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The Barbara Lee and Elihu Harris Lecture Series co-produced by The Martin Luther King Jr. Freedom Center and Merritt College featuring Ambassador Andrew Young, founding principal and chair of GoodWorks International, will be October 20th in Oakland.

YBCA welcomes Judith Jamison, the iconic dancer, choreographer and former artistic director of the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater. Jamison's autobiography, Dancing Spirit,was edited by Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis. Come hear her stories at YBCA.

“Cops and Robbers” "speaks truth" to the power of violence. Three SF State grads:"The Piper" of Flipsyde, Ami Zins and Lew Levinson co-directors have joined forces to produce Piper's revolutionary play. World Premiere slated 9-8-12.

San Francisco Black Film Festival shares condolences in the loss of Michael Clarke Duncan, who starred in films featured at the festival for the past two consecutive years: Melvin Van Peebles' Black, White and Blues & Robert Townsend's "In the Hive."

Flipsyde, an alternative Hip-Hop Band celebrates its over 10 million hits on Youtube as member "The Piper" launches revolutionary play that collides violence, media, racism, politics, class, police brutality, religion in "Cops and Robbers" 9-8-12.

“Cops and Robbers” will motivate audiences to “do something.” International Hip-Hop artist, actor, award-winning screenwriter, and law enforcement officer, Jinho "The Piper" Ferreira creates the "Art of Violence" in a revolutionary play.

Too many children’s movies pander to the adult minds that bring the children to the theater; assaulting the sensibilities of the young, robbed too quickly of their innocence by children’s entertainment. Not "The Oogieloves!" It's child play!

Jinho "The Piper" Ferreira examines the relationship between law enforcement, the media, the Black Community and violence in America in his "Cops and Robbers" directed by Ami Zins and Lew Levinson. See it 9-8-12 in Oakland! (Photo by Doniphan Blair).

"Piper's "Cops and Robbers," is a revolutionary look at the relationship between law enforcement, the media and the Black community. The call and response playbooks on race, class, and politics have to be put down,"-Jackie Wright of San Francisco

Robert Townsend's "In The Hive" opened the San Francisco Black Film Festival in June and San Francisco is still talking about the film and it's impact on the film Festival.