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Wanda’s Picks for Jan. 16
by Wanda Sabir Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Listen to Wanda’s Picks Radio Show, where this week on Wednesday morning I speak at 6-7:30 to David Hardiman (prerecorded); 8-8:25: Marcus Shelby and Ms. Faye...
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Wanda’s Picks for Feb. 7
by Wanda Sabir Today you don’t want to miss the Black Health Summit, 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. at the Marriott Convention Center in downtown Oakland, 12th and Broadway. It is free and for the entire family....
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Wanda’s Picks for Maafa Awareness Month October 2009
by Wanda Sabir Maafa Dance, Drum, Song rehearsal The annual Maafa Ritual will be held Oct. 11 at sunrise at Ocean Beach in San Francisco. This photo was taken of Maafa in 2006. – Photo: TaSin Sabir...
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Wanda’s Picks for April
by Wanda Sabir Don’t miss Wanda’s reviews following the list of upcoming events. – ed. ‘… and Jesus Moonwalks the Mississippi’ Artwork by Keba Armand Konte, www.kebakonte.com “… AND JESUS MOONWALKS THE...
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‘Gem of the Ocean’: an interview with director and playwright Ayodele Nzinga
August Wilson’s ‘Gem of the Ocean’ runs Oct. 8-17, 7:30 p.m. Fridays & Saturdays, 2 p.m. Sundays, at Sister Theo Bowman Memorial Theater, 920 Peralta St., West Oakland, Box Office (510) 208-1912,...
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Wanda’s Picks for October 2012
by Wanda Sabir Engaged and exuberant: TaSin Sabir and her fiancé, Shawn Lyles September is a special month. It’s the birth month of my brother Mark, who was put up for adoption, so I don’t know him....
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August Wilson’s ‘Seven Guitars’ comes to West Oakland’s Sista Thea Bowman...
by The People’s Minister of Information JR Ayodele “Wordslanger” Nzinga is a major thespian and theatrical force in the Bay Area hailing from the Lower Bottoms of West Oakland. Over the years, she has...
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‘The Black Arts Movement and Its Influences’ conference hits UC Merced Feb....
by The People’s Minister of Information JR Valrey On Feb. 28-March 2 at UC Merced, “The Black Arts Movement and Its Influences” conference will be going down with a host of legendary Black artists who...
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Wanda’s Picks for August 2014
by Wanda Sabir Congratulations to Gerald Lenoir for carrying the torch and blazing the way for so many social justice issues from HIV/AIDS awareness in the Black community to his recent work in just...
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August Wilson and Ferguson: Wilson’s ‘Jitney’ opens on Broadway, Oakland,...
The Lower Bottom Playaz, the first theatrical troupe to stage August Wilson’s entire American Century Cycle in chronological order, performs the eighth play, ‘Jitney,’ Dec. 26-Jan. 3 at the Flight...
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‘Zara’s Faith’: Grandmother rallies community to fight police brutality
by Ayodele Nzinga Oakland – The Lower Bottom Playaz, Oakland’s premiere North American African theater company, under the direction of Ayodele Nzinga, in collaboration with OYNX, will present staged...
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The Lower Bottom Playaz proudly presents ‘Mama at Twilight: Death by Love’ by...
Previews Jan. 12, runs through Jan. 29 at The Flight Deck, 1540 Broadway, Oakland – advance tickets on sale now “Mama at Twilight: Death by Love” is a love story that offers a frank examination of...
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Wanda’s Picks for January 2017
The press emphasized the riot’s injustice with headlines in other newspapers like “Riot a National Disgrace: Negroes Did Not Start Trouble,” “Lawyer Warns Chicago Negroes to Arm Selves,” “Mobs Massed...
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Wanda’s Picks for February 2017
Wilda and Wilfred Batin at Wilfred’s elementary graduation in May, 2015 – Photo: Wanda Sabir by Wanda Sabir Happy Black History Month. Knowledge is power, something Black people from Frederick Douglass...
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Wanda’s Picks for January 2018
by Wanda Sabir Bree, short for Brianna, 14, Wanda’s granddaughter, and Wilda, 16, her niece, at Kujichagulia 2017. – Photo: Wanda Sabir Congrats to new San Francisco Mayor London Breed! Happy Birthday...
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Wanda’s Picks for October 2018
by Wanda Sabir It’s all about the ancestors, believe it or not. The invisible realm controls the outer. Those who believe in magic are in touch with reality – a truth, the initiated, those beings open...
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Wanda’s Picks for November 2020
Civil rights attorney John Burris by Wanda Sabir Asé to the memory of those nearly 1,000 Jonestown victims – a majority of whom were children and elders – buried in a mass gravesite at Evergreen...
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Wanda’s Picks for December 2020
As part of Maafa at 25 – the 25th year of the commemoration of the ancestors at Ocean Beach – a free, virtual event called What the Black Woman Body Knows will be held Dec. 5 featuring Wanda Sabir as...
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