Wanda's Picks Radio Show

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. Agents of Change, co-director, co-producer, Abby Ginsberg, and student leaders at SFSU: Jimmy Garrett and Benny Stewart, and cast join us in the studio to talk about a powerful student-led protest movement on college campuses in the late-1960s and its connection to the Black Lives Matter movement on campuses today. The film premieres at the Castro Theatre in San Francisco, May 15, 1 - 4 p.m. Visit http://www.agentsofchangefilm.com/events/

2.  Professor Akubundu Amazu-Lott joins us to talk about African Liberation Day 2016: "African Women and Youth on the Frontline: Revolutionary Pan-Africanism is the Only Solution!" The event, May 28, 12-5 p.m. is at East Side Arts in Oakland. Visit http://www.africanliberationday.net/ and http://www.aaprp-intl.org/ (the organization founded by Dr. Kwame Nkrumah, first President of Ghana, in 1958, which hosts ALD).

3. We speak to Dr. Lynn Morrow, Director, Oakland Symphony Chorus and Nicole Greenidge Joseph, soprano, about the Oakland East Bay Symphony program, Friday, May 20. http://www.oaklandsymphony.org/event/stravinsky-silverman/