Rhodessa, dressed in an orange prison jumper from South Africa (orange the universal prison attire, like a brand), appears with a whip. All the sensations: cold, hard, eerie darkness, unfamiliar sounds, smells, give the audience plenty to contemplate, especially those in the first two rows where the whip spinning in Rhodessa’s hand over our heads, which she then flicks, we feel, too close to our faces as its breeze and the sting of its impact hits the ground again too close for comfort. But this theme – the Black holocaust – is it supposed to be an idea that brings ease?
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African American Center for Art and Culture,
Black Codes,
Buriel Clay Theatre,
Cecil Brown,
Cultural Odyssey,
enslaved woman,
Fillmore,
head constraint,
Idris Ackamoor,
Jim Crow America,
Joanna Haigood,
Pam Peniston,
Rhodessa Jones,
San Francisco Arts Festival,
Sargent Johnson Gallery,
Stephanie Johnson,
Wanda Sabir,
Zaccho Dance Company
The Maafa Ritual begins before dawn on Sunday, Oct. 11, about 5:30-6 a.m., at Ocean Beach on the Great Highway at Fulton Street in San Francisco. Invited are Black people interested in honoring our ancestors who perished in the European Slave Trade and its aftermath via colonialism and other forms of genocide like incarceration, terrible occurrences or reoccurring disasters felt today. Maafa Awareness Month was founded and has been organized by Bay View Arts Editor Wanda Sabir for 11 years.
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A Safe Place Walk-a-thon,
Africa Rising,
African refugees,
Afropop Worldwide,
Alonzo King LINES Ballet,
Amiri Baraka,
Antióquia and Chinyakare,
Assemblyman Sandre Swanson,
Ayodele Nzinga,
Baobab Village,
Bay Area Latin Jazz All-Stars,
BAYCAT,
Black Holocaust,
Black Panther Awareness Month,
British Member of Parliament George Galloway,
Chike Nwofiah,
Cindy Blackman,
colonialism,
Community Works,
Cynthia McKinney,
DeBug,
DJ Jeremiah Kpohand,
DJ Said Adelekan,
Donna and Darlene Wallach,
Eric Reed,
European Slave Trade,
Eyewitness Gaza,
Fela Kuti,
Festival of the Desert in Essakane Mali,
Francisco Aguabella,
Free Gaza Movement,
Gaza,
Gil Scott Heron,
Gladys Knight,
HIV/AIDS,
HuNia Bradley,
International Solidarity Movement,
Isaura Oliveria,
Ise Lyfe,
Israel-Gaza conflict,
Israeli blockade of Gaza,
Israeli settlements,
Jason Moran,
Joanna Haigood,
Karimah Al-Helew,
Latin Jazz Ensemble,
libations for the ancestors,
Lower Bottoms Playaz,
M1,
M1 of dead prez,
Maafa Awareness Month,
Maafa Commemoration,
Maafa Ritual,
Maisha Productions with Fat Souls Records,
Mama at Twilight: Death by Love,
Mama Juggs,
Man Alive: Stories from the Edge of Incarceration to the Flight of Imagination,
Mary J. Blige,
Michael Franti,
Michael Moore,
middle passage,
neocolonialism,
Oakland International Film Festival,
Orgone,
Palestinian fishermen,
Palestinian liberation,
post-traumatic stress,
Prescott Joseph Center,
Ramsey Lewis,
Rie Shontel,
Sabar,
SS Liberty and SS Free Gaza,
Suga T,
suicide bomber,
the Afrobeat Nation from Monrovia,
Thea Bowman Theatre,
Toubab Krewe,
Tyler Perry,
Viva Palestina,
Wanda Sabir,
Wanda’s Picks,
Wo’se House of Amen Ra,
Zaccho Dance Studio,
Zaccho Dance Theatre,
Zulu Spear
Today we had an exclusive interview with Troy Anthony Davis’ sister Martina Correia, who has been standing for justice for her brother for 19 long years. Troy Davis is scheduled once again for execution Monday, Oct. 27, by the state of Georgia if a stay is not granted.
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'rEvolution',
African American Shakespeare Company,
Archie Shepp,
August Wilson's 'Radio Golf',
August Wilson's 'The Piano Lesson',
Bayview Opera House,
C Kelly Wright,
Chicago 10,
Choice of Weapons,
Dia de Los Muertos,
execute innocent man,
Jean Isaacs,
Joanna Haigood,
Katrina Clap,
Kim Epifano,
Living Word Festival,
Maafa Commemoration,
Martina Correia,
Mary Booker,
Mos Def,
Oakland Community School,
Paul Wright,
San Francisco Jazz Festival,
Seastrunk Brothers,
Trolley Dances,
Troy Anthony Davis,
Troy Davis,
UniverSoul Circus,
Wanda Sabir,
Wanda's Picks,
Youth Speaks,
‘A Raisin in the Sun',
‘Do Tell',
‘Hood Games,
‘Lioness',
‘Slingshot Hip Hop'
Wednesday, Oct. 15, at the Prescott Joseph Center we honored the legacy of the San Francisco Bay Area’s premiere artists: Berkeley resident Joy Holland and Oaklander by way of St. Louis Casper Banjo, with featured artist Keith Hopkins, another Oaklander. The exhibit is titled “Breath of Our Ancestors.”
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Allensworth,
Ankh Productions,
Avotcja,
Black Panther Party,
Black Poets with Attitudes,
Black Repertory Theater,
Breath of Our Ancestors,
Casper Banjo,
Chuck D,
Eddie Abrams,
Flavor Flav,
Joanna Haigood,
Jon Hendricks,
Joy Holland,
Keith Hopkins,
Lathan Hodge,
Living Word Project,
Mary Rudge,
Mos Def,
Museum of the African Diaspora,
Nation of Islam,
Oakland International Film Festival,
Oakland Tech,
Prescott Joseph Center,
Professor Griff,
Public Enemy,
San Francisco Trolley Dances,
Shanique S. Scott,
TheArthur Wright,
Tulare County,
Wanda Sabir,
Zaccho Dance Company
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