Wanda's Picks

Diamano Courais in its 19th year presenting Collage des Cultures Africaines Dance and Drum Concert, March 5-9 in Oakland. Dr. Zakarya S. Diouf the company's Founder and Directorand Naomi Gedo Diouf,Artistic Director, with Dr. Esalima Diouf, doc. filmmaker, and Nimely Napla, guest choreographer join us to talk about this 4-day cultural tour of the Pan African Disapora in Oakland at the Malonga Casq...

Today we look at the US Prison Industrial Complex and its use of solitary confinement. We focus in the first hour on the case of the Angola 3 and Robert H. King, celebrated Humanitarian, Author, Activist and Doctor of Letters, who is the only free member of A3 with the death of Herman Wallace late last year, freed after 42 years in solitary confinement. Albert Woodfox remains inside and Tuesday, M...

Guests: Robert Moses,Choreographer And Founder/artistic Director, Robert Moses’ Kin  speaks about his collaboration with Black Choreographers Festival Here and Now, Mar. 6-8, Draft/By Series; Auntie Frances Moore speaks about her third annual program at the 61st & Adeline--Triangular Park in Oakland, March 23, 1-5 p.m.; Emily Pilloton, Designer, Activist, Founder of Proj. H Design; subject in,...

Maria Moore's sister Kayla Moore was killed by Berkeley police one year ago today at the Gaia Building in Berkeley where Kayla lived at the time of her death. A vigil and speak-out are planned this afternoon and evening to commemorate this tragic injustice. Kayla Moore was a transgender woman of color living with schizophrenia who died when Berkeley police entered her apartment in response to a cr...

Dr. Siri Brown, Ache Lytle & Mama Naomi Diouf join us to talk about a recent grant the Department of African American Studies at Merritt College received which took them and other educators to Salvador, Bahia, Brazil. There is a reportback tomorrow at Merritt College 10-12 where the educators will share curriculum developed during the intensive month long Fulbright project which looked at, Cul...

Today we speak to prisoner rights organizers Misty Rojo and Samantha Rogers about Justice Now and the California Coalition for Women Prisoners community event Sunday, February 23, 2014, 3-5 p.m., "Is Orange the New Black," with Piper Kerman, activist and author of Orange is the New Black. Joining Piper on the panel are our two guests this morning along with other activists. The panel will be moder...

TANIA SANTIAGO, the Artistic Director of Aguas Dance Company in "Movendo com Capoeira" Friday-Sat., Feb. 14-15 at 8pm and Sun., Feb 16 at 7pm. Born and raised in Salvador, Bahia, Tania Santiago grew up in the heart of African Brazil. In Brazil she has taught, danced, and choreographed for many well-known companies including Olodum, an arts group famous for its Carnaval parade performances and cred...

Today we speak about violence against women and the need to address this in forums like 1 Billion Rising in Oakland tonight and Love Doesn't Hurt, tomorrow afternoon, Friday & Saturday, Feb. 14 and 15, 2014. We are joined in the studio by amazing women creators and organizers: Luisah Teish, Mary Owen, Regina Y. Evans, Regina Jackson, Cheryl Chambers and Vanessa Scott. We open the show with an...

Maria Moore's sister Kayla Moore was killed by Berkeley police one year ago today at the Gaia Building in Berkeley where Kayla lived at the time of her death. A vigil and speak-out are planned this afternoon and evening to commemorate this tragic injustice. Kayla Moore was a transgender woman of color living with schizophrenia who died when Berkeley police entered her apartment in response to a cr...

Today is National Black AIDS Day. Our first guest, Dr. Malcolm John, an expert in infectious diseases, is director of the UCSF HIV/AIDS Program at UCSF Medical Center, one of the most comprehensive HIV and AIDS treatment programs in the country. In addition to his work at UCSF, John is an HIV consultant at the Larkin Street Youth Center, SF. See http://blackaidsday.org/  http://nationalblackaidsda...

