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The 2020 vision for Buy Black Wednesdays
by Paradise Free Jahlove The year is 2020. Or maybe it’s not the year 2020 so much as it is a perfectly clear 20/20 vision of how our community will be in the not too distant future. Whatever the year...
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‘Vigilante on the Loose’: Black filmmakers put Overtown back on Front Street
by Rasheed “Vigilante on the Loose” is based on a true story about a community plagued with past injustice. This time they chose to stand their ground. Filmed on location in Miami, Florida, the film...
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African 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....
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The war on Billie Holiday: The Bureau of Narcotics’ strange obsession
by Johann Hari Jazz was the opposite of everything Harry Anslinger, the first commissioner of the Federal Bureau of Narcotics (established in 1930), believed in. It is improvised, and relaxed, and...
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Legendary ‘Queen of Fillmore’ Leola King leaves proud legacy of struggle...
Funeral is Friday, Feb. 13, 11 a.m., at Third Baptist Church, 1399 McAllister, the repast 4-7 p.m. at West Bay Conference Center, 1290 Fillmore St., San Francisco by Lance Burton Leola King Leola King...
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Third Street Stroll …
by Rochelle Metcalfe IT’S that time again! Saturday, March 7, come out and eat, play, shop and dance in the warmth of the Bayview in celebration of the 35th Annual BLACK CUISINE Community Festival at...
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Wanda’s Picks for April 2016
by Wanda Sabir Wanda welcomes the crowd to “Dr. Mutulu Shakur Is Welcome Here,” the Bay Area’s event, held March 20, in a nationwide series of events to convince the federal parole board that beloved...
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‘Harlem of the West – The San Francisco Fillmore Jazz Era’: See the exhibit,...
by Eldoris Cameron, SFAAHCS The John Handy Group – John Handy, Pony Poindexter, John Coltrane and Frank Fisher – perform at Bop City, the building that later housed Marcus Book Store, the oldest Black...
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Fillmore: Harlem of the West
This is Fillmore Street, Harlem of the West, in the late 1940s, populated by working class Black families, who owned most of the homes and businesses, and visited every day of the year by Black jazz...
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Jazz fusion band TBA is taking the Bay by storm
TBA is a down-to-earth band that meets people where they are. Why wait for a fancy venue when the people need their inspiration here and now? Elandis Brooks brings those power-to-the-people traditions...
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