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San Francisco Black Film Festival XXI was spectacular
N’Zuri Abiodun, at 7 years old, took full advantage of the red carpet and backdrop at the SF Black Film Festival this year. – Photo: JR Valrey, Block Report by The People’s Minister of Information JR...
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The 30th annual Celebration of African American Poets and Their Poetry: It’s...
If you missed her, Nicia De’Loverly, poet, shown here attending the 30th anniversary poetry celebration, is performing Friday, Feb. 7, 7-8:30 p.m., at 2301 Telegraph Ave., Oakland. Happy Birthday,...
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Wanda’s Picks for November 2020
Civil rights attorney John Burris by Wanda Sabir Asé to the memory of those nearly 1,000 Jonestown victims – a majority of whom were children and elders – buried in a mass gravesite at Evergreen...
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Wanda’s Picks for December 2020
As part of Maafa at 25 – the 25th year of the commemoration of the ancestors at Ocean Beach – a free, virtual event called What the Black Woman Body Knows will be held Dec. 5 featuring Wanda Sabir as...
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The community celebrates Terry Collins, long time warrior for the people
Terry Collins, 1936-2021, was a Black Panther, a 1968 SF State Student Striker and BSU organizer, a founding member of San Francisco’s Black radio station KPOO 89.5 and mentor and professor to...
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Wanda’s Picks for January 2013
by Wanda Sabir I remember when I first met Jayne Cortez, I was with Elsie Washington, the late fiction writer who wrote the first Black romance novel, which I owned. A subscriber to the Harlequin...
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Wanda’s Picks for February 2013
by Wanda Sabir It’s a great time to be Black and American (smile). I didn’t have a wonderful time at the presidential inauguration, but it was great to be in D.C. with my granddaughter, Brianna Amaya,...
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Wanda’s Picks for March 2013
by Wanda Sabir ‘Mumia’ comes to Oakland Back when Mumia was a member of the Black Panther Party, he traveled west to work with the Oakland chapter – an important time in his evolution as a radical...
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Wanda’s Picks for June 2013
by Wanda Sabir Well, with graduation and finals completed, I am off to East Africa for the summer, which means my regular Wanda’s Picks broadcasts will be suspended for the summer, June 5-Aug. 9. I’ll...
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Wanda’s Picks for February 2014
by Wanda Sabir I am recovering from a huge blow – my computer was taken along with other personal irreplaceable items in Carpinteria, a bedroom suburb outside Santa Barbara. We stopped by Loon Point to...
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‘The Black Arts Movement and Its Influences’ conference hits UC Merced Feb....
by The People’s Minister of Information JR Valrey On Feb. 28-March 2 at UC Merced, “The Black Arts Movement and Its Influences” conference will be going down with a host of legendary Black artists who...
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Jambalaya in my soul: A tribute to Pat Parker
by Malaika Kambon For the White Person Who Wants to Know How to Be My Friend Famed percussionist (steel drum and djembe) Val Serrant – Photo: Malaika Kambon The first thing you do is to forget that i’m...
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Celebrate 40 years of life in the Black Community: The SF Bay View...
San Francisco Black Film Festival director Kali O’Ray and SF Bay View associate editor JR Valrey are making a movie about the Bay View’s 40-year history of liberation journalism. It’s a work in...
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Bay View founding publisher: I was inspired by Malcolm, Martin, Elijah and...
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Cuban poet Nancy Marejon speaks on Black culture on the island
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Wanda’s Picks for October 2016
by Wanda Sabir To mark the 50th anniversary of the 1966 Hunters Point Uprising, Aliyah Dunn-Salahuddin (in the colorful dress), chair of the African American Studies Department at City College, who was...
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Wanda’s Picks for February 2017
Wilda and Wilfred Batin at Wilfred’s elementary graduation in May, 2015 – Photo: Wanda Sabir by Wanda Sabir Happy Black History Month. Knowledge is power, something Black people from Frederick Douglass...
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Wanda’s Picks for May 2017
by Wanda Sabir Happy Mother’s Day! The mothers honored include Mother Earth (smile) and incarcerated mothers, especially those mothers whose children were stolen or adopted out and are now lost to...
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Wanda’s Picks for March 2018
by Wanda Sabir Happy Birthday, Sister Maryom Anna Al Wadi, one of the founders of San Francisco State University’s School of Ethnic Studies and the Black Student Union 50 years ago. Happy Birthday to...
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Wanda’s Picks April 2018
by Wanda Sabir On the 50th anniversary of Dr. King’s assassination, Wednesday, April 4, we need to stop and reflect on the many landmark movements which began 50 years ago … like hip-hop. Rene Guzman,...
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