Wanda's Picks

This is a black arts and culture site. We will be exploring the African Diaspora via the writing, performance, both musical and theatrical (film and stage), as well as the visual arts of Africans in the Diaspora and those influenced by these aesthetic forms of expression. I am interested in the political and social ramifications of art on society, specifically movements supported by these artists and their forebearers. It is my claim that the artists are the true revolutionaries, their work honest and filled with raw unedited passion. They are our true heroes. Ashay! We open with an interview with Steeve Valcourt, lead singer, Lokou Misik, from Haiti who are opening at the New Year's Eve concert at the Fillmore in San Francisco, 9 p.m., for The New Orleans Legends, The Preservation Hall Jazz Band. The two ensembles are serving textured gumbo, that is, African Disapora culture whether Hispanola or Orleans Territory, Nawlins or Citi Soliel, Jacmel or Nord, Lagos or Kinshasa, Kingston or Mantanzas it's all th