Our Terms of Use and Privacy Policy have changed. We think you'll like them better this way.

Wandas Picks

Wanda's Picks

×  

Follow This Show

Stay in the know about new episodes and updates.
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!

On-Demand Episodes

We are joined in the studio for a special broadcast this afternoon to speak to Jenna Kozel, consumer security advocate at Lookout, a security technology company located in San Francisco and Anbu Anbalagapandian, Senior Software... more

Quinn DeVeaux, from Gary, Indiana, has packed houses and astounded audiences in the bay area for years with his smooth and dirty spank you voice and cool melodic songwriting. First he started an early Chicago Blues band... more

Today we celebrate the life and legacy of El Hajj Malik El Shabazz with muscian, Steve Wilson, activist and MOVE member Ramona Africa with poet/teacher, Malcolm Shabazz Hoover; filmmaker, writer, educator, Chike Nwoffiah; and... more

We open with Dr. Zenju Earthlyn Manuel, author, visual artist, drummer, and Zen Buddhist priest, lives in Oakland, CA where she teaches at The East Bay Meditation Center and leads a small practice group in her home. She was... more

We rebroadcast an archival interview with Wadada Leo Smith speaking about 10 Freedom Summers, a musical survey of the Civil Rights Movement. At the time of the interview it wasn't available. Now it is. Rene Marie speaks about Voices... more

We open with an archived interview from two years ago with Rachelle Farrell, who is in town this weekend, May 3-5 on both sides of the bay. Visit yoshis.com Today we speak to playwright Beverly Brown about the encore production this... more

We had a conversation with dir. Kalyanee Mam about her latest film, A River Changes Course, screening at the 56th Annual SFIFF this year. The film won the World Doc Award this year and is up for a Golden Gate Award as well.

We open with Gina Breedlove, who will talk about her new CD and concert, Sunday, May 5, 2013, in Berkeley at Freight and Salvage. Visit http://www.ginabreedlove.com/ ; next we speak to Jacque Barnes, a Bay Area... more

It's all about the 56th San Francisco International Film Festival April 25-May 9, 2013. We speak to director of programming Rachel Rosen and a new director, Jeremy Teicher about his first feature: Tall as the Baobab Tree. Jeremy... more

We open with a rebroadcast of our interview with Keith Josef Adkins on his latest play, The Patron Saint of Peanuts, which honors George Washington Carver; we then shift to an interview airedd two years ago with Camille T. Dungy, editor of... more