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Leroy Moore: Dear Black community
Leroy Moore uses the power of poetry to inspire Black community engagement in the struggle for healing and empowerment for Black ableism by building Black organizations, leadership and unity.
Much respect and love to the Black Panther Party
Celebrating the Black Panther Party for Defense birthed in Oakland 55 years ago, Baba Jahahara also shares appreciation of the many past and present jewels of our communities.
GirlFly Poetry
Young GirlFly women diving into and expressing deep connections from Quesada Gardens.
Black joy, healing and art in the park: SF’s Presidio opens up the ‘My...
The parks offered options for relief during the onslaught of the pandemic, and now the creations culminating from these adventures into the unknown.
Wanda’s Picks for October 2021
With eye and heart on fine tuning the soul and its reality, Wanda Sabir explores the layers of humanity’s offerings.
Sam: Samuel-Ace Ieremia Johnson – Forever in our hearts
Samuel-Ace Ieremia Johnson’s journey home is carried in celebration of the love he had for life.
Beyond Indigenous Peoples’ Day
New Roots Theater Festival centers BIPOC artists bringing joy and celebration in dance, song, music, poetry and theater for two days running, Oct. 16-17.
Wanda’s Picks for October 2021
It’s all one great energy, one great vibration or energy that breathes for all life. We need to use intention to tune our souls so we can charge our human battery to capacity. - Wanda Sabir
Keidra is returning to Ghana wit’ D’Wayne Wiggins of the Tonys and a tour...
Keidra’s first trip to Ghana inspires her return this December to make the Oakland 2 Accra Connection with music, heart and humanity.
A calling to come home
Finding the right fit among programs available to help adult children coming from parents of substance use disorders can be challenging, yet possible.
GIRLFLY in the Gardens
Like new leaves emerging on the twig, GIRLFLY participants poetically acknowledge their vital humanity of belonging.
Love! Life! Healing! Reparations now!
Baba Jahahara reminds us to act in healthy ways, pays honor to new Ancestors and Ancients, and brings renewed energy to healing, Reparations and freeing our political prisoners.
A Conspiracy of Flowers
At the International Tribunal 2021, poet Steve Bloom eloquently speaks his poem, ‘A Conspiracy of Flowers,’ to his friend also present, former Political Prisoner Oscar Lopez Rivera.
Fighting co-optation: Honoring the Black Panther Party on its 55th anniversary
Delency and Abbas Muntaqim deftly lay out the critical importance of history and education in the revolutionary movement.
Bay Area neo-soul sensation Morgan J is set to rock Ghana on tour with...
Morgan J shares her excitement of embarking into her unknown, in Ghana, to experience her culture, her people and to receive whatever God has waiting for her there.
Open letter from Sunnydale resident to Mayor Breed, Gov. Newsom and HUD Secretary Marcia...
The capital empire insists that the oppressed continue to bend, or move as it were, to the will of the system and its appendages – one of several forms of Genocide.
Interview with Dedoceo Habi on talking PTSD
Dedoceo Habi shares how he learned that the best way to make sure you sustain your trauma-related behavior is to run away from it, to act like it doesn’t exist.
Legendary composer Marcus Shelby is bringing his opera ‘Harriet’s Spirit’ to the Bayview Opera...
“Harriet’s Spirit” will be on stage at the Bayview Opera House, 4705 Third St., between Oakdale and Newcomb, today and tomorrow, Nov. 13 and 14. Performances are at 1 p.m and 4 p.m. on Saturday, with the final performance at 1 p.m. on Sunday. Register at https://operaparallele.org/harriet/.
Burned alive for sleeping outside
Never to mince words, Lisa “Tiny” Gray-Garcia points out: “Krapitalism kills everything – people, animals and love.”
Bay Area-based wordsmith Marisha Ashanti is touring Ghana with D’Wayne Wiggins of Tony, Toni,...
Marisha Ashanti shares her excitement for the upcoming D’Wayne Wiggins of Tony, Toni, Tone tour to Ghana.