now • Black Community Services Center • Black Friday • Bloemfontein • Blomfontein • Brava Theater • Brenda Joyce • Britain • Brother Fred • Cal Performances • Cal State East Bay • California • Calvin Keys • Cape Town • Central High • Charles Taylor • Children’s Civil Movement • Christine Chacha • City Lights Publishers • Civil Rights Movement • Colette Eloi • Community Works • Congo • Cool Arts • Dahlak Brathwaite • Dance Mission • Daniel Beaty • Daveed Diggs • David Norris • Dereca Blackmon • Dion Decibels • Dr. Dorothy I. Height • Dr. Marcus Lorenzo Penn • Dr. Robert Scott (posthumous) • Dr. Wangari Maathai (posthumous) • Dr. Yao Graham • East Bay Educational Program • Eastbay Church of Religious Science • Egypt • Elaine Lee • Elouise Burrell • Emmett Till • English • European • FESMAN • First Lady Michelle Obama • Gary Dobson • Germany • Gini Reticker • Gregory Maqoma • Haigood’s Zaccho Dance Company • Hausa • Helen Anderson • Hodari Davis • Homeless Talk: Helping the Poor Help Themselves • Independent Lens • Indie Film Festival • Iran • IT • Jacqueline Copeland-Carson • James Gayles • James Knox • Jazz Heritage Center Theatre • Jazz Heritage Gallery • Jeffrey Skoller • Jim Dennis • Joanne Griffith • Joburg • Johannesburg • Johannesburg University • Joseph Mmaphuti Kgomo • Julius Malema • La Pena Cultural Center • Lake Merritt Hotel • Laney College • Legal Services for Prisoners with Children • Leymah Gbowee • Liberia • Linda Burnham • LINES Contemporary Ballet • Little Rock 9 • Living Word Festival • Lucious Christopher “L.C.” Bates • Lulu • Lush Life Gallery • Madagascar • Mail@Guardian • Malawi • Mandela • Marc Bamuthi Joseph • March on Washington • Marcus Books • Market Theatre • Martin King • Mbeki • Melville • Melvin Van Peebles • Mic Turner • Mike Mvelase • Mophatong • Mouride Brotherhood (the Muridiyya) • Moving into Dance • Museum Africa • Museum of the African Disapora • Muslim • Mutombo Mpanya • My Father's House • Myesha Jenkins • NAACP • Ned Bank • Ned Oil • New York • Newtown Cultural Precinct • Nobel Peace Prize • Oak Center • Oakland • Occupy Action • Oprah • Pacific Film Archive • Paepae Kenny Mmekwa • Pan African • Pat Jamison • Patricia A. Montgomery • PBS • Pedi • PFA • Pinise • Pray the Devil Back to Hell • Prayer • President Jacob Zuma • Pretoria • Pretoria News • Prince Newtown • Qi Gong • Rainbow Recreation Center • Ramadan Rides • Red • Regina Mundy • Rhodessa Jones • Rosa Parks • Rosebank • San Francisco • San Quentin • Sankofa • Second Annual Ubuntu Awards • Selaelo Maredi • Senegal • SFJAZZ • Shaka Jamal • Sharon La Cruise • Shekhem Samerit Kau • Sifiso E. Kweyama • South Africa • Sowetan • Soweto • Stanford University • State Theatre • Stephen Lawrence • Street Sheet • Street Spirit • Sudanese • Tambo Mbeki • Ted Coffey • Texas • The Allen Temple AIDS Ministry • The Citizen • The Knowledge Conference • The Long Shadow of Little Rock" • The Lucky Bean • The Star • The Telegraph (published in UK • The Zimbabwean (published in Europe) • Third World • Third World Network • Tim Wise • Tkolwe Sehume • Tlokwe Sehume • Touba • Tsakane • Tshwane • Tunde • UC Berkeley • UC Merced • Union Building • University of Texas • Usuthu Art Productions • Vera Nobles • Viva Riva • Walter Turner • Wampanoag. Pilgrims • Wanda Sabir • Wanda's Picks Radio • West Oakland Branch Library • Westend Theatre • Wits • Witwatersrand • World Cultures • Yerba Buena Center for the Arts • Youth Speaks • Yvette Hochberg • Zellerbach Hall • Zora Neale Hurston • Zulu • “Activism in the Age of Obama” • “Beautiful Me" • “Daisy Bates: First Lady of Little Rock” • “Dance Umbrella" • “Dear White America: Letter to a New Minority" • “I Dream a World” • “Kinshasa Symphony” • “Mighty Be Our Powers: How Sisterhood • “Redefining Black Power: Reflections on the State of Black America" • “Redefining Black Power” • “Screenagers: 14th Annual Bay Area High School Film and Video Festival" • “Slamnation" • “Story/Time" • “Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song” • “The Green Wave" • “Through the Night" • “We Still Live Here - Âs Nutayuneân" • “Word Becomes Flesh”

