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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!

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Frameline 33 Part 2: Today's show features director Faith Trimel's "Family" screening June 24 and June 26; also featured is director John Young. His "Rivers Wash Over Me" screens June 24. Also featured is director Tim Daniels and... more
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Prior to speaking to Mavis Staples last week, I hadn't realized how revolutionary and tied to the Movement for Peace and Justice, Papa Staples and the Staple Singers, Miss Mavis, the youngest, were. She shared stories of her father's... more
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Today we are featuring interviews with directors: Kortney Ryan Ziegler: "Still Black: A Portrait of Black Transmen," and Florencia Manovil: "Fiona's Script." Both screen this evening, Monday, June 22 in San Francisco. Ziegler's at the Roxie... more
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Art and Power opened this weekend at the de Young Museum in San Francisco. Curator, Constantine Petridis's exhibition looks at the linguistic and aesthetic and cultural linkages between the four distinct African civilizations stemming from... more
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Santero's "El Hijo de Obatala" CD Release Party, Friday, June 26 at the Shattuck Downlow in Berkeley is going to be the PLACE. I've got tickets to give away to the lucky blogger who writes something in the comment section that Santero said... more
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Juneteenth Celebration in words and music, also Summer Solstice, Maafa Commemoration, and the continued need to reflect on African Liberation with: Diane Ferlatte, Parnel Herb, Kirk Waller, Karriem Riggins, Opal Palmer Adisa,... more
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New Muslim Cool director, Jennifer Taylor and subject, Hamza Perez are first guests in the studio. The program today is turning into a film festival highlights, with Lisa Gray also in the studio with her film, Life Sentence, one of the San... more
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Kind of Blue at 50 featuring Wallace Roney on trumpet with Jimmy Cobb’s So What Band featuring: Vincent Herring, Javon Jackson, Larry Willis, and John Webber (filling in for Buster Williams who is ill, but doing better), was a... more
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Today we will speak to the wonderful photographer, Howard Bingham, who has documented the Black Panther Party in his book: Howard L. Bingham's Black Panther's 1968, just released on AMMO (www.ammobooks.com) Unfortunately... more
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Today we will talk about camping and the great outdoors and why everyone should become familiar with nature on a first name basis. We'll be speaking to Michael Lange, a.k.a "Slim," former Camp Director for the City of Oakland and... more
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