Wanda's Picks

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. Katori Hall's The Mountain Top cast: Khary L. Moye (Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.) is honored to be playing the role of Martin Luther King, Jr. at C.C.C.T. Visit http://ccct.org/the-mountaintop/

Kimberly Ridgeway (Camae), Kim is excited to be back on the CCCT stage for the second time.

2. Alex Saragoza, Ph.D., Associate Professor Chicano/Latino Studies, joins us to talk about a free film/panel April 9, 5:30-8 p.m., "Latino Youth, Familia & Social Change: Cesar Chavez to the Present" at the Center for History and Community; 2488 Coolidge, Oakland. http://www.peraltahacienda.org

Dr. Saragoza's work looks at the historical interface between processes of racialization and inequity in Latin America, especially Mexico and Cuba, and their intersections with immigration to the USA. PhD, 1979, University of California, San Diego, Doctoral program in Latin American history.

3. From the Archives: Simone Missick (as Camae) in The Mountaintop at Theatre Works, (4/3/2013 broadcast). Review: http://wandasabir.blogspot.com/2013/03/through-looking-glass_5130.html

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. Katori Hall's The Mountain Top cast: Khary L. Moye (Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.) is honored to be playing the role of Martin Luther King, Jr. at C.C.C.T. Visit http://ccct.org/the-mountaintop/

Kimberly Ridgeway (Camae), Kim is excited to be back on the CCCT stage for the second time.

2. Alex Saragoza, Ph.D., Associate Professor Chicano/Latino Studies, joins us to talk about a free film/panel April 9, 5:30-8 p.m., "Latino Youth, Familia & Social Change: Cesar Chavez to the Present" at the Center for History and Community; 2488 Coolidge, Oakland. http://www.peraltahacienda.org

Dr. Saragoza's work looks at the historical interface between processes of racialization and inequity in Latin America, especially Mexico and Cuba, and their intersections with immigration to the USA. PhD, 1979, University of California, San Diego, Doctoral program in Latin American history.

3. From the Archives: Simone Missick (as Camae) in The Mountaintop at Theatre Works, (4/3/2013 broadcast). Review: http://wandasabir.blogspot.com/2013/03/through-looking-glass_5130.html

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 is the anniversary of Lil' Bobby Hutton's killing at the hands of the Oakland Police (COINTELPRO operatives). He was the first casualty (at 17). We want to say: Ashay! Long Live the Spirit of this brave warrior for justice!https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l13FYpRuqTI

From the Archives:

1. Aisha Brown, Alameda County Supervisor Carson's office, re: African American Organizations Making Connections II at Laney College (aired 2/24/2013)

2. Alrick Brown, dir., "Kinyawanda" featured at SFIFF54 (aired 4/4)

3. Albert Mazibuko, Ladysmith Black Mambazo, Singing for Peace (3/2013 Tour). We reflect on Women's History Month. Music: "Yangiluma" (aired March '13).

Music: Amikaeyla's "Dreamer," from Being in Love; Hunter Poetry's "Every Breath of Life," WolfHawkJaquar's "Esu Exit."

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 is the anniversary of Lil' Bobby Hutton's killing at the hands of the Oakland Police (COINTELPRO operatives). He was the first casualty (at 17). We want to say: Ashay! Long Live the Spirit of this brave warrior for justice!https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l13FYpRuqTI

From the Archives:

1. Aisha Brown, Alameda County Supervisor Carson's office, re: African American Organizations Making Connections II at Laney College (aired 2/24/2013)

2. Alrick Brown, dir., "Kinyawanda" featured at SFIFF54 (aired 4/4)

3. Albert Mazibuko, Ladysmith Black Mambazo, Singing for Peace (3/2013 Tour). We reflect on Women's History Month. Music: "Yangiluma" (aired March '13).

Music: Amikaeyla's "Dreamer," from Being in Love; Hunter Poetry's "Every Breath of Life," WolfHawkJaquar's "Esu Exit."

1. MoAD Emerging Artist, Cheryl Derricotte’s “Ghosts/Ships” 

She pays homage to Fred Wilson’s Mining the Museum by “mining the library” (the British Library) for images related to the global slave trade. This show includes approximately 20 works that reveal images of people from African descent who come from diverse locales and were involved in the slave trade.

Images of slave ships and oceans reveal how the art and culture of the African people have been dispersed all over the world. The exhibit will include portraits of enslaved people from the Diaspora, ships, oceans and botanical illustrations of cotton, which was a central crop to the institution of slavery and the basis of much of the early craft art.

Originally from Washington D.C., Derricotte is a visual storyteller who currently resides in Oakland, Calif. She holds a MFA from the California Institute of Integral Studies (CIIS) and has been awarded Art Alliance for Contemporary Glass’ Inaugural Visionary Scholarship and a D.C. Commission on the Arts & Humanities /National Endowment for the Arts Artist Fellowship Grant. She’s exhibited at the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History, Florida State University Museum of Fine Arts and the San Francisco Airport Museum.

