Wanda’s Picks for June 12
by Wanda Sabir Wanda’s Picks Radio Special June 9 featured George Cables George Cables June 9 we had an up close and personal interview with the great pianist, George Cables. Visit...
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by Wanda Sabir Congratulations, graduate! Congratulations, Shawn Lyles, on your graduation from Ex’pression College for Digital Arts with a bachelor’s degree in sound engineering! Shawn, 25, is the...
View Article‘John Brown’s Truth: A Musically Improvised Opera’ by William Crossman
by Wanda Sabir Photo: Wanda Sabir Harper’s Ferry … freeing slaves … Virginia … hanging … white man – this is the extent of my knowledge of John Brown. I wasn’t aware that it was 150 years ago, on Oct....
View ArticleWanda’s Picks for May 2011
by Wanda Sabir Human rights legends Angela Davis and Yuri Kochiyama. Yuri worked closely with Malcolm X, was on the stage with him the night he was assassinated and comforted him as he passed away....
View ArticleCelebrities shine for San Francisco Black Film Festival June 17-19
50 Cent, Mario Van Peebles, Lynn Whitfield, Ray Liotta, Melvin Van Peebles, Michael Clarke Duncan, Kiele Sanchez, Taryn Manning, Tom Skerritt, Shabaka Henley,Ted Lange, Michael Lange, Jerri Lange and...
View ArticleWanda’s Picks for April 2012
by Wanda Sabir Wanda’s niece, Wilda Aiysah Batin, about six years ago Congratulations to my niece, Wilda Batin, for being honored by the City of San Francisco in February for Black History Month as one...
View ArticleChampion Karim Mayfield and director Robert Townsend bring knockout power and...
by Jackie Wright “And from this corner,” Karim “Hard Hitta” Mayfield is straight outta Hunters Point too. (Smile, Kevin Epps). Mayfield will attend SFBFF and Calvary Hill Community Church’s Focus on...
View ArticleWanda’s Picks for July 2014
by Wanda Sabir San Francisco says farewell to Dr. Maya Angelou Wanda stands in front of huge posters of Maya Angelou at the entrance to Glide Memorial Church in the Tenderloin, where the San Francisco...
View ArticleLifting up BB King and Michael Lange: Reflections on lives well lived
by Wanda Sabir Michael Lange The thrill isn’t gone, but certainly without BB King (Sept. 16, 1925-May 14, 2015) singing it, living it, being an example of it, well – the world without him and his...
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by Wanda Sabir Happy Father’s Day to all the dads, especially those dads who stayed the course, when walking away would have been so much easier, even expected. Congratulations to all the fathers who...
View ArticleWanda’s Picks for February 2016
by Wanda Sabir Ninety years ago in 1926, Carter G. Woodson (Dec. 19, 1875-April 3, 1950), historian, scholar, author and maverick for Black self-determination, founded Negro History Week. In 1976 the...
View ArticleBlack Elders Fund
by Paradise I started the Black Elders Fund after the passing of our beloved elder Baba Tahuti. His body was held on ice for much too long before his eventual homecoming ceremonies because most of his...
View ArticleWanda’s Picks for July 2017
by Wanda Sabir Happy birthday, Sister Makinya Sibeko-Kouate. Happy first birthday to my grandson, Legend! Happy birthday to the Cancers and Leos: Karen Oyekanmi, Alison Gates, Marcus Lorenzo Penn, MD....
View ArticleWanda’s Picks for June 12
by Wanda Sabir Wanda’s Picks Radio Special June 9 featured George Cables June 9 we had an up close and personal interview with the great pianist, George Cables. Visit http://georgecables.com/. He was...
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by Wanda Sabir Congratulations, graduate! Congratulations, Shawn Lyles, on your graduation from Ex’pression College for Digital Arts with a bachelor’s degree in sound engineering! Shawn, 25, is the...
View ArticleWanda’s Picks for May 2021
A stunning radio play adaptation of the 50-year-old debut novel by Toni Morrison, “The Bluest Eye,” is epitomized in this painting. Protagonist Pecola Breedlove “is obsessed with Shirley Temple and a...
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