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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! 

1. Hon. Pamela Price, Esq.,Justice with Compassion (pamelaprice4da.com/about)  2. ShakaJamal Redmond (Olu8); MXO and Don Dada join us from South Africa. MXO’s debut single “Sista Kunjani” intricately showcased his distinct way of moulding afro soul, jazz, funk, traditional and pop, carving a post-modern eclectic genre which was emulated by many young musicians but never matched. Menelik Nesta Gibbons also known as Don Dada is a Zimbabwean born South African citizen who is a multi-platinum selling reggae/hip hop artist on a quest to push convention and carve out a legacy as one of the motherland’s thought leaders and influencers whose music is not just entertainment but about consciousness, identity and pride. Olu8 is a culturally innovative artist, producer and filmmaker from Oakland, California. @shakajamal @olu8films 3. We close with an archived interview with ShakaJamal.     

Link to register for the upcoming N'COBRA 2021 Conference, Friday-Sunday, June 25-27. https://www.eventbrite.com/e/ncobra-32nd-annual-national-conference-tickets-150726116873    Rebroadcast from 7.29.2020 Today we speak to the male co-chair of N'COBRA, Nana Kwesi Jomoke Ifetayo about the 31st N'COBRA Virtual Conference, July 30-Aug. 1, 2020. Contact: reparationsj@gmail.com (678) 437-7882  2. Delfeayo Marsalis has launched a new non-profit – Keep NOLA Music Alive  – designed to help keep New Orleans music culture thriving during these uncertain times.    Delfeayo kicks off the fundraising effort with a “Double-Nickel Birthday Bash” virtual performance Sunday, August 2, 3 p.m. PT/5 p.m. CDT/6 p.m. EDT marking his 55th birthday..  

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!  1. Velina Brown and Michael Gene Sullivan join us to talk about SFMT's Tales of Resistance, Vol. 2: Persistence 2. AfroSolo 26th Anniversary Program concludes this weekend, June 20. Listen to the rebroadcast of the June 9, show featuring artist participants and Robert Thomas Simpson, founder, artistic director.   

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!  1. Dr. Lynne Morrow joins us to talk about James Weldon Johnson whose song or poem, Lift Ev'ry Voice is the Black National Anthem and is perhaps to become this year, the National Hymn.  2. Audio from a Zoom interview with DeNeen Brown, awardwinning writer for the Washington Post. Her research and series of articles are the basis for "Rise Again: Tulsa and the Red Summer, directed by Dawn Porter. The film premieres on National Geographic Fr

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!  1. Shazel Muhammad-Neain founded Eunoia Global, a leadership training and coaching firm joins Dr. Gina Paige, Co-founder & President, African Ancestry, Inc. to talk about the recent Sierra Leone Citizenship for Black People whose roots trace to this West African country April 29, 2021.  2. We close with a rebroadcast of May 28, 2021 show, which features Kheven LaGrone, playwright, whose Pillow Talk, makes its world premiere, June 11-20

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!    Today we open at 9 AM PT with an interview with Thomas Simpson, AfroSolo and artists featured in the 26th Annual showcase, June 9-13/17-20. It is virtual and it is free. .    We close with Ben Vereen (6/12/2012). 

Poor People's Virtual Weekend, 6/20-21, 2020 1. Nell Myhand is an Oakland based organizer, author and speaker whose work brings people together across age, race, class and other differences forming alliances to create powerful, effective solutions to common problems that leave no one out and no one behind. She is a member of the Bay Area Poor People’s Campaign Steering Committee working locally and nationally to amplify the voices of low/no wealth people and our demands for resources to meet our basic needs for housing, education, healthcare, and a livable climate. She also organizes with Women of Color in the Global Women’s Strike, an international organization calling on all governments for a Care Income Now that would recognize unwaged caregiving as work deserving of a wage. https://www.june2020.org/ 2. Vincent Terrell Durham, joins us to talk about theatre, writing, walking while Black and his Polar Bears. Black Boys & Prairie Fringed Orchids and Juneteenth Theatre Justice Project https://www.vtdis

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!  1. Rebroadcast of the Rhodessa Jones's "Resurrection of She" from March 28-Apr.7, 2013.  2. We close with an interview with Timothy Greenfield-Sanders, dir. "Toni Morrison: Pieces That I Am." 3. Alonzo King, LINES Contemporary Ballet, Nov. 2012

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!    1. Dedoceo Habi, author, Memoirs In the Moment: The Daily Walk with PTSD 2. Dawn Troupe, Oakland Theater Project's Director of Education joins us to talk about this current season and the World Premiere of Kathleen Collins' Begin the Beguine: A Quartet of One Acts 3. Kheven Lee LaGrone, playwright, joins, Tanika Baptiste, director, to discuss "Pillow Talk" up at Theatre Rhinoceros, June 11-20.

