Wanda’s Picks for October 2010
by Wanda Sabir These two photos depict Maafa 2009. This year's Maafa is Sunday, Oct. 10, 5:30 a.m., at Ocean Beach, The Great Highway at Fulton, San Francisco. This Bay Area tradition, founded by Bay...
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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...
View ArticleLynn Nottage’s ‘Ruined,’ directed by Liesl Tommy, at Berkeley Rep through...
by Wanda Sabir At Berkeley Rep, Oberon K.A. Adjepong, left, and Tonye Patano star in “Ruined,” a powerful new play by Lynn Nottage that won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama. – Photo: kevinberne.com It...
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by Wanda Sabir Engaged and exuberant: TaSin Sabir and her fiancé, Shawn Lyles September is a special month. It’s the birth month of my brother Mark, who was put up for adoption, so I don’t know him....
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Review by The People’s Minister of Information JR In the late ‘60s and early ‘70s, the Black Panther Party and the group of revolutionary Puerto Ricans known as the Young Lords totally transformed the...
View ArticleWanda’s Picks for October 2010
by Wanda Sabir October is Maafa Awareness Month in the San Francisco Bay Area. It is a time to reflect on healing and recovery from the residual spiritual, psychological, social and economic impact...
View ArticleWanda’s picks for March 2011
by Wanda Sabir Women’s History Month and the 100th Anniversary of International Women’s Day March 8, 2011 – what a great month to toast the New Year. The name itself is an action, a call to action:...
View ArticleLynn Nottage’s ‘Ruined,’ directed by Liesl Tommy, at Berkeley Rep through...
by Wanda Sabir It feels like just a day ago that I was seated in the Roda Theatre at Berkeley Rep watching or should I say participating in an event guaranteed to make one check her lapel for a...
View ArticleWanda’s Picks for October 2012
by Wanda Sabir September is a special month. It’s the birth month of my brother Mark, who was put up for adoption, so I don’t know him. However, my mother calls me each year to remind me of his...
View Article‘Party People’
Review by The People’s Minister of Information JR In the late ‘60s and early ‘70s, the Black Panther Party and the group of revolutionary Puerto Ricans known as the Young Lords totally transformed the...
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