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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 April 2009
by Wanda Sabir ‘Invisible Womb’ Jetaun Maxwell - Photo: Wanda Sabir Sunday afternoon, I had the opportunity to see choreographer Jetaun Maxwell’s entire work, “Invisible Womb: A Self-Revealed Dance...
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Wanda’s picks for March 2011
by Wanda Sabir Refa One with Malik, a youth artist exhibiting in AeroSoul 2 at the Satellite Exhibit – Photo: Wanda Sabir Women’s History Month and the 100th Anniversary of International Women’s Day...
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Wanda’s Picks for July 2011
by Wanda Sabir Geronimo ji Jaga A number of trees have fallen in the forest this past month and we want to acknowledge the huge spaces their absence brings: Geronimo ji jaga Pratt, Black Panther,...
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Wanda’s Picks for October 2011
by Wanda Sabir Maafa 2007 – Photo: TaSin Sabir October is Maafa Commemoration Month, Breast Cancer Awareness Month, Domestic Violence Awareness Month, Black Panther History Month, Democratic Republic...
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Wanda’s Picks for May 2012
by Wanda Sabir Brianna Amaya, Wanda’s granddaughter, at the Tassafaronga Farm – Photo: Wanda Sabir We give honor to Mother Earth, her birthday celebrated the weekend of April 22 with many great events...
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Wanda’s Picks for June 2012
by Wanda Sabir Wanda Brown, just released after 27 years in prison, embraces Naimah Salahuddin of the Sista to Sista team of visitors to women prisoners, who visited her many times over the years. They...
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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 Rep. Barbara Lee held a reception on Inaugural Sunday, Jan. 20, for constituents in her Capitol Hill office. My niece, Wilda, 12, and granddaughter, Bianna, 9, were excited to meet her...
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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 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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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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