2. Steven Anthony Jones, Artistic Director, LHT-SF, joins us to talk about "Thurgood."

1. MoAD Emerging Artist, Cheryl Derricotte’s “Ghosts/Ships” 

She pays homage to Fred Wilson’s Mining the Museum by “mining the library” (the British Library) for images related to the global slave trade. This show includes approximately 20 works that reveal images of people from African descent who come from diverse locales and were involved in the slave trade.

Images of slave ships and oceans reveal how the art and culture of the African people have been dispersed all over the world. The exhibit will include portraits of enslaved people from the Diaspora, ships, oceans and botanical illustrations of cotton, which was a central crop to the institution of slavery and the basis of much of the early craft art.

Originally from Washington D.C., Derricotte is a visual storyteller who currently resides in Oakland, Calif. She holds a MFA from the California Institute of Integral Studies (CIIS) and has been awarded Art Alliance for Contemporary Glass’ Inaugural Visionary Scholarship and a D.C. Commission on the Arts & Humanities /National Endowment for the Arts Artist Fellowship Grant. She’s exhibited at the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History, Florida State University Museum of Fine Arts and the San Francisco Airport Museum.

2. Steven Anthony Jones, Artistic Director, LHT-SF, joins us to talk about "Thurgood."

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. Stephen Anthony Jones, Artistic Director, Lorraine Hansberry Theatre, joins us to talk about "Thurgood," which opens at the AAACC April 7-17, in the Burial Clay theatre in San Francisco.http://www.lhtsf.org/tickets

2. La Freshia Brown, Uppity Edutainment, presents "Not for Sale: The Oscar C. Wright," (2015) directed by Michael Lange. All screenings are at Oakstop, 1721 Broadway, every Thursday at 6 p.m. Screenings start at 7 p.m. http://www.up-ed.com/home.html

3. Christopher K. Walker, director, Welcome to Leith which premieres on Independent Lens Monday, April 4, 2016, 10:00-11:30 PM ET (check local listings) on PBS.http://itvs.org/films/welcome-to-leith/

4. We close with a conversation with Cheryl Patrice Derricotte re:Ghost/Ships at MoAD-SF through Sunday, April 3. https://www.moadsf.org/

Music: Brother Jahahara's "Pachamama."

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. Stephen Anthony Jones, Artistic Director, Lorraine Hansberry Theatre, joins us to talk about "Thurgood," which opens at the AAACC April 7-17, in the Burial Clay theatre in San Francisco.http://www.lhtsf.org/tickets

2. La Freshia Brown, Uppity Edutainment, presents "Not for Sale: The Oscar C. Wright," (2015) directed by Michael Lange. All screenings are at Oakstop, 1721 Broadway, every Thursday at 6 p.m. Screenings start at 7 p.m. http://www.up-ed.com/home.html

3. Christopher K. Walker, director, Welcome to Leith which premieres on Independent Lens Monday, April 4, 2016, 10:00-11:30 PM ET (check local listings) on PBS.http://itvs.org/films/welcome-to-leith/

4. We close with a conversation with Cheryl Patrice Derricotte re:Ghost/Ships at MoAD-SF through Sunday, April 3. https://www.moadsf.org/

Music: Brother Jahahara's "Pachamama."

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!

Guests:

1. Sheila S. Walker Ph.D. and Dinizulu Gene Tinnie, join us to talk about the United Nations General Assembly designation of March 25, as International Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Slavery and the Transatlantic Slave Trade (moved to March 29).

2. Nana Farika, Vice President of WADU will join us to talk about a recent forum in Washington to look at The State of Africa and Its Diaspora (3/20/2016).

3. We close with a conversation with a representative about a special program in Oakland, March 27, to honor the legacy and work of Dr. Mutulu Shakur, Political Prisoners, Prisoner of War. We were looking forward to his release, Feb. 10, 2016, at his recent parole hearing. mutuluriswelcomehere.com

Dr. Mutulu Shakur, Omar Hunter, a member of the New African People’s Organization and the Malcolm X Grassroots Movement is one of the longest held political prisoners of war in US federal detention at this time. Just before this date he was informed that he would only be scheduled to get a hearing for parole on April 4, 2016.

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!

Guests:

1. Sheila S. Walker Ph.D. and Dinizulu Gene Tinnie, join us to talk about the United Nations General Assembly designation of March 25, as International Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Slavery and the Transatlantic Slave Trade (moved to March 29).

2. Nana Farika, Vice President of WADU will join us to talk about a recent forum in Washington to look at The State of Africa and Its Diaspora (3/20/2016).

3. We close with a conversation with a representative about a special program in Oakland, March 27, to honor the legacy and work of Dr. Mutulu Shakur, Political Prisoners, Prisoner of War. We were looking forward to his release, Feb. 10, 2016, at his recent parole hearing. mutuluriswelcomehere.com

Dr. Mutulu Shakur, Omar Hunter, a member of the New African People’s Organization and the Malcolm X Grassroots Movement is one of the longest held political prisoners of war in US federal detention at this time. Just before this date he was informed that he would only be scheduled to get a hearing for parole on April 4, 2016.