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Ted Pontiflet says farewell to Oakland
by Wanda Sabir It’s easy to see in this photo of Ted Pontiflet and Wanda Sabir the joy generated at Ted’s art sale and party Nov. 20. – Photo: Wanda Sabir Ted Pontiflet is an Oakland icon. He is East...
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Wanda’s Picks for February 2011
by Wanda Sabir African American Celebration through Poetry Wanda journeyed to Africa during her winter break from teaching. Here she checks out the exhibits at the Black World Arts and Culture Festival...
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Is the increase in baby deaths in the northwest U.S. due to Fukushima...
Janette D. Sherman, MD, Joseph Mangano, MPH, MBA “Greenpeace called on Japan on Thursday to evacuate children and pregnant women from a town about 60 kilometres (40 miles) from the stricken Fukushima...
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Katrina Pain Index 2011: Race, gender, poverty
by Bill Quigley and Davida Finger Michael Cormick and his son, Rodney, not pictured, work on rebuilding their family home in Gentilly on Friday, Aug. 26, 2011. Six years after Hurricane Katrina, they...
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Everywhere is war: European warlords strike again – this time in Mali
By Gerald A. Perreira Until the philosophy / that holds one race superior / and another inferior / is finally and permanently / discredited and abandoned / Everywhere is war. The National Movement for...
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Wanda’s Picks for April 2013
by Wanda Sabir GirlTrek’s “We Are Harriet, 100-Year Tribute and Walking Challenge,” a walking revolution, involves 15,312 women and girls across the country. Sunday, March 10, 2013, marked the 100th...
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Demands from the San Quentin State Prison Adjustment Center
The Black Panther newspaper of Nov. 6, 1971, featured the Adjustment Center Six, later called the San Quentin Six – Hugo “Yogi” Pinell, Willie Sundiata Tate, David Johnson, Luis “Bato” Talamantez,...
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SB 892: Letter from four main reps at Pelican Bay to California legislators
by Todd Ashker, Arturo Castellanos, Sitawa Nantambu Jamaa (R.N. Dewberry), Antonio Guillen Dear Members of the California Senate and Assembly, California corrections officials located and designed...
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Filmmaker Pendarvis Harshaw talks about graf legend Mike Dream in ‘Dream...
TDK, which originally stood for Those Damn Kids, describing Mike “Dream” Francisco’s crew, later morphed into Tax Dollars Kill as Mike matured. His surviving murals are strictly off-limits to tagging...
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Troubled legacy: a review of Nate Parker’s ‘Birth of a Nation’
by Wanda Sabir Perhaps the reason why Nat Turner is almost completely buried within documented and oral histories is connected to the fear his rebellion caused in the Southampton and by extension the...
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