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Short documentary "For Love and Legacy," a film by A.K. Sandhu, explores the nexus of art, race, and legacy as it follows sculptor Dana King and activist Fredrika Newton as they build a monument a bust of Black Panther Party (BPP) leader Huey P. Newton, Oakland's first public monument honoring a member of the BPP.
Memory lives in the blood. Our ancestors live in us.
July 21, 2021
Bay View Arts and Culture Editor Wanda Sabir read libations honoring our recently transitioned ancestors at the Monumental Reckoning unveiling at the Music Concourse in Golden Gate Park. The event was the opening day of artist Dana King’s 350 Ancestors – bronze, wire and steel sculptures of the original 350 Angolan captives taken from home in 1619. The unveiling was held on a beautiful Friday, June 18, 2021. – Photo: James Watkins
by Arts and Culture Editor Wanda Sabir
People are rising up to remove and destroy these symbols of racism and white supremacy which guide the thinking and economic and political policies making this country. On the first Juneteenth National Observance, San Francisco installed 350 African Ancestors.
Socializing in reopened S.F. is kinda fun, but very, very frightening
Charles Lewis III
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A pop-up band on 21st Street near the 900 block of Valencia Street, which is closed to vehicle traffic on weekends for San Francisco’s Slow Streets program. The Chronicle’s Charles Lews III says that he’ll still wear a mask, even though he’s fully vaccinated.Paul Chinn/The Chronicle
Even before Juneteenth was finally made a national holiday, I knew I was going out. I didn’t know where, but I knew I had to do something. After all, I’d gotten my second Moderna shot in mid-May and still hadn’t properly left the house. California was lifting all COVID restrictions (save for letting unvaccinated folks go mask-free), and San Francisco my birthplace and home of 40 years was predicted to reach herd immunity soon.