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!  Today we open at 9 AM PT with an interview with Thomas Simpson, AfroSolo and artists featured in the 26th Annual showcase. We close with archived interviews with directors and subjests at the Virtual Legacy Film Festival on Aging May 24-31.  We end instead with Ben Vereen (6/12/2012). The file was too large for the program. 5/7 was the original broadcast date for Legacy Film Festival.

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!   

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!  1. Professor Manu Ampim will join us to talk about the legacy of El Hajj Malik El Shabazz or Malcolm X -- 96 today (May 19, 1925-Feb. 21,1965). 2.  Katina Letheule, Artistic Director at Altarena Playhouse and the director of Motherhood Out Loud, will join us with one of the cast members, Damaris Divito, to talk about this play going up May 20-21, 7 p.m. 3. We close our live program with Dana King, sculptor, painter and activist, who wil

Legacy Film Festival on Aging Features May 24-31 1.Sam Hampton, Director, "Twelve Ingredients"; Adele Hampton 2. Sandra Hubbard, The Giants Wore White Gloves (40 mins) (The Lost Years) 3. David Wild, director, "Today Was a Good Day" with KaTania “Kat” Brown (subject) was born and raised in Detroit. She is a small business owner, freelance virtual assistant of Virtually Possible 365, and newly launched business social media deactivation service Digital Footprint Consulting. Author of Love Notes: A Caregiver’s Journal (2019), in addition to being a caregiver for her mother since 1991 before her passing October, 2020. www.virtuallypossible365.com 4. Mothers of Gynecology with Michelle Browder, JC Hallman 

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!    1. Masashi Niwano is the Festival & Exhibition Director at the Center for Asian American Media (CAAM). He is a Bay Area native who holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Film Production from San Francisco State University. Masashi has been associated with CAAM for over a decade, starting as an intern, then becoming involved in theater operations and, finally, being chosen as a selected filmmaker (Falling Stars, 2006). Prior to re-joining CAAM a

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!    1. Brad J. Bennett, a Japanese-American filmmaker and award-winning producer based in Virginia. A co-producer, he joins us to talk about "Unmarked," a film that looks at the legacy of enslaved Americans.   His award-winning first feature documentary, Forgive–Don’t Forget, chronicles the search for a family on the other side of the world in order to return an heirloom taken during World War II.  2. Nell Myhand and Judy Greenspan join us

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!  Join us at 9 AM this morning for a wonderful conversation with Ameha Molla and Rajal Pitroda, San Francisco filmmakers who won BLACK PUBLIC MEDIA’S PITCHBLACK for their documentary feature "Higher 15", which tells the story of Molla’s uncle, Kiflu Ketema, a former Ethiopian revolutionary turned lead witness in an FBI investigation against his murderous prison guard in war-torn Addis Ababa. Our next guest is Cherilyn Parsons, Executive Dire

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!  We rebroadcast April 14, 2021 show which featured ADRSA founder, Iya Funlayo, who tells us about the 9th Annual Conference which is happening right now, 4/23-25, 2021. Register:http://www.adrsa.org/conference.php  

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!  1. Troy Williams, Communications Manager with Legal Services for Prisoners With Children (LSPC).  He joins us to talk about the film Racially Charged: America's Misdemeanor Problem tonight, 5 PM PT/8 PM ET.  2. Jeronimo Aguilar - An LSPC 2021 Ronald Elder Freeman Policy Fellow, joins us to talk about the 9th Annual Quest for Democracy, Tuesday, May 4, 2021.  3. Chris Metzler serves as Associate Director of Programming for DocFest and Jeff Ro

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!  1. Rob Kenner, author, THE MARATHON DON’T STOP: The Life and Times of Nipsey Hussle  2. Jasmine Milan Williams (Pecola/Maureen) returns to Aurora for The Bluest Eye radio play (through May 21) after appearing in Bull In A China Shop (2019). Her recent work includes: Utopia (Cutting Ball Theater), The New Normal (By Ashley Smiley), Inked Baby by Christina Anderson (Crowded Fire Theater Company) and The Last Sermon of Sister Imani (Theater Fi