Wanda's Picks Radio

Jovelyn Richards's "Come Home" at La Pena Cultural Center, Friday, Feb. 26, 2010, 8 PM. Visit www.lapena.org; Wanda Ravernell, Omnira Projects present, "Roots of Faith: Roots of Faith, Roots of Freedom," Sunday, Feb.21, 2010, 2 PM, at the SF Main Library, 100 Larkin Street @ Grant, (510) 436-0658or omniraprojects@yahoo.com; "Love of Art" features artists: Jimi Evans, Ted Pontiflet, Ronnie Prosser, James Reid, at Studio 750A 14th Street @Brush in Oakland, (510)853-2122, every Sat/Sun 12 noon to 5 PM through March 21, 2010. We close with a conversation with Scott Braley and Mickey Ellinger, a photographer/writer team from Oakland who worked with Mrs. Alice Royal to produce the book: Allensworth the Freedom Colony, about a small African American Township founded in 1908 near Bakersfield. They went with Global Exchange to Cuba and will share with us the Cuban plan for sustainable development. Alicia Jrapko also joins us. Alicia is the National Coordinator in the US of the International Committee for the Freedom of the Cuban 5, who has been involved since 2001.