Wanda's Picks Radio Show (archival show)

1. This morning we speak to organizers of the Global Simultaneous Libation for the Ancestors Saturday, June 14, 2014, 9 AM Pacific Time, 12 noon Eastern Time. Osei Terry R. Chandler, co-founder of the Charleston, SC, Remembrance with Deborah Wright, Helen Phillips or “Salako”, libation pourer. Chadra Pittman Walke, Hampton, Virginia; Jerrie Spruce, Hampton, Virginia; Brother Osakumi Jackson, Georgetown, South Carolina.

2. Michael Gene Sullivan, playwright, actor, director, joins us to talk about his new work, based on another 9/11 story: fugitive/slave/act

3. Tangela Large (Ruby) and Tyee Tilghman (Cecil), cast from pen/man/ship, Christina Anderson’s World Premiere at The Magic Theatre.

4. Regina E. Mason, Oakland native, is the great-great-great granddaughter of pioneering autobiographer William Grimes who wrote the first fugitive slave narrative in America, Life of William Grimes, the Runaway Slave. She is joined by Oakland veteran actor, director, playwright, Michael Lange.