Wanda's Picks Radio Show, Wed., January 15, 2010

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!

1. Rev. Daniel Buford, Sculpturer, Community Organizer, Human Rights Avocate, retired from Allen Temple Ministry

2. Chloe Hilliard, author, F*uck Your Diet and Other Things My Thighs Tell Me, plus catch her at Sketchfest (2020)

3. Zach Norris, Executive Director, Ella Baker Center, We Keep Us Safe: Building Secure, Just, and Inclusive Communities (2020). Norris also speaks to us about the initiative and project: Restore Oakland. 

4. Mildred Pitts Walter, author, Something Inside So Strong: Life in Pursuit of Choice, Courage and Change, will be at the Unitarian Universalist of San Mateo, Sun., Jan. 19, 11a.m.-12:30 p.m.
https://uusanmateo.org/events/mildreds-book-signing-something-inside-so-strong/

Wanda's Picks Radio Show, Wed., Jan. 22, 2020

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!

1. Anne C. Bailey, author, "The Weeping Time, Memory and the Largest Slave Auction in American History" is an historian, and professor of History and Africana Studies at SUNY Binghamton (State University of New York). In her works of non- fiction, she combines elements of travel, adventure, history, and an understanding of contemporary issues with an accessible style. She is a US citizen who grew up in Jamaica, WI and in Brooklyn, New York. Bailey is committed to a concept of “living history” in which events of the past are connected to current and contemporary issues. She is also concerned with the reconciliation of communities after age old conflicts like slavery, war and genocide. Her non-fiction book, African Voices of the Atlantic Slave Trade: Beyond the Silence and the Shame (Beacon Press) and her current work, The Weeping Time: Memory and the Largest Slave Auction in American History, (just published, Cambridge University Press, 2017) reflect that commitment.

2. Joanna Haigood re: "Sailing Away" (2012)

3. Dara Kell, director, joins us to talk about a sneak preview of her film: "We Cried Power," here in the SF Bay tomorrow, Jan. 23, 2020 at the Red Stone Building, 2640 16th Street, in San Francisco, 6-8 p.m. It's free.

4. W. Kamau Bell re:Oakland Symphony Playlist


Link to show: http://tobtr.com/s/11662043

Wanda's Picks Radio Show, Friday, January 10, 2020

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!

1. Minister Daniel Buford joins us to talk about Art and Spirituality and his show at Colorlines Restaurant Feb. 2020 (reception 2/13, 5 p.m.) at the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights.

2. Emily Dickinson  - In Her Own Words  - Exclusive Solo Performance by Chetana Karel-Michaan, America’s Leading Theatrical Interpreter of Emily at Berkeley City Club, 7 p.m., Jan. 11, 2020. Directed by Andrea Adler. Co-written by Andrea Adler and Chetana Karel-Michaan. Music by Dale Zola.

3. Living Jazz director, Stacey Hoffman, joins us to talk about "In the Name of Love: 18th Annual Musical Tribute to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Jan. 19, 7 p.m. at the Scottish Rite Center in Oakland. Visit livingjazz.org

4. We conclude with a conversation with Maestro Michael Morgan, Oakland Symphony, about the Celebration of Bernard Tyson & His Playlist, Friday, Jan. 24, 8 p.m. at the Paramount Theatre. Visit OaklandSymphony.org

http://tobtr.com/11646239

Wednesday, January 8, 2020: The 1811 German Coast uprising January 8-10

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!

In honor of The 1811 German Coast uprising January 8-10, 1811, we rebroadcast interviews and conversations with Dread Scott, artist, whose vision it was to restage a Reenactment of this historic event Nov. 8-9, 2019 along River Road into New Orleans.

This revolt of enslaved African men and women in parts of Orleans Territory on the east bank of the Mississippi River occurred in what is now St. John the Baptist, St. Charles and Jefferson Parishes, Louisiana.

https://ushistoryscene.com/article/german-coast-uprising/

NCR article by Jason Berry: Beneath the gentility, a harsh, hidden past

Reading (pp 48-55) taken from On to New Orleans: Louisiana's Heroic 1811 Slave Revolt by Albert Thrasher. Purchase at Hidden History Tour


https://www.blogtalkradio.com/wandas-picks/2020/01/08/wandas-picks-radio-show

Wanda's Picks Radio Show Special: The Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project

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!

The Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project opens at the Roxie Theatre Jan. 17 in San Francisco, Roger Macdonald, TV collections director at The Internet Archive in San Francisco, joins us with Tevor Von Stein, who was a volunteer initially on the Marion Stokes Project at the Archive. They join us to unravel the mystery and wonder that is Marion Stokes and this over 70,000 VHS tapes and also writings and other documents in the MSP. Roger will be speaking this weekend at the Roxie at select screenings.

Visit https://www.roxie.com/ai1ec_event/recorder-the-marion-stokes-project/?instance_id=38611

Marion Stokes (1929-2012) famously recorded TV news 24 hours a day for 35 years. When she passed away in 2012, she left behind over 70,000 VHS tapes containing hours and hours of footage. Filmmaker Matt Wolf set out to document this obsessive documenter in his new film, "Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project," which premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival opens at the Roxie in SF Jan. 17-23.

2. MacKenzie Fegan interviews Matt Wolf on Bric TV https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cb00vGaWa6c

3. The Rescue List, dir. Alyssa Fedele, Zach Fink (2018). On PBS 3.23.2020.

Showlink: http://tobtr.com/s/11652107