If you've been following the cultural art scene in Oakland over the past five years, you’ve probably seen Afrocentric mixed-media artist Githinji Wa Mbire’s works around town.

One day after a Walnut Creek rally for convicted ex-cop Johannes Mehserle, a standing room-only, multi-genrational and multicultural crowd of around 100 packed the Black Dot Café in West Oakland to hear Malcolm Shabazz - the grandson of assassinated African-American icon El Hajj Malik El Shabazz, better known as Malcolm X.