Wanda's Picks

1. Muadi Mukenge, Program Director For Sub-Saharan Africa, Global Fund For Women; Member of Board, Priority Africa Network, joins us to talk about the Congolese Independence Day Program, Sat., June 27, 4 p.m. to 1 a.m. at Resurrection Lutheran Church, 397 Euclid Ave, Oakland.  Her talk is entitled: “Women’s Participation in the Peace Process in the Great Lakes Region: Insights From A May 2015 Visit To The Congo.” The fundraising event is sponsored by Congolese United Association (831) 324-3337.

2. Theodore Lush joins us to speak about the Montgomery, AL, Maafa Commemoration, Sat., July 12, 2015, 10 am. For information visit RememberTheAncestors.com

3. Dr. Johanna Fernández is assistant professor of history at Baruch College of the City University of New York and a former Fulbright Scholar. She is editor of Writing on the Wall, Selected Prison Writings of Mumia Abu Jamal (City Lights, 2015) and of the forthcoming book When the World Was Their Stage: A History of the Young Lords Party, 1968-1974 (Princeton University Press). She is the writer and producer of the feature length film, Justice on Trial: The Case of Mumia Abu-Jamal.

4. 38th Annual Bay Area Playwrights Festival, July 17-26: Amy Mueller, Artistic director, and featured playwrights: Tearrance Chisholm, Hooded or Being Black for Dummies; Kara Lee Corthron’s Welcome To Fear City. Visit PlaywrightsFoundation.org

1. Muadi Mukenge, Program Director For Sub-Saharan Africa, Global Fund For Women; Member of Board, Priority Africa Network, joins us to talk about the Congolese Independence Day Program, Sat., June 27, 4 p.m. to 1 a.m. at Resurrection Lutheran Church, 397 Euclid Ave, Oakland.  Her talk is entitled: “Women’s Participation in the Peace Process in the Great Lakes Region: Insights From A May 2015 Visit To The Congo.” The fundraising event is sponsored by Congolese United Association (831) 324-3337.

2. Theodore Lush joins us to speak about the Montgomery, AL, Maafa Commemoration, Sat., July 12, 2015, 10 am. For information visit RememberTheAncestors.com

3. Dr. Johanna Fernández is assistant professor of history at Baruch College of the City University of New York and a former Fulbright Scholar. She is editor of Writing on the Wall, Selected Prison Writings of Mumia Abu Jamal (City Lights, 2015) and of the forthcoming book When the World Was Their Stage: A History of the Young Lords Party, 1968-1974 (Princeton University Press). She is the writer and producer of the feature length film, Justice on Trial: The Case of Mumia Abu-Jamal.

4. 38th Annual Bay Area Playwrights Festival, July 17-26: Amy Mueller, Artistic director, and featured playwrights: Tearrance Chisholm, Hooded or Being Black for Dummies; Kara Lee Corthron’s Welcome To Fear City. Visit PlaywrightsFoundation.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!

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!

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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

Brother Osoi Tayari Casel, founder of Afrikan Martial Arts Academy. He is also guest speaker June 20, 9:30 am -12:30 pm at the ADACI Washington DC, River Ceremony, http://adaci.net/ and http://urbandragonsfilm.com/tayaricase/

Brother Osei Terry Chandler, co-founder, Ancestor Remembrance, Charleston, SC. Commemoration, Sat. June 13. Recently Retired as - Project Director, Trident Technical College’s Educational Opportunity Center. See: https://www.facebook.com/CHSRemembrance?fref=ts

Brother Dinizulu Gene Tinnie, Key West, FL Dos Amigos/Fair Rosamond Slave Ship Replica Project. Commemoration, Sunday, June 21. One of South Florida’s most meaningful traditions continues on Sunday morning, June 21, from 5:30-8:00 a.m., when the 24th Annual Sunrise Ancestral Remembrance of the Middle Passage ceremony will be held at Historic Virginia Key Beach Park, 4020 Virginia Beach Drive, off Rickenbacker Causeway (toll road), in Miami (33149).

Description

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

Brother Osoi Tayari Casel, founder of Afrikan Martial Arts Academy. He is also guest speaker June 20, 9:30 am -12:30 pm at the ADACI Washington DC, River Ceremony, http://adaci.net/ and http://urbandragonsfilm.com/tayaricase/

Brother Osei Terry Chandler, co-founder, Ancestor Remembrance, Charleston, SC. Commemoration, Sat. June 13. Recently Retired as - Project Director, Trident Technical College’s Educational Opportunity Center. See: https://www.facebook.com/CHSRemembrance?fref=ts

Brother Dinizulu Gene Tinnie, Key West, FL Dos Amigos/Fair Rosamond Slave Ship Replica Project. Commemoration, Sunday, June 21. One of South Florida’s most meaningful traditions continues on Sunday morning, June 21, from 5:30-8:00 a.m., when the 24th Annual Sunrise Ancestral Remembrance of the Middle Passage ceremony will be held at Historic Virginia Key Beach Park, 4020 Virginia Beach Drive, off Rickenbacker Causeway (toll road), in Miami (33149).

