Follow Us
Wandaâs Picks for May-June 2016
May 15, 2016
Elaine Brownâs âA Taste of Power,â a memoir which chronicles her leadership of the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense when co-founder Huey P. Newton is imprisoned, still resonates with me. The idea that a Black woman is nominated to the leadership position of the most powerful civic organization in the country at that time is still remarkable and speaks to what Kathleen Cleaver calls revolutionary imagination.
Wandaâs Picks for August 2012
August 8, 2012
There are many great programs for youth in the San Francisco Bay Area â among them, AileyCamp at Cal Performances, Destiny Arts, Oaktown Jazz Workshop, Dimensions Extensions and Oakland Public Conservatory of Music, founded by Angela Wellman.
Swedes revive ridicule of Black beauty Hottentot Venus
May 7, 2012
Swedish Minister of Culture Lena Adelsohn Liljeroth, a self-proclaimed âanti-racist,â declared the party officially started by slicing a piece of a cake depicting a stereotypical African woman â in the area of the genitalia. Shocking photos that went viral on the net show the Stockholm cultural elite watching and laughing as Minister Liljeroth slices the cake.
Wandaâs Picks for January 2012
January 5, 2012
Life isnât fair: Too many kids and not enough food, fat cats bringing in all the money and government services like free hospitals and free education is not free for those who need it because, like everywhere, bureaucracy breeds corruption, whether we are in Madagascar or the United States.
Banned on Facebook: Voice of the Cape-South Africa, Islamic community radio
July 11, 2011
Why would Voice of the Cape, the Islamic community radio station of rural South Africa, be blocked on Facebook? The feature story that day was about the Gaza Freedom Flotilla, but there were stories all over my friendsâ Facebook pages about the Gaza Flotilla that day. When Voice of the Cape was still banned two days later on July 6, I scanned the featured stories on its home page.
