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Culture Currents

Cultural happenings in SF and beyond.

An African in America 2020: A mother’s hope for social justice

Racial violence and oppression tortures Black parents with never-ending anguish.

Commemorating International Workers’ and African Liberation days

Keeping it real, honorable, celebratory and focused, Baba Jahahara brings our news home.

Family justice in an unjust world: A mother’s story of false allegations by doctors,...

Stop snatching babies for federal funds – Families in Resistance is exposing trauma and corruption in the web that is child welfare, police, hospitals and federal legislation.

The blame game: Addiction is destroying our communities

Capitalism’s big pharma makes bank on Black and Brown communities while watching them die.

Nekhet ankh, the life force: Kemetic Sciences Studies – an enlightenment

The ancient Egyptian Ankh is a symbol of our unification between human and the divine.

Wanda’s Picks for May 2021

Wanda Sabir’s invitation to feel the perpetual shift and change of the world and it’s people’s stories opens portals for exploration and discovery.

My Black Mamma

Breaking the slave tradition, she announced she wasn’t going to pick no damn cotton.

Liberate the Caged Voices

This second part of Editor Nube Brown’s interview with Jalil Muntaqim reveals the many ways genocide is utilized by our government and uplifts building the unified movement to end it.

‘Art Against Imprisonment – From Palestine to the U.S.’

Virtual though it may be, this art exhibit featuring a broad spectrum of mediums from incarcerated and formerly incarcerated people from Palestine to the U.S., has the potential to touch, amaze, engage, inform and transform more people than prior to the COVID pandemic.

Curtis Family C-notes hits big stage!

With ongoing love transfusions for humanity the Curtis Family C-notes brings their unifying musical activism to feed the soul, and from Day One of the pandemic, accompanied by food for the body from Mother Brown’s.

Moving out of the virtual world, the Digital Divide and lessons from the pandemic

Come and get 'em while they're hot – virtual, hybrid and actual – all events happening in your SF Bay Area neighborhood.

Living within a lie

Countering the lying propaganda Americans have been fed about the U.S. not being a racist country, critical race theory could be an opportunity to learn the truth about American racism and inspire to make the changes necessary.

Reparations are here!

Honoring Charles Eugene “Gino” Armstrong and fellow New Ancestors, still suffering Political Prisoners, Reparations and S. 40 are the center of Baba Jahahara’s offering.

Buy Black Wednesdays!

Buy Black Wednesdays and keep Black dollars spending and circulating power through the Black community!

Paul Mooney: Black Panther of comedy

“I freed a lot of comics … if I never would have done comedy, it would’ve been a different art form … I’m sure of it.” – Paul Mooney

Wanda’s Picks: June 2021

Wanda Sabir has us feeling the moves of a reopening BA, remembering, revitalizing and honoring the fabric of our humanity and saving dates on calendars for the amazing events during June(teenth).

Hey, let’s talk about race!

Whereas most light bulbs dim with age, the Critical Race Theory bulb burns brighter every day as we move boldly forward in exploration of the truth about the human family.

Oakland, show some love to Geoffrey’s Inner Circle, pillar of the community

Friends of Geoffrey’s Inner Circle lays out the quantifiable value of Black-owned businesses to the City of Oakland and must be included in the budget awards for fiscal year 2021-2023.

The Juneteenth Holiday and Kujichagulia, or self-determination

Always enlightening, Baba Jahahara shares honor and gratitude for the paths of our humanity, uplifts the work necessary for changes and serves a healthy dollop of food for thought.

Black graduates celebrate big at 2021 Rites of Passage ceremony!

Black Graduation 2021 was a proud showcase of young people who stretched themselves with grit in the challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic to proceed through the Rites of Passage ceremony with hearts full and heads held high.