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. 1. This morning we speak to Mama Pam Williams, Council of Elders, about Wo'se Community Spiritual Center located at 8924 Holly Street, Oakland, CA, (510)  which is having its 35th Anniversary celebration this weekend. Visit http://wosecommunity.org/

2. Our next guest is Dr. Sekham Heka Maat Ra of KRST Unity Center in Los Angeles. He is going to be speaking with Professor Manu Ampim, Sat., Dec. 5, 10:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. on the topic: "Maat: Ancient Wisdom and Contemporary Strategy. The talk is at the Golden Gate Branch of the Oakland Public Library, 5606 San Pablo Ave., in Oakland.

3. Amy Mueller, Bay Area Playwrights Foundations and playwrights: Arisa White, Michale Gene Sullivan, and Nana Mwaluko; The FlashPlays Festival will be held over two days on Sunday, December 6 and Monday, December 7, 8 pm at Brava Theater Center, 2781- 24th Street in San Francisco. The Festival features new short plays varying in length from 30 seconds to 2 minutes in order to tell riveting new stories in a quick flash.

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. 1. This morning we speak to Mama Pam Williams, Council of Elders, about Wo'se Community Spiritual Center located at 8924 Holly Street, Oakland, CA, (510)  which is having its 35th Anniversary celebration this weekend. Visit http://wosecommunity.org/

2. Our next guest is Dr. Sekham Heka Maat Ra of KRST Unity Center in Los Angeles. He is going to be speaking with Professor Manu Ampim, Sat., Dec. 5, 10:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. on the topic: "Maat: Ancient Wisdom and Contemporary Strategy. The talk is at the Golden Gate Branch of the Oakland Public Library, 5606 San Pablo Ave., in Oakland.

3. Amy Mueller, Bay Area Playwrights Foundations and playwrights: Arisa White, Michale Gene Sullivan, and Nana Mwaluko; The FlashPlays Festival will be held over two days on Sunday, December 6 and Monday, December 7, 8 pm at Brava Theater Center, 2781- 24th Street in San Francisco. The Festival features new short plays varying in length from 30 seconds to 2 minutes in order to tell riveting new stories in a quick flash.

1. This morning we speak to Mama Pam Williams, Council of Elders, about Wo'se Community of the Sacred African Way Spiritual Center located at 8924 Holly Street, Oakland, CA, (510)  which is having its 35th Anniversary celebration this weekend.

2. Our next guest is Dr. Sekham Heka Maat Ra of KRST Unity Center in Los Angeles. He is going to be speaking with Professor Manu Ampim, Sat., Dec. 5, 10:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. on the topic: "Maat: Ancient Wisdom and Contemporary Strategy. The talk is at the Golden Gate Branch of the Oakland Public Library, 5606 San Pablo Ave., in Oakland.

Professor Sekhem is a disciple of Stokely Carmichael aka Kwame Toure and has been working over the last 35 years as a teacher of history, organizer and labor lawyer, championing the rights and dignity of the working class. Professor Sekhem is presently Executive Director of the Black Employees Association, a labor Union, and instructor of African Spiritual Science at KRST Unity Center. He is also the Director of the Sunday and Friday classes at KRST. He is a KMT focused researcher and Black Nationalist who posits that Nation Building, centered around the teaching and practice of MAAT, is the solution to the ills and malaise that besets the current conditions of  African descendants in 21st century America. Visit http://www.krstunitycenter.org

3. Amy Mueller, Bay Area Playwrights Foundation and playwrights: Arisa White, Michael Gene Sullivan, and Nick Nanna Hadikwa Mwaluko; The FlashPlays Festival will be held over two days on Sunday, December 6 and Monday, December 7, 8 pm at Brava Theater Center, 2781- 24th Street in San Francisco. The Festival features new short plays varying in length from 30 seconds to 2 minutes in order to tell riveting new stories in a quick flash.

1. This morning we speak to Mama Pam Williams, Council of Elders, about Wo'se Community of the Sacred African Way Spiritual Center located at 8924 Holly Street, Oakland, CA, (510)  which is having its 35th Anniversary celebration this weekend.

2. Our next guest is Dr. Sekham Heka Maat Ra of KRST Unity Center in Los Angeles. He is going to be speaking with Professor Manu Ampim, Sat., Dec. 5, 10:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. on the topic: "Maat: Ancient Wisdom and Contemporary Strategy. The talk is at the Golden Gate Branch of the Oakland Public Library, 5606 San Pablo Ave., in Oakland.

