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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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...
View ArticleWanda’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...
View Article‘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...
View ArticleJambalaya 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...
View ArticleCelebrate 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...
View ArticleBay View founding publisher: I was inspired by Malcolm, Martin, Elijah and...
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View ArticleCuban poet Nancy Marejon speaks on Black culture on the island
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View ArticleWanda’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...
View ArticleWanda’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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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...
View ArticleWanda’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...
View ArticleWanda’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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