Vanessa Hua February 4, 2021Updated: February 4, 2021, 7:06 pm
The whirlwind of the past year brought a national reckoning on race and massive protests against police brutality, followed by the electoral victories of Kamala Harris, the first Black vice president, and Raphael Warnock, Georgia’s first Black senator. Last month, Black poet Amanda Gorman dazzled us on Inauguration Day with “The Hill We Climb,” her stirring work about these turbulent times.
She’ll follow up that performance at the Super Bowl on Sunday. As Black History Month begins this week, I spoke with several Bay Area authors who recommended their favorite books.
Faith Adiele is a professor at California College of the Arts. Photo: Courtesy Faith Adiele
An ongoing series in partnership with Faith Adiele. January s book selection is Triangulum by Masande Ntshanga. The author will join us from South Africa on Sunday, January 31st to discuss the book with The African Book Club. The earlier start time is to accommodate his time zone.
How to participate: Get a copy of the book, read it in advance of the meeting, and then discuss the book with a group of people interested in reading African literature online via zoom on January 31st at 5:00 PM (PST). After you register you will receive information to join via zoom. If you don t see an email from MoAD, check your spam or junk mail box.
IMAGE CREDIT: SOUL! director Stan Latham stands with cameraman on set for the interview between Host/Producer of the TV show SOUL! Ellis Haizlip with filmmaker Melvin Van Peebles (Sweet Sweetback s Baaddass Song) in a scene from the film Mr. SOUL! DIRECTED BY MELISSA HAIZLIP. Photo by Chester Higgins; Courtesy of Shoes in the Bed Productions
Museum of the African Diaspora and Black Public Media present
African Diaspora Film Club at MoAD
Join us for our monthly series, The African Diaspora Film Club. Modeled after our African Book Club, we will meet once a month to discuss a film that we have all viewed in advance of the discussion. The conversation will be moderated by Cornelius Moore, co-director of California Newsreel and film series curator at MoAD. We will be choosing a selection of films, some previously screened at MoAD. You may have already seen it, or this may be your first introduction. In either case, join us on the second Sunday of the month for a lively discussion of t