Professor Sekhem is a disciple of Stokely Carmichael aka Kwame Toure and has been working over the last 35 years as a teacher of history, organizer and labor lawyer, championing the rights and dignity of the working class. Professor Sekhem is presently Executive Director of the Black Employees Association, a labor Union, and instructor of African Spiritual Science at KRST Unity Center. He is also the Director of the Sunday and Friday classes at KRST. He is a KMT focused researcher and Black Nationalist who posits that Nation Building, centered around the teaching and practice of MAAT, is the solution to the ills and malaise that besets the current conditions of  African descendants in 21st century America. Visit http://www.krstunitycenter.org

3. Amy Mueller, Bay Area Playwrights Foundation and playwrights: Arisa White, Michael Gene Sullivan, and Nick Nanna Hadikwa Mwaluko; The FlashPlays Festival will be held over two days on Sunday, December 6 and Monday, December 7, 8 pm at Brava Theater Center, 2781- 24th Street in San Francisco. The Festival features new short plays varying in length from 30 seconds to 2 minutes in order to tell riveting new stories in a quick flash.

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. Andrew I. Wilson, multimedia artist, joins us to talk about his new work, The Colored Museum, opens at the Omni Gallery at Impact Hub Oakland. It opens Friday, Dec. 4, 6:30-10 p.m. with an Artist Performance at 8:30 p.m. Visit aiwart.com

2. Nimely V. Napla, master drummer, craftsman, costume designer, choerographer and former director of the Libemian National Cultural Troupe, joins us to talk about Diamano Coura's 40th Anniversary Sekelati (Longevity) at Laney College this weekend, Nov. 28-29. The centerpiece is Napla's The Forbidden Bush part 1.

3. Victoria Theodore in archival interview (4/26/2013) Music SHE Wrote at OPC.

Music: V. Theodore's "Grateful," "I'm Your Angel."

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. Andrew I. Wilson, multimedia artist, joins us to talk about his new work, The Colored Museum, opens at the Omni Gallery at Impact Hub Oakland. It opens Friday, Dec. 4, 6:30-10 p.m. with an Artist Performance at 8:30 p.m. Visit aiwart.com

2. Nimely V. Napla, master drummer, craftsman, costume designer, choerographer and former director of the Libemian National Cultural Troupe, joins us to talk about Diamano Coura's 40th Anniversary Sekelati (Longevity) at Laney College this weekend, Nov. 28-29. The centerpiece is Napla's The Forbidden Bush part 1.

3. Victoria Theodore in archival interview (4/26/2013) Music SHE Wrote at OPC.

Music: V. Theodore's "Grateful," "I'm Your Angel."

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. Mama Naasira Ageela & Dr. Gregory Joe Bledsoe, authors, Spicy Tasty Vegan Cuisine: An Informative Health Guide for the Melaninated (People of Color)

2. Norman Gee, Oakland Public Theatre, speaks on theatre with incarcerated youth re: Peralta Hacienda Historic House Museum's "Home and Away: Oakland, CA Prisons and the Geography of the Heart"

3. Shakespeare Goes to War with Jesse F. Vaughn (actor); John Fisher (playwright, actor, director, Artistic Director Theatre Rhino)

4. Aishah Bashir, African Diaspora Bazaar, Sat., Nov. 28 @ Humanist Hall, Oakland

Music: Meklit & Quinn's "Look at What the Light Did," Victoria Theodore's "Grateful."

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. Mama Naasira Ageela & Dr. Gregory Joe Bledsoe, authors, Spicy Tasty Vegan Cuisine: An Informative Health Guide for the Melaninated (People of Color)

2. Norman Gee, Oakland Public Theatre, speaks on theatre with incarcerated youth re: Peralta Hacienda Historic House Museum's "Home and Away: Oakland, CA Prisons and the Geography of the Heart"

3. Shakespeare Goes to War with Jesse F. Vaughn (actor); John Fisher (playwright, actor, director, Artistic Director Theatre Rhino)

4. Aishah Bashir, African Diaspora Bazaar, Sat., Nov. 28 @ Humanist Hall, Oakland

Music: Meklit & Quinn's "Look at What the Light Did," Victoria Theodore's "Grateful."

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. Gregory Pardlo, Pulitzer Prize winning poet (2015) for his collection, Digest.

2. Elita Tewelde, executive producer, Walk All Night: Drum Beat Journey, with co-Director & Producer Mallory Sohmer.

3. Taeva Shefler, attorney, Director of Legal Visits, VP, CA Prison Focus; with Matthew Gossage, Dir, Breaking the Box.

4. Sistah Iminah, Singer, Songwriter, Dancer

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. Gregory Pardlo, Pulitzer Prize winning poet (2015) for his collection, Digest.

2. Elita Tewelde, executive producer, Walk All Night: Drum Beat Journey, with co-Director & Producer Mallory Sohmer.

3. Taeva Shefler, attorney, Director of Legal Visits, VP, CA Prison Focus; with Matthew Gossage, Dir, Breaking the Box.

4. Sistah Iminah, Singer, Songwriter, Dancer