November 13 2019

DENNIS J BERNSTEIN & WARREN LEHRER

"FIVE OCEANS IN A TEA SPOON” Poems & Visualizations

KPFA

Five Oceans in a Teaspoon is a memoir in short visual poems, written by poet/investigative journalist Dennis J Bernstein, typographic visualizations by designer/author Warren Lehrer. Like his journalism, Bernstein’s poems reflect the struggle of everyday people trying to survive in the face of adversity. 


November 5 2019

KPFA Documentary Night Presents: The Great White Hoax

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In The Great White Hoax, anti-racist educator Tim Wise explores how American political leaders have scapegoated people of color to divide working class voters and consolidate power. After-film discussion led by Adrienne Lauby of the program Pushing Limits.


October 26 2019

KPFA Movie Matinee Presents: Get Out

KPFA

Just in time for Halloween, KPFA brings you a screening of Jordan Peele's Academy Award Winning "Get Out" with After-film discussion led by Ephraim Colbert!


September 28 2019

KPFA Movie Matinee Presents: BOULEVARD NIGHTS 40TH ANNIVERSARY

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Forty years ago this summer, in 1979, Warner Bros released “Boulevard Nights,” a film that centers around a fatherless Mexican-American family living in East Los Angeles. After film discussion led by Miguel Molina of Flashpoints and La Onda Bajita. This is a KPFA benefit.


December 11 2019

 KPFA Radio 94.1 FM & Marcus Books present: MICHAEL ERIC DYSON

JAY-Z: Made in America

KPFA

JAY-Z is America at its scrappy, brash, irreverent, soulful, ingenious best: as transcendent a cultural icon as Frank Sinatra, as adventurous a self-made billionaire as Mark Zuckerberg, as gifted a poet as Walt Whitman. As he reaches the half-century mark, JAY-Z has logged thirty years as a recording artist, become the genre’s first billionaire, and...


September 20 2019 through August 29 2019

Cine+Más Presents the 11th San Francisco Latino Film Festival

Co-Sponsored by KPFA Radio

KPFA

The San Francisco Latino Film Festival (SFLFF) September 20th through the 29th is a volunteer run and produced program. Its mission is to showcase the work of emerging and established filmmakers from the US, Latin America, and the Iberian Peninsula; increase cultural opportunities for the Latino community, as well as create a cultural dialogue amongst...


August 31 2019

Rally To Stop Gentrification & Stadium In Port

Hosted by Pacifica Radio May Day Broadcast

KPFA

Community rally with Danny Glover to stop gentrification and privatization of the Howard Terminal in the Port of Oakland for A's stadium. Live stream:


December 5 2019

KPFA Radio 94.1 FM and St. John’s Presbyterian Church present: SILVIA FEDERICI

Witches, Witch-Hunting and Women

KPFA

We are witnessing a new surge of interpersonal and institutional violence against women, including new witch hunts. This surge of violence has occurred alongside a global expansion of capitalism. In this new work, revisiting some of the main themes of Caliban and the Witch, Silvia Federici examines the root causes of these developments and outlines the...


November 12 2019

 KPFA Radio 94.1 FM presents: PAUL ORTIZ

An African American and Latinx History of the United States

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Spanning more than two hundred years, An African American and Latinx History of the United States is a revolutionary, politically charged narrative history, arguing that the “global south” was crucial to the development of America as we know it. Scholar and activist Paul Ortiz shows how placing African American, Latinx and Indigenous voices unapologetically front...