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Wanda’s Picks for Oct. 31, 2008
Wanda Sabir by Wanda Sabir August Wilson The Oakland Metro Operahouse, 630 Third St., (510) 763-1146, closes its current run of “Joe Turner’s Come and Gone” this weekend, on Nov. 2, as does Laney...
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Sustenance
Good ingredients for your 2009 New Year’s resolutions by Ahimsa Porter Sumchai, M.D. At the Mo’ Better Food Market Shopper in West Oakland, shopper Amaranth Modacure greets founder David Roach. This...
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Village Bottoms Farms: Growing our food, owning our future
by Minister of Information JR Feyu Diallo, son of Marcel at the Village Bottoms Farm Marcel Diallo is a legend in Oakland for having put in over a decade of cultural work with the Black Dot Artist...
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Black farmers and pot
by Michael Harris As jobs dry up in the cities, especially for Blacks, growing numbers of young people are returning to the land. What crops will these young farmers grow? Sacramento – In 1920, nearly...
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Cynthia McKinney: Vilsack must keep Black farmers on their land
One and a half million Black-owned farm acres being looted by USDA while farmers wait for justice Shirley Sherrod - Photo: AP Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack admitted in a press conference today, “I...
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Black farmers: White House must make passing settlement funding immediate...
Boyd calls for passage of a stand-alone funding measure to resolve the Black farmers and Native American cases by John W. Boyd Jr. Dr. John Boyd and the National Black Farmers Association have long...
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Just pay up
Black farmers discriminated against by government deserve agreed-upon settlement New York City – For decades, Black farmers dealt with devastating discrimination from the U.S. Department of...
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Restoring hope for Black farmers and a healthy Black community
by Kenneth Hill for the Food Guardians Kenneth Hill in the Bridgeview Community Garden – Photo: Christopher D. Cook Throughout American history, African-Americans have landed on the short end of...
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Jackson, Mississippi, Mayor-elect Chokwe Lumumba on economic democracy
by Ann Garrison Mayor-elect Chokwe Lumumba at the May 21 celebration of the Democratic Party primary run-off victory that virtually assured his election on June 5, when he won more than 85 percent of...
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The Black Urban Growers Conference is at Laney in Oakland this weekend
by The People’s Minister of Information JR The Black Urban Growers (BUGS) Conference will take place this weekend, from Thursday, Oct. 15, to Sunday, Oct. 18, at Laney College, with activities starting...
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The successful Black Urban Growers conference
by The People’s Minister of Information JR One of the most important conferences hosted in Oakland over this past year for the Black community has been the Black Urban Growers Conference. With several...
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