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This is a black arts and culture site. We will be exploring the writing, visual and performing arts of African people in the Diaspora. It is my claim that the artists are the true revolutionaries, their work filled with raw unfettered passion. They are our true heroes. Ashay! Remember to tune in on Wednesdays from 6 AM PST to 7 or 8 AM and on Fridays from 8 AM to 10 AM. We also host special broadc...

I interview Taiwo & Kehinde Kujichagulia-Seitu, about Taiwo's work: Go Tell It! An original musical drama woven around Negro Spirituals. This musical journey with Harriet Tubman & family along the Underground Railroad shows us how Spirituals helped guide the way! The play is up this Fri. Dec. 21& Sat. 22 at 7pm. at Kids N’Dance, 3840 MacArthur Blvd. (at 38 Ave). Tickets are $15 in adva...

Today we speak to several artists about the New Beginning heralded by the end of the Mayan calendar, Dec. 21, 2012. First we speak to Dance Brigade founder, Krissy Keefer, musician/educator, Carolyn Brandy and poet/activist, MamaCoatl about "Voluspa: A Ghost Dance for 2012" A two-night ritual dance performance that pays tribute to past and present struggles and works towards renewal. Featuring wor...

Rebroadcast of 13 Dec. 2012 show: Dominic D’Andrea is the founder and producing artistic director of the One-Minute Play Festival (OMPF), where he has led close to 30 national festivals in partnerships with many theatres throughout the country. He was a 2012 NewYorkTheatre.com person of the year. Elizabeth Gjelten's previous full-length plays include What the Birds Carry (at The Pear Avenue Theate...

Dominic D’Andrea is the founder and producing artistic director of the One-Minute Play Festival (OMPF), where he has led close to 30 national festivals in partnerships with many theatres throughout the country. He was a 2012 NewYorkTheatre.com person of the year. Elizabeth Gjelten's previous full-length plays include What the Birds Carry (at The Pear Avenue Theater) and Dance Lessons (at the Worki...

Today the plan was to speak to Byron Hurt about his latest film: SOUL FOOD JUNKIES, airing on PBS Independent Lens, Jan. 14, 2013. We'll have to reschedule for another date, so stay tuned. The conversation then shifts to Litha-Aliah “Aliah” Tomlinson, new intern director for the Oakland Interfaith Youth Choir (OIYC) and Terrence Kelly, director of Oakland Interfaith Gospel Choir, for a discussion...

Today we speak live with Alan Kimara Dixon about his latest release "intro to modern," released a month ago to date: Nov. 7-Dec. 7. It features: Bobby Bradford: cornet, Bennie Maupin: bass clarinet and alto flute and Alan Kimara Dixon: composer / guitars, basses, keyboards and drums. Visit http://introtomodern.com/album/intro-to-modern Kimara says it is his hope that his art moves his audience to...

We have an extended conversation with activist and writer, Robert Hillary King, Ph. D. His book From the Bottom of the Heap: The Autobiography of Black Panther Robert Hillary King Expanded and Updated, with a new forward by Mumia Abu Jamal. Visit www. Angola3.org We close with a special interview with Buika on Connecting the Dots, broadcast 15 Nov. 2012 on KPOO.org 89.5 FM, produced by Safi wa Nai...

This is a black arts and culture site. We will be exploring the writing, visual and performing arts of African people in the Diaspora. It is my claim that the artists are the true revolutionaries, their work filled with raw unfettered passion. They are our true heroes. Ashay! Remember to tune in on Wednesdays from 6 AM PST to 7 or 8 AM and on Fridays from 8 AM to 10 AM. We also host special broadc...

We interview Dr. Lisa Fitzpatrick about AIDS in the Black Communityand the film ENDGAME: AIDS in the Black Community. Watch ENDGAME at http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/endgame-aids-in-black-america/ For San Francisco Bay Area Events visit http://www.aidsmemorial.org/events/19th-annual-world-aids-day-observance and http://www.sanfranciscosentinel.com/?p=169132

The African Showboyzcombine drumming, dance, magic, and adrenaline in spectacular performances that have taken them around the world. The Showboyz’ five Sabbah brothers – Napoleon, Joseph, Isaac, Moses, and JJ – grew up in Binaba, a tiny village in the bush country of northeast Ghana without electricity or schools. When the Showboyz took their show on the road to the rest of Africa, aided in their...

We open with two songs: Odetta singing Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child followed by Fire from Liz Wright's Salt. The first archived interview with Tim Wise re: Dear White America; Sam Pollard speaks about his film Slavery by Another Name. We interject Sweet Honey in the Rock's Motherless Child between the two interviews. When I cannot find the interview (smile) we are able to enjoy music f...

