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! Shaka Barak is the Minister of Education for the Universal Negro Improvement Association and African Communities League (UNIA & ACL) through appointment by current President General Senghor Baye. Located in Chicago, he joined the Garvey Nkrumah Memorial Progressive Division #429 of the UNIA & ACL forty years ago under Dr. Charles L. James. President General James was a Graduate under the Honorable Marcus Mosiah Garvey the Dean of the Sch