Wanda's Picks Radio Show

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!

Rev. Dr. Dorsey Odell Blake joins us to talk about the 75th Jubilee of The Church for the Fellowship of All People this weekend, Sat.-Sun., Oct. 19-20. The free celebration includes the Dorsey O. Blake Forum for Social Transformation, 10/19, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. and the 24th Annual Convocation, 10/20, 3 p.m. fellowshipsf.org

Dr. Blake has served as Presiding Minister of The Church for The Fellowship of All Peoples (San Francisco) since 1994. He also serves as Faculty Associate at Pacific School of Religion. Dr. Blake has extensive field ministry experience with interfaith groups addressing justice and peace issues. Dr. Blake has conducted seminars and workshops locally and nationally including one with Rajmahon Gandhi, grandson of Mahatma Gandhi. He is the recipient of numerous community service awards. In 2000, he traveled to Morocco with an interfaith delegation of Muslims, Jews, and Christians in a quest to promote interfaith respect and cooperation.  In October 2010 he met His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama and served on an interfaith panel responding to his teachings

We close with another conversation, from the archives, Howard Thurman Special with Rev. Liza Rankow and Rev. Dr. Blake, recorded Nov. 8, 2010.  Howard Thurman interview with Landrum Bolling https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CGX4-Wv9UD0