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Culture Currents

Cultural happenings in SF and beyond.

San Francisco Black Film festival will be coming soon!

Only in your hands is your life worth living. Only you can make yourself free.

Diamano Coura dance company is performing in the SF Internat’l Arts Fest on June...

The Diamano Coura dance company will be performing the Brava Theater as a part of the San Francisco International Arts Festival Saturday June 17.

Black Restaurant Week covered the diaspora of African-influenced food from Northern Cali testaurants

Black Restaurant week offers a variety of great cuisines!

‘Black Barbie’ documentary review

Watching the movie brought me back to my childhood. I felt a lot of nostalgia while watching the movie

Malcolm X and Music

Musicians did their part to keep Malcolm’s name alive

WAA REEM: International Fashion and Music Week in San Francisco June 16-18

The WAA REEM concept, which means in Burkina Faso-West African language “Come and have fun or come enjoy the vibe,” is an idea born in 2013 in Africa

Lady Namastizzle’s movement is to bring cannabis yoga to the Bay’s Black and Brown...

The Yogi spaces didn’t reflect what I needed or who I was. So I decided to be what I needed for myself.

Got reparations? For 21 questions, Menhuam Ayele has 21 answers

In the book “Got Reparations? 21 Questions, 21 Answers,” author Menhuam Ayele lays out some basic principles of what reparations means for Black people in America

Numskull’s View: Looking at the history of Bay Area Hip Hop

Numskull of the Luniz gets candid in this interview!

‘Fantastic Negrito: Have you lost your mind yet?’ a review

Fantastic Negrito, having gone through many stages and names throughout his career, has understood the struggle one must go through to walk on the other side freer – more true to your being and the story you wish to tell.

Ladybug Mecca: ‘Drippin’ like water’

How does it feel for you and Digable to be sampled so much by people like E40, Rick Rock and Snoop when initially y’all made music for the conscious community?

American Fray

o2 The Good Bad Guy's new poem!

Num’s World: interview wit’ Numskull of the Luniz, Part 2

"Music ain’t over because we are creative people so we are gonna always make music, but are we gonna make money at it? That’s the thing."

California Journalism Preservation Act benefits major media but Black media must do for self!

Freedom of speech and press is not only a constitutional right but it’s a God given human right granted by universal law.

Local Top Chef puts it all on the table

So, while the nation may know Chef German for his tv appearance on Top Chef, many locally know him as a supporter of the Bay Area and all its local goodness.

All about the online show ‘Resolving Racism’

Our goal is to point out the fact that America doesn’t soar because it isn’t an eagle. And if we want America to get to eagle status, its whole make-up needs to change.

Black New World Media Awards healing, validating – a success!

“It’s a night of Black Power to honor the people doing the work right now,” said Allyssa Victory, the night’s master of ceremony.

Honey’s delight: Exploring the medicinal properties of East African honey

It was when I started to talk with the farmers at the market in Meru that I learned about honey in Kenya. I learned that it is considered medicine in Kenya. In fact, the swahili word for honey is the same as medicine, Dawa.

The Nairobi report back

On the first microphone I’ve ever touched on the continent, I find myself moving fast through poems, but it feels more like the sentient life of a tree.

The effect of today’s Hip Hop on the psychology of young Black America

A candid conversation on the potency of hip hop on youth