Guests: 1. Destiny Muhammad is Recording/ Performing Artist in Singer-Songwriter fashion on Harp. Her genre ‘Celtic to Coltrane’ is cool and eclectic with a feel of Jazz & storytelling to round out the sonic experience. Destiny is expanding her musical ideals with her project(s) S.O.N.G/ Strings of a Nubian Groove Nubian string ensemble,The Destiny Muhammad Project, & The Richard Howell Qu...

This is a black arts and culture site. We will be exploring the writing, visual and performing arts of African people in the Diaspora. It is my claim that the artists are the true revolutionaries, their work filled with raw unfettered passion. They are our true heroes. Ashay! Remember to tune in on Wednesdays from 6 AM PST to 7 or 8 AM and on Fridays from 8 AM to 10 AM. We also host special broadc...

This is a black arts and culture site. We will be exploring the writing, visual and performing arts of African people in the Diaspora. It is my claim that the artists are the true revolutionaries, their work filled with raw unfettered passion. They are our true heroes. Ashay! Remember to tune in on Wednesdays from 6 AM PST to 7 or 8 AM and on Fridays from 8 AM to 10 AM. We also host special broadc...

Take 2: Kelly J Richardson, Director | Producer | Cinematographer | Co-Editor of Without a Net, opening at Doc Fest this weekend, Nov. 10 at the Roxie Theatre in San Francisco. On the show last week, we decided to extend the conversation today on her project which lives off the screen as well as on (smile). A graduate from Berkeley High School,  Kelly J Richardson is the founder and executive dire...

Dwight Trible joins us to talk about his latest project: Cosmic and his concert Sunday, Nov. 4, 2012, 7 PM at Yoshi's in SF. Dwight Trible is a singer who combines the best of vocal virtuosity with musicianship and improvisational skills to the delight of audiences and musicians alike. In addition to performing with his own group, the Dwight Trible Ensemble, Dwight is the vocalist with the Pharaoh...

CRUEL AND UNUSUAL, Director Sam Banning; Fay Dearborn, Assistant Director of the San Francisco Independent Film Festival (also known as SF IndieFest), and the Programming Director of the San Francisco Documentary Film Festival (known as SF DocFest); Kelly J. Richardson, Director, Without a Net: http://www.withoutanetfilm.com/trailer.htmlWe open with an interview with Michele Rosewoman who is perfo...

This is a black arts and culture site. We will be exploring the writing, visual and performing arts of African people in the Diaspora. It is my claim that the artists are the true revolutionaries, their work filled with raw unfettered passion. They are our true heroes. Ashay! Remember to tune in on Wednesdays from 6 AM PST to 7 or 8 AM and on Fridays from 8 AM to 10 AM. We also host special broadc...

Today we speak to maverick media worker and artist, Ava DuVernay whose latest film Middle of Nowhere is hitting US theatres by storm after DuVernay won the 2012 Sundance Best Director Award. The film looks at a woman whose husband is incarcerated after a life together on the outside and how that affects not just the wife but all those connected to her.  The film is opening in San Francisco at Ston...

The broadcast will feature actress and producer, Michelle Banks and her partner, Richard Graham. They are producing an event which is bringing together deaf and hearing artists in Washington, D.C. for the first time called In-Sight and Sound: Live De(a)f Poetry,  Nov. 11, from 8 PM to 10 Pm at Busboy and Poets in Hyattsville, MD. They have a kickstarter campaign we want to help them raise $3000.00...

A Benefit for The Fountain Project: Cure the Blues III with Lloyd Gregory and Lena Sunday is Monday, Oct. 29, 2012, 7 PM at Yoshi's in Oakland. This morning we speak to Ms. Sunday and Mr. Gregory as well as Dr. Erlene Chiang who is one of the founders of The Fountain Project, an organization that offers free medical care from both homeopathic, Chinese as well as Western or allopathic modalities te...

We'd hoped to catch up with Kendra Kimbrough, whose dance company is celebrating its 15th Anniversary this weekend (smile), but we were not. Winou Wakayo, director, Rehoboth Economic Development for Women and Children or "REDWC," whose organization just had its first graduation of its first cohort of women entrepreneurs. Visit http://www.wredwc.com/about-us The fundraiser this weekend is a way for...

Noche Diaz is a young revolutionary who faces years in jail if convicted on unjust charges. He has been arrested five times since October 2011 and has had 11 charges piled on him in four New York City boroughs, all for observing and protesting the illegitimate actions of the NYPD. Noche was one of the first members of the Stop Mass Incarceration Network and helped organize protests that kicked off...

We speak to formerly incarcerated woman prisoners, Samantha Rogers and Deirdre Wilson. Joanna Sokolowski, filmmaker, joins us as well to talk about the 1 year anniversary celebration, Sat., Oct. 20, 2012, of Fired Up! a network of people who have been or are currently behind the walls of San Francisco county jail building community with others who are committed to breaking down the barriers those...