This morning we will be speaking to visual artist William Rhodes, whose exhibit Souls of Water up at th San Francisco Main Library, African American Ctr., 3rd Fl., 100 Larkin Street, through tomorrow, Feb. 6, 2014, 415-557-4277. Rhodes says of his work that it "explores themes of hidden knowledge, iconographic imagery and forms and how they can change meaning in a given cultural context. Explorati...

BCFHN presenters: Laura Elaine Ellis is Executive Director of the African& African American Performing Arts Coalition (AAAPAC), a San Francisco based, non-profit organization, founded in 1995 by a collective of artists who were looking to create better performance opportunities for African and African American performing artists as well as produce shows that reflect the aesthetic and cultural...

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...

Tonight we are at La Peña Cultural Center in Berkeley, California for a special live radio play broadcast of the first epidsode in a series of monthly ritual theatre pieces performances by Jovelyn Richards (Mz Pat's House) and Luisah Teish (Voudou Woman). We have a special guest host, poet, actress and healer, Piet Bereal. In the House of the Mothers : An interactive visit with Mz Pat, and the Vou...

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...

We rebroadcast an episode featuring Martin Luther, musician, composer, soul singer (smile). I am on my way to New York for Baba Amiri Baraka's funeral this weekend. We'll be back to our regular time next week.

We honor Amiri Baraka who made his transition this morning with poetry, music and reflection and a rebroadcast of a show where Baraka spoke about Manning Marable's book Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention. Music: Billy Harper, Max Roach with Abbey Lincoln, Donald Bailey, Val Serrant. Poetry: Gha'il Rhodes Benjamin's "U is King of Word cause can’t nobody CHANGE a word u said" (2009); Rafael Jesús Gonz...

8 a.m. – Opal Palmer Adisa, Author 8-8:30 a.m. – Pedro Gomez, Musical Director 9-9:30 a.m. – Micia Mosely, Comic 9:40-11:00 a.m. – Juliejean Jordan, Mother of Peace Zimbabwe Rebroadcast from Dec. 6, 2013

Lisa Fruchtman, co-director of Sweet Dreams, is an Academy Award winning editor who has worked in both feature film and television. Lisa lives in Berkeley. The film, Sweet Dreams is the story of Ingoma Nshya is Rwanda’s first and only all women’s drumming troupe. Made up of women from both sides of the 1994 Rwandan genocide, the troupe offers a place of support, healing and reconciliation. When th...

Today we speak to Juliejean Jordan about Mother of Peace, an orphanage in Zimbabwe. Visit http://www.motherofpeacezimbabwe.org/ From website: "In 1994, a small group of people were led to establish an orphanage in Zimbabwe for children living with or impacted by HIV/AIDS. From humble beginnings in a house for a few children, the Mother of Peace Community, located in Mutoko, Zimbabwe, now offers a...

8 a.m. – Opal Palmer Adisa, Author 8-8:30 a.m. – Pedro Gomez, Musical Director 9-9:30 a.m. – Micia Mosely, Comic 9:40-11:00 a.m. – Juliejean Jordan, Mother of Peace Zimbabwe

Lisa Fruchtman, co-director of Sweet Dreams, is an Academy Award winning editor who has worked in both feature film and television. Her awards and honors include an Oscar for THE RIGHT STUFF, Academy Award and BAFTA Nominations for Best Editing for THE GODFATHER PART III and APOCALYPSE NOW, an Emmy Nomination and a Cable ACE Award for TRUMAN. Lisa lives in Berkeley. The film, Sweet Dreams is the s...

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...

We open with Donald "Duck" Bailey's Gone, followed by a lovely conversation with Nathaniel Stampley as Porgy with  Alicia Hall Moran's Bess in SHN's production of The Gershwins' Porgy and Bess with Suzan-Lori Parks's book adaptation, Diedre L. Murray's musical score adaptation, Ronald K. Brown's choreography with director Diane Paulus. The show is up at San Francisco's Golden Gate Theatre, 1 Marke...

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...