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Wanda’s picks for July
by Wanda Sabir Congratulations, graduate! Congratulations, Shawn Lyles, on your graduation from Ex’pression College for Digital Arts with a bachelor’s degree in sound engineering! Shawn, 25, is the...
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Wanda’s Picks for December
by Wanda Sabir Adrian Williams leads a Kwanzaa celebration at the Fillmore Cafe in San Francisco in 2007 – Photo: Lee Hubbard Happy New Year, Blessed Eid Al Adha and Happy Kwanzaa. I’ll be back in...
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Joanna Haigood’s ‘Sailing Away’: Black exodus from San Francisco 1858 and 2012
Review by Wanda Sabir Robert Henry Johnson as Grafton Tyler Brown, the painter, and Matthew Wickett as Archy Lee, escapee from slavery, contemplate sailing away from San Francisco, where Blacks are not...
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Wanda’s Picks for February 2013
by Wanda Sabir Rep. Barbara Lee held a reception on Inaugural Sunday, Jan. 20, for constituents in her Capitol Hill office. My niece, Wilda, 12, and granddaughter, Bianna, 9, were excited to meet her...
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Wanda’s Picks for March 2013
by Wanda Sabir ‘Mumia’ comes to Oakland Back when Mumia was a member of the Black Panther Party, he traveled west to work with the Oakland chapter – an important time in his evolution as a radical...
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Wanda’s Picks for June 2013
by Wanda Sabir Elder Freeman, always fighting for the rights of prisoners and former prisoners, talks with people coming to visit loved ones at the Dyer County Jail in Oakland, asking them to spread...
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Wanda’s Picks for November 2014
by Wanda Sabir Vote! Vote! Vote! Even if the system is rigged, participate. We vote because to not do so is to dishonor our ancestors. To not do so is to abrogate your rights as a citizen. Everyone...
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Lifting up BB King and Michael Lange: Reflections on lives well lived
by Wanda Sabir Michael Lange The thrill isn’t gone, but certainly without BB King (Sept. 16, 1925-May 14, 2015) singing it, living it, being an example of it, well – the world without him and his...
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Lady Mem’fis passes, leaving fans and family ‘Expressions of a Legacy’
Lady Mem’fis, also known as Jacqueline Ruth Johnson, passed away Saturday, Feb. 9, 2019, at 6:12 a.m. at Home Sweet Home, a skilled nursing facility in Daly City, California, age 73. She was born May...
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