Paul Robeson, a great human being
by George and Candy Gonzalez Black Los Angeles-based photographer Howard Lee Morehead created this composite photograph of Paul Robeson bursting through the front page of the California Eagle newspaper...
View ArticleHustlin in the City: an interview wit Frisco rapper Sellassie
by Minister of Information JR Sellassie The Frisco native and conscious rapper Sellassie has to be one of the hardest working men in independent Bay Area rap music. I have run into bruh on East Oakland...
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 Article‘I Mix What I Like’: an interview wit’ author Jared Ball, Ph.D.
by Minister of Information JR Jared Ball, Ph.D., has been on the forefront of Black revolutionary radio on the East Coast as long as I can remember, with his work on WPFW, the Washington, D.C.,...
View ArticleTime traveling: an interview wit’ African historian Runoko Rashidi
by People’s Minister of Information JR Runoko Rashidi Back in the days of chattel slavery, it was illegal for people to teach Africans how to read, to limit the chance that they would acquire a...
View Article‘The Black Woman Is God’ – Part II
Closing reception for ‘The Black Woman Is God’ exhibit is Thursday, May 30, 6 p.m., in the Sargent Johnson Gallery, African-American Arts and Culture Complex, 762 Fulton St., San Francisco by Malaika H...
View ArticleThe ethnic cleansing of broadcasters from Pacifica continues nationally:...
by The People’s Minister of Information JR Valrey The ethnic cleansing of Black and Brown broadcasters off the airwaves this year claimed not only the careers of Luke Stewart, formerly of Washington,...
View ArticleWanda’s Picks for November 2014
by Wanda Sabir Vote! Vote! Vote! Even if the system is rigged, participate. We vote because to not do so is to dishonor our ancestors. To not do so is to abrogate your rights as a citizen. Everyone...
View ArticleAfrican American classical music: Renaissance woman P. Kujichagulia speaks
by The People’s Minister of Information JR Kujichagulia Ms. Kujichagulia is one of the most revered Pan Africanist griots, lecturers, writers and musicians based in the Bay Area at this current moment....
View ArticleAn appreciation: Dr. Ben, legendary Egypt scholar, dean of Harlem Street...
by Todd Steven Burroughs Yosef Alfredo Antonio ben-Jochannan, known to the African world as “Dr. Ben,” believed that education belonged to any member of his race who wanted it. Perhaps that was because...
View ArticleTroubled legacy: a review of Nate Parker’s ‘Birth of a Nation’
by Wanda Sabir Perhaps the reason why Nat Turner is almost completely buried within documented and oral histories is connected to the fear his rebellion caused in the Southampton and by extension the...
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