Wanda's Picks

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! In 2010, four Black Men, artists in Oakland: Jimi Evins, Ted Pontiflet, Ronnie Prosser, and James Reid, participated in a group show called: Love of Art: Show and Sale. Eight years later we mourn the loss of yet another artist, James Reid, whose funeral is this morning, Friday, August 10, 11 a.m., in West Oakland at Baker Atkins Mortuary, 980 8th Street. Ronnie passed a few years ago. In these three (3) conversations the men speak about the