Wanda's Picks

Happy New Year everyone, and welcome to Wanda’s Picks, the bi-weekly black arts and culture program, where art meets politics. We’re a proud member of the African Sisters Media network. Today I have a great show planned for you. Wednesday, December 31, I arrived in New Orleans just in time to attend Kuumba at Ashe Community Center in New Orleans’ 2nd or 3rd Ward depending on one’s politics. Saddi Khali was emcee and featured were poets and singers and other artists in honor of the 6th principle of the Nguzo Saba, Kuumba or Creativity. I invited poets on the air, the following day, January 1, 2009, to talk about Imani or Faith, the last principle and their thoughts on 2009, the year of Obama and the state of crisis the Gulf is still in, even though no one is talking about it anymore. Peaches spoke of how her poetry inventory, records and other writing, were lost in the storm, but she has another collection coming out this year. Her latest poem, which she said was becoming her favorite, is called: Life. I met