Wanda's Picks

SF Green Film Festival https://www.greenfilmfest.org/

1. Soumyaa Kapil Behrens, dir. (NAIL HOUSE)

Soumyaa is an award-winning director, producer and scholar whose projects have screened at festivals across the globe. Her work engages issues that influence the human condition and the political landscapes that shape identity and power structures within marginalized communities.

2. Marcy Cravat (DIRT RICH) trained at the Art Center College of Design and at the Berkeley Digital Film Institute.  She founded Passelande Pictures in 2011 which has been focused on creating environmental documentaries given the dire need for public awareness during this very fragile time on this planet.

National Prison Strike Aug. 21-Sept. 9

https://www.facebook.com/freescmovement/

https://incarceratedworkers.org/campaigns/prison-strike-2018

3. Nube Brown, New Abolitionist and Director of Outreach at California Prison Focus

Mama Efia Nwangaza--Maverick Revolutionary Organizer in the Prison Human Rights Movement, Director, Malcolm X Center for Self-Determination, reflects on Hon Marcus Mosiah Garvey and the Prison Movement (bio:"Invisible Giants" https://wmxp955.com MXGR blog and Facebook). Morgage Donations ($90,000) can be sent to 202 Lavinia Avenue, Greenville, SC 29601.

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!

1. Terah J. Lawyer, Project Coordinator, Impact Justice; Terri (host) and KC (the participant) join us to talk about The Homecoming Project from Impact Justice: Housing for People coming out of prison. Visit (707) 794-2151; [email protected], www.impactjustice.org [email protected]

8:30 am with Tom Booth (FOOD COOP), 9/12, 5:15 pm at YBCA

9:00 Anjali Nayar, dir. SILAS, SF Green Film Festival selection on Sept.11, 6 pm. Free event at SFPL Main Branch.

9:30 AM: Bay Area playwright Jovelyn Richards & Bob Lane, retired lawyer and English teacher, join us to talk about 9-1-1 What’s Your Emergency?'s World Premiere September 8 @ 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm The play is an artistic response to gentrification, stereotypes, systemic racism and the personal narratives of humanity. Visit lapena.org

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!

1. We spend the first 30-60 minutes reflecting on the Queen of Soul, the same day she is laid to rest in Detroit. 

2. Warrior Women is one of the featured films in the SF Green Film Festival Sept. 6-13. Join us as we speak to ELIZABETH A. CASTLE, Ph.D., Director & Producer and CHRISTINA D. KING, Director & Producer

3. Legal Services for Prisoners with Children and All of Us or None have open the Freedom and Movement Center in West Oakland, 4400 Market Street. Saturday, 12 noon-5 p.m. is a Block Party and Grand Opening.

We speak to Aminah S. R. Colbert, Policy Fellow/Staff Organizer; Sandra Johnson; 2017 1st Elder Freeman Policy Fellow, All of Us or None Organizer; Noe Gudiño, 2018 Elder Freeman Policy Fellow. 

https://www.prisonerswithchildren.org/

This tenth Anniversary Month ends with a MASH-up. . . clips from shows over the past decade. Can't play everything . . . there are so many shows (1061). Funny, August 2008, I only had 1 shows and the next month I had a few more broadcasts.

I have 1061 published episodes. This is 106 episodes a year. My average is 8 shows a month which is 2 shows a week. I remember sometimes having more than two shows a week and sometimes less.I am still interested in being syndicated. I just need to find my hours in the day. I am happy to have a dedicated audience who follow Wanda's Picks.

There are two clips August 29 & Sept. 5, 2008. We revisit the Gulf Region and see what's going on there on the ground in Louisiana and Mississippi by speaking to Jackie and King. Jackie lives in the 7th Ward. King lives in Austin. Katrina destroyed his home.

Next, Tayo Aluko joins us to talk about Call Mr. Robeson, a fundraiser for Mumia Abu Jamal, Sept. 5, and con't. Sept. 6-7 at 5 PM at the Phonenix Theatre.

Next Richard Talavera, playwright, and director, Norman Gee share Before the Dream: the mysterious death (and life) of Richard Wright. Coleman Domingo, playwright of "A Boy and His Soul"  is next.

We are also honored to have the directors of the new film "Trouble the Water," which opens this weekend, Sept. 5 in the San Francisco Bay Area. Check your listings.

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!

1. Kumasi Speaks with Naji Mujahid on

August 7, 2012 . Visit https://archive.org/details/KumasiSpeaksWhatIsBlackAugust

2. Rachel Caplan, Founder & CEO, SF Green Film Festival Sept. 6-13 greenfilmfest.org

3. Thomas Robert Simpson, actor, director, producer, and writer, is the founder and artistic director of AfroSolo Arts Festival (1991). He joins us to talk about Courage Under Fire: The Story of Elroy, which he will perform Saturday, August 25, 2018, 8pm Berkeley Black Repertory Group Theater, 3201 Adeline Street, Berkeley, CA 74703. Tickets: www.brownpapertickets.com or afrosolo.org          

4. BILAL SUNNI-ALI, Bilal Ali Mafundi, Nube Brown, Mama Efia Nwangaza, Maverick Revolutionary Organizer in the Prison Human Rights Movement & Director, Malcolm X Center for Self-Determination in Greenboro, SC,  https://wmxp955.webs.com/staffandfriends.htm join us to give us an update on National Prison Strike activities nationwide.

http://sawarimi.org/national-prison-strike

https://incarceratedworkers.org/campaigns/prison-strike-2018

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!

