"Jimmy: According to Me"

I just got back from something really exciting at CCSF--two actors, Carl Lumbly and Delroy Lindo,  spending a month at CCSF to develop a performance piece on James Baldwin, "Jimmy According to Me."  

Today was the second public reading of this.  (Wednesday night was the first.)  

Delroy Lindo is directing, and both he and Carl Lumbly said that this was the beginning of a work in progress--but how exciting to see it in the initial stages.  

As our (very handsome, charming) chancellor said, we hope we can all make it to New York when it's completed.  

Lindo.Lumbly.Flyer.pdf

Speaking on Frida Kahlo Way in the Chambers at City Hall

Today some of us spoke at City Hall to the subcommittee of supervisors on the Land Use and Transportation Committee about Frida Kahlo Way.  

We want to change the name of a few blocks on campus and a little beyond  from Phelan (a name associated with racism) to Frida Kahlo Way because she's a woman of color who was also disabled and still created remarkable pieces of art.  

There were some residents on Phelan opposing the name change, reminding people that Frida Kahlo was a Communist and not an enthusiast of the USA, but at the end of the hearing Supervisors Jane Kim and Ahsha Safai both said they wanted to co-sponsor the resolution for this name change.  I was worried  when the President of Riordan High spoke out against it, but Leslie Simon, who organized the campaign, quoted from an op-ed piece by a student at Riordan High who was strongly in favor!  There are very few streets named after women, and Frida Kahlo Way will lead to the Diego Rivera Mural!