Art & Culture

Culture is My Home: Interview with Leon Sun, Artist and Photographer

Culture is My Home: Interview with Leon Sun, Artist and Photographer By Eddie Wong. Posted December 21, 2022. Intro:  Leon Sun’s exhibit “Back to the Culture: A Silkscreen Print Exhibit” concludes on Dec. 31, 2022 at the National Japanese American Historical Society, 1684 Post St , San Francisco.  Sun, a longtime activist and community-based artist, …

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Comrade Sisters Celebrates the Women in the Black Panther Party

Comrade Sisters Celebrates the Women in the Black Panther Party by Mike Murase and video by Alan Kondo. Posted Oct. 21, 2022. Comrade Sisters: Women of the Black Panther Party, a book by Ericka Huggins and Stephen Shames, was launched at Reparations Club in the Crenshaw district of Los Angeles on October 17, 2022. The panel …

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Moving Our Feet – Putting Radical Politics to Music

Moving Our Feet – Putting Radical Politics to Music By Peter Shapiro. Posted September 10, 2022. Moving Our Feet was started by Mary Ann Heimann, a talented writer and musician who worked with the Tenants Action Group in San Francisco and had already written several songs about housing struggles in the city, including “The I-Hotel …

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The South – Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi – Faces & Places

The South – Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi – Faces & Places By Leon Sun. Posted August 12, 2022. In the Spring of 1988, I was sent by Unity Newspaper along with reporter Jamala Rogers to cover the Jesse Jackson campaign as it made its way through the South before reaching the Democratic National Convention in Atlanta, …

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Conversation with Erwin Helfer, Chicago’s progressive boogie/blues/jazz pianist

Conversation with Erwin Helfer, Chicago’s progressive boogie/blues/jazz pianist Interview by Ivan Handler. Posted July 13, 2022. Erwin Helfer is a Chicago based boogie, blues and jazz pianist.  He has studied with many of the boogie masters and has played all over the world.  The city of Chicago just named June 9th as Erwin Helfer Day …

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Poems by Joe Navarro

Poems by Joe Navarro The Enemy If the enemy Is Black Brown Native Asian Immigrant Muslim Jewish Women Trans Lesbian Gay Bi Feminists Intellectuals Teachers Socialists Multiculturalists Liberals Environmentalists Water protectors Land defenders Houseless people Unionists Workers Peace activists Convicts Ex-convicts …Who’s left? ©️ 2022 Joe Navarro Prayers Alone Families cry Hearts ache Mourning for …

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Renewals

Renewals By Lydia Lowe. Posted July 3, 2022. In the beginning was the word that the Tyler Street branch was coming down, while all around the kids who played hide-and-seek on the street, amidst goblins and fairies from borrowed books, were speechless with loss. Then the bookmobile rolled in, here and gone like the tinkling …

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