Sarah Webster Fabio Center for Social Justice

Upcoming Events

Evolutionary Blues...West Oakland's Music Legacy

18 December @ Oakstop

About

Sarah Fabio, a writer in the Black Arts Movement, was raised in Nashville, Tennessee, and transformed herself in Oakland to become a significant force in the cultural and academic spaces in the Oakland Bay Area and around the country. Her daughter, Cheryl went to Fisk, learned photography and returned to California to study documentary film at Stanford. Her first film, Rainbow Black: Poet Sarah Webster Fabio, was 31 minutes and took an intimate perspective of her mother, who by then was a known educator, writer, and poet. The film was shot over a weekend while Sarah was a student at the University of Iowa. Fabio has produced and directed Evolutionary Blues… West Oakland’s Music Legacy, East Oakland Counter Narratives, and A Rising Tide. She founded a nonprofit, named for her mother, and continues as the Executive Director. More info about SARAH WEBSTER FABIO CENTER FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE (SWFCenter) can be found on the website, www.swfcenter4sj.org.