Wanda's Picks Radio Show: Be Still Retreat

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. Dr. Frank Staggers, Jr. works as an Addiction and HIV medical doctor in Berkeley, CA. He is the Medical Director of the Berkeley Addiction Treatment Services Center. Presently he is also the President of the Alameda/Contra Costa County Medical Association, with a membership of 4000 physicians.

2. Darinxoso Oyamasela joins us to speak about the Umoja Community Choir's 10th Anniversary Scholarship Awards Dinner, May 16, 5 p.m. (dinner), 6:30 p.m. (concert) in Richmond, CA, at the Independent Holiness Church, 1605 South 16th Street. For information call: (415) 531-0821.Tickets are $10 & $25.

3. We close with a conversation with event sponsor and presenters: Sharon Green-Holder, Event Planner for Black Women’s Media Project and owner, Mom & Pop Green Non-Profit Organization, Jerri Lange, veteran journalist, author, activist, keynote speaker, and Maalak Atkins, Soul Chi workshop host. The Be Still Retreat at Mills College is May 9, 2015, 9-4 p.m. To register: http://www.hhrec.org/#!black-womens-media-project/c1ypj

Music: Julia Steele Allen's "Words Are Seeds"