March 9, 2015
The First Family was among those that commemorated the "Selma to Montgomery March." See repost from the White House with President Barack Obama's Speech.
March 3, 2015
Wright Enterprises posts Jacquie Taliaferro's story of yet another home robbed from a Black Family and turned into Unaffordable Housing, where the City of San Francisco continues it's glutinous building of luxury housing, leaving the person on a teacher's salary, police and fire salary forced to move elsewhere. Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf says San Francisco investors should build their San Francisco affordable housing building requirements in Oakland. Go Figure!
A Dream Deferred-Taliaferro's , Media Martyr Chauncey Bailey's, Yours, Ours-Can They be Resurrected?
March 3, 2015
Langston's Hughes "A Dream Deferred," what does it have to do with foreclosures? Jackie Wright of Wright Enterprises writes of San Francisco Artist's dream of a film facility. One dream deferred causes others to be deferred as well. Media Martyr Chauncey Bailey was one person affected by the challenges that San Francisco Filmmaker, Jacquie Taliaferro faced.
February 16, 2015
Genealogist Henrieta Hood Cain, featured at the 2013 San Francisco Black Film Festival in the film "Brown Babies: Germany's Lost Children" by accomplished German director Michaela Kirst, will be honored on February 28, 2015 at the Hilton Hotel, 7:00 p.m. in Philadelphia by the Black German Cultural Society for her work connecting biracial Black U.S. citizens born in Germany after World War II with their German families.
February 14, 2015
Saint Valentine's Day Weekend gives pause to remember a Love Story at Arlington. As part of the 50th Anniversary of the Civil Rights Movement, the Wright Family had only to look at its family album to connect with the iconic lives of leaders during the turbulent sixties. Their celebration of the Civil Rights Anniversary started with the movement in March 2014 of Sp5 Wyley Wright Jr. from a segregated grave in Jacksonville, Florida and his wife, Ouida Fay McClendon Wright from a cemetery in Columbus, Georgia to Arlington National Cemetery during its 150th Anniversary. The Wright's commemoration was topped off by having their parents' grave marked with a headstone delivered in time for the Christmas laying of wreaths at Arlington by Wreaths Across America.
February 14, 2015
One of the foremost cultural entities in the San Francisco Bay Area continues bringing art to the audience. The recent reading of Ismael Reed's Final Version at the Museum of the African Diaspora is just one indication of why you should support the artistic offerings of the Lorraine Hansberry Theatre (LHT) founded over 30 years ago. LHT's presentations range from the works of Nobel Laureates Wole Soyinka, Derek Walcott, and Toni Morrison to Pulitzer Prize-winning writers Charles Fuller, Alice Walker and August Wilson; to large-scale musicals celebrating Duke Ellington, Bessie Smith, Lester Young, Fats Waller, Eubie Blake and others; to award winning dramas by James Baldwin, Langston Hughes, and our namesake Lorraine Hansberry; to pioneering experimental theatre artists Adrienne Kennedy, Ntozake Shange and Maria Irene Fornes, and new works by Robert Alexander, Roger Guenveur Smith, David Rousseve, Prince Gomolvilas, among others.
January 25, 2015
Written two years before Ferguson, "Cops and Robbers" is a play that will drive you to action. It will have you on the edge of your seat as the 17 character one man show evolves before your eyes as Jinho "The Piper Ferreira" prophetically shapes the realities of the streets in such a way you''ll want to hollah & throw up both your hands, not in surrender but in determination to do something. The January 31 free performance will cost you something… it will cost you the ease of thinking that you can go back to your day to day routine and do nothing. "Cops and Robbers" a riveting call to action to deal with race, responsibility and the reversal in the number of officer involved shootings. Reserve Your Seat Today!
January 2, 2015
Wright Enterprises Community Spotlight sheds light on the Goodwill 2014 Donateathon with former San Francisco Mayor Willie L. Brown Jr. W.E. also suggests supporting frontline organizations, Eviction Defense Collaborative and the Alliance of Californians for Community Engagement, two organizations that effectively help people with housing issues. Whether a year end gift or a gift for the New Year, EDC and ACCE are making a substantive difference in the lives of people struggling to live in San Francisco, where even teachers, policemen, firemen and everyday working people are having a difficult time staying in the city where one bedroom apartments are going for up to $3,000 a month in not so luxurious neighborhoods.
December 25, 2014
Dr. Maxine Hickman, President of the National Coalition of 100 Black Women San Francisco Chapter, shares news of the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Celebrations in San Francisco, January 19, 2015.
December 14, 2014
W.E. Community Spotlight has news of Mike Brown Sr.'s Visit in San Francisco hosted by the NAACP, the upcoming Black Elected Officials and Faith Based Leaders Community Recognition Awards and more community news.