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Michael Lange (director and actor, role: Hon. Elijah Muhammad) and Kreshenda Jenkins (Sister Betty X) join us to talk about Larry "Americ" Allen's The Expulsion of Malcolm X, opening March 23 at Laney College in Oakland. Michael Lange, actor, director and filmmaker, is best known for his portrayal as a Malcolm X delineator, having performed the fiery freedom fighter and orator’s speeches nationally on stage since early 1990. He has directed two award-winning plays, ‘Ceremonies in Dark Old Men’ (Best Play Award) and ‘The Old Settler’ (Best Director). As a playwright, he wrote the play ‘Prophet Nat’, a musical docudrama based on the life of slave-prophet Nat turner. Currently, he is on the faculty at San Jose State University, where he has taught since 1998. Lange continues to write and perform for stage and film, and lives in Oakland, California. Kreshenda Jenkins (Sister Betty X), a thespian at heart, has always had a passion for performing arts.  She started acting on stage at the age of 15 and although she took a hiatus for some time she is back and ready to play her role as “Betty X” for a second time. We close with a conversation with Rachel Caplan, Founder & Executive Director of the San Francisco Green Film Festival and Bill Morrison, director, The Great Flood, USA, 2013, 80 min, screens Sunday, June 1, at The Little Roxie and Leah Mahan, director, and Derrick Christopher Evans, subject in the film, Come Hell or High Water: The Battle for Turkey Creek, USA, 2013, 56 min., screens Saturday, May 31, at the Roxie Theatre, followed by a panel discussion.

Michael Lange (director and actor, role: Hon. Elijah Muhammad) and Kreshenda Jenkins (Sister Betty X) join us to talk about Larry "Americ" Allen's The Expulsion of Malcolm X, opening March 23 at Laney College in Oakland. Michael Lange, actor, director and filmmaker, is best known for his portrayal as a Malcolm X delineator, having performed the fiery freedom fighter and orator’s speeches nationally on stage since early 1990. He has directed two award-winning plays, ‘Ceremonies in Dark Old Men’ (Best Play Award) and ‘The Old Settler’ (Best Director). As a playwright, he wrote the play ‘Prophet Nat’, a musical docudrama based on the life of slave-prophet Nat turner. Currently, he is on the faculty at San Jose State University, where he has taught since 1998. Lange continues to write and perform for stage and film, and lives in Oakland, California. Kreshenda Jenkins (Sister Betty X), a thespian at heart, has always had a passion for performing arts.  She started acting on stage at the age of 15 and although she took a hiatus for some time she is back and ready to play her role as “Betty X” for a second time. We close with a conversation with Rachel Caplan, Founder & Executive Director of the San Francisco Green Film Festival and Bill Morrison, director, The Great Flood, USA, 2013, 80 min, screens Sunday, June 1, at The Little Roxie and Leah Mahan, director, and Derrick Christopher Evans, subject in the film, Come Hell or High Water: The Battle for Turkey Creek, USA, 2013, 56 min., screens Saturday, May 31, at the Roxie Theatre, followed by a panel discussion.

We open the show with an interview with artist, scholar, Jeramy DeCristo whose Document/in the hold opens this evening, May 2, the exhibit up through May 30, with an artist talk Friday, May 16, 2014, at Siete Potencias Africanas Gallery, 777 O'Farrell Street, San Francisco. (415) 323-9 We shift next into a true freedom story as told by Zenobia Powell Perry, in the African America folk opera Tawawa House at the Gallo Center for the Arts in Modesto, CA May 2 and May 4, 2014: http://townsendopera.com We close with an interview with Michael Asberry, understudy for the role of Gabriel in Marin Theatre Company's production of August Wilson's Fences.

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We open the show with an interview with artist, scholar, Jeramy DeCristo whose Document/in the hold opens this evening, May 2, the exhibit up through May 30, with an artist talk Friday, May 16, 2014, at Siete Potencias Africanas Gallery, 777 O'Farrell Street, San Francisco. (415) 323-9 We shift next into a true freedom story as told by Zenobia Powell Perry, in the African America folk opera Tawawa House at the Gallo Center for the Arts in Modesto, CA May 2 and May 4, 2014: http://townsendopera.com We close with an interview with Michael Asberry, understudy for the role of Gabriel in Marin Theatre Company's production of August Wilson's Fences.

