Justin Desmangles

Justin Desmangles is chairman of the Before Columbus Foundation, administrator of the American Book Award, and host of the radio broadcast New Day Jazz, now in its fifteenth year. A member of the board of directors of the Oakland Book Festival, Mr. Desmangles is also a program producer at the African-American Center of the San Francisco Public Library.
Remembering Ted Joans: Black Beat Surrealist

by Justin Desmangles

Posted on December 05, 2017

Bob Kaufman’s African Dream

by Justin Desmangles

Posted on November 07, 2017

Miles Davis: Black Yin, Black Yang

by Justin Desmangles

Posted on October 10, 2017

Finding The Searchers in Twenty-first Century America

by Justin Desmangles

Posted on September 12, 2017

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