Wanda's Picks

1. Regina Louise. Someone Has Led this Child to Believe (2nd bk. Lifetime film based on Somebody's Someone). www.iamreginalouise.com

2. Donte Clark with Dr. Khalid Akil White re: "Know Freedom" book event at Richmond Pulse, Bridge Art Space, 23 Maine Ave., Richmond, CA, 3-6 pm

3. Martin Luther, McCoy Actor, guitarist, singer/songwriter, producer joins us to talk about the Oakland Symphony's Swing and Soul – Let Us Break Bread Together, Sunday, Dec. 16, 4 p.m. at the Paramount Theatre in Oakland. https://www.oaklandsymphony.org/

4. Nathan M. Richardson, Poet / Author / Douglass Historian, joins us to talk about Frederick Douglass on his 200 birth year. 

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1. Kim Carter, Founder & Ambassador of Time for Change. She is an affordable housing developer, motivational speaker, author, coach. Ms. Carter joins us to talk about the opening of a residence for formerly incarcerated women and children in Hayward. 

2. Adrian Williams, Kwanzaa Village Project 2017 (archived rebroadcast)

3. Lindsay Krumbein, Founder and Executive Artistic Director, Gritty City Repertory Youth Theatre @The Flight Deck, 1540 Broadway, Oakland. Krumbein taught theatre and English at Bay Area high schools for a decade, and has produced and directed 21 shows with talented youth performers since 2002. www.grittycityrep.org  

Robert Paige, co-playwright, actor, Community Engagement and Technical Apprentice  

Zaria Stanton is a junior at Envision Academy in her second season with GCRep. In "Caught Up" she plays Angela Davis as well as performing in a number of large scenes with the whole ensemble.

3. Kathleen Dowdey, dir., John Lewis, Get in the Way (archived interview)

4. SCILLA ANDREEN, Director, Producer, Executive Producer, "Like," the film indieflix.com and Daniel Wright, Fusion, Head Of School, the hosts of the community screening, Thursday, Dec. 6, 6 p.m.

Music: Victoria Theodore: "Blue"; Meklit and Quinn: "Tunnels."

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We open with Brie Knight, the winner of the Lorraine Hansberry Theatre Playwrights Festival (https://www.lhtsf.org/), with her "Pancake Queen," and close with an archived show taped April 11 this year.

1. Theresa Dorcelus, Juris Doctorate Candidate 2020, Southern University Law Center, joins us to highlight the case of John Cluchette, who was once again denied parole by Gov. Brown. 

2. Rakiah Anderson, "Black Lives, Black Lungs," doc and panel at Laney College Forum, Fri., April 13, 2018, 510.604.7589.

3. Edythe Boone & Miranda Bergman, Maestra Peace Mural Book Project Kickstarter

4. Deborah Vaughn, Latanya d. Tigner, Andea Vonny Lee, join us to talk about Dimensions Dance Theater's 45th Anniversary, Kick High, Turn Fast: Celebrating 45 Yrs. of Dance at the Malonga Casquelourd Center for the Arts, 1428 Street, Oakland. Call 510.465.3363, www.dimensionsdance.org

Shortlink: http://tobtr.com/10712569

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!

Today we host a Tribute to Ntozake Shange. We open with a prerecorded interview with the late playwright, poet, novelist and co-director, Cassandra Henderson. October 18, 1948 – October 27, 2018)(PoetryFoundation.org).

Our guests include: Claudia Alick, Lisa Brimmer, Nanna Mwaluko, Halifu Osumare 

Shange is best known for the Obie Award-winning play for colored girls who have considered suicide / when the rainbow is enuf. She also penned several novels including Sassafrass, Cypress & Indigo (1982), Liliane (1994), and Betsey Brown (1985), a novel about an African-American girl who runs away from home. Among Shange's honors and awards were fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the Lila Wallace Reader's Digest Fund, and a Pushcart Prize. In April 2016, Barnard College announced that it acquired Shange's archive.[3] Shange lived in Brooklyn, New York (wikipedia).

1. Toni-Michelle Williams is an activist and co-director of Solutions Not Punishment Coalition (SNaPCO) in Atlanta, Georgia. She is a celebrated community organizer in prison abolition/prison reform issues, and the criminalization of poverty and Black transgender people. She is in town for Violence Against Trans Women: State of Emergency at Commonwealth Club of CA in SF, 11.26/2018, 6:30 p.m.

