I hope everyone has had a great summer. I am back from my yearly Souljourning for Truth. Went to Upstate New York again, this time to Niagara County where the air was a bit cleaner, given the forest fires in Canada, which are still burning. My journey took me to Harriet T. Davis country, freedom seekers and the historic Underground Railroad. I visited the Underground Railroad Museum in Niagara Falls, NY and toured St. Catharine’s (Ontario) where General Harriet Tubman worshipped with her family before relocating to Auburn, New York, where she bought land and built a home and established a retirement or nursing home for veterans and older Black people. I visited Niagara by the Bay, a small hamlet where there is much Black Freedom Seeker history. A Canadian stamp issued this year honors one Chloe Cooley, a freedom seeker who was dragged from Canada back to the US when the Fugitive Slave Act and Canada’s participation in the slave trade enabled such crimes against humanity. She resisted and because she resisted loudly state laws were eventually changed and slavery abolished.
Tina Turner, the Musical @ Golden Gate Theatre August 2-27
Watch a recent interview with actor, Roz White who portrays, “Velma Bullock,” Tina’s mother.
New Work in the Bay
Wanda’s Picks Radio Show
Listen to an interview (8.9.23) with Charles Curtis Blackwell, playwright, members of cast and program director of the Tenderloin Museum discuss this new work.
24th Season Opens with August Wilson’s Radio Golf
Wanda’s Picks interview, Thursday, August 10, 8 a.m. PT. with Dr. Ayodele Nzinga, Artistic Director, Lower Bottom Playaz about this season, BAM Theatre, new publications as City of Oakland Inaugural Poet Laureate.
Previews August 10, 7 p.m. Free tickets, guests of Dr. Nzinga. Tell them this at the box office.
SF Mime Troupe
Tune in Wed., August 17, 2023, 9 a.m. PT for an interview on Wanda’s Picks YT Channel
Ase to Dr. Mutulu Shakur (recorded memorial)
