Wanda's Picks Radio Show

1. Theodore Lush, Michael Jackson, Karen Jones join us to talk about: 7th Annual Montgomery MAAFA Commemoration, Sat. July 14. ReembertheAncestors.com

2. Gina Yashere, London born, Nigerian comedian opens at Freight & Salvage in Berkeley, July 8, 7 p.m.(thefreight.org)

3. Baba Luther Gray and Kalamu ya Salaam as Grand Griot joins us to talk about the 18th Annual MAAFA Commemoration in NOLA this Sat., July 7, 7 AM at Congo Square.  However, beginging tonight there are many programs scheduled from the Maafa Exhibit which opened June 29 to the series of cultural programs this evening, tomorrow and Friday afternoon. (https://www.ashecac.org/)

4. Alashe Michael OshoosiMichael F. Wright, Ph.D., JD and decorated veteran of the Civil Rights Movement, joins us to talk about his ancestors who established the first African village in America, a stop on Tubman's Underground Railroad. Loyalists, his grandfathers supported Britian in exchange for the promise of human rights and abolishion. At the end of the Civil War African Loyalists were moved to Nova Scotia and Chatham, Canada and then to Sierra Leone where they built what is know as Freetown. His late mother, Sarah E. Wright (poet and novelist) was former VP of the Harlem Writers Guilde. The conversation weaves ancestral past with present to form an intentional life dedicated to upliftment of African people. Visit http://oshoosi.com/