Wanda's Picks: National Black AIDS Day 7 Feb. 2014

Today is National Black AIDS Day. Our first guest, Dr. Malcolm John, an expert in infectious diseases, is director of the UCSF HIV/AIDS Program at UCSF Medical Center, one of the most comprehensive HIV and AIDS treatment programs in the country. In addition to his work at UCSF, John is an HIV consultant at the Larkin Street Youth Center, SF. See http://blackaidsday.org/  http://nationalblackaidsday.org/ Charles Curtis Blackwell is a poet, playwright, and performance and visual artist. His exhibit THE ART OF CHARLES CURTIS BLACKWELL, African Roots of Jazz Art Exhibition is up February 10 - April 20. Sunday, February 23 is Mr. Blackwell's Artist Talk @ 2PM on the 3rd floor Meeting Room at the Main Library, 2090 Kittredge at Shattuck in downtown Berkeley, (510) 981-6241 www.berkeleypubliclibrary.org Bryant Bolling and Zakiyyah G.G. Capehart Bolling join us to talk about their evening of Creative Jazz mixed with spoken word poetry at 57th Street Gallery  in Oakland, Feb. 8, 8-11 p.m. We close with an exended interview with Ms. Margaret Avery, Academy Award Nominee for her role of "Shug" in The Color Purple. She will be at San Francisco's Castro Theatre at 7:30 p.m. 2/14.