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Culture Currents

Cultural happenings in SF and beyond.

The Most Beautiful Body Art 

From the depths of the divine the beauty emerges.

Kerby Garcia’s Sick N Tired Shred Program App

Nutrition plays the biggest part in working out.

Haiti: “The Truth Speaks for Itself”

Support the popular movement in Haiti. Demand an end to U.S. funding for the Haitian National Police and military.   Demand an end to the Biden Administration’s unconscionable attacks on refugees.

Black on Black solutions: ‘Batters Up, Guns Down’ neighborhood softball league opener is March...

The men's season for Bats Up Guns Down is set to begin on March 26th, 2023, weather permitting. The first tournament event will be held on April 8th, 2023, which will be an Autism Awareness and Pre-Easter Celebration for kids.

Award-winning Afrofuturist Nisi Shawl brings the magic of history to young readers with ‘Speculation’

  by Sumiko Saulson Award-winning Afrofuturist Nisi Shawl has knocked it out of the park with “Speculation,” a work of mid grade fiction (for 8- to 12-year-olds) about Winna, a young girl with magical glasses that...

Campaign launched calling for the removal of Cuba from the list of state sponsors...

Cuba was initially placed on the list of state sponsors of terrorism during the Reagan administration in 1982 because of its support for anti-colonial struggles around the world, most notably in Africa.

Larry June’s ‘The Great Escape’ album review

 “The Great Escape” album has a cinematic style to it like a soundtrack to a 007 espionage movie.

Queen Iminah: from Oakland to Harvard to Ghana and back

From Ghetto to Goddess is the movement.

A talk with Big Toine

Rap veteran Big Toine talks about changing hip hop landscape

Oakland’s Kinfolx is on top of the wave of new businesses in Oakland after...

we wanted to ensure that our community had a stake and place to call home in this rapidly changing area of Oakland. 

‘The Critic’s Company’ review

As a writer and someone who strives to follow my dream, it’s an all too relatable feeling of not being taken seriously when you yourself are serious about following your own path to achieve those dreams.

Photographing the ‘68 Olympics: talking wit’ photographer Jeffrey Blankfort

It’s difficult, more than a half century later, to compare the energy in the stadium before and after Smith’s and Carlos’s fist raising

Black Terminus brings the Black Panthers into Augmented Reality

If I was going to bring the Panthers in AR, it would be on a Black-owned platform created by me.

‘7 Minutes in Heaven’ review

“7 minutes In Heaven” was a cinematic masterpiece that I would watch again.

Political prisoner and wife get mural in East Oakland

Jamal Hart, Mumia’s grandson, has kept up the fight to bring his grandfather home.

California Reparations Task Force comes to Oakland

A heated California Reparations task force meeting took place this past Saturday at Mills College in Oakland.

Tidal Wave Comics brings Black and diverse comic characters to life

Ken Johnson is an African American comic book writer and illustrator

Come see ‘The Nigger Lovers’

There was a lot of red wine at the start of the process and then by the end I think I switched to coffee.

Oakland’s Poet Laureate Ayodele Nzinga

"I art in the tradition of the Black Arts Movement, in the continuum of art that transcends being 'art for art’s sake'

Black New World Media Awards night is coming June 3 at the African American...

Come out and celebrate the achievements of Black Media makers