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Wanda’s Picks for May 2021 Wanda’s Picks for May 2021 May 10, 2021 A stunning radio play adaptation of the 50-year-old debut novel by Toni Morrison, “The Bluest Eye,” is epitomized in this painting. Protagonist Pecola Breedlove “is obsessed with Shirley Temple and a desire to have blue eyes,” according to the Aurora Theatre Company. The play explores “the emotional depths of Black girlhood, the poisonous effects of racism, and the heartbreak of shame.”  by Bay View Arts and Culture Editor Wanda Sabir Happy Mother’s Day to all the mothers and mo...

Jerri Lange, Bay Area media legend, social activist, educator and author, has passed April 29, 2021 Jerri Lange’s spiritual journey on Earth has ended, but her legacy continues by Jackie Wright Los Angeles – Jerri Lange, one of the first African American journalists and television talk show hosts in the San Francisco Bay Area, passed away peacefully on April 10, 2021, from natural causes.  Jerri Lange is interviewed here by the great photographer, Panther and martial artist Johnnie Burrell in a dynamic and fascinating conversation ranging from Jerri’s friendships with Sammy Davis Jr. ...

Jerri was an award-winning journalist who from 1969 to 1979 hosted community-based television shows in the Bay Area on KEMO; KBHK; KGO; and KQED, where she became the first black woman to host a national talk show, Turnabout, and where she served on the Board.

Sam Whiting April 22, 2021Updated: April 23, 2021, 12:55 am Jerri Lange at a book signing for “Jerri: A Black Woman’s Life in the Media,” published in 2005 Photo: Carmen Stone Pioneering Black television talk show host and producer Jerri Lange got her first job in journalism in 1964 after joining a street protest calling attention to the lack of reporters of color. The protest, outside The Chronicle, resulted in Lange being hired as secretary to the newspaper’s executive editor, Scott Newhall, she wrote in her memoir. From that job, she went on to work at City Hall, then ...