Wanda's Picks Radio Show, July 30, 2014
We open with an interview with author, Doris I. Mangrum, whose A Soiled Identity: From Triumph to Tragedy and Back Again, tells the story of Darnell Cookson, former Marine and former felon as he...
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Lacey Schwartz, dir. with motherWho Would Have Known? Schwartz means BlackBy Wanda Sabir It is one thing when there is racial ambiguity based on systemic commodification of one’s people, it’s another...
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Wanda's Picks Radio Wed., August 6, 2014
Antoine Hunter is an African American Deaf and Hard of Hearing Choreographer, Dancer, Dance instructor, model, actor and poet. Hunter was born deaf and was raised Oakland, California and began dancing...
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When one thinks about Steppin Fetchit, what probably comes to mind is the worse in the blaksplotation genre in that it proceeds the naming of the phenomena. The actor wasn’t Samboor Superfly, the first...
View ArticleWanda's Picks Radio Show: Friday, August 29, 2014
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...
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Motown, the Musical, A Review
Motown the Musical is a wonderful story of a man’s ability to take a dream and with the support of first his family and secondly his community, in this case, artists in Detroit, Michigan, see the...
View ArticleUNIA-ACL at 100
I spent a week in Harlem the week of the Centennial Celebration of the Hon. Marcus Mosiah Garvey’s Universal Negro Improvement Association-African Communities League (UNIA-ACL), an organization which...
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Wanda's Picks Radio Show Friday, Sept. 5, 2014
Crystal L. Bass is an American author, playwright, freelance writer, and motivational speaker. Bass has used her platform to uncover and illuminate issues that are important to young women, to...
View ArticleCampo Maldito, A Review
The play Campo Maldito by Bennett Fisher, directed by Jesca Prudencio is an original take on gentrification. Heard the saying, if the walls could speak? Well in Campo Maldito, the walls not only speak,...
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Wanda's Picks Radio: The Fringe Festival Revue
We continue the SF Fringe Festivalon the Air with a rebroadcast of the special interview with Campo Maldito playwright and director Bennett Fisher & Jesca Prudencio; continuing with Blues for...
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Wanda's Picks Radio, Friday, October 3, 2014
1. Idris Ackamoor is a multi-instrumentalist, composer, tap dancer, actor, director and producer, joins us to talk about the Healing through Music Tour featuring: the Healing Force Orchestra, Oakland...
View ArticleWanda's Picks Radio, Wednesday, October 1, 2014
Today we rebroadcast Friday, March 28, 2014: We celebrate with Founder and Artistic Director of Cultural Odyssey 35th Year Celebration Apr. 3-5, 2014, Idris Ackamoor & Rhodessa Jones.Mr. Ackamoor...
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Wanda's Picks Radio Show, Wednesday, October 8, 2014 --the Red Moon
William Rhodes and Crystal Azul Barajas Barr join us to talk about SOMArts Cultural Center Presents, Visions at Twight: Dia de los Muertos 2014, Oct. 10-Nov. 8 www.somarts.org/visionsattwilight1....
View ArticleElder Ronald Freeman, Presente!
This summer Elder Freeman, his wife Carmelita, grandson and good friend, Sheba Makeda Haven, and I got together for a late lunch at Shashamane in Oakland. Elder was getting ready to travel to visit...
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Blood MoonOn October 8, between 1:17 a.m. and 5:30 a.m. view the eclipse of the moon. Called the blood moon because of its red hue, it should be pretty spectacular and weather permitting, you can see...
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Edris Cooper Anifowoshe's Traveling While Black at Brava Theater Center...
Edris Cooper Anifowoshe’s Traveling While Black continues at Brava Theater Center in San Francisco weekends, Friday –Sunday, through October 26, 2014TWB is epic. It is a story that has audiences...
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Wanda's Picks Radio Show: Wednesday, October 29, 2014
Mildred Ruiz-SappSteven SappWe speak to UNIVERSES co-founders, Steven Sapp and Mildred Ruiz-Sapp about the Berkeley Rep premiere of Party People Oct. 17-Nov. 23. Steven Sapp: BARD College, BA ’89 -...
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Wanda's Picks Radio Show October 31, 2014
"Not One More" Installation at SOMartsCurators, LULU MATUTE and FALLON YOUNGjoin us to speak about Not One More, an altar in the Visions at Twight: Dia de los Muertos 2014 at SOMarts through Nov. 8 in...
View ArticleWanda's Picks Radio Show, Friday, November 7, 2014
Tracy Porter, University of San Francisco Trustee, joins us to talk aboutthe University of San Francisco (USF) will welcome 60-80 (7th and 12th Graders) under-resourced middle and high school students...
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Place/Displacement at SOMarts Nov. 20-Dec. 20
Opening Night was really exciting! Lots of people were out despite the chilly cold wet weather. As I drove across the bridge I could barely see. At one point there was a flash of lightning. I put the...
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