1. Tribute to Queen Aretha Franklin (Mar 25, 1942-Aug. 16, 2018) with Sandra Hooper Mayfield—Mama Maketa and Rhodessa Jones (taped).

2. Rebroadcast: Rhodessa Jones, Medea Project; Cultural Odyssey-- The Resurrection of SHE (from the Archives 2013)

3. Gregory Dawsonjoins us to talk about MANGAKU-- a collaboration with Richard Howell at YBCA Theatre on Howe Street http://www.dawsondancesf.org/company/ Code for ticket discounts: RHDDSS30

4. The Black Woman Is God with Karen Seneferu, creator; Idris Hassan and Ayana.

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!

1. The Drum and the Word: An evening of percussion and poetry with Dame Drummer and Tongo Eisen-Martin, Aug. 22, 2018, 7:00 PM – 9:00 PM at The Lab, 2948 16th Street, San Francisco, CA 94103

(415) 864-8855, [email protected]. $8 entry (no one turned away for lack of funds), free for members

A virtuosic combination of two liberation artists push the bounds of expression and resistance. Tongo Eisen Martin and Dame Drummer bring all facets of the diaspora to bare in a night of haunting and relentless percussion and poetry at The Lab.

2. Alita Henderson, Say I Love You To Yourself (SILYTY) workshop trainings. Contact: [email protected] and (510) 551-8987 and Facebook.com

3.  Mama Efia Nwangaza, Maverick Revolutionary Organizer in the Prison Human Rights Movement, Director, Malcolm X Center for Self-Determination, reflects on Marcus Mosiah Garvey and the Prison Movement (bio:"Invisible Giants" https://wmxp955.webs.com/staffandfriends.htm, MXGR blog and Facebook)

Music: Mama C: Voices of My Ancestors; Billy Harper's Knowledge of Self featuring Amiri Baraka; UpSurge: Ancestors

http://tobtr.com/10934417

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!

1. Ms. Veronica Stafford; Dr. Corey Malcom, Director of Archaeology, Mel Fisher Maritime Heritage Society in Key West, FL, join Brother Dinizulu Gene Tinnie, member of ICCAAMP, scholar and artist, to talk about the International Day for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade and Its Abolition (officially August 23) in Key West at the African Cemetery memorial monument, at Higgs Memorial Beach, 1074-94 Atlantic Boulevard, Key West, FL 33040, this Sunday, August 19, from 6:00 – 8:00 p.m. The location is just west of the White Street Pier and adjacent to the West Martello brick fort. For information contact: 305-904-7620, [email protected]

2. What is Black August? A Conversation with Comrade Kumasi, scholar, Black August & Prison Movement Historian, former Political Prisoner, Prisoner of War. What goes into the formation or making of a revolutionary?

Send letter on behalf of prisoner serving LWOP to the National Clemency Project. Make sure the person is being represented first: https://www.nationalclemencyprojectinc.com/  954.271.2304

Music: Zion Trinity; Childish Gambino's This Is America: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VYOjWnS4cMY

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!

In 2010, four Black Men, artists in Oakland: Jimi Evins, Ted Pontiflet, Ronnie Prosser, and James Reid, participated in a group show called: Love of Art: Show and Sale. Eight years later we mourn the loss of yet another artist, James Reid, whose funeral is this morning, Friday, August 10, 11 a.m., in West Oakland at Baker Atkins Mortuary, 980 8th Street. Ronnie passed a few years ago.

In these three (3) conversations the men speak about their work, inspiration, and how they shape perception since American society does not value artists. The men respect each other and speak appreciatively about one another's work. The show was intimate and fun at James Reid's gallery at Studio 750A 14th St. @ Brush, Oakland. It's not often that the public had an opportunity to see work like this at a price one could afford to take home.

The three shows were: Feb. 19, 26 and March 5, 2010.

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!

We open with Nube Brown who gives us information about the National Prison Strike 2018: 8/21-9/09. Email: [email protected] or text: prison strike to 818.918.2376

Visit: http://newest.prisons.org/

For the action Aug. 25, 11 AM to 3:30 PM at San Quentin, email [email protected]

Also visit: https://www.ficpfm.org/about/

Archived Show:

http://www.blogtalkradio.com/wandas-picks/2011/08/17/wandas-picks-radio-show

8 AM: Dr. Oba T'Shaka: Garvey's organization and how this impacted his life and work

8:30: Nefertina Abrams on Marcus Garvey's Legacy and His Wives. There is an event this weekend in FL.

9:00: Sheba Makeda Haven, UNIA Member; Elder Freeman, event in LA, Jabari Aali Shaw re: Marcus Garvey Parade and Event in Oakland, CA, Saturday, August 20, 2011.

9:30: Sundiata Tate (wasn't able to make it), Elder Freeman, Robert King re: Black August and George Jackson. Sheba Makeda Haven and Jabari Shaw join us as well.

Show link: http://tobtr.com/s/10922985