2. Sikivu Hutchinson, Ph.D. is an educator and author who has written and published extensively on the African American experience in Peoples Temple and Jonestown; CHARLOTTE WILLIAMS (Hy Strayer) charlotteevelynwilliams.com; ELVINET PIARD (Jess McPherson/The Night Watchwoman) is trained in communication and performing arts, Elvinet is an L.A.-based actor and voice-over artist. They join us to talk about the upcoming production of White Nights, Black Paradise, Fri., Nov 30 – Sun, Dec 02 at the Hudson Mainstage Theatre, 6539 Santa Monica Blvd., Hollywood. http://www.blackjonestown.org/events/

3. We close with an interview with Ntozake Shange, playwright, “for colored girls who’ve considered suicide when the rainbow was enuf." The performance was at Black Rep in Berkeley.

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!

Tomorrow, Sunday, Nov. 18, 2018 is the 40 Anniversary of the killing of 918 people, 302 children in Jonestown, Guyana. Dr. Jynona Norwood, a Los Angeles pastor of the Family Christian Cathedral, joins us to talk about her organization,  Jonestown Memorial Wall and Services organization its body of volunteers and The Cherishing the Children Memorial unveling tomorrow, Sunday, November 18, 2018 | 11:00 a.m. (PST)

Evergreen Cemetery | 6450 Camden Avenue, Oakland, CA www.Jones-town.com

1. From the Archives Dec. 9, 2016 features: Oakland East Bay Symphony re: Let Us Break Bread 2016 celebrating the 50th Anniversary of the Black Panther Party http://tobtr.com/9645829

2. From the Archives: Stanley Nelson, dir. "Vanguard of the Revolution (2015)."

2. The Honourable Tony Ince was first elected to the Nova Scotia House of Assembly as MLA for Cole Harbour-Portland Valley in 2013 and was re-elected in 2017. He has served as Minister of Communities, Culture and Heritage. He has worked as a Department of Community Services Counsellor, a sales representative and as an actor.

Minister Ince was born and raised in the north-end of Halifax Nova Scotia. In addition to working for the Department of Community Services as a youth and family counsellor, he has chaired the African Canadian Advisory Board for Nova Scotia Community College and is a past member of the African Nova Scotian Advisory committee for the Halifax Regional School Board.

As a teacher and educator, he has instructed history and drama, and been involved with instructing equity and diversity programs within Ontario high schools. He has a passion for social justice and fairness and a strong commitment to issues affecting youth. Tony Ince was also an actor. He has worked in the television and film industry since 1994; --having appeared in many movies and commercials. Recently, Mr. Ince was part of the Stryker-Indigo New York Production Team during filming of the documentary BLACK ICE.

Mr. Ince is introduced by his friend, Arif Khatib, businessman, filmmaker, radio show host and founder of the Oakland-based Multi-Ethnic Sports Hall of Fame (originally the African-American Sports Hall of Fame.

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1. 40 Years After Jonestown: Homecoming: Sunday, November 18, 2018, beginning at 1:45 pm Geary Blvd. & Fillmore @ 1859 Geary, the former location of People's Temple. We are joined by survivors, scholars and concerned citizen activists: Lt. Yulanda D.A. Williams, Professor James Lance Taylor. https://sfbeautiful.org/40-years-after-jonestown/

2. Lorraine Hansberry Theatre's Playwrights Festival is Friday-Sunday, Nov. 16-18 and features: Cleavon Smith whose Vs. premiered in Berkeley, CA during the 2016-17 season at TheatreFirst. He has had short plays produced by the Utopia Theatre Project, the Best of PlayGround Festival, and the Ohlone College Playwrights Festival. Cleavon lives in Oakland and teaches English at Berkeley City College and is in his third year as the playwriting mentor for the Berkeley Rep's Young Writers of Color Collective. Visit https://www.lhtsf.org/

3. JooWan Kim,  Ensemble Mik Nawooj & Mina Morita, Artistic Director of Crowded Fire Theater, join us to talk about DEATH BECOME LIFE: BANISH DARKNESS, a future vision by Crowded Fire Theater, AXIS Dance Company, Star Finch, and Ensemble Mik Nawooj With Presenting Sponsor Bayview Opera House Ruth Williams Memorial Theatre, 4705 3rd Street, San Francisco, November 16, 8:00pm, November 17, 3:00pm and 8:00pm. Ticket Price: $25. Visit www.crowdedfire.org/dbl-banish-darkness for more information and to purchase tickets. Box Office by phone (415) 523-0034 ext 1.

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!

Rebroadcast (from 9.21.2018): Zaccho's Picture This Bayview Hunter's Point; LSPC@40: A Conversation with Founder. Ellen Barry & Executive Dir. Dorsey Nunn