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:street

1. Michael Warr & Mark Sabb speak about Black + Brown Lives Matter at the Red Poppy Art House Collective, 2698 Folsom @ 23rd Street, in San Francisco, a yearlong project which continues Thursday, April 30, 7 p.m. Can Art Save a Community? We also speak about another project, Tracing Poetic Memory.

2. Rob Melrose (director, co-founder, Cuttingball), Giovanni Adams (Frederick Douglass) and Andrew Saito (playwright) join us to talk about Cuttingball Theatre Resident playwright, Mr. Saito's work, Mount Misery opening May 8 through June 21 (extended!) in San Francisco. Frederick Douglass meets Donald Rumsfeld in this provocative ghost story set in contemporary America at the plantation where Douglass lived as a 16 year old youth, recently purchased by Rumsfeld.

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:street

1. Michael Warr & Mark Sabb speak about Black + Brown Lives Matter at the Red Poppy Art House Collective, 2698 Folsom @ 23rd Street, in San Francisco, a yearlong project which continues Thursday, April 30, 7 p.m. Can Art Save a Community? We also speak about another project, Tracing Poetic Memory.

2. Rob Melrose (director, co-founder, Cuttingball), Giovanni Adams (Frederick Douglass) and Andrew Saito (playwright) join us to talk about Cuttingball Theatre Resident playwright, Mr. Saito's work, Mount Misery opening May 8 through June 21 (extended!) in San Francisco. Frederick Douglass meets Donald Rumsfeld in this provocative ghost story set in contemporary America at the plantation where Douglass lived as a 16 year old youth, recently purchased by Rumsfeld.

1. Coalition to Commemorate African Ancestors of the Middle Passage (ICCAAMP). RememberTheAncestors.com Osei Terry Chandler, Charleston, NC; Chadra Pittman Walke, The Sankofa Project, Hampton, Virginia; Luther Gray, NOLA, La., Ashe Cultural Center; ADACI Washington, DC & ADACI Detroit, Eurika Huggins & Kefentse Kwesi Chike; Wanda Sabir, Maafa San Francisco Bay Area.

2. Stephanie Ann Johnson,Ph.D.,  "EVERY TWENTY-ONE DAYS: CANCER, YOGA, AND ME," at The Berkeley Marsh, 2120 Allston Way,, June 22, 7 p.m.,  to benefit The Women’s Cancer Resource Center. Tickets are $30.00 and can be purchased through Brown Paper Tickets. Visit: lightessencedesign.com

3. Black Literature and Literacy Subject of June 19 Symposium at the Library of Congress, Program Marks 150th Anniversary of Juneteenth Holiday guest, Bahiyyah Muhammad, JD, assistant professor of criminology at Howard University, speaks about her “Project Iron Kids,” which educates and empowers children of incarcerated parents. The free program is 8:30 a.m.to 4:30 p.m. in the Reading Room of the African and Middle Eastern Division (LJ 220) of the Library’s Thomas Jefferson Building, located at 10 First Street S.E., Washington, D.C.

4. Rocky Dawuni, Branches of the Same Tree, uses art for social change. To this end, he is in Berkeley, June 17 to support Celebrate African Entrepreneurship with Whole Foods Market’s African Summer Celebration. The panel is at International Center UC Berkeley, 2299 Piedmont Avenue, at 5:30-7 p.m.; the party is at Whole Foods on Gilman. Visit www.facebook.com/events/1634195590128907/

1. Coalition to Commemorate African Ancestors of the Middle Passage (ICCAAMP). RememberTheAncestors.com Osei Terry Chandler, Charleston, NC; Chadra Pittman Walke, The Sankofa Project, Hampton, Virginia; Luther Gray, NOLA, La., Ashe Cultural Center; ADACI Washington, DC & ADACI Detroit, Eurika Huggins & Kefentse Kwesi Chike; Wanda Sabir, Maafa San Francisco Bay Area.

2. Stephanie Ann Johnson,Ph.D.,  "EVERY TWENTY-ONE DAYS: CANCER, YOGA, AND ME," at The Berkeley Marsh, 2120 Allston Way,, June 22, 7 p.m.,  to benefit The Women’s Cancer Resource Center. Tickets are $30.00 and can be purchased through Brown Paper Tickets. Visit: lightessencedesign.com

3. Black Literature and Literacy Subject of June 19 Symposium at the Library of Congress, Program Marks 150th Anniversary of Juneteenth Holiday guest, Bahiyyah Muhammad, JD, assistant professor of criminology at Howard University, speaks about her “Project Iron Kids,” which educates and empowers children of incarcerated parents. The free program is 8:30 a.m.to 4:30 p.m. in the Reading Room of the African and Middle Eastern Division (LJ 220) of the Library’s Thomas Jefferson Building, located at 10 First Street S.E., Washington, D.C.

4. Rocky Dawuni, Branches of the Same Tree, uses art for social change. To this end, he is in Berkeley, June 17 to support Celebrate African Entrepreneurship with Whole Foods Market’s African Summer Celebration. The panel is at International Center UC Berkeley, 2299 Piedmont Avenue, at 5:30-7 p.m.; the party is at Whole Foods on Gilman. Visit www.facebook.com/events/1634195590128907/