The Destiny Muhammad Project/ Black Gold Presentation Saturday 13 September 2025 1pm to 3pm PDT Destiny Muhammad, Devorah Major, Brian Maurice Freeman will revisit vignette monologues ‘Classic Black: The Voices of African Americans in 19th Century San Francisco’ an original prose/ poetry and music written and directed by Devorah Major with original Music by Destiny Muhammad. Original debut at the San Francisco International Art Festival circa 2015 Two presentations: 1pm-1:30pm and 2pm-2:30pm

Poetry+ Music Duet Poet/ Author Tshaka Imhotep Menelik Campbell and Destiny Muhammad This presentation will include new work by Tshaka ‘Black Gold’ and Destiny’s poem ‘Future Past Present NOW’ commissioned by the HUEMan Kind Festival. One presentation: 3pm-3:30pm

ABOUT BLACK GOLD EXHIBIT At FORT POINT, SAN FRANCISCO: Now on view at Fort Point, FOR-SITE’s highly anticipated exhibition Black Gold: Stories Untold invites 17 contemporary artists and collectives to reflect on the resilience, struggles, and triumphs of African Americans who lived in California from the Gold Rush to the Reconstruction period following the Civil War (c. 1849–1877). Through newly commissioned and recent artworks, the exhibition highlights important but lesser-known figures and narratives from California’s history, exploring the presence of slavery and the struggle for legal rights within this “free” state, the successes of Black entrepreneurs, and the experiences of African American Army regiments known as the Buffalo Soldiers. More broadly, Black Gold illuminates the role that Black communities played in the state’s cultural, social, and political environs of the time.