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Deep reflections for a world on fire: A review of two books by Victor...
We live in revolutionary times, by virtue of the fact that “moderate” reforms are totally inadequate to the planetary crisis we face.
#StokersSoWhite: 2016 Horror Writers’ Association boycott
“'Beloved' would have been considered gothic horror if it had been written from a white character’s point of view by a white author.”
‘Tent City’ is a favorite at this year’s Oakland International Film Fest
The family suffers tremendously when a loved one has a mental health disorder or becomes homeless. It can destroy a family for generations.
‘My Father Belize’ screens Sept. 26 and 27 at the Oakland International Film Festival
It is important for our community to see love, understanding and forgiveness between Black males in a family, especially when the corporate media is so diabolically bent on showing us images of us as dysfunctional.
Zap Mama, Saul Williams, Chef Bryant Terry, Alonzo King LINES Ballet and more make...
We have lived in the past metaphysically for too long. Now it is time to nosedive into the future to start on the creation of the “New Us.” Don’t miss Matatu – all this week.
The Black Panther Party of 1966 and the New United Panther Movement: Continuity and...
Meet Shaka Zulu and George Katsiaficas, learn more, get involved: Thursday, Oct. 17, 7 p.m., at Freedom Archives, 522 Valencia St., San Francisco.
When Our Ancestors Speak … LISTEN!
I hope you will join me in supporting our youth-led “Global Climate Strike” in locations around the planet, from 20-27 September.
What do Oprah, Kendrick Lamar and ‘The Rock’ have in common? They want kids...
For teens and young people struggling with mental illness or childhood, learning about celebrities who’ve had similar experiences can be freeing.
Black Panther veteran Dr. Regina Jennings publishes ‘Poetry and the Black Panther Party’ with...
Along with the Panthers visionary activism, they wrote and performed poetry. Panther poets “(un)consciously” recited language with body gestures to influence and inspire social change.
Play and kids with ACEs: ‘That’s where everything is worked out’
When children are deprived of plentiful self-directed opportunities to experience all of the play types, they lose potential pathways to fully grow, develop and heal.
When our ancestors speak, LISTEN! Part 2
With the crises growing on each and every day, WE again appeal to our youth and adults to utilize every means to stop the wealthy and foolish fossil fuel industries and challenge every candidate for elected office to produce serious climate reparations proposals and practices.
#StokersSoWhite: 2016-2018, the fall of tokenism at the HWA
Black voices in speculative fiction aren’t new, but awareness of our participation in sci-fi, horror and fantasy is on the rise. This is partially due to the scandals and also to the increase in Black audiences in the sci-fi, fantasy and horror television and motion picture industries.
Resistance to the idea of reparations may be simply psychological
by Wade Nobles, PhD
The newly wide-ranging discussion of reparations is being
stimulated by the recognition of the 400th anniversary of the introduction of
kidnapped captive Africans at the birth of the American colonies in 1619 to
later,...
Long live the greatest threat to the internal security of the US, the Black...
On this 50th anniversary of the Black Panthers’ Free Breakfast Program, let us meditate on the incredible legacy of the original Black Panther Party. Although this is a plea for help and a call to action, this piece is also a dedication.
POCC speaks before the United Nations: an update wit’ POCC Chairman Fred Hampton Jr.
This is terrorism. (We should) not wait for some white left producer to later come out with some movie when it is safe to say, “OK, this is wrong."
Wanda’s Picks for October 2019
African history does not start with slavery; however, American history does.
‘Black art’ draws new collectors, better prices
“More confrontational works tended to be ignored,” Azzi said. “But now institutions and collectors are a bit more comfortable looking back and taking note.”
Diversity talk highlights anti-Blackness and Black erasure within the LGBTQIA+ community
Denial of anti-Blackness is an everyday occupation in the LGBTQIA+ community and in San Francisco specifically, making this conversation long overdue.
The Barbara Lee and Elihu Harris Lecture Series presents Anna Mwalagho’s ‘Never Thought I...
Immigration can be a form of erasure. The quicker the newcomer sheds her identity, the sooner she is accepted.
‘Banished: How Whites Drove Blacks out of Town in America’
Between the late 1860s and the 1920s, Black people were subjected to a form of ethnic cleansing that Hitler would later use as a precursor for the Holocaust.