For National Minority Mental Health Awareness Month in July, we speak with Charlotte Redden Hamilton, PhD about the Mental Illness, Suicide and the Mental Health Conditions that Affect The African American Community. Charlotte Redden Hamilton, PhD, LPC/S, NCC, ACS. Hamilton is the Department Chairperson and Program Director, Clinical Mental Health Counseling at South University – Columbia. Hamilton is a … Continued
We speak with long time Oakland activist Ed Howard about West Oakland’s rich history and his his new movie that chronicles it.
Lucy Jane Bledsoe, author of the novel, A Thin Bright Line. Based on the (partially imagined) life of her aunt, Lucybelle Bledsoe, the novel weaves McCarthyism, climate change, civil rights and pre-Stonewall gay life into a rich tapestry. The New York Times calls it “an intimate and humane evocation of day-to-day life under inhumane circumstances.” … Continued
We speak with Raptivist Jasiri X about organizing strategies in the era of Trump. About Jasiri X: He is the first independent hip-hop artist to be awarded an Honorary Doctorate, which he received from Chicago Theological Seminary in 2016. This recognition grew out of the spiritual/political urgency and artistic vision he shared on songs like … Continued
Africa Today and Transitions on Traditions present a special program on the challenges for African American-American communities after the November 2016 elections. What are the priority issues facing our communities and how to we best strategize and mobilize our communities towards our collective best interests? Hosted by Walter Turner and Gregg Bridges. 7PM – 9 … Continued
Since its inception, one of the main preoccupations of the Federal Bureau of Investigation has been black rebellion. From the early days of the Harlem Renaissance until at least J. Edgar Hoover’s death in 1972, the FBI has had a fascinated fear of African American literature. William J. Maxwell discusses how the FBI extensively surveilled … Continued
The life of Kamau Amen Ra a master photographer, historian, and community activist who graced the San Francisco Bay Area and beyond for more than 40 years. Kamau Amen Ra documented all of the major African American community events and was instrumental in building an photographic record of the African American experience.
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Folk and not so acoustic music, hosted by Larry Kelp. Black History Month special: Tonight Sing Out salutes TOM WILSON, the first African-American producer at a major record company (Columbia Records). The Harvard grad’s role in the recording studio in the 1960s changed all of our lives and pushed musicians to change the sound of … Continued
Ten years ago this month, 29 August 2005, Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans. We talk with Jordan Flaherty about New Orleans today. PLUS: Country Joe MacDonald is holding a 12-hour Protest Festival in Berkeley (Protest? in Berkeley?). AND: a new documentary film by William Farley, about Jerry Ross Barrish—Plastic Man opens in SF. With host … Continued
Dr. Marcia Chatelain, author of South Side Girls: Growing Up in the Great Migration, discusses the construction of Black girlhood in Chicago in the first half of the twentieth century, and what it tells us about the intersections of race and gender. She also talks about Black Lives Matter, why it’s rewriting 2016 and … Continued
