An organizing meeting has been scheduled for Jan. 3 at 5 p.m. at Chuco’s Justice Center in Inglewood for people interested in monitoring the trial of Johannes Mehserle, the former Bay Area Rapid Transit police officer who shot Oscar Grant, an unarmed 22-year-old Black man, in the back on an Oakland BART platform on Jan. 1, 2009. Mehserle is the first police officer in California ever to be charged with murder.
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Adimu Madyun,
Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART),
Block Report Radio show,
Bob Marley,
Chuco’s Justice Center,
Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney,
Hairdoo,
Johannes Mehserle,
JR Valrey,
Judge Robert J. Perry,
Kaos Network,
Leimert Park,
Lovelle Mixon,
Oakland International Film Festival,
Oakland’s Special Weapons and Tactics unit (SWAT),
Oscar Grant,
Pan African Film Festival,
police terrorism,
Prisoners of Conscience Committee,
Thandisizwe Chimurenga,
“Operation Small Axe”
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
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.”
Tags:
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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