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We open the show with an interview with artist, scholar, Jeramy DeCristo whose Document/in the hold opens this evening, May 2, the exhibit up through May 30, with an artist talk Friday, May 16, 2014, at Siete Potencias Africanas Gallery, 777 O'Farrell Street, San Francisco (415) 323-940415-323-9406. We shift next into a true freedom story as told by Zenobia Powell Perry, in the African America folk opera Tawawa House at the Gallo Center for the Arts in Modesto, CA May 2 and May 4, 2014: http://townsendopera.com We close with an interview with Michael Asberry, understudy for the role of Gabriel in Marin Theatre Company's production of August Wilson's Fences.

We open the show with an interview with artist, scholar, Jeramy DeCristo whose Document/in the hold opens this evening, May 2, the exhibit up through May 30, with an artist talk Friday, May 16, 2014, at Siete Potencias Africanas Gallery, 777 O'Farrell Street, San Francisco (415) 323-940415-323-9406. We shift next into a true freedom story as told by Zenobia Powell Perry, in the African America folk opera Tawawa House at the Gallo Center for the Arts in Modesto, CA May 2 and May 4, 2014: http://townsendopera.com We close with an interview with Michael Asberry, understudy for the role of Gabriel in Marin Theatre Company's production of August Wilson's Fences.

This is a black arts and culture site. We will be exploring the African Diaspora via the writing, performance, both musical and theatrical (film and stage), as well as the visual arts of Africans in the Diaspora and those influenced by these aesthetic forms of expression. I am interested in the political and social ramifications of art on society, specifically movements supported by these artists and their forebearers. It is my claim that the artists are the true revolutionaries, their work honest and filled with raw unedited passion. They are our true heroes. Ashay!

This is a black arts and culture site. We will be exploring the African Diaspora via the writing, performance, both musical and theatrical (film and stage), as well as the visual arts of Africans in the Diaspora and those influenced by these aesthetic forms of expression. I am interested in the political and social ramifications of art on society, specifically movements supported by these artists and their forebearers. It is my claim that the artists are the true revolutionaries, their work honest and filled with raw unedited passion. They are our true heroes. Ashay!

This morning we speak to Ramona Africa, Spokeperson for MOVE about her recent visit to San Francisco Bay Area as a part of the Welcome Home Lynne Stewart, the People's Attorney, May 2-4, 2014. She speaks about the MOVE 9 and the anniversary of the MOVE residence, May 13, 1985 where everyone was killed except Ramona and a child, the late Birdie Africa. On Saturday, May 10, 2014, there will be a Screening of “Let the Fire Burn” at the Rotunda at 40th & Walnut, Philadelphia. Visit http://onamove.com/   On May 13, 1985, by order of local Philadelphia authorities, police dropped military-grade explosives onto a MOVE-occupied rowhouse killing 11 people (including five babies). Watch a new documentary about the event and the struggles to bring Philadelphia officials to justice and free the adult survivors–who are still in jail after 36 years, while their attempted murderers walk free!  We close with an interview from the archives with Ericka Huggins about The Black Power Mixtape film.

This morning we speak to Ramona Africa, Spokeperson for MOVE about her recent visit to San Francisco Bay Area as a part of the Welcome Home Lynne Stewart, the People's Attorney, May 2-4, 2014. She speaks about the MOVE 9 and the anniversary of the MOVE residence, May 13, 1985 where everyone was killed except Ramona and a child, the late Birdie Africa. On Saturday, May 10, 2014, there will be a Screening of “Let the Fire Burn” at the Rotunda at 40th & Walnut, Philadelphia. Visit http://onamove.com/   On May 13, 1985, by order of local Philadelphia authorities, police dropped military-grade explosives onto a MOVE-occupied rowhouse killing 11 people (including five babies). Watch a new documentary about the event and the struggles to bring Philadelphia officials to justice and free the adult survivors–who are still in jail after 36 years, while their attempted murderers walk free!  We close with an interview from the archives with Ericka Huggins about The Black Power Mixtape film.