Salute to the spirit of Oscar Grant
Yak Films and Turf Feinz release memorial dance video commemorating Oscar Grant’s death New Year’s Day Oakland – Today, the multimedia production company Yak Films and the Oakland dance crew Turf Feinz...
View ArticleDon’t you dare foreclose on my 91-year-old mother
Curlee Dennis, 91, with great-granddaughter Skye Williams When Tanya Dennis, an Oakland public school teacher and reporter for the Post newspaper, reclaimed her home last year, she eventually received...
View ArticleKevin Weston, maker of media-makers
Scroll down for photos from the memorial service by The People’s Minister of Information JR Kevin Weston I remember being 17 years old and amazed at how articulate the young writers were that I met at...
View ArticleWanda’s Picks for December 2014
by Wanda Sabir As we move into the next solar return, there is much to look forward to despite the stasis that seems to infect this nation with the disease of white supremacy or racial domination. OK...
View ArticleThe ‘First Friday’ doc premieres this week at the New Parkway
by The People’s Minister of Information JR I have known filmmaker N’Jeri Eaton for about five years, ever since she was a student at UC Berkeley’s Journalism School and she asked to interview me about...
View ArticleA very exciting Oakland International Film Festival spotlights Roots’ 40th...
by Wanda Sabir The Oakland International Film Festival is an opportunity for Oakland to shine – its artists the polish and vehicle. From its inception 15 years ago, when the City of Oakland was one of...
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