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Brooklyn Siren Capathia Jenkins and Chicago Tunesmith Louis Rosen bring “Brilliant” (NY Magazine) Melodies to Freight & Salvage Oct. 22, 2010. They have two days in Southern CA, Oct. 20-21.Visit capathiajenkins.com Martin Baer is a cameraman, author and director. As an author, director and cameraman he has realized films that focus in particular on historical topics and on Africa (“Free Africa!”, “White Ghosts – The Colonial War against the Herero”, “Kinshasa Symphony”). Kinshasa Symphony screens at the Mill Valley Film Festival Thursday, Oct. 14, 7 PM at Rafael & Sat., Oct. 16, 4:45 PM at Sequoia in Mill Valley. Visit www.kinshasa-symphony.com Donna Jean Murch is an associate professor at Rutgers where she teaches African American and urban history. She received her Ph.D. from U.C. Berkeley in 2004. She is speaking about her new book: Living for the City: Migration, Education and the rise of the Black Panther Party in Oakland, California, at the Oakland Main Library, Oct. 14, 6:30-7:30 PM as a part