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The Poetry for the People Block Party is a festival of revolutionary art and culture in West Oakland The Griot Party Experience, a Washington state-based group of poets, thespians and other performing artists will be touching down at the Poetry for the People Block Party on Saturday, Black August 29th, from 12-6pm in front of The Women of The Black Panthers Mural House on the corner of Ninth and Center Street in West Oakland.

By Ty-Licia Hooker Children’s Education Project Executive Director Tylicia Hooker talked with 2nd Secretary of the Cuban Embassy Gabriela Castillo at the African American Art and Culture Complex in Fillmore, San Francisco. They discussed how Cubans after the Cuban Revolution were able to bring their population from a 30% literacy rate to a 90% literacy rate in 1 year. A few months ago, I visited the Black Panther Museum in Oakland.

One of the most memorable days I had this summer came by accident, when I stumbled upon a Black Men’s Chess League event in Jack London Square a few months ago in Oakland. It was hosted at a restaurant and bar on a hot, sunny afternoon, with a vibrant crowd filling the space. I planned to have a glass of wine, play a quick game, and head out. One hour turned into two, then three, and before I knew it, I had made new connections just as organizers began packing up.

What follows is an edited print version of the event Q&A, preserving the original dialogue and Q&A format while focusing on the strongest exchanges from the conversation. Ayize Jama-Everett is the event moderator and a Bay Area speculative fiction writer whose work sits at the intersection of Black imagination, medicine and futurism. He frames Justin C. Key as a writer following a path laid by Octavia Butler and notes the broader literary attention around the panel’s work.

Author’s note: This is drawn from an impromptu telephone conversation. Tate was not able to complete the full history he wanted to tell, and the conversation ended without notice. His unfinished account can be read as an opening, not as a comprehensive oral history of the San Quentin Six or the California prison movement. Black August commands the interested reader to look further into the sacrifice these men made, because what was experienced may never be articulated.

As our tax dollars go to the oppressive US government that is committed to enacting a slow Palestinian-like genocide on the people of Cuba, which is located in the Carribbean Sea just 90 miles from the shores of Florida, everybody reading this in the US and the Western world has a responsibility to act in whatever way appropriate so that it is understood that you are not OK with mass murder on a national scale.

In commemoration of the Fidel Castro centenary on August 13, 2026, we present remarks given by Djibo Sobukwe at The Symposium on Fidel Castro and the Cuban Revolution on January 21, 2017, sponsored by the Saturday Free School of Philosophy and Black Liberation at The Church of the Advocate in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Good afternoon and a warm thank you to the organizing committee and Dr. Monteiro for organizing and inviting me to present at this symposium.

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On the morning of June 29, 2026, the Bertie-Martin Regional Detention Center in Windsor, North Carolina, became the focus of national attention after inmates seized control of portions of the facility in what officials described as a hostage situation. According to public reports, the incident began around 5:00 a.m., when inmates assaulted correctional officers and took three staff members hostage. One officer escaped almost immediately.

If one walks or rides past The East Oakland Collective on Aug. 22, 2026, deep in East Oakland, there will be, as there often is in those parts, a gathering of beautiful people doing beautiful things. And, while a meeting with those descriptors is not uncommon in Oakland, nor at the Collective, we are approaching Digital Underground Day, and this day in particular, marks the sixth year of a special partnership in honor of Oakland’s own Shock G.