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Tags: Amir Suliman • Audre Lorde • Baayan Bakari • Dom Jones • drugs • Empowering Women of Color Conference (EWOCC) • foster care system • Gil Scott Heron • Ise Lyfe • Jazz Hudson • Jesus El • June Jordan • Langston Hughes • Malcolm X • Martin Luther King Jr. • Maxwell Park Elementary Martin Luther King Jr. Oratorical Fest • Maya Angelou • Michael Eric Dyson • Minister of Information JR • Mos Def • Nikki Black • Nikki Giovanni • Oakland • Pablo Neruda • Paul Lawrence Dunbar • poet • poetry readings • poverty • rape • Rubin Hurricane Carter • Rudy Francisco • Ryan Nicole • self expression • spoken word • Street Soldiers • Suheir Hammad • Susan Taylor • Talib Kweli • Tupac Shakur • violence • Wanda Sabir • West Oakland Library • Youth Speaks • Youth Speaks National Poetry Slam • Zion I • “Art of Love” • “Beautiful” • “Poison” • “Small Minds Say Small Things” • “The Dream”

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Tags: Abrose Akinmusire • Ahmad Jamal • Ajuana Black • Andrew Currier • Angela Davis • Angela Wellman • Avotcja • Barbara Bloom • Benjamin Todd Jealous • Bill Crossman • Black Panther Party • Bobby Hutcherson • Brenda Schuman-Post • C Kelly Wright • Charles Burnett • City Lights Books in association • Craig Marker • Dante James • David Boyce • Destiny Muhammad • Diane Reeves • Dr. Siri Brown • Dwight Huntsman • E.W. Wainwright • Ed Mead • Eddie Gale • Elayne Jones • Faye Carol's Trio • Habib Koité and Bamada • Halili Knox • Howard Wiley • Hugh Masekela • India Cooke • Isaac Hayes • Ise Lyfe • James Kass • Janet Cooke • Jetaun Maxwell • Joe Hodge • Joshua Redman Trio • JR • Karla Betancourt • Kathleen Battle • Kiilu Nyasha • Larry Yang • Laurie Schoeman • Lawrence Ellis • Len Wood • Lewis Jordan • Lila Downs • Lynne Stewart • Marcus Shelby • Marjane Satrapi • McCoy Tyner • Melanie DeMore • Merrill Jones • Michelle E. Jordan • Mr. B • Neil Bernstein • Paul Robeson • Prison Radio • Rhonda Benin • Rigo 23 • Russell Simmons • Ryan Nicole Peters • Sandi Poindexter • Sandy Poindexter • Seun Kuti • Tiny of Poor News Network • Tracey Scott Wilson • Valerie Mih • Vincent Paronnaud • Will Nichols • Willie Brown • Willie Mays • Youth Speaks

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Tags: 'rEvolution' • African American Shakespeare Company • Archie Shepp • August Wilson's 'Radio Golf' • August Wilson's 'The Piano Lesson' • Bayview Opera House • C Kelly Wright • Chicago 10 • Choice of Weapons • Dia de Los Muertos • execute innocent man • Jean Isaacs • Joanna Haigood • Katrina Clap • Kim Epifano • Living Word Festival • Maafa Commemoration • Martina Correia • Mary Booker • Mos Def • Oakland Community School • Paul Wright • San Francisco Jazz Festival • Seastrunk Brothers • Trolley Dances • Troy Anthony Davis • Troy Davis • UniverSoul Circus • Wanda Sabir • Wanda's Picks • Youth Speaks • ‘A Raisin in the Sun' • ‘Do Tell' • ‘Hood Games • ‘Lioness' • ‘Slingshot Hip Hop'