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Ishmael Reed’s ‘The Slave Who Loved Caviar’ at Theatre for the New City through...
Playwright, poet, satirist and giant-killer Ishmael Reed takes aim at the New York City art world with his new play about the life and career of Jean-Michel Basquiat through Jan. 9. Stream it live for only $10. Last show at noon today Pacific Time.
Martin Luther King Jr., internationalist
Martin Luther King took inspiration from struggles for freedom around the world and used it to fuel campaigns for civil rights and against poverty here.
Oakland’s ‘Trap Nature’ man: Scid Howard speaks
Community scientist Scid Howard shares the human essentials of connection to nature to mitigate the ever-devolving and dehumanizing world of technology.
More Wanda’s Picks for January 2022
Wanda Sabir offers great reading options in toasty coziness against the chill of winter’s breath outside.
Houston Grub Park: Food and food trucks are the core of the culture
The way Eric Hunter described his trip to Houston made me want to book my first, and mouth-watering at that, flight to Houston immediately!
She worked for the Black press for over 48 years
Transitioning to the ancestors, Gail Cordelia Berkley-Armstrong is remembered with honor and deep gratitude. Rest in Peace and Power.
Jazz fusion band TBA is taking the Bay by storm
JR Valrey’s interview confirms no humdrumming happening here as badass TBA band lights it up in the Bay!
College in Covid: A nightmare of access for Poor, Black, Brown, Indigenous and Disabled...
Community Colleges, under funding threats due to severely low enrollment, would benefit by offering clean slate programs to Poor, Black, Brown and Disabled students.
Happy 100th birthday, Queen Izola of Bayview Hunters Point!
Love in living is reason for celebration – Happy 100th Birthday beautiful Human Queen Izola!
Go tella OurStories and futures
Baba Jahahara never disappoints in celebrating beautiful lives transitioning to the Ancestors, present unfoldings and future possibilities.
California dreaming: Health is the new gold
Sharing one’s story in the village is an act of self-love and care and gifts the village with the opportunity of reciprocal love and care in shared humanity.
‘I, Too, Sing America’: SFBATCO’s award-winning play is back by popular demand
In the process of healing a hurting world, the creative energy of SFBATCO emerges to inspire, delight and speak, taking its place in the unspoken narrative to tweek the balance.
Wanda’s Picks for February 2022: African American Poets and Their Poetry, honoring two Elders...
In the many threads of the fabric of shared humanity are woven the rich stories of every life, each one part of the other, in struggle, poetry, healing and transitioning.
‘Sylvie’s Love,’ a Valentine’s gift: It’s delightfully chocolate!
Turn your lights down low and get into your most comfortable position with your boo and enjoy “Silvie’s Love.” It’s magical!
Oakland producer Spear of the Nation resurrects three-fourths of the Far Side, formerly Pharcyde,...
Fatlip, Slimkid Tre and Imani are back in the lab creating on top of production from Oakland’s own Spear of the Nation.
Local entrepreneur Kehinde Koyejo used the pandemic to get her life on track
Kehinde Koyejo’s embodiment of Black Love in process is intoxicating, and essential on the road to liberation.
Author Felicia Gangloff-Bailey mourns her daughter and writes a book on grief
In the depths of grief, Felicia Gangloff-Bailey discovered an expanding horizon of love and the unfolding journey there.
Fentanyl: The San Francisco travesty
Fentanyl is as deadly as it gets, and a SF pandemic neglected and ignored by our civil electeds – a quiet tool of genocide used by the system against the People.
Developing the Ministry of Information Podcast: A short look at the journalistic trek of...
Although, as Black men living in the U.S., we all contained within us a certain degree of anger at what is wantonly done to Black people by the powers that be – I, by far, contained the most outright rage in my writings and personality.
MathArtist John Sims: Pi (Day) is for everyone
Mathematics can be an agent of freedom and access. The great Bob Moses, founder of the Algebra Project, advocated for mathematics literacy as a tool for liberation and